AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 12, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 121, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Embeddings in generalized manifolds.
  John L Bryant*, Florida State University
  Washington Mio, Florida State University
  (940-57-319)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some algebraic applications of topological rigidity.
  Boris Goldfarb*, SUNY at Albany
  (940-57-358)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The geometric topology of homology manifolds.
  Heather M Johnston*, Rutgers University
  (940-57-136)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stable Z-compactifications of polyhedra.
  Steven C Ferry*, Rutgers U
  (940-57-172)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Controlled maps on homology manifolds.
  Washington Mio*, Florida State University
  John L Bryant, Florida State University
  (940-57-329)

Friday March 12, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 121, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Group actions on CAT(0) spaces.
  Geoghegan Ross*, State University of New York at Binghamton
  (940-57-75)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Non-Z-Compactifiable Polyhedron whose Product with the Hilbert Cube is Z-Compactifiable.
  Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (940-57-237)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dynamics of the action of a CAT(0) Group on the Boundary.
  Kim E Ruane*, Vanderbilt University
  (940-20-373)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Piecewise linear and topological embeddings of 2-spheres in 4-manifolds.
  Gerard A Venema*, National Science Foundation
  (940-57-321)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Blowup and Invariants of Fixed Points.
  Christopher W. Stark*, University of Florida and NSF
  (940-57-350)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Foliations with good geometry.
  Sergio R. Fenley*, Washington University and Princeton University
  (940-57-380)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 121, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Topological equivalence of discontinuous norms.
  Jan J. Dijkstra*, The University of Alabama
  Jan van Mill, Vrije Universiteit
  (940-57-308)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A noncontractible cell-like compactum whose suspension is contractible.
  Du\v{s}an Repov\v{s}*, University of Ljubljana
  (940-57-07)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Universal Metric Spaces and Extension Dimension.
  Alex Chigogidze*, University of Saskatchewan
  Vesko Valov, University of Swaziland
  (940-57-78)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Function spaces and shape theories.
  Jerzy Dydak*, University of Tennessee
  (940-55-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On homogical Borsuk-Sieklucki Theorem .
  Rolando Jimenez*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  Evgeny Shchepin, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  (940-54-239)

Saturday March 13, 1999, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 121, W. W. Little Hall
Organizers:
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
Alexander N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Covering spaces of aspherical manifolds.
  Hanspeter Fischer, Brigham Young University
  David G. Wright*, Brigham Young University
  (940-57-359)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Holey Coronas: A solution of the Grunbaum-Shephard conjecture on convex isohedral tilings.
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  (940-52-99)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the lower estimation of the dimension of intersections.
  Evgeny V Shchepin*, Steklov Math. Inst.
  (940-57-240)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Planar Sets are Aspherical.
  Andreas Zastrow*, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
  (940-55-314)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Boundaries of right angled Coxeter groups with manifold nerves.
  Hanspeter Fischer*, Brigham Young University
  (940-57-175)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Hyperbolic groups are hyperhopfian.
  Robert J Daverman*, University of Tennessee
  (940-57-68)

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