Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, January 16, 2008 00:26:55

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

• Sunday January 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
  Organizers:
  Nitu Kitchloo, University of California San Diego nitu@math.ucsd.edu
  Ralph L. Cohen, Stanford University
  James P. Lin, University of California San Diego
  Justin Roberts, University of California San Diego justin@math.ucsd.edu
  Peter Teichner, University of California Berkeley
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    String topology as a topological conformal field theory.
    Mahmoud Zeinalian*, Long Island University
    (1035-55-1940)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    String topology of classifying spaces.
    Craig C. Westerland*, University of Wisconsin--Madison
    Kate Gruher, Stanford University
    (1035-55-689)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph homology: Koszul and Verdier duality.
    Andrey Lazarev, University of Leicester, UK
    Alexander A. Voronov*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (1035-55-1471)
• Sunday January 6, 2008, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
  Organizers:
  Nitu Kitchloo, University of California San Diego nitu@math.ucsd.edu
  Ralph L. Cohen, Stanford University
  James P. Lin, University of California San Diego
  Justin Roberts, University of California San Diego justin@math.ucsd.edu
  Peter Teichner, University of California Berkeley
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Congruences amongst modular forms and the divided beta family.
    Mark Behrens*, MIT
    (1035-55-1308)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Spaces of trees, spaces of graphs, and spaces of embeddings.
    Gregory Arone*, University of Virginia
    (1035-55-1466)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Chain rules for Goodwillie calculus and algebraic K-theory.
    Michael Ching*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1035-55-1285)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The Lie cooperad and Hopf invariants.
    Dev Prakash Sinha*, University of Oregon
    (1035-55-754)
• Monday January 7, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
  Organizers:
  Nitu Kitchloo, University of California San Diego nitu@math.ucsd.edu
  Ralph L. Cohen, Stanford University
  James P. Lin, University of California San Diego
  Justin Roberts, University of California San Diego justin@math.ucsd.edu
  Peter Teichner, University of California Berkeley
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    K-theory and supersymmetric QFTs.
    Henning Hohnhold*, University of California, San Diego
    (1035-55-1388)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stable homology of automorphism groups of free groups.
    Soren Galatius*, Stanford
    (1035-55-1786)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Higher loop group genera and the fibered WZW models of Distler and Sharpe.
    Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1035-55-1329)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Morita-Invertible Conformal Nets.
    Christopher L. Douglas*, University of California, Berkeley
    Arthur Bartels, University of Muenster
    Andre Henriques, University of Utrecht
    (1035-55-469)