AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 19, 2005 00:56:25

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

Saturday November 12, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology of Moduli Spaces, I
Room 307, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Boris I. Botvinnik, University of Oregon botvinn@math.uoregon.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@diamond.boisestate.edu
Dev Sinha, University of Oregon dps@math.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Stability of surface mapping spaces and the homology of mapping class groups.
  Ralph L Cohen*, Stanford University
  (1012-57-121)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Moduli spaces, Cells and Operadic Actions.
  Ralph M. Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut. Department of Mathematics.
  (1012-55-164)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Deformations of four dimensional Kahler manifolds.
  Nitu R Kitchloo*, University of California, San Diego
  (1012-53-115)

Saturday November 12, 2005, 4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology of Moduli Spaces, II
Room 307, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Boris I. Botvinnik, University of Oregon botvinn@math.uoregon.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@diamond.boisestate.edu
Dev Sinha, University of Oregon dps@math.uoregon.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  String Topology of Classifying Spaces.
  Kate Gruher*, Stanford University
  Paolo Salvatore, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata"
  (1012-55-155)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Orbit configuration spaces of lens spaces.
  Matthew Sean Miller*, University of Oregon
  (1012-55-114)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Point Configurations and Coxeter Operads.
  Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
  (1012-57-62)

Sunday November 13, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Topology of Moduli Spaces, III
Room 307, Deady Hall
Organizers:
Boris I. Botvinnik, University of Oregon botvinn@math.uoregon.edu
Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@diamond.boisestate.edu
Dev Sinha, University of Oregon dps@math.uoregon.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nielsen-Reidemeister theory and representation varieties.
  Alexander Fel'shtyn*, Boise State University
  (1012-55-176)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Understanding the bracket skein quantization.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  Nikolaos Apostolakis, CUNY
  (1012-57-218)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tautological classes on the Torelli group.
  Kiyoshi Igusa*, Brandeis University
  (1012-57-207)

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