Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:13

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Wednesday January 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Categories, I
  Virginia Suite B, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Thomas M. Fiore, University of Chicago
  Mark W. Johnson, Penn State Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  James M. Turner, Calvin College
  W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
  Donald Yau, Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stable splitting of Generalized Moment-Angle Complexes.
    A. Bahri, Rider University
    M. Bendersky*, Hunter College
    F. Cohen, University of Rochester
    S. Gitler, Cinvestav
    (1046-55-655)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Connective K-theory of certain symmetric groups.
    Son P Nguyen*, Wayne State University
    (1046-55-158)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The $RO(G)$-graded Serre Spectral Sequence.
    William C Kronholm*, Swarthmore College
    (1046-55-563)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some properties of the $v_1$-periodic spectra associated to exceptional Lie groups.
    Xiaoxue H. Li*, Emory & Henry College
    (1046-55-135)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New developments in the topology of representation spaces.
    Daniel A Ramras*, Vanderbilt University
    (1046-55-807)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Differentials in homotopy fixed point spectral sequences.
    Michael A. Hill*, University of Virginia
    Michael J. Hopkins, Harvard University
    Douglas C. Ravenel, University of Rochester
    (1046-55-1595)
• Wednesday January 7, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Categories, II
  Virginia Suite C, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Thomas M. Fiore, University of Chicago
  Mark W. Johnson, Penn State Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  James M. Turner, Calvin College
  W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
  Donald Yau, Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Classifying Spaces for Topological 2-Groups.
    John C. Baez*, U. C. Riverside
    (1046-55-597)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Morita theory and Azumaya objects in bicategorical contexts.
    Niles Johnson*, University of Chicago
    (1046-18-1466)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Permutative and bipermutative categories revisited.
    J. Peter May*, The University of Chicago
    (1046-55-416)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Limits, derived functors, and homotopical category theory.
    Michael A. Shulman*, University of Chicago
    (1046-18-395)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Homotopical versions of Hall algebras.
    Julie Bergner*, University of California, Riverside
    (1046-55-355)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some $Ext$ groups in motivic cohomology theory.
    Armira Shkembi*, Wayne State University
    (1046-55-799)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some remarks on 2-completed motivic homotopy theory and the motivic $J$-homomorphism.
    Kyle M. Ormsby*, University of Michigan
    (1046-55-55)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generating spaces for $S(n)$-acyclics.
    Aaron C Leeman*, University of Oregon
    (1046-55-1893)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Completion of real Johnson-Wilson theory $E(n)$ yields fixed points of Morava $E$-theory.
    Maia Averett*, Mills College
    (1046-55-1513)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Extensions of motives and cell bundles.
    Jack Morava*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1046-55-2092)
• Thursday January 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Higher Categories, III
  Virginia Suite C, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Thomas M. Fiore, University of Chicago
  Mark W. Johnson, Penn State Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  James M. Turner, Calvin College
  W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
  Donald Yau, Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Homotopy Theory of n-fold Categories.
    Thomas M. Fiore*, University of Chicago
    Simona Paoli, University of Haifa
    Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie University
    (1046-55-156)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Defining the units of equivariant ring spectra.
    Rekha Santhanam*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1046-55-1248)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orientations and $p$-adic Analysis.
    Barry John Walker*, Northwestern University
    (1046-55-2105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Level structures, Igusa tower and topological modular forms.
    Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
    (1046-55-1845)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The homology of topological modular forms.
    Paul Thomas Pearson*, University of Rochester
    (1046-55-1436)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unstable module presentations for the cohomology of real projective spaces.
    David Pengelley*, New Mexico State University
    Frank Williams, New Mexico State University
    (1046-55-279)