Special  session  on  Algebraic  Topology  and  K-Theory

at  the   V Joint Meeting AMS - SMM

Morelia, Mexico. May 23 - 26, 2001

Organizers:

Ernesto Lupercio
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin
lupercio@math.wisc.edu

Miguel A. Xicoténcatl
Depto. de Matemáticas, Cinvestav-IPN
xico@math.cinvestav.mx

 
 

Program:
 

May 24  (morning)

9:00 - 9:50
Kauffman bracket skein modules and character varieties.
Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University.

10:00 - 10:50
Exotic elements in the Picard group for n=2.
Mark Mahowald, Northwestern University

11:00 - 11:50
Orbifolds, stacks and gerbes.
Ernesto Lupercio, University of Wisconsin.
 

May 24  (evening)

18:00 - 18:50
On the Chern classes for singular varieties
Jose A. Seade, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM.

19:00 - 19:50
On the stable homotopy of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces.
Ralph Cohen, Stanford University.
 
 

May 25  (morning)

9:00 - 9:50
Approximate Homotopy Theory and H-spaces.
Guillermo A. Romero, Universidad de las Americas.

10:00 - 10:50
Cores of spaces and spectra
Peter May, University of Chicago.

11:00 - 11:50
Twisted wreath constructions, multiplicative transfers and characteristic classes.
Paulo Lima-Filho, Texas A & M University.
 

May 25  (evening)

18:00 - 18:50
Modified Stirling numbers and p-divisibility in the universal typical [p^k]-series
Jesús González, Cinvestav - IPN

19:00 - 19:50
The Adams spectral sequence and inverse limits of comodules over the Steenrod algebra
Hal Sadofsky, University of Oregon.
 
 

May 26  (morning)

9:00 - 9:20
The Chow ring of the classifying space BSO(2n,C).
Rebecca Field,  University of Wisconsin

9:30 - 9:50
Orbifold string theory conjecture
Mainak Poddar,  University of Wisconsin.

10:00 - 10:50
Homotopy Lie algebras
Stephen Teriault, University of Virginia.

11:00 - 11:50
Applications of the higher dimensional Cayley-Dickson algebras to the topology of complex projective spaces
Guillermo Moreno, Cinvestav-IPN.
 

 

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