AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 17, 2010 00:33:02

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

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

Saturday October 9, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Probability on Groups, I
MS 5147, Math Science Building
Organizers:
Jason Fulman, University of Southern California fulman@usc.edu
Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California guralnic@usc.edu
Igor Pak, University of California Los Angeles pak@math.ucla.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Proportions of elements of certain orders in classical groups.
  Simon D Guest*, Baylor University
  Cheryl E Praeger, University of Western Australia
  (1063-20-206)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Combinatorial and geometric methods applied to group cohomology.
  Stephen D Smith*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1063-20-51)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Overgroup lattices in finite groups.
  Michael Aschbacher*, Caltech
  (1063-20-62)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Property T for Lie algebras and expansion properties of representations.
  Efim Zelmanov*, University of California, San Diego
  (1063-16-264)

Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Probability on Groups, II
MS 5147, Math Science Building
Organizers:
Jason Fulman, University of Southern California fulman@usc.edu
Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California guralnic@usc.edu
Igor Pak, University of California Los Angeles pak@math.ucla.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rate of escape for random walks on groups.
  Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
  James R. Lee, Computer Science Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  (1063-60-48)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cycle indices for finite orthogonal groups of even characteristic.
  Jason Fulman*, University of Southern California
  Jan Saxl, University of Cambridge
  Pham Tiep, University of Arizona
  (1063-05-56)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On residually finite hyperbolic groups.
  Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
  (1063-20-124)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Eulerian quasisymmetric functions.
  John Shareshian*, Washington University
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami
  (1063-05-266)