AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:22

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

Friday November 3, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
Room 311, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
John F. Oprea, Cleveland State University
Paul Schick, John Caroll University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Geometry and the evaluation map.
  Aniceto Murillo*, University of Malaga, Spain
  (904-55-114)
- 8:30 a.m.
  New bounds on the Betti numbers of nilpotent Lie algebras.
  Grant Cairns, LaTrobe University, Australia
  B. J. Jessup*, University of Ottawa
  (904-55-185)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Obstruction theory and minimal models.
  Gregory M. Lupton*, Cleveland State University
  (904-55-115)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cone-decompositions and degenerate critical points.
  Octavian Cornea*, University of Lille I, France
  (904-55-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  From operads to mathematical physics.
  James D. Stasheff*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  (904-55-179)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras and quantum operators.
  Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
  Alexander A. Voronov, University of Pennsylvania
  Gregg J. Zuckerman, Yale University
  (904-14-178)

Friday November 3, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
Room 311, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
John F. Oprea, Cleveland State University
Paul Schick, John Caroll University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Algebraic approaches to the stable category.
  Michael A. Mandell*, University of Chicago
  (904-55-189)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Morava $K$-theory of extended powers.
  James E. McClure*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (904-55-191)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Exotic convergence of the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence.
  Brooke E. Shipley*, University of Notre Dame and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (904-55-193)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Axiomatic stable homotopy and phantom maps.
  J. Daniel Christensen*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (904-55-197)
- 4:30 p.m.
  $A$-cellular spaces.
  Wojciech Chacholski, Fields Institute
  Michele Intermont*, Mesa State College
  (904-55-194)
- 5:00 p.m.
  $S$-Algebras.
  Jerome J. Wolbert*, University of Chicago
  (904-55-198)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A new approch to the Blakers-Massey theorem.
  Wojciech Chacholski*, University of Notre Dame
  (904-55-249)

Saturday November 4, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
Room 319, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
John F. Oprea, Cleveland State University
Paul Schick, John Caroll University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Milnor-Carlsson's constructions and their applications to the homology of certain loop spaces.
  Jie Wu*, University of Rochester
  (904-55-195)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Bredon-Loffler conjecture.
  Robert R. Bruner*, Wayne State University
  (904-55-186)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Morava $K$-theory of iterated loop spaces of spheres.
  Douglas C. Ravenel*, University of Rochester
  (904-55-209)
- 9:30 a.m.
  $v_2$-Periodic homotopy at the prime three.
  Satyanarayana V.N Pemmaraju*, Northwestern University
  (904-55-192)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Results on the Morava stabilizer groups.
  Vassili Gorbounov*, Northwestern University
  P. Symonds, University of Kentucky
  (904-55-187)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Patterns and link invariants.
  Paul A. Bellis*, Rice University
  (904-55-196)

Saturday November 4, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, IV
Room 319, Kent Student Center
Organizers:
John F. Oprea, Cleveland State University
Paul Schick, John Caroll University
- 2:30 p.m.
  The unstable Adams spectral sequence of two-stage Postnikov towers.
  Kathryn F. Lesh*, University of Toledo
  (904-55-188)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A note on Miller's theorem about maps out of classifying spaces.
  Charles A. McGibbon*, Wayne State University
  (904-55-33)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Homology approximations to $BG$.
  William G. Dwyer*, University of Notre Dame
  (904-55-93)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Informal Discussion: Physics and Homotopy
- 5:00 p.m.
  Knot polynomials and strict pseudoconvexity.
  M. Boileau, University Paul Sabatier, France
  Lee Rudolph*, Clark University
  (904-05-104)

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