Join us in celebrating...

Conference on Abelian Groups and on Constructive Mathematics

in honor of Ray Mines's and Fred Richman's 70th birthdays
May 9-11, 2008, at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton

> Preliminary Program:
All talks take place in the Physical Sciences building (#55), room PS 109. The conference room has a white board, an overhead projector and a data projector. (The mathematics department is located on the second floor in the Science and Engineering building (#43).)

Thursday Evening
8:00	Open House at Richmans' (map to 420 Ashwood Place, Boca Raton)
Friday Afternoon
1:00	Registration opens
2:00	Welcome
2:05 - 2:35	Laszlo Fuchs Tulane	Weak-injective modules over integral domains
2:45 - 3:15	Marcela Chiorescu FAU	Minimal zero-dimensional algebras
3:15 - 3:45	Coffee
3:45 - 4:15	Hajime Ishihara AIST Japan	A continuity principle, a version of Baire's theorem and a boundedness principle
4:30 - 5:00	Mary Hopkins FAU	Weakly integrally closed numerical monoids
5:30 - 8:00	Picnic in Red Reef Park
Saturday Morning
8:45	Registration
9:00 - 9:30	Douglas Bridges Christchurch, NZ	Constructive reverse mathematics
9:45 - 10:15	Fred Richman FAU	Deconstructing Elbert
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee
10:45 - 11:15	Ted Faticoni Fordham U	Class number of an abelian group
11:30 - 12:00	Mary Flagg U Houston	A radical revisit with isomorphism theorems
	Lunch Time
Saturday Afternoon
2:00 - 2:30	Joan Moschovakis Santa Monica, CA	Unavoidable choice sequences
2:45 - 3:15	Ray Mines NMSU	Constructive mathematics at NMSU
3:15 - 3:45	Coffee
3:45 - 4:15	Vladik Kreinovich U Texas at El Paso	Metrization theorem for space-times: A constructive solution to Urysohn's Problem
4:45 - 5:15	Aaron Meyerowitz FAU	Integrality of group rings: A constructive result
	Banquet
Sunday Morning
9:00 - 9:30	Wim Ruitenburg Marquette U	Constructive mathematics with excluded middle
9:45 - 10:15	Robert Lubarsky FAU	Representations of Riesz Spaces
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee
10:45 - 11:15	Lee Klingler FAU	Distribution of elements in products in a group
11:30 - 12:00	Kulumani M. Rangaswamy U Colorado at Colorado Springs	Infinite rank Butler groups which are pure subgroups of completely decomposable groups
	Fin