AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:08:36

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Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

Saturday November 18, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:55 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, I
Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 8:00 a.m.
  Subgroups of proper free factors of free groups.
  John R. Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
  (853-20-30)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Automatic structure and graphs of groups.
  M. Shapiro*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley and Ohio State University, Columbus
  (853-20-15)

Saturday November 18, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, II
Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 10:00 a.m.
  Computation in virtually free groups.
  Robert H. Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (853-20-14)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Constructing negatively curved groups.
  Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University, Newark
  Mladen Bestvina, University of California, Los Angeles
  (853-57-33)

Saturday November 18, 1989, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, III
Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 3:00 p.m.
  Limits of free G-actions on R-trees and reducible automorphisms.
  M. M. Cohen*, Cornell University
  M. Lustig, Ruhr Universit\"at, Federal Republic of Germany
  (853-20-37)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Commuting elements in free actions on R-trees.
  Frank Rimlinger*, Columbia University
  (853-20-11)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Number of equivalence classes of vertices on R-trees.
  Renfang Jiang*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
  (853-20-52)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Semistability of finitely presented groups.
  Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (853-20-31)

Sunday November 19, 1989, 8:00 a.m.-8:55 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, IV
Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 8:00 a.m.
  lambda_1, diameter, and injectivity radius of manifolds and of graphs.
  Robert Brooks*, University of Southern California
  (853-58-05)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Non-positive curvature in piecewise Euclidean complexes.
  Martin R. Bridson*, Cornell University
  (853-20-51)

Sunday November 19, 1989, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, V
Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 10:00 a.m.
  Combings of groups.
  Juan M. Alonso*, Cornell University
  (853-20-44)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The domino problem, hyperbolic geometry and the logic of Fuchsian groups.
  Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (853-30-42)

Sunday November 19, 1989, 2:00 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Combinatorial Group Theory, VI
Room 5118, Mathematical Sciences Building
- 2:00 p.m.
  Negatively curved groups.
  Daryl Cooper*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (853-20-24)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Homology of certain Artin groups.
  Kay Tatsuoka*, Rutgers University, Newark
  (853-57-43)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Algebraic analysis of groups F-type.
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
  Gerhard Rosenberger, Universit\"at Dortmund, Federal Republic of Germany
  (853-20-27)

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