AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:40

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Friday March 12, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, I
Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Recognizing open subsets of $S^n$.
  Diarmuid J Crowley, Penn State University
  Steven C Ferry*, Rutgers University
  (994-57-172)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Representing 2-knot groups.
  Gerard A Venema*, Calvin College
  (994-57-200)
- 10:00 a.m.
  2-Dimensional Axiomatic Geometry Revisited.
  Fredric D Ancel*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  (994-51-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Embedding of Coxeter groups in a product of trees.
  Alexander N Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
  (994-51-81)

Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, II
Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalized manifolds - examples, techniques, antecedents and main developments.
  Robert J. Daverman*, University of Tennessee
  (994-57-177)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The quadratic form $E_8\times T^{2n}$ used to construct exotic homology manifolds.
  Andrew A. Ranicki*, University of Edinburgh
  (994-57-60)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Cell-like Approximation Theorem in Dimension 5.
  Denise M. Halverson*, Brigham Young University
  Robert J. Daverman, University of Tennessee
  (994-57-190)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Colored finite type invariants and a multi-variable analogue of the Conway polynomial.
  Sergey A Melikhov*, University of Florida
  (994-57-124)
- 5:00 p.m.
  What groups can be the fundamental group if a compact Hausdorff space?
  James E Keesling*, University of Florida
  Yuli Rudyak, University of Florida
  (994-54-191)

Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, III
Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Smoothing loop spaces.
  Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
  Tilman Bauer, University of M�nster
  N. Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
  D. Notbohm, Leicester University
  (994-57-75)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Manifolds with nonstable fundamental groups at infinity.
  Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Frederick C Tinsley, The Colorado College
  (994-57-156)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weighted $L^2$-cohomology of Coxeter groups.
  M W Davis, The Ohio State University
  J Dymara, Wroclaw University
  T Januszkiewicz, The Ohio State University
  B Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (994-55-170)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Some examples of free actions of products of Spheres.
  Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
  (994-57-171)

Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, IV
Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
Organizers:
Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Problems and progress in homology manifolds.
  Frank S. Quinn*, Virginia Tech
  (994-57-74)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Obstructions to transversality for homology manifolds.
  Heather M Johnston*, Vassar College
  (994-57-161)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Uncountably many inequivalent Lipschitz homogeneous Cantor sets.
  Du\v{s}an Repov\v{s}*, University of Ljubljana
  (994-57-91)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Elimination of singularities of smooth mappings of 4-manifolds into 3-manifolds.
  Rustam R Sadykov*, University of Florida
  (994-58-130)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Homeomorphism groups of manifolds and Erd\H os space.
  Jan J Dijkstra*, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Jan van Mill, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  (994-57-13)

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