AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:33

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 11, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Character Theory of Finite Groups and Algebraic Combinatorics, I
Room 5, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University kwj1@psu.edu
Eirini Poimenidou, New College of Florida poimenidou@ncf.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Commutative Integral Table Algebras Generated by Elements of Degree Two.
  Zvi Arad, Bar-Ilan University
  Elsa Fisman, Bar-Ilan University
  Mikhail Muzychuk, Netanya Academic College
  Harvey I. Blau*, Northern Illinois University
  (990-20-215)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A combinatorial building for Chevalley groups over finite local rings.
  Peter S Campbell*, University of Alberta
  (990-20-31)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Two-Parameter Chromatic Symmetric Function.
  Ellison-Anne Williams*, North Carolina State University
  (990-05-79)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Kronecker product of characters of $(Z/rZ) wr S_n$ and centralizer algebras.
  Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth College
  (990-05-180)

Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Character Theory of Finite Groups and Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room 5, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University kwj1@psu.edu
Eirini Poimenidou, New College of Florida poimenidou@ncf.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Spectral properties of circulant graphs via S-ring theory.
  Andrew J Woldar*, Villanova University
  Mikhail H Klin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and University of Delaware
  Milhail E Muzychuk, Netanya Academic College
  (990-05-164)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Chromatic polynomials and coherent configurations.
  Mikhail H. Klin*, University of Delaware, Newark and Ben-Gurion Univ
  Christian Pech, Technological University Dresden
  (990-05-191)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Character tables of certain commutative association schemes.
  Sung Yell Song*, Iowa State University
  (990-05-152)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Tridiagonal pairs, association schemes, and the quantum affine algebra $U_q({\widehat {sl}}_2)$.
  Paul M. Terwilliger*, University of Wisconsin
  Tatsuro Ito, Kanazawa University
  (990-05-113)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Generalized Terwilliger Algebra of a Finite Group.
  Eric S Egge*, Gettysburg College
  (990-16-159)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Basic structure theory of association schemes.
  Paul-Hermann Zieschang*, University of Brownsville
  (990-05-278)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Character Theory of Finite Groups and Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room 5, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University kwj1@psu.edu
Eirini Poimenidou, New College of Florida poimenidou@ncf.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Characters of large degree.
  Tom Wolf*, Ohio U.
  (990-20-265)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Automorphism groups of finite monolithic $p$-groups.
  Jeffrey M Riedl*, University of Akron
  (990-20-206)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Products of Charactes of Finite $p$-groups.
  Edith Adan-Bante*, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
  (990-20-16)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sylow subgroups and the number of conjugacy classes of $p$-elements.
  Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
  (990-20-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Diameters of Degree Graphs of Nonsolvable Groups, Part I.
  Mark L Lewis, Kent State University
  Donald L White*, Kent State University
  (990-20-59)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Diameters of Degree Graphs of Nonsolvable Groups, Part II.
  Mark L. Lewis*, Kent State University
  Donald L. White, Kent State University
  (990-20-15)

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