AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:51

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

Saturday October 12, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Surgery Theory and Singular Spaces, I
- 8:00 a.m.
  Formulae for generalized Casson's su(2)-invariant of 3-manifolds.
  Sylvain Cappell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Ronnie Lee*, Yale University
  Edward Miller, Polytechnic Institute of New York
  (868-20-138)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Algebraic homotopy.
  Justin R. Smith*, Drexel University
  (868-55-159)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Inductive detection for homotopy equivalences of manifolds.
  Slawomir Kwasik*, Tulane University
  Reinhard Schultz, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (868-57-78)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebraic G-vector bundles.
  Ted Petrie*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (868-14-75)

Saturday October 12, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Surgery Theory and Singular Spaces, II
- 1:45 p.m.
  Quantum invariants of lens spaces and a Dehn surgery formula.
  Robion Kirby, University of California, Berkeley
  Paul Melvin*, Bryn Mawr College
  (868-57-156)
- 2:15 p.m.
  L-theory and dihedral homology. II.
  Guillermo Corti\~nas*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (868-19-133)
- 2:45 p.m.
  On the UNil group of Cappell.
  Frank Connolly*, University of Notre Dame
  Tadeusz Kozniewski, University of Warsaw, Poland
  (868-57-157)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Bounded surgery and non-linear similarity.
  Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
  E. K. Pedersen, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (868-57-91)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Cocompact actions on S^n x R^k.
  Erik Kjaer Pedersen*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (868-57-108)

Sunday October 13, 1991, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Surgery Theory and Singular Spaces, III
- 7:30 a.m.
  Non-characteristic embeddings of Tori.
  David Miller*, Swarthmore College
  (868-57-61)
- 8:00 a.m.
  Positive scalar curvature for closed manifolds with finite fundamental group.
  Jonathan Rosenberg*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (868-53-158)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Characteristics class and singular spaces.
  Sylvain Cappell*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (868-57-176)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Atiyah invariant of Kahler manifolds and Picard variety.
  A. Libgober*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (868-57-126)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Torsion and the K-theory of Von Neumann algebras.
  Mel Rothenberg*, University of Chicago
  (868-57-87)

Sunday October 13, 1991, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
Special Session on Surgery Theory and Singular Spaces, IV
- 1:45 p.m.
  Links and localised Blanchfield pairings.
  Kent Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
  (868-57-167)
- 2:15 p.m.
  G-surgery up to topological simple homotopy.
  Mark Steinberger*, State University of New York, Albany
  Frank Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  (868-57-178)
- 2:45 p.m.
  The equivariant Borel conjecture fails.
  Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
  (868-57-170)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Periodicity in stable equivariant surgery.
  Min Yan*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (868-57-134)

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