AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:38

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

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, I
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk
- 8:00 a.m.
  Relative controlled end and h-cobordism theorems
  Frank S Quinn*, Virginia Tech
  (919-57-34)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalized assembly maps
  Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
  (919-55-117)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On assembly maps for lattices and their analogues
  Boris Goldfarb*, Stanford University
  (919-19-55)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Families of Hypersurfaces with non-isolated singularities
  Terence J Gaffney*, Northeastern University
  (919-32-106)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The topology of some nonsingular algebraic spaces.
  John W. Wood*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (919-57-107)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Controlling Thom's $a_f$ Condition
  David B Massey*, Northeastern University
  (919-32-21)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, II
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk
- 2:30 p.m.
  Higher analytic torsion
  Mel Rothenberg*, University of Chicago
  (919-57-163)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Orthogonal calculus and index theory
  Michael S Weiss*, University of Notre Dame
  (919-57-60)
- 3:30 p.m.
  h-Cobordisms and Mapping Cylinder Obstructions
  Bogdan Vajiac*, University of Notre Dame
  (919-57-112)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Which G-Spheres are suspensions?
  Frank Connolly*, University of Notre Dame
  (919-57-174)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Obstructions to transversality for some singular spaces
  Heather M Johnston*, Rutgers University
  (919-57-102)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Universal formulas for the generalized Casson's invariants of knots
  Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
  Andrew J. Nicas, McMaster University
  (919-55-159)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Ring structure on Floer homology for symplectic fixed points
  Matthias Schwarz*, Stanford University
  (919-58-100)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, III
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk
- 8:00 a.m.
  Analysis and Topological Manifolds
  John Roe*, Jesus College, England
  (919-58-41)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Nonvanishing of K-theoretic index and applications
  Guoliang Yu*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (919-19-65)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometry and homotopy functors
  Christopher W. Stark*, University of Florida
  (919-58-105)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cartesian products of 3-manifolds
  Slawomir Kwasik*, Tulane University
  Reinhard Schultz, University of California, Riverside
  (919-57-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stable Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  (919-57-66)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stabilized fixed point neighborhoods in $4$-manifolds
  Reinhard Schultz*, University of California, Riverside
  S{\l}awomir Kwasik, Tulane University
  (919-57-97)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, IV
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Stratified Structure of Alexandrov Spaces
  Conrad P Plaut*, University of Tennessee
  (919-53-176)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finiteness theorems for hyperbolic manifolds
  Igor Belegradek*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (919-57-133)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Algebraic Topology for Controlled Spaces
  Hans J Munkholm*, IMADA, Odense University, Denmark
  (919-55-46)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Geometric Finiteness Obstruction for Boundedly Controlled CW Complexes
  Jill H. Wiesner*, Guilford College
  (919-57-109)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A comparison of Steenrod homology theories
  Douglas Mennella*, SUNY at Binghamton
  (919-55-86)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On the exponent of the topological equivariant K-groups.
  Francis X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  Stratos Prassidis*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-19-71)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Embedding theorems for Poincar\'e complexes
  John R. Klein*, Bielefeld University
  (919-55-51)

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