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.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, I
Room 131, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University danf@math.wayne.edu
Robert L. Griess, Jr., University of Michigan rlg@math.lsa.umich.edu
Kay Magaard, Wayne State University kaym@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Applications of group geometries to group cohomology
  Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois at Chica
  (922-20-90)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Extensions of Kac-Moody Twin Buildings using Quasi-real roots.
  Curtis D. Bennett*, Bowling Green State University
  (922-20-118)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Quillen Complex of $Sp_{2n}(q)$
  Kaustuv M Das*, Eastern Illinois University
  (922-20-34)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Geometry and Cohomology of certain 2-groups
  Alejandro Adem*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (922-20-277)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Actions of $SL(2,7)$ and $PSL(2,7)$ Subgroups of the Complex Lie Group of Type $E_8$ on $2^k$-torsion Subgroups of a Maximal Torus
  Michael J Kantor*, Knox College
  (922-20-244)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Cameron-Liebler classes of lines in $PG(3,q)^\ast$
  Aiden Bruen*, University of Western Ontario
  Keldon Drudge, University of Western Ontario
  (922-15-281)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, II
Room 131, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University danf@math.wayne.edu
Robert L. Griess, Jr., University of Michigan rlg@math.lsa.umich.edu
Kay Magaard, Wayne State University kaym@math.wayne.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The 5-modular characters of the Harada-Norton group.
  Alexander J. Ryba*, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881
  (922-20-290)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the restriction of $O_{n}( {\bf C} )$ modules to $A_{n+1}$
  William J Husen*, Wayne State University
  (922-20-201)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Permutation modules, dual polar spaces, and Hermitian forms graphs
  M. K. Bardoe*, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, United Kingdom
  A. A. Ivanov, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, United Kingdom
  (922-20-230)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Symplectic groups, symplectic spreads, linear codes and integral lattices
  Rudolph Scharlau, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
  Pham Huu Tiep*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (922-20-29)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, III
Room 131, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University danf@math.wayne.edu
Robert L. Griess, Jr., University of Michigan rlg@math.lsa.umich.edu
Kay Magaard, Wayne State University kaym@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite projective planes with abelian transitive collineation groups
  Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
  (922-51-243)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symmetric dual pairs
  Ronald M. Solomon*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (922-20-162)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Recent progress in classifying $Alt_5$ and $SL(2, 5)$ subgroups ofexceptional complex Lie groups up to conjugacy
  Darrin D. Frey*, Winona State University
  (922-20-269)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Classification of small Frattini Moufang loops
  Tim Hsu*, University of Michigan
  (922-20-133)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Closed-Like normal subgroups of finitary linear groups
  Richard E. Phillips*, Michigan State University
  (922-20-204)

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