AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 24, 2007 00:22:09

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

Friday March 16, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, I
Room 112, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Determining p-colorability for knots.
  John Tynan*, Marietta College
  William Sears, Marietta College
  (1025-05-129)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Survey of the Cauchy-Davenport Theorem and the Erdos-Heilbronn Conjecture.
  Jeffrey Paul Wheeler*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Memphis
  (1025-05-64)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Regular excluded minors for the class of signed-graphic matroids.
  Daniel Slilaty*, Wright State University
  (1025-05-183)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A connection between topology, k-ellipses and the minimum weight triangulation problem.
  Cindy Traub*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  (1025-05-188)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generalized Quadrangles, Ovals, and Related Structures: Some of Stan's Favorite Things from the past40 years.
  Mark Miller*, Marietta College
  (1025-05-195)

Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, II
Room 112, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generalized quadrangles and the BLT-property.
  Joseph A Thas*, Ghent University
  (1025-51-20)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generalized quadrangles of order $s$ with a hyperbolic line consisting of regular points.
  Bart De Bruyn*, Ghent University
  (1025-51-52)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A generalization of generalized $m$-gons via truncated root systems of affine Lie algebras.
  Andrew J Woldar*, Villanova University
  (1025-05-148)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The full automorphism group of a class of geometries constructed from classical polar spaces.
  Stefaan De Winter*, Dept. Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Ghent University
  (1025-05-53)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Projective grassmannians in polar grassmannians.
  Rieuwert Blok*, Bowling Green State University
  Bruce Cooperstein, University of California Santa Cruz
  (1025-05-185)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, III
Room 112, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The $p$-modular cohomology algebra of finite $p$-groups, Pauli operators and symplectic forms.
  Koen J R Thas*, Ghent University
  (1025-20-154)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Connections between homology groups planes and Flocks of Quadratic Cones.
  Esteban Diaz Morales*, The University of Iowa
  Norman Johnson, The University of Iowa
  (1025-51-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Translation planes of order $q^n$ admitting a collineation group of order $(q^n-1)/(q-1)$.
  Oscar E. Vega*, University of Colorado at Denver
  (1025-51-199)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The general structure of the projective planes admitting PSL(2,q) as a collineation group.
  Alessandro Montinaro*, Universita' Degli Studi di Lecce, Dipartimento di matematica, Via per Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy
  (1025-05-136)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On a generalization of cyclic semifields.
  Giuseppe Marino*, Universit� degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
  (1025-05-218)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
Room 112, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Mark A. Miller, Marietta College millerr@marietta.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Subgeometry Partitions of Projective Spaces.
  Norman L Johnson*, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
  (1025-51-122)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Investigation of some association schemes on 40 points.
  Mikhail H. Klin*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  Matan Ziv-Av, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  (1025-05-191)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Association Schemes from Truncated Quadrics.
  Stephen C. Flink*, University of Coloado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
  (1025-05-275)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Spin-embeddings, two-intersection sets and two-weights codes.
  Ilaria Cardinali*, Universita' di Siena
  (1025-05-130)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Problem Session

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