AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 11, 2006 00:30:38

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Friday November 3, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, I
Room 403, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Claudia Malvenuto, University of Rome ``La Sapienza'' claudia@di.uniroma1.it
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some results on the Kronecker product of Schur functions.
  Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth
  (1022-05-149)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A combinatorial classification of skew Schur functions.
  Peter R. W. McNamara*, Bucknell University
  Stephanie van Willigenburg, University of British Columbia
  (1022-05-83)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A combinatorial rule for (co)minuscule Schubert calculus.
  Hugh Thomas*, University of New Brunswick
  Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota and the Fields Institute
  (1022-14-103)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The algebra and geometry of sortable elements.
  Nathan Reading*, North Carolina State University
  (1022-05-115)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Permutahedra and Generalized Associahedra.
  Christophe Hohlweg*, The Fields Institute, Toronto
  Carsten Lange, TU Berlin
  Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
  (1022-05-68)

Friday November 3, 2006, 2:45 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room 403, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Claudia Malvenuto, University of Rome ``La Sapienza'' claudia@di.uniroma1.it
- 2:30 p.m.
  Commutative combinatorial Hopf algebras.
  Florent Hivert, Universite de Rouen
  Jean-Christophe Novelli*, Universite de Marne-la-Vallee
  Jean-Yves Thibon, Universite de Marne-la-Vallee
  (1022-05-65)
- 2:55 p.m.
  Combinatorics of the Free Baxter Algebra.
  Walter Moreira*, Texas A&M University
  Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University
  (1022-05-90)
- 3:20 p.m.
  A bijection between $2$-triangulations and pairs of non-crossing Dyck paths.
  Sergi Elizalde*, Dartmouth College
  (1022-05-12)

Saturday November 4, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room 403, Science and Engineering Building
Organizers:
Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A\&M University maguiar@math.tamu.edu
Claudia Malvenuto, University of Rome ``La Sapienza'' claudia@di.uniroma1.it
- 8:00 a.m.
  On pure-cycle Hurwitz numbers.
  Fu Liu*, MSRI
  Brian Osserman, University of California, Berkeley
  (1022-05-151)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Desarmenien-Kung-Rota basis for the polynomial ring in $n^2$ variables.
  Mark Skandera*, Lehigh University
  Brendon Rhoades, University of Minnesota
  (1022-05-104)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Properties of four partial orders on tableaux.
  Muge Taskin*, York University
  (1022-05-142)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Noncommutative invariants and coinvariants of the symmetric group.
  Fran\c cois Bergeron, LaCIM, University of Quebec at Montreal
  Aaron Lauve*, LaCIM, University of Quebec at Montreal
  (1022-05-10)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebraic Structures on Grothendieck Groups of a Tower of Algebras.
  Huilan Li*, York University, Toronto
  (1022-05-32)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quasisymmetric functions and Markov chains.
  Patricia Hersh, Indiana University
  Samuel K. Hsiao*, Bard College
  (1022-05-135)

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