AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2008 00:42:28

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, I
Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  On affine Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.
  Leonard L Scott*, Dept. Mathematics, The University of Virginia
  (1043-20-88)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Support Varieties of Tilting Modules for $GL_n$.
  Bobbe J Cooper*, University of Minnesota
  (1043-20-178)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cohomology and Support Varieties for W(n).
  Irfan Bagci*, The University of Georgia
  (1043-17-46)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, II
Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Computing Lie algebra Cohomology for $p=2$.
  Caroline B. Wright*, University of Arizona
  (1043-18-150)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Kostant's Theorem for Lie Algebra Cohomology.
  University of Georgia VIGRE Algebra Group, University of Georgia
  Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
  (1043-17-53)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cohomology of quantum groups: An analog of Kostant's Theorem.
  Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
  University of Georgia VIGRE Algebra Group, University of Georgia
  (1043-20-166)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Adjoint actions on integral forms in quantized enveloping algebras: the mixed case.
  Christopher M Drupieski*, University of Virginia
  (1043-20-133)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, III
Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  $Ext^{1}$-quivers for the Witt algebra W(1,1).
  Brian D. Boe, University of Georgia
  Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
  Emilie Wiesner, Ithaca College
  (1043-17-110)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cohomology and generic cohomology for Specht modules of the symmetric group.
  David J Hemmer*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
  (1043-20-125)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, IV
Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Frobenius twisted conjugacy classes of matrices.
  Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
  (1043-20-184)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Nilpotent orbits of a reductive group over a local field.
  George J McNinch*, Tufts University
  (1043-20-180)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fixed Point Sets and Lefschetz Modules for Subgroup Complexes.
  John S. Maginnis*, Kansas State University
  Silvia E. Onofrei, The Ohio State University
  (1043-20-118)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

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