Speaker: Erik Pedersen.
Title: Controlled Algebra, Applications.
Affiliation: SUNY at Binghamton.
Date: Friday, September 21, 2001.
Place and Time: Room 101 - Love Building, 3:35-4:35 pm.
Refreshments: Room 204 - Love Building, 3:00 pm.

Abstract. Controlled algebra is a kind of algebra where you look at free based modules, with a reference map from the basis to a metric space. In the algebra, you then pay attention to "sizes". It turns out that this kind of algebra has a lot of applications in topology, such as relatively easy proofs of the annulus conjecture, cell-like approximation theorems, and various other things. The talk will explain these connections.