AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 16, 2005 01:09:10

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 8, 2005, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups, I
Room 120, Olin Language Center
Organizers:
Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Potentially Positive Words in F(a,b).
  Richard Z Goldstein*, University at Albany
  (1009-20-47)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Transitivity of normality and pronormal subgroups.
  Igor Ya Subbotin*, National University
  (1009-20-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On outer automorphism groups of certain Seifert groups.
  Francis C. Y. Tang*, University of Waterloo
  (1009-20-151)

Saturday October 8, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups, II
Room 120, Olin Language Center
Organizers:
Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Solving One Variable Equations in Free Groups.
  Robert Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (1009-20-179)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On subsemigroups of free inverse semigroups.
  Lev M Shneerson*, Hunter College of CUNY
  (1009-20-115)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic density in free and free abelian groups.
  Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Igor Rivin, Temple University
  Paul Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
  (1009-20-54)

Sunday October 9, 2005, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups, III
Room 120, Olin Language Center
Organizers:
Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homological invariants and capability of infinite groups of nilpotency class two.
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, SUNY at Binghamton
  Norhaniza Sarmin, University Teknologi Malaysia
  (1009-20-106)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Computing the nonabelian tensor square of finitely generated groups.
  Robert Fitzgerald Morse*, University of Evansville
  (1009-20-132)

Sunday October 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups, IV
Room 120, Olin Language Center
Organizers:
Anthony M. Gaglione, United States Naval Academy amg@usna.edu
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University fine@mail.fairfield.edu
Dennis Spellman, Philadelphia University spellmand@philau.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Nielsen equivalence classes and T-systems of group presentations.
  Martin J. Evans*, University of Alabama
  (1009-20-201)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Linear groups with rank restrictions on the subgroups of infinite central dimension.
  Olga Yu Dashkova, University of Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
  Martyn R. Dixon*, University of Alabama
  Leonid A. Kurdachenko, University of Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
  (1009-20-50)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Problem Session.

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