The Algebra Seminar

SPRING 2001

Organizer: Luise-Charlotte Kappe

Link to seminar home page and current schedule.

• January 23 : Thomas Zaslavsky
  Title: Automorphism Groups of Dowling Lattices
  (Joint with the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar.)



• January 30 : Kathryn Nyman (Cornell)
  Title: Incidence Numbers for Line and Pseudo-line Arrangements
  (Joint with the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar.)



• February 6 : Alex Tchernev (SUNY Albany)
  Title: Combinatorial and Homological Properties of Polynomial Functors
  (Joint with the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar)



• February 13 : Matthew Brin
  Title: Zappa-Szep Products



• February 20 : Stephanie van Willigenburg (Cornell)
  Title: Zigzags and Algebra
  (Joint with the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar)



• February 27 : Ben Brewster
  Title: Injectors and Fitting Set Functors



• March 6 : Postponed



• March 20 : Friedrich Kluempen
  Title: On the Power Structure of Finite p-Groups
  This is Fred Kluempen's dissertation defense.



• March 27 : Joseph Evan, King's College
  Title: Subgroups that Satisfy the Frattini Argument
  Time: 4:30-5:30 (special time)



• April 3 : Tom Head
  Title: Finding Permutations with DNA



• April 10 : Joseph Kirtland, Marist College
  Title: Journeys into the Frattini Subgroup - Many Questions, Few Answers



• April 17 : Dan Clouse
  Title: Stone's Representation Theorem and Algebraic Duality



• April 24 : Dikran Karagueuzian
  Title: The Module Structure of a Group Action on a Polynomial Ring: A Finiteness Theorem



• May 1 : Joseph Petrillo
  Title: A Classification of Simple Groups with Subgroup Lattices of Length 4



• May 8 : Joshua Palmatier
  Title: Lattice-Ordered Groups - An Introduction