AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:38

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday April 12, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groupoids and their Applications, I
Room 0106, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alan T. Paterson, University of Mississippi mmap@olemiss.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Brauer Group of a Locally Compact Groupoid
  Alexander Kumjian, University of Nevada
  Paul S. Muhly, University of Iowa
  Jean N. Renault,
  Dana P. Williams*, Dartmouth College
  (920-46-05)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Crossed products of graph $C^*$--algebras
  David A Pask*, The University of Newcastle, Australia
  Alex Kumjian, University of Nevada
  (920-46-19)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Entropy estimates for some $C^{*}$-endomorphisms
  Valentin Deaconu*, University of Nevada
  (920-46-91)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Duality for Groupoids, I
  Karla J Oty*, SE Okla State Univ
  Arlan B Ramsay, University of Colorado
  (920-22-82)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Duality for Groupoids, II
  Arlan B Ramsay*, Univ of Colorado
  Karla J Oty, SE Okla St University
  (920-22-83)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Automorphisms of Fredholm modules over transformation group C*-algebras
  Efton Park*, Texas Christian University
  (920-46-22)

Saturday April 12, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groupoids and their Applications, II
Room 0106, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alan T. Paterson, University of Mississippi mmap@olemiss.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Differential Geometry ``up to homotopy''
  Alan D. Weinstein*, University of California, Berkeley
  (920-53-84)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Pseudodifferential operators on groupoids
  Victor Nistor*, Pennsylvania State University
  Alan Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley
  Ping Xu, Pennsylvania State University
  (920-58-53)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Gerstenhaber algebras and Lie algebroids
  Ping Xu*, Penn State University, University Park
  (920-58-33)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lie algebroids, Lie bialgebroids, and homological fields
  Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University and Brigham Young University
  (920-58-86)
- 4:30 p.m.
  $C^{*}$-actions of groupoids and inverse semigroups
  John Quigg*, Arizona State University
  N\'andor Sieben, Arizona State University
  (920-46-80)

Sunday April 13, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groupoids and their Applications, III
Room 0106, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alan T. Paterson, University of Mississippi mmap@olemiss.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Connes' index theorem for smooth groupoids
  Jerome Kaminker*, IUPUI
  Alan Paterson, University of Mississippi
  (920-46-54)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Lefschetz Trace Formula for Equivariant Cohomology.
  Minhyong Kim*, University of Arizona
  (920-22-55)
- 9:00 a.m.
  $Z_k$-manifolds, groupoids and index theory
  Carla E Farsi*, Univ of Colorado, Boulder
  (920-46-109)
- 9:30 a.m.
  C*-algebras and Ordered Bratteli Diagrams
  James A Mingo*, Queen's Univ, Canada
  (920-46-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hecke Algebras and semigroup crossed product algebras
  Berndt A Brenken*, Univ of Calgary
  (920-22-103)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Fell Bundles over Equivalence Relations.
  Igor Fulman*, University of Iowa
  (920-47-52)

Sunday April 13, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groupoids and their Applications, IV
Room 0106, Mathematics Building
Organizers:
Alan T. Paterson, University of Mississippi mmap@olemiss.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Groupoid approach to quantum groups
  Albert J. L. Sheu*, University of Kansas
  (920-46-38)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Groupoids and Quivers in Operator Algebra
  Paul S. Muhly*, University of Iowa
  (920-46-67)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Locally compact transversals and dynamics on the unit space ofa groupoid.
  Jack Spielberg*, Arizona State University
  Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
  (920-46-35)

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