
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Saturday, October 11, 2008 00:27:40
2008 Fall Western Section Meeting
Vancouver, Canada, October 4-5, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1041
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry
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Saturday October 4, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, I
Room 301, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Raphael Ponge, University of Toronto ponge@math.utoronto.ca
Bahram Rangipour, University of New Brunswick bahram@unb.ca
Heath Emerson, University of Victoria hemerson@uvic.ca
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8:30 a.m.
The Peter-Weyl-Galois theory of compact principal bundles.
Piotr M. Hajac*, IMPAN
Paul F. Baum,
Ulrich Kraehmer, G. Britain
Rainer Matthes, Germany
Elmar Wagner, Mexico
Bartosz Zielinski, Poland
(1041-55-152) -
9:00 a.m.
Tessera expanders and Lipschitz cohomology.
Jerome Kaminker*, IUPUI
(1041-46-291) -
9:30 a.m.
Hopf algebroids and secondary characteristic classes.
Jerome Kaminker, IUPUI and UC Davis
Xiang Tang*, Washington University
(1041-58-97) -
10:00 a.m.
Noncommutative T-duality.
Calder Daenzer*, University of California at Berkeley
(1041-51-190) -
10:30 a.m.
Positive Cocycles over Noncommutative 2-Tori.
Yi-Jun Yao*, Penn State University
(1041-46-39)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, II
Room 301, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Raphael Ponge, University of Toronto ponge@math.utoronto.ca
Bahram Rangipour, University of New Brunswick bahram@unb.ca
Heath Emerson, University of Victoria hemerson@uvic.ca
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3:00 p.m.
The Connes-Kasparov isomorphism, Mackey's analogy, and parameters for representations.
Nigel Higson*, Penn State University
(1041-46-231) -
4:00 p.m.
Decomposing metric spaces and topological rigidity.
Erik Guentner*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Romain Tessera, Vanderbilt University
Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University
(1041-19-243) -
4:30 p.m.
K-theory for certain expanders (jointwork with G. Yu).
Hervé Oyono-Oyono*, PIMS-Victoria
Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University
(1041-19-176) -
5:00 p.m.
KK-theoretic Poincaré duality and fixed point theorem.
Hyun Kim*, University of Victoria, Canada
(1041-19-125)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday October 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, III
Room 301, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Raphael Ponge, University of Toronto ponge@math.utoronto.ca
Bahram Rangipour, University of New Brunswick bahram@unb.ca
Heath Emerson, University of Victoria hemerson@uvic.ca
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9:00 a.m.
The algebra of twisted formal pseudodifferential symbols.
Masoud Khalkhali*, University of Western Ontario, London ON, Canada
(1041-19-149) -
9:30 a.m.
Index theory on filtered manifolds.
Erik VanErp*, University of Pennsylvania
(1041-58-194) -
10:00 a.m.
Algebraic index theorem for deformation quantization.
Boris Tsygan*, Northwestern University
(1041-18-297)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday October 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry, IV
Room 301, Hugh Dempster Pavillion
Organizers:
Raphael Ponge, University of Toronto ponge@math.utoronto.ca
Bahram Rangipour, University of New Brunswick bahram@unb.ca
Heath Emerson, University of Victoria hemerson@uvic.ca
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3:00 p.m.
Dirac operators for coadjoint orbits of compact semisimple Lie groups.
Marc A. Rieffel*, University of California, Berkeley
(1041-46-61) -
3:30 p.m.
Equivariant $KK$-theory for groupoid actions and $C^*$-extensions.
Constantin Dorin Dumitraşcu*, Northern Arizona University
Radu Popescu, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
(1041-19-139) -
4:00 p.m.
Orbifold Sectors and Applications.
Carla Farsi*, University of Colorado
Christopher Seaton, Rhodes College
(1041-53-143) -
4:30 p.m.
Index Theory for SL(n,C).
Robert E Yuncken*, University of Victoria
(1041-19-112)
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3:00 p.m.