AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:40

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Spring Central Section Meeting
Athens, OH, March 26-27, 2004
Meeting #995

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Special Session on Probabilistic and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory

• Friday March 26, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory, I
  Room 222, Morton Hall
  Organizers:
  Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University grigorch@math.tamu.edu
  Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University sunik@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The frequency space of a free group.
    Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (995-20-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Boundary behaviour of the Thompson group.
    Vadim A, Kaimanovich*, CNRS
    (995-20-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of isometries and incidence geometry at infinity.
    Anders Karlsson*, KTH Stockholm
    (995-20-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ergodic properties of boundary actions.
    Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda*, University of Geneva / KTH Stockholm
    (995-20-47)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Voiculescu's amalgamated R-transform and applications to symmetric random walks on groups.
    Kenneth J Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    (995-20-238)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Analysis and Embeddings in Hilbert Space.
    Erik Guentner*, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University
    (995-46-204)
• Friday March 26, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory, II
  Room 222, Morton Hall
  Organizers:
  Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University grigorch@math.tamu.edu
  Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University sunik@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Polynomial maps over finite fields and residual finiteness of mapping tori of free group endomorphisms.
    Mark V. Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
    Alexander Borisov, Pennstate University
    (995-20-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Free groups of automorphisms of rooted trees.
    Said Najati Sidki*, Universidade de Brasilia
    (995-20-98)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Isomorphism problem for fully residually free groups.
    Inna Bumagin, McGill University
    Olga Kharlampovich*, McGill University
    Alexei Myasnikov, McGill University
    (995-20-206)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Intersecting verbal subgroups of free groups.
    S. V. Ivanov*, University of Illinois
    (995-20-189)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hypertrees and the $\ell^2$ Betti numbers of the pure symmetric automorphism group.
    Jon McCammond*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    John Meier, Lafayette College
    (995-20-91)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    CAT(0) versus geometric dimension for torsion free hyperbolic groups.
    Noel P Brady*, University of Oklahoma
    John Crisp, Universite de Bourgogne
    (995-20-224)
• Saturday March 27, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory, III
  Room 222, Morton Hall
  Organizers:
  Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University grigorch@math.tamu.edu
  Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University sunik@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Uniform non-amenability and Kazhdan constants.
    Goulnara N. Arzhantseva*, University of Geneva
    J Burillo, Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya
    M Lustig, Universit\'e d'Aix-Marseille III
    L Reeves, Universit\'e d'Aix-Marseille III
    H Short, University de Provence
    E. Ventura, Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya
    (995-20-231)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Aspects of growth of groups.
    John S Wilson*, Oxford University
    (995-20-87)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Groups with isoperimetric function $n^2 \log n$.
    Alexander Y Olshanskii*, Vanderbilt University
    Mark V Sapir, Vanderbilt University
    (995-20-149)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Is there a bound on the gap between the time complexity of the word problem and the Dehn function for finitely presented groups?
    Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois
    Paul Schupp*, University of Illinois
    (995-20-227)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Random van Kampen diagrams and algorithmic problems in groups.
    Alexei Myasnikov*, McGill , Montreal
    Alexander Ushakov, Graduate Center of CUNY
    (995-20-233)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A context-free language of geodesic normal forms for Baumslag-Solitar groups.
    Murray J Elder*, University of St Andrews
    (995-20-14)
• Saturday March 27, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory, IV
  Room 222, Morton Hall
  Organizers:
  Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University grigorch@math.tamu.edu
  Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
  Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University sunik@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Presentations of Word Hyperbolic Groups.
    Robert Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (995-20-145)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tree-graded spaces and asymptotic cones of groups.
    Cornelia Drutu*, University Lille 1, France
    Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University
    (995-20-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebraic, geometric, and algorithmic properties of relatively hyperbolic groups.
    Denis V. Osin*, Vanderbilt University
    (995-20-141)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion

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