AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:56

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

• 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)