AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Friday March 28, 2008, 3:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 119, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Tara E. Brendle, Louisiana State University
Pallavi Dani, University of Oklahoma pdani@math.ou.edu
- 3:30 p.m.
  Finiteness properties of rank one arithmetic groups over function fields.
  Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
  (1037-20-372)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discrete cocompact subgroups of $SL_2$ over a nonarchimedean local field.
  Anne Thomas*, Cornell University
  Lisa Carbone, Rutgers State University - New Brunswick
  Leigh Cobbs, Rutgers State University - New Brunswick
  Inna Korchagina, Warwick University
  (1037-20-151)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The minimality of the well-rounded retract.
  Alexandra Pettet*, Stanford University
  Juan Souto, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (1037-54-217)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Computing solutions to systems of equations over free and hyperbolic groups.
  Henry Wilton*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1037-20-261)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 120, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Tara E. Brendle, Louisiana State University
Pallavi Dani, University of Oklahoma pdani@math.ou.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Transversality and volume.
  Max Forester*, University of Oklahoma
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  (1037-57-269)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Super-exponential 2-dimensional Dehn functions.
  Josh Barnard*, Univ. of South Alabama
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  Pallavi Dani, University of Oklahoma
  (1037-20-368)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An Amenable Ascending Union of Nonamenable Semigroups.
  John Richard Donnelly*, University of Southern Indiana
  (1037-20-22)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Quasi-isometries Between Tubular Groups.
  Christopher H. Cashen*, University of Utah
  (1037-20-370)

Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 120, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Tara E. Brendle, Louisiana State University
Pallavi Dani, University of Oklahoma pdani@math.ou.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Geometric Intersection Number and analogues of the Curve Complex for free groups.
  Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Martin Lustig, Universite Paul Cezanne - Aix Marseille III
  (1037-20-63)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Growth of intersection numbers for free group automorphisms.
  Jason Behrstock, Columbia University
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Matt Clay*, University of Oklahoma
  (1037-20-354)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Virtual Amalgamation of Quasiconvex Subgroups in Relatively Hyperbolic Groups.
  Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza*, University of Oklahoma
  (1037-20-291)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Lattice commensurators in right-angled buildings.
  Angela Kubena Barnhill*, Northwestern University
  Anne Thomas, Cornell University
  (1037-20-307)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Navigating blindly.
  Lucas Sabalka*, University of California, Davis
  (1037-51-362)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Automorphism Group of a Right-angled Coxeter Group.
  Kim E Ruane*, Tufts University
  Adam Piggott, Tufts University
  Mauricio Gutierrez, Tufts University
  (1037-20-315)

Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 120, Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Tara E. Brendle, Louisiana State University
Pallavi Dani, University of Oklahoma pdani@math.ou.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Casson invariant and the word metric on the Torelli group.
  Nathan Broaddus*, University of Chicago
  Benson Farb, University of Chicago
  Andrew Putman, MIT
  (1037-20-292)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Whitehead Doubles of Knots with Certain Underlying Polyhedra.
  Jacqueline A Jensen*, Sam Houston State University
  (1037-55-183)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On transverse knots and branched covers.
  Keiko Kawamuro*, Rice University
  (1037-57-321)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Brownstein-Lee Conjecture.
  Craig Jensen*, University of New Orleans
  Jon McCammond, UC Santa Barbara
  John Meier, Lafayette College
  (1037-20-34)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Length and convexity in Thompson's group $F$.
  Matthew E Horak*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
  (1037-57-165)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Twisted Cohomology of Hyperelliptic Mapping Class Groups.
  Joseph Alfred Spivey*, Duke University
  (1037-57-172)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Higher-Order signature cocycles for subgroups of the Torelli Group.
  Tim Cochran, Rice University
  Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
  (1037-57-355)

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