AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

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

Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
September 9-10, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1131

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)