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1992 Spring Central Section Meeting
Springfield, MO, March 20-21, 1992
Meeting #873

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

Special Session on C*-Algebras and Algebraic Topology

Friday March 20, 1992, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebras and Algebraic Topology, I
Room 344, Glass Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Exotic index theory and the Baum-Connes conjecture for foliations.
  Steven Hurder*, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (873-46-45)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homotopy invariants for operator algebras.
  Marius Dadarlat*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (873-46-46)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bilinear forms in equivariant K-theory.
  Claude Schochet*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (873-19-37)
- 9:30 a.m.
  K theory for p-adic algebraic groups.
  Paul Baum*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (873-19-30)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Operator K-theory and representations of p-adic groups.
  Roger Plymen*, University of Manchester, England
  (873-19-26)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Index theory on buildings.
  Nigel Higson*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (873-19-169)

Friday March 20, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebras and Algebraic Topology, II
Room 344, Glass Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  A new approach to Bott periodicity.
  George A. Elliott, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Toshikazu Natsume*, State University of New York, Buffalo
  (873-19-174)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Power maps and Hodge decomposition in Hochschild and cyclic homology.
  Dan Burghelea*, Ohio State University, Columbus
  (873-46-1097)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Operator convolution algebras.
  Edward G. Effros, University of California, Los Angeles
  Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (873-46-58)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topological orbit equivalence.
  Thierry Giordano, University of Ottawa
  Ian Putnam*, University of Victoria
  Christian Skau, University of Trondheim, Norway
  (873-19-31)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cyclic cocycles, index theory on open manifolds and Novikov conjecture for uniformly contractible spaces.
  Guoliang Yu*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
  (873-58-38)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Hermitian sheaves in operator theory.
  Keren Yan*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
  (873-47-211)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Quantum Riemann surfaces.
  S. Klimek*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
  (873-81-197)
- 6:30 p.m.
  "Adiabatic" cobordism theorem for the analytic torsion and the eta-invariant.
  Krzysztof Wojciechowski*, Indiana Univ-Purdue University at Indianapolis
  (873-57-196)

Saturday March 21, 1992, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebras and Algebraic Topology, III
Room 344, Glass Hall
- 8:00 a.m.
  Dixmier-Douady classes of dynamical systems and crossed products.
  Iain Raeburn, University of Newcastle, Australia
  Dana P. Williams*, Dartmouth College
  (873-46-40)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Unbounded Fredholm modules and automorphisms of C*-algebras.
  Efton Park*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
  (873-46-59)
- 9:00 a.m.
  KK theory and Lie groups.
  Jeffrey Fox, State University of New York, Albany and Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder
  Peter Haskell*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  (873-46-24)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Traces on twisted group C*-algebras and cyclic cohomology.
  Ronghui Ji*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
  (873-46-28)
- 10:00 a.m.
  C*-surgery obstructions.
  John G. Miller*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
  (873-58-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  K-theory and homotopy of certain groups and infinite Grassmann spaces associated with C*-algebras.
  Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
  (873-46-44)

Saturday March 21, 1992, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebras and Algebraic Topology, IV
Room 344, Glass Hall
- 3:00 p.m.
  K-theory of C*-algebras deformed by actions of R^d.
  Marc A. Rieffel*, University of California, Berkeley
  (873-46-10)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Spatial deformation quantization for C*-algebras.
  Gabriel Nagy*, University of California, Berkeley
  (873-47-187)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The rectifiable metric on the space of projections in a C*-algebra.
  N. Christopher Phillips*, University of Oregon
  (873-46-49)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Cuntz-Krieger algebras associated with Fuchsian groups.
  Jack Spielberg*, Arizona State University
  (873-46-185)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Primitive ideal spaces of central twisted crossed product C*-algebras.
  Lawrence Baggett, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Judith A. Packer*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (873-46-29)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Projective C*-algebras.
  Terry A. Loring*, University of New Mexico
  (873-46-219)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Cohomology for operator algebras.
  Frank Gilfeather*, University of New Mexico
  Roger R. Smith, Texas A\thsp\&\thsp M University, College Station
  (873-47-57)

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