THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST 50 ALGEBRA DAYS
(held, unless stated otherwise, at Carleton University) |
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1. | APRIL 21, 1969 | COLLOQUIUM IN ALGEBRA |
| 9:30 | V. Dlab | Matrix Rings over Skew Fields |
| 11:00 | J. Lambek | Torsion Theories and Rings of Quotients |
| 2:00 | M. Suzuki | Recent Developments in the Theory of Finite Groups |
| 4:00 | J. Dixon | The Probability of Generating the Symmetric Group |
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2. | NOVEMBER 15, 1969 | RING THEORY |
| 9:30 | B. M. Mitchell | Some Categories of Cohomological Dimensions One and Two |
| 11:00 | V. Dlab | Block-triangular Matrix Rings |
| 2:00 | M. Auslander | Commutative and Non-Commutative Gorenstein Rings |
| 4:00 | S. E. Dickson | Recent Developments in Splitting Torsion Theories for Modules |
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3. | FEBRUARY 21, 1970 | GROUP THEORY |
| 10:30 | Donald Solitar | Subgroup Theorems |
| 1:30 | Norman Blackburn | The J- and K- Theorems of Thompson and Glauberman |
| 3:00 | John J. Cannon | Aplications of Computers to Finite Group Theory |
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4. | NOVEMBER 14,1970 |
| 10:30 | L. Fuchs | Direct Decompositions of Torsion-Free Abelian Groups |
| 1:30 | I. N. Herstein | Groups of Units in Banach Algebras |
| 3:30 | G. M. Kelly | Rings with Large Indecomposables |
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5. | MARCH 20, 1971 |
| 10:30 | J. Lambek | Bicommutators of Injectives |
| 1:30 | A. Grothendieck | Algebraic Geometry and Topology |
| 3:30 | D. Gorenstein | Finite Simple Groups of Low 2-Rank |
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6. | OCTOBER 16, 1971 |
| 11:00 | W. Feit | Characterizations of some Finite Groups |
| 1:45 | I. Kaplansky | Homological Dimension |
| 3:30 | P. Ribenboim | Valuations and Lengths of Constructable Modules |
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7. | MARCH 14 - 17, 1972 | ALGEBRA SYMPOSIUM |
| 10:00 | S. Takahashi, B.M. Mitchell, J. D. Dixon, V. Dlab |
| 11:00 | H. Tachikawa, J. Lambek, N.S. Mendelsohn, N. Divinsky |
| 1:30 | P. M. Cohn, B. Banaschewski, D. Solitar, P. Ribenboim |
| 2:30 | R. Baer, S. MacLane |
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8. | OCTOBER 14, 1972 |
| 10:15 | C. M. Ringel | Indecomposable Representations of Algebras |
| 11:15 | Carl Faith | Some Recent Results on Simple Rings |
| 1:45 | Kurt U. Hirsch | Polycyclic Groups |
| 3:15 | Michel P. Lazard | Structural Equations for Commutative Formal Groups |
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9. | APRIL 7, 1973 |
| 10:15 | J. S. Wilson | On SI-groups and SN-groups |
| 11:15 | G. J. Janusz | Simple Summands of Group Algebras |
| 1:45 | M. Auslander | Category Theory and Artin Algebras of Finite Representation Type |
| 3:15 | A. Rosenberg | Signatures of Semilocal Rings |
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10. | OCTOBER 13, 1973 |
| 10:45 | P. M. Cohn | Eigenvalue Problems in Non-commutative Fields |
| 1:45 | L. Fuchs | Primary Abelian Groups |
| 3:15 | E. Formanek | Recent Advances in Group Rings |
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11. | MARCH 30, 1974 |
| 11:00 | M. Barr | Embeddings of Topos |
| 1:45 | P. Hilton | Nilpotent Actions of Nilpotent Groups |
| 3:15 | I. Hernstein | The Brauer-Cartan-Hua Theorem and Related Results |
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13. | APRIL 5, 1975 |
| 10:45 | Karl Gruenberg | Relation Cores of Finite Groups |
| 1:30 | Hyman Bass | Recent Progress on Serre¹s Problem |
| 3:00 | Donald Passman | The Semisimplicity Problem for Group Rings |
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14. | OCTOBER 4, 1975 | TRENDS IN ALGEBRA |
| 10:30 | Vlastimil Dlab | Representation Theory |
| 11:30 | Carl Faith | New Developments in Ring Theory |
| 2:00 | A. W. Goldie | Rings with Polynomial Identity |
| 3:30 | James Lambek | Localization, Completion and Duality |
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15. | APRIL 3, 1976 | TRENDS IN ALGEBRA |
| 10:15 | Claus M. Ringel | Brauer-Thrall Conjecture |
| 11:15 | Jonathan L. Alperin | Modules for the General Linear Group and Other Groups |
| 1:45 | Serge Lang | On the Fermat Curve |
| 3:00 | Robert V. Moody | Roots Systems of Lie Algebras |
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16. | OCTOBER 2, 1976 | TRENDS IN ALGEBRA |
| 10:45 | I. N. Herstein | Theorems of Brauer, Cartan, Hua Types |
| 1:30 | L. Lesieur | Localization |
| 3:00 | G. Renault | On Ascending Chain Conditions in Free Modules |
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17. | APRIL 2, 1977 | ALGEBRA AND LOGIC |
| 10:30 | Angus MacIntyre | Classifying Isomorphism Theorems in Algebra |
| 1:30 | Simon Kochen | Decidable and Undecidable Fields |
| 3:00 | Michael Makkai | Model Theory and Categories |
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18. | OCTOBER 1, 1977 | TRENDS IN ALGEBRA |
| 10:45 | Klaus W. Roggenkamp | Recent Developments in Integral Representation Theory |
| 1:00 | Tsit-Yuen Lam | The Quadratic Analog of Serre¹s Problem |
| 3:00 | Hans Zassenhaus | On the Maximal Abelian Subalgeebras of the Classical Lie Algebras |
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19. | APRIL 1, 1978 |
| 10:15 | H. Tachikawa | Some Aspects of Torsion Theories and Equivalences |
| 11:15 | J. E. Humphreys | Principal Indecomposable Modules |
| 1:45 | G. D. James | Skew Representations of Symmetric Groups |
| 3:15 | G. Higman | Geometrical Galois Groups |
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20. | OCTOBER 14, 1978 |
| 11:00 | G. Baumslag | On Acyclic Groups |
| 1:45 | R. G. Swan | Vector Bundles and Projective Modules |
| 3:15 | K. S. Brown | Cohomology of Groups |
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21. | APRIL 7, 1979 | TRENDS IN ALGEBRA |
| 11:00 | Bernd Fischer | Sporadic Groups |
| 1:30 | Roger C. Lyndon | The Structure of the Product of two Permutations |
| 3:00 | Lance W. Small | Polynomials over Division Rings |
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22. | APRIL 12, 1980 | ALGEBRA AND LOGIC |
| 10:00 | Gonzalo E. Reyes | Synthetic Differential Geometry |
| 11:00 | Gregory L. Cherlin | On Aleph1-categorical Groups |
| 1:30 | Dana S. Scott | Lambda Calculus and Intuitionistic Logic |
| 3:00 | Paul E. Schupp | Connections between Group Theory and Automata Theory |
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23. | MARCH 21, 1981 |
| 11:00 | G. Renault | Noetherian Ore Rings |
| 2:00 | M.-P. Malliavin | Ultraproducts in Algebr Gorenstein |
| 3:30 | D. Gorenstein | Disconnected Finite Groups |
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24. | APRIL 17, 1982 |
| 10:45 | B. Hartly | Locally Finite Groups |
| 1:30 | C. Procesi | Geometric Aspects of Theorems of Representation of the Symmetric Group |
| 3:00 | D. Solitar | Polygonial Products |
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25. | OCTOBER 2, 1982 |
| 10:15 | Edward Formanek | The Cayley-Hamilton Theorem |
| 11:30 | Narain Gupta | Infinite p-groups |
| 2:00 | Herbert Gross | Quadratic Forms in Vector Spaces of Infinite Dimension |
| 3:30 | Otto Kegel | Sylow Theory in Locally Finite Groups |
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26. | OCTOBER 1, 1983 |
| 10:30 | W. M. Kantor | Polynomial-time Group Theory |
| 1:30 | J. McKay | Computing Galois Groups |
| 3:00 | H. C. Williams | Computing Class Groups in Cubic Extensions |
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27. | APRIL 13, 1985 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 10:30 | A. Joyal | Witt Vectors Revisited |
| 1:30 | G. Higman | Geometry over Fields of Finite Characteristics |
| 3:00 | D. Passman | Group Graded Algebras |
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28. | APRIL 4, 1986 |
| 11:00 | Roger Bryant | Algebraic Groups of Automorphisms |
| 2:00 | Robert Wilson | Vertex Operators and Affine Lie Algebras |
| 3:30 | Trevor Hawkes | Recent Developments in Character Theory of Finite Groups |
29. | APRIL 10, 1987 |
| 10:30 | T. Lenagan | Growth of Algebras and Gelfand-Kirillov Dimension |
| 1:30 | G. Schwarz | Classical Invariant Theory for Non-Classical Groups |
| 3:00 | S. Thomas | Infinite Permutation groups |
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30. | OCTOBER 3, 1987 |
| 10:45 | H. Lenzing | Geometric Aspects of Representations of Finite-dimensional Algebras |
| 1:30 | R. V. Moody | A Report on Infinite-dimensional Lie Algebras |
| 3:00 | S. Walcher | Algebras and Differential Equations |
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31. | APRIL 16, 1988 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 10:30 | John MacKay | Basis for Sunshine |
| 1:30 | James Arthur | Base Change for GL(n) |
| 3:00 | Paul Roberts | Homological Methods and Conjectures in Commutative Algebra |
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32. | OCTOBER 1, 1988 |
| 10:15 | Martin Lorenz | The Grothendieck Groups of some Noetherian Rings |
| 11:30 | Takayoshi Wakamatsu | On the Nakayama Conjecture |
| 2:00 | Derek J. S. Robinson | Algorithmic Problems in Group Theory |
| 3:30 | Adrian R. Wadsworth | Valuations on a Division Ring |
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33. | APRIL 8, 1989 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 11:00 | Vinay Deodhar | A Combinatorial Setup for Kazhdan-Lustig Polynomials and Related Questions |
| 1:30 | Marie-Paule Malliavin | On a Theorem of Gabber, its Application and Generalization |
| 3:00 | Murray Schacher | Minimal Embeddings of Simple Algebras |
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34. | SEPTEMBER 30, 1989 |
| 10:15 | J. L. Tignol | Anisotropic Quadratic Forms and Division Algebras |
| 11:30 | S. K. Sehgal | Units in Integral Group Rings |
| 2:00 | D. Anick | A Survey of Hilbert and Poincaré Series |
| 3:30 | J. Stallings | Groupos that Act on Complexes of Non-positive Curvature |
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35. | MARCH 31, 1990 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 11:00 | Benjamin Fine | One Relator Groups, One Relators Products and Linearity |
| 1:30 | Georgia Benkart | Centralizer Algebras |
| 3:00 | Olivier Mathieu | On the Classification of Simple Grade Lie Algebras |
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36. | OCTOBER 27, 1990 |
| 11:00 | K. M. McCrimmon | On Jordan Supersystems |
| 2:00 | J. Saxl | Groups Acting on Symmetric Graphs and Geometries |
| 3:30 | I. Assem | On Tame Finite Dimensional Algebras |
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37. | MARCH 23, 1991 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 11:00 | Edward Formanek | The Automorphism Group of a Free Group is not Linear |
| 1:30 | Avinash Sathaye | Vandermonde Varieties and Related Topics |
| 2:45 | Bill Crawley-Boevey | Tame Algebras and Generic Modules |
| 4:00 | Anatoly Vershik | The Character of Symmetric Polynomials |
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38. | OCTOBER 5, 1991 | TRENDS IN LINEAR ALGEBRA |
| 10:00 | E. L. Green | Gröbner Bases and Computational Aspects of Representation Theory |
| 11:15 | Y. Medvedev | Groups and Lie Algebras with Almost Regular Automorphisms |
| 2:00 | J. J. Rotman | Projective Planes, Graphs and Simple Algebras |
| 3:15 | J. A. de la Peña | Finite-dimensional Algebras and Coxeter Transformations |
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39. | MARCH 14, 1992 | LIE THEORY (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 11:00 | W. Casselman | Truncation and the Plancherel Formula |
| 2:00 | R. Kottwitz | Inner Forms and Transfer Factors |
| 3:30 | J. Arthur | Orbital Integrals on p-adic Groups |
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40. | APRIL 17, 1993 |
| 10:30 | Maurice Auslander | Modules over Commutative Regular Local Rings and over Commutative Artin Local Rings |
| 2:00 | Leonard L. Scott | Homological Duality and Gradings in Highest Weight Categories |
| 3:30 | V. P. Platonov | Representations of Finitely Generated Groups |
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41. | OCTOBER 2, 1993 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 11:00 | Brian Parshall | Some Geometric Methods in Modular Representations of Algebraic Groups |
| 2:00 | Karen Parshall | A Glimpse at the Life and Work of James Joseph Sylvester |
| 3:30 | Stephen Berman | Classifications and Realizations, New Directions in Infinite-dimensional Lie Theory |
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42. | APRIL 16, 1994 |
| 10:30 | Mohan Putcha | Algebraic Monoids and Monoids of Lie Type |
| 1:30 | A. John Coleman | From Lie to Shapovalev, via Killing, Cartan, Weyl and Chevalley |
| 3:00 | Matthew Dyer | Algebras Associated to Coxeter Groups and Polyhedral Cones |
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43. | APRIL 22, 1995 |
| 10:30 | André Joyal | Commutation Laws and Witt Vectors |
| 1:30 | Alexei Rudakov | Algebraic Approach to the Study of Vector Bundles on Algebraic Surfaces |
| 3:00 | Vyatcheslav Futorny | Weight Representations for Affine Lie Algebras |
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44. | APRIL 27, 1996 |
| 10:30 | James McCool | Presenting G2 (Z[x,x-1]) |
| 13:30 | Yuly Billig | Cartan Subalgebras in Infinite-dimensional Lie Algebras |
| 15:00 | Dragomír Djokovic | Some Infinite-dimensional Simple Lie Algebras of Characteristic 0 |
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45. | APRIL 19, 1997 |
| 10:30 | Bruce Allison | Extended Affine Lie Algebras |
| 2:00 | Joachim Lambek | Some Contacts between Algebra and Logic |
| 3:30 | James Humphreys | Tilting Modules and Fusion Categories |
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46. | SEPTEMBER 20, 1997 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 11:00 | M. Knus | Algebras with Involutions of Orthogonal Type |
| 1:30 | O. Loos | Cubic Root Systems and the Jordan-Lie Functor |
| 3:00 | H. Petersson | Jordan Division Pairs over Function Fields of Genus 0 |
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47. | APRIL 25, 1998 |
| 11:00 | Olga Kharlampovich | First Order Formula on a Free Group |
| 1:30 | Wolfgang Herfort | Automorphisms of Free Pro-p Groups |
| 3:00 | Mark Kleiner | Homologically Finite Subcategories in the Representation Theory of Algebras |
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48. | OCTOBER 3, 1998 | (UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA) |
| 11:00 | A. V. Royter | Functors of Finite Type |
| 1:30 | John Faulkner | Jordan Pairs and Hopf Algebras |
| 3:00 | Jacques Tits | Moufang Buildings |
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49. | OCTOBER 2, 1999 |
| 10:30 | I. Agoston | Stratification of Algebras |
| 1:30 | A. R. Weiss | L-values and Multiplicative Galois module structure |
| 3:00 | P. Russell | Exotic Affine Spaces |
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50. | APRIL 20, 2000 |
| 10:00 | P. Gabriel | Representations of Finite Dimensional Algebras: a Survey |
| 11:30 | G. Lusztig | Bases in Equivariant K-Theory |
| 2:00 | R. V. Moody | Self-Similarity and Diffraction in Aperiodic Structures |
| 3:30 | E. Zelmanov | On some Algebraic Structures of Conformal Field Theory |
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