First South Texas Algebra Colloquium
Date: January 24, 2009
Location: MAGC 1.318, Departmant of Mathematics
University of Texas-Pan American
Edinburg, TX, 78539
9:50 - 10:00 Welcoming Remarks and Dedication
Dr. Lokenath Debnath,
Chair of Department of Mathematics, UTPA
10:00 - 10:50 Paul-Hermann Zieschang (UTB)
On Tits' main theorem on buildings of spherical type
11:00 - 11:30 Monty Taylor (UTPA)
Filtration transforms of multiplicative lattices
11:40 - 12:10 Elena Poletaeva (UTPA)
Cohomology of Lie algebras and its generalizations
Lunch
14:10 - 15:00 Oleg Musin (UTB)
On rigid Hirzebruch genera
15:10 - 15:40 Virgil Pierce (UTPA)
Duality of real and quaternionic random matrices
15:50 - 16:40 Alexsei Volovikov (UTB)
On the Cohen-Lusk conjecture
16:50 - 17:20 Zhijun Qiao (UTPA)
r-matrix structures of integrable systems
17:30 - 18:00 Kenichi Maruno (UTPA)
Tropical mathematics, soliton cellular automata,
and total positivity
Organizers:
P.-H. Zieschang: Paul-Hermann.Zieschang at utb.edu
E. Poletaeva: elenap at utpa.edu
Local Organizing Committee:
K. Maruno: kmaruno at utpa.edu
V. Pierce: piercevu at utpa.edu
E. Poletaeva: elenap at utpa.edu