AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01

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

Saturday October 2, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Operator K-Theory and its Applications to Geometry and Topology
Room 301, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
Guoliang Yu, University of Colorado, Boulder gyu@euclid.Colorado.EDU
Carla E. Farsi, University of Colorado, Boulder farsi@euclid.colorado.edu
Jeffrey S. Fox, University of Colorado, Boulder jfox@euclid.colorado.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Completely Bounded Growth and Exactness of Discrete Groups.
  Erik Guentner*, IUPUI
  Jerome Kaminker, IUPUI
  (947-46-147)
- 8:45 a.m.
  On invariants of Hirzebruch, Atiyah-Patodi-Singer, and Cheeger-Gromov.
  Stanley S Chang*, Rice University
  Shmuel A Weinberger, University of Chicago
  (947-19-127)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cyclic cohomology of Hopf algebras and secondary characteristic classes.
  Alexander Gorokhovsky*, Ohio State University
  (947-58-118)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Self-adjoint perturbed Dirac operators.
  Jeffrey Fox, University of Colorado
  Peter Haskell*, Virginia Tech
  (947-58-101)

Saturday October 2, 1999, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Operator K-Theory and its Applications to Geometry and Topology
Room 301, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
Guoliang Yu, University of Colorado, Boulder gyu@euclid.Colorado.EDU
Carla E. Farsi, University of Colorado, Boulder farsi@euclid.colorado.edu
Jeffrey S. Fox, University of Colorado, Boulder jfox@euclid.colorado.edu
- 2:40 p.m.
  Some remarks on the Baum-Connes conjecture.
  Gennadi Kasparov*, University of Marseille at Luminy
  (947-19-45)
- 3:30 p.m.
  An index theorem for families of elliptic operators invariant with respect to a bundle of Lie groups.
  Victor Nistor*, Penn State
  (947-47-93)
- 4:20 p.m.
  A Topological Index for Proper Actions.
  Jody Trout*, Dartmouth College
  (947-19-150)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Operator K-Theory and its Applications to Geometry and Topology
Room 301, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
Guoliang Yu, University of Colorado, Boulder gyu@euclid.Colorado.EDU
Carla E. Farsi, University of Colorado, Boulder farsi@euclid.colorado.edu
Jeffrey S. Fox, University of Colorado, Boulder jfox@euclid.colorado.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Signatures and covering spaces.
  Wolfgang L\"uck, Univ M\'unster
  Thomas Schick*, Penn State University and Uni M�nster
  (947-55-13)
- 8:45 a.m.
  Volume Growth and Positive Scalar Curvature.
  Guihua Gong*, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
  Guoliang Yu, Uinversity of Colorado, Boulder
  (947-19-63)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Monicity of the Baum-Connes map.
  Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford university
  Erik K Pedersen*, Bingham University
  John Roe, Penn State
  (947-19-112)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Connes' Index Theorem for Groupoids.
  Jerome Kaminker*, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
  (947-19-166)

Sunday October 3, 1999, 2:40 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Operator K-Theory and its Applications to Geometry and Topology
Room 301, Harkins Hall
Organizers:
Guoliang Yu, University of Colorado, Boulder gyu@euclid.Colorado.EDU
Carla E. Farsi, University of Colorado, Boulder farsi@euclid.colorado.edu
Jeffrey S. Fox, University of Colorado, Boulder jfox@euclid.colorado.edu
- 2:40 p.m.
  Generalized amenability and embeddings into Hilbert space.
  Alexander N Dranishnikov*, Pennsylvania State University
  (947-20-79)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-commutative geometry and the representation theory of p-adic groups.
  Paul Baum*, Penn State University
  (947-19-102)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Proper Actions, Bivariant Chern Characters and the Index Theorem.
  Ronghui Ji*, IUPUI
  (947-58-167)

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