AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 16, 2005 01:09:10

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

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
- 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)

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
- 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)

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
- 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)

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
- 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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