AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

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

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2009 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
University Park, PA, October 24-25, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1052

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

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Special Session on Homotopy Theory

• 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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