AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:29

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

Friday March 22, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, I
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
- 8:00 a.m.
  Remarks on linear systems with parallelism.
  T. G. Ostrom*, Washington State University
  (909-51-27)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Regulus-free spreads of $PG(3,q)$.
  Gary L. Ebert*, University of Delaware
  Ronald D. Baker, West Virginia State College
  (909-51-219)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Ovals and hyperovals in Hall planes.
  William E. Cherowitzo*, University of Colorado, Denver
  (909-51-96)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A family of non-Buekenhout unitals in the Hall plane.
  Jeremy M. Dover*, University of Delaware
  (909-22-92)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Semifield planes with a transitive autotopism group.
  Minerva Cordero-Vourtsanis*, Texas Tech University
  Raul Francisco Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
  (909-51-153)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On projective planes of order $16$.
  M. J. De Resmini*, University of Rome, Italy
  (909-51-155)

Friday March 22, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, II
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
- 2:30 p.m.
  Informal discussion
- 3:00 p.m.
  A new family of extended generalized quadrangles.
  Anna Kasikova, Kansas State University
  Ernest E. Shult*, Kansas State University
  (909-51-113)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the construction of Coulter and Matthews.
  Michael J. Kallaher*, Washington State University
  (909-51-121)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some generalized quadrangles in characteristic $2$.
  Geoffrey Mason*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (909-20-157)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Recent results concerning Singer groups.
  Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
  (909-51-243)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Coset representation of homogenous geometrical structures.
  Thomas Q. Sibley*, Saint John's University
  (909-51-81)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the classification of $4$-dimensional projective planes.
  D. Betten*, University of Kiel, Germany
  (909-51-176)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Four dimensional projective planes with a solvable collineation group.
  Hauke Klein*, University of Kiel, Germany
  (909-51-177)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, III
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
- 8:00 a.m.
  $p$-Ranks of finite geometric structures.
  G. Eric Moorhouse*, University of Wyoming
  (909-51-232)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Building a cyclic $q$-clan.
  Stanley E. Payne*, University of Colorado, Denver
  Tim Penttila, University of Western Australia, Australia
  Gordon F. Royle, University of Western Australia, Australia
  (909-51-80)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On completing a union of $3$-spaces to a plane.
  Julia Nowlin Brown*, York University
  (909-51-251)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Virtual derivation.
  Robert Allen Liebler*, Colorado State University
  (909-51-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weighted circles in $EG(2,q)$.
  F. A. Sherk*, University of Toronto
  (909-51-249)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Parallelisms of $PG(3,3)$.
  Alan R. Prince*, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
  (909-51-226)

Saturday March 23, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mostly Finite Geometries, IV
Room 335, Iowa Memorial Union/Iowa House
Organizers:
Norman L. Johnson, University of Iowa
- 2:30 p.m.
  Informal discussion
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quasiregular collineation groups and related Schur rings.
  Yutaka Hiramine*, University of Iowa
  (909-51-91)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Partial geometries and Steiner designs.
  Vladimir D. Tonchev*, Michigan Technological University
  (909-51-119)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Blueprints for classical quadrangles and hexagons.
  Michael Andrew Abramson*, Bowling Green State University
  (909-51-225)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Terwilliger algebra of a generalized quadrangle.
  Sylvia A. Hobart*, University of Wyoming
  (909-05-231)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Classification results for ovoids in $O_8^{+}(q)$.
  Athula Gunawardena*, Wayne State College
  (909-05-32)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Morphisms of buildings and related geometries.
  Peter M. Johnson*, University of London, United Kingdom
  (909-51-248)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Informal discussion

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