List of talks given by J.P. Cossey
Here is a list of all (give or take one or two) of the talks I have
given, by category.
Off campus talks:
- Irreducible Representations of the symmetric group, Western
Washington University colloquium, February 2008.
- Introduction to the Catalan numbers, Western Washington University,
February 2008.
- Lifts of Brauer characters of solvable groups, University of Akron
colloquim, January 2008.
- Irreducible representations of the symmetric group, Central Michigan
University Colloquium Series, November 2007.
- Uniqueness of lifts of Specht modules in the symmetric group,
AMS Tucson sectional, April 2007.
- Panelist, The 2006 Inquiry Based Learning workshop, 10th
annual Legacy of R.L. Moore conference, April 2007.
- Combinatorics and the representation theory of the symmetric
group, Northern Arizona University Colloquium Series, April 2007.
- Vertices of lifts of Brauer characters, Zassenhaus Group
Theory Conference, March 2007.
- Bounds on the number of lifts of a Brauer character of a
solvable group, Ohio State-Denison Mathematics Conference, May 2006.
- Lifts of Brauer characters of solvable groups, Southeast
Louisiana University Colloquium Series, February 2005.
University of Arizona Group Theory Seminar:
- Maximal subgroups of the symmetric group, University of Arizona Group
Theory Seminar, Fall 2007.
- Fong chatacters of solvable groups, Univ. of Arizona
Group Theory Seminar, Spring 2007.
- Introduction to the construction of the characters of
GL_n(F_q), Univ. of Arizona Group Theory Seminar, Fall 2006.
- The character table of GL_2(F_q), Univ. of Arizona
Group Theory Seminar, Fall 2006.
University of Arizona Math Instruction Colloquium:
- The "Teacher Improvement through Mathematics Education" program,
Univ. of Arizona Math Instruction Colloquium, Fall 2007.
- Route 66 to Catalan: The Catalan numbers and some
generalizations, Univ. of Arizona Math Instruction Colloquium, Fall 2006.
- A first try at the Moore method, Univ. of Arizona Math
Instruction Colloquium, Spring 2007.
- True lies Euler told me: Power series, ``proofs'', and
partitions, Univ. of Arizona Math Instruction Seminar, Fall 2005.
University of Arizona Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
- The McKay conjecture and some refinements, Univ. of Arizona Algebra
and Number Theory Seminar, Fall 2007.
- Fong characters and normal subgroups, Univ. of Arizona
Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, Spring 2007.
- On the James-Mathas Conjecture on Specht modules of the
symmetric group, Univ. of Arizona Algebra and Number Theory Seminar,
Spring 2006.
- Extensions of the Fong-Swan Theorem, Univ. of Arizona
Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, Fall 2005.
University of Wisconsin:
- Fourier analysis on finite groups and Fermat's theorem for
finite fields, Univ. of Wisconsin Group Theory Seminar, Fall 2003.
- Bounds of point stabilizers in primitive permutation
groups, Univ. of Wisconsin Group Theory Seminar, Spring 2003.
- Automorphisms fixing elements of prime order, Univ. of
Wisconsin Group Theory Seminar, Spring 2002.
- Thompson's theorem on solvable groups with one class of
involutions, Univ. of Wisconsin Group Theory Seminar, Fall 2001.
- The automorphism tower theorem, Univ. of Wisconsin Group
Theory Seminar, Fall 2000.
- Regular speaker, Univ. of Wisconsin Graduate Character Theory
Seminar, Spring 2002.
- Unitary representations and harmonic analysis, Univ. of
Wisconsin Graduate Analysis Seminar, Spring 2001.
- Representations of compact groups, Univ. of Wisconsin
Graduate Analysis Seminar, Fall 2000.
Miscellaneous:
- Introduction to the Modified Moore Method, University of
Arizona Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Seminar, Fall 2006.
Organizing:
- Co-organizer of Southwest Group Theory Day, a group theory conference held at University of Arizona on October 27th, 2007.
- Co-organizer of University of Arizona Group Theory seminar
- Organizer of University of Arizona Undergraduate Teaching Assistant seminar, Fall 2007.
- Co-organizer of panel discussion "Research with undergraduate students" for Project NExT at AMS Joint Meetings, January 2006.
- Co-organizer of panel discussion "Creating or re-creating a new course" for Project NExT at MathFest, August 2006.