AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:42

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday March 16, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, I
Room 145, Cardwell Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Extending morphisms of groups and graphs.
  Michael Aschbacher*, California Institute of Technology
  Yoav Segev, Ben Gurion University, Israel
  (855-20-152)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Cayley integer approach to the Leech lattice.
  George Glauberman*, University of Chicago
  (855-20-49)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Applications of algebraic curves to the representation theory of SL_2.
  Geoffrey Mason*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (855-20-18)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sharply transitive linear groups over algebraically closed fields.
  G. Cherlin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  T. Grundh\"ofer, University T\"ubingen, Federal Republic of Germany
  A. Nesin, University of California, Irvine
  H. Voelklein*, University of Florida
  (855-20-40)

Friday March 16, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, II
Room 145, Cardwell Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  High-weight modules for quotients of affine buildings.
  Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (855-20-11)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Ru less < E_7(5).
  Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld*, Michigan State University
  (855-20-159)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Groups generated by 3-transpositions.
  Jonathan I. Hall*, Michigan State University
  (855-20-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Informal Discussion

Saturday March 17, 1990, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, III
Room 145, Cardwell Hall
- 7:00 a.m.
  Affine cap lambda-buildings.
  Curtis Bennett*, University of Chicago
  (855-51-66)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Extended generalized polygons.
  Richard Weiss*, Tufts University
  (855-20-13)
- 8:00 a.m.
  The embeddings of flag-transitive classical locally polar geometries of rank 3.
  Satoshi Yoshiara*, Tufts University
  (855-51-34)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Embeddings of polar spaces.
  Peter M. Johnson*, Wayne State University
  (855-51-172)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Locally polar spaces with affine planes.
  Hans Cuypers*, Michigan State University
  Antonio Pasini, University of Naples, Italy
  (855-51-106)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Totally irregular collineation groups.
  Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
  (855-20-23)

Saturday March 17, 1990, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, IV
Room 145, Cardwell Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Generalized quadrangles with s=t^2: A survey of recent results.
  Stanley E. Payne*, University of Colorado, Denver
  (855-51-126)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Skeletons of conical flocks.
  Norman L. Johnson*, University of Iowa
  (855-51-26)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generalized quadrangles in p-groups.
  Diane Herrmann*, University of Chicago
  (855-20-132)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Restrictions on groups with a Kantor family.
  Xu Ming Chen, Wayne State University
  Daniel Frohardt*, Wayne State University
  (855-20-171)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Orthogonal resolutions of designs.
  Spyros S. Magliveras*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  (855-05-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Informal Discussion

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