An MAA PREP Workshop held at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas May 20th - May 25th, 2007

The Main Speakers

Schedule

Travel and Housing

Registration

Background Reading

Slides from Lectures and Problem Sessions + Problem Sets NEW!

Images from the Meeting  NEW!

Significant Open Research Problems as chosen by the Main Speakers and Organizers NEW!

The Meeting was a great success!  Slides from all the Lectures and Problem Sessions, as well as the Problem Sets, are available at the link to the left.

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Questions about non-unique factorizations of elements in integral domains and monoids have become the focus of much recent mathematical literature. Such questions have a rich mathematical basis; their solutions involve techniques not only from commutative algebra but also from classical number theory, combinatorics, graph theory, abelian group theory, discrete geometry, and additive number theory.

This exciting five-day workshop will present fundamental mathematical concepts and results at a basic level. The workshop will begin with keynote addresses by the workshop leaders, followed by a series of basic lectures by three of the world's leading researchers in this area: Prof. David Anderson from the University of Tennessee; Prof. Alfred Geroldinger from the University of Graz, Austria; and Prof. Ulrich Krause from the University of Bremen, Germany.

Afternoons will consist of a series of small-group problem/discussion sessions, which will address how this material can best be applied to both the classroom and the undergraduate research project settings. The seminars will be led by graduate students--Paul Baginski from the University of California, Berkeley; and Amanda Matson from North Dakota State University --who have worked in this field at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The Workshop is suitable for both College and University level faculty, as well as graduate students.  The required background is undergraduate courses in abstract algebra, number theory, and combinatorics.