AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 4, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rings and Representations, I
Room 9B, TUCC
Organizers:
Maria E. Lorenz, Ursinus College
Martin Lorenz, Temple University lorenz@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Donald-Flanigan Conjecture.
  Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvania
  (933-16-233)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Aspects of the Donald-Flanigan Conjecture.
  Tony Giaquinto*, Texas A&M University
  (933-16-229)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Branching Rules for Finite Unitary Groups.
  Thomas R Hagedorn*, The College of New Jersey
  (933-20-18)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Practical Algorithm for Finding Matrix Representations for Polycyclic Groups.
  Eddie H. Lo, National Security Agency
  Gretchen Ostheimer*, Tufts University
  (933-20-174)

Saturday April 4, 1998, 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Rings and Representations, II
Room 9B, TUCC
Organizers:
Maria E. Lorenz, Ursinus College
Martin Lorenz, Temple University lorenz@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 2:40 p.m.
  Grading and Derivations.
  Christof Geiss, UNAM
  Edward L Green*, Virginia Tech
  Eduardo N Marcos, Univ. of Sao Paulo
  (933-16-211)
- 3:10 p.m.
  The homology of string algebras.
  Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California
  Sverre O. Smal\o, Norwegian University for Science and Technology
  (933-16-213)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Groebner-Shirshov bases for relations of a Lie algebra and its enveloping algebra.
  Leonid Bokut', Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk
  Peter Malcolmson*, Wayne State University
  (933-17-232)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Ideals of the Enveloping Algebra $U(sl_3)$.
  Stefan Catoiu*, Temple University
  (933-16-50)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Symmetric Pairs for Quantized Enveloping Algebras.
  Gail Letzter*, Virginia Tech
  (933-17-152)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Poisson polynomial identities, coadjoint orbits, and Krull dimension.
  Daniel R Farkas*, Math Dept, Virginia Tech
  (933-16-63)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rings and Representations, III
Room 9B, TUCC
Organizers:
Maria E. Lorenz, Ursinus College
Martin Lorenz, Temple University lorenz@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Associative envelopes of Lie superalgebras satisfying a polynomial identity.
  M. Susan Montgomery*, University of Southern California
  (933-16-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Kaplansky's 6th conjecture holds for quasitriangular Hopf algebras.
  Shlomo Gelaki*, Harvard University
  Pavel Etingof, Harvard University
  (933-16-107)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantum function algebras, at roots of unity, not finite over their centers.
  Edward S Letzter*, Texas A{\&}M University
  (933-16-188)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quantum determinantal ideals.
  Kenneth R Goodearl*, University of California
  Thomas H Lenagan, University of Edinburgh
  (933-16-143)

Sunday April 5, 1998, 2:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Rings and Representations, IV
Room 9B, TUCC
Organizers:
Maria E. Lorenz, Ursinus College
Martin Lorenz, Temple University lorenz@euclid.math.temple.edu
- 2:40 p.m.
  Schemes of Line Modules.
  Brad Shelton, University of Oregon
  Michaela Vancliff*, University of Oregon
  (933-16-49)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Noncommutative projective planes of weight (1,1,n).
  Darin R Stephenson*, Hope College
  (933-16-202)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Noncommutative symmetric algebras of two-sided vector spaces.
  David Patrick*, University of Washington
  (933-16-123)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Existence of Critical Modules of GK-dimension 2 over Elliptic Algebras.
  Kaushal Ajitabh*, Florida International University
  (933-16-210)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Von Neumann Algebras and Linear Independence of Translates.
  Peter A. Linnell*, Virginia Tech
  (933-46-74)
- 5:10 p.m.
  On locally nilpotent derivations and AK invariant.
  Leonid Makar-Limanov*, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel and Wayne State University, Detroit MI, 48202 USA.
  (933-16-138)

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