AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 31, 2009 01:40:04

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

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday October 24, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
Room 118, Thomas Building
Organizers:
James Gillespie, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Simona Paoli, University of Haifa
Donald Yau, Ohio State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Freeness Theorem for $RO(\mathbb{Z}/2)$-graded Cohomology.
  William C. Kronholm*, Swarthmore College
  (1052-55-304)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Elliptic Orientations.
  Barry John Walker*, Northwestern University
  (1052-55-207)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Twisted K-theory.
  Mehdi Khorami*, Wesleyan University
  (1052-55-114)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the relationship between $EO_n$ and $TAF$.
  Mark Behrens*, MIT
  Michael J Hopkins, Harvard University
  (1052-55-242)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the Tate spectrum of ${\rm tmf}$ at the prime 2.
  Scott M. Bailey*, University of Rochester
  (1052-55-160)

Saturday October 24, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
Room 118, Thomas Building
Organizers:
James Gillespie, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Simona Paoli, University of Haifa
Donald Yau, Ohio State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  An L-infinity algebra which is also an open closed homotopy algebra.
  Tom Lada*, North Carolina State University
  (1052-18-341)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Strong homotopy morphisms via twisting cochains.
  Jonathan Andrew Scott*, Cleveland State University
  Kathryn Hess, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  (1052-55-210)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Relative fixed point theory.
  Kate Ponto*, University of Notre Dame
  (1052-55-235)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Homotopy factorisation systems in model categories and factorisation systems in quasi-categories.
  Andre Joyal*, Université du Québec à Montréal
  (1052-55-230)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
Room 118, Thomas Building
Organizers:
James Gillespie, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Simona Paoli, University of Haifa
Donald Yau, Ohio State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Stable splittings of classifying spaces.
  Ragnarsson Kari*, DePaul University
  (1052-55-161)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The motivic fundamental group of the punctured projective line.
  Bertrand J Guillou*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1052-19-194)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the non-existence of elements of Kervaire invariant one.
  Michael Hill, University of Virginia
  Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
  Douglas Ravenel*, University of Rochester
  (1052-55-342)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Non-existence of Kervaire invariant one elements and a homotopy fixed point spectral sequence.
  Michael Hill*, University of Virginia
  Michael Hopkins, Harvard University
  Douglas Ravenel, University of Rochester
  (1052-55-343)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory, IV
Room 118, Thomas Building
Organizers:
James Gillespie, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
Simona Paoli, University of Haifa
Donald Yau, Ohio State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Derivatives of the identity functor and generalizations of Milnor's invariants.
  Brian A Munson*, Wellesley College
  (1052-57-169)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the continuous cohomology of Bloch-Kato profinite groups.
  Ido Efrat, Ben-Gurion univeristy of the Negev
  Sunil Kumar Chebolu*, Illinois State Univeristy
  Jan Minac, University of Western Ontario
  (1052-55-44)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Two-track categories.
  David Blanc, University of Haifa
  Simona Paoli*, Penn State Altoona
  (1052-55-254)
- 4:30 p.m.
  An introduction to a topological Langlands program.
  Andrew Salch*, Johns Hopkins University
  (1052-55-339)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The connective K-theory of finite groups.
  Kijti Rodtes*, The University Of Sheffield
  (1052-55-25)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Secondary Cohomology and k-invariants.
  Staic D Mihai*, Indiana University
  (1052-55-181)

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