AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43
2002 Spring Western Section Meeting
Portland, OR, June 20-22, 2002
Meeting #978
Associate secretaries: Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu
AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory
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Thursday June 20, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory, I
Room 364, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
F. Rudolf Beyl, Portland State University beylf@pdx.edu
Paul Latiolais, Portland State University paul@mth.pdx.edu
William A. Bogley, Oregon State University bogley@math.orst.edu
Micheal N. Dyer, University of Oregon dyer@math.uoregon.edu
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2:30 p.m.
A Generalization of the Bias Invariant.
Katherine S Byler*, University of Oregon
(978-55-113) -
3:00 p.m.
Exotic homotopy types of algebraic 2-complexes.
F. Rudolf Beyl, Portland State University
Nancy Waller*, Portland State University
(978-57-97) -
3:30 p.m.
Embedded 2-polyhedra with Regular Neighborhoods which have Sphere Boundaries.
Marcia Lynne Burdon*, Portland State University
(978-57-120) -
4:00 p.m.
Some interesting new results concerning the fundamental groups of one-dimensional spaces.
Gregory R Conner*, BYU
Erin Summers, BYU
Kristin Spencer, BYU
(978-57-119) -
4:30 p.m.
Multiplicative Invariants of Special 2-Complexes.
John Rosson*, University of Minnesota, Morris Campus
(978-57-128)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory, II
Room 350, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
F. Rudolf Beyl, Portland State University beylf@pdx.edu
Paul Latiolais, Portland State University paul@mth.pdx.edu
William A. Bogley, Oregon State University bogley@math.orst.edu
Micheal N. Dyer, University of Oregon dyer@math.uoregon.edu
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9:00 a.m.
A Consistency Test for Asphericity.
Travis R Kelm*, University of Oregon
(978-55-114) -
9:30 a.m.
Finiteness properties and the topology of monoid presentations.
Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
John Meier, Lafayette College
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10:00 a.m.
Finitely presented subgroups of groups with higher finiteness properties.
W. A. Bogley, Oregon State University
Jens Harlander*, Oregon State University
(978-20-129) -
10:30 a.m.
Problem/Discussion.
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9:00 a.m.