WMU Algebra Seminar

Fall Semester 2008
Fridays, 2:00-2:50 p.m.
Alavi Commons Room
6th floor, Everett Tower


Schedule:

Sep 5, 2008            Organizational Meeting

Sep 12, 2008           Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver, Enumeration of nilpotent loops via cohomology

Sep 19, 2008           Olena Shevchenko, WMU, Classification of Homogeneous Convex Cones, T-algebras, and Interior-Point Methods for Convex Optimization

Sep 26, 2008            Allan Bickle, WMU, Prime Numbers in the Complex Integers

Oct 3, 2008              Patricia Zoungrana, University of Ouagadougou, On the nilradical of Lie triple algebras

Oct 10, 2008            David Arnold, WMU, Introduction to Homological Algebra

Oct 17, 2008            No meeting due to AMS Sectional Meeting at WMU

Oct 24, 2008            Frank Lübeck, RWTH Aachen, Computing with groups in GAP

Oct 31, 2008            Julie Houck, WMU, Directed Homotopy

Nov 7, 2008             Terrell Hodge, WMU, Genetic Sequence Mutation and Quantum Group Representations

Nov 14, 2008           Annegret Paul, WMU, The Unitary Dual of the Metaplectic Group

Nov 21, 2008           Ben Phillips, WMU, Fixed-Point-Free Automorphisms

Nov 28, 2008           Thanksgiving break

Dec 5, 2008              Ben Phillips, WMU, On Automorphisms of finite p-groups


Please direct comments and/or questions regarding the algebra seminar to jay(dot)wood(at)wmich(dot)edu .

WMU Department of Mathematics