AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 31, 2009 01:40:04

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

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday October 24, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, I
Room 215, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Peter McNamara, Bucknell University peter.mcnamara@bucknell.edu
Mark Skandera, Lehigh University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Littlewood Richardson Rules, Quasisymmetric Funcions, and Demazure Characters.
  J. Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
  K. Luoto, Univ. of British Columbia
  S. Mason, Univ. of California at San Diego and Wake Forest Univ.
  S. Van Willigenberg, Univ. of British Columbia
  (1052-05-244)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Pieri rule for skew shapes.
  Sami Assaf*, MIT
  Peter R. W. McNamara, Bucknell University
  (1052-05-40)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symmetries of Hives, Generalized Littlewood-Richardson Fillings, and Invariants of Matrix Pairs over Valuation Rings.
  Glenn Appleby*, Santa Clara University
  Tamsen Whitehead, Santa Clara University
  (1052-05-13)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Inequalities for symmetric polynomials.
  Curtis Greene*, Haverford College
  (1052-05-312)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the stability of the Kronecker product.
  Emmanuel Briand, University of Sevilla
  Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth College
  Mercedes H. Rosas, University of Sevilla
  (1052-05-122)

Saturday October 24, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room 215, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Peter McNamara, Bucknell University peter.mcnamara@bucknell.edu
Mark Skandera, Lehigh University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Affine tableaux approach to K-theory.
  Jennifer Morse*, Math Department, Drexel University
  (1052-05-323)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The expansion of Hall-Littlewood polynomials into dual Grothendieck polynomials.
  Jason Bandlow*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1052-05-233)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cyclic sieving for longest reduced words in the hyperoctahedral group.
  T. Kyle Petersen, DePaul University
  Luis Serrano*, University of Michigan
  (1052-05-81)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The shortest path poset of a finite Coxeter group.
  Saúl A. Blanco*, Cornell University
  (1052-05-182)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Vertex decomposable graphs and obstructions to shellability.
  Russ Woodroofe*, Washington University in St. Louis
  (1052-05-228)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Shi arrangements and diagonal harmonics.
  Drew Armstrong*, University of Miami
  (1052-05-253)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room 215, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Peter McNamara, Bucknell University peter.mcnamara@bucknell.edu
Mark Skandera, Lehigh University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Total positivity in loop groups.
  Thomas Lam, University of Michigan
  Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, University of Michigan
  (1052-05-117)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A combinatorial interpretation of coefficients arising in the quantum polynomial ring.
  Justin J. Lambright*, Lehigh University
  (1052-05-121)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Positivity results for cluster algebras.
  Gregg Musiker*, MIT
  Ralf Schiffler, University of Connecticut
  Lauren Williams, UC Berkeley
  (1052-05-71)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Cluster Monomial and Dual Canonical Bases of $\mathbb{Z}[x_{11}, ... , x_{33}]$.
  Brendon Rhoades*, MIT
  (1052-05-209)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A new construction of Kazhdan-Lusztig's representations of the Hecke algebra.
  Charles Buehrle*, Lehigh University
  (1052-05-80)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
Room 215, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Peter McNamara, Bucknell University peter.mcnamara@bucknell.edu
Mark Skandera, Lehigh University
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Eulogy for Jack Good.
  Doron Zeilberger*, Rutgers University
  (1052-05-31)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Counting facet derangements of hypercubes.
  Gary Gordon*, Lafayette College
  Elizabeth McMahon, Lafayette College
  (1052-05-67)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Descent sets of cyclic permutations.
  Sergi Elizalde*, Dartmouth College
  (1052-05-193)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Infinitely many new partition statistics.
  Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
  Nicholas A. Loehr, Virginia Tech
  (1052-05-251)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Probabilistic proofs of hook length formulas involving trees.
  Bruce E. Sagan*, Michigan State University and NSF
  (1052-05-58)

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