AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

1998 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
State College, PA, October 24-25, 1998
Meeting #937

• 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)