AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 10, 2007 00:30:01

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

Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, I
Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  Cohomology and support varieties for Lie superalgebras II.
  Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
  Jonathan R. Kujawa, University of Oklahoma
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  (1033-17-80)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Second Cohomology Groups for Frobenius Kernels.
  Caroline B Wright*, University of Georgia
  (1033-18-123)
- 9:00 a.m.
  AR Aproach to affine canonical bases.
  Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
  Yiqiang Li, Yale University
  (1033-16-139)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representations of Lie superalgebras.
  Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
  (1033-17-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cyclotomic Specht filtrations and $\Delta$-filtrations.
  Wesley J Cramer*, University of Virginia
  (1033-20-235)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extending real-valued characters of finite linear and unitary groups.
  Rod Gow, National University of Ireland, Dublin
  C. Ryan Vinroot*, University of Arizona
  (1033-20-135)

Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, II
Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
- 2:30 p.m.
  Semistandard filtrations in highest weight categories.
  Leonard L Scott*, The University of Virginia
  (1033-18-147)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Factorial Schur Functions in Representation Theory.
  Victor Kreiman*, University of Georgia
  (1033-13-206)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Orbit closures in the enhanced nilpotent cone.
  Pramod N. Achar*, Louisiana State University
  Anthony Henderson, University of Sydney
  (1033-20-148)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Homology of the Steinberg variety and Weyl group coinvariants.
  J. Matthew Douglass*, University of North Texas
  (1033-20-146)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some vanishing theorems for the twisted Dolbealt cohomology of the Complete flag varieties.
  Paramasamy Karuppuchamy*, University of Virginia
  (1033-14-166)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Horn Recursion for a new product in the cohomology of partial flag varieties SLn/P.
  Edward L Richmond*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1033-14-97)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, III
Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fixed point sets and Lefschetz modules.
  Silvia E Onofrei*, Kansas State University
  (1033-20-198)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computing Schur algebras.
  Jon F Carlson*, University of Georgia
  (1033-20-73)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cohomology of finite groups of Lie type.
  Christopher P Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  Daniel K Nakano, University of Georgia
  Cornelius Pillen*, University of South Alabama
  (1033-20-82)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Whittaker Modules for the Virasoro Algebra.
  Emilie Wiesner*, Ithaca College
  Matt Ondrus, Weber State University
  (1033-17-104)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the Cohomology of Modular Lie Algebras.
  J\"org Feldvoss*, University of South Alabama
  (1033-17-76)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, IV
Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
- 2:30 p.m.
  Realizations of Demazure crystals for the quantum affine algebra $U_q(\widehat{sl}(n))$.
  Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
  (1033-17-163)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Bloch-Okounkov correlation functions and dimension formulas for modules of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras.
  David G Taylor*, Roanoke College
  (1033-17-41)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Singular Chern Classes of Schubert Cells and Varieties Via Small Resolution.
  Benjamin F Jones*, University of Georgia
  (1033-22-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Positivity in equivariant K-theory: conjectures and results.
  William Graham*, University of Georgia
  Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina
  (1033-22-217)

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