Home Page - Donald S. Passman


Donald S. Passman is a Professor of Mathematics
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research
interests include ring theory, group theory, group rings
and enveloping algebras of Lie algebras.

Vita
Publication List
Abstracts and PDF files
Mathematical Genealogy
Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, and Combinatorics



Address:

Mathematics Department
 University of Wisconsin
480 Lincoln Drive
 Madison, Wisconsin 53706

 Office: Room 603 Van Vleck Hall
Phone: 608. 263-2372
Fax: 608. 263-8891
Email: passman@math.wisc.edu


Schedule - Spring 2008:


News:


Samuel
(2006)

Rebecca
(2006)




Abraham
(2006)

Jordan
(2006)

Eve
(2006)




"Groups, Rings and Algebras" Conference:

Announcement
Official Web Site
Program
Conference Photos
Eric Behr's Photos or from Eric's Site
Chia-Hsin Liu's Photos or from Eric's Site
Pamela Passman's Photos
Don's After-Dinner Speech


Recent Papers (from 1997):

  • Group algebras whose units satisfy a group identity II
  • Construction of free subgroups in the group of units of modular group algebras (with J. Z. Goncalves)
  • The Jacobson radical of group rings of locally finite groups
  • Semiprimitivity of group algebras: past results and recent progress
  • Enveloping algebras of Lie color algebras: primeness versus graded-primeness (with Jeffrey Bergen)
  • Group algebras with units satisfying a group identity II (with Chia-Hsin Liu)
  • The semiprimitivity of group algebras
  • Semi-invariants and weights of group algebras of finite groups (with P. Wauters)
  • Noetherian down-up algebras (with Ellen Kirkman and Ian M. Musson)
  • Simple Lie algebras of Witt type
  • Simple Lie Color algebras of Witt type
  • Groups with all irreducible modules of finite degree (with W. V. Temple)
  • Simple Lie algebras of special type (with J. Bergen)
  • Trace methods in twisted group rings
  • Unitary units in group algebras (with J. Z. Goncalves)
  • Invariant ideals of abelian group algebras and representations of groups of Lie type (with A. E. Zalesskii)
  • Invariant ideals of abelian group algebras under the multiplicative action of a field, I (with A. E. Zalesskii)
  • Invariant ideals of abelian group algebras under the multiplicative action of a field, II (with J. M. Osterburg and A. E. Zalesskii)
  • Free unit groups in group algebras (with J. Z. Goncalves)
  • Twisted group algebras and generalized polynomial identities
  • Polycyclic restricted Lie algebras (with V. M. Petrogradsky)
  • Trace methods in twisted group rings, II (with J. M. Osterburg)
  • Invariant ideals and polynomial forms
  • Free unit groups in algebras (with J. Z. Goncalves)
  • Invariant ideals of abelian group algebras under the action of simple linear groups
  • Finitely generated simple algebras: a question of B. I. Plotkin (with A. I. Lichtman)
  • Free products in linear groups
  • Embedding free products in the unit group of an integral group ring (with J. Z. Goncalves)
  • Filtrations in semisimple rings
  • Filtrations in semisimple Lie algebras, I (with Y. Barnea)
  • Filtrations in semisimple Lie algebras, II (with Y. Barnea)
  • Linear groups and group rings (with J. Z. Goncalves)
  • Polynomial and inverse forms
  • Prime Lie rings of derivations of commutative rings in characteristic 2 (with Chia-Hsin Liu)
  • "Multiplicative Invariant Theory" by Martin Lorenz, (a book review)
  • A description of incidence rings of group automata (with A. V. Kelarev)
  • Free subgroups in linear groups and group rings
  • Finitary actions and invariant ideals


Abstracts and PDF files. Hard copies available upon request.


Family in Minnetonka (2006)

Tom
Sam
Barbara
Eve
Pam
Jon

Rebecca
Jordan
Marj
Don
Abe



In the Forbidden City (1992)




At Stonehenge (2005)




At the Taj Mahal (2006)





Status:

Home page revised June 2007.