AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 12, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, I
Room 201, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Chat Ho, University of Florida cyh@math.ufl.edu
Peter Sin, University of Florida sin@math.ufl.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Pieces of Eight.
  Robert L. Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan
  (940-20-367)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dade's conjecture for the finite unitary groups.
  Chao Ku*, California Institute of Technology
  (940-20-377)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Is $71:35$ a maximal subgroup of the Monster?
  Hiroyoshi Yamaki*, Kumamoto University
  (940-20-212)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the first cohomology group of a finite group.
  Corneliu G Hoffman*, University of California Irvine
  (940-20-164)

Friday March 12, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, II
Room 201, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Chat Ho, University of Florida cyh@math.ufl.edu
Peter Sin, University of Florida sin@math.ufl.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  $Af^*$-$Af$ geometries and locally grid graphs of Pfaffian type.
  Jonathan I. Hall*, Michigan State University
  (940-51-348)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A local characterization of the long root geometries.
  Anna Kasikova, Kansas State University
  Ernest Shult*, Kansas State University
  (940-51-285)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A geometric approach to the standard form problem.
  Curtis D Bennett, Bowling Green State University
  Sergey Shpectorov*, Bowling Green State University
  (940-20-355)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Primitive Ovoids in $O_8^+(q)$.
  Athula D Gunawardena*, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  (940-51-328)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Grassmannian Fixed Point Ratios.
  Daniel E. Frohardt*, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  (940-15-340)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, III
Room 201, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Chat Ho, University of Florida cyh@math.ufl.edu
Peter Sin, University of Florida sin@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Even Type Theorem for quasithin groups.
  Michael Aschbacher*, Caltech
  (940-20-210)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Classification of finite simple groups.
  Gernot Stroth*, Universit\"at Halle Wittenberg
  Bernd Stellmacher, Universit\"at Kiel
  Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld, Michigan State University, East Lansing
  (940-20-115)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geometric Techniques in the classification of Quasithin Groups.
  Stephen D Smith*, U Illinois-Chicago
  (940-20-77)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups and Geometries, IV
Room 201, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Chat Ho, University of Florida cyh@math.ufl.edu
Peter Sin, University of Florida sin@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Classification of some Griesmer bound codes.
  Wolfgang Willems*, University of Magdeburg
  (940-94-116)
- 3:00 p.m.
  2-Rank and the Chromatic Number of a Graph.
  Chris D Godsil*, University of Waterloo
  Gordon F Royle, University of Western Australia
  (940-05-325)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On certain Schur rings of dimension 4.
  Kenzi Akiyama*, Department of Applied Mathematics, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
  (940-20-134)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Recent Results on Difference Sets with Classical Parameters.
  Qing Xiang*, University of Delaware
  (940-05-135)

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