AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:12

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

Friday March 25, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, I
Room 348, Waters
- 9:00 a.m.
  Representations of finite groups on cell complexes.
  Michael Aschbacher*, California Institute of Technology
  (891-20-50)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Approaching a geometric theory of the geometries of sporadic groups.
  Jonathan I. Hall, Michigan State University
  Sergey Shpectorov*, Michigan State University
  (891-20-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Maximal 2-locals of the monster.
  Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld*, Michigan State University
  (891-20-87)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Embeddings of sporadic geometries.
  Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (891-20-16)

Friday March 25, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, II
Room 348, Waters
- 3:00 p.m.
  Monodromy groups of coverings of the projective line.
  Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
  (891-20-165)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the maximality of irreducible cross characteristically embedded classical groups.
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  (891-20-88)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the maximality of symmetric and alternating groups in the classical groups.
  William J. Husen*, Wayne State University
  (891-20-53)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Basic conjugacy results for G_2(C).
  Robert L. Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (891-20-129)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Fixed point ratios on buildings.
  Daniel Frohardt*, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  (891-51-52)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Quillen's complex and normal subgroups.
  Peter Webb*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  (891-20-199)

Saturday March 26, 1994, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, III
Room 348, Waters
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some results on embeddings of geometries.
  Matt Bardoe*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (891-20-196)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Regular collineation groups of finite projective planes.
  Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
  (891-20-75)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Finite geometry and difference sets.
  Joel Iiams*, Colorado State University
  (891-51-197)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Diagonal forms for projective geometry incidence matrices and integral Hecke algebras.
  Robert A. Liebler*, Colorado State University
  (891-51-72)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial constructions of some point-line geometries.
  Bruce Cooperstein*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (891-20-149)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Graphs which are locally Grassmann.
  Vladimir I. Trofimov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  Richard M. Weiss*, Tufts University
  (891-20-64)

Saturday March 26, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, IV
Room 348, Waters
- 3:00 p.m.
  Locally finite simple groups which are finitary.
  Jonathan I. Hall*, Michigan State University
  (891-20-120)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Progress report on the revision of the classification of the finite simple groups.
  Ronald Solomon*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Richard Lyons, Rutgers University
  (891-20-160)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quillen complex of the classical groups of Lie type.
  Kaustuv M. Das*, California Institute of Technology
  (891-20-51)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rank two amalgams with a critical pair of distance one.
  John T. Zerger*, Kansas State University
  (891-20-159)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Generalized Lambda-n-gons and twin trees.
  Curtis Bennett*, Bowling Green State University
  (891-20-86)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Embeddings and automorphisms of geometries.
  Peter M. Johnson*, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  (891-51-66)

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