Organizers:Special session on Algebraic Topology and K-Theory at the V Joint Meeting AMS - SMM
Morelia, Mexico. May 23 - 26, 2001
Ernesto Lupercio
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin
lupercio@math.wisc.eduMiguel 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 University11:00 - 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 - IPN19:00 - 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 Wisconsin9:30 - 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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