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

Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, I
Room 2040, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Clifton E. Ealy, Jr., Western Michigan University ealy@wmich.edu
David Richter, Western Michigan University david.richter@wmich.edu
Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the automorphism group of a finitely generated free loop. Preliminary report.
  C E Ealy Jr.*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
  (1043-20-177)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Burnside problem for power associative loops.
  Tuval Foguel*, Auburn Montgomery
  (1043-20-26)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the pseudo normalizer of a homogeneous loop.
  Patricia Zoungrana*, University of Ouagadogu, Burkina Faso
  (1043-05-183)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A combinatorial description of the simple Bol loops arising from matched pairs in groups.
  Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State Abington
  (1043-20-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the smallest simple, unipotent Bol loop.
  Kenneth W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University Abington
  Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
  (1043-20-61)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Zome system is not Desarguesian.
  David A Richter*, Western Michigan University
  (1043-08-140)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, II
Room 2040, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Clifton E. Ealy, Jr., Western Michigan University ealy@wmich.edu
David Richter, Western Michigan University david.richter@wmich.edu
Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The existence of Sylow $p$-subloops in finite Moufang loops.
  Stephen M Gagola III*, University of Arizona
  (1043-20-24)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The structure of moufang loops arising from zorn vector matrix algebras.
  Andrew Wells*, Iowa State University
  (1043-17-41)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moufang loops and groups with triality are essentially the same thing.
  Jonathan I Hall*, Michigan State University
  (1043-20-70)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Moufang Elements.
  J. D. Phillips*, Wabash College
  (1043-20-93)

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