AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, April 13, 2005 08:32:23

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

Saturday April 2, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), I
Room 114, Purnell Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Higher chromatic generalizations of elliptic cohomology.
  Douglas C Ravenel*, University of Rochester
  (1005-55-178)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A curious filtration of spectra arising from Segal's machine.
  Gregory Arone, University of Virginia
  Kathryn Lesh*, Union College
  (1005-55-145)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial Topology.
  John McCleary*, Vassar College
  (1005-55-172)
- 9:30 a.m.
  An operadic approach to internal structures in homotopical algebra.
  Simona Paoli*, SUNY at Buffalo
  Steve Lack, University of Western Sydney
  (1005-55-81)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Mod p Homology Rings of H-spaces.
  James P Lin*, University of California at San Diego
  (1005-55-144)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Telescopic functors: a crash course.
  Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
  (1005-55-99)

Saturday April 2, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), II
Room 114, Purnell Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The construction of $v_2^{32}$ periodic maps.
  Mark Mahowald*, Northwestern University
  (1005-55-170)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Fundamental groups of compact Hausdorff spaces.
  Yuli B. Rudyak*, University of Florida
  (1005-55-43)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Revisiting an example of Frank and Kahn.
  Joseph Roitberg*, Hunter College, CUNY
  Yael Roitberg, New York Institute of Technology
  (1005-55-55)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On work of Martin Bendersky and Donald Davis.
  Tony Bahri*, Rider University
  (1005-55-84)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Don Davis' contribution to homotopy theory.
  Martin Bendersky*, Hunter College
  (1005-55-64)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The mathematical work of Martin Bendersky.
  Donald M Davis*, Lehigh University
  (1005-55-46)

Sunday April 3, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), III
Room 114, Purnell Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Hochschild cohomology and Quillen cohomology.
  Haynes Miller*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1005-55-62)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Renormalization, Bonsai and Homological Algebra.
  Jungyoon Byun*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1005-81-63)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Block Bundle Obstruction to Kervaire Invariant One.
  Duane Randall*, Loyola University New Orleans
  (1005-55-14)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On Brown-Peterson cohomology of B$(\mathbb{Z}_{2^e}\times \mathbb{Z}_{2^e})$ and the motion planning problem for lens spaces.
  Jesus Gonzalez*, CINVESTAV. Mexico
  (1005-55-142)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The immersion problem for $2^r$-torsion lens spaces.
  Thomas A. Shimkus*, University of Scranton
  (1005-55-146)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The 2-primary $v_1$-periodic homotopy groups of $SU(n)$ revisited.
  Donald M Davis, Lehigh University
  Katarzyna Potocka*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  (1005-55-35)

Sunday April 3, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory (in Honor of Donald M. Davis's and Martin Bendersky's 60th Birthdays), IV
Room 114, Purnell Hall
Organizers:
Kenneth G. Monks, University of Scranton monks@scranton.edu
W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University wsw@math.jhu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Shuffle relations on the Cohen groups.
  Jie Wu*, National University of Singapore
  (1005-55-60)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Experiments with simplicial groups.
  F. R. Cohen*, Univesity of Rochester
  J. Wu, National University of Singapore
  (1005-55-167)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cells models for operads and actions on the Hochschild complex.
  Ralph M Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut
  (1005-55-98)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Matrons and $A_{\infty}$-Bialgebras.
  Samson Saneblidze, A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute
  Ronald Umble*, Millersville University
  (1005-55-72)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Applications of the Homotopy Groups of Toric Spaces.
  David T. Allen*, Cuny Gradute Center/Iona College
  (1005-55-149)

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