AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 4, 2009 00:27:23

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Friday March 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Sergei V. Ivanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ivanov@math.uiuc.edu
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
Igor Mineyev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mineyev@math.uiuc.edu
Paul E. Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign schupp@math.uiuc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Classifying surface bundles.
  Daniel P. Groves*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1047-20-195)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Sofic groups and profinite topology on free groups.
  Lev Glebsky*, UASLP, Mexico. UIUC visiting.
  L.M. Rivera, University of Zacatecaz, Mexico
  (1047-20-369)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dehn functions of solvable groups.
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
  (1047-20-335)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Search problems in group theory.
  Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
  (1047-20-324)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Packing subgroups and relative hyperbolicity.
  G Christopher Hruska*, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
  Daniel T Wise, McGill University
  (1047-20-468)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Sergei V. Ivanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ivanov@math.uiuc.edu
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
Igor Mineyev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mineyev@math.uiuc.edu
Paul E. Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign schupp@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial models of Julia sets and Group Theory.
  Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University
  (1047-20-418)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Combination and separation.
  J F Manning*, SUNY at Buffalo
  E Martínez-Pedroza, McMaster University
  (1047-20-322)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Actions of Maximal Growth.
  Yuri A. Bahturin, Memorial University, Canada
  Alexander Y. Olshanskii*, Vanderbilt University
  (1047-20-196)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Ranks of subgroups of free groups.
  D. B. McReynolds*, University of Chicago
  Larsen Louder, University of Michigan
  (1047-20-461)

Saturday March 28, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Sergei V. Ivanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ivanov@math.uiuc.edu
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
Igor Mineyev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mineyev@math.uiuc.edu
Paul E. Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign schupp@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Characterizing the solvability of the conjugacy problem in free-by-free and [free abelian]-by-free groups.
  Enric Ventura*, Universitat Politecnica Catalunya
  (1047-20-435)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Growth in Baumslag-Solitar groups: Asymptotics.
  Eric M Freden*, Southern Utah University
  Jared Adams, Southern Utah University
  (1047-20-364)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Generalized expanders.
  Lucas Sabalka*, Binghamton University
  Jerry Kaminker, University of California, Davis
  (1047-54-420)

Sunday March 29, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 445, Altgeld Hall
Organizers:
Sergei V. Ivanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ivanov@math.uiuc.edu
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
Igor Mineyev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mineyev@math.uiuc.edu
Paul E. Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign schupp@math.uiuc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometry of groups, random walks, and polynomial maps over finite fields.
  Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
  (1047-20-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Krull dimension for limit groups.
  Larsen E Louder*, University of Michigan
  (1047-20-392)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Frobenius Problem and dead ends in integers.
  Zoran Sunic*, Texas A&M University
  (1047-20-429)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Tame combings for groups.
  Sean Cleary, The City College of New York
  Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
  Melanie Stein, Trinity College
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
  (1047-20-252)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Some quotients of Coxeter groups.
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz*, Ohio State University
  (1047-20-262)

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