AMS :: 2012 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 24, 2012 00:23:03

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday March 17, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Symmetric Functions, Quasisymmetric Functions, and the Associated Combinatorics, I
Room 210, Funger Hall
Organizers:
Nicholas Loehr, Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Niese, Marshall University niese@marshall.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Symmetric chain decomposition for cyclic quotients of Boolean algebras.
  Patricia Hersh*, North Carolina State University
  Anne Schilling, University of California, Davis
  (1080-05-47)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A symmetric group representation of the Rees product of the cubical lattice with the chain.
  Tricia Muldoon Brown*, Armstrong Atlantic State University
  (1080-05-100)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Branching of twisted representations of symplectic groups.
  Mahir Bilen Can*, Tulane University
  Kursat Aker, Bilgi University
  (1080-05-219)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Expansions of $k$-Schur functions in the affine nil Coxeter algebra.
  Chris Berg*, Lacim, UQAM
  Nantel Bergeron, York University
  Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
  Mike Zabrocki, York University
  (1080-05-18)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Rational Cherednik Algebras of type $G(m,1,2)$ and Solutions to the Classical Yang-Baxter Equation.
  Garrett Johnson*, North Carolina State University
  (1080-16-192)

Saturday March 17, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symmetric Functions, Quasisymmetric Functions, and the Associated Combinatorics, II
Room 210, Funger Hall
Organizers:
Nicholas Loehr, Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Niese, Marshall University niese@marshall.edu
- 1:30 p.m.
  Shuffles of Permutations.
  Camillia Smith Barnes*, Sweet Briar College
  (1080-05-235)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Between quasisymmetric and symmetric functions.
  Aaron Lauve, Loyola University - Chicago
  Sarah Mason*, Wake Forest University
  (1080-05-215)
- 2:30 p.m.
  On quasisymmetric expansions.
  Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
  (1080-05-226)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The combinatorics of the HMZ operators applied to Schur functions.
  Jeffrey Remmel, University of California, San Diego
  Meesue Yoo*, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
  (1080-05-57)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Colored quasisymmetric and noncommutative Schur functions.
  Kurt W. Luoto*, Odenton, MD
  (1080-05-50)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hopf algebras, supercharacters and symmetric functions in noncommuting variables.
  Marcelo Aguiar, University of Texas A&M
  Carlos Andre, University of Lisbon
  Carolina Benedetti, York University
  Nantel Bergeron, York University
  Zhi Chen, York University
  Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
  Anders Hendrickson, Concordia College
  Samuel Hsiao, Bard College
  Huilan Li*, Drexel University
  (1080-05-364)

Sunday March 18, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symmetric Functions, Quasisymmetric Functions, and the Associated Combinatorics, III
Room 210, Funger Hall
Organizers:
Nicholas Loehr, Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Niese, Marshall University niese@marshall.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  An injection from standard fillings to parking functions.
  Elizabeth Niese*, Marshall University
  (1080-05-75)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sorting index and cycles for permutations and matchings.
  Svetlana Poznanovikj*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1080-05-352)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rational Catalan Combinatorics.
  Drew Armstrong*, University of Miami
  (1080-05-295)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Jacobi-Stirling Numbers.
  George E. Andrews, The Pennysylvania State University
  Eric S. Egge*, Carleton College
  Wolfgang Gawronski, University of Trier
  Lance L. Littlejohn, Baylor University
  (1080-05-96)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Bipartite Graphs, Quivers, and Cluster Variables.
  Gregg Musiker*, University of Minnesota
  (1080-05-253)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Combinatorics of crystal bases for the Kronecker problem.
  Jonah Blasiak*, University of Michigan
  (1080-05-310)