AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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1990 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Amherst, MA, October 20-21, 1990
Meeting #860

Associate secretaries:
W Wistar Comfort, AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu

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Special Session on Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions

• Saturday October 20, 1990, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions, I
  Room 64, Goessmann Laboratory
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mixing elements into Kleinian groups.
    James Anderson*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (860-30-100)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spectral geometry of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds.
    Robert Brooks*, University of Southern California
    (860-58-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hausdorff dimensions of limit sets.
    Kevin Corlette*, University of Chicago
    (860-53-122)
• Saturday October 20, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions, IIA
  Room 64, Goessmann Laboratory
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Parabolic elements and Margulis space-times.
    Todd A. Drumm*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (860-53-23)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    A Seifert geometry for SO(p,q+1).
    Kyung Bai Lee, University of Oklahoma
    Frank Raymond*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (860-57-146)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The biholomorphic automorphisms of Schottky space.
    Clifford J. Earle*, Cornell University
    (860-30-22)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Projective structures with Schottky holonomy.
    Daniel Gallo*, Saint John's University
    (860-30-77)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Two-generator discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R): The geometry of intersecting axes.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers University, Newark
    (860-30-83)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Upper bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of nonergodic sets of measured foliations.
    Howard Masur*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (860-32-84)
• Saturday October 20, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions, IIB
  Room 51, Goessmann Laboratory
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Kahler manifolds and 1/4-pinching.
    Luis Hern\'andez*, University of Chicago
    (860-53-108)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Schottky groups with automorphisms.
    Ruben A. Hidalgo*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (860-99-149)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On geometrically finite Kleinian groups.
    Irwin Kra*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (860-30-105)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On holomorphic motions.
    Zbigniew Slodkowski*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (860-32-134)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The hyperbolic characteristic submanifold theorem.
    Bernard Maskit*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
    (860-30-87)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Pellian reflections and continued fractions on the radical p surface.
    Mark Sheingorn*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
    (860-11-02)
• Sunday October 21, 1990, 7:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions, III
  Room 64, Goessmann Laboratory
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Pleatings and depleatings of Mobius manifolds, R-trees, and measured geodesic laminations.
    Ravi S. Kulkarni*, Queens College, City University of New York
    Ulrich Pinkall, University of Berlin, Germany
    (860-53-26)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dirichlet and Ford domains for Kleinian groups.
    Peter Waterman*, Northern Illinois University
    (860-30-25)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cross-sections of the space of Schottky groups of genus two.
    David J. Wright*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
    (860-30-136)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Concentration points for Fuchsian groups.
    Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
    (860-57-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 21, 1990, 1:45 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions, IV
  Room 64, Goessmann Laboratory
  

  • 1:45 p.m.
    Spherical CR manifolds with amenable holonomy.
    Robert R. Miner*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (860-57-05)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The role of quasiconformality in CR geometry.
    Adam Koranyi*, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
    (860-32-24)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Dirichlet polyhedra for cyclic groups in complex hyperbolic space.
    Mark B. Phillips*, University of Richmond
    (860-57-75)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Complex reflection groups acting on complex hyperbolic space.
    Kurt Sauter*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (860-57-86)

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