2011 Spring Central Section Meeting, Program by AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, March 27, 2011 00:23:13

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Friday March 18, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics I
Rm 345 Northwestern, Iowa Memorial Union Bldg
Organizers:
Mihai Ciucu, Indiana University mciucu@indiana.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A finiteness theorem for $W$-graphs.
  John R Stembridge*, University of Michigan
  (1069-05-73)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cyclic sieving for generalised non-crossing partitions associated to complex reflection groups.
  Christian Krattenthaler*, Universität Wien
  Thomas W. Muller, Queen Mary, University of London
  (1069-05-79)

Saturday March 19, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics II
Rm 345 Northwestern, Iowa Memorial Union Bldg
Organizers:
Mihai Ciucu, Indiana University mciucu@indiana.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Rahman polynomials and the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{sl}_3(\mathbb C)$.
  Paul M Terwilliger*, Math Department U. Wisconsin
  (1069-33-136)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Poset models for irreducible Weyl characters.
  Robert G. Donnelly*, Murray State University
  (1069-05-216)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Centralizer Algebras and Pattern-Avoiding Permutations.
  Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Dongho Moon, Sejong University
  (1069-05-282)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bounds on the number of integer points in a polytope via concentration estimates.
  Austin W. Shapiro*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (1069-52-204)

Saturday March 19, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics III
Rm 345 Northwestern, Iowa Memorial Union Bldg
Organizers:
Mihai Ciucu, Indiana University mciucu@indiana.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Macdonald polynomials and the Hilbert series of the space of diagonal coinvariants.
  J. Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1069-05-192)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Particle Systems arising from an Anti-ferromagnetic Ising Model.
  Sunil Chhita*, Brown University
  (1069-60-81)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Local Statistics of Realizable Vertex Models.
  Zhongyang Li*, Brown University
  (1069-05-11)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Two Denominator Formulas for Each Element of a Kac-Moody Weyl Group.
  Robert A. Proctor*, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  (1069-05-264)

Sunday March 20, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics IV
Rm 345 Northwestern, Iowa Memorial Union Bldg
Organizers:
Mihai Ciucu, Indiana University mciucu@indiana.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Positroids, polytopes, and quantum minors.
  Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
  (1069-05-333)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A decomposition of the Pearson $X^2$ statistic, with applications to pairwise gene interactions.
  Glenn Tesler*, University of California, San Diego
  (1069-62-321)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Plane overpartitions and cylindric partitions.
  Mirjana Vuletic*, Brown University
  (1069-05-99)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Double-dimer pairings and skew Young diagrams.
  Richard W. Kenyon, Brown University
  David B. Wilson*, Microsoft Research
  (1069-05-259)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Mahonian Pairs.
  Bruce Sagan*, Michigan State University
  Carla Savage, North Carolina State University
  (1069-05-45)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Recent progress on Rota's basis conjecture.
  Timothy Y Chow*, Center for Communications Research
  (1069-05-300)