AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:43

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Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

Saturday April 7, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
Room 507, Keller Conference Center
- 8:00 a.m.
  Chern character for proper cap gamma-manifolds.
  Hitoshi Moriyoshi*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (857-55-55)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Noncompact hyperbolic 3-orbifolds of small volume.
  Colin Adams*, Williams College
  (857-57-30)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometry of the space of knots.
  Jean-Luc Brylinski*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (857-57-17)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Adams operations in Hochschild and cyclic homology and applications to the topology of free loop spaces.
  Dan Burghelea*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Z. Fiedorowicz, Ohio State University, Columbus
  W. Gajda, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (857-55-71)

Saturday April 7, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
Room 507, Keller Conference Center
- 1:45 p.m.
  K theory for bisimplicial algebras.
  Paul Baum*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  Crichton Ogle, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (857-55-58)
- 2:15 p.m.
  A pair theorem for group cohomology.
  Paul Baum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  Crichton Ogle*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (857-55-59)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Cohomology of finite simple groups.
  Alejandro Adem*, Institute for Advanced Study
  John Maginnis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  R. J. Milgram, Stanford University
  (857-55-08)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Rational functions and configuration spaces.
  Ralph L. Cohen, Stanford University
  Don H. Shimamoto*, Swarthmore College
  (857-55-50)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Some features of the mod 2 cohomology ring of B spin(n) revealed by computer computations.
  Jay A. Wood*, Bowdoin College and Lehigh University
  (857-55-37)

Sunday April 8, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
Room 507, Keller Conference Center
- 7:30 a.m.
  Spin^c cobordism determines complex K-theory.
  Michael J. Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Mark Hovey*, University of New Haven
  (857-55-18)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Splitting off H-spaces and Conner-Raymond splitting theorem.
  Giora Dula*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  Daniel Gottlieb, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (857-55-57)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Periodic families and connective cobordism via the classical Adams spectral sequence.
  Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University
  Paul Shick*, John Carroll University
  (857-55-51)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Covering spaces as geometric models of cohomology operations.
  Terrence P. Bisson*, Canisius College
  Andr\'e Joyal, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec, Montr\'eal
  (857-55-29)
- 9:30 a.m.
  h_O-torsion in the cohomology of subalgebras of the Steenrod algebra.
  Kenneth Monks*, Wilkes College
  (857-55-27)

Sunday April 8, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, IV
Room 507, Keller Conference Center
- 1:45 p.m.
  On the self-homotopy equivalences of an infinite cell complex.
  Joseph Roitberg*, Hunter College, City University of New York
  (857-55-28)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Rational homotopy types with cohomology of stunted complex projective space.
  Gregory M. Lupton, Dartmouth College
  Ronald N. Umble*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
  (857-55-26)
- 2:45 p.m.
  2-Primary, v_1-periodic homotopy of SU(n).
  Martin Bendersky*, Hunter College, City University of New York
  (857-55-12)
- 3:15 p.m.
  On splittings of the tangent bundles of 4-manifolds.
  Duane Randall*, Loyola University
  (857-55-11)

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