AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40

2008 Fall Western Section Meeting
Vancouver, Canada, October 4-5, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1041

• Saturday October 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, I
  Room 3, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
  Organizers:
  Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
  Alexander S. Kleshchev, University of Oregon klesh@uoregon.edu
  Stephanie Jane Van Willigenburg, University of British Columbia steph@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Representations of the Degenerate Affine Sergeev Superalgebra.
    David Hill, University of California, Berkeley
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    Joshua Sussan, University of California, Berkeley
    (1041-16-253)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Refinements of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule.
    Jim Haglund, University of Pennsylvania
    Kurt Luoto, University of Washington
    Sarah Mason*, Davidson College
    Steph Van Willigenburg, University of British Columbia
    (1041-05-59)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Differences of Augmented Staircase Skew Schur Functions.
    Matthew J Morin*, University of British Columbia
    (1041-05-219)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized Degree Sequences and Plethysm.
    Caroline J Klivans*, University of Chicago
    Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
    (1041-05-196)
• Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, II
  Room 3, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
  Organizers:
  Sara C. Billey, University of Washington billey@math.washington.edu
  Alexander S. Kleshchev, University of Oregon klesh@uoregon.edu
  Stephanie Jane Van Willigenburg, University of British Columbia steph@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Kicking the n! Theorem.
    S Assaf*, MIT
    (1041-05-17)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Descent algebras for complex reflection groups.
    Andrew Mathas, University of Sydney
    Rosa Orellana*, Dartmouth
    (1041-05-134)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Filtrations of the q,t-Catalan sequence.
    Michael A Zabrocki*, York University
    (1041-05-228)
• Sunday October 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, III
  Room 3, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modules of Constant Jordan type.
    Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington
    (1041-16-239)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Categorification of quantum groups.
    Aaron D Lauda*, Columbia University
    (1041-16-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    q-commuting Dunkl operators and braided Cherednik algebras.
    Arkady D Berenstein*, University of Oregon
    (1041-05-119)
• Sunday October 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, IV
  Room 3, Woodward Building (Instructional Resources Center/IRC)
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A bijection on cores.
    M. Vazirani*, UC Davis
    Chris Berg, UC Davis
    Brant Jones, UC Davis
    (1041-05-147)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Representations generated by decomposable tensors.
    Andrew Berget*, University of Minnesota
    (1041-05-106)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Recursive structures in the cohomology of flag varieties.
    Edward L Richmond*, University of Oregon
    (1041-14-70)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the uniqueness of promotion operators on tensor products of type $A$ crystals.
    Jason Bandlow, UC Davis
    Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
    Nicolas M. Thiery, UC Davis/Orsay, Paris-Sud
    (1041-05-31)