American Mathematical Society
Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Binghamton, NY, October 11-12, 2003
Special Session in "Manifold Theory"
Organizers:
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University
erik@math.binghamton.edu
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University
ian@math.mcmaster.ca.
Room 9, Lecture Hall
Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
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8:30 a.m.
Propagation and actions on a product of spheres.
Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin
James F Davis*, Indiana University
Ozgun Unlu, University of Wisconsin
- 9:00 a.m.
Virtual manifolds.
Frank Quinn*, Virginia Tech
- 9:30 a.m.
Resolving Homology Manifolds.
J. Bryant*, Tallahassee, FL
S. Ferry, Rutgers University
W. Mio, Florida State University
S. Weinberger, University of Chicago
- 10:00 a.m.
On the stable homology
of $Aut(F_n)$.
Daniel K. Biss*, IAS & CMI
Saturday October 11, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
- 3:00 p.m.
Higher Reidemeister Torsion.
Edward Bruce Williams*, U. of Notre Dame
- 3:30 p.m.
Some non-diffeomorphic harmonic cellular maps.
F. T. Farrell*, Binghamton University
P. Ontaneda, Univ. Federal de Pernambuco
- 4:00 p.m.
On the classification of simply connected 7-manifolds.
Diarmuid J Crowley*, Penn State
- 4:30 p.m.
A rational criminal.
Kasper K. S. Andersen, Aarhus University
Tilman Bauer, SFB 478 Munster
Jesper Grodal*, University of Chicago
Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University
Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- 8:30 a.m.
Periodic Methods and Fixity.
Alejandro Adem*, University of Wisconsin
Jim Davis, Indiana University
Ozgun Unlu, University of Wisconsin
- 9:00 a.m.
Thickenings of Z/nZ manifolds and applications.
Laurence R Taylor*, University of Notre Dame
- 9:30 a.m.
Splitting With Continuous Control in Algebraic $K$-theory.
David Rosenthal*, McMaster University
- 10:00 a.m.
Controlled exact categories.
Manuel Cardenas*, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
- 10:30 a.m.
Obstructions to transversality for exotic homology manifolds.
Heather M Johnston*, Vassar College
Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
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2:30 p.m.
Lipschitz cohomology, coronas, and the Novikov conjecture.
Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
- 3:00 p.m.
Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces in $CP^2$.
Hui Ma*, University of Massachussetts, Amherst
Franz Pedit, University of Massachussetts, Amherst