AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

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

Friday March 27, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometry, I
Room 146, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ernest E. Shult, Kansas State University shult@math.ksu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Towards a Theory of Flocks of Cones.
  William E Cherowitzo*, University of Colorado at Denver
  (932-51-47)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Generalized Quadrangles with Parameters (q+1, q-1) .
  M A Miller*, Univ. Colo - Denver
  Stan E Payne, Univ. Colo - Denver
  (932-51-42)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the ovoids in the orthogonal space of type $O_6^+(8)$.
  Athula D Gunawardena*, Wayne State College
  John Fuelberth, Wayne State College
  David Shaffer, Wayne State College
  (932-51-223)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $c$-extensions of $P$-geometries.
  Corinna Wiedorn*, :Martin-Luther Universit\"at, Halle, Germany
  (932-20-63)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Higher order buildings as $\Bbb{Z} \times \Bbb{Z}$-buildings.
  Curtis D. Bennett*, Bowling Green State University
  (932-20-90)

Friday March 27, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometry, II
Room 146, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ernest E. Shult, Kansas State University shult@math.ksu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Permutation modules for $\hbox{GL}(n+1,\mathbb F_q)$ acting on $\mathbb P^n(\mabb F_q)$ and ${\mathbb F_q}^{n+1}$.
  Matthew K Bardoe, None
  Peter K Sin*, University of Florida
  (932-20-34)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Restrictions of $\Omega^{\epsilon}_{n}(q)$-modules to alternating groups.
  William J. Husen*, Wayne State University
  (932-20-78)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Irreducibility of Alternating and Symmetric Squares.
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  Gunter Malle, Universitaet Heidelberg
  (932-20-74)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Small modules for finite simple groups.
  Gernot Stroth*, Universit\"at Halle
  Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld, Michigan State University
  (932-20-64)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Projective representations in cross characteristic for some classical groups.
  Corneliu G. Hoffman*, Univ. of Southern California
  (932-20-44)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Valentiner's Group: The Action on $\mathbf{CP}^{2}$ of the Alternating Group $\mathcal{A}_{6}$.
  Scott Crass*, Buffalo State College
  (932-20-27)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometry, III
Room 146, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ernest E. Shult, Kansas State University shult@math.ksu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Collineations of Finite Projective Planes.
  Chat-Yin Ho*, Univ of Florida
  (932-51-174)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The 2-transitive complex Hadamard matrices.
  G. E. Moorhouse*, Univ. of Wyoming
  (932-05-55)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Antipodal distance transitive covers of complete graphs.
  Chris D. Godsil, Univeristy of Waterloo
  Robert A. Liebler*, Coloarado State Univeristy
  Cheryl Praeger, E., University of Western Australia
  (932-05-46)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Flag-transitive hyperplane complements of classical generalized quadrangles.
  Antonio Pasini, University of Siena, Italy
  Sergey Shpectorov*, Bowling Green State University
  (932-20-72)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Characterization of $P$-geometries related to $M_{22}$.
  Jonathan I. Hall*, Michigan State University
  (932-20-183)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the sphericity and simple connectivity of finite regular posets.
  Chao Ku*, California Institute of Technology
  (932-20-144)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometry, IV
Room 146, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Ernest E. Shult, Kansas State University shult@math.ksu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A lemma on quasithin groups.
  Michael Aschbacher*, Caltech
  (932-20-104)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Geometrical considerations in the classification of quasithin groups
  Stephen D Smith*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (932-20-08)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Framed Vertex Operator Algebras and Rank One Lattice Type VOAs.
  Robert L. Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan
  (932-20-207)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $Sz(8)$ embeds in $E_8(C)$.
  Alexander J. Ryba*, University of Michigan
  (932-20-212)
- 4:30 p.m.
  SL(2,7) and PSL(2,7) Subgroups of the Lie Group E8(C).
  Michael J. Kantor*, Knox College
  (932-20-175)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Classical groups as monodromy composition factors.
  Daniel E. Frohardt*, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  (932-20-181)

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