AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 14, 2007 00:27:35

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

Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Set Theory of the Continuum, I
Room 214, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Open colorings and automorphisms of the Calkin algebra.
  Ilijas Farah*, York University
  (1031-03-35)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Steinhaus sets for finite configurations.
  Su Gao*, University of North Texas
  (1031-03-62)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The stationary set splitting game.
  Paul B Larson*, Miami University
  Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
  (1031-03-60)

Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Set Theory of the Continuum, II
Room 214, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Essentially enslaved countable Borel equivalence relations.
  Greg Hjorth*, University of Melbourne
  (1031-03-57)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Compactifications of the Natural Numbers and Polishable Subgroups of $S_\infty$.
  Todor Tsankov*, California Institute of Technology
  (1031-22-95)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Banach spaces without minimal subspaces.
  Valentin Ferenczi, Universit\'e Paris 6 and Universidade de Sa\~o Paulo
  Christian Rosendal*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1031-46-28)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Localized cohomology in orbit equivalence and Borel reducibility theory.
  Asger Dag Tornquist*, University of Toronto
  (1031-03-69)
- 5:20 p.m.
  Borel chromatic number of actions of $Z^n$.
  Steve C Jackson*, University Of North Texas
  (1031-03-85)

Sunday October 7, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Set Theory of the Continuum, III
Room 214, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Splitting reals and product forcing.
  Jindrich Zapletal*, University of Florida
  (1031-03-17)
- 9:40 a.m.
  A Locally Finite Maximal Cofinitary Group.
  Bart Kastermans*, University of Wisconsin
  (1031-03-68)
- 10:20 a.m.
  The Open Coloring Axiom in ccc forcing extensions.
  Justin Tatch Moore*, Cornell University
  (1031-03-43)

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