MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette will once again host the Southern Regional Algebra Conference this coming September. We will follow a format of 25 minute talks. The first talk will begin at approximately 1:30 PM on Friday and the last talk will end before noon on Sunday. As usual, there is no financial support provided for the participants by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. However supper on Friday evening will be funded by the Conference for all participants at a locally well known restaurant. There will be a fee for non-participants (e.g., spouse, etc.). All alcoholic beverages at the supper will have to be paid on an individual basis and cannot be funded by the Conference. On Saturday (early) evening there will be a fully funded picnic dinner. The talks will take place in Maxim Doucet Hall. Please sign in upon arrival in Room 451. At the sign-in station, full conference details will be available.
We have to notify the restaurant of the number of diners for Friday night. Thus, if you have not already done so, please inform me ASAP if you will be dining with us and the number of guests that you will be bringing to the restaurant and picnic. I WILL ASSUME (UNLESS NOTIFIED OTHERWISE) THAT ALL SPEAKERS WILL BE DINING WITH US. Also, if you have not already done so, notify me ASAP if you desire a vegetarian meal.
Lafayette is in the center of Cajun Country and is served by several airlines, Amtrak, and bus service. It is within a few hours driving distance via Interstate 10 from New Orleans or Houston. In late September the weather in Lafayette will be mild. Some Hotel and Motel information is provided below. BE SURE to inform the clerk that you should get the University of Louisiana at Lafayette conference rate.
I am trying to compile a handout of the abstracts. So I would be grateful if the speakers could send me a PDF File with their title and abstract if you have not already done so. I apologize for not indicating this format earlier.
If you have any further questions please contact me (I hope to see you here !!!).
Gary F. Birkenmeier
email: gfb1127@louisiana.edu
Office Phone: 337-482-6545
Department Phone: 337-482-6702
FAX: 337-482-5346
SCHEDULE OF TALKS
| Friday, September 28 | ||
| Time (25 min. talks) | Speaker | Title |
| 1:20-1:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| 1:30 | Jennifer Daniel | Using the Theta-Basis to Compute the KAK Decomposition |
| 2:00 | Linda Jaycox | Computations in Local Real Symmetric Spaces |
| 2:30 | Christa Colvin and Alys Rodriguez |
Properties of the G-Graph of a Group |
| 3:00-3:15 | Coffee break | |
| 3:15 | Joerg Feldvoss | Lie Algebras in which being an Ideal is a Transitive Relation |
| 3:45 | Cornelius Pillen | Self-Extension for Finite Groups of Lie Type in the Defining Characteristic |
| 4:15 | Yorck Sommerhauser | The Exponent of a Hopf Algebra |
| 4:45 | Joeseph Smith | Groups whose Normalizers Form a Chain |
| 7:00 | Dinner | |
| Saturday, September 29 | ||
| Time (25 min. talks) | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | Mary Hopkins | Weakly Integrally Closed Numerical Semiproup Rings |
| 9:30 | Jason Huffman | Properties of Pseudo-Local Rings |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15 | Guenter Pilz | Polynomials in Varieties of Algebras |
| 10:45 | Enoch Lee | On Regularity of Matrix Near-Rings |
| 11:15 | Kent Neuerburg | Rings determined by Covers of Groups |
| 11:45 | Audrey Doughty | Large Indecomposable Submodule Embeddings |
| 12:15-2:00 | Coffee break | |
| 2:00 | Ralph Tucci | The Semigroup of Right Ideals of a Ring |
| 2:30 | Tuval Foguel | Direct Product of Quasigroups and Generalized Diagonal Subquasigroup |
| 3:00-3:15 | Coffee break | |
| 3:15 | Efraim Armendariz | Remarks on Weakly Regular Rings |
| 3:45- | Matthew Ragland | Groups in which the Hypercentral Factor Group have a Transitive Normality Relation |
| 4:15 | Gary L. Walls | Groups with Fixed-Point-Free Automorphisms contained in certain Characteristic Subgroups of their Automorphism Group |
| 6:00 | Picnic | |
| Sunday, September 30 | ||
| Time (25 min. talks) | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00 | John Dauns | QI-Modules |
| 9:30 | Marcela Chiorescu | Minimal Zero-Dimensional Extensions of One-Dimensional Integral Domains of Finite Character |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15 | Lee Klinger | Generalization of the Discrete Logarithm in PSL(2,p) |
| 10:45 | Markus Schmidmeier | From Littlewood-Richardson Sequence to Subgroup Embeddings and Back |
| 11:15 | Arturo Magidin | Capable Groups of Class Two and prime Exponent. Preliminary Report. |
| 11:45 | Concluding Remarks |
SOME HOTELS/MOTELS (prices were as of April 25, 2007 and include the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Conference discount, but tax is not included)
Travel Lodge Oil Center
337-234-7402
1101 W. Pinhook Rd
(10-15 min. walk)
$49
La Quinta Inn and Suites
337-291-1088
1015 W. Pinhook Rd
(10-15 min. walk)
$99
Best Western Hotel Acadiana
337-233-8120
1801 W. Pinhook Rd
(35 min walk)
$65
Ramada Inn
337-235-0858
120 Kaliste Saloom Rd
(45 min. walk)
$58.50