AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on The Development of Topology in the Americas, I
Room 7.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Cameron Gordon, University of Texas, Austin gordon@math.utexas.edu
Ioan Mackenzie James, University of Oxford imj@maths.ox.ac.uk
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Golden Age of Princeton Topology.
  I. M. James*, University of Oxford
  (948-01-06)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Steenrod and his students.
  Franklin P Peterson*, M.I.T.
  (948-01-52)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topological groups vis-\`a-vis Lie groups.
  Robert D. Edwards*, UCLA
  (948-22-280)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Little and Haseman -- early American tabulators of knots.
  Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
  (948-01-24)

Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on The Development of Topology in the Americas, II
Room 7.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Cameron Gordon, University of Texas, Austin gordon@math.utexas.edu
Ioan Mackenzie James, University of Oxford imj@maths.ox.ac.uk
- 3:00 p.m.
  $3$-manifolds in Princeton in the 50's and 60's.
  John R Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
  (948-01-127)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Harvard-Princeton connection: The development of the exact sciences in Latin America, 1942-1950.
  Eduardo L Ortiz*, Imperial College, London (UK)
  (948-01-117)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic Topology in Brazil.
  Duane Randall*, Loyola University New Orleans
  (948-55-29)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 5:30 p.m.
  The development of infinite-dimensional topology in the United States.
  James E. West*, Cornell Univ.
  (948-01-354)

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