AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 25, 2008 00:42:28

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

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
Room 1030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Gauge groups and related structures in rational homotopy theory.
  Samuel B. Smith*, Saint Joseph's University
  (1043-55-80)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rational homotopy of gauge groups.
  Yves Felix, Universite Catholique de Louvain
  John Oprea*, Cleveland State University
  (1043-55-57)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Computational motivic homotopy theory.
  Daniel Isaksen*, Wayne State University
  (1043-55-73)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Topological Modular Forms and Level Structures.
  Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
  (1043-55-181)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Rational Homotopy Type of Spaces of Self-Equivalences of a Fibration.
  Gregory Lupton*, Cleveland State University
  Yves F{é}lix, l'Universit{é} Catholique de Louvain
  Samuel B Smith, St. Joseph's University
  (1043-55-186)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Connective K-theory of certain symmetric groups.
  Son P Nguyen*, Wayne State University
  (1043-55-44)

Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
Room 1030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Algebraic $K$-theory of the dual numbers.
  Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago
  Teena M Gerhardt*, Indiana University
  Lars Hesselholt, Nagoya University
  (1043-19-148)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Tate spectrum of tmf at the prime 2.
  Scott M Bailey*, University of Rochester
  (1043-55-49)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generalized Cohomology and Generalized Witt Schemes.
  Justin Noel*, University of Chicago
  (1043-55-47)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Towards the unstable $v_2$--periodic homotopy of odd spheres.
  Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
  (1043-55-185)

Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
Room 1030, Fetzer Center
Organizers:
Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  On interpreting cohomological obstructions to topologically realizing $\Pi$-algebras.
  David Blanc, University of Haifa, Israel
  Mark W Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
  James M Turner*, Calvin College
  (1043-55-142)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An introduction to directed homotopy theory.
  Peter Bubenik*, Cleveland State University
  (1043-55-81)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Equivariant fixed point theory.
  Kate Ponto*, University of Notre Dame
  (1043-55-139)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Operads, co-rings, and homotopy morphisms.
  Jonathan Scott*, Cleveland State University
  (1043-55-146)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Homotopy theory of colored PROPs.
  Mark W. Johnson*, Penn State Altoona
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  (1043-55-117)

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