AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 10, 2007 00:30:01

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, I
Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
- 8:00 a.m.
  Multiplihedra: polytopes, pasting, and parameterized enrichment.
  Stefan A. Forcey*, Tennessee State University
  (1033-55-10)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Homotopy fiber products of homotopy theories.
  Julie Bergner*, Kansas State University
  (1033-55-46)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Loop spaces and coherence for braided monoidal bicategories.
  Nick Gurski*, Yale University
  (1033-19-187)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Fixed point theory and trace for bicategories.
  Kate Ponto*, University of Notre Dame
  (1033-55-209)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Clifford Algebras and Conformal Nets.
  Christopher L. Douglas*, University of California, Berkeley
  Arthur Bartels, University of Muenster
  Andre Henriques, University of Utrecht
  (1033-55-136)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Representing objects in algebraic $K$-theory.
  A. D. Elmendorf*, Purdue University Calumet
  (1033-19-72)

Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, II
Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
- 2:30 p.m.
  Twisted Equivariant $K$-theory and the Baum-Connes isomorphism conjecture.
  Christopher Dwyer*, Binghamton University
  Marco Varisco, Binghamton University
  (1033-19-112)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computational work towards $K(ko)$.
  Michael A Hill*, University of Virginia
  (1033-55-127)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the $ku$-homolgy of ${\mathbb Z}_{p^e} \times {\mathbb Z}_{p^e}$.
  Leticia Zarate*, CINVESTAV - IPN
  (1033-55-13)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chain rules for Goodwillie calculus of functors.
  Michael C Ching*, Johns Hopkins University
  (1033-55-177)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Finite generation of Tate cohomology and Freyd's generating hypothesis.
  Jon F Carlson, University of Georgia
  Sunil K Chebolu*, University of Western Ontario
  J\'{a}n Min\'{a}\v{c}, University of Western Ontario
  (1033-55-106)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Recovering a simplicial algebra from its normalized chains.
  James M Turner*, Calvin College
  (1033-55-178)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, III
Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
- 8:00 a.m.
  A splitting of $Q_GS^0$ at a prime $p$.
  Christopher P French*, Grinnell College
  (1033-55-44)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Equivariant homotopy and algebraic $K$-theory.
  Teena Meredith Gerhardt*, Indiana University
  (1033-55-86)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Level structures and topological modular forms.
  Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
  (1033-55-193)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Homology of topological modular forms.
  Paul Thomas Pearson*, University of Rochester
  (1033-55-120)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The splitting of $b {\rm o} \wedge tmf$.
  Scott M Bailey*, Northwestern University
  (1033-55-90)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Categorical Sequences and the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category of Spaces with Free Fundamental Groups.
  Jeff Strom*, Western Michigan University
  (1033-55-121)

Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, IV
Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
Organizers:
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
- 2:30 p.m.
  Uniqueness of Morava K-theory.
  Vigleik Angeltveit*, University of Chicago
  (1033-55-220)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Categorical algebra of mapping spaces.
  Wojciech Dorabiala*, Penn State Altoona
  Bernard Badzioch, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
  (1033-55-116)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Smooth parametrized Reidemester torsion - a manifold approach.
  Bernard Badzioch*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
  Wojciech Dorabiala, Penn State University, Altoona
  John Klein, Wayne State University
  Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame
  (1033-55-115)

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