AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 29, 2006 00:28:48

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

Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Groups, I
Room 104, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Tilting modules for semisimple groups in characteristic $p$.
  James E. Humphreys*, U. Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1017-20-86)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On special pieces, unipotent classes, and complex reflection groups.
  Pramod N Achar*, Louisiana State University
  (1017-20-190)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Alvis-Curtis duality for admissible complexes.
  J. Matthew Douglass*, University of North Texas
  (1017-20-185)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bruhat-Tits Buildings of Rank Three.
  Richard M Weiss*, Tufts University
  (1017-20-25)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Semi-infinite moment graphs.
  Jared Anderson, New York, NY
  Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Mikhail Kogan, New York, NY
  Robert MacPherson, IAS, Princeton, NJ
  (1017-14-186)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Groups, II
Room 104, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cluster-tilted algebras.
  Ralf Schiffler*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  (1017-16-59)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Continuous Hecke algebras.
  Pavel Etingof, MIT
  Wee Liang Gan*, MIT
  Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
  (1017-20-92)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Poisson homogeneous spaces.
  Sam Evens*, University of Notre Dame
  (1017-22-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A t-structure on coherent sheaves on cotangent bundle of a flag variety.
  Ivan Mirkovic*, U. of Masachusetts, Amherst
  (1017-14-224)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the purity of Springer fibres.
  G. Lusztig*, MIT
  (1017-22-53)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Groups, III
Room 104, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quantum shifted subgroups and support varieties for some non-cocommutative Hopf algebras.
  Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A & M
  (1017-16-193)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A "motivic" calculation in $SL_2({\mathbb Q_p})$.
  C. Cunningham, University of Calgary
  J. Gordon*, University of Toronto
  (1017-22-188)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Branching Rules for Unramified Principal Series Representations of $p$-adic $\mathrm{GL}(3)$.
  Peter S. Campbell, University of Bristol, UK
  Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa, Canada
  (1017-22-173)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Construction of tame types.
  Ju-Lee Kim*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Jiu-Kang Yu, Purdue University
  (1017-22-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Supercuspidal L-packets and co-invariants in the weight lattice.
  Mark Reeder*, Boston College
  (1017-22-139)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Groups, IV
Room 104, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Spherical unitary principal series.
  Dan Ciubotaru*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1017-22-184)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Prehomogeneous Spaces Associated to Real Nilpotent Orbits and Their Relative Invariants.
  Steven Glenn Jackson*, The University of Massachusetts Boston
  Alfred G. Noel, The University of Massachusetts Boston
  (1017-22-14)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Complexity of nilpotent orbits in complex symmetric space.
  Donald R King*, Northeastern University
  (1017-22-40)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cohomological induction and irreducible representations.
  David A. Vogan*, MIT
  (1017-22-27)

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