AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:29

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

Saturday April 28, 2001, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, I
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology rgilman@stevens-tech.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean Cleary, City College, New York cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rewriting systems for groups and monoids, with applications to Gr\"obner bases.
  Susan M Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
  Jonathon P McCammond, Texas A & M University
  (966-20-76)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rigidity of Coxeter groups.
  Jon McCammond*, Texas A&M University
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  Bernhard Muehlherr, Universitat Dortmund
  Walter Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (966-20-90)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Braid Group Representations of Low Degree.
  Edward W Formanek*, Pennsylvania State University
  (966-20-44)

Saturday April 28, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, II
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology rgilman@stevens-tech.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean Cleary, City College, New York cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the number of sixth powers needed to define the Burnside group $B(2,6)$.
  Charles C Sims*, Rutgers University
  (966-20-96)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Membership Problem for Baumslag-Solitar Groups.
  Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (966-20-182)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Algorithms for finite linear groups.
  William M Kantor, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
  \'Akos Seress*, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
  (966-20-79)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Break
- 4:10 p.m.
  Representing subgroups of finitely presented groups by quotient subgroups.
  Alexander J Hulpke*, Ohio State University
  (966-20-29)
- 4:40 p.m.
  The Word Problem in Groups.
  Derek F Holt*, University of Warwick
  (966-20-87)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, III
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology rgilman@stevens-tech.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean Cleary, City College, New York cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric and algorithmic properties of free-by-cyclic groups.
  Martin R Bridson*, Oxford University
  (966-20-152)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Random methods in group theory.
  Charles Leedham-Green*, QMW, London
  (966-20-183)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A new approach to the Combination Theorem.
  Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (966-20-120)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Varietal Amalgams and a Freiheitssatz.
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
  Anthony Gaglione, US Naval Academy
  Alexei Myasnikov, City College of New York
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Dortmund
  Denis Spellman, Temple University
  (966-20-144)

Sunday April 29, 2001, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Group Theory, IV
Room 330, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology rgilman@stevens-tech.edu
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Sean Cleary, City College, New York cleary@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Generalised tetrahedron groups.
  Gerhard Rosenberger*, Univerity of Dortmund
  (966-20-192)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Positively Generated Subgroups of Free Groups and the Hanna Neumann Conjecture.
  Bilal Khan*, City University of New York, Graduate Center
  (966-20-77)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Evolutionary Algorithm in Coset Enumeration.
  Li-Tien Wang*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (966-20-56)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finitely generated malnormal subgroups of free groups.
  Toshiaki Jitsukawa*, CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY City College
  (966-20-148)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Growth and Gelfand-Kirillov superdimension for semigroups.
  Lev M. Shneerson*, Baruch College, The City University of New York
  (966-20-125)

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