Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego Convention Center and San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA
January 9-12, 2013 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1086

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Friday January 11, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Applications, I
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California
  Pham Huu Tiep, University of Arizona tiep@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stable Schur functions.
    Sami Assaf*, University of Southern California
    David Speyer, University of Michigan
    (1086-05-2378)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    McKay Centralizer Algebras.
    Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Tom Halverson, Macalester College
    (1086-05-1319)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The GAP package Basic 1.0.
    Klaus M. Lux*, University of Arizona
    (1086-20-1696)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Heisenberg algebra and $GL(n,q)$.
    Bhama Srinivasan*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1086-20-1238)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Odd structures arising from categorified quantum groups.
    Aaron D Lauda*, University of Southern California
    (1086-16-583)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representations of the affine BMW algebra.
    Monica Vazirani*, UC Davis
    Kevin Walker, Microsoft Station Q
    (1086-05-1883)
• Friday January 11, 2013, 1:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Applications, II
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California
  Pham Huu Tiep, University of Arizona tiep@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Overgroup lattices of reducible subgroups of classical groups.
    Michael Aschbacher*, California Institute of Technology
    (1086-20-1552)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    $Sp_6(2^a)$ is "Good" for the McKay, Alperin Weight, and Related Local-Global Conjectures.
    Amanda A. Schaeffer Fry*, University of Arizona
    (1086-20-848)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the GK dimension of a $(\mathfrak{g},K)$ module.
    Nolan R Wallach*, University of California, San Diego
    (1086-22-1411)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some cohomology of finite and algebraic groups.
    Leonard L. Scott*, The University of Virginia
    (1086-20-844)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simple groups and commuting graphs.
    Ronald Solomon*, The Ohio State University
    Andrew J. Woldar, Villanova University
    (1086-20-835)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Involutions and the Steinberg module.
    Stephen D Smith*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1086-20-866)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Normality and Zeros of Characters of Finite Groups.
    Gabriel Navarro*, University of Valencia
    (1086-20-850)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On choosing coset representatives.
    Persi Diaconis*, Stanford University
    (1086-20-179)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Expansion properties of linear groups.
    Alireza Salehi Golsefidy*, University of California, San Diego
    (1086-22-1925)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion.