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1995 Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Orlando, FL, March 17-18, 1995
Meeting #899

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

Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry

  • Friday March 17, 1995, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, I

    Room 126, Business Administration

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Functions with prescribed quasisymmetry quotients.
      Brad Osgood*, Stanford University
      (899-30-56)
    • 9:40 a.m.
      The discrete fixed-point index and uniqueness of circle packings.
      Kenneth Stephenson*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
      (899-30-33)
    • 10:20 a.m.
      Approximation of analytic functions with prescribed boundary conditions by circle packing maps.
      Tomasz Dubejko*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
      (899-30-81)
  • Friday March 17, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
    Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, II

    Room 126, Business Administration

    • 2:30 p.m.
      The symplectic geometry of polygons in Euclidean space.
      M. Kapovich*, University of Utah
      John J. Millson, University of Maryland, College Park
      (899-58-135)
    • 3:10 p.m.
      A simply-connected circle packing is hyperbolic if and only if its nerve is transient.
      Gareth McCaughan*, Cambridge University, England
      (899-20-229)
    • 3:50 p.m.
      Extremal symplectic lattices.
      J. R. Quine*, Florida State University
      Peter Zhang, Florida State University
      (899-20-224)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Circle packings and discretization of conformal mappings.
      Fr\'ed\'eric Math\'eus*, Institut Fourier, France
      (899-05-265)
    • 5:10 p.m.
      Circlepacking hyperbolic and Euclidean cylinders.
      Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University
      Ryan Siders*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
      (899-52-65)
  • Saturday March 18, 1995, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, III

    Room 126, Business Administration

    • 8:20 a.m.
      Transitivity in negatively curved groups.
      Eric M. Freden*, Utah State University
      (899-20-147)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      CAT(k) groups and their boundaries, k non positive number.
      Nadia Benakli*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
      (899-20-146)
    • 9:40 a.m.
      Cyclic splittings of finitely presented groups and the canonical JSJ decomposition.
      Eliyamu Rips, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
      Zlil Sela*, Columbia University
      (899-20-225)
    • 10:20 a.m.
      Complex structure on moduli space.
      Igor Rivin*, University of Melbourne, Australia
      (899-20-223)
  • Saturday March 18, 1995, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
    Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, IV

    Room 126, Business Administration

    • 2:30 p.m.
      On the convergence of circle packings to conformal maps.
      Zheng-Xu He, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
      Oded Schramm*, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
      (899-30-178)
    • 3:10 p.m.
      Finite subdivision rules and combinatorial moduli.
      James W. Cannon, Brigham Young University
      William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
      Walter R. Parry*, Eastern Michigan University
      (899-20-126)
    • 3:50 p.m.
      Finite subdivision rules, circle packings, and squared rectangles.
      James W. Cannon, Brigham Young University
      William J. Floyd*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
      Walter R. Parry, Eastern Michigan University
      (899-05-143)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Higher dimensional isoperimetric functions for groups.
      Juan M. Alonso*, Stockholm University, Sweden
      William A. Bogley, Oregon State University
      Robert M. Burton, Jr., Oregon State University
      Stephen J. Pride, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
      X. Wang, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
      (899-20-167)
    • 5:10 p.m.
      Groups acting on certain polygonal complexes of nonpositive curvature.
      Ilia Kapovitch*, City College, City University of New York
      (899-20-268)
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