The Algebra Seminar

FALL 2001

Organizer: Luise-Charlotte Kappe

Link to seminar home page and current schedule.

• August 28 : Organizational meeting



• September 4 : Ben Brewster
  Title: ``Fitting Set Functors''



• September 11 : Postponed to October 2
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe
  Title: ``Finite Groups with trivial Frattini Subgroup''



• September 18 : John Best
  Title: "On 3/2-Transitive Groups"
  This is Mr. Best's thesis defense.



• September 25 : Joseph Evan, King's College
  Title: ``Permutable Subgroups of Direct Products - Some New Insights''



• October 2 : Luise-Charlotte Kappe
  Title: ``Finite Groups with trivial Frattini Subgroup''



• October 9 : Joseph Petrillo
  Title: ``Burnside's p^a q^b -Theorem''
  This talk is the first part of Mr. Petrillo's admission-to-candidacy exam. The committeee consists of Ben Brewster (chair), Fernando Guzman, and Luise-Charlotte Kappe.
  All are welcome to attend!



• October 16 : Joseph Petrillo
  Special time! 4:30-5:40 p.m.
  Title: ``Burnside's p^a q^b -Theorem''
  This talk is the second and last part of Mr. Petrillo's admission-to-candidacy exam.
  All are welcome to attend!



• October 23 : Gail Yamskulna
  Title: ``Vertex Operator Algebras and Orbifold Theory''



• October 30 : Michael Bacon, SUNY Oneonta
  Title: ``Nonabelian Tensor Products: A Primer''



• November 6 : Joshua Palmatier
  Title: ``An Introduction to MV-Algebras''



• November 13 : David Biddle
  Title: ``Subgroups Related to the Nonabelian Tensor Center''



• November 20 : Elizabeth Snyder
  Title: ``Commutators and Their Products''
  Note that this talk will start at 3:00.



• November 27 : Dan Clouse
  Title: ``Algebraic Duality I''
  This talk is the first part of Mr. Clouse's admission-to-candidacy exam. The committeee consists of Fernando Guzman (chair), Tom Head, and Luise-Charlotte Kappe.
  All are welcome to attend!



• December 4 : Dan Clouse
  Title: ``Algebraic Duality II''
  This talk is the second and last part of Mr. Clouse's admission-to-candidacy exam.
  All are welcome to attend!



• January 29 : David Garrison, Lockheed-Martin
  Title: ``Metabelian Torsion Groups with Many Subnormal Subgroups''



• December 11 : Jim Davis, Indiana University
  Title: ``Manifolds Whose Fundamental Group is the Infinite Dihedral Group''
  (Joint with the Geometry and Topology Seminar.)




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