
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01
1999 Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Austin, TX, October 8-10, 1999
Meeting #948
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Special Session on The Development of Topology in the Americas
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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
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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)
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9:00 a.m.
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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
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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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3:00 p.m.