Schedule of the Southwestern Group Theory Day 2013

University of Arizona, Mathematics Department, Room 501, Saturday, November, 2, 2013.

• 8:15-8:35 Coffee, welcome.
• 8:35-9:20 Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California: Variations on the Baer-Suzuki Theorem.
• 9:25-10:10 Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University: Surprising tensor categories constructed from finite groups.
• 10:10-10:40 Break
• 10:40-11:10 Amanda Schaffer Fry, Michigan State University: Self-Normalizing Sylow 2-Subgroups and Odd Characters Fixed by Galois Automorphisms.
• 11:15-12:00 Michael Larsen, Indiana University: Variations on the Theme of Waring's Problem for Groups.
• 12:00-2:00 Lunch
• 2:00-2:45 Alexander Kleshchev, University of Oregon: PBW bases in quantum groups and standard modules for KLR algebras.
• 2:50-3:20 J.P. Cossey, University of Akron: Largest character degrees and character degree ratios of finite groups
• 3:25-3:55 Hung Nguyen, University of Akron: Variations of Landau's theorem for p-regular and p-singular conjugacy classes.
• 4:00-4:30 Break
• 4:30-5:00 Ryan Vinroot, College of William and Mary: Generating functions for real character degree sums of finite general linear and unitary groups.
• 5:05 5:50 Alireza Salehi Golsefidy, UC San Diego: Expansion properties of linear groups.

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