AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:50

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Associate secretaries:
Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu

Friday March 22, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, I
Room 130, Physics Building
- 7:00 a.m.
  Divisible codes and representations.
  Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
  (865-94-100)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Hermitian and Ree unitals and their codes.
  E. F. Assmus, Jr.*, Lehigh University
  (865-20-53)
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Jamison method in Galois geometries.
  A. A. Bruen*, University of Western Ontario
  J. C. Fisher, University of Regina
  (865-05-144)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Hyperplanes and embeddings of point-line geometries.
  E. E. Shult*, Kansas State University
  (865-51-140)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Primitive permutation characters.
  Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
  Jan Saxl, Princeton University
  (865-20-97)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The absolute Galois group of a Hilbertian PRC-field.
  Helmut V\"olklein*, University of Florida
  Michael Fried, University of California, Irvine
  (865-11-89)

Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, II
Room 130, Physics Building
- 1:10 p.m.
  Nielsen separation: Distinct orbits of G(Q/Q) actions detected by representation theory.
  Michael D. Fried*, University of California, Irvine
  (865-20-179)
- 1:40 p.m.
  Extended generalized polygons.
  Richard M. Weiss*, Tufts University
  (865-20-78)
- 2:10 p.m.
  On loop rings and codes of nets.
  G. Eric Moorhouse*, University of Wyoming
  (865-17-79)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Projective planes with regular collineation group and a question of prime power.
  Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
  (865-20-122)

Saturday March 23, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, III
Room 130, Physics Building
- 7:00 a.m.
  Goupoids and buildings.
  Curtis Bennett*, Michigan State University
  (865-20-101)
- 7:30 a.m.
  Chains of subgroups in Lie type groups.
  Douglas Brozovic*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (865-20-27)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Character degree divisibility in the Glauberman correspondence.
  B. Hartley, Univeristy of Manchester, England
  A. Turull*, University of Florida
  (865-20-145)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Finite subgroups of Lie groups.
  Robert L. Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (865-20-158)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Block-theoretic invariants.
  Geoffrey Robinson*, University of Florida
  (865-20-77)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quadratic modules in even characteristic.
  Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld*, Michigan State University
  G. Stroth, Free University of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
  (865-20-172)

Saturday March 23, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, IV
Room 130, Physics Building
- 1:10 p.m.
  Extensions of simple modules for G_2(3^n) and Ree groups of type G_2.
  Peter Sin*, University of Florida
  (865-20-147)
- 1:40 p.m.
  Vector-space embeddings of finite geometries.
  Stephen D. Smith*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (865-20-90)
- 2:10 p.m.
  On affine planes with a 2-transitive orbit on l_infinity.
  Yutaka Hiramine*, Osaka University, Japan and University of Iowa
  (865-51-118)
- 2:40 p.m.
  Bounded automorphisms of groups.
  Renfang Jiang*, Washington University
  (865-20-156)
- 3:10 p.m.
  t-regulus nets and their collineation groups.
  Norman L. Johnson*, University of Iowa
  Yutaka Hiramine, Osaka University, Japan
  (865-05-80)

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