AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2008 00:42:28

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, I
Room 2030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  A Sharp Bound on the Diameter of the Rubik's Cube Group.
  David Letscher*, Saint Louis University
  (1043-20-138)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Using nonassociative rings for $p$-groups.
  James B Wilson*, The Ohio State University
  (1043-20-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  "Geometric" Resolutions of Bieberbach Groups.
  Marc Roeder*, National University of Ireland, Galway
  (1043-57-168)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Computing homological functors of polycyclic groups.
  Robert Fitzgerald Morse*, University of Evansville
  (1043-20-144)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the Covering Number of Small Alternating Groups.
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York at Binghamton
  Joanne L Redden*, Elmira College
  (1043-20-143)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A new classification of $2$-generated $p$-groups of class $2$.
  Arturo Magidin*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Robert F Morse, University of Evansville
  Azhana Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
  (1043-20-68)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, II
Room 2030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Extremely primitive groups.
  Tim Burness, University of Southhampton, United Kingdom
  Avinoam Mann, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
  Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
  Ákos Seress*, The Ohio State University
  (1043-20-112)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Computer Algebra in Undergraduate Algebra Courses.
  Alexander Hulpke*, Colorado State University
  (1043-00-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent progress on nonabelian tensor squares of groups.
  Russell D Blyth*, Saint Louis University
  (1043-20-169)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Finite groups have short rewriting systems.
  Jack Schmidt*, University of Kentucky
  (1043-20-98)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Groups of minimal order such that for given n the $n$-th powers of elements do not form a subgroup.
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe, SUNY at Binghamton
  Gabriela Mendoza*, Riverside Community College
  (1043-20-37)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, III
Room 2030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Can the finite simple groups be classified at all?
  Gerhard O. Michler*, Dept. Math. Cornell University, Ithaca NY
  (1043-20-40)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Supercharacter theories of finite cyclic groups.
  Anders O.F. Hendrickson*, Concordia College
  (1043-20-173)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Generalized Symmetric Groups with the Best Possible Strong Symmetric Genus.
  Michael A Jackson*, Grove City College
  (1043-20-16)

Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, IV
Room 2030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Constructing the group preserving a system of forms.
  Peter A Brooksbank*, Bucknell University
  James B Wilson, The Ohio State University
  (1043-20-145)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An Example of Counting Generators in Finite Groups.
  Bret Jordan Benesh*, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
  (1043-20-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  GAP package AutomGrp for computations in groups and semigroups generated by automata and its applications.
  Dmytro M Savchuk*, Texas A&M University
  Yevgen V Muntyan, Texas A&M University
  (1043-20-152)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Metabelian groups with all cyclic subgroups n-subnormal having all subgroups subnormal.
  David J. Garrison*, Lockheed Martin
  (1043-20-87)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Minimal groups with isomorphic tables of marks.
  Alberto Gerardo Raggi-Cardenas, UNAM Morelia, Mexico
  Eder Vieyra-Sanchez, UMSNH, Morelia, Mexico
  Luis Valero-Elizondo*, UMSNH, Morelia, Mexico
  (1043-20-15)

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