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

Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, I
Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  Transverse index theory and cyclic cohomology of Hopf algebras.
  Henri Moscovici*, Ohio State University
  (948-58-219)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Family Index Theorems for Manifolds with Boundary and Adiabatic limit.
  Xianzhe Dai*, UCSB
  Weiping Zhang, Nankai Institute of Mathematics
  (948-58-319)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Positive scalar curvature metrics and K-theory of $C^*$-algebras.
  Stephan A Stolz*, Notre Dame
  (948-47-220)

Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, II
Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Schwartz algebra, Chern characters and the Baum-Connes conjecture.
  Jacek Brodzki*, University of Exeter, UK
  Roger J Plymen, Manchester University
  (948-46-90)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An index theorem for families of elliptic operators invariant with respect to the action of a bundle of Lie groups.
  Victor Nistor*, Penn State
  (948-58-126)

Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, III
Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite energy Seiberg-Witten monopoles.
  Liviu I Nicolaescu*, University of Notre Dame
  (948-58-240)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Combinatorial Morse Theory.
  Robin Forman*, Rice University
  (948-58-159)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Exact triangle in Seiberg--Witten Floer theory.
  Matilde Marcolli*, MIT
  Bai-Ling Wang, University of Adelaide
  (948-57-122)

Sunday October 10, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, IV
Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
Organizers:
Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Index Theory of Toeplitz Operators on Transformation Group C*-algebras.
  Efton Park*, Texas Christian University
  (948-47-32)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Coarse obstructions to positive scalar curvature metrics in noncompact quotients of symmetric spaces.
  Stanley S Chang*, Rice University
  (948-19-207)
- 12:00 p.m.
  C*-algebraic index theory and finite asymptotic dimension.
  Nigel D Higson*, Penn State University
  (948-19-304)

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