AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 11, 2009 00:27:58

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

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

Saturday April 4, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Methods in Lie Theory, I
Room 339, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
Molly Fenn, North Carolina State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Quivers with anti-involutions.
  Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University and National Science Foundation
  Yi Fang, Australia National University
  (1048-05-316)
- 8:30 a.m.
  $\operatorname{Ext}^{1}$-quivers for the Witt Algebra $W(1,1)$.
  Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  Emilie Wiesner, Ithaca College
  (1048-17-302)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Strong Lefschetz Property for Co-invariant Rings of Finite Reflection Groups.
  Chris R. McDaniel*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  (1048-05-251)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras.
  Shun-Jen Cheng*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica
  (1048-17-208)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Smooth components of Springer fibers.
  William Graham*, University of Georgia
  Roger Zierau, Oklahoma State University
  (1048-22-268)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Nilpotent orbits in characteristic 2 and Springer correspondence.
  Ting Xue*, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
  (1048-20-150)

Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Methods in Lie Theory, II
Room 339, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
Molly Fenn, North Carolina State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Decomposing structure constants for the Belkale-Kumar product in the cohomology of flag varieties.
  Edward L Richmond*, University of Oregon
  (1048-14-175)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computations of type-A Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of maximal degree.
  Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
  (1048-05-292)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generalized Young Diagrams for Hermitian Symmetric Spaces.
  Markus Hunziker, Baylor University
  W. Andrew Pruett*, Baylor University
  (1048-17-325)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Computing Hermitian Representations of Real Groups.
  Jeffrey Adams*, University of Maryland
  Peter Trapa, University of Utah
  Marc van Leeuwen, University of Poitiers
  David Vogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1048-22-328)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for signatures.
  Jeffrey Adams, University of Maryland
  Marc van Leeuwen, Université de Poitiers
  Peter Trapa, University of Utah
  David A. Vogan*, MIT
  (1048-22-70)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Methods in Lie Theory, III
Room 339, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
Molly Fenn, North Carolina State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Computing in Symmetric Spaces.
  Aloysius G Helminck*, North Carolina State University
  (1048-22-212)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discrete Morse theory for totally nonnegative flag varieties.
  Konstanze Rietsch, King's College London
  Lauren Williams*, Harvard
  (1048-22-63)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cohomology of Frobenius kernels and vanishing of line bundle cohomology.
  Christopher P Bendel*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  (1048-20-189)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representations of Low Dimensional Lie Algebras and Applications.
  Ryad A Ghanam*, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
  (1048-22-107)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cohomology of Cotangent Bundles of Flag Varieties and the BK-Filtration.
  Chuck Hague*, Tufts University
  (1048-20-203)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Spin Hecke algebras.
  Ta Khongsap, University of Virginia
  Weiqiang Wang*, University of Virginia
  (1048-16-143)

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