AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 3, 2009 00:21:11

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

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

Saturday April 25, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 327, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Seonhee Lim, Cornell University slim@math.cornell.edu)
Anne Thomas, Cornell University athomas@math.cornell.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Twisting out fully irreducible automorphisms.
  Alexandra R Pettet*, University of Michigan
  Matt Clay, University of Oklahoma
  (1049-20-181)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Linear Bound for the Length of a Conjugating Element in the Mapping Class Group.
  Jing Tao*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1049-51-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Symplectic structures on right-angled Artin groups: between the mapping class group and the symplectic group.
  Matthew B Day*, California Institute of Technology
  (1049-20-91)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Surface Subgroups of Graph Products of Groups.
  Sang-hyun Kim*, the University of Texas at Austin
  (1049-20-107)

Saturday April 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 327, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Seonhee Lim, Cornell University slim@math.cornell.edu)
Anne Thomas, Cornell University athomas@math.cornell.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Rank 2 nondiscrete affine buildings.
  Arkady Berenstein, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
  Michael Kapovich*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
  (1049-51-98)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Commensurability and unfoldings of uniform lattices in right-angled buildings.
  Angela Kubena Barnhill*, Northwestern University
  Anne Thomas, Cornell University
  (1049-20-207)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The $\ell^2$-invariants of clean 2-complexes.
  Ethan Berkove, Lafayette College
  Sejal Dharia, San José State University
  Tim Hsu*, San José State University
  (1049-20-200)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Unusual Geodesics in Generalizations of Thompson's Group.
  Claire Wladis*, BMCC/CUNY
  (1049-20-11)

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 327, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Seonhee Lim, Cornell University slim@math.cornell.edu)
Anne Thomas, Cornell University athomas@math.cornell.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dehn functions of linear groups.
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
  (1049-20-201)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sequences of Unfaithful Representations into PSL(2,C).
  Ian Biringer*, University of Chicago
  Juan Souto, University of Michigan
  (1049-51-180)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 327, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Seonhee Lim, Cornell University slim@math.cornell.edu)
Anne Thomas, Cornell University athomas@math.cornell.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Braids, posets and orthoschemes.
  Jon McCammond*, UC Santa Barbara
  (1049-20-106)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Area distortion in groups.
  Hanna Bennett*, University of Chicago
  (1049-20-199)

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