PRIOR ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTER

I. Conferences:

Conference on Algebra and Its Applications, March 22-26, 2005.

II. Public Lectures

The three challenges of Claude Shannon, Joachim Rosenthal, Notre Dame University, March 5, 2002.
Cryptography and mathematics: from Cesar's cypher to the internet, Elisa Gorla, April 24, 2007.


III. Colloquia


• Direct products of modules and the pure semisimplicity conjecture, Birge Huisgen-Zimmerman, University of California-Santa Barbara, March 15, 2004.
• Rings of finite injective dimension 1, C. Hajarnavis, University of Warwick, UK, March 25, 2004.
• Affine Algebras of Low GK Dimensions, Lance W. Small, University of California, San Diego, May 6, 2004.
• Sectionable Sequences, and Matrices over Commutative Rings. T.Y. Lam, University of California-Berkeley, March 31, 2006.
• Quasi-Duo Rings, Andre Leroy, Univ Ardois, France, April 5, 2006.
• Rings with indecomposable right modules local, Surjeet Singh, Univ California-Berkeley, April 7 2006 at OSU-Columbus.
• Serial Rings, a survey. Surjeet Singh, Univ California-Berkeley, April 11, 2006.
• Matrix units for signed Brauer's algebras and Robinson Schenstedcorrespondence for Hyperoctahedral group of type B_n,
  

  S. Parvathi, Ramanujan Institute, Madras University, Monday, May 21 2006.
• Why Eisenstein proved the Eisenstein Criterion and why Schoenemann discovered it first, David A. Cox, Amherst College, June 1, 2006.
• Distribution of Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields, Gary L. Mullen, Pennsylvania State University, June 7, 2006.
• Serial Group Algebras, Kiyoichi Oshiro, Yamaguchi University (JAPAN), September 1, 2006.
• When C(X) is Weakly Complemented, Warren William McGovern, January 25, 2007.
• On Leavitt Algebras, John Clark, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand), April 2007.

IV. Tutorial Lecture Series


• Applications of rings, semi-rings and semigroups to Error-Correcting, Coding and Cryptography, Joachim Rosenthal, Notre Dame University, March 5-8 2002.
• QF-bimodules and Galois rings and their applications to Coding Theory and to the Theory of Polylinear Recurring Sequences, by Alexander Nechaev, Center of New Information Technologies of Moscow State University, April 15-19, 2002.
• Commutative Krull domains, Krull monoids, and direct sum  decompositions of modules over noncommutative rings, by Alberto Facchini, University of Padova, Italy, January 27-31, 2003.
• On simple Nil rings and results related to Kothe's conjecture, by Agata Smoktunowicz, Yale University, February 19-21, 2003.
• Transfinite Arguments in the Theory of Injective Modules, by Pedro Antonio Guil Asensio, Universidad de Murcia, April 28-May 2, 2003.
• pp conditions, purity and pure-injectivity for modules, by Michael Prest, University of Manchester, May 12-16, 2003.
• A Crash Course on Stable Range, Unit-Regularity, and Cancellation, by T.Y. Lam, University of California-Berkeley, May 21 and 22, 2003.
• Introduction to Convolutional Coding Theory, by Heide Gluesing-Luerssen,  University of Oldenburg (GERMANY) and University of Kentucky, October  28-31, 2003.
• Radical Theory by Richard Weigandt, Mathematical Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest-HUNGARY, March 19-20, 2004. 
• Group Rings, CS  Rings and Ring Hulls by Jae Keol Park, UNIVERSITY OF PUSAN (KOREA), June 14-16, 2004. 
• Jacques Wolfmann, July 5-10, 2004. Z_4-Cyclic codes and 2-weight projective cyclic codes
• André Leroy,  April 3-April 23, 2005. ORE EXTENSIONS OF DIVISION RINGS.
• Lawrence Levy, April 28-May 3, 2005. Noncommutative Elementary Divisor Theory
  
• John Dauns , May 16-22, 2005. Type Submodules, Dimensions, and Module Decompositions
• Jan Trlifaj, October 27-November 2, 2005. Infinite Dimensional Tilting Theory and its Applications.
• Cesar Polcino-Milies, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil) (November 13-19, 2005) IDEMPOTENTS, UNITARY UNITS, AND SKEW ELEMENTS IN GROUP ALGEBRAS AND SOME APPLICATIONS
• Louis H. Rowen, Bar-Ilan University (ISRAEL) (February 9-16 2006) Rings with Polynomial Identities.
• David A Cox, Amherst College, May 31-June 3, 2006. The Role of Algebra in Applied Mathematics.
• Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky, March 13-15, 2007. Convolutional Error Correcting Codes.
• Changchang Xi, Math. InstituteUniversities zu Koeln, Germany, and Beijing Normal University, China, April 3-5, 2007. Algebras, Representations and Homological Dimensions.
• Elisa Gorla, Mathematics Institute - University of Zurich, Switzerland,  April 21-27, 2007. Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
• Xiang-Dong Hou, University of South Florida, May 8-11, 2007.  Finite Frobenius rings and applications.
• Ed Formanek, Penn State University,  May 19-22, 2007.  On the Jacobian Conjecture and a question of Emmy Noether's. 
  Notes for lecture 1, lecture 2 and lecture 3.