AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday May 2, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
Room 125, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert R. Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
David Handel, Wayne State University handel@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Exponential relations in the Steenrod algebra for $BP$ cohomology
  Michael D Slack*, Western Michigan University
  (922-55-47)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Real Brown-Peterson spectrum and the $Z/2$-equivariant Steenrod algebra.
  Igor Kriz*, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  (922-55-253)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Complex Oriented Equivariant Cohomology Theories and their Formal Group Laws
  Michael Cole*, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  (922-55-252)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Phantom maps out of iterated loop spaces
  Frederic R. Cohen,
  H\`{a} Minh Le*, Wayne State University
  Charles A. McGibbon, Wayne State University
  (922-55-49)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On $G$-sequences and Fiber spaces
  Moo Ha Woo*, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  (922-55-258)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
Room 125, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert R. Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
David Handel, Wayne State University handel@math.wayne.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The stable type of a classifying space of a direct product
  John R. Martino*, Western Michigan University
  Stewart B. Priddy, Northwestern University
  (922-55-109)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homological group actions and splittings iterated products of certain loop-spaces after a single suspension
  Ran Levi*, Northwestern University
  Stewart B. Priddy, Northwestern University
  (922-55-221)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The homology of certain subgroups of $\Sigma_n$ with coefficients in $\cal{Lie}(n)$
  Gregory Z. Arone*, University of Chicago
  (922-55-227)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The \lq\lq Hopf invariant\rq\rq\ of the odd primary $\eta_j$ element
  Norihiko Minami*, The University of Alabama
  (922-55-228)

Saturday May 3, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
Room 125, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert R. Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
David Handel, Wayne State University handel@math.wayne.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Andre-Quillen Cohomology of S-algebras
  Maria Basterra*, University of Chicago
  (922-55-235)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Homotopy categories of spaces and $S$-modules.
  Anthony D. Elmendorf*, Purdue University, Calumet
  (922-55-195)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A comparison of various categories of spectra
  Brooke Shipley*, University of Chicago
  (922-55-220)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some homotopical properties of gradient flows
  Octavian Cornea*, Universide de Lille 1, France
  (922-55-31)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Special Case of Ganea's Conjecture via Essential Category Weight
  Jeffrey A Strom*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (922-55-198)

Sunday May 4, 1997, 10:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, IV
Room 125, State Hall Building
Organizers:
Robert R. Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
David Handel, Wayne State University handel@math.wayne.edu
- 10:30 a.m.
  Classical homotopy techniques and telescopes
  Paul L. Shick*, John Carroll University
  (922-55-213)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Connective K-theory and the Chern character
  Jay A. Wood*, Purdue University Calumet
  (922-55-18)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Hit polynomials and conjugation in the dual Steenrod algebra
  Judith H. Silverman*, Indiana University--Purdue University at Columbus
  (922-55-224)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Identification of Infinite Loop Spaces Arising From Group Theory
  Kathryn Lesh*, University of Toledo
  (922-55-238)
- 12:30 p.m.
  A simplicial model category structure for the category of small categories CAT
  Wojciech Chacholski*, The Fields Institute
  Jerome Scherer, ETH, Zurich
  (922-55-237)

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