AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:50

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 24, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, I
Room 362, Willard Building
Organizers:
Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Groupoids and the integration of Lie algebroids.
  Victor Nistor*, Penn State Univ.
  (937-58-49)
- 9:40 a.m.
  An Operator Algebra Approach to Eta Invariants for Families.
  Steven E. Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (937-58-125)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The coarse Baum-Connes conjecture for spaces which admit a uniform embedding into Hilbert space.
  Guoliang Yu*, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
  (937-19-23)

Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, II
Room 362, Willard Building
Organizers:
Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A coarse look at Bott periodicity.
  John Roe*, Penn State
  (937-19-22)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Concordance classes of positive scalar curvature metrics.
  Stephan A Stolz*, Notre Dame
  (937-53-118)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Counterexample to the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture .
  Thomas Schick*, visiting research fellow
  (937-53-76)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Assembly and Applications.
  James F Davis*, Indiana University
  (937-57-130)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Baum Connes map and assembly.
  Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
  (937-19-65)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, III
Room 362, Willard Building
Organizers:
Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Bivariant Chern Character.
  Paul Baum*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (937-19-80)
- 9:40 a.m.
  A counterexample to a question on the rationality of the trace map.
  Ranja Roy*, SUNY at Binghamton
  (937-19-15)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Index Theory for Algebraic K-theory.
  Edward Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
  (937-19-45)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on C*-Algebraic Methods in Geometry and Topology, IV
Room 362, Willard Building
Organizers:
Nigel D. Higson, The Pennsylvania State University higson@math.psu.edu
Erik Guentner, Dartmouth College guentner@dorset.dartmouth.edu
John D. Trout, Jr., Dartmouth College john.d.trout@dartmouth.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Joint Special Session talk by Alain Connes in Room 262.
- 3:30 p.m.
  The $K$-homology class of the equivariant Euler characteristic operator.
  Jonathan M Rosenberg*, University of Maryland
  (937-19-25)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Perturbed Dirac Operators.
  Jeffrey Fox, University of Colorado
  Cezary Gajdzinski, Virginia Tech
  Peter Haskell*, Virginia Tech
  (937-58-53)
- 4:50 p.m.
  Geometric Constructions in $KK_G(C,C)$.
  Jeffrey Fox*, University of Colorado
  Peter Haskell, Virginia Tech
  G Kasparov, Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy
  (937-19-117)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Lefschetz formulas and the K-theory of the unstable algebras for hyperbolic dynamical systems.
  Jerome Kaminker*, IUPUI
  Ian F. Putnam, University of Victoria
  Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University
  (937-19-137)

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