AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:43

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, I
Room 103, Wilson
Organizers:
Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The contributions of Jean-Pierre Serre to the development of algebraic topology.
  Peter J. Hilton*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  (999-55-34)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dehn functions of finitely presented groups.
  Noel Brady*, University of Oklahoma
  Martin R Bridson, Imperial College London
  (999-20-260)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The CAT(0) Boundary of Truncated Hyperbolic Space.
  Kim E. Ruane*, Tufts University
  (999-20-255)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Presentations of automata groups and subgroups in direct products.
  Rostislav I Grigorchuk*, Texas A&M University
  (999-20-243)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Z-compactifications and Generalized Group Boundaries.
  Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (999-57-211)
- 10:30 a.m.
  When are geodesic languages for groups star-free?
  Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
  Derek F. Holt, University of Warwick
  Sarah Rees, University of Newcastle
  (999-20-172)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, II
Room 103, Wilson
Organizers:
Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Braiding Matching Complexes and Houghton Groups.
  Kai-Uwe Bux*, University of Virginia
  (999-20-177)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Kernels of homomorphisms from right angled Artin groups onto free groups.
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  Jon McCammond, University of California at Santa Barbara
  John Meier*, Lafayette College
  (999-20-167)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Limit groups are CAT(0).
  Emina Alibegovic, University of Michigan
  Mladen Bestvina*, University of Utah
  (999-57-132)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Translation equivalence in free groups.
  Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Gilbert Levitt, Universite de Caen
  Paul Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of the City University of New York
  (999-20-117)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Growth of Free Group Outer Automorphisms and their Inverses, and Parageometric Outer Automorphisms.
  Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University
  Michael Handel, Rutgers University
  (999-20-288)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Homology stability for outer automorphism groups of free groups.
  Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (999-20-95)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, III
Room 103, Wilson
Organizers:
Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 8:30 a.m.
  On Singer Conjecture for Coxeter groups.
  Boris Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (999-57-66)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Are the Thompson Groups the Most Complex Subgroups of the Piecewise Linear Homeomorphisms of the Unit Interval?
  Matthew G. Brin*, Binghamton University, NY
  (999-20-67)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Properly $3$-realizable groups.
  Francisco F. Lasheras*, University of Seville, Spain
  (999-55-12)
- 10:00 a.m.
  More on simplicial nonpositive curvature.
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz*, Ohio State University
  Jacek Swiatkowski, Ohio State University
  (999-20-287)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Regular neighbourhoods in group theory.
  Gadde Swarup*, University of Melbourne
  Peter Scott, University of Melbourne
  (999-20-289)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Aspects of Group Theory, IV
Room 103, Wilson
Organizers:
Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University mihalik@math.vanderbilt.edu
Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University msapir@math.vanderbilt.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Discrete Morse Theory and Graph Braid Groups.
  Daniel S Farley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Lucas Sabalka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (999-20-230)
- 3:00 p.m.
  The homology of Richard Thompson's group $F$.
  Kenneth S. Brown*, Cornell University
  (999-20-106)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quasiconvex subgroups of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Patrick Bahls*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (999-20-51)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Algebras derived from dimension theory.
  Jerzy None Dydak*, University of Tennessee
  (999-55-85)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Graph representatives and free group endomorphisms.
  Michael R Kelly*, Loyola University - New Orleans
  (999-55-286)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion.

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