Finite Groups 2003, Schedule of Talks

March 6 Thursday (Reitz Union Rooms 346/347, 349)
8:30-8:45 Remarks by UF Provost
8:45-9:45 M. Aschbacher (California Inst. of Technology) A question of Farjoun
(Sadly, Professor Feit was forced to cancel his lecture on Schur Indices and is unable to attend the conference.)
9:45-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 G. Hiss (RWTH Aachen) Some observations on products of characters of finite classical groups A. Prince (Heriot-Watt) Oval configurations of involutions in the symmetric group
11:05-11:35 A. E. Zalesskii (U. East Anglia) Minimal polynomials of group elements in linear representations of finite groups S. Shpectorov (Bowling Green State)Classification of amalgams
11:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 R. Guralnick (U. Southern California) Conjugacy classes and the Non coprime k(GV) problem
2:30-3:00 G. Malle (U. Kassel) Families of characters for complex reflection groups  
3:05-3:35 M. Geck (U. Claude Bernard-Lyon) On the computation of some Schur indices for cuspidal unipotent characters M. Sawabe (Naruto U. of Education) On a p-local geometry associated with a p-subgroup complex
3:35-4:05 Coffee break

March 7 Friday (Reitz Union Rooms 346/347, 349)
9:00-10:00  
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 G. Navarro (U. Valencia) Problems on Characters and Sylow Subgroups C. Charnes (U. Wollonggong)CANCELLED
11:05-11:35 B. Srinivasan Remarks on Dade's Conjecture for GL(n,q) M. Ronan (UICC) Classification of Buildings
11:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 S. Smith(UICC) : Quasithin groups---in retrospect
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-3:30 Ch. Hering (U. Tuebingen) On large prime divisors of the order of a finite linear group U. Ray (U. Reims) CANCELLED Automorphisms of generalized Kac-Moody superalgebras
3:35-4:05 M. Kallaher (Washington State U) On Semiovals D. Frohardt (Wayne State) Genus Zero Actions

March 8 Saturday (Little Hall Rooms 101 and 113)
9:00-10:00 G. Robinson (U. Birmingham) Upper bounds for numbers of characters
10:-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 J. Gonzalez (U. de Pais Vasco)The power structure of potent p-groups J. Shareshian (Washington U, St. Louis)Topology of intervals in subgroup lattices
11:05-11:35 D. Riley (Western Ontario) Beyond the Restricted Burnside Problem J.P. Zhang (Peking U.)On p-local rank of finite groups
11:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 G. Seitz (U. Oregon) Unipotent centralizers and saturation
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-3:30 U. Dempwolff (U. Kaiserslautern) On Automorphisms of Symmetric Designs T. Wolf (Ohio U.) Regular and large orbits of induced modules
3:35-4:05 C. Bachoc (Bordeaux) Codes and designs in Grassmannian spaces A. Kleshchev (U. Oregon)W-algebras
6:30-9:30 Dinner

March 9 Sunday (Little Hall Rooms 101 and 113)
9:00-10:00 M. Broué (Inst. Poincaré)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 G. Ebert (U. Delaware) Odd Order Flag-Transitive Affine Planes T. Keller (South Texas State) On the k(GV)-conjecture
11:05-11:35 W. K. Chan (Wesleyan) On almost strong approximation for algebraic groups defined over number fields S. Glasby (Central Washington U) Modules over non-algebraically closed fields induced from a normal subgroup of prime index
11:40-12:10 R. Boltje (UC Santa Cruz)Characterizations of Adams operations on certain representation rings B. Klopsch (U. Duesseldorf) Enumerating highly non-soluble groups

March 10 Monday (Little Hall Rooms 101 and 113)
9:00-10:00 R. Lyons (Rutgers)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 K. Lux (U. Arizona)A database for basic algebras of simple groups R. Kessar (Ohio State, Columbus ) Shintani descent and perfect isometries for blocks of finte general linear groups
11:05-11:35 D. McNeilly (U. Alberta) Realizability of Weil Representations D. Gluck (Wayne State) The final stage of the proof of the k(GV) conjecture
11:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 L. Scott Jr. ( U. Virginia)
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-3:30 A. Jaikin (U. Autonoma Madrid) The number of finite p-groups with bounded number of generators C. Pillen (U. South Alabama) Extensions for finite Chevalley groups, Frobenius kernels, and Algebraic Groups
3:30-4:05 M. Herzog (Tel-Aviv)The existence of normal subgroups in finite groups M. Lewis (Kent State) Character Degree Graphs with 5 Vertices

March 11 Tuesday (Little Hall Rooms 101 and 113)
9:00-10:00 R. Solomon (Ohio State, Columbus) The Signalizer Method
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 I. Korchagina (Rutgers) Groups of simultaneously even- and p-type D. Hemmer (U. of Georgia) Specht module filtrations for representations of the symmetric group
11:05-11:35 J.Sangroniz (U. Pais Vasco) Characters of algebra groups N. Sastry (Indian Stat. Inst.)On the conjugacy of finite Suzuki and Ree groups
11:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 R. Gow (National U. of Ireland, Dublin) The arithmetic of Steinberg lattices of a Chevalley group
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-3:30 C. Scoppola (Aquila) Space and loop Lie algebras K. Uno (Osaka U.) Some variations of conjectures on character degrees
3:35-4:05 A. Bereczky (Sultan Qaboos U.) Standard bases for unipotent elements in classical groups S. Onofrei (Kansas State U.) A point-line characterization of the building of type E7.

March 12 Wednesday (Little Hall Rooms 101 and 113)
9:00-10:00 R. Dipper (U. Stuttgart)The rational Schur Algebra
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 L. Wilson (U. Florida) Large powerful subgroups of p-groups P. Lescot (U. Picardie) Variations on Thompson's J-subgroup
11:05-11:35 A. Moreto (U. Pais Vasco) Heights of Characters and Defect Groups R. Gramlich (TU Darmstadt) Phan-type theorems
11:35-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 G. Glauberman (U. Chicago)An Extension of Thompson's Replacement Theorem by Algebraic Group Methods
2:30-3:00