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 Algebraic Combinatorics, I
Room 137, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Oakland University kulkarni@oakland.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Combinatorics of paraunitary groups
  Hyungju Alan Park*, Oakland University
  (922-05-265)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Multivariable Lagrange inversion, Gessel -Viennot cancellation and the Matrix Tree Theorem
  Ian P. Goulden*, University of Waterloo
  Datta M. Kulkarni, Oakland University
  (922-05-241)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Distribution invariants of association schemes
  Nachimuthu Manickam*, DePauw University
  (922-05-70)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Tutte dichromate and Whitney homology of matroids
  David G. Wagner*, University of Waterloo
  (922-05-10)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Strongly regular graphs and alternating spaces.
  Chris D. Godsil*, University of Waterloo
  (922-05-139)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Symplectic Matroids
  Alexandre V. Borovik, UMIST, United Kingdom
  Israel M. Gelfand, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Neil L. White*, University of Florida, Gainesville
  (922-05-130)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room 137, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Oakland University kulkarni@oakland.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  $k$-Sperner Sets: A Snapshot of Modern Combinatorics
  Timothy Y Chow*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Philip J Lin, Tellabs Research Center
  (922-05-44)
- 8:30 a.m.
  New Polyhedral Formulae for Affine Problems
  J. Maurice Rojas*, MIT
  (922-05-280)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The characteristic polynomials of interpolations between Coxeter arrangements.
  Ping Zhang*, Western Michigan University
  (922-05-104)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Whitehouse module in the homology of partition posets
  Sheila Sundaram*, Wesleyan University
  (922-05-75)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Posets with flag-symmetry and local actions of the symmetric group
  Rodica Simion*, The George Washington University
  (922-05-282)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The {\bf cd}-index and zonotopes
  Richard Ehrenborg*, Cornell University
  (922-05-72)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room 137, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Oakland University kulkarni@oakland.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Posets with a natural local action of the symmetric group on chains
  David J. Grabiner*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  (922-05-226)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quotients of Coxeter Groups Under the Weak Order
  Debra J. Waugh*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (922-05-23)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Multiplying Schubert polynomials and chains in the Bruhat order
  Frank Sottile*, MSRI and the University of Toronto
  (922-05-208)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Ladder Determinantal Ideals: A Survey
  Devadatta M. Kulkarni*, Oakland University
  (922-05-245)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Enumerative aspects of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
  Francesco Brenti*, MSRI and Univ. of Perugia
  Rodica Simion, MSRI and George Washington University
  (922-05-273)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Standard Monomial Theory for Bott-Samelson varieties
  Venkatramani Lakshmibai, Northeastern University
  Peter M Magyar*, Northeastern University
  (922-14-272)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
Room 137, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Devadatta M. Kulkarni, Oakland University kulkarni@oakland.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  No feedback card guessing for dovetail shuffles
  Mihai A. Ciucu*, MSRI, Berkeley
  (922-05-138)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A ``Fourier transform'' for multiplicative functions on non-crossing partitions
  Alexandru M. Nica*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Roland Speicher, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  (922-05-33)
- 11:30 a.m.
  How many quartic graphs have integral spectra?
  Allen J. Schwenk*, Western Michigan University
  (922-05-276)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Minimal transitive factorisations into pure cycles.
  David M. Jackson*, University of Waterloo
  (922-05-278)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Problem Session

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