AMS :: 2011 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, September 17, 2011 00:24:58

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday September 10, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, I
Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
- 9:00 a.m.
  Essential manifolds and macroscopic dimension.
  Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
  (1072-57-55)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Secondary transfer and higher torsion.
  Bernard Badzioch*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
  Wojciech Dorabiala, Penn State Altoona
  (1072-55-196)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Detecting non-trivial elements of $\pi_i (Diff(M \times S^m))$.
  Wojciech Dorabiala*, Penn State Altoona
  Bernard Badzioch, University at Buffalo
  (1072-57-197)

Saturday September 10, 2011, 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, II
Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
- 4:00 p.m.
  On classifying free $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ actions on $S^n\times S^m$.
  Courtney Morris Thatcher*, Bard College at Simon's Rock
  (1072-55-229)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Semicoverings: A generalization of covering space theory.
  Jeremy T Brazas*, University of New Hampshire
  (1072-55-194)
- 5:00 p.m.
  ${\mathbb Z}G$-modules over $CAT(0)$ spaces.
  Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  (1072-57-115)

Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, III
Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
- 8:30 a.m.
  $P$-adic and Universal Hyperbolic Solenoids.
  James Belk, Bard College
  Bradley Forrest*, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
  (1072-55-226)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Characteristic classes for singular spaces.
  Steven C Ferry*, Rutgers University
  (1072-57-263)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebras Counting Minimal Intersection and Self-Intersection Numbers of Loops on a Surface.
  Patricia Cahn*, Dartmouth College
  Vladimir Chernov, Dartmouth College
  (1072-57-188)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Higher-order intersections in low-dimensional topology.
  Rob Schneiderman*, Lehman College CUNY
  Jim Conant, UT Knoxville
  Peter Teichner, UC Berkeley and Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics Bonn Germany
  (1072-57-63)

Sunday September 11, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Algebraic Topology, IV
Room 110, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Boris Goldfarb, University at Albany, SUNY goldfarb@albany.edu
Marco Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
- 3:00 p.m.
  The strong Atiyah Conjecture for RA Artin and Coxeter groups.
  Peter Linnell, Virginia Tech
  Boris Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Thomas Schick, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
  (1072-57-106)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Models for Taylor Polynomials of Functors.
  Brenda Johnson*, Union College
  (1072-55-238)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Deconstructing Waldhausen's $S_\bullet$ construction.
  Mark W. Johnson*, Penn State Altoona
  (1072-18-176)