
AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Sunday, October 16, 2005 01:09:10
Eastern Section Meeting
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, October 8-9, 2005
Meeting #1009
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
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Saturday October 8, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 205, Olin Hall
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Melanie I. Stein, Trinity College melanie.stein@trincoll.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Associativity and Thompson's Group.
Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
(1009-20-126) -
9:30 a.m.
A finitely-presented solvable group with a small quasi-isometry group.
Kevin Wortman*, Yale University
(1009-20-148) -
10:00 a.m.
Minimal almost convexity and tame combings.
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York
Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
(1009-20-84) -
10:30 a.m.
Reidemeister number as a quasi-isometry invariant for the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups.
Jennifer Taback*, Bowdoin College
Peter Wong, Bates College
(1009-20-62)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 8, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 205, Olin Hall
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Melanie I. Stein, Trinity College melanie.stein@trincoll.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Automorphisms of right-angled Artin groups of dimension 2.
Ruth Charney*, Brandeis University
John Crisp, University de Bourgogne, Dijon
Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
(1009-20-128) -
3:00 p.m.
Actions and decompositions of Coxeter groups.
Angela K. Barnhill*, The Ohio State University
(1009-20-99) -
3:30 p.m.
Conjugacy problem and orbit decidability.
Enric Ventura*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
(1009-20-49) -
4:00 p.m.
On the Dehn function of Stallings' group.
Tim Riley*, Cornell
Murray Elder, St Andrews
(1009-20-44) -
4:30 p.m.
On the local and global structure of the automorphism graph of a free group.
Bilal Khan*, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(1009-20-205)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 9, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 205, Olin Hall
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Melanie I. Stein, Trinity College melanie.stein@trincoll.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Solvability in Groups of Piecewise-linear Homeomorphisms of the Unit Interval.
Collin Bleak*, Binghamton University
(1009-20-51) -
9:00 a.m.
Invariance properties of definable sets and Razborov's example.
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University-Newark
(1009-20-102) -
9:30 a.m.
Thick metric spaces, relative hyperbolicity, and quasi-isometric rigidity.
Jason Alan Behrstock*, University of Utah
(1009-20-42) -
10:00 a.m.
Arithmetic and analytic properties of hyperbolic Kac-Moody lattices.
Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
(1009-20-193) -
10:30 a.m.
Groups with specified boundary.
Kim E. Ruane*, Tufts University
(1009-20-204)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday October 9, 2005, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 205, Olin Hall
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, The City College of New York cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Melanie I. Stein, Trinity College melanie.stein@trincoll.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Counter languages for the word problem.
Gretchen Ostheimer*, Hofstra University
(1009-20-222) -
3:00 p.m.
The density of monomorphisms of free groups.
Ted Turner*, University at Albany, SUNY
(1009-20-69) -
3:30 p.m.
An order-theoretic characterization of groups admitting actions on oriented order trees.
Matthew E Horak*, Trinity College
Melanie Stein, Trinity College
(1009-06-149) -
4:00 p.m.
Counting overlattices in automorphism groups of trees.
Seonhee Lim*, Yale University
(1009-20-150)
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2:30 p.m.