AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:41

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

Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology and Related Topics (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), I
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin adem@math.wisc.edu
Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Rochester jonpak@math.rochester.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quasi-commutative differential graded algebras and homotopy types.
  Max Karoubi*, University Paris 7
  (997-55-22)
- 9:00 a.m.
  All stably parallelizable compact manifolds are complete intersections of quadrics.
  Vinicio G\'omez Guti\'errez, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico
  Santiago Lopez de Medrano*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM, Mexico
  (997-57-176)
- 9:30 a.m.
  $p$-local finite groups and their extension theory.
  Jesper Grodal*, University of Chicago
  (997-55-165)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the IA-automorphisms of a free group.
  F. R. Cohen*, University of Rochester
  B. Farb, University of Chicago
  J. Pakianathan, University of Rochester
  (997-55-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ring structures of Hochschild and orbifold cohomology.
  Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
  Sarah Witherspoon*, MSRI and Texas A&M University
  (997-18-130)

Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology and Related Topics (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), II
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin adem@math.wisc.edu
Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Rochester jonpak@math.rochester.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Coclass and cohomology.
  Jon F. Carlson*, University of Georgia
  (997-20-81)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Unstable Morita classes in the homology of $Out(F_n)$.
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  James Conant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (997-20-75)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Representation theory and the K-theory of fields.
  Gunnar Erik Carlsson*, Stanford University
  (997-55-102)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology.
  Peter S Ozsvath*, Columbia University/IAS
  (997-57-61)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Commutative algebra and the cohomology of groups.
  David J Benson*, University of Georgia
  (997-55-56)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Group Cohomology and Related Topics (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), III
Room 301, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin adem@math.wisc.edu
Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Rochester jonpak@math.rochester.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weighted $L^2$ cohomology of Coxeter groups.
  Michael W. Davis*, The Ohio State University
  Jan Dymara, Instytut Matematycczny
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, The Ohio State University
  Boris Okun, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  (997-20-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stability of surface mapping spaces and the homology of mapping class groups.
  Ralph L Cohen*, Stanford University
  (997-55-30)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Components of a Variety of Matrices and Free Actions of Elementary Abelian 2-Groups on a Product of Spheres.
  Dikran B. Karagueuzian*, SUNY Binghamton
  (997-57-193)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Equivariant Gysin maps and pulling back fixed points.
  Bernhard A Hanke*, University of Munich
  Volker Puppe, University of Constance
  (997-55-72)

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