AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday April 8, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and Topology, I
Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cutting and pasting manifolds from the algebraic point of view.
  Andrew Ranicki*, University of Edinburgh
  (953-55-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Infinite isotropy in group actions.
  Erik K Pedersen*, SUNY Binghampton
  (953-57-342)

Saturday April 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and Topology, II
Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A general splitting formula for the spectral flow.
  Paul A Kirk*, Indiana University
  Mark Daniel, API, Inc.
  (953-58-41)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An Atiyah-Singer Topological Index for Proper Actions of Countable Discrete Groups.
  Jody Trout*, Dartmouth College
  (953-19-30)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Index theories associated to $c_0$ coarse structures.
  John Roe*, Penn State University
  Nicholas Wright, Penn State University
  (953-58-304)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and Topology, III
Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Atiyah's conjecture about integrality of L2-Betti numbers.
  Thomas Schick*, Penn State University and Universitaet Muenster
  (953-55-154)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topology vs. Index theory.
  Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
  (953-58-150)

Sunday April 9, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and Topology, IV
Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
Organizers:
John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Counterexamples to the Baum-Connes conjectures.
  Nigel Higson*, Penn State University
  (953-19-227)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org