AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Friday October 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
Room 105 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon ddugger@math.uoregon.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, Purdue University bshipley@math.purdue.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break
- 9:30 a.m.
  Knot theory through induced maps on configuration spaces.
  Dev P. Sinha*, University of Oregon
  (989-57-157)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Simplicial groups modelling Algebraic K-theory.
  Jeanne Duflot*, Colorado State University
  (989-19-149)

Friday October 3, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
Room 105 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon ddugger@math.uoregon.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, Purdue University bshipley@math.purdue.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Break
- 3:00 p.m.
  Loop spaces via algebraic theories.
  Bernard Badzioch*, University of Minnesota
  Kuerak Chung, University of Minnesota
  Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota
  (989-55-214)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Little cubes and long knots.
  Ryan D Budney*, University of Rochester
  (989-00-155)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $\text{Sq}^0$ and the Adams $E_2$-term.
  John H Palmieri*, University of Washington
  (989-55-178)

Saturday October 4, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
Room 105 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon ddugger@math.uoregon.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, Purdue University bshipley@math.purdue.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Trace and Transfer Maps in the Algebraic K-theory of Spaces.
  Wojciech Dorabiala, Penn State Altoona
  Mark W Johnson*, Penn State Altoona
  (989-19-201)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Controlled homotopy theory of simplicial sets.
  Daniel C Isaksen*, Wayne State University
  (989-55-89)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Small object argument for classes.
  Boris Chorny*, University of Western Ontario
  (989-55-175)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Representations of profinite groups, representation varieties, and K-theory.
  Gunnar Carlsson*, Stanford
  (989-19-272)

Saturday October 4, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, IV
Room 105 (1st Floor), Engineering Center (ECCR)
Organizers:
Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon ddugger@math.uoregon.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, Purdue University bshipley@math.purdue.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Equivariant Formality.
  Laura Scull*, University of British Columbia
  (989-55-63)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Composition of bilinear forms in characteristic p.
  Daniel Dugger*, University of Oregon
  Daniel Isaksen, Wayne State University
  (989-12-102)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Multiplication on MU and BP.
  Michael A Mandell*, University of Chicago
  (989-55-158)

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