AMS Special Session on "Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds"
Organized by Bruce Hughes and Guoliang Yu
Friday, October 15, 2004
6:30 PM	Vanderbilt Mathematics Department Colloquium, Peter Hilton
Saturday, October 16, 2004
7:30 - 4:00	Registration
8:20 - 8:50	Nigel Higson	Penn State	Deformations and the Baum-Connes assembly map for complex
			semisimple Lie groups
9:00 - 9:30	Alex Dranishnikov	Florida	The mod p Higson conjecture
9:40 - 10:10	Greg Bell	Penn State	A Hurewicz-type theorem for asymptotic dimension
10:20 - 10:50	Frank Quinn	Virginia Tech	Topology of 4-manifolds
11:00 - 11:10	Welcoming Remarks
11:10 - 12:00	Invited Address
1:30 - 2:20	Invited Address
2:30 - 3:00	Erik Pedersen	Binghamton	Smoothing loop spaces
3:10 - 3:40	Stanley Chang	Wellesley	Rigidity of arithmetic manifolds
3:50 - 4:20	Boris Goldfarb	Albany	K-theory of groups and associated group rings
4:30 - 5:00	Nick Wright	Southampton	The coarse Baum-Connes conjecture and subspaces
5:10 - 5:40	Gennadi Kasparov	Vanderbilt	Uniform embeddings and the Novikov conjecture
Sunday, October 17, 2004
8:00 - 12:00	Registration
8:20 - 8:50	Erik Guentner	Hawaii	Analytic properties of groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes
9:00 - 9:30	David Rosenthal	St. John's	On the algebraic K- and L-theory of word hyberbolic groups
9:40 - 10:10	Lizhen Ji	Michigan	Large scale geometry of S-arthimetic groups and the
			integral Novikov conjectures
10:20 - 10:50	Bruce Williams	Notre Dame	Family version of surgery theory
11:00 - 11:50	Invited Address
1:30 - 2:20	Invited Address
2:30 - 3:00	Igor Nikoleav	Calgary	Topological invariants of 3-manifolds arising in the K-theory
			of AF C*-algebras
3:10 - 3:40	Shmuel Weinberger	Chicago	Group actions on aspherical manifolds
3:50 - 4:20	Chris Seaton	Rhodes	A complete obstruction to the existence of nonvanishing vector
			fields on almost-complex, closed orbifolds
4:30 - 5:00	Jim Davis	Indiana	The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg Conjecture for cocompact
			Fuchsian groups
5:10 - 5:40	Steve Hurder	Illinois at Chicago	TBA