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, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Manifold Theory, I
Room 9, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University erik@math.binghamton.edu
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University ian@math.mcmaster.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Propagation and actions on a product of spheres.
  Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin
  James F Davis*, Indiana University
  Ozgun Unlu, University of Wisconsin
  (990-57-276)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Virtual manifolds.
  Frank Quinn*, Virginia Tech
  (990-57-262)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Resolving Homology Manifolds.
  J. Bryant*, Tallahassee, FL
  S. Ferry, Rutgers University
  W. Mio, Florida State University
  S. Weinberger, University of Chicago
  (990-57-71)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the stable homology of $Aut(F_n)$.
  Daniel K. Biss*, IAS & CMI
  (990-55-227)

Saturday October 11, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Manifold Theory, II
Room 9, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University erik@math.binghamton.edu
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University ian@math.mcmaster.ca
- 3:00 p.m.
  Higher Reidemeister Torsion.
  Edward Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
  (990-57-134)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some non-diffeomorphic harmonic cellular maps.
  F. T. Farrell*, Binghamton University
  P. Ontaneda, Univ. Federal de Pernambuco
  (990-53-133)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the classification of simply connected $7$-manifolds.
  Diarmuid J Crowley*, Penn State
  (990-57-184)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A rational criminal.
  Kasper K. S. Andersen, Aarhus University
  Tilman Bauer, SFB 478 Munster
  Jesper Grodal*, University of Chicago
  Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University
  (990-55-240)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Manifold Theory, III
Room 9, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University erik@math.binghamton.edu
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University ian@math.mcmaster.ca
- 8:30 a.m.
  Periodic Methods and Fixity.
  Alejandro Adem*, University of Wisconsin
  Jim Davis, Indiana University
  Ozgun Unlu, University of Wisconsin
  (990-57-82)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Thickenings of $Z/nZ$ manifolds and applications.
  Laurence R Taylor*, University of Notre Dame
  (990-57-78)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Splitting With Continuous Control in Algebraic $K$-theory.
  David Rosenthal*, McMaster University
  (990-57-112)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Controlled exact categories.
  Manuel Cardenas*, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
  (990-19-30)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Obstructions to transversality for exotic homology manifolds.
  Heather M Johnston*, Vassar College
  (990-57-257)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Special Session on Manifold Theory, IV
Room 9, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University erik@math.binghamton.edu
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University ian@math.mcmaster.ca
- 2:30 p.m.
  Lipschitz cohomology, coronas, and the Novikov conjecture.
  Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
  (990-57-132)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces in $CP^2$.
  Hui Ma*, Dept. of Math. & Stat., GANG, Umass, Amherst
  Franz Pedit, Dept. of Math. & Stat., GANG, Umass, Amherst
  (990-51-39)

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