Groups 99
The Zassenhaus Group Theory Conference
May 21 - 22, 1999

Friday Morning

• 9:00-10:00 Science I-145, Lounge

  Registration and Refreshments

• 10:00-11:50 Science I-149, Lecture Hall
  • 10:00-10:20

    "Automorphisms of Generalized R.J.Thompson Groups"

    Fernando Guzman, SUNY at Binghamton

  • 10:30-10:50

    "A complete characterization of the group of autoprojectivities of an abelian p-group of finite exponent"

    Charles Holmes, Miami University

  • 11:00-11:20

    "On the hyperquasicenter of a group"

    James Beidleman, University of Kentucky

  • 11:30-11:50

    "Permutability in Direct Products of Finite Groups"

    Joseph Evan, SUNY at Binghamton

Friday Lunch

• 12:00-2:00

  Lunch Break

Friday Afternoon

• 2:00-3:30 Science I-149, Lecture Hall
  • 2:00-2:20

    "Finite groups having two conjugacy classes of the same order"

    Michael Ward, Western Oregon University

  • 2:30-2:50

    "3/2 Transitive Actions on Sylow p-subgroups"

    John Best, SUNY at Binghamton and Syracuse University

  • 3:00-3:20

    "Subnormally embedded pronormal subgroups are normally embedded"

    Arnold Feldman, Franklin and Marshall College

• 3:30-4:00 Science I-145, Lounge

  Coffee Break

  Conference photo right outside lecture hall

• 4:00-5:20 Science I-149, Lecture Hall
  • 4:00-4:20

    "Using the nonabelian tensor square to classify metacyclic p-groups"

    James Beuerle, SUNY at Binghamton

  • 4:30-4:50

    "Some Examples of Nonabelian Tensor Products"

    Matthew Visscher, SUNY at Binghamton

  • 5:00-5:20

    "Construction of a family of regular partial difference sets"

    Surinder Sehgal, Ohio State University

Friday Night Banquet

• 6:00-8:00 Science I, Chenango Room

  Conference Banquet (preregistration required)

Saturday Morning

• 8:30-9:00 Science I-145, Lounge

  Coffee and Refreshments

• 9:00-10:20 Science I-149, Lecture Hall
  • 9:00-9:20

    "Bounding the derived length of a finite solvable group"

    Peter Hauck, Universitaet Tuebingen

  • 9:30-9:50

    "Metabelian groups with many subnormal subgroups"

    David Garrison, Lockheed Martin

  • 10:00-10:20

    "On the power structure of finite 2-groups of nilpotency class two"

    Friedrich Kluempen, SUNY at Binghamton

• 10:30-11:00 Science I-145, Lounge

  Coffee Break

• 11:00-12:20 Science I-149, Lecture Hall
  • 11:00-11:20

    "An Engel Series for Group Algebras"

    Leanne Faulkner, University of Kentucky

  • 11:30-11:50

    "Computing Congruence Lattices of Finite Universal Algebras"

    Robert Morse, University of Evansville

  • 12:00-12:20

    "Patchwork approximations of automorphisms"

    Zoran Sunik, SUNY at Binghamton

Saturday Lunch

• 12:30-2:00 Science I-145, Lounge

  Luncheon Buffet (preregistration required)

Saturday Afternoon

• 2:00-3:20 Science I-149, Lecture Hall
  • 2:00-2:20

    "Recalcitrance in Groups"

    Robert Burns, York University

  • 2:30-2:50

    "A New Dichotomy for Groups"

    Yuri Medvedev, York University

  • 3:00-3:20

    "Some quotients of Burnside Groups"

    Lakhdar Hammoudi, Jamaica, NY

• 3:30-4:00 Science I-145, Lounge

  Coffee Break

• 4:00-5:20 Science I-149, Lecture Hall
  • 4:00-4:20

    "Polar Decomposition of Locally Finite Groups"

    Tuval Foguel, North Dakota State University

  • 4:30-4:50

    "On a question of Charles Sims I - Preliminaries"

    Antony Gaglione, US Naval Academy

  • 5:00-5:20

    "On a question of Charles Sims II - Theorems"

    David Jackson, St.Louis University

  • 5:30-5:50

    "Some relations between the Burnside ring and the character ring of a group"

    Kenneth Johnson, Pennsylvania State University