AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 22, 2008 00:20:42

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday March 15, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 208, Silver Center
Organizers:
Marco Varisco, Binghamton University, SUNY marco@math.binghamton.edu
David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Algebraic K-theory over the infinite dihedral group.
  James F. Davis, Indiana University
  Qayum Khan*, Vanderbilt University
  Andrew A. Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
  (1036-19-124)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some remarks on Nil groups in algebraic K-theory.
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  (1036-19-192)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Degree Complexes in Auter Space.
  Heather Armstrong, Minneapolis, MN
  Brad Forrest*, Cornell University
  Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
  (1036-20-165)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Centralizers in R.Thompson's groups.
  Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
  (1036-20-143)

Saturday March 15, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 208, Silver Center
Organizers:
Marco Varisco, Binghamton University, SUNY marco@math.binghamton.edu
David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Stable concordance of knots in 3-manifolds.
  Rob Schneiderman*, Lehman College, City University of New York
  (1036-57-133)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Aspherical 2-complexes and 4-manifolds.
  Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
  (1036-57-86)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Volume entropy rigidity for buildings.
  Fran\c cois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame
  Seonhee Lim*, Cornell University
  (1036-51-125)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Notes on an additive decomposition for twisted equivariant K-theory.
  Christopher Dwyer*, Binghamton University
  Nansen Petrosyan, K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk
  (1036-19-154)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mod-2 Equivalence of the Symbols of the de Rham and Signature Operators.
  James F. Davis, Indiana University
  Pisheng Ding*, St. John's University, New York
  (1036-58-109)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 208, Silver Center
Organizers:
Marco Varisco, Binghamton University, SUNY marco@math.binghamton.edu
David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Supersymmmetric Quantum Mechanics, Infinite-Dimensional Mathai-Quillen Formalism, and Gauss-Bonnet-Chern.
  Dana Fine, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  Stephen F Sawin*, Fairfield University
  (1036-58-20)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Burnside Ring, Equivariant Stable Cohomotopy and the Segal Conjecture for Infinite Groups.
  Wolfgang Lueck*, Mathematisches Institut der Westfaelischen Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
  (1036-57-113)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Obstructions to Realizing Diagrams of $\Pi$-algebras.
  David Blanc, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa
  Mark W. Johnson*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State Altoona
  James M. Turner, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Calvin College
  (1036-55-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cohomology of planar polygon spaces.
  Dirk Schuetz*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, UK
  (1036-58-183)

Sunday March 16, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 208, Silver Center
Organizers:
Marco Varisco, Binghamton University, SUNY marco@math.binghamton.edu
David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Secondary Transfer and Higher Reidemeister Torsion.
  Wojciech Dorabiala*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State Altoona
  Bernard Badzioch, Department of Mathematics, SUNY, Buffalo
  John Klein, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
  Bruce Williams, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
  (1036-55-144)
- 3:00 p.m.
  $L^2$ Betti-less manifolds.
  Sylvain Cappell*, Courant Institute, NYU
  (1036-57-152)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rotation numbers, a generalized Maslov index and representation varieties.
  Anna Wienhard*, Princeton University
  Marc Burger, ETH Zuerich
  Alessandra Iozzi, ETH Zuerich
  (1036-22-171)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Aspects of compact topological group actions.
  Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
  (1036-57-111)

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