AMS Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:05
International Joint Mathematics Meeting
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, August 15-19, 1993
Meeting #883
Associate secretaries: Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu
Kenneth A Ross, MAA ross@math.uoregon.edu
AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory
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Wednesday August 18, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, I
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2:10 p.m.
The group of motions of n-strings in 3-space.
Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
Alan Brownstein, Rutgers University, Newark
(883-55-176) -
2:40 p.m.
The role of the Steinberg module in splitting BG.
Jill Dietz*, University of Washington
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3:10 p.m.
Explicit reduction theory for Siegel modular threefolds.
Mark McConnell*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
(883-22-230) -
3:40 p.m.
The cohomology of sporadic simple groups.
John Maginnis*, Kansas State University
(883-55-254) -
4:10 p.m.
The homotopy of type of a p-completion of BG.
John Martino*, University of Virginia
Stewart Priddy, Northwestern University
(883-55-199) -
4:40 p.m.
Explicit Brauer induction and conductors.
Victor Snaith*, McMaster University
(883-20-224)
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2:10 p.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, II
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8:30 a.m.
Sets of matrices which generate free products.
Roger Alperin*, San Jose State University
(883-20-261) -
9:00 a.m.
Compactifying certain covers of 3-manifolds.
Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
(883-20-220) -
9:30 a.m.
Scaffoldings.
Steven H. Weintraub*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(883-20-44) -
10:00 a.m.
Topology and geometry of arrangement of complex lines in C.
Stephen S.-T. Yau*, University of Illinois, Chicago
(883-14-28)
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8:30 a.m.
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Thursday August 19, 1993, 2:10 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Topological Methods in Group Theory, III
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2:10 p.m.
Discussion -
2:40 p.m.
On the Yagita invariant of mapping class groups.
H. Glover*, Ohio State University, Columbus
G. Mislin, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and Ohio State University, Columbus
Y. Xia, Northern Illinois University
(883-55-294) -
3:10 p.m.
4-manifold invariants of groups.
D. Kotschick*, University of Basel, Switzerland
(883-57-55) -
3:40 p.m.
Homotopy decomposition of the classifying space of virtually torsion-free groups and applications.
Chun-Nip Lee*, Northwestern University
(883-55-16) -
4:10 p.m.
Spines of n-dimensional manifolds.
Dale Rolfsen*, University of British Columbia,
(883-57-267) -
4:40 p.m.
Discussion
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2:10 p.m.