Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Friday January 6, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Calculus of Functors and Its Applications, I
  Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Brian Munson, Wellesley College
  Ismar Volic, Wellesley College ivolic@wellesley.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Embedding Calculus and Topological Categories.
    Daniel Pryor*, University of Virginia
    (1077-55-2258)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric representative of a $(3d-8)-$dimensional cycle in knot spaces.
    Kristine Pelatt*, University of Oregon
    (1077-55-1185)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    New Developments in Approximation Towers of Functors.
    Rosona M Eldred*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1077-55-2600)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The $\mathrm{mod}\mbox{ }2$ homology of infinite loopspaces.
    Jason B. McCarty*, University of Virginia
    (1077-55-258)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott--Taubes integrals and knot spaces.
    Robin M. J. Koytcheff*, Brown University
    (1077-55-2329)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A classification of Taylor towers.
    Michael Ching*, Amherst College
    (1077-55-1625)
• Friday January 6, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Calculus of Functors and Its Applications, II
  Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Brian Munson, Wellesley College
  Ismar Volic, Wellesley College ivolic@wellesley.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Operads and modules in embedding calculus.
    Gregory Arone*, University of Virginia
    Victor Turchin, Kansas State University
    (1077-55-1662)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Splitting in the rational homology and homotopy of the spaces of higher dimensional long embeddings.
    Victor Turchin*, Kansas State University
    Gregory Arone, University of Virginia
    (1077-55-886)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rational homotopy theory and spaces of smooth embeddings.
    Pascal Lambrechts*, Université catholique de Louvain
    (1077-55-1654)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Models for Taylor towers of functors.
    Brenda Johnson*, Union College
    Kristine Bauer, University of Calgary
    Rosona Eldred, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1077-55-2097)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Morava E-theory of the Goodwillie tower.
    Mark J Behrens*, MIT
    (1077-55-1647)