AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 21, 2007 00:32:16

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

Saturday April 14, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Languages and Groups, I
Room 130, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray J. Elder, Stevens Institute of Technology murrayelder@gmail.com
Gretchen Ostheimer, Hofstra University gretchen.ostheimer@hofstra.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  On groups with $L$-presentations.
  Zoran \v{S}uni\'{c}*, Texas A&M University
  (1026-20-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The automata that define representations of monomial algebras.
  Sarah E. Rees*, University of Newcastle
  (1026-20-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Groups and Counters.
  Murray Elder, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Mark Kambites*, University of Manchester
  Gretchen Ostheimer, Hofstra University
  (1026-20-90)

Saturday April 14, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Languages and Groups, II
Room 130, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray J. Elder, Stevens Institute of Technology murrayelder@gmail.com
Gretchen Ostheimer, Hofstra University gretchen.ostheimer@hofstra.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Garside Groups Have FFTP.
  Derek F. Holt*, University of Warwick
  (1026-20-26)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generic and Structural Properties of Random Automata.
  Parisa Babaali*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (1026-20-133)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Growth in Baumslag-Solitar groups: Subgroups and rationality.
  Eric M Freden*, Southern Utah University
  Caroline Nielson, Southern Utah University
  (1026-20-141)

Sunday April 15, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Languages and Groups, III
Room 130, Edwin A. Stevens Building
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray J. Elder, Stevens Institute of Technology murrayelder@gmail.com
Gretchen Ostheimer, Hofstra University gretchen.ostheimer@hofstra.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Automata, infinite words and groups acting on trees.
  Denis Serbin*, McGill University
  (1026-20-161)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Cayley semigroup of a finite semigroup.
  Avi Mintz*, Hunter College
  (1026-20-219)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The submonoid and rational subset membership problems for graph groups.
  Markus Lohrey, Universit\"at Stuttgart, FMI
  Benjamin Steinberg*, Carleton University
  (1026-20-28)

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