Conference Schedule
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The full program with abstracts is .
Saturday, May 30, 2026 โ Morning Session
Location: Room 228 MSB
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 7:00 AM โ 7:45 AM | Conference registration |
| 8:00 AM โ 8:10 AM | Opening Remarks: Jenya Soprunova Kent State Department Chair |
| 8:20 AM โ 8:40 AM | Mandi SCHAEFFER FRY (University of Denver) Isaacs-Navarroโs Galois Refinement of the McKay Conjecture |
| 8:50 AM โ 9:10 AM | Hanlin JANG (Binghamton University) The building associated to a BN-pair |
| 9:20 AM โ 9:40 AM | Eden KETCHUM (University of Denver) Characters and Sylow subgroup generation |
| 9:50 AM โ 10:10 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:10 AM โ 10:30 AM | Alexander BORISOV (Binghamton University) On the problem of faithfulness of the Burau representation of B4 |
| 10:40 AM โ 11:00 AM | Inna SYSOEVA (Binghamton University) Welded braid groups, their (irreducible) representations, and linearity questions |
| 11:10 AM โ 11:30 AM | Casey DONOVEN (Montana State University Northern) 2-coverings of semigroups |
| 11:40 AM โ 12:00 PM | Shannon TEFFT (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) Examining Ducci sequences on Znm where m, n are powers of 2 |
| 12:10 PM โ 12:15 PM | Conference photograph |
| 12:15 PM โ 2:00 PM | Lunch Break |
Saturday, May 30, 2026 โ Afternoon Session
Location: Room 228 MSB
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 2:00 PM โ 2:20 PM | Thomas KELLER (Texas State University) Gruenberg-Kegel graphs of T-solvable groups |
| 2:30 PM โ 2:50 PM | Alexa RENNER (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) Prime graphs of infinite groups |
| 3:00 PM โ 3:20 PM | Andrew SUMMERS (Kent State) Classifying character degree graphs with eight vertices |
| 3:30 PM โ 4:00 PM | COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:00 PM โ 4:20 PM | Tuval FOGUEL (Adelphi University) Trivial-intersection transitivity in finite groups |
| 4:30 PM โ 4:50 PM | Arturo MAGIDIN (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) Dominions and nonsurjective epimorphisms in varieties of groups |
| 6:00 PM โ 9:00 PM | Conference Banquet Lazizaโs โ Downtown Kent |
Sunday, May 31, 2026; Morning Session
Location: Room 228 MSB
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 AM โ 8:20 AM | Alexandre TURULL (University of Florida) The linear characters of basic characters |
| 8:30 AM โ 8:50 AM | Thomas WOLF (Ohio University) Group properties determined by 2-generator subgroups |
| 9:00 AM โ 9:20 AM | Nic BEIKE (Kent State) Non-nilpotent solvable groups with four prime power character degrees and derived length four |
| 9:30 AM โ 9:50 AM | Wil COCKE (U.S. Army and Carnegie Mellon University) The category of centralizer lattices |
| 10:00 AM โ 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM โ 10:50 AM | JP COSSEY (University of Akron) The number of ordinary characters containing a Brauer character in a solvable group |
| 11:00 AM โ 11:20 AM | Ryan McCULLOCH (Binghamton University) Finite groups with many elements of the same order |
| 11:30 AM โ 11:50 AM | Brandon MARTIN (Kent State) Groups with a fixed character degree |
| 12:00 PM โ 12:20 PM | Thu QUAN (Binghamton University) A generalization of Camina pairs and orders of elements in cosets |
| 12:30 PM โ 12:50 PM | Samantha WYLER (Kent State) Semi extra special groups of order p12 and center p2 |
| 12:50 PM โ 1:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
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