New College of USF
January 4-7, 2001
New College of USF is hosting the Zassenhaus Group Theory Conference on January 4-7, 2001 in Sarasota Florida .The Group Theory Conference at New College will continue the series of meetings that originated in the 1960's at Ohio State/Denison University by Hans Zassenhaus. The meetings are held at Ohio State or Denison in one year and other universities in alternate years. New College was the host of the 1997 Zassenhaus Group Theory Conference.
Please fill out the Registration
and Travel
Forms as early as you can
UPDATES-Continue to check these updates on a regular basis for last minute announcements.
12/11/00: Tentative Schedule and Abstracts currently under construction. Please submit your title/ abstract/ travel forms asap.
12/12/00: I am trying to put together a Sunday morning outing to Myaka River State Park since the conference will be completed by Saturday. Is there any interest in this? Please e-mail me.
12/12/00: Campus Map added to the web page. Please see below for details on the conference and banquet sites.
12/27/00: If you haven't booked your hotel yet, the Ramada Inn Airport is offering rooms at $49/night to guests of the "New College Natural Sciences Division". Contact: Ph # 941-355-7771, Fax# 941-351-7411, e-mail Ramada Sarasota@yahoo.com
12/27/00: Please submit your
choice of entree asap. The choices are:
Salmon Corsaro,
Chicken Parmigiana and
Eggplant Rollotine (vegetarian)
the meal will be served with
Rigatoni marinara, salad, coffee and a fantastic dessert (Tiramisu) prepared
by one of our best Italian restaurants. The cost for participants will
be $25.
1/1/01: Happy New Year. The nature walk through Myaka park will be guided by Ms Julie Morris, Environmental Studies coordinator at New College and Chairperson of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Bring your hiking boots and binoculars.
1/1/01: You will find information on the Conference program at your hotel. Please ask at the desk for info on "New College Math Conference". I am hoping to distribute it by January 2nd to: Sleep Inn, Courtyard Marriott, Best Western-Golden Host and Days Inn.
1/2/01: Schedule is finalized. Some minor changes occured but most talks remained roughly where they were before.
1/2/01: Ask for conference programs and directions to conference site at the front desk of: Sleep Inn, Courtyard Marriott, Best Western-Golden Host and Days Inn.
1/2/01: Sunday Nature walk 9:30 -12:30.
1/24/01 Photographs
Ken Johnson, Jay Zimmerman,
Dennis Spellman and Tony Gaglione in front of College Hall prior to the
banquet
2001 Zassenhaus Group Theory Conference
New College of USF
January 4-7, 2001
REGISTRATION: There is no registration fee for this meeting.
Please fill out the following electronic registration
form by December 1st 2000. If you are interested in attending
the conference please register early. It helps me schedule the talks and
plan the banquet.
SPEAKERS: (A list of speakers will appear here as soon as confirmations are received)
CAMPUS MAP-CONFERENCE AND BANQUET SITES
The Sainer Auditorium where all conference talks
will be held is is part of the Caples Fine Arts (CFA) complex
and can be located at the bottom of the Campus
Map.
The banquet will be held at the historic College Hall (CLH) located in the middle left of the campus map.
The hotels mentioned below are either on Univerity
Parkway (Courtyard Marriott and Sleep Inn), located at the bottom
right of the campus map or along US41 also known as North
Tamiami Trail (Best Western-Golden Host and Days Inn).
SCHEDULE:
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Afternoon Session Sainer Auditorium |
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| 12:00-2:00 pm |
Registration at the lobby of Sainer Auditorium |
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| 2:00-2:20 pm | Jim Beidleman (University of Kentucky) | "Local properties of finite soluble T,PT,and PST
groups" |
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| 2:30-2:50 pm | Homer Bechtell (University of New Hampshire) | "A d-primitive group is introduced that is dual to the concept of a primitive finite group". | ||
| 3:00-:3:20 pm | Ted Hurley (National University of Ireland) | "Constructing Lower Central Factors" | ||
| 3:30-3:50 pm | Tuval Foguel (N. Dakota State University) | "On finite groups with a numerical center" | ||
| 4:00-4:20 pm | Hammoudi Lakhdar (Miami University-OH) | "On the Prufer rank of certain finite groups" | ||
| 4:30-4:5 0 pm | Joseph Evan (Kings College-PA) | "Sylow-Permutability and Subgroups that Permute in Direct Products" | ||
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Sainer Auditorium |
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| 9:00-9:20 am | L-C. Kappe (SUNY Binghamton) | " Groups with their commutator subgroup unequal to the set of commutators." | ||
| 9:30-9:50 am | Michael Barry (Allegheny College-PA) | "Fixed spaces of unipotents on the tensorproduct" | ||
| 10:00-10:20 am | Arny Feldman (Franklin & Marshall College-PA) | "Fischer F-subgroups and F-injectors" | ||
| 10:20-10:40 |
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| 10:40-11:00 | Mark Lewis (Kent State University-OH) | "Solvable Groups Whose Degree Graphs Have
Two Connected Components" |
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| 11:10-11:30 | Ken Johnson (Penn State-PA) | TBA | ||
| 11:40-12:00 | Ben Ford (Sonoma State University-CA) | "Partitions and modular representations" | ||
| 11:50-2:00 |
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| 2:00-2:20 | Tony Gaglione (U.S. Naval Academy- MD) | "On discriminating and squarelike groups I" | ||
| 2:30-2:50 | Dennis Spellman | "On discriminating and squarelike groups II" | ||
| 3:00-3:20 | Surinder Sehgal (Ohio State University) | "On Difference Covers:Preliminary Report" | ||
| 3:20-3:40 |
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| 3:40-4:00 | Ivone Ortiz (SUNY-Binghamton) | "On The K-Theory of Fuchsian groups" | ||
| 4:10-4:30 | Fred Kluempen (SUNY-Binghamton) | "The classification of metacyclic 2-groups and
2-generator 2-groups of nilpotency class two according to their power structure" |
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| 4:40-5:00 | Ji Young Choi (Iowa State University) | "Multi-restricted Numbers and Powers of Permutation Representations" | ||
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Sainer Auditorium |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Ben Fine (Fairfield University-CT) | "Classification of Finite generalized Tetrahedron Groups I" | ||
| 9:30-9:50 | Gerhard Rosenberger (University of Dortmund - Germany) | "Classification of Finite generalized Tetrahedron Groups II" | ||
| 10:00-10:20 | Francis Tang (University of Waterloo - Canada) | "Conjugacy separability of certain HNN-extensions" | ||
| 10:20-10:50 |
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| 10:50-11:10 | Gary Walls (University of Southern Mississippi) | "Groups which are the product of Simple Groups and Non-Solvable Groups" | ||
| 11:20-11:40 | Jay Zimmerman (Towson University-MD) | "Groups of Small Strong Symmetric Genus" | ||
| 11-40-2:00 |
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| 2:00-2:20 | Charles Holmes (Miami University-OH) | "Isomers in Chemistry and Group Theory" | ||
| 2:30-2:50 | David Jackson (St. Louis University-MO) | "Membership problems for one relator semigroup presentations" | ||
| 3:00-3:20 | Clifton Ealy (Western Michigan University -MI) | "On the genus of finite simple groups of Lie type" | ||
| 3:30-3:50 | Marc Brodie (College of St. Benedict-MN ) | "On the number of coverings of a finite group" | ||
| 4:00-4:20 | Robert Hungerford (-FL) | TBA | ||
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Nature Walk through Myaka River State Park. |
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9:30-12:30 Gather in front of Sainer Auditorium at 9:20 am. Please indicate your interest in advance. |
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HOTELS: Click here for Hotel Booking Information
TRAVEL : If you are planning to attend this meeting, I encourage you to book your flights early. Sarasota is a very beautiful city and a popular winter destination. Click here for detailed travel information about getting to Sarasota.
Please fill out the Travel Form after finalizing your travel arrangements.
Please inform me of any traveling constraints you may have so I can schedule your talk accordingly.
Click here for Sarasota weather information
BANQUET: On Saturday January 6th, we will have a special evening banquet dinner honoring
Professor Wolfgang Kappe on his 70th birthday.
There will be short presentations after dinner by some of professor Kappe's friends, collaborators and ex-students (these sets of people are certainly not disjoint!). If you would like to give a short presentation please e-mail me.
Organizer:
Eirini Poimenidou, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Division of Natural Sciences
New College of USF
5700 N. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34243
Tel:(941)-359-4379 Fax: (941)-359-4396
Thanks to Arny Feldman for taking a picture of Ken Johnson and Eirini Poimenidou during the 1996 OSU meeting at Denison.
If you want to obtain more information, please e-mail
me at poimenid@virtu.sar.usf.edu.
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