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:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Friday April 8, 1994, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Related Topics, I
Room 503, Rogers Hall
- 1:00 p.m.
  Test words for automorphisms of free groups.
  Edward C. Turner*, State University of New York, Albany
  (892-20-67)
- 1:30 p.m.
  Tesselations of S^2 and equations over groups.
  Andrew Clifford, State University of New York, Albany
  Richard Goldstein*, State University of New York, Albany
  (892-20-21)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Groups and languages.
  Robert H. Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (892-20-214)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Isoperimetric inequalities and subgroup structure.
  Martin R. Bridson*, Princeton University
  (892-20-131)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite presentability of GL_n(ZG).
  Geoffrey Kiralis, Cornell University, Ithaca
  Sava Krstic*, Tufts University
  James McCool, University of Toronto
  (892-20-168)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Length spectra of Hecke triangle groups.
  Mark Sheingorn*, Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
  Thomas A. Schmidt, Oregon State University
  (892-11-01)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Related Topics, II
Room 503, Rogers Hall
- 9:00 a.m.
  Maximal commutative transitive quotients.
  Frank Rimlinger*, Fairfield University
  (892-20-211)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The commutative transitive kernel.
  Dennis Spellman*, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  (892-20-11)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Collapsing of graphs of groups and length functions.
  Renfang Jiang*, Michigan Technological University
  (892-20-224)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The conjugacy problem for graph products.
  Jody Meyer Lockhart*, United States Naval Academy
  (892-20-138)

Saturday April 9, 1994, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Related Topics, III
Room 503, Rogers Hall
- 2:30 p.m.
  Adjoining roots to conjugacy separable groups.
  G. Kim, Kangnung National University, Korea
  J. McCarron, University of Waterloo
  C.Y. Tang*, University of Waterloo
  (892-20-48)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conjugacy separability of amalgamated free products of groups.
  Luis Ribes*, Carleton University
  Pavel A. Zalesskii, Academy of Science of the Byelo SSR, Belarus
  (892-20-153)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Some infinite permutation groups.
  Marvin Tretkoff*, Stevens Institute
  (892-20-249)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some properties of fully invariant ideals of free group rings.
  Samuel M. Vovsi*, Trenton State College
  (892-20-146)
- 4:30 p.m.
  p-deformations of Lie algebras and p-groups.
  Yuri Medvedev*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (892-20-225)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On narrow groups.
  E. Zelmanov*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (892-20-226)

Sunday April 10, 1994, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory and Related Topics, IV
Room 503, Rogers Hall
- 8:30 a.m.
  An independence problem in the commutator calculus.
  Anthony M. Gaglione, U. S. Naval Academy
  Hermann V. Waldinger*, Polytechnic University
  (892-20-50)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Euler characteristic for generalized triangle and tetrahedron groups.
  Michael Stille*, University of Dortmund, Germany
  (892-20-51)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Virtually one-relator groups.
  Katalin A. Bencsath*, Manhattan College
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
  (892-20-97)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial group theory of T-systems.
  Tim Hsu*, Princeton University
  (892-20-69)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On splittings of groups acting freely on R-trees.
  Luca Q. Zamboni*, University of North Texas
  (892-20-73)

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