Saturday, May 17, 2008; Morning Session

8:00-9:00 AM	Coffee and Pastries; Registration
	COMBINATORICS SESSION
	(Math Tower -MW- 154)
8:30-8:50 AM	Niranjan Balachandran (The Ohio State University)
	A $\lambda$ -Large Type Theorem for Candelabra Systems
9:00-9:20 AM	Suhkjin Hur (The Ohio State University)
	The Kuratowski covering conjecture for graphs of order $<$ 10
9:30-9:50 AM	Dursun Bulutoglu (Air Force Institute of Technology)
	Classification of Orthogonal Arrays by Integer Programming
10:00-10:30 AM	BREAK
10:30-10:50 AM	Yuqing Chen (Wright State University)
	Relative difference sets from additive Hadamard cocycles
11:00-11:20 AM	Xiaoyu Liu (Wright State University)
	An equivalence of Ward's bound and
	its application to nonlinear divisible codes
11:30-11:50 AM	Xiangqian Zhou (Wright State University)
	On $k$ -splitting families
	GROUP THEORY SESSION I
	(Journalism Building -JR- 371)
8:30-8:50 AM	Harald Eric Ellers (Allegheny College)
	Branching Rules for Specht Modules
9:00-9:20 AM	Kenneth Walter Johnson (Penn State Abington)
	Fusions between character tables of groups
9:30-9:50 AM	Mark L. Lewis (Kent State University)
	Generalizing Camina groups and their character tables
9:50-10:30 AM	BREAK
10:30-10:50 AM	Alexandre Turull (University of Florida)
	The Brauer-Clifford group and modular representations
11:00-11:20 AM	Ahmad Alghamdi (Umm AlQura University Makkah)
	On Current Conjectures in Block Theory
11:30-11:50 AM	Adam Salminen (University of Evansville)
	Defect zero blocks acted on by $p$ -groups for $p\geq 5$

	GROUP THEORY SESSION II
	(Scott Laboratory -SO- 0040)
8:30-8:50 AM	Julia Chifman (University of Kentucky)
	Toric ideals of phylogenetic invariants for
	the general group-based model on claw trees $K_{1,n}$
9:00-9:20 AM	Thomas Michael Keller (Texas State University)
	A lower bound for the number of conjugacy classes
	of finite groups
9:30-9:50 AM	Jeffrey Riedl (University of Akron)
	Conjugacy Classes of Subgroups of p-Groups
9:50-10:30 AM	BREAK
10:30-10:50 AM	Jack B.A. Schmidt (University of Kentucky)
	Just-non-PT groups
11:00-11:20 AM	Keyan Yang (Ohio State University)
	Orbit Equivalent Permutation Groups
11:30-11:50 AM	Clifton Edgar Ealy (Western Michigan University)
	Symmetric designs over ternary rings
	THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
	(Math Building -MA- 240)
9:00-9:20 AM	Dinh Van Huynh (Ohio University, Athens)
	Characterizations of some rings with chain conditions
9:30-9:50 AM	Thuyet Van Le (Hue University, Vietnam)
	Some characterizations of QF-rings via injectivity
	and small injectivity
10:00-10:20 AM	Zak Mesyan (USC, Los Angeles)
	Minimal extensions of rings
10:30-10:50 AM	Brian Blackwood (Ohio University, Athens)
	On parallel sums and invariance of harmonic mean
11:00-11:20 AM	Pramod Kanwar (Ohio University, Zanesville)
	Lie Regular Units
11:30-12:10 AM	Jae Keol Park (Busan National University, South Korea)
	Factor Rings of Quasi-Baer Rings by Prime Radicals
12:30-2:00 PM	LUNCH BREAK