AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 12, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Their Representations, I
Room 109, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Alexandre Turull, University of Florida turull@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some Integral Representations of Complex Reflection Groups.
  Walter Feit*, Yale University
  (940-20-331)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Schur indices of the special linear groups.
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (940-20-144)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Schur indices of projective representations of hyperoctahedral groups.
  Zhaowei Z.D Du*, Microsoft
  (940-16-357)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Using character correspondences for Schur index computations.
  Allen Herman*, University of Regina
  (940-20-58)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Tensor products involving the spin representation of the symmetric group .
  Rod I Gow*, University College, Dublin.
  (940-20-114)

Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Their Representations, II
Room 109, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Alexandre Turull, University of Florida turull@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Elementary abelian subgroups of finite p-groups of prime exponent .
  George I Glauberman*, University of Chicago
  (940-20-173)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On some Lie algebras associated to pro-p-groups.
  Norberto Gavioli, University of L'Aquila
  Valerio Monti, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
  Carlo M Scoppola*, University of L'Aquila
  (940-20-238)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Density of Generating Pairs in some Finite Classical Simple Groups.
  Aron Bereczky*, Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  (940-20-260)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A generalization of the Brauer-Suzuki theorem.
  Radha Kessar*, University of Minnesota
  Markus Linckelmann, CNRS
  (940-20-347)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Subgroup chains in finite groups.
  Ronald M. Solomon*, The Ohio State University
  (940-20-148)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Their Representations, III
Room 109, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Alexandre Turull, University of Florida turull@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The extraspecial case of the k[GV] problem.
  David H Gluck*, Wayne State University
  Kay Magaard, Wayne State University
  (940-20-196)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Orbit sizes and character degrees.
  Thomas M Keller*, Southwest Texas State University
  (940-20-62)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Fitting Heights of Solvable Groups with Few Irreducible Character Degrees.
  Jeffrey M Riedl*, Ohio State University
  (940-20-188)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The complexity of modules.
  Jiping Zhang*, Peking University
  (940-20-191)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Large orbits of supersolvable linear groups.
  Thomas R Wolf*, Ohio University
  (940-20-317)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Finite Groups and Their Representations, IV
Room 109, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
Alexandre Turull, University of Florida turull@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Irreducible tensor products over symmetric group.
  Christine Bessenrodt, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg
  Alexander Kleshchev*, University of Oregon
  (940-20-126)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Reduction mod $p$ of unramified representations of finite groups of Lie type.
  Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Florida
  Alexander E. Zalesskii, University of East Anglia
  (940-20-214)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Simply Connected, Adjoint and Universal Groups of Lie Type.
  Peter Paul Schmid*, Mathematisches Institut, University of Tuebingen
  (940-20-66)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Restrictions of $\Omega_{m}(q)$-modules to alternating groups.
  William J Husen*, Ohio State University
  (940-20-15)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Finite subgroups of Lie groups.
  Robert L. Griess, Jr.*, University of Michigan
  (940-20-368)

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