AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 3, 2010 00:25:08

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday March 27, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Geometric Aspects of Algebraic Topology, I
Room 217, White Hall
Organizers:
Serge Ochanine, University of Kentucky ochanine@ms.uky.edu
Marian F. Anton, Centre College
- 8:00 a.m.
  The cohomology rings of generalized moment-angle complexes.
  A. Bahri*, Rider University
  M. Bendersky, City University of New York
  F. R. Cohen, University of Rochester
  S. Gitler, CINVESTAV, Mexico
  (1057-55-136)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rigidity of connected sums of certain 4-manifolds.
  Qayum Khan*, University of Notre Dame
  (1057-57-289)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A solution to the Kervaire Invariant One Problem.
  Michael A Hill*, University of Virginia
  Michael J Hopkins, Harvard University
  Douglas C Ravenel, University of Rochester
  (1057-55-406)

Saturday March 27, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Geometric Aspects of Algebraic Topology, II
Room 217, White Hall
Organizers:
Serge Ochanine, University of Kentucky ochanine@ms.uky.edu
Marian F. Anton, Centre College
- 3:00 p.m.
  Geometry and Topology of Symmetric Products.
  Laurentiu Maxim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Joerg Schuermann, University of Muenster (Germany)
  (1057-55-198)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Progress report on the generating hypothesis.
  Sunil Kumar Chebolu*, Illinois State University
  (1057-55-63)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A polynomial functor approach to some equivariant $K$--theory algebras.
  Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
  (1057-55-184)

Sunday March 28, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Geometric Aspects of Algebraic Topology, III
Room 217, White Hall
Organizers:
Serge Ochanine, University of Kentucky ochanine@ms.uky.edu
Marian F. Anton, Centre College
- 8:00 a.m.
  Hilbert schemes of points of a surface and the black hole entropy of hyper Kahler manifolds.
  Vassily Gorbounov*, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
  (1057-55-455)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Upper bounds and generators for low dimensional group homology.
  Joshua Roberts*, University of Kentucky
  (1057-20-247)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Equivariant fixed point invariants.
  Kate Ponto*, Univerity of Notre Dame
  (1057-55-380)

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