AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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2000 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
New York, NY, November 4-5, 2000
Meeting #959

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

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Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory

• Saturday November 4, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory, I
  Room 404, International Affairs Building
  Organizers:
  Gilbert Baumslag, City College (CUNY) gilbert@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Sean T. Cleary, City College (CUNY) cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Alexei Myasnikov, City College (CUNY)
  Vladimir Shplirain, City College (CUNY) shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diophantine geometry for free groups, dimension of algebraic varieties.
    Olga Kharlampovich*, McGill University, Canada
    (959-20-204)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finitely presented torsion-by-cyclic non-amenable group.
    A.Yu. Ol'shanskii*, Vanderbilt University
    M.V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University
    (959-20-217)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pro-algebraic hulls of discrete groups: examples and questions.
    Andy R Magid*, University of Oklahoma
    (959-20-80)
• Saturday November 4, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory, II
  Room 404, International Affairs Building
  Organizers:
  Gilbert Baumslag, City College (CUNY) gilbert@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Sean T. Cleary, City College (CUNY) cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Alexei Myasnikov, City College (CUNY)
  Vladimir Shplirain, City College (CUNY) shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Word reversing and torsion freeness.
    Patrick Dehornoy*, University of Caen, France
    (959-20-136)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On subgroup separability in hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
    Darren D Long*, UC Santa Barbara
    Alan W Reid, University of Texas
    (959-22-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Action of braid groups on determinantal ideals, compact spaces and a stratification of Teichm\"uller space.
    Stephen P Humphries*, Brigham Young University
    (959-20-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Finite and nilpotent quotients of braid groups and link groups.
    Theodore Stanford*, New Mexico State University
    (959-57-270)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    The surjectivity problem for one-generator, one-relator extensions of torsion-free groups.
    Marshall M. Cohen*, Cornell University
    Colin Rourke, Warwick University
    (959-20-160)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    The chameleon groups of Richard J. Thompson: categories with mutliplication.
    Matt Brin*, SUNY Binghamton
    (959-20-235)
• Sunday November 5, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory, III
  Room 404, International Affairs Building
  Organizers:
  Gilbert Baumslag, City College (CUNY) gilbert@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Sean T. Cleary, City College (CUNY) cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Alexei Myasnikov, City College (CUNY)
  Vladimir Shplirain, City College (CUNY) shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quotients of automorphism groups of free groups.
    Martin R Bridson, University of Oxford
    Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
    (959-20-233)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computation in groups using quantum automata.
    Eric M Freden*, Southern Utah University
    (959-20-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The residual finiteness of one-relator groups with torsion.
    Daniel T Wise*, Brandeis University
    (959-20-196)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tame almost primitive elements.
    Gerhard Rosenberger*, University of Dortmund, Germany
    (959-20-174)
• Sunday November 5, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Group Theory, IV
  Room 404, International Affairs Building
  Organizers:
  Gilbert Baumslag, City College (CUNY) gilbert@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Sean T. Cleary, City College (CUNY) cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  Alexei Myasnikov, City College (CUNY)
  Vladimir Shplirain, City College (CUNY) shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Test elements in hyperbolic groups.
    Edward C. Turner*, SUNY Albany
    (959-20-135)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Proper actions of lattices on contractible manifolds.
    Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
    Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University, Newark
    (959-20-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Free nilpotent groups are nondiscriminating.
    Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
    Anthony Gaglione, United States Naval Academy
    Alexei Myasnikov, City College
    Dennis Spellman, Temple University
    (959-20-223)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multiplication tables of groups.
    Robert H Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (959-00-216)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On fixed subgroups of a free group.
    Enric Ventura*, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
    Armando Martino, City University of London, UK
    (959-20-244)

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