Saturday, November 3, Room 242, Lewis Center (SW corner of the intersection Jackson & Wabash).
 

10:30-11:00	Coffee/Cookies/Welcome
11:00-11:40	Jeffrey Bergen, DePaul University         ``Gradings and Skew Derivations of Algebras''            (joint work with Piotr Grzeszczuk)
12:00-12:40	Yiftach Barnea, University of Wisconsin-Madison,         ``Maximal graded subalgebras of some $\Z^n$-graded Lie algebras''           (The case $n=1$ is a joint work with A. Shalev and E. Zelmanov)
12:40-2:20	Lunch
2:20-3:00	Lance Small, University of California, San Diego         ``Affine Rings---Good, Bad and Ugly.''
3:20-4:00	Harvey Blau, Northern Illinois University         ``Sylow Theory for Table Algebras''           (joint work with Paul-Hermann Zieschang)
4:20-5:00	Corneliu Hoffman, Bowling Green State University         ``Curtis-Phan-Tits theory" (joint with S Shpectorov, C. Bennett, R. Gramlich)
5:20-6:00	Alexander Moreto, University of Wisconsin-Madison         ``Character degrees and nilpotence class of finite $p$-groups"

Sunday, November 4, Room 8005, DePaul Center (SE corner of the intersection Jackson & State Street).
 

9:00-9:40	Edward Letzter, Temple University,        ``Toward an Effective Representation Theory for           Finitely Presented Noncommutative Algebras’’
10:00-10:40	Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin-Madison        ``Orbit sizes of actions on characters and classes''
11:00-11:40	Everett Dade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,        ``Generalized Glauberman Correspondences''
12:00-12:40	George Glauberman, University of Chicago        ``A Conjecture of Oliver about Finite p-groups''
1:00-1:40	Mark Lewis, Kent State University         ``Connectedness of Degree Graphs of Nonsolvable Groups''           (joint work with Donald White)