AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:33

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory: Honoring Peter Hilton on His Eightieth Birthday, I
Room 8, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Martin Bendersky, Hunter College (CUNY) mbenders@math.hunter.cuny.edu
Joseph Roitberg, Hunter College (CUNY) roitberg@math.hunter.cuny.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Sectional Category of a Map.
  Martin Arkowitz*, Dartmouth College
  Jeffrey Strom, Western Michigan University
  (990-55-61)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homotopy Classification and Realization of Poincar\'{e} Duality Pairs in Dimension Three.
  Bea Bleile*, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
  (990-57-74)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Geoghegan Conjecture.
  Guido Mislin*, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  (990-55-38)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homotopy theory with mod $p$ coefficients, from a homological viewpoint.
  Dominique Arlettaz*, University of Lausanne
  (990-55-25)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $P$-localizing finite-by-nilpotent groups.
  Karl Lorensen*, Penn State, Altoona College
  (990-20-146)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On a Theorem of Schur.
  Peter Hilton*, Binghamton University
  (990-20-18)

Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory: Honoring Peter Hilton on his Eightieth Birthday, II
Room 8, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Martin Bendersky, Hunter College (CUNY) mbenders@math.hunter.cuny.edu
Joseph Roitberg, Hunter College (CUNY) roitberg@math.hunter.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Finite dimensional G-spaces.
  William Browder*, Princeton Uniiversity
  (990-55-155)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the degree $2$ map for a sphere.
  Fred Cohen, University of Rochester
  Inga Johnson*, University of Rochester
  (990-55-241)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On (Non-)Cancellation of Certain Cell Complexes.
  Imre Bokor*, University of New England
  (990-57-126)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory: Honoring Peter Hilton on his Eightieth Birthday, III
Room 8, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Martin Bendersky, Hunter College (CUNY) mbenders@math.hunter.cuny.edu
Joseph Roitberg, Hunter College (CUNY) roitberg@math.hunter.cuny.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Geometric applications of the Berstein-Hilton Hopf invariant.
  Octavian Cornea*, University of Montreal
  (990-55-121)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Also on Systems of Interlocking Exact Sequences.
  C. Joanna Su*, Providence College
  (990-55-58)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Recent advances in $v_1$ periodic homotopy theory.
  Martin Bendersky*, CUNY/ Hunter College
  (990-55-46)
- 9:30 a.m.
  3-local H-spaces of rank 2.
  John R Harper*, University of Rochester
  (990-55-90)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Implications of the Equation $\mathrm{cat}(X\times A) =\mathrm{cat(X)}$.
  Donald Stanley, University of Ottawa
  Jeffrey Strom*, Western Michigan University
  (990-55-185)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Genus and SNT Sets of Certain Connective Covering Spaces: Work of Huale Huang.
  Joseph Roitberg*, Hunter College (CUNY)
  (990-55-76)

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