AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:43

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

Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, I
Room 113, Wilson
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Deformations and the Baum-Connes assembly map for complex semisimple Lie groups.
  Nigel Higson*, Penn State University
  (999-19-68)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Mod $p$ Higson Conjecture.
  Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
  (999-55-94)
- 9:40 a.m.
  A Hurewicz-type theorem for asymptotic dimension.
  G. C. Bell*, Penn State University
  A. N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida
  (999-20-75)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, II
Room 113, Wilson
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Smoothing Loop Spaces.
  Tilman Bauer, M�nster University
  Nitoo Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
  Dietrich Notbohm, University of Leicester, England
  Erik K Pedersen*, Binghamton University
  (999-57-70)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Rigidity of arithemtic manifolds.
  Stanley S Chang*, Wellesley College
  Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
  (999-53-32)
- 3:50 p.m.
  K-theory of groups and algebra of associated group rings.
  Boris Goldfarb*, SUNY at Albany
  (999-57-170)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The coarse Baum-Connes conjecture and subspaces.
  Nick Wright*, University of Southampton
  (999-19-144)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Uniform embeddings and the Novikov conjecture.
  Gennadi Kasparov*, Vanderbilt University
  Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University
  (999-19-13)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, III
Room 113, Wilson
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 8:20 a.m.
  Analytic properties of groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes.
  Erik Guentner*, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University
  (999-46-276)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Algebraic $K$- and $L$-theory of Word Hyperbolic Groups.
  David Rosenthal*, St. John's University
  Dirk Schuetz, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Muenster
  (999-20-77)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Large scale geometry of S-arithmetic groups and the integral Novikov conjectures.
  Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (999-22-83)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Family Version of Surgery Theory.
  Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
  (999-57-202)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, IV
Room 113, Wilson
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University bruce.hughes@vanderbilt.edu
Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University gyu@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Topological invariants of 3-manifolds arising in the K-theory of AF C*-algebras.
  Igor Nikolaev*, Calgary
  (999-19-71)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Group actions on aspherical manifolds.
  Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
  (999-57-146)
- 3:50 p.m.
  A Complete Obstruction to the Existence of Nonvanishing Vector Fields on Almost-Complex, Closed Orbifolds.
  Christopher W. Seaton*, Rhodes College
  (999-57-121)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg Conjecture for cocompact Fuchsian groups.
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  Kimberly Pearson, Valparaiso University
  (999-53-277)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Discussion.

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