American Mathematical Society
Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Binghamton, NY, October 11-12, 2003
Special Session in
"Character Theory of Finite Groups and Algebraic Combinatorics"
Organizers:
Kenneth W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University
kwj1@psu.edu
Eirini Poimenidou,
New College of Florida poimenidou@ncf.edu.
Room 5, Lecture Hall
Saturday October 11, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 9:00 a.m.
Commutative Integral Table Algebras Generated by Elements of Degree Two.
Zvi Arad, Bar-Ilan University
Elsa Fisman, Bar-Ilan University
Mikhail Muzychuk, Netanya Academic College
Harvey I. Blau*, Northern Illinois University
- 9:30 a.m.
A combinatorial building for Chevalley groups over finite local rings.
Peter S Campbell*, University of Alberta
- 10:00 a.m.
A Two-Parameter Chromatic Symmetric Function.
Ellison-Anne Williams*, North Carolina State University
- 10:30 a.m.
Kronecker product of characters of (Z/rZ) wr S\sub>n>/sub> and centralizer algebras.
Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth College
Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- 2:30 p.m.
Spectral properties of circulant graphs via S-ring theory.
Andrew J Woldar*, Villanova University
Mikhail H Klin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
and University of Delaware
Milhail E Muzychuk, Netanya Academic College
- 3:00 p.m.
Chromatic polynomials and coherent configurations.
Mikhail H. Klin*, University of Delaware, Newark
and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Christian Pech, Technological University Dresden
- 3:30 p.m.
Character tables of certain commutative association schemes.
Sung Yell Song*, Iowa State University
- 4:00 p.m.
Tridiagonal pairs, association schemes, and the quantum affine algebra
U q(sl2).
Paul M. Terwilliger*, University of Wisconsin
Tatsuro Ito, Kanazawa University
-
4:30 p.m.
The Generalized Terwilliger Algebra of a Finite Group.
Eric S Egge*, Gettysburg College
- 5:00 p.m.
Basic structure theory of association schemes.
Paul-Hermann Zieschang*, University of Brownsville
Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 8:00 a.m.
Characters of large degree.
Tom Wolf*, Ohio U.
- 8:30 a.m.
Automorphism groups of finite monolithic p-groups.
Jeffrey M Riedl*, University of Akron
- 9:00 a.m.
Products of Charactes of Finite p-groups.
Edith Adan-Bante*, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
- 9:30 a.m.
Sylow subgroups and the number of conjugacy classes of p-elements.
Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
- 10:00 a.m.
Diameters of Degree Graphs of Nonsolvable Groups, Part II.
Mark L. Lewis*, Kent State University
Donald L. White, Kent State University
- 10:30 a.m.
Diameters of Degree Graphs of Nonsolvable Groups, Part I.
Mark L Lewis, Kent State University
Donald L White*, Kent State University