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

• 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)