AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:59

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

Saturday April 24, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, I
Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Synthetic Approach to Characteristic Cohomology.
  James J. Faran, V*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (943-18-72)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Infinitesimal Calculus of Variation.
  Hirokazu Nishimura*, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  (943-18-71)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Lebesgue Toposes.
  Jonathon Funk*, University of British Columbia
  (943-18-65)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Strongly Separable Morphisms.
  George Janelidze*, Georgean Academy of Science
  Walter Tholen, York University, Ont.Canada
  (943-18-73)

Saturday April 24, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, II
Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Atoms and categories of differential equations in Synthetic Differential Geometry.
  Gonzalo E Reyes*, Montreal University
  Anders Kock, Aarhus University
  (943-18-109)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Transversal Stability for infinitesimally represented germs.
  Felipe Gago*, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  (943-18-66)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Infinitesimal Geometric Aspects of Riemannian Metrics.
  Anders Kock*, Aarhus University, Denmark
  (943-18-68)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break.
- 4:30 p.m.
  Infinitesimal Deformations in SDG.
  Rene Lavendhomme*, University of Louvain, Belgium
  (943-18-70)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Single universe for intensive and extensive quantities in a topos.
  Marta C. Bunge*, McGill University
  (943-18-76)

Sunday April 25, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, III
Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Arithmetic Categories.
  Peter Freyd*, University of Pennsylvania
  (943-18-69)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Vertex Algebras - An example of a relaxed multilinear category.
  Craig T. Snydal*, Cambridge University
  (943-18-67)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Conceptual Mathematics, Categories, Functors, and Tensors.
  Walter Noll*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (943-18-176)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Smoothness of Cubical Splines.
  F. William Lawvere*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (943-18-145)

Sunday April 25, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Smooth Categories in Geometry and Mechanics, IV
Room 5, Diefendorf Hall
Organizers:
F. William Lawvere, SUNY at Buffalo wlawvere@acsu.buffalo.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Round Table Discussion.

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