AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 19, 2005 00:56:26

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday November 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Topology, I
Room 106, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon ddugger@math.uoregon.edu
Hal Sadofsky, University of Oregon sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Calculus of functors and configuration spaces.
  Michael Ching*, Johns Hopkins University
  (1012-55-186)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Etale BP, with applications to quadratic forms.
  Daniel C Isaksen*, Wayne State University
  (1012-55-152)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Tangential thickness of homotopy lens spaces.
  Reinhard Schultz*, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of California,Riverside CA
  Slawomir Kwasik, Dept. of Mathematics, Tulane Univ. New Orleans LA
  (1012-57-160)

Sunday November 13, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Topology, II
Room 106, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon ddugger@math.uoregon.edu
Hal Sadofsky, University of Oregon sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  $K(2)$-local homotopy and the building for $GL_2(\mathbb{Q}_\ell)$.
  Mark Behrens*, MIT
  (1012-55-197)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A convergence result for the Morava K-Theory Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence.
  John F. Carter*, University of Oregon
  (1012-55-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Exotic smooth structures on manifolds with small Euler characteristic.
  Anar Akhmedov*, University of California, Irvine
  (1012-57-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hopf algebroids and group actions.
  Ethan S. Devinatz*, University of Washington
  (1012-55-117)

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