AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:49

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Associate secretaries:
Andy R Magid, AMS amagid@ou.edu

Friday March 15, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 06, Northside Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Coverings of singular spaces.
  Mathew Timm*, Bradley University
  (864-57-70)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Psuedofree orbifolds of low rank.
  Dariusz M. Wilczynski*, University of Notre Dame
  (864-57-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Intersection homology and topological quantum field theory.
  Charles Frohman*, University of Iowa
  A. Nicas, McMaster University
  (864-57-85)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On exotic smoothings of 4-manifolds.
  \v Zarko Bi\v zaca*, University of Notre Dame
  (864-57-88)

Friday March 15, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 06, Northside Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  Groups with infinite virtual cohomological dimension which act freely on R^m x S^n-1.
  Stratos Prassidis*, McMaster University
  (864-57-109)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic aspects of group actions.
  Christopher W. Stark*, University of Florida
  (864-57-133)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Nil groups in K-theory and surgery.
  Frank X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  Tadeusz Ko\'zniewski*, University of Notre Dame
  (864-57-135)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Counting simple-homotopy types.
  Steven C. Ferry*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (864-57-139)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion

Saturday March 16, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 06, Northside Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Periodicity in equivariant surgery.
  Min Yan*, University of Chicago and Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (864-57-93)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Torsion invariants and algebraic K-theory of von Neumann algebras.
  Wolfgang L\H uck*, University of Kentucky
  (864-46-90)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Classification of simply connected six dimensional manifolds.
  Herman J. Serrano*, University of Notre Dame
  (864-57-138)
- 9:30 a.m.
  HP^2-bundles and elliptic homology.
  Matthias Kreck, University of Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany
  Stephan Stolz*, University of Notre Dame
  (864-57-136)

Saturday March 16, 1991, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 06, Northside Hall
- 2:00 p.m.
  The group NK_0(Zpi) is a Noetherian M_1-module if pi is a finite group.
  Frank X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  M\'ario Da Silva*, Indiana University, South Bend, and University of Federal Fluminense, Brazil
  (864-55-122)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Algebraic L-theory assembly.
  Andrew A. Ranicki*, Edinburgh University, Scotland
  (864-57-77)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hochschild homology traces and an n-parameter Lefschetz fixed point theorem.
  Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  Andrew Nicas, McMaster University
  (864-57-89)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Informal Discussion

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