AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:57

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday April 11, 1992, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, I
Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stiefel-Whitney classes, singularities of projections and Whitney duality.
  Ockle E. Johnson*, Saint Olaf College
  (874-57-33)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The rationality of geometric signatures of open 4-manifolds.
  Xiaochun Rong*, Columbia University
  (874-53-48)
- 10:30 a.m.
  K theory for p-adic groups.
  Paul F. Baum*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
  (874-22-53)

Saturday April 11, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, II
Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 2:45 p.m.
  Semi-infinite de Rham cohomology.
  Alexander A. Voronov*, Princeton University
  (874-58-74)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 3:45 p.m.
  The Chern-Simons character of a lattice guage field.
  Anthony V. Phillips, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  David A. Stone*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
  (874-53-110)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, III
Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geometric quantization and K-theory.
  Peter Woit*, Columbia University
  (874-81-92)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Informal Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topological physics and geometric topology.
  Louis Crane*, Yale University
  (874-55-47)

Sunday April 12, 1992, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Characteristic Classes, Algebraic K-Theory, and Field Theory, IV
Room 302, Christmas-Saucon Hall
- 2:45 p.m.
  2-Categories and quantum field theories.
  Dennis A. McLaughlin*, Princeton University
  (874-55-76)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Compact Kahler manifolds and their embeddings in CP(n).
  N. Michelacakis*, University College of London, England
  (874-53-106)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Informal Discussion

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