Schedule of the Southwestern Group Theory Day 2011

University of Arizona, Mathematics Department, Room 501, Saturday, November, 5, 2011.

• 8:30-8:45 Coffee, welcome.
• 8:45-9:30 Alexander Kleshchev, University of Oregon: Graded Specht modules.
• 9:35-10:10 Ryan Vinroot, College of William and Mary: Semisimple symplectic characters of finite unitary groups.
• 10:10-10:35 Break
• 10:35-11:10 Peter Brooksbank, Bucknell University: Bilinear maps and their applications to group theory
• 11:15-12:00 Dan Nakano, University of Georgia: Cohomology for Finite Groups of Lie Type.
• 12:00-2:00 Lunch
• 2:00-2:35 Mark Lewis, Kent State University: Camina pairs that are p-groups.
• 2:40-3:15 James Wilson, Colorado State University, A longer characteristic series for nilpotent groups.
• 3:15-3:45 Break
• 3:45-4:20 Hung Nguyen, University of Akron: Quasisimple groups of Lie type and their complex group algebras.
• 4:25-4:55 Andrei B. Pavelescu, University of Southern California: Derangements in a Coset.
• 5:00 5:45 Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California: Bases for Permutation Representations of Finite and Algebraic Groups.

On Saturday evening, interested participants will be going out to dinner in Tucson.