AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Friday, April 15, 2005 00:25:30

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

Friday April 8, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Groups, Homogeneous Spaces, Rigidity, I
Room 014, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Organizers:
Alex Gorodnik, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor gorodnik@umich.edu
Hee Oh, California Institute of Technology heeoh@its.caltech.edu
Nicolas Monod, University of Chicago monod@math.uchicago.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Metric classification of 3D Riemannian homogeneous spaces of positive Ricci curvature.
  Victor Patrangenaru*, Texas Tech University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  (1006-53-33)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cocycle Superrigidity through geometry.
  David Fisher, CUNY Lehman College
  Theron J Hitchman*, Rice University
  (1006-37-96)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Travelling Salesman Groups.
  Azer Akhmedov*, University of California Santa Barbara
  (1006-51-122)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Actions of Chevalley groups on hyperbolic spaces.
  Jason F Manning*, Caltech
  (1006-20-95)

Saturday April 9, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Groups, Homogeneous Spaces, Rigidity, II
Room 014, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Organizers:
Alex Gorodnik, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor gorodnik@umich.edu
Hee Oh, California Institute of Technology heeoh@its.caltech.edu
Nicolas Monod, University of Chicago monod@math.uchicago.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Measurable rigidity for group actions on infinite volume homogeneous spaces.
  Alex Furman*, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
  (1006-37-89)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Free subgroups of linear groups.
  T Gelander*, Yale
  E Breuillard, CNRS
  (1006-22-91)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Minimal volume entropy on trees.
  Seonhee Lim*, Yale university/ENS-Paris
  (1006-37-147)

Saturday April 9, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Groups, Homogeneous Spaces, Rigidity, III
Room 014, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Organizers:
Alex Gorodnik, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor gorodnik@umich.edu
Hee Oh, California Institute of Technology heeoh@its.caltech.edu
Nicolas Monod, University of Chicago monod@math.uchicago.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some arithmetic groups that cannot act on the line.
  Lucy Lifschitz, University of Oklahoma
  Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge
  (1006-20-41)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Constructing diffeomorphisms to negatively curved manifolds.
  Chris Connell*, Indiana University
  (1006-53-116)

Sunday April 10, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Groups, Homogeneous Spaces, Rigidity, IV
Room 014, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Organizers:
Alex Gorodnik, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor gorodnik@umich.edu
Hee Oh, California Institute of Technology heeoh@its.caltech.edu
Nicolas Monod, University of Chicago monod@math.uchicago.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic expenders and Ramanujan graphs.
  Rostislav Grigorchuk*, Texas A&M University
  (1006-20-100)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Divergent torus orbits in homogeneous spaces of rational rank two.
  Pralay Chatterjee*, Department of Maths, Rice University
  Dave Witte Morris, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge
  (1006-00-121)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Weakly hyperbolic actions of Kazhdan groups on tori.
  Benjamin I Schmidt*, University of Michigan
  (1006-37-83)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Multiple mixing of non-commuting automorphisms.
  Alexander Gorodnik*, California Institute of Technology
  (1006-37-118)

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