AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 23, 2004, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology: Interactions with Representation Theory and Algebraic Geometry, I
Room LG 68, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Paul G. Goerss, Northwestern University pgoerss@math.northwestern.edu
Jesper Kragh Grodal, University of Chicago jg@math.uchicago.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago bshipley@math.uic.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dyer-Lashof algebras for Morava E-theory.
  Charles W Rezk*, Assistant Professor/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1001-55-306)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Jacobians of complex curves with boundary.
  T. Fiore, University of Michigan
  I. Kriz*, University of Michigan
  (1001-55-351)

Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology: Interactions with Representation Theory and Algebraic Geometry, II
Room LG 68, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Paul G. Goerss, Northwestern University pgoerss@math.northwestern.edu
Jesper Kragh Grodal, University of Chicago jg@math.uchicago.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago bshipley@math.uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On conformal field theories and dessins d'enfants.
  Po Hu*, Wayne State University
  (1001-55-367)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Orbifolds and Stable Equivariant Homotopy Groups.
  Johann K Leida*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1001-55-179)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Complete Segal spaces as models for simplicial categories.
  Julie Bergner*, University of Notre Dame
  (1001-55-99)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The $p$-adic $K$-theory of the Bousfield-Kuhn Functor.
  Kristen Joy Schemmerhorn*, Albion College
  (1001-55-231)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A localization sequence for $K(ku)$.
  Andrew J. Blumberg*, University of Chicago
  (1001-19-337)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Computations for Toroidal Orbifolds.
  A Adem*, University of Wisconsin
  J Pan, Academia Sinica
  (1001-20-133)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology: Interactions with Representation Theory and Algebraic Geometry, III
Room LG 68, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Paul G. Goerss, Northwestern University pgoerss@math.northwestern.edu
Jesper Kragh Grodal, University of Chicago jg@math.uchicago.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago bshipley@math.uic.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Some connected covers of the specturm tmf(3).
  Mark Mahowald*, Northwestern University
  Charles Rezk, University of Illinois
  (1001-55-325)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Algebraic $K$-theory and sums-of-squares formulas.
  Daniel C Isaksen*, Wayne State University
  Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon
  (1001-55-171)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 9:30 a.m.
  Free $p$--group actions on products of spheres.
  \"{O}zg\"{u}n \"{U}nl\"{u}*, McMaster University
  (1001-57-310)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dyer-Lashof operations in the string topology of spheres and projective spaces.
  Craig Westerland*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1001-55-64)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Representation- and character theory in 2-categories.
  Nora Ganter*, UIUC
  Mikhail Kapranov, Yale
  (1001-55-322)

Sunday October 24, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology: Interactions with Representation Theory and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room LG 68, Technological Institute
Organizers:
Paul G. Goerss, Northwestern University pgoerss@math.northwestern.edu
Jesper Kragh Grodal, University of Chicago jg@math.uchicago.edu
Brooke E. Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago bshipley@math.uic.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Automorphism groups of free groups with boundaries.
  Nathalie Wahl*, Aarhus University
  (1001-55-320)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Parametrized equivariant stable homotopy theory.
  Johann Sigurdsson*, Univeristy of Notre Dame
  J. Peter May, The University of Chicago
  (1001-55-270)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Goodwillie derivatives of a monoid.
  Andrew Mauer-Oats*, Northwestern University
  (1001-55-334)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Circle-Equivariant Sigma Orientation.
  David Gepner*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (1001-55-276)
- 5:00 p.m.
  $\lambda$-ring structures over $\mathbf{Z} \lbrack \lbrack x \rbrack \rbrack$.
  Donald Y. Yau*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1001-55-101)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A report on weak n-categories.
  J. P. May*, The University of Chicago
  (1001-55-284)

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