American Mathematical Society
Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Binghamton, NY, October 11-12, 2003
Special Session in "Infinite Groups and Group Rings"
Organizers:
Luise-Charlotte Kappe,
Binghamton University,
menger@math.binghamton.edu
Derek Robinson, University of Illinois,
robinson@math.uiuc.edu.
Room 14, Lecture Hall.
Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 8:00 a.m.
Totally Permutable Products in Infinite Groups.
James C. Beidleman*, University of Kentucky
Hermann Heineken, University 0f Wuerzburg
- 8:30 a.m.
The Infinite Norm of a Group.
Hermann Heineken*, Universitaet of Wuerzburg
James C Beidleman, University of Kentucky
- 9:00 a.m.
Abelian sections in free groups.
Ted Hurley*, National University of Ireland, Galway
- 9:30 a.m.
Notions of Discrimination I.
Anthony M. Gaglione*, U.S. Naval Academy
Dennis Spellman, Temple University
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
- 10:00 a.m.
Notions of Discrimination II.
Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
Anthony M. Gaglione, U.S. Naval Academy
Dennis Spellman, Temple University
- 10:30 a.m.
Invariant ideals in abelian group algebras.
Donald S. Passman*, University of Wisconsin
Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- 2:30 p.m.
The Nonabelian Tensor Square of the Free 2-Engel Group of Rank n.
Russell D Blyth*, Saint Louis University
Robert Fitzgerald Morse, University of Evansville
Joanne L Redden, University of Evansville
- 3:00 p.m.
Computing homological functors of the free 2-Engel groups.
Robert Fitzgerald Morse*, University of Evansville
- 3:30 p.m.
The Residual Finiteness of Ascending HNN-Extensions of Certain Soluble Groups.
A. H. Rhemtulla*, University of Alberta
M. Shirvani, University of Alberta
- 4:00 p.m.
Profinite topologies in free products of groups.
Luis Ribes*, Carleton University
Pavel Zalesskii, University of Brasilia
- 4:30 p.m.
The distribution of the genus of groups.
Jay J Zimmerman*, Towson University
- 5:00 p.m.
Separability properties of certain polygonal
products.
G. Kim, Yeungnam University,Korea
Francis C. Y. Tang*, University of Waterloo
Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 8:00 a.m.
The maximal and minimal
conditions for normal subgroups of infinite order or index.
F de Giovanni, University of Naples
D H Paek, Busan Normal University
Derek J.S. Robinson*, University of Illinois
A Russo, University of Lecce
- 8:30 a.m.
Groups with the maximal condition on
non-FC-subgroups.
Martyn R. Dixon*, University of Alabama
Leonid A. Kurdachenko, University of Dnepropetrovsk
- 9:00 a.m.
Embedding in simple locally (soluble-by-finite) groups. Preliminary report.
Martin J Evans*, Universtiy of Alabama
- 9:30 a.m.
Uncountably many basic sequences of commutators.
David A Jackson*, Saint Louis University
- 10:00 a.m.
Recent developments in the theory of Fuchsian and Kleinian groups.
Gerhard Rosenberger*, Dortmund/University
- 10:30 a.m.
Most recent results on test ranks of free nilpotent groups.
C K Gupta*, University of Manitoba
V A Romankov, Omsk State University
E I Timoshenko, Novosibirsk University
Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- 2:30 p.m.
Some solvable automaton groups.
Laurent Bartholdi, University of California - Berkeley
Zoran Sunik*, Texas A&M University
- 3:00 p.m.
Superrigidity and the classification problem for the
torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank.
Simon Thomas*, Rutgers University
- 3:30 p.m.
On finite presentability of some pro-p groups.
Mikhail V. Ershov*, Yale University
- 4:00 p.m.
The Finitary Andrews-Curtis Conjecture.
Alexei Myasnikov*, McGill University
- 4:30 p.m.
Groups Normal in the Unit Groups of Their Group Rings.
Marcin Mazur*, Binghamton University