AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

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

Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, I
Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Bounding the order of a group with a large character degree.
  I. Martin Isaacs*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1064-20-46)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Characters Inducing to Characters all having the same Degree.
  Stephen M. Gagola, Jr*, Kent State University
  Sezgin Sezer, Cankaya University
  (1064-20-221)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Regular and p-regular orbits of solvable linear groups.
  Thomas Michael Keller*, Texas State University
  Yong Yang, Texas State University
  (1064-20-158)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Decomposing Tensor Products and Exterior and Symmetric Squares.
  Michael JJ Barry*, Allegheny College
  (1064-20-11)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, II
Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A recognition theorem for the generic simple groups.
  Ronald Solomon*, The Ohio State University
  (1064-20-35)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Nonsolvable groups with no prime dividing three character degrees.
  Mark L. Lewis, Kent State University
  Donald L. White*, Kent State University
  (1064-20-83)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Results Concerning Huppert's Conjecture.
  Thomas Philip Wakefield*, Youngstown State University
  (1064-20-34)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Complex characters of small degrees of the orthogonal groups.
  Hung Ngoc Nguyen*, The University of Akron
  (1064-20-105)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the vertices of indecomposable summands of certain Lefschetz modules.
  John Maginnis, Kansas State University
  Silvia Onofrei*, The Ohio State University
  (1064-20-181)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Orbits of finite solvable linear groups.
  Yong Yang*, Texas State University at San Marcos
  (1064-20-173)

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, III
Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Brauer's height zero conjecture for the 2-blocks of maximal defect.
  Gabriel Navarro, Universitat de València, València, Spain
  Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  (1064-20-62)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rational defect groups and 2-rational characters.
  David H. Gluck*, Wayne State University
  (1064-20-12)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Integral representations of defect groups, and irreducible character heights.
  Michael Aaron Geline*, Northern Illinois University
  (1064-20-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Explicit Shintani lifting from finite unitary groups to general linear groups.
  Nathaniel Thiem*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  C R Vinroot, College of William and Mary
  (1064-20-222)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Strong reality properties of normalizers of parabolic subgroups in finite Coxeter groups.
  Klaus Lux, University of Arizona
  Amanda Schaeffer, University of Arizona
  C. Ryan Vinroot*, College of William and Mary
  (1064-20-250)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Normally serially monomial $p$-groups.
  Tim Bonner*, Texas State University - San Marcos
  (1064-20-313)

Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, IV
Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Saturated fusion systems as idempotents in the double Burnside ring.
  Kari Ragnarsson*, DePaul University
  Radu Stancu, Universite de Picardie
  (1064-20-142)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Distinguishing exponentially many non-isomorphic groups having no known isomorphism invariants.
  Mark L. Lewis, Kent State University
  James B. Wilson*, The Ohio State University
  (1064-20-73)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Duality for normal subgroups of wreath product $p$-groups.
  Jeffrey M Riedl*, University of Akron
  (1064-20-292)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Character tables of 2--generator $p$--groups of class two.
  Adriana Nenciu*, Otterbein University
  (1064-20-165)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some subgroups of finite algebra groups.
  Darci L. Kracht*, Kent State University
  (1064-20-330)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Minimal groups with isomorphic tables of marks.
  Luis Valero-Elizondo*, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo
  Alberto Gerardo Raggi-Cardenas, UNAM
  (1064-20-14)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Determining Group Structure from the Sets of Character Degrees.
  Kamal Aziziheris*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
  (1064-20-06)