Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:09

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

• Wednesday January 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Generalized Cohomology Theories in Engineering Practice, I
  Provincetown, 4th Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  P. Robert Kotiuga, Boston University prk@bu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cohomology in electromagnetic modelling.
    Pawel Dlotko*, Institute of Computer Science, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
    Ruben Specogna, Unit of Electrical Engineering, Department DIEGM, University of Udine
    (1077-55-2353)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cohomology Ring: Algorithmic approach.
    Tomasz Kaczynski*, Université de Sherbrooke
    Marian Mrozek, Jagiellonian University Krakow
    (1077-55-1404)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hodge Theory and the Netflix Problem.
    Lek-Heng Lim*, University of Chicago
    (1077-91-2946)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cohomology reveals when helicity is a diffeomorphism invariant.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1077-53-2888)
• Wednesday January 4, 2012, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Generalized Cohomology Theories in Engineering Practice, II
  Provincetown, 4th Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  P. Robert Kotiuga, Boston University prk@bu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Computing integrals using equivariant cohomology.
    Loring W. Tu*, Tufts University
    (1077-55-2256)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Expanders and $K$-Theory for Discrete Groups.
    Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State University
    (1077-19-400)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Fractional topological states in electronic flattened bands with non-zero Chern number.
    Claudio Chamon*, Boston University
    (1077-82-2306)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Generalized Cohomology Theories in Engineering Practice.
    P. Robert Kotiuga*, Boston University
    (1077-18-2400)