AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:34

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday October 24, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology in Algebra and Geometry, I
Room 308, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Richard M. Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Kevin P. Knudson, Mississippi State University knudson@math.msstate.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Rigid relations in mapping class groups.
  Dan Margalit*, University of Utah
  (991-20-210)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Real vector bundles obtained from representations of pure braid groups, and fundamental groups of complex hyperplane complements.
  F. R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
  A. Adem, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  D. C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
  (991-55-196)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cohomology of the boundary of a line arrangement.
  Daniel C. Cohen*, Louisiana State University
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University
  (991-32-134)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Euler Classes and Group Actions.
  A Adem*, University of Wisconsin
  (991-55-172)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Koszul Duality and Graph Cohomology.
  T G Goodwillie, Brown University
  K Igusa*, Brandeis University
  (991-18-175)

Friday October 24, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology in Algebra and Geometry, II
Room 308, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Richard M. Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Kevin P. Knudson, Mississippi State University knudson@math.msstate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On bounded cohomology of amalgamated products of groups.
  Igor V Erovenko*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  (991-20-07)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Calculations in $H^2(G,Q/Z)$ Made Easy.
  Eric S. Brussel*, Emory University
  (991-16-166)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Introduction to the Rost invariant in Galois cohomology.
  Skip Garibaldi*, Emory University
  (991-11-164)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Ultraproducts and the Friedlander-Milnor conjecture.
  Tibor Beke*, University of Michigan
  (991-22-71)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A conjectural bridge from mod p arithmetic cohomology to characteristic 0.
  Avner Ash*, Boston College
  (991-11-18)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Euler characteristics of arithmetic groups.
  Ivan E Horozov*, Brown University
  (991-11-112)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Vanishing of Some Cohomology Groups and Bounds for the Shafarevich-Tate Groups of Elliptic Curves.
  Byungchul Cha*, Johns Hopkins University
  (991-11-05)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology in Algebra and Geometry, III
Room 308, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Richard M. Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Kevin P. Knudson, Mississippi State University knudson@math.msstate.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Extensions for finite groups of Lie type in the defining characteristic.
  Cornelius Pillen*, University of South Alabama
  (991-20-245)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Exponential maps for good characteristics.
  Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
  (991-20-183)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rational Schur algebras.
  Stephen Doty*, Loyola University Chicago
  (991-16-144)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quantum Weyl reciprocity for cohomology.
  Brian J Parshall*, University of Virginia
  Leonard L. Scott, University of Virginia
  (991-20-136)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Extensions for Frobenius kernels.
  Christopher P Bendel*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  Daniel K Nakano, University of Georgia
  Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama
  (991-20-114)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Realization of orbit closures via cohomology and representation theory.
  Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
  Toshiyuki Tanisaki, Osaka City University
  (991-20-44)

Saturday October 25, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology in Algebra and Geometry, IV
Room 308, Hanes Hall
Organizers:
Richard M. Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Kevin P. Knudson, Mississippi State University knudson@math.msstate.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A row-removal theorem for the Ext$^1$ quiver of symmetric groups and Schur algebras.
  David J Hemmer*, University of Toledo
  (991-20-119)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Hopf ring structure of the cohomology of the symmetric groups.
  Terrence P Bisson*, Canisius College
  Andr\'e Joyal, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montre\'eal
  (991-55-217)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Dade Group of Extraspecial p-Groups.
  Nadia P Mazza*, University of Georgia
  (991-20-235)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Nilpotent Ideals in the Cohomology Ring of a Finite Group.
  Jonathan N Pakianathan*, University of Rochester
  Ergun Yalcin, Bilkent University, Turkey
  (991-55-225)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Problem Session

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