AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 8, 2009 00:36:26

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2009 Fall Southeastern Meeting
Boca Raton, FL, October 30 - November 1, 2009 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1053

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

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Special Session on Lattices, Coxeter Groups, and Buildings

• Saturday October 31, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lattices, Coxeter Groups, and Buildings, I
  Room 107, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia bux_2002@kubux.net
  Jon McCammond, University of California Santa Barbara
  Kevin Wortman, University of Utah
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Obstruction to Riemannian smoothing of CAT(-1) manifolds.
    M. Davis, Ohio State University
    T. Januszkiewicz, Ohio State University
    J.-F. Lafont*, Ohio State University
    (1053-51-104)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Well-rounded deformation retracts of symmetric spaces and Teichmuller spaces.
    Lizhen Ji*, Univ of Michigan
    (1053-22-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformations of lattices in $PSL_2(K)$, $K$ a local field.
    Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University
    Ben Martin*, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
    (1053-22-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bertrand's postulate and subgroup growth.
    Khalid Bou-Rabee, University of Chicago
    David Ben McReynolds*, University of Chicago
    (1053-20-342)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Revisiting Chiswell's Formula for the Growth of Graph Products.
    John Meier*, Lafayette College
    (1053-20-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    JSJ and accessibility results for Coxeter groups.
    Michael L Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
    Steven Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (1053-20-183)
• Saturday October 31, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Lattices, Coxeter Groups, and Buildings, II
  Room 107, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia bux_2002@kubux.net
  Jon McCammond, University of California Santa Barbara
  Kevin Wortman, University of Utah
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Examples of buildings constructed via covering spaces.
    Michael W Davis*, The Ohio State University
    (1053-20-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Coxeter groups of CAT(0) dimension three.
    Cody L Patterson*, University of Texas - Austin
    (1053-57-140)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discrete complex reflection groups in PU(2,1).
    Julien Paupert*, University of Utah
    John R Parker, Durham University
    (1053-57-323)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    JSJ Decompositions of Coxeter Groups over FA Subgroups.
    John G Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
    Steven T Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (1053-20-84)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The automorphism group of RACGs with no SILs.
    Nathaniel Stambaugh*, Brandeis University
    Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
    Kim Ruane, Tufts University
    Anna Vijayan, Brandeis University
    (1053-20-149)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Finiteness properties of $\mathcal{G}(\mathbb{F}_q[t])$.
    Stefan Witzel*, TU Darmstadt, Germany
    (1053-52-113)
• Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lattices, Coxeter Groups, and Buildings, III
  Room 107, General Classroom South
  Organizers:
  Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia bux_2002@kubux.net
  Jon McCammond, University of California Santa Barbara
  Kevin Wortman, University of Utah
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bilipschitz equivalence is not equivalent to quasi-isometric equivalence for finitely generated groups.
    Tullia Dymarz*, Yale University
    (1053-20-176)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Chevalley groups and Weyl group representatives.
    Matthew C Zaremsky*, University of Virginia
    (1053-20-222)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Group actions on buildings associated to Chevalley groups.
    Peter Abramenko*, University of Virginia
    (1053-20-281)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unfolding lattices in right-angled buildings.
    Angela Kubena Barnhill*, University of Michigan
    Anne Thomas, University of Oxford
    (1053-20-346)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Haagerup property, property (T) and the Baum-Connes conjecture for lattices in locally compact Kac-Moody groups.
    Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
    (1053-20-151)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mapping Tori of Free Group Automorphisms and Line Patterns in Free Groups.
    Christopher H. Cashen*, University of Utah
    Natasha Macura, Trinity University
    (1053-20-327)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Measure theoretic invariants of commensurability for nonuniform lattices.
    Christopher Connell, Indiana University
    G. Christopher Hruska*, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
    (1053-20-322)

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