| 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.) |
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| 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 | ||