Sunday, MAY 18, 2008; Morning Session

8:00-9:00 AM COFFEE AND PASTRIES
   
  COMBINATORICS SESSION
  (Math Tower -MW- 154)
   
9:30-9:50 AM K.T. Arasu (Wright State University)
  On Two-Circulant Weighing Matrices
10:00-10:20 AM Nishali Mehta (The Ohio State University)
  Graph games with restricted degrees
10:20-11:00 AM BREAK
   
11:00-11:20 AM Nuh Aydin (Kenyon College)
  Search for Good Linear Codes
11:30-11:50 AM Christopher Matthew McClain (The Ohio State University)
  The Clique Chromatic Index of Line Graphs
   
   
  GROUP THEORY SESSION
  (Psychology Building -PS- 002)
   
8:30-8:50 AM Arturo Magidin (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
  Capability of semiextraspecial groups. Preliminary Report.
9:00-9:20 AM Viji Thomas (Binghamton University)
  The Nonabelian Tensor Product of
  Finite Groups is Finite: A Homology Free Proof
9:30-9:50 AM Nor Muhainiah Mohd Ali (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
  Using GAP to Compute Homological Invariants of
  2-Generator Non-Torsion Groups of Nilpotency Class Two
9:50-10:30 AM BREAK
   
10:30-10:50 AM Elizabeth Wilcox (Binghamton University)
  Certain Normal Subgroups of Complete Groups
11:00-11:20 AM Arnold D. Feldman (Franklin & Marshall College)
  Lattice Properties, Normality, and Subnormality in Finite Groups
11:30-11:50 AM Luise-Charlotte Kappe (Binghamton University)
  On $ n$ -Scorza groups
  THEORY OF RINGS AND MODULES SESSION
  (Math Building -MA- 240)
   
9:30-9:50 AM Hai Q. Dinh (Kent State University, Warren)
  Constacyclic codes of length $ p^s$ over $ \mathbb{F}_{p^m}+u\mathbb{F}_{p^m}$
10:00-10:20 AM Benigno R. Parra (Ohio University, Athens)
  Rational Power Series and Periodicity of Sequences
10:30-10:50 AM Gangyong Lee (The Ohio State University, Columbus)
  Rickart modules
11:00-11:20 AM Dinh Hai Hoang (Mahidol University, Thailand)
  A weaker form of p-injectivity
11:30-11:50 AM Cosmin Roman (The Ohio State University)
  TBA

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