AMS :: 2011 Spring Western Section Meeting, Program by AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 7, 2011 00:22:48

Associate secretaries:

Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, I
Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Automorphisms of wreath products.
  Margaret H Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
  Gretchen Ostheimer, Hofstra University
  Marcos Zyman*, Borough of Manhattan Community College
  (1071-20-249)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rewriting using a Stalling Subgroup Graph.
  Ellen M Ziliak*, Benedictine University
  Alexander Hulpke, Colorado State University
  (1071-20-19)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Optimal black-box algorithms for the symmetric groups.
  Robert M Beals*, IDA Center for Communications Research
  (1071-20-254)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cryptography without one-way functions.
  Dima Grigoriev, Université de Lille
  Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
  (1071-94-114)

Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, II
Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Groebner Bases Techniques in Cryptography.
  Ludovic Perret*, UMPC/INRIA/LIP6/SALSA
  (1071-42-247)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Reviewing Computational Papers in Cryptography Conferences.
  Alexander W. Dent*, Royal Holloway, University of London
  (1071-94-133)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Homological finiteness conditions of hyperbolic groups.
  Matthias Neumann-Brosig*, TU Braunschweig
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg
  (1071-20-224)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Groups with Logspace Normal Form.
  Murray Elder, Department of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, Australia
  Gillian Z. Elston, Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University
  Gretchen Ostheimer*, Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University
  (1071-20-279)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday May 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, III
Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Public Key Exchange Using Matrices Over Group Rings.
  Delaram Kahrobaei, Graduate Center, CUNY
  Charalambos Koupparis*, Graduate Center, CUNY
  Vladimir Shpilrain, Graduate Center, CUNY
  (1071-20-117)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Groups covered by dihedral groups.
  Bernhard Amberg*, University of Mainz, Germany
  (1071-20-45)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Primitive and almost primitive elements of free non-associative algebras.
  Alexander A. Mikhalev*, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  (1071-17-134)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Solving word problems in groups by data compression.
  Volker Diekert*, FMI, University Stuttgart, Germany
  (1071-20-80)

Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, IV
Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Group Isomorphism problem.
  Laszlo Babai, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
  Paolo Codenotti*, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
  Youming Qiao, Tsinghua University
  (1071-20-278)
- 3:30 p.m.
  An algorithm that decides conjugacy in a certain generalized free product.
  Anthony E Clement*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
  (1071-20-160)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $IA$-automorphisms of groups with constant upper central series.
  Margaret H Dean*, BMCC/CUNY
  Marcos Zyman, BMCC/CUNY
  Marianna Bonanome, CityTech/CUNY
  (1071-20-215)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion