AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday April 10, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric Lewis Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Higman type embeddings of groups.
  Mark V Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
  (942-20-241)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Uniform Membership Problem for the Modular Group is Solvable in Polynomial Time .
  Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois
  Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Corporation
  (942-20-229)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Orbits under the action of $Aut(F_n)$.
  Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
  Alexei G. Myasnikov, The City College of New York
  (942-20-22)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rational homology of automorphism groups of free groups .
  Karen L Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (942-20-216)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Intersection number operators and Chebyshev polynomials.
  Stephen P. Humphries*, Brigham Young University
  (942-57-191)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Homotopy Theory in low-dimensional spaces .
  Gregory R Conner*, Brigham Young University
  James W Cannon, Brigham Young University
  Jack W Lamoreaux, Brigham Young University
  (942-55-54)

Sunday April 11, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric Lewis Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Suppose a group G splits as a product and that Groups acting on products of CAT(0) spaces.
  Kim E Ruane*, Vanderbilt University
  (942-20-236)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Visual Decompositions of Coxeter Groups.
  Michael L Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
  Steven T Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
  (942-20-195)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Test elements in hyperbolic groups.
  Edward C. Turner*, University at Albany, Albany, NY
  (942-20-57)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the Davis hyperbolic 4-manifold.
  John G Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
  Steven T Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
  (942-57-79)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Locally free Kleinian groups.
  James W. Anderson*, University of Southampton and Rice University
  (942-57-48)

Sunday April 11, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric Lewis Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The splitting obstruction for finitely generated groups.
  Graham A. Niblo*, University of Southampton
  (942-20-47)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Grushko's theorem for surface-like complexes.
  John R Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
  (942-20-90)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Burau representation is not faithful for n=5.
  Stephen J Bigelow*, University of California at Berkeley
  (942-20-165)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Metrics for generalizations of Thompson's group $F$.
  Jos\'{e} Burillo, Tufts University
  Sean Cleary*, California State University, Fresno
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  (942-20-18)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Separating quasiconvex subgroups of graph groups.
  Tim Hsu*, Pomona College
  Daniel T. Wise, Cornell University
  (942-20-134)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Tameness and the geodesic cores of subgroups.
  Rita Gitik*, A&H consultants
  (942-20-144)

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