AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday October 11, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Finite group actions on products of Menger manifolds
  Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  (915-54-180)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Topological Dynamics and Invariants of Manifolds
  Christopher W. Stark*, University of Florida
  (915-57-185)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the equivalent spines problem.
  Dusan Repovs*,
  (915-57-15)
- 10:00 a.m.
  CAT (0) groups with non-locally connected boundary.
  Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
  (915-20-103)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cohomological dimension of Tychonov spaces
  Alex Chigogidze*, Univ. of Saskatchewan
  (915-55-91)

Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Splitting approximate fibrations over generalized manifolds
  John L. Bryant*, Florida State University
  Penelope A. Kirby, Florida State University
  (915-57-200)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cores of noncompact manifolds
  Gerard A. Venema*, Calvin College
  (915-57-332)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Survey of properties of visual compactifications of CAT(0) Davis manifolds
  Fredric D. Ancel*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  (915-57-172)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Two point set extensions.
  Jan J. Dijkstra*, The University of Alabama
  Jan van Mill, Vrije Universiteit
  (915-28-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Negatively curved graph metrics with applications
  Philip L. Bowers*, Florida State University
  (915-54-224)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Novikov Conjectures and Relative Hyperbolicity
  Boris Goldfarb*, Stanford University
  (915-57-95)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Exotic smooth structures on non- positively curved symmetric spaces
  Boris L. Okun*, The Ohio State University
  (915-53-290)

Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Covering spaces of manifolds
  David G. Wright*, Brigham Young University
  (915-57-233)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Enlarging ${ANR}$'s with ${SDAP} 2$-manifolds.
  Tadeusz Dobrowolski*, Pittsburg State University
  (915-57-181)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Countable Dimensionality and Dimension Raising Cell-like Maps.
  Jan J. Dijkstra, Department of Mathematics, The University of Alabama
  Jerzy K. Mogilski*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Brownsville
  (915-54-289)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Characterizations of infinite-dimensional manifold triples
  Tatsuhiko Yagasaki*, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto Institute of Technology
  (915-57-44)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The fundamental groups of 1-dimensional spaces.
  Eda Katsuya, Waseda Univesity
  Kazuhiro Kawamura*, University of Tsukuba
  (915-55-270)

Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Local embeddings of homology manifolds.
  Washington Mio*, Florida State University
  John L. Bryant, Florida State University
  (915-57-182)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The gap between Steenrod and coherent singular homology theories
  Akira Koyama*,
  (915-55-321)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Ends of Manifolds
  Craig R. Guilbault*, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (915-57-169)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The $l_p$-cohomology and the conformal dimension of hyperbolic cones.
  Gabor Elek*, Purdue University
  (915-58-32)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Localizations in dimension theory
  Katsuya Yokoi*, Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba
  (915-55-159)

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