Schedule of the Southwestern Group Theory Day 2010
University of Arizona, Mathematics Department, Room 501,
Saturday, November, 13, 2010.
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8:15-8:30 Coffee, welcome.
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8:30-9:15 Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California:
Dimensions of fixed point spaces of elements in linear groups.
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9:20-9:45 J.P. Cossey, University of Akron:
A Conjecture on counting lifts of Brauer characters.
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9:50-10:15 Hung Nguyen, University of Akron:
Permutation modules for the finite classical groups.
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10:15-10:40 Break
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10:40-11:10 David Hemmer, University at Buffalo, SUNY:
Young modules for the symmetric group with large vanishing ranges
in cohomology.
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11:15-12:00 Monica Vazirani, University of California Davis:
Simple KLR modules.
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12:00-2:00 Lunch
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2:00-2:45 Jon Brundan, University of Oregon:
Higher level analogues of the group algebra of the symmetric group.
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2:50-3:20 Ryan Vinroot, College of William and Mary:
Explicit Shintani lifting from finite unitary to general linear
groups.
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3:20-3:50 Break
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3:50-4:20 Simon Guest, Baylor University:
Proportions of elements of certain orders in classical groups.
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4:25-5:10 Alexander Kleshchev, University of Oregon:
Modular branching rules for projective representations of symmetric groups and lowering operators for the supergroup Q(n).
On Saturday evening, interested participants will be going out to dinner in Tucson.