AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:30

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

Friday April 4, 2003, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Codimension One Splittings of Manifolds, I
Room 236, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, University of Edinburgh aar@maths.ed.ac.uk
- 2:00 p.m.
  A Calculation of $UNil_3 (\mathbb{Z})$ via Twisted $Q$-Groups.
  Markus Banagl*, University of Cincinnati
  Andrew A Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
  (985-57-73)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Splitting the Whitehead space of some manifolds.
  Ross E Staffeldt*, New Mexico State University
  (985-55-183)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Twisted doubles of stable thickenings.
  D J Crowley*, State College
  (985-57-255)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some Computations of lower K-theory of Virtually Cyclic Groups.
  Jim Davis, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Bogdan Vajiac*, Indiana University, Northwest
  (985-19-238)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Surgery Obstruction Groups of the Infinite Dihedral Group.
  Frank X. Connolly*, University of Notre Dame
  James F. Davis, Indiana University
  (985-57-335)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Codimension One Splittings of Manifolds, II
Room 236, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, University of Edinburgh aar@maths.ed.ac.uk
- 9:00 a.m.
  Twisting diagrams, codimension 1 splittings and Unil.
  Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
  (985-57-134)
- 9:30 a.m.
  UNil(Z,Z,Z) and 4-manifolds.
  Bjoern Jahren*, University of Oslo
  Slawomir Kwasik, Tulane University
  (985-57-262)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Break
- 10:30 a.m.
  The block structure space of the infinite-dimensional real projective space.
  Tibor Macko*, Univerisity of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
  (985-57-129)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Splitting Theorems for Connected Sums.
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  Francis X Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  (985-57-299)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Codimension One Splittings of Manifolds, III
Room 236, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, University of Edinburgh aar@maths.ed.ac.uk
- 3:00 p.m.
  A homotopic approach to the Isomorphism Conjecture.
  Daniel Juan-Pineda, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Campus Morelia
  Stratos Prassidis*, Canisius College
  (985-19-122)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Codimension 1 splitting and noncommutative localization.
  Andrew A Ranicki*, University of Edinburgh
  (985-57-39)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Seifert Surfaces and Characteristic Polynomials.
  Desmond Sheiham*, University of California, Riverside
  (985-19-208)

Sunday April 6, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Codimension One Splittings of Manifolds, IV
Room 236, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, University of Edinburgh aar@maths.ed.ac.uk
- 9:00 a.m.
  Controlled algebraic K-theory.
  Frank S Quinn*, Virginia Tech
  (985-19-79)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the rho invariant for manifolds with boundary.
  Paul Kirk*, Indiana University
  Matthias Lesch, Universitat zu Koln
  (985-57-74)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Eta-invariants as obstructions to a knot in $S^3$ being slice or ribbon.
  Stefan K Friedl*, Brandeis University
  (985-54-65)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Break
- 11:00 a.m.
  Examples of Exotic Stratifications.
  Bruce Hughes*, Vanderbilt University
  (985-57-113)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Applications of codimension one splittings of analytic invariants.
  Sylvain Cappell*, New YorK University
  Ronnie Lee, Yale University
  Edward Miller, Polytechnic University
  (985-57-340)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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