AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:44

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

Saturday October 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Characters and Representations of Finite Groups, I
Room B119, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin, Madison isaacs@math.wisc.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@mcs.kent.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Canonical bases of a small Hecke algebra.
  J L Alperin*, University of Chicago
  (980-20-08)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Linear Limits of Simple Modules over Twisted Group Algebras.
  Everett C. Dade*, University of Illinois
  (980-20-188)
- 10:00 a.m.
  More on the McKay conjecture.
  Gabriel Navarro*, University of Valencia
  (980-20-92)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Systems of Character Isometries.
  Harvey I. Blau*, Northern Illinois University
  (980-20-162)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Reduction theorems for Clifford classes.
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (980-20-211)

Saturday October 12, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Characters and Representations of Finite Groups, II
Room B119, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin, Madison isaacs@math.wisc.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@mcs.kent.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Maximal subgroups of classical groups and representation theory.
  K Magaard*, Wayne State University
  (980-20-167)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Block theory, branching rules, and centralizer algebras.
  Harald Ellers*, Northern Illinois University
  John Murray, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
  (980-20-279)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Modular spin representations of symmetric and alternating groups that are irreducible over subgroups.
  Alexander S. Kleshchev, University of Oregon
  Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Florida
  (980-20-95)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Finite p-subgroups of GL(p,C) and their automorphism groups.
  Jeffrey Mark Riedl*, University of Akron
  (980-20-164)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An analogue of the Steinberg character for the general linear group over the integers modulo a prime power.
  Peter S Campbell*, University of Alberta
  (980-20-27)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Weil representations of symplectic and unitary groups over finite local rings.
  Gerald Cliff, University of Alberta
  Roderick Gow, University College Dublin
  David McNeilly, University of Alberta
  Fernando Szechtman*, University of Waterloo
  (980-20-55)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Characters and Representations of Finite Groups, III
Room B119, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin, Madison isaacs@math.wisc.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@mcs.kent.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Applications of algebraic group methods to finite p-groups.
  George Glauberman*, University of Chicago
  (980-20-18)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Recent Progress on the k(GV) Problem.
  David H. Gluck*, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  (980-20-70)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Product of characters and derived length.
  Edith Adan-Bante*, UIUC
  (980-20-57)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the number of conjugacy classes of zeros of characters.
  Alexander Moret\'o, Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  Josu Sangroniz*, Departamento de Matem\'aticas, Universidad del Pa\'\i s Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
  (980-20-133)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the Existence and Uniqueness of Thompson's Sporadic Simple Group.
  Michael Weller*, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University of Essen, Germany
  (980-20-114)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Dimensions of G-sets, sharp characters and the Burnside ring.
  Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State University, Abington College
  Eirini Poimenidou, New College, Sarasota
  (980-20-210)

Sunday October 13, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Characters and Representations of Finite Groups, IV
Room B119, Van Vleck Hall
Organizers:
Martin Isaacs, University of Wisconsin, Madison isaacs@math.wisc.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@mcs.kent.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Divisibility and character degrees of solvable groups.
  Alex Moreto, Universidad del Pais Vasco
  Thomas R Wolf*, Ohio University
  (980-20-289)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-divisibility among character degrees.
  Mark L Lewis, Kent State University
  Alexander Moreto*, University of Wisonsin, Madison
  (980-20-158)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Bounding graph diameters of solvable groups.
  John K. McVey*, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
  (980-20-51)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Solvable Groups Satisfying The Two-Prime Hypothesis.
  James E. Hamblin*, Shippensburg University
  (980-20-136)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Derived length and character degrees of some $p$--groups.
  Thomas Michael Keller*, Southwest Texas State University
  Dustin Ragan, Trinity University
  Geoffrey T. Tims, Drake University
  (980-20-86)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A family of polynomials related to generic degrees.
  Dean Alvis*, Indiana University South Bend
  (980-20-132)

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