AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 29, 2006 00:28:48

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

Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, I
Room G17, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Trivalent Directed Graphs and Conjugacy Classes of Thompson's Group $F$.
  Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
  James M. Belk, Texas A&M University
  (1017-20-170)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Wreath products in a group of homeomorphisms.
  Collin Bleak*, Binghamton University
  (1017-20-49)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Thompson's group $F(p+1)$ is not minimally almost convex.
  Claire W Wladis*, City University of New York
  (1017-20-104)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Ruinous Subsets of Richard Thompson's Group F.
  John Donnelly*, Mount Union College
  (1017-20-41)

Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, II
Room G17, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Fundamental groups in fixed point theory.
  Peter N Wong*, Bates College
  (1017-55-65)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conjugacy separability for virtual surface groups and Seifert fibred 3-manifolds.
  Armando Martino*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  (1017-20-45)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Twisted classes for some torsion free groups.
  Daciberg Lima Gon\c calves*, IME-Universidade de Sao Paulo
  Peter Wong, Bates College-Lewiston-Maine
  Felshtyn, Boise State University
  (1017-20-35)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Twisted Burnside-Frobenius theory for infinite groups.
  Alexander Fel'shtyn*, Boise State University and University of Szczecin
  Evgenij Troitsky, Moscow State University Moscow State University
  (1017-20-60)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The universal functorial equivariant Lefschetz invariant.
  Julia Weber*, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
  (1017-55-54)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Computation of Reidemeister classes by nilpotentization.
  P. Christopher Staecker*, Mesiah College
  (1017-20-180)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, III
Room G17, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Primitive elements in finitely generated free groups.
  Adam Piggott*, Tufts University
  (1017-20-121)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symmetric Automorphisms of right-angled Groups.
  Mauricio Gutierrez*, Tufts University
  Adam Piggott, Tufts University
  (1017-20-85)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Actions of Free Products of Two Cyclic Groups on $\mathbb{R}$-Trees.
  Ophir Feldman*, Wellesley College
  (1017-00-68)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The growth series for $H_n=\langle b,s,t\ \vert\ sbs^{-1}=b^n=tbt^{-1} \rangle $.
  Eric M Freden*, Southern Utah University
  Jennifer L Schofield, Southern Utah University
  (1017-20-87)

Sunday April 23, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, IV
Room G17, Murkland Hall
Organizers:
Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Quasi-isometries of arithmetic groups over function fields.
  Kevin Wortman*, Yale University
  (1017-20-172)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Isoperimetric inequalities and the large scale geometry of Hadamard spaces.
  Stefan Wenger*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (1017-53-128)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Non-compact Heegaard Splittings of Deleted Boundary 3-manifolds.
  Scott A. Taylor*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1017-57-28)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Pseudo-isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of the unknotted pairs $(S^{n+2},~S^n)$ and $(S^{2p+2},~S^p\times S^p)$.
  Nikolai A Krylov*, Siena College
  (1017-55-78)

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