AMS :: Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, September 27, 2017 14:08:08

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday September 9, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Reflection Groups: Real and Complex, I
Room 50, Business Leadership Building
Organizers:
Elizabeth Drellich, Swarthmore College edrelli1@swarthmore.edu
Drew Tomlin, Hendrix College
- 8:30 a.m.
  Involutory and orientation-preserving symmetries in the hyperoctahedral group.
  Aba Mbirika*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  (1131-05-389)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Presenting cyclotomic Schur algebras.
  Jonathan Kujawa, University of Oklahoma
  Jieru Zhu*, University of Oklahoma
  (1131-16-39)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Reduced words and reduced word graphs for elements of complex reflection groups.
  Angela Berardinelli*, Mercyhurst University
  (1131-05-212)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Webs for spin permutation modules.
  Gordon Brown*, University of Oklahoma
  (1131-20-43)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Geometric techniques for Coxeter Catalan Combinatorics.
  Theodosios Douvropoulos*, University of Minnesota
  (1131-05-337)

Saturday September 9, 2017, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Reflection Groups: Real and Complex, II
Room 50, Business Leadership Building
Organizers:
Elizabeth Drellich, Swarthmore College edrelli1@swarthmore.edu
Drew Tomlin, Hendrix College
- 2:30 p.m.
  Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials of matroids.
  Tom Braden, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Jacob P. Matherne*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon
  (1131-05-390)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Generalized Moment Graphs and the Equivariant Intersection Cohomology of the Wonderful Compactification of a Group.
  Stephen Oloo*, Kalamazoo College
  (1131-14-392)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A GKM description of the equivariant coinvariant ring of a finite reflection group.
  Chris McDaniel*, Endicott College
  (1131-20-219)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Crystallographic complex reflection groups and the Braid Conjecture.
  Philip Puente*, Darmouth College
  (1131-51-256)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Formality for the nilpotent cone and the generalized Springer correspondence.
  Laura Rider*, University of Georgia
  Amber Russell, Butler University
  (1131-22-374)

Sunday September 10, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Reflection Groups: Real and Complex, III
Room 50, Business Leadership Building
Organizers:
Elizabeth Drellich, Swarthmore College edrelli1@swarthmore.edu
Drew Tomlin, Hendrix College
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Unknown Subgroup of W($E_8$).
  Majid Butler, McDonogh 35 High School, New Orleans, LA
  Sandernisha Claiborne, McDonogh 35 High School
  Tomme Denney, McDonogh 35 High School
  De'Janeke Johnson, McDonogh 35 High School
  Tianna Robinson*, McDonogh 35 High School
  (1131-20-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Truncated quantum Drinfeld Hecke algebras.
  Lauren Grimley*, Spring Hill College
  Christine Uhl, St. Bonaventure University
  (1131-16-144)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Trace of the twisted Heisenberg algebra.
  Michael Reeks*, University of Virginia
  Can Oguz, University of Southern California
  (1131-17-215)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Deforming skew group algebras of dihedral and symmetric groups: Candidate representations.
  Cathy Kriloff*, Idaho State University
  Briana Foster-Greenwood, Cal Poly Pomona
  (1131-16-276)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Deforming skew group algebras of dihedral and symmetric groups: Which cocycles lift?
  Briana Foster-Greenwood*, Cal Poly Pomona
  Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University
  (1131-16-278)