AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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)

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