AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22

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

Friday November 3, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometrics and Related Topics, I
Room 315, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
Curtis D. Bennett, Bowling Green State University
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Large abelian subgroups of $p$-groups, $\rm {II}$.
  George Glauberman*, University of Chicago
  (904-20-100)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A characterization of a product of $A_7$'s.
  Andrew L. Chermak*, Kansas State University
  (904-20-247)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On vertex operator algebras.
  Koichior Harada*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (904-20-52)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Automorphisms of vertex operator algebras.
  Robert Louis Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (904-20-110)

Friday November 3, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometrics and Related Topics, II
Room 315, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
Curtis D. Bennett, Bowling Green State University
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  The $Z^*$-theorem and the classification.
  Ronald M. Solomon*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (904-20-79)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Conjugacy of $Alt_5$ and $SL(2,5)$ subgroups of $E_6(C)$.
  Darrin D. Frey*, Winona State University
  (904-20-120)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Fixed point rations in classical groups.
  Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  (904-20-172)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Sharp permutation groups.
  Douglas P. Brozovic*, University of North Texas
  (904-20-80)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Maximality of alternating groups in the classical groups.
  William J. Husen*, Wayne State University
  (904-20-177)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Clifford theory for cyclic quotient groups.
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (904-20-152)

Saturday November 4, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometrics and Related Topics, III
Room 315, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
Curtis D. Bennett, Bowling Green State University
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Applications of finite geometry to group cohomology.
  Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (904-20-35)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the mod-$2$ cohomology of the Lyons sporadic simple group.
  Kristin Umland*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (904-20-90)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Quillen complex of a group of symplectic type.
  Kaustuv M. Das*, Eastern Illinois University
  (904-20-171)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Linear groups generated by elements of small degree.
  Richard E. Phillips*, Michigan State University
  (904-20-119)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Buildings conforming to blueprints.
  Michael Andrew Abramson*, Bowling Green State University
  Curtis D. Bennett, Bowling Green State University
  (904-20-212)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Locally GQ$(3,5)$-graphs and extended geometrics with short lines.
  Alexander Alexeevich Makhnev*, Institute for Mathematics & Mechanics, Russia
  (904-20-113)

Saturday November 4, 1995, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometrics and Related Topics, IV
Room 315, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
Curtis D. Bennett, Bowling Green State University
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Moufang trees.
  Richard M. Weiss*, Tufts University
  (904-20-244)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Arc subgroups of planar Singer groups.
  Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
  (904-51-150)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Embeddings of the involution geometries for $U_4(3)\subset Suz\subset Co_1$.
  Matthew Kirby Bardoe*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (904-51-89)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Non-abelian embeddings of the $P$-geometry of $J_4$.
  A. A. Ivanov, University of London, England
  S. V. Shpectorov*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (904-20-151)
- 5:00 p.m.
  External flats to projective varieties in $\Bbb{PG} (\wedge^2(V))$ over finite fields.
  Bruce N. Cooperstein*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (904-20-211)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Chamber systems of infinite rank.
  Anna Kasikova, Kansas State University
  Ernest E. Shult*, Kansas State University
  (904-51-39)

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