AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:40

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

Friday March 26, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, I
Room 122, Morton Hall
Organizers:
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
Thomas R. Wolf, Ohio University wolf@ohiou.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Products of characters with few irreducible constituents and finite $p$-groups.
  Edith Adan-Bante*, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
  (995-20-65)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bounds on Orders of Products in p-Groups.
  Lawrence E Wilson*, University of Florida
  (995-20-28)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Ascending central series of iterated wreath product $p$-groups.
  Jeffrey M Riedl*, University of Akron
  (995-20-117)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Numbers of classes of groups of order $p^9$.
  Nigel Boston, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
  I. M. Isaacs*, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
  (995-20-59)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Some Characterizations of Finite Desarguesian Translation Planes By Orders of Subgroups of Collineations.
  Douglas P Brozovic*, University of North Texas
  Chat Yin Ho, University of Florida
  (995-20-113)

Friday March 26, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, II
Room 122, Morton Hall
Organizers:
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
Thomas R. Wolf, Ohio University wolf@ohiou.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A strengthening of the McKay Conjecture by including local fields and local Schur indices.
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (995-20-102)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computing Schur indices of Frobenius complements.
  Allen Herman*, University of Regina
  (995-20-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the structure of the complex group algebras of finite groups.
  Alexander Moreto*, Universidad of Valencia
  (995-20-121)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Real conjugacy classes in algebraic groups and finite groups of Lie type.
  Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Florida
  Alexandre E. Zalesski, University of East Anglia
  (995-20-27)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the number of zeros in the columns of the character table of a group.
  Alexander Moreto, Universidad de Valencia
  Josu Sangroniz*, Universidad del Pais Vasco
  (995-20-88)

Saturday March 27, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, III
Room 122, Morton Hall
Organizers:
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
Thomas R. Wolf, Ohio University wolf@ohiou.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Primitive characters of quasisimple groups.
  Gerhard Hiss, RWTH-Aachen
  Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
  (995-20-108)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Bounding graph diameters of nonsolvable groups.
  John K McVey*, Kent State University
  (995-20-140)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Donovan conjectures and a question of rationality.
  Radha Kessar*, The Ohio State University
  (995-20-180)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Steinberg characters for Chevalley groups over finite local rings.
  Peter S Campbell*, University of Ottawa
  (995-20-23)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On the minimal genus of a permutation representation.
  Daniel E. Frohardt*, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  Robert Guralnick, USC, Los Angeles
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  (995-20-184)

Saturday March 27, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, IV
Room 122, Morton Hall
Organizers:
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
Thomas R. Wolf, Ohio University wolf@ohiou.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some problems releted to the theory of $k$-characters.
  Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State Abington
  (995-20-80)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Derived length and conjugacy class sizes.
  Thomas Michael Keller*, Texas State University
  (995-20-26)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Orbit method on associative algebras.
  Vladimir Dergachev*, University of Michigan
  (995-16-17)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Fusion category algebras of finite groups.
  Markus T Linckelmann*, Ohio State University
  (995-20-143)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Control of the Fusion in Fusion Systems.
  Radu Stancu*, The Ohio State University
  (995-20-163)

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