AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:42

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

Saturday April 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Surgery (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), I
Room 306, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Frank S. Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University quinn@math.vt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  L-theory of Free Products.
  Francis X Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  James F Davis*, Indiana University
  (997-57-257)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Four-dimensional graph-manifolds.
  Alexandra Mozgova*, University of Avignon
  (997-57-246)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Homotopy Intersection Theory.
  Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
  (997-57-226)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The very strong $C_\infty$ topology on $C_\infty(M,N)$ and $K$-equivariant maps.
  Soren Illman*, University of Helsinki
  (997-57-223)

Sunday April 18, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Surgery (in Honor of William Browder's 70th Birthday), II
Room 306, Memorial Hall
Organizers:
Frank S. Quinn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University quinn@math.vt.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Smoothing loop spaces.
  Tilman Bauer, M\"unster University
  Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
  Dietrich Notbohm, Leicester University
  Erik Kja$\!$er Pedersen*, Binghamton University
  (997-57-123)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Surgery on topological 4-manifolds?
  Frank Quinn*, Virginia Tech
  (997-57-88)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A topological constraint on the Ricci flow.
  F. T. Farrell*, Binghamton University
  P. Ontaneda, UFPE
  (997-53-28)
- 10:30 a.m.
  New Topological Methods in Study of Biological Intelligence.
  Amir H Assadi*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (997-92-08)

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