AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

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

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

Sunday April 8, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Classical and Quantum Groups, III
Room 501, Keller Conference Center
- 7:30 a.m.
  Compactifications of symmetric spaces and buildings associated to classical groups.
  Paul Gerardin*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (857-22-41)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Quantam deformation of Flaj manifolds.
  Jacob Towber*, DePaul University
  (857-22-56)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Sklyanin algebras.
  S. Paul Smith*, University of Washington
  J. T. Stafford, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (857-16-06)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Deformation methods in quantum groups.
  Murray Gerstenhaber*, University of Pennsylvania
  Anthony Giaquinto, University of Pennsylvania
  (857-16-60)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Finite dimensional algebras and quantum groups.
  Brian Parshall*, University of Virginia
  (857-20-64)

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, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 502, Keller Conference Center
- 8:30 a.m.
  Closed incompressible surfaces of arbitrarily high genus in the complements of certain star knots.
  Richard F. Gustafson*, State University of New York, College at Oneonta
  (857-57-21)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Branched covers of nonpositively curved manifolds.
  Michael Davis*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  Ruth Charney, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (857-57-10)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A differential geometric characterization of symmetric spaces of higher rank.
  Patrick Eberlein*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Jens Heber, Universit\"at of Augsburg, Federal Republic of Germany
  (857-53-20)

Sunday April 8, 1990, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Invited Address
On collisionless plasmas and the Vlasov-Maxwell equations.
Room 104, Keller Conference Center
Robert T. Glassey*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(857-35-03)

Sunday April 8, 1990, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Invited Address
Geometry and topology of manifolds curved from below.
Room 104, Keller Conference Center
Karsten Grove*, University of Maryland, College Park
(857-53-38)

Sunday April 8, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
Special Session on Classical and Quantum Groups, IV
Room 501, Keller Conference Center
- 1:45 p.m.
  Decompositions of some S_n-modules arising in the free Lie algebra.
  Sheila Sundaram*, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec, Montr\'eal
  (857-22-36)
- 2:15 p.m.
  A Bernstein-Beilinson theorem for U_q(sl(2)).
  T. J. Hodges*, University of Cincinnati
  (857-16-02)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Schubert calculus for generalized cohomology.
  Paul Bressler, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  Sam Evens*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (857-57-52)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Good bases for G-modules.
  Olivier Mathieu*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (857-22-72)

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)

Sunday April 8, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 502, Keller Conference Center
- 1:45 p.m.
  Group actions and cohomology of discrete groups.
  Alejandro Adem*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (857-57-04)
- 2:15 p.m.
  Examples of lack of rigidity in crystallographic groups.
  Frank Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  Tadeusz Ko\'zniewski*, University of Notre Dame
  (857-57-66)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Topological realization of the Dennis trace.
  Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (857-57-54)

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