Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:10

Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Thursday January 5, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Linear Algebraic Groups: Their Arithmetic, Geometry, and Representations, I
  Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, Emory University
  George McNinch, Tufts University mcninchg@member.ams.org
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Unified Solution to Some Linear Preserver Problems.
    Hernando Bermudez*, Emory University
    Skip Garibaldi, Emory University
    Victor Larsen, Emory University
    (1077-20-751)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The gamma filtration on projective homogeneous varieties.
    Kirill Zainoulline*, University of Ottawa
    (1077-14-1368)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Parity Sheaves and Tilting Modules.
    Daniel Juteau, Uni. de Caen/CNRS
    Carl Mautner*, Harvard Univ./NSF
    Geordie Williamson, MPIM Bonn
    (1077-22-2027)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Unipotent Classes in Disconnected Algebraic Groups.
    Robert M Guralnick*, University of Southern California
    Jason Fulman, University of Southern California
    (1077-20-123)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Weakly commensurable $S$-arithmetic subgroups in simple algebraic groups of types $B_n$ and $C_n$.
    Andrei Rapinchuk*, University of Virginia
    (1077-11-217)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohomology for Finite Groups of Lie Type.
    Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
    (1077-20-774)
• Friday January 6, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Linear Algebraic Groups: Their Arithmetic, Geometry, and Representations, II
  Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, Emory University
  George McNinch, Tufts University mcninchg@member.ams.org
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Graham's Variety and Perverse Sheaves on the Nilpotent Cone.
    Amber Russell*, Louisiana State University
    (1077-22-692)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nilpotent Orbit Closures in the Symplectic and Orthogonal Groups.
    Ellen J Goldstein*, Northwestern University
    (1077-14-1788)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Frobenius splitting of bundles on flag varieties.
    Chuck Hague*, University of Delaware
    (1077-20-1597)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Equivariant Birational Properties of Algebraic Tori.
    Nicole Lemire*, University of Western Ontario
    (1077-20-2180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Reduced Null Cones.
    Gerald W. Schwarz*, Brandeis University
    Hanspeter Kraft, University of Basel
    (1077-20-688)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On a duality for nilpotent orbits.
    Eric Sommers*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (1077-17-1214)
• Friday January 6, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Linear Algebraic Groups: Their Arithmetic, Geometry, and Representations, III
  Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  R. Skip Garibaldi, Emory University
  George McNinch, Tufts University mcninchg@member.ams.org
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Extended Quotients and Kazhdan-Lusztig Parameters.
    Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State University
    (1077-22-653)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Unexpected twists in positive depth L-packets.
    Stephen DeBacker*, University of Michigan
    Loren Spice, Texas Christian University
    (1077-22-2884)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Belkale-Kumar cup product.
    Sam Evens*, University of Notre Dame
    (1077-17-1471)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Representation Theory of semisimple Lie algebras in positive characteristic.
    Ivan Mirkovic*, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1077-22-1738)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regular nilpotent Hessenberg varieties.
    Julianna S Tymoczko*, Smith College
    (1077-14-2792)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Special nilpotent orbits and modular Lie algebra representations.
    James E. Humphreys*, U. Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1077-17-453)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    G-Galois algebras and a Hasse principle.
    Parimala Raman*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
    Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    (1077-20-2439)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the conjecture of Borel and Tits for abstract homomorphisms of algebraic groups.
    Igor A. Rapinchuk*, Yale University
    (1077-20-218)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Degree formula for the Euler characteristic.
    Olivier Haution*, University of Nottingham
    (1077-14-747)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The $J$-invariant and Tits indices for groups of type $E_6$.
    Caroline Junkins*, University of Ottawa
    (1077-14-1010)