MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
| Friday, October 18 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 1:30-1:35 | Welcome and announcements | |
| 1:35-2:00 | Anthony G. Giovanitti State Univ. of West Georgia |
Prebalanced and balanced sequences of modules over domains |
| 2:05-2:30 | Robert Perlis LSU, Baton Rouge |
Think globally, act locally |
| 2:05-2:30 | Temple Fay Univ. So. Miss. |
The Perron-Frobenius Theorem and limits in geometry |
| 3:00-3:10 | break | |
| 3:10-3:35 | C. J. Maxson Texas A & M Univ., College Station |
Forcing Linearity Numbers; Part? |
| 3:40-4:05 | Chris Devillier Southeastern La. Univ. |
Using solutions to conditional Cauchy equations to form semi-direct products |
| 4:10-4:35 | Geoff Booth Univ. Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
Continuity of near-rings of continuous functions |
| 6:30 | Dinner at Don's Seafood and Steakhouse | |
| Saturday, October 19 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:30-8:35 | Announcements | |
| 8:35-9:00 | John Dauns Tulane Univ. |
Torsion-freeness |
| 9:05-9:30 | Bill Wickless Univ. Connecticut |
Pure subgroups and homomorphic images of direct sums of rank one groups |
| 9:35-10:00 | Enoch Lee Univ. North Carolina at Pembroke |
On the structure of polynomial near-rings |
| 10:00-10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15-10:40 | Pierre Grillet Tulane Univ. |
New precendence results for commutative semigroups |
| 10:45-11:10 | Jae K. Park Busan National Univ., Busan Korea |
Extending the property of a maximal right ideal |
| 11:15-11:40 | Lee Klinger Florida Atlantic Univ. |
Finitely generated modules over the ring of integer quaternions |
| 11:40-1:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 1:30-1:35 | Announcements | |
| 1:35-2:00 | D. van Huynh Ohio Univ., Athens |
On Sigma-CS rings |
| 2:05-2:30 | Ralph Tucci Univ. Loyola, New Orleans |
Inverse semigroups whose proper homomorphic images are all groups |
| 2:35-3:00 | Pat Goeters Auburn Univ. |
TBA |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | |
| 3:20-3:45 | Ulrich Albrecht Auburn Univ. |
A lifting theorem for mixed groups |
| 3:50-4:15 | Gary Walls West Texas A & M Univ., Canyon |
Automorphism groups |
| 6:00 | Conference Party | Alumni House |
| Sunday, October 20 | ||
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:35-9:00 | Markus Schmidmeier Florida Atlantic Univ. |
Subgroup problems of wild representations |
| 9:05-9:30 | Manfred Dugas Baylor Univ. |
Two-sided E-rings |
| 9:35-10:00 | Alan Cannon Southeastern La. Univ. |
Minimal and maximal right ideals in the near-ring of polynomials |
| 10:00-10:10 | Break | |
| 10:10-10:35 | Bruce Olberding New Mexico State Univ. |
Commutative ideal theory without finiteness conditions: primal ideals |
| 10:40-11:05 | Leon van Wyk Univ. Stellenbosch, South Africa |
On the uniqueness of representation of matrix rings |
| 11:10-11:35 | Laszlo Fuchs Tulane Univ. |
Injective modules over Mori domains |