Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, January 16, 2008 00:26:58

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008 (Sunday - Wednesday)
Meeting #1035

• Wednesday January 9, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, and Elliptic Operators, I
  Organizers:
  Constantin D. Dumitrascu, University of Arizona dumitras@math.arizona.edu
  John D. Trout, Dartmouth College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dirac Operator and K-theory for discrete groups.
    Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State University
    (1035-19-773)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Projective and Semiprojective C*-Algebras Related to K-Theory.
    Terry A Loring*, University of New Mexico
    (1035-46-1420)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wreath products and their invariants.
    C Farsi*, University of Colorado
    C Seaton, rhodes college
    (1035-19-459)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Contractions of semisimple groups and the Mackey analogy.
    Nigel Higson*, Penn State University
    (1035-22-1149)
• Wednesday January 9, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, and Elliptic Operators, II
  Organizers:
  Constantin D. Dumitrascu, University of Arizona dumitras@math.arizona.edu
  John D. Trout, Dartmouth College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    First steps towards a noncommutative theory of nonlinear elliptic equations.
    Jonathan M. Rosenberg*, University of Maryland
    (1035-46-1039)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Functional analytic properties of cubical complexes.
    Erik Guentner*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University
    Jacek Brodzki, University of Southampton
    Sarah Campbell, University of Southampton
    Graham Niblo, University of Southampton
    Nick Wright, University of Southampton
    (1035-57-1573)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lefschetz-type invariants for correspondences.
    Heath Emerson*, University of Victoria
    (1035-97-542)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic morphisms on separable metrisable algebras.
    Edwin J Beggs*, Swansea University
    (1035-19-1446)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $K$-theory for non-Hausdorff groupoids.
    Radu Popescu*, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    (1035-19-1247)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Traces and Determinants of Toeplitz Operators.
    Efton Park*, Texas Christian University
    (1035-47-1088)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic Tensor Norms.
    Oscar Antonio Campos*, Dartmouth College
    (1035-46-783)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic morphisms and extensions of $C^*$-algebras (after V.~Manuilov and K.~Thomsen).
    Constantin Dorin Dumitra\c{s}cu*, University of Arizona
    (1035-46-1869)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Open problems/Discussions.