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

• Derivations on Rings and Algebras, Mikhail Chebotar, Kent State University, February 2008.
• On Leavitt Algebras, John Clark, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand), April 2007.
• When C(X) is Weakly Complemented, Warren William McGovern, January 25, 2007.
• Serial Group Algebras, Kiyoichi Oshiro, Yamaguchi University (Japan), September 1, 2006.
• Distribution of Irreducible Polynomials over Finite Fields, Gary L. Mullen, Pennsylvania State University, June 7, 2006.
• Why Eisenstein proved the Eisenstein Criterion and why Schoenemann discovered it first, David A. Cox, Amherst College, June 1, 2006.
• Matrix units for signed Brauer's algebras and Robinson Schensted correspondence for Hyperoctahedral group of type B_n, S. Parvathi, Ramanujan Institute, Madras University, May 21, 2006.
• Serial Rings, a survey, Surjeet Singh, Univ California-Berkeley, April 11, 2006.
• Rings with indecomposable right modules local, Surjeet Singh, Univ California-Berkeley, April 7, 2006 at OSU-Columbus.
• Quasi-Duo Rings, Andre Leroy, Univ Ardois, France, April 5, 2006.
• Sectionable Sequences, and Matrices over Commutative Rings, T.Y. Lam, University of California-Berkeley, March 31, 2006.
• Affine Algebras of Low GK Dimensions, Lance W. Small, University of California, San Diego, May 6, 2004.
• Rings of finite injective dimension 1, C. Hajarnavis, University of Warwick, UK, March 25, 2004.
• Direct products of modules and the pure semisimplicity conjecture, Birge Huisgen-Zimmerman, University of California-Santa Barbara, March 15, 2004.

IV. TUTORIAL LECTURE SERIES

• Lectures on Algebra of Quotients of Lie Algebras, Mercedes Siles Molina, Universidad de Malaga, Spain, April 30-May 1, 2008.
• Conics as Axes and Jacobian Problem, S. Abhyankar, Purdue University, April 17-19, 2008.
• Set Theoretical Aspects of Covers & Envelopes of Modules and Construction, Pedro Guil-Asensio, University of Murcia, Spain, March 25-26, 2007. Lecture 1: Set Theoretical Aspects of Covers & Envelopes of Modules (Abstract, Lecture), Lecture 2: On the Construction of Indecomposable Envelopes (Abstract, Lecture).
• On the Jacobian Conjecture and a question of Emmy Noether's, Ed Formanek, Penn State University,  May 19-22, 2007. Notes for lecture 1, lecture 2 and lecture 3.
• Finite Frobenius rings and applications, Xiang-Dong Hou, University of South Florida, May 8-11, 2007.
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Elisa Gorla, Mathematics Institute - University of Zurich, Switzerland,  April 21-27, 2007.
• Algebras, Representations and Homological Dimensions, Changchang Xi, Math. InstituteUniversities zu Koeln, Germany, and Beijing Normal University, China, April 3-5, 2007.
• Convolutional Error Correcting Codes, Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky, March 13-15, 2007.
• The Role of Algebra in Applied Mathematics, David A Cox, Amherst College, May 31-June 3, 2006.
• Rings with Polynomial Identities, Louis H. Rowen, Bar-Ilan University (ISRAEL), February 9-16 2006.
• Idempotents, Unitary Units, and Skew Elements in Group Algebras and Some Applications, Cesar Polcino-Milies, Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil), November 13-19, 2005.
• Infinite Dimensional Tilting Theory and its Applications, Jan Trlifaj, October 27-November 2, 2005.
• Type Submodules, Dimensions, and Module Decompositions, John Dauns, May 16-22, 2005.
• Noncommutative Elementary Divisor Theory, Lawrence Levy, April 28-May 3, 2005.
• Ore Extensions of Division Rings, André Leroy,  April 3-23, 2005.
• Z_4-Cyclic codes and 2-weight projective cyclic codes, Jacques Wolfmann, July 5-10, 2004.
• Group Rings, CS  Rings and Ring Hulls, Jae Keol Park, UNIVERSITY OF PUSAN (KOREA), June 14-16, 2004. 
• Radical Theory, Richard Weigandt, Mathematical Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest-HUNGARY, March 19-20, 2004. 
• Introduction to Convolutional Coding Theory, Heide Gluesing-Luerssen,  University of Oldenburg (GERMANY) and University of Kentucky, October  28-31, 2003.
• A Crash Course on Stable Range, Unit-Regularity, and Cancellation, T.Y. Lam, University of California-Berkeley, May 21-22, 2003.
• pp conditions, purity and pure-injectivity for modules, Michael Prest, University of Manchester, May 12-16, 2003.
• Transfinite Arguments in the Theory of Injective Modules, Pedro Antonio Guil Asensio, Universidad de Murcia, April 28-May 2, 2003.
• On simple Nil rings and results related to Kothe's conjecture, Agata Smoktunowicz, Yale University, February 19-21, 2003.
• Commutative Krull domains, Krull monoids, and direct sum  decompositions of modules over noncommutative rings, Alberto Facchini, University of Padova, Italy, January 27-31, 2003.
• QF-bimodules and Galois rings and their applications to Coding Theory and to the Theory of Polylinear Recurring Sequences, Alexander Nechaev, Center of New Information Technologies of Moscow State University, April 15-19, 2002.
• Applications of rings, semi-rings and semigroups to Error-Correcting, Coding and Cryptography, Joachim Rosenthal, Notre Dame University, March 5-8, 2002.