AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday May 2, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics, I
Room 129, State Hall Building
Organizers:
David Howard Gluck, Wayne State University dgluck@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Homogeneous Integral Table Algebras
  Harvey I. Blau*, Northern Illinois University
  Bangteng Xu, Northern Illinois University
  (922-20-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some remarks on blocks of Special Linear Groups
  Harvey I. Blau, Northern Illinois University
  Harald E. Ellers*, Northern Illinois University
  (922-20-223)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A decomposition theorem for $K$-theory of a group algebra
  Sarah J. Witherspoon*, University of Toronto and University of California, Berkeley
  (922-20-144)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quillen Stratification for the Stable Module Category
  Wayne W. Wheeler*, University of Georgia
  (922-20-68)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Hochschild cohomology is {\it really} Representation Theory.
  Stephen F. Siegel*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Sarah J. Witherspoon, University of California, Berkeley
  (922-20-250)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics, II
Room 129, State Hall Building
Organizers:
David Howard Gluck, Wayne State University dgluck@math.wayne.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hall Polynomials for Classical Groups
  Miller Maley*, M. S. R. I.
  (922-20-06)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Faithful Representations and Homomorphic Images of Linear Groups
  Richard E Phillips, Michigan State University
  Julianne G Rainbolt*, Michigan State University
  (922-20-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the cohomology of finite Chevalley groups
  Corneliu Gabriel Hoffman*, University of Southern California
  (922-20-61)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics, III
Room 129, State Hall Building
Organizers:
David Howard Gluck, Wayne State University dgluck@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Character degrees and normal subgroups in finite groups.
  I. M. Isaacs*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Greg Knutson, (deceased)
  (922-20-101)
- 3:30 p.m.
  New results on the Taketa-problem
  Thomas Michael Keller*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (922-20-25)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Character degrees and local subgroups of pi-separble groups.
  Tom Wolf*, Ohio University
  Gabriel Navarro, Universiatat Valencia, Burjasso
  (922-20-214)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Derived Lengths and Character Degrees
  Mark L. Lewis*, Kent State Univesrity
  (922-20-21)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Character degrees of finite solvable groups
  J. P. Zhang*, Peking University, Beijing, China
  (922-20-164)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics, IV
Room 129, State Hall Building
Organizers:
David Howard Gluck, Wayne State University dgluck@math.wayne.edu
- 11:00 a.m.
  Calculating some Schur indices
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (922-20-64)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Feit's conjecture on $p$-Steinberg characters
  Pham Huu Tiep*, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
  (922-20-28)
- 12:00 p.m.
  The McLaughlin Finite Simple Group $Mc$ and Dade's Conjecture.
  John C. Murray*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (922-20-85)

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