AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:29

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 14, 2003, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, I
Room 203, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
- 2:15 p.m.
  Finite representation type and direct-sum cancellation.
  Ryan Karr*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (984-13-193)
- 2:45 p.m.
  A Characterization of Valuation Domains via m-Canonical Ideals.
  Ayman R Badawi*, Birzeit University, West Bank
  (984-13-51)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Ratliff-Rush closure of $(x,y)$-primary ideals in $K[x,y]$.
  David C. Lantz*, Colgate University
  (984-13-180)
- 3:45 p.m.
  The Mori property in rings with zero divisors, I.V.
  Thomas G Lucas*, University of North Carolina Charlotte
  (984-13-81)
- 4:15 p.m.
  The half-factorial property and domains of the form A+XB[X].
  James Coykendall, North Dakota State University, Fargo
  Tiberiu Dumitrescu, Universitatea Bucuresti, Bucharest
  Muhammad Zafrullah*, Idaho State University, Pocatello
  (984-13-161)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Generalized Notions of Closure.
  Jim Coykendall, North Dakota State University
  Tridib Dutta*, North Dakota State University
  (984-13-42)

Saturday March 15, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, II
Room 203, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Factorization Properties in Block Monoids Formed by All-Divisor Subsets of a Cyclic Group.
  William W Smith*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (984-13-60)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The class group of a monoid domain.
  David F Anderson*, Mathematics Department
  Gyu Whan Chang, Mathematics Department
  (984-13-109)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Full and Asymptotic Elasticity in Atomic Integral Domains and Monoids.
  Scott T. Chapman*, Trinity University
  (984-13-59)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Units, primes, and generalizations of factorial domains.
  P. Malcolmson, Wayne State University
  F. Okoh*, Wayne State University
  (984-13-17)
- 10:00 a.m.
  When are associates unit multiples?
  Daniel D Anderson*, The University of Iowa
  (984-13-41)
- 10:30 a.m.
  GCD-sets in integarl domains II.
  Jeanam Park*, Department of Mathematics, Inha University
  Gyuwhan Chang, Department of Mathematics, Incheon University
  (984-13-144)

Saturday March 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
Room 203, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Going-down Implies Generalized Going-down.
  David E. Dobbs, The University of Tennessee
  Andrew J. Hetzel*, The University of Tennessee
  (984-13-07)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On a field-theoretic invariant for extensions of commutative rings.
  David E. Dobbs*, University of Tennessee
  Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham-Southern College
  (984-13-01)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Absolutely integral ring homomorphisms.
  Gabriel Picavet*, University B. Pascal
  (984-13-97)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generating ideals in pullbacks.
  Evan Houston*, UNC Charlotte
  (984-13-65)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Seminormal Cohen-Kaplansky domains and diophantine equations.
  Martine Picavet-L'Hermitte*, University B. Pascal
  Abdallah Badra, University B. Pascal
  (984-13-98)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Prime-Producing Polunomials II.
  Joe L. Mott*, Florida State University
  Kermit Rose, Florida State University
  (984-11-270)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
Room 203, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Elasticities of Krull domains with divisor class group ${\mathbb Z}_{b}$.
  Karl Kattchee*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
  (984-13-165)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Boundary Map and Overrings.
  Jack L Maney*, North Dakota State University
  (984-13-91)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Arithmetic on Free Abelian Groups.
  Clifford Steven Queen*, Lehigh University
  (984-13-151)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Maximal prime divisors in arithmetical rings.
  Laszlo Fuchs, Tulane University
  William Heinzer, Purdue University
  Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
  (984-13-119)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Rings between the Nagata ring and the Kronecker function ring of an integral domain.
  K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University - Newark
  Marco Fontana, University of Rome III
  (984-13-143)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Adjoint Groups of Jacobson Radical Rings.
  Henry E. Heatherly*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (984-16-26)

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