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

• 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)