AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 2, 2008 00:29:44

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday October 24, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology, I
Room 203, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mbehrens@math.mit.edu
Michael Hill, University of Virginia
- 2:30 p.m.
  Homotopy classification of maps into homogeneous spaces.
  Sergiy Koshkin*, Northwestern University
  (1044-57-32)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generlized orbifold Euler characteristics and cohomology.
  Christopher W Seaton*, Rhodes College
  Carla Farsi, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (1044-22-57)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On applications of the Berstein class.
  Yuli B Rudyak*, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, 358 Little Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
  (1044-55-187)

Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology, II
Room 203, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mbehrens@math.mit.edu
Michael Hill, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  From multicategories of permutative categories to multicategories of $S$-modules.
  Vigleik Angeltveit*, University of Chicago
  J Peter May, University of Chicago
  (1044-55-127)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Using Postnikov towers to form iterated homotopy fixed point spectra.
  Daniel G. Davis*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (1044-55-174)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stabilization of Homotopy Limits.
  Eric Lee Finster*, University of Virginia
  (1044-55-205)

Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology, III
Room 203, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mbehrens@math.mit.edu
Michael Hill, University of Virginia
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the Tate spectrum of $tmf$ at the prime 2.
  Scott M Bailey*, University of Rochester
  (1044-55-114)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Homology of topological modular forms.
  Paul Thomas Pearson*, University of Rochester
  (1044-55-182)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Topological modular forms and Igusa tower.
  Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
  (1044-55-250)

Sunday October 26, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology, IV
Room 203, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mbehrens@math.mit.edu
Michael Hill, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  Homological symbols and the Quillen conjecture.
  Marian F Anton*, University of Kentucky
  (1044-19-80)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The $\ell$-adic $K$-theory of a $p$-local field.
  Grace K. Lyo*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1044-19-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Periodicity in deformation K-theory.
  Daniel A Ramras*, Vanderbilt University
  (1044-19-136)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Algebraic $K$-theory of the dual numbers.
  Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago
  Teena Gerhardt*, Indiana University
  Lars Hesselholt, Nagoya University
  (1044-19-190)

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