AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 11, 2008 00:21:07

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

Saturday May 3, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, I
Room RS 103, Roberts Hall South
Organizers:
Anne Schilling, University of California Davis anne@math.ucdavis.edu
Michael Zabrocki, York University zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some open problems in the Theory of Macdonald Polynomials.
  Adriano M Garsia*, University of California San Diego
  (1039-05-158)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Schur quasisymmetric functions.
  Jim Haglund, University of Pennsylvania
  Kurt Luoto, University of Washington
  Sarah Mason, Davidson College
  Steph van Willigenburg*, University of British Columbia
  (1039-05-76)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalization of $(q,t)$-Catalan numbers.
  Francois Descouens*, Fields Institute
  Nantel Bergeron, York University
  Mike Zabrocki, York University
  (1039-05-98)

Saturday May 3, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room RS 103, Roberts Hall South
Organizers:
Anne Schilling, University of California Davis anne@math.ucdavis.edu
Michael Zabrocki, York University zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Representation-Theoretic Model for k-Atoms.
  Mark Haiman*, UC Berkeley
  Li-Chung Chen, UC Berkeley
  (1039-05-169)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $k$-shape poset and $k$-Schur functions.
  Thomas Lam*, Harvard University
  Luc Lapointe, Universidad de Talca
  Jennifer Morse, Drexel University
  Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
  (1039-05-81)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A bijection on core partitions.
  Chris Berg, University of California, Davis
  Brant Jones*, University of California, Davis
  Monica Vazirani, University of California, Davis
  (1039-05-103)

Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room RS 103, Roberts Hall South
Organizers:
Anne Schilling, University of California Davis anne@math.ucdavis.edu
Michael Zabrocki, York University zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  New applications of combinatorial Hopf algebras.
  Jean-Christophe Novelli*, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee
  (1039-05-155)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Expansions of Symmetric Functions in Commutative Images of Noncommutative Symmetric Functions.
  Lenny Tevlin*, Physics Department, Yeshiva University
  (1039-05-113)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rationality, irrationality, and Wilf equivalence in the generalized factor order.
  Sergey Kitaev, Institute of Mathematics, Reykjav\'ik University
  Jeffrey Liese, University of California, San Diego
  Jeffrey B. Remmel*, University of California, San Diego
  Bruce E. Sagan, Michigan State University
  (1039-05-105)

Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
Room RS 103, Roberts Hall South
Organizers:
Anne Schilling, University of California Davis anne@math.ucdavis.edu
Michael Zabrocki, York University zabrocki@mathstat.yorku.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hecke group algebras.
  Nicolas M. Thi\'ery*, Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Math\'ematiques d'Orsay, Orsay, F-91405; CNRS, Orsay, F-91405, FRANCE / UC Davis
  Anne Schilling, UC Davis
  Florent Hivert, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Syst\`emes, Universit\'e de Rouen, FRANCE
  (1039-05-97)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Type $A_n^{(1)}$ crystals and promotion operators.
  Jason Bandlow*, University of California-Davis
  (1039-05-167)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Multiple Andrews-Gordon Identities associated to root systems.
  Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
  (1039-05-114)

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