AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 8, 2009 00:36:25

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

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

Friday October 30, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, I
Room 107, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida
Yuli B. Rudyak, University of Florida rudyak@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Ptolemy spaces with many circles.
  Viktor Schroeder*, University of Zurich
  (1053-51-224)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic dimension of tree-graded spaces.
  N. Brodskiy*, University of Tennessee
  J. Higes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  (1053-54-198)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic dimension, Property A, and Lipschitz maps.
  Jerzy Dydak*, University of Tennessee
  Matija Cencelj, University of Ljubljana
  Ales Vavpetic, University of Ljubljana
  (1053-55-338)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Legendrian links, causality, and the Low conjecture.
  Vladimir Chernov*, Dartmouth College
  Stefan Nemirovski, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia and Mathematisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  (1053-53-19)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On rigid Hirzebruch genera.
  Oleg R Musin*, University of Texas at Brownsville
  (1053-55-334)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The odd Chern Character and localization formulae.
  F. Daniel Cibotaru*, Univ. of Notre Dame
  (1053-58-25)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, II
Room 108, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida
Yuli B. Rudyak, University of Florida rudyak@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Twisting cochains and morphisms up to strong homotopy.
  Jonathan A Scott*, Cleveland State University
  Kathryn Hess, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  (1053-55-316)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Fibrewise Rational H-Spaces.
  Gregory Lupton*, Cleveland State University
  Samuel Bruce Smith, St. Joseph's University
  (1053-55-114)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A criterion to determine Fano polygon spaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$.
  Vehbi E. Paksoy*, Nova Southeastern University
  (1053-14-191)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Variations on Arnold's Strangeness.
  Oleg Viro*, IMS, Stony Brook University, NY
  (1053-57-240)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Curvature-free inequalities on surfaces and the minimax principle on the one-cycle space.
  Stéphane Sabourau*, Universite de Tours
  (1053-53-254)

Saturday October 31, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Topology, III
Room 108, General Classroom South
Organizers:
Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida
Yuli B. Rudyak, University of Florida rudyak@math.ufl.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Links in the 3-sphere of circular category 2.
  J.C. Gomez-Larranaga*, CIMAT, México
  F.J. Gonzalez-Acuna, UNAM, México
  W. Heil, FSU
  (1053-57-64)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Gauge theory of Faddeev-Skyrme functionals.
  Sergiy Koshkin*, University of Houston-Downtown
  (1053-53-141)
- 4:00 p.m.
  What is Bar-Natan skein theory?
  Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
  (1053-57-258)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Seiberg-Witten equations, end-periodic Dirac operators, and a lift of Rohlin's invariant.
  Tomasz Mrowka, MIT
  Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University
  Nikolai Saveliev*, University of Miami
  (1053-57-117)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Casson-Lin type invariant for links.
  Eric J. Harper*, University of Miami
  N. Saveliev, University of Miami
  (1053-57-233)

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