AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on The Logic and Combinatorics of Algebraic Structures, I
Room 203, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
John Snow, Concordia University john.snow@cune.edu
Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
- 2:00 p.m.
  Relation algebras from group actions.
  Jeremy F Alm*, Illinois College
  (1047-03-170)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Birelativized relation algebras.
  Richard L Kramer*, Iowa State University
  (1047-03-121)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Chromatic Graphs, Ramsey Numbers, and the Flexible Atom Conjecture.
  Jeremy F. Alm, Illinois College
  Roger D. Maddux, Iowa State University
  Jacob Manske*, Iowa State University
  (1047-05-71)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Relational relevance algebras.
  Roger D Maddux*, Iowa State University
  (1047-03-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Clones with finitely many relative $\mathcal R$-classes.
  Agnes E. Szendrei*, University of Colorado
  Erkko Lehtonen, University of Luxembourg
  (1047-08-173)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Moufang sets of finite Morley rank.
  Josh Wiscons*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1047-20-148)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Logic and Combinatorics of Algebraic Structures, II
Room 203, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
John Snow, Concordia University john.snow@cune.edu
Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
- 8:30 a.m.
  Affine complete $G$-sets.
  Peter Mayr*, JKU Linz, Austria
  Andras Pongracz, Eotvos Lorand University
  (1047-08-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Grothendieck semiring of the group of complex roots of unity.
  Vinicius Cifu Lopes*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1047-03-29)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Categorical Equivalence of Unary Algebras.
  Clifford Bergman*, Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics
  (1047-08-109)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Free algebras and hereditarily closed families.
  Joel Berman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1047-08-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Residually finite varieties.
  Keith A. Kearnes*, University of Colorado
  Ross D. Willard, University of Waterloo
  (1047-08-57)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Logic and Combinatorics of Algebraic Structures, III
Room 203, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
John Snow, Concordia University john.snow@cune.edu
Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
- 3:00 p.m.
  The complexity of pp-definability.
  Ross Willard*, University of Waterloo
  (1047-03-158)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Algebraic conditions forcing NP-completeness of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem.
  Petar Markovic*, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University
  Matthew Nickodemus, Vanderbilt University
  (1047-08-304)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Algebras of Bounded Width.
  Petar Markovic, University of Novi Sad
  Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University
  Matthew Nickodemus*, Vanderbilt University
  (1047-03-395)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Algebra applied to the study of constraint satisfaction problems produces spectacular results both in universal algebra and on the side of computational complexity: a survey of recent work.
  Ralph N McKenzie*, Vanderbilt University
  Petar Markovic, Vanderbilt University
  Matthew Nickodemus, Vanderbilt University
  (1047-08-153)

Sunday March 29, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on The Logic and Combinatorics of Algebraic Structures, IV
Room 203, Noyes Lab
Organizers:
John Snow, Concordia University john.snow@cune.edu
Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Stone-Type Duality for Meet Semilattices.
  Aditya K Nagrath*, University of Denver
  (1047-06-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Observations about perfect lattices.
  Kira V Adaricheva*, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, New York
  (1047-06-306)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lattices of theories in languages without equality.
  J. B. Nation*, University of Hawaii
  Tristan Holmes, University of Hawaii
  Dayna Kitsuwa, University of Hawaii
  Sheri Tamagawa, Roosevelt High School
  (1047-06-268)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Interpolation and Amalgamation for Ordered Algebraic Structures.
  George Metcalfe*, Vanderbilt University
  (1047-06-41)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Subgroups of free idempotent-generated semigroups.
  John C. Meakin*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1047-20-189)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Comparing the complexity of hyperequivalent operations.
  Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
  (1047-08-146)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Constrained Eden: Algebras in parallel.
  Steve Seif*, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292
  (1047-08-174)

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