AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 24, 2007 00:22:09

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

Friday March 16, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 201, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Jean-Francois LaFont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University ortizi@muohio.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Space of Negatively Curved Metrics.
  F. T. Farrell*, Binghamton University
  P. Ontaneda, Binghamton University
  (1025-53-173)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Examples of Non-Rigid CAT(0) Groups from the Category of Knot Groups.
  Christopher Paul Mooney*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1025-20-280)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic conditions for smooth rigidity.
  Chris Connell*, Indiana University
  (1025-53-238)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Maximal Toric Ball Packings of Symplectic Toric Manifolds.
  Ben Schmidt*, U. of Chicago
  Alvaro Pelayo, U. of Michigan
  (1025-51-239)

Friday March 16, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 201, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Jean-Francois LaFont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University ortizi@muohio.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A metric Kan-Thurston theorem.
  Ian J Leary*, The Ohio State University
  (1025-20-170)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The lower central series and pseudo-Anosov dilatations.
  Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
  Benson Farb, University of Chicago
  Dan Margalit, University of Utah
  (1025-51-206)
- 4:30 p.m.
  L^2-Betti numbers and simplicial and minimal volume.
  Roman Saurer*, University of Chicago
  (1025-20-284)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Fixed point properties.
  Angela Kubena Barnhill*, The Ohio State University
  Indira Chatterji, The Ohio State University
  (1025-20-259)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 201, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Jean-Francois LaFont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University ortizi@muohio.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rational homotopy groups of the moduli space of metrics of positive scalar curvature.
  Boris I Botvinnik*, University of Oregon
  (1025-57-210)
- 10:00 a.m.
  $\ell^2$-Betti numbers of hyperplane complements.
  Michael W. Davis*, Ohio State University
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, Ohio State University
  Ian James Leary, Ohio State University
  (1025-57-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Algebraic K-Theory of Group Rings and Topological Cyclic Homology.
  Wolfgang L\"uck, Westf\"alische Wilhelms-Universit\"at M\"unster, Germany
  Holger Reich, Westf\"alische Wilhelms-Universit\"at M\"unster, Germany
  John Rognes, University of Oslo, Norway
  Marco Varisco*, Binghamton University, SUNY
  (1025-19-262)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Hierarchies for finitely presented groups and 3-manifolds.
  Diane M. Vavrichek*, University of Michigan
  (1025-54-176)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 201, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
Jean-Francois LaFont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University ortizi@muohio.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Lattices acting on symmetric polygonal complexes.
  Anne Thomas*, University of Chicago
  (1025-20-138)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Toroidal Orbifolds and Cohomology of Semidirect Product Groups.
  Nansen Petrosyan*, Indiana University
  Alejandro Adem, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  Jianquan Ge, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  Jianzhong Pan, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
  (1025-55-134)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The relative mapping class group of the tangent disk bundle over the standard n-sphere.
  Nikolai A Krylov*, Siena College
  (1025-55-133)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Evil twins of n-dimensional checkerboards.
  Roger Vogeler*, Ohio State University
  (1025-57-279)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Ergodic Frame Flow and Rank Rigidity.
  David Constantine*, University of Michigan
  (1025-53-152)

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