AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 16, 2006 00:25:09

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 7, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, I
Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Punctured surface mapping class groups.
  Richard P. Kent, Brown U.
  Christopher J. Leininger*, U. of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
  Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U., New Brunswick
  (1019-51-107)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Infinite Presentations of the Torelli Group.
  Andrew Putman*, University of Chicago
  (1019-55-177)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dimension of Torelli groups.
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia
  Dan Margalit*, University of Utah
  (1019-20-131)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Random walks on the mapping class group.
  Joseph Maher*, Oklahoma State
  (1019-57-08)

Saturday October 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, II
Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Automorphisms of the genus 2 Heegaard splitting of $S^3$.
  Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1019-57-74)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Spaces with nonpositive immersions.
  Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
  (1019-20-176)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Quasi-isometric classification of graph manifolds.
  Jason A. Behrstock*, University of Utah
  Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (1019-20-109)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Ricci flow for nilmanifolds.
  Tracy L Payne*, Idaho State University
  (1019-22-184)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, III
Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Bounded geometry and combinatorics for hyperbolic handlebodies.
  Jeffrey Brock*, Brown University
  Yair Minsky, Yale University
  Hossein Namazi, Princeton University
  Juan Souto, University of Chicago
  (1019-51-188)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Krull Dimension of Limit groups.
  Larsen E Louder*, University of Utah
  (1019-20-124)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some residual properties of groups.
  Henry Wilton*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1019-51-76)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Poisson Structure on SL(3)-Character Varieties Relative to a Punctured Surface.
  Sean Dodd Lawton*, Kansas State University
  (1019-51-17)

Sunday October 8, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, IV
Room 215, LeRoy Cowles Building
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah bestvina@math.utah.edu
Kenneth W. Bromberg, University of Utah bromberg@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Length equivalent hyperbolic manifolds.
  Alan W Reid*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1019-57-149)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Commensurability of Link Complements.
  Jason DeBlois*, University of Texas-Austin
  (1019-57-167)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Examples of Deformation Spaces of G-trees.
  Matt T Clay*, University of Oklahoma
  (1019-20-183)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Symplectic actions of tori on four manifolds.
  Alvaro Pelayo*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  (1019-53-173)

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