AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 18, 2008 00:36:13

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Function Theory and Geometry, I
Room 421, Public Affairs Center
Organizers:
Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University pbonfert@wesleyan.edu
Katsuhiko Matsuzaki, Okayama University matsuzak@math.okayama-u.ac.jp
Edward C. Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quasiconformal Homogeneity of Planar Domains.
  Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University
  Richard Canary*, University of Michigan
  Gaven Martin, Massey University
  Edward Taylor, Wesleyan University
  Michael Wolf, Rice University
  (1042-30-201)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rigid 2--orbifolds in hyperbolic 3--orbifolds.
  Shawn Rafalski*, Fairfield University
  (1042-57-143)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On volumes of hyperbolic 4-orbifolds.
  Ilesanmi Adeboye*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  (1042-57-40)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Uniform uniform exponential growth of subgroups of the mapping class group.
  Johanna Mangahas*, University of Michigan
  (1042-20-49)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Filling at infinity.
  Moon Duchin*, University of Michigan
  Anne Thomas, Cornell University
  (1042-51-192)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Function Theory and Geometry, II
Room 421, Public Affairs Center
Organizers:
Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University pbonfert@wesleyan.edu
Katsuhiko Matsuzaki, Okayama University matsuzak@math.okayama-u.ac.jp
Edward C. Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Symmetric groups that are not the symmetric conjugates of Fuchsian groups.
  Katsuhiko Matsuzaki*, Okayama University
  (1042-30-214)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Isometries of hyperbolic space as commutators.
  Ara Basmajian*, CUNY, Graduate center and Hunter college
  Bernard Maskit, Stony Brook University
  (1042-30-144)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rigidity and stability for isometry groups in hyperbolic 4-space.
  Youngju Kim*, City University of New York
  (1042-51-141)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Complex projective structures with a Schottky holonomy.
  Shinpei Baba*, UC Davis
  (1042-51-135)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Hyperbolic manifolds with dimension gap.
  Kurt H. Falk*, National University of Ireland at Maynooth
  (1042-51-23)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Function Theory and Geometry, III
Room 421, Public Affairs Center
Organizers:
Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University pbonfert@wesleyan.edu
Katsuhiko Matsuzaki, Okayama University matsuzak@math.okayama-u.ac.jp
Edward C. Taylor, Wesleyan University ectaylor@wesleyan.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some extensions of holomorphic motions.
  Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College of the City University of New York
  Hiroshige Shiga, Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute Of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
  (1042-32-77)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric Integration Theory in Banach Spaces.
  Marie A. Snipes*, University of Michigan
  (1042-28-125)
- 9:30 a.m.
  An Effective Compactness Theorem for Coxeter Groups.
  Yvonne Lai*, University of Michigan
  (1042-51-154)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On injectivity of quasiregular mappings.
  Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University
  Leonid V Kovalev*, Syracuse University
  Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
  (1042-30-44)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Positive-Definiteness of the Weil-Petersson extension on Quasifuchsian Space.
  Martin J Bridgeman*, Boston College
  (1042-51-132)

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