AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:20

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Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 17, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, I
Room 146, Business Administration
- 8:00 a.m.
  Is there a reasonable representation theory for geometries?
  Ernest E. Shult*, Kansas State University
  (899-51-239)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Moufang trees.
  Richard M. Weiss*, Tufts University
  (899-20-161)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On geometries faraway from a flag.
  Sergey Shpectorov*, Michigan State University
  (899-20-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Maximal decompositions of modules.
  Daniel Frohardt*, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  (899-51-130)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Affine triangle buildings with large automorphism groups.
  Michael Andrew Abramson, Bowling Green State University
  Curtis Bennett*, Bowling Green State University
  (899-20-254)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Moufang 3-transposition groups.
  Jonathan I. Hall*, Michigan State University
  (899-20-198)

Friday March 17, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, II
Room 146, Business Administration
- 2:30 p.m.
  Evidence for some conjectures about group characters.
  Everett C. Dade*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (899-20-84)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Coprime action and invariant degrees.
  Gabriel Navarro*, University of Valencia, Spain
  (899-20-115)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Modular representations of the Hall-Janko group.
  Peter Sin*, University of Florida
  (899-20-09)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the 1-cohomology of the groups SL_5(2^n), SU_5(2^n), Spin_8(2^n), and Spin_(2^n).
  Michael Dowd*, University of Florida
  (899-20-148)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Geometries applied to representations and cohomology.
  Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (899-20-73)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Large Abelian subgroups of p-groups.
  George Glauberman*, University of Chicago
  (899-20-127)

Saturday March 18, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, III
Room 146, Business Administration
- 8:00 a.m.
  Four-punctured spheres and SL(2,2^n).
  John G. Thompson*, University of Florida
  (899-20-164)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Classification applications to the theory of families of cnvers: 1984-1994.
  Michael D. Fried*, University of California, Irvine
  (899-20-160)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Finite groups and the multiplicative structure of fields.
  Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
  (899-20-163)
- 9:30 a.m.
  GAR-realizations of classical groups of Lie type.
  Gunter Malle*, IWR, Germany
  (899-12-162)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Unramified p-extensions and the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (899-11-159)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Classification of groups of small permutation rank and their realization as Galois groups.
  Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (899-14-82)

Saturday March 18, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, IV
Room 146, Business Administration
- 2:30 p.m.
  p-subgroups of the rational group E_8(Q).
  Robert L. Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (899-20-199)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conjugacy of alternating groups of degree 5 and SL(2,5) subgroups of the complex Lie group of type E_8.
  Darrin D. Frey*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (899-20-166)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalized Kac-Moody superalgebras.
  Urmie Ray*, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  (899-20-165)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Flocks of oval cones.
  Norman L. Johnson*, University of Iowa
  (899-51-221)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Prime graphs and equations on finite groups.
  Nobuo Iiyori, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Hiroyoshi Yamaki*, Kumamoto University, Japan
  (899-20-48)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The maximal subgroups of the almost simple Chevalley groups of type F4.
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  (899-20-99)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the importance of being Z*.
  Ron Solomon*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (899-20-139)

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