Spring 2007 Graduate Student Algebra Seminar

Wednesdays 5th Period (11:45 a.m – 12.35 p.m.)

Little Hall 368

Date	Speaker	Title
January 10	Peter Sin	Introduction to Permutation Modules for Finite Groups
January 17	Hung Ngoc Nguyen	Group-graded Rings and Modules (paper of E. C. Dade)
January 24	Timothy Bonner	G. Robinson’s Proof of Frobenius’ normal p-complement theorem.
January 31	PhD Algebra problems class
February 7	Peter Sin	The Suzuki simple groups
February 14	Junhua Wu	Codes from Ovals
February 21	Ogul Arslan	Stern’s probabilistic algorithm for finding codewords of low weight.
February 28	PhD Algebra problems class
March 7th	Peter Sin	Suzuki Groups (cont’d)
March 21st	Yang Yong	An elementary proof of Zsigmondy’s Theorem (due to Moshe Roitman).
March 28th	no seminar this week
April 4th	PhD Algebra problems class
April 11th	Danielle Cabral	On groups of even order (Paper of R. Brauer and K. A. Fowler).
April 18th	Danielle Cabral	On groups of even order (continued) (Paper of R. Brauer and K. A. Fowler).

For further information, contact Dr. Sin at
sin@ufl.edu