AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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

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

Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, I
Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Homology of complete symbols and non-commutative geometry.
  Moulay-Tahar Benameur*, Institut Desargues, Lyon, France
  (957-58-243)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Secondary Characteristic Classes and Cyclic Cohomology of Hopf Algebras and Algebroids.
  Alexander Gorokhovsky*, University of Michigan
  (957-53-287)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Break
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cyclic Cohomology of Quantum Groups.
  Masoud Khalkhali*, Western Ontario
  (957-18-249)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On the index of perturbed Dirac Operators on Manifolds with Corners.
  Paul A Loya*, Boston University
  Richard B Melrose, MIT
  (957-58-84)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, II
Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A descent theorem in the K-theory of Banach algebras.
  Max Karoubi*, University Paris 7
  (957-19-126)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Equivariant Chern Character.
  Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State University
  (957-19-134)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the Baum-Connes conjecture.
  Nigel Higson*, Penn State
  (957-19-285)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, III
Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quantum String Topology.
  Alexander A Voronov*, Michigan State University
  (957-58-282)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A-infinity constraint and classical Yang-Baxter equation.
  Alexander Polishchuk*, Boston University
  (957-14-89)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some recent applications of operads.
  Dmitry Tamarkin*, Harvard University
  (957-53-279)
- 11:00 a.m.
  String Topology of Manifolds.
  Dennis Sullivan*, Graduate School at CUNY
  (957-54-342)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, IV
Room 3202, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Ryszard Nest, University of Copenhagen rnest@math.ku.dk
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Boris Tsygan, Pennsylvania State University tsygan@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Classification of Symplectic Leaves of Complex Reductive Poisson-Lie Groups.
  Milen T Yakimov*, University of California at Berkeley
  (957-22-268)

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