AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:40

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

Friday March 1, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
Room 221, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Robert Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
Igor Kriz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ikriz@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 1:00 p.m.
  The diagonal map of a Poincar\'e duality space.
  John R Klein*, Wayne State University
  (974-55-85)
- 1:30 p.m.
  Topology of spaces of knots.
  Dev Prakash Sinha*, University of Oregon and Brown University
  (974-55-154)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Representations and K-theory of the Braid Groups.
  Alejandro Adem*, University of Wisconsin
  Dan Cohen, Louisiana State University
  Fred Cohen, University of Rochester
  (974-55-09)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Obstruction Theory in Model Categories.
  J Daniel Christensen*, University of Western Ontario
  William G Dwyer, University of Notre Dame
  Daniel C Isaksen, University of Notre Dame
  (974-55-11)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Steenrod and Dyer-Lashof operations in some mapping spaces.
  Craig C. Westerland*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (974-55-163)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Fake TQFT's.
  Tibor Beke*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (974-18-167)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On triviality of Dickson invariants in the homology of the Steenrod algebra.
  Hung H. V. Nguyen*, Wayne State University
  (974-55-95)

Saturday March 2, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
Room 221, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Robert Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
Igor Kriz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ikriz@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A chain model for the framed little 2-disks operad.
  James E. McClure*, Purdue University
  Jeffrey H. Smith, Purdue University
  (974-55-46)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Derived Koszul duality for $C_k$-algebras.
  Po Hu*, University of Chicago
  (974-55-64)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cochains and Homotopy Type.
  Michael A. Mandell*, University of Chicago
  (974-55-115)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The analytic circle-equivariant sigma orientation.
  Matthew Ando*, Univ. of Illinois--Urbana
  (974-55-112)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
Room 221, Dennison Building
Organizers:
Robert Bruner, Wayne State University rrb@math.wayne.edu
Igor Kriz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ikriz@math.lsa.umich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the S--dual of a circle.
  Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
  (974-55-116)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Dold-Kan equivalence, simplicial rings and DGAs.
  Brooke E Shipley*, Purdue University
  (974-18-118)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Topological equivalences of DGAs.
  Daniel Dugger*, Purdue University
  (974-55-195)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The classification of $p$-compact groups for $p$ odd.
  Kasper K. S. Andersen, CRM, Barcelona
  Jesper Grodal*, University of Chicago
  Jesper M. Moller, University of Copenhagen
  Antonio Viruel, University of Malaga
  (974-55-180)

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