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 Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, I
Room 319, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Stacy Beun, Cabrini College slb96@cabrini.edu
Aloysius Helminck, North Carolina State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Invariant Theory of the Enveloping Algebra.
  Alfred Gérard Noël*, The University of Massachusetts Boston
  Steven Glenn Jackson, The University of Massachusetts Boston
  (1048-22-66)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A duality map for nilpotent orbits.
  Eric Sommers*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (1048-17-54)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Shintani lifting, finite subfield symmetric spaces, and real-valued characters.
  C. Ryan Vinroot*, College of William and Mary
  (1048-20-146)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algorithms for computing characters of real reductive symmetric spaces.
  Jennifer R Daniel*, Lamar University
  Daniel J Gagliardi, SUNY Canton
  (1048-20-245)
- 10:00 a.m.
  New results for p-adic symmetric spaces and their representations.
  G. F. Helminck*, Korteweg de Vries Institute for Mathematics
  A. G. Helminck, NCSU
  (1048-22-272)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generating equivalence classes of B-stable ideals.
  Molly Fenn*, North Carolina State University
  (1048-22-278)

Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, II
Room 319, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Stacy Beun, Cabrini College slb96@cabrini.edu
Aloysius Helminck, North Carolina State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Bilinear Forms on $V=k^n$ and Involutions of SL(n,k) and SO(n,k,$\beta$).
  Christopher Dometrius*, Lenoir-Rhyne University
  Aloysius Helminck, North Carolina State University
  Ling Wu, Microsoft Corporation
  (1048-15-347)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Classification of isomorphism classes of involutions of SO(2n,k).
  John M. Absher*, NCSU
  A. Helminck, NCSU
  (1048-22-209)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Classification of $k$-involutions of $SP(2n,k)$.
  Farrah Jackson Chandler*, Elizabeth City State University
  (1048-08-320)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Commuting Involutions of SL(n, $k$).
  Kyle Thompson*, North Carolina State University
  (1048-00-167)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Classifying conjugacy classes of maximal $(\theta,k)$-split tori in SL$(n,k)$.
  Stacy L. Beun*, Cabrini College
  (1048-20-332)

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