AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:12

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 18, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Metric Geometry, I
Room 208, Business and Economics
- 9:00 a.m.
  Compactifying covers of 3-manifolds.
  Mike Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
  (890-20-36)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Tame combings and rewriting systems for groups.
  Susan M. Hermiller*, University of Melbourne, Australia
  John Meier, Lafayette College
  (890-20-37)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Normalizers in semihyperbolic groups.
  Juan M. Alonso*, Stockholm University, Sweden
  (890-20-96)

Friday March 18, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Metric Geometry, II
Room 208, Business and Economics
- 2:30 p.m.
  Groups course quasi-isometric to H^2 x R.
  Eleanor G. Rieffel*, University of Southern California
  (890-22-81)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Automatic structures on extensions of F_2 by Z.
  Thomas Brady*, Brigham Young University
  (890-20-80)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Constructing (semi) hyperbolic groups via cubical complexes.
  John Meier*, Lafayette College
  (890-20-41)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pseudo-Ansov diffeomorphisms with prescribed cubic expansions.
  Richard W. Kenyon*, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
  (890-20-42)

Saturday March 19, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Metric Geometry, III
Room 208, Business and Economics
- 9:00 a.m.
  An ultra-pumping lemma with applications to negatively curved groups.
  Kim Ruane*, Florida State University
  (890-20-116)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Infinite dimensional boundaries of negatively curved spaces.
  Eric Lewis Swenson*, Michigan Tech University
  (890-20-171)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Metrics on infinite dimensional groups.
  Conrad Plaut*, University of Tennessee
  (890-28-89)

Saturday March 19, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Metric Geometry, IV
Room 208, Business and Economics
- 2:30 p.m.
  CAT(O) reflection manifolds.
  F. D. Ancel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  M. W. Davis, Ohio State University, Columbus
  C. R. Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  (890-53-132)
- 3:10 p.m.
  CAT(O) 4-manifolds with a tame point are Euclidean.
  Paul Thurston*, Cornell University, Ithaca
  (890-57-73)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Cut points in the boundary of negatively curved groups.
  Philip L. Bowers*, Florida State University
  (890-20-117)

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