AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

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

Friday March 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Combinatorial Representation Theory, I
Room 103, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Pramod N. Achar, Louisiana State University pramod@math.lsu.edu
Daniel S. Sage, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Remark on Springer Correspondence.
  Tomasz Przebinda*, University of Oklahoma
  (1037-22-300)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Representations of Lie Superalgebras.
  Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
  (1037-17-344)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A Conjecture of Kottwitz and Rapoport for Split Groups.
  Q\"endrim Gashi*, The University of Chicago
  (1037-20-92)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Stable Discrete Series Characters at Singular Elements.
  Steven Thomas Spallone*, Purdue University
  (1037-22-285)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Codimensions of Newton Strata in the Iwahori Case.
  Elizabeth Beazley*, University of Chicago
  (1037-14-80)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Perverse coherent sheaves on partial flag varieties.
  Daniel S. Sage*, Louisiana State University
  (1037-20-273)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Combinatorial Representation Theory, II
Room 102, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Pramod N. Achar, Louisiana State University pramod@math.lsu.edu
Daniel S. Sage, Louisiana State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Singular Chern classes for Schubert Varieties via Small Resolution.
  Benjamin F Jones*, University of Georgia
  (1037-14-345)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Parabolic generalized exponents and reflection arrangements.
  J. Matthew Douglass*, University of North Texas
  (1037-22-309)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Staggered t-structures on toric varieties.
  David Treumann*, Northwestern University
  (1037-14-371)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Semi-stable locus of a group compactification.
  Xuhua He*, Stony Brook University
  (1037-20-106)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Combinatorial Representation Theory, III
Room 102, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Pramod N. Achar, Louisiana State University pramod@math.lsu.edu
Daniel S. Sage, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Decomposing representations of wreath products of semisimple Lie algebras.
  Apoorva Khare*, University of California, Riverside
  (1037-17-153)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Supercharacter theory and the combinatorics of unipotent groups.
  Nat Thiem*, MSRI/University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1037-20-293)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Orthogonal functions attached to representations of $G(r,p,n)$.
  Stephen Griffeth*, University of Minnesota
  (1037-05-154)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Curtis-Alvis Duality and Real Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type.
  C. Ryan Vinroot*, University of Arizona
  (1037-20-221)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Unitary representations of icosahedral graded Hecke algebras.
  Yu Chen, Idaho State University
  Cathy Kriloff*, Idaho State University
  (1037-20-287)

Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Combinatorial Representation Theory, IV
Room 102, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Pramod N. Achar, Louisiana State University pramod@math.lsu.edu
Daniel S. Sage, Louisiana State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometric representations through Springer fibers and related varieties.
  Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
  (1037-14-366)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Kazhdan -Lusztig cells in unequal parameter Hecke Algebras.
  Thomas Pietraho*, Bowdoin College
  (1037-20-206)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The real loci of Calogero-Moser spaces, representations of rational Cherednik algebras, and the Shapiro Conjecture.
  Iain Gordon, Edinburgh University
  Emil Horozov, Sofia University
  Milen Yakimov*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1037-22-141)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Nilpotent centralizers and Springer's isomorphisms.
  George J. McNinch*, Tufts University
  (1037-20-347)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Towards a lifting of representations of finite reductive groups.
  Jeffrey D. Adler*, American University
  Joshua M. Lansky, American University
  (1037-22-66)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Toric varieties and the principal nilpotent orbit.
  William Graham*, University of Georgia
  (1037-22-271)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Support Varieties and Representation Type of Finite Quantum Groups.
  Jorg Feldvoss*, University of South Alabama
  (1037-16-173)

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