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, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 110, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
John Donnelly, Mount Union College donneljr@muc.edu
Daniel Farley, Mathematisches Institut Einsteinstrasse and Miami University farleyds@muohio.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Controlled acyclicity invariants of group actions on CAT(0) spaces.
  Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  (1025-20-227)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Isomorphism Problem for tree braid groups.
  Lucas Sabalka*, University of California, Davis
  (1025-20-132)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Self-coverings, contraction, and groups of intermediate growth.
  Zoran \v{S}uni\'c*, Texas A&M University
  Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University
  (1025-20-100)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the homotopy classification of 2-complexes.
  Jens Harlander*, Western Kentucky University
  (1025-20-163)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 110, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
John Donnelly, Mount Union College donneljr@muc.edu
Daniel Farley, Mathematisches Institut Einsteinstrasse and Miami University farleyds@muohio.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Structure Theorems for Subgroups of Homeomorphisms Groups.
  Collin Bleak, Cornell University
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
  (1025-20-212)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Metric Properties of Braided Thompson's Groups.
  Jose Burillo, Universitat Polit�cnica de Catalunya
  Sean Cleary*, The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center
  (1025-20-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Using Tree-Pair Diagrams to Represent Elements of Thompson's Group $F(n+1,m+1)$.
  Claire W Wladis*, City University of New York
  (1025-20-187)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rotation numbers in the Higman-Thompson groups $T_n$.
  Collin Bleak*, Cornell University
  Daniel Farley, Miami University of Ohio
  (1025-20-219)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Computing word length in alternate presentations of Thompson's group F.
  Jennifer Taback*, Bowdoin College
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  Matt Horak, University of Wisconsin
  (1025-20-48)

Saturday March 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 110, Bachelor Hall
Organizers:
John Donnelly, Mount Union College donneljr@muc.edu
Daniel Farley, Mathematisches Institut Einsteinstrasse and Miami University farleyds@muohio.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Coxeter group isomorphisms.
  Angela Kubena Barnhill*, The Ohio State University
  (1025-20-235)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Anton Kaul*, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
  (1025-20-135)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Trees and mapping class groups.
  Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
  Richard P Kent, Brown University
  Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
  (1025-20-205)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of the pure braid group.
  Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
  Dan Margalit, University of Utah
  (1025-20-207)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Relative Hyperbolicity of Countable Groups.
  Chris Hruska*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  (1025-20-102)

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