AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

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

Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, I
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some tiny unitary representations of indefinite orthogonal groups.
  Anthony W. Knapp*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  (979-22-07)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Associated varieties and signatures of Hermitian forms.
  David A. Vogan*, MIT
  (979-22-66)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Admissible nilpotent orbits of $p$-adic split exceptional groups.
  Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa
  (979-22-155)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Components of the Springer Fiber and Domino Tableaux.
  Thomas Pietraho*, Bowdoin College
  (979-22-68)

Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, II
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  An order-reversing duality map for conjugacy classes in Lusztig's canonical quotient.
  Pramod N Achar*, University of Chicago
  (979-22-238)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra.
  Eric N Sommers*, UMass--Amherst
  (979-17-232)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Break.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Dixmier algebras quantizing classical complex nilpotent orbits.
  Ranee K Brylinski*, Penn State University
  (979-22-101)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The closure ordering of nilpotent orbits of the complex symmetric pair $(SO_{p+q},SO_p\times SO_q)$.
  Dragomir Z. Djokovic*, University of Waterloo
  Michael Litvinov, University of Waterloo
  (979-22-133)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Jordan algebras and spherical low-rank representations.
  Alexander Dvorsky*, University of Miami
  Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University
  (979-22-64)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, III
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Complexity of Nilpotent Orbits and the Kostant-Sekiguchi Correspondence.
  Donald R. King*, Northeastern University
  (979-22-42)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Triangularity results for characteristic cycles.
  Peter E Trapa*, University of Utah
  (979-22-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion.

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