AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:31

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

Saturday April 12, 2003, 8:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Dynamics, Geometry, and Group Theory, I
Room 408, Main Building
Organizers:
David Fisher, CUNY, Herbert H. Lehman College dfisher@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin M. Whyte, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 8:50 a.m.
  Differentiable rigidity of partially hyperbolic actions of higher-rank abelian groups.
  Anatole Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (986-37-231)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Rigidity for Expanding Actions on Compact Manifolds.
  Travis Fisher*, Penn State
  (986-37-175)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Smoothness of small conjugacies and rigidity of standard actions of rank one lattices.
  Theron J Hitchman*, University of Michigan
  (986-37-182)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Connectivity invariants of group actions.
  Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University
  (986-55-146)

Saturday April 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Dynamics, Geometry, and Group Theory, II
Room 408, Main Building
Organizers:
David Fisher, CUNY, Herbert H. Lehman College dfisher@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin M. Whyte, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 2:30 p.m.
  The second cohomology of G with RG coefficients, and the structure of G.
  Bruce A Kleiner*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (986-20-105)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Almost isometric actions, property T and local rigidity.
  David M Fisher*, Lehman College CUNY
  G A Margulis, Yale University
  (986-37-170)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Volumes of representations.
  Bruno Klingler*, Yale University
  (986-20-230)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Finiteness of compact maximal flats of volume less than a given number.
  Hee Oh*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (986-22-133)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Rigidity of surface group extensions.
  Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University --- Newark
  (986-20-197)
- 5:10 p.m.
  A simple description of the Riemannian symmetric spaces of rank one.
  Adam Koranyi*, H. H. Lehman College
  (986-53-11)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 8:50 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Dynamics, Geometry, and Group Theory, III
Room 408, Main Building
Organizers:
David Fisher, CUNY, Herbert H. Lehman College dfisher@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin M. Whyte, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 8:50 a.m.
  Flats in outer space.
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (986-20-220)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Quasi-isometric rigidity for some nonuniform $S$-arithmetic lattices.
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Chicago
  (986-20-210)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Centralizers of Partially Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms.
  Lizzie Burslem*, University of Michigan
  (986-37-226)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Area preserving group actions on surfaces.
  John Franks*, Northwestern University
  Michael Handel, Lehman College, CUNY
  (986-37-71)

Sunday April 13, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in Dynamics, Geometry, and Group Theory, IV
Room 408, Main Building
Organizers:
David Fisher, CUNY, Herbert H. Lehman College dfisher@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kevin M. Whyte, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 2:30 p.m.
  On spaces of higher spherical rank.
  Ralf J Spatzier*, University of Michigan
  (986-53-211)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Properness Conjecture for 3-Dimensional Affine Actions.
  W. Goldman*, University of Maryland
  F. Labourie, University of Paris, Sud
  G. Margulis, Yale University
  (986-37-130)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Strong isospectrality for groups of Lorentzian transformations.
  Todd A. Drumm*, Swarthmore College
  Virginie Charette, University of Manitoba
  William M. Goldman, University of Maryland
  (986-51-73)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Coding of geodesics on modular surfaces.
  Svetlana Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (986-20-222)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Cohomology of skew extensions of hyperbolic systems.
  Dmitry Dolgopyat*, University of Maryland
  (986-37-205)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Topological Models of Simple Siegel Polynomials.
  Gaofei Zhang*, The City University of New York
  (986-37-28)

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