AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:28

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

Saturday April 21, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Computational Group Theory, I
Room 225, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric L. Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The density of graphical sets and primitive elements in free groups.
  Enric Ventura*, City College of New York & Univ. Pol. Catalunya
  (965-20-217)
- 9:00 a.m.
  $Out(F_n)$ has no parabolic elements.
  Emina Alibegovic*, University of Utah
  (965-20-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Relative growth of groups of automorphisms.
  Alexei Myasnikov, The City College of New York
  Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
  (965-20-129)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rotation Distance and Thompson's Group F.
  Sean Cleary*, City College of New York
  (965-20-32)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bounded cohomology, amenable groups, and hyperbolic groups.
  Igor Mineyev*, University of South Alabama
  (965-20-94)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Computational Group Theory, II
Room 225, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric L. Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the profinite topology on Coxeter groups.
  Rita Gitik*, IHES
  (965-20-215)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the rigidity of hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
  John G. Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
  Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
  (965-20-50)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Classification of Maximal FA-Subgroups of Coxeter Groups.
  Michael L Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
  (965-20-105)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symmetries of Surfaces.
  Anthony Weaver*, City University of New York (Bronx Community College)
  (965-20-44)
- 10:00 a.m.
  CAT$(0)$ groups with well-defined boundaries.
  Christopher Hruska*, Cornell University
  (965-20-57)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Topology at infinity for CAT(0) complexes.
  John Meier*, Lafayette College
  (965-20-201)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric and Computational Group Theory, III
Room 225, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric L. Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Test sets and automorphism class representatives in finitely generated abelian groups.
  Edward C Turner*, University at Albany
  (965-20-34)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Stable Exponents.
  Gregory R Conner*, Brigham Young University
  Michel Coornaert, Institut de Recherche Math\'ematique Avanc\'ee, Universit\'e Louis Pasteur
  (965-20-84)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Uniform Exponential Growth and GL_2.
  Roger C Alperin*, San Jose State University
  (965-20-126)

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