AMS :: 2012 Spring Western Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 10, 2012 00:27:19

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Saturday March 3, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Transformation Groups in Topology, I
Room 113, Webster Hall
Organizers:
Karl Heinz Dovermann, University of Hawaii at Manoa heiner@math.hawaii.edu
Daniel Ramras, New Mexico State University ramras@nmsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some simple triangulations.
  Ryan D Budney*, University of Victoria
  Benjamin Burton, University of Queensland
  Jonathan Hillman, University of Sydney
  (1078-57-207)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Iterated circle bundles.
  Mikiya Masuda*, Department of Mathematics, Osaka City University
  (1078-57-218)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On isovariant rigidity of $\mathrm{CAT}(0)$ manifolds.
  Qayum Khan*, University of Notre Dame
  James F. Davis, Indiana University
  Francis X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  (1078-57-208)

Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Transformation Groups in Topology, II
Room 113, Webster Hall
Organizers:
Karl Heinz Dovermann, University of Hawaii at Manoa heiner@math.hawaii.edu
Daniel Ramras, New Mexico State University ramras@nmsu.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Torus actions on complex manifolds.
  Hiroaki Ishida*, Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
  (1078-51-258)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Equivariant K-theory for actions with maximal rank isotropy.
  Alejandro Adem*, University of British Columbia
  Jose Gomez, Johns Hopkins University
  (1078-55-299)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Equivariant vector bundles over 2-sphere.
  Min Kyu Kim*, Gyeongin National University of Education
  (1078-22-23)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Cohomology rings of symmetric groups.
  Chad Giusti, Willamette University
  Paolo Salvatore, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata
  Dev Sinha*, University of Oregon
  (1078-55-365)
- 5:45 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday March 4, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Transformation Groups in Topology, III
Room 113, Webster Hall
Organizers:
Karl Heinz Dovermann, University of Hawaii at Manoa heiner@math.hawaii.edu
Daniel Ramras, New Mexico State University ramras@nmsu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cyclic cobordism of surfaces and the relative class number.
  Robert D Little*, Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (1078-55-205)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Classification of quasitoric manifolds with the second Betti numbers equal to 2 and cohomological rigidity problem.
  Dong Youp Suh*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  Suyoung Choi, Ajou University
  Seonjeong Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  (1078-55-274)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday March 4, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Transformation Groups in Topology, IV
Room 113, Webster Hall
Organizers:
Karl Heinz Dovermann, University of Hawaii at Manoa heiner@math.hawaii.edu
Daniel Ramras, New Mexico State University ramras@nmsu.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Gromov-Witten invariants of symmetric products.
  Yong Seung Cho*, Ewha Womans University
  (1078-57-39)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Equivariant Poincar/'{e} - Alexander - Lefschetz duality, results of Duflot and the homology of the Atiyah - Bredon complex.
  Christopher Allday*, Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii
  Matthias Franz, University of Western Ontario
  Volker Puppe, University of Konstanz
  (1078-57-316)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Discussion