AMS :: Spring Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, December 14, 2018 03:30:05

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, I
Room 428, Bolz Hall
Organizers:
Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
- 8:30 a.m.
  Analyzing tensor products of $p$-permutation bimodules.
  Robert Boltje*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (1136-20-530)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Categorifying induction formulae via divergent series.
  Cihan Bahran*, University of Minnesota
  (1136-20-347)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Units of the Trivial Source Ring.
  Rob Carman*, UC Santa Cruz
  (1136-20-454)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the unit group of the Burnside ring as, a biset functor, for some solvable groups.
  Jamison Blair Barsotti*, University or California, Santa Cruz
  (1136-20-533)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Picard groups of block algebras of finite groups.
  Markus Linckelmann*, City, University of London
  (1136-20-559)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Burnside ring of a finite category.
  Peter J. Webb*, University of Minnesota
  (1136-18-439)

Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, II
Room 428, Bolz Hall
Organizers:
Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
- 2:00 p.m.
  Calculating the Brauer invariant of an irreducible character of a finite group.
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (1136-20-394)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Rationality of blocks of finite simple groups.
  Radha Kessar*, City, University of London
  (1136-20-551)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the complexities of Frobenius kernels and finite Chevalley groups.
  Nham V. Ngo*, University of North Georgia - Gainesville campus
  Paul Levy, Lancaster University
  Klemen Sivic, University of Ljubljana
  (1136-20-90)
- 3:30 p.m.
  $2$-parts of real class sizes.
  Hung P Tong-Viet*, Binghamton University
  (1136-20-92)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Totally orthogonal finite simple groups.
  C. Ryan Vinroot*, College of William and mary
  (1136-20-101)

Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, III
Room 428, Bolz Hall
Organizers:
Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
- 8:00 a.m.
  $2$-Fusion Systems with a Standard Component of type $L_2(q)$.
  Matthew Welz*, Fort Lewis College
  (1136-20-565)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Galois Action on Characters and Navarro's Sylow 2-Normalizer Conjectures.
  Mandi A. Schaeffer Fry*, MSRI/Metro State University of Denver
  (1136-20-391)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A case of Alperin's weight conjecture.
  Michael Geline*, Northern Illinois University
  (1136-20-361)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Finite Groups with Cyclotomic Fields of Values.
  Stephen Trefethen*, College of William and Mary
  (1136-20-576)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Loop constructions from finite groups.
  Mark B Greer*, University of North Alabama
  (1136-20-569)

Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, IV
Room 428, Bolz Hall
Organizers:
Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
- 1:00 p.m.
  Update on the GLS Project.
  Ronald Solomon*, The Ohio State University
  Richard Lyons, Rutgers University
  (1136-20-94)
- 1:30 p.m.
  $2$--generator $p$--groups of class $2$ of central type.
  Adriana Nenciu*, Otterbein University
  (1136-20-399)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Blocks of small defect in simple groups and Brauer character degrees in finite groups.
  J.P. Cossey*, University of Akron
  (1136-20-88)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Orbits and stabilizers for base normal subgroups in some wreath product $2$-groups.
  Jeffrey M Riedl*, University of Akron
  (1136-20-543)