AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

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

Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Birth, death and the braid group.
  Matthew G Brin*, Binghamton University
  (979-20-137)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Finiteness properties of the braided Thompson group.
  M. Brin, Binghamton University
  J. Meier*, Lafayette College
  (979-20-67)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Controlled topology and group theory.
  Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  (979-57-167)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Progress on the $K(\pi,1)$-conjecture for Artin groups.
  Ruth M Charney*, Ohio State University
  (979-20-56)

Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Free decompositions of graphs of free groups.
  Guo-An Diao, Rutgers University-Newark
  Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University-Newark
  (979-20-62)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Minimal almost convexity.
  Murray Elder, Tufts University
  Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
  (979-20-53)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Embedding wreath-like products in finitely presented groups.
  Gilbert Baumslag*, City College of CUNY
  (979-20-114)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Approximating word problems of groups.
  Robert H Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (979-20-147)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Train track quasigeodesics in mapping class groups.
  Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
  (979-20-51)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Graph homology and Outer space.
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  Jim Conant, Cornell University
  (979-20-141)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The girth of groupsd and quasi-isometry.
  Azer Akhmedov*, Yale University
  (979-20-107)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Trivializations of group presentations and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.
  Andrew Casson*, Yale University
  (979-20-203)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The gallery length filling function for finite presentations of groups.
  Tim R Riley*, Yale University
  Steve M Gersten, University of Utah
  (979-20-154)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Approximating CAT(0) geodesics by Cayley graph geodesics.
  Kim E. Ruane*, Tufts University
  (979-20-168)

Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Sections of projections from a free product to one of its factors.
  Mauricio Gutierrez*, Tufts University
  (979-20-57)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Three Dimensional FC Artin Groups are CAT(0).
  Robert W Bell*, The Ohio State University
  (979-20-215)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Properties of relatively hyperbolic groups.
  Inna Bumagin*, McGill University
  (979-20-202)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Superrigidity for Quasi-isometric Embeddings.
  David M Fisher*, Lehman College
  Kevin Whyte, University of Illinois, Chicago
  (979-22-209)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Anton Kaul*, Tufts University
  (979-20-104)

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