AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, April 23, 2010 00:25:48

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 17, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Daniel Peter Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago daniel.p.groves@gmail.com
Jason Manning, SUNY at Buffalo jfox.manning@gmail.com
Henry Wilton, California Institute of Technology wilton@caltech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The difficulty of presenting groups.
  Henry Wilton*, California Institute of Technology
  Martin R Bridson, University of Oxford
  (1059-20-175)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Filling loops far from a basepoint.
  A. Abrams, Emory University
  N. Brady, Univeristy of Oklahoma
  P. Dani*, Lousiana State University
  M. Duchin, University of Michigan
  R. Young, IHES
  (1059-20-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Higher divergence in right-angled Artin groups.
  Aaron Abrams, Emory University
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  Pallavi Dani, Louisiana State University
  Moon Duchin*, University of Michigan
  Robert Young, IHES/NYU
  (1059-20-109)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the Dehn functions of Baumslag's metabelian groups.
  Timothy R Riley*, Cornell
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell
  (1059-20-51)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bilipschitz equivalence is not equivalent to quasi-isometric equivalence for finitely generated groups.
  Tullia Dymarz*, Yale University
  (1059-20-181)

Saturday April 17, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Daniel Peter Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago daniel.p.groves@gmail.com
Jason Manning, SUNY at Buffalo jfox.manning@gmail.com
Henry Wilton, California Institute of Technology wilton@caltech.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dehn functions and finiteness properties of subgroups of CAT(0) groups.
  Noel P Brady*, University of Oklahoma
  Dan Guralnik, University of Oklahoma
  Sang Rae Lee, University of Oklahoma
  (1059-20-188)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Ends of Finitely Generated Groups from a Nonstandard Perspective.
  Isaac M Goldbring*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1059-20-13)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Graphs of subgroups of free groups.
  Larsen Louder*, University of Michigan
  Ben McReynolds, University of Chicago
  (1059-20-180)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Exponential higher dimensional isoperimetric inequalities for some arithmetic groups.
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
  (1059-20-124)

Sunday April 18, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Daniel Peter Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago daniel.p.groves@gmail.com
Jason Manning, SUNY at Buffalo jfox.manning@gmail.com
Henry Wilton, California Institute of Technology wilton@caltech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Topological simplification of maps between surfaces.
  Matthew B. Day*, California Institute of Technology
  (1059-57-93)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Large Scale Geometry of Commutator Subgroups.
  Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology
  Dongping Zhuang*, Vanderbilt University
  (1059-20-67)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Number theory on groups.
  Khalid Bou-Rabee*, University of Chicago
  (1059-20-119)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Diameter of the thick part of moduli space.
  Tao Jing*, University of Utah
  Rafi Kasra, University of Oklahoma
  (1059-00-83)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Birman exact sequence for $\text{Aut}(F_n)$.
  Andrew Putman*, MIT
  Matthew Day, Caltech
  (1059-20-177)

Sunday April 18, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topics in Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Daniel Peter Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago daniel.p.groves@gmail.com
Jason Manning, SUNY at Buffalo jfox.manning@gmail.com
Henry Wilton, California Institute of Technology wilton@caltech.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Actions of Kahler groups on real hyperbolic spaces.
  Pierre PY*, University of Chicago
  (1059-51-89)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Cofinitely Hopfian groups, open mappings and knot complements.
  Martin R. Bridson, University of Oxford
  Daniel P. Groves*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Jonathan A. Hillman, University of Sydney
  Gaven J. Martin, Massey University
  (1059-20-42)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Surface Subgroups of Graph Products of Groups.
  Sang-hyun Kim*, the University of Texas at Austin
  (1059-20-104)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Small cancellation, curvature and generic one relator groups.
  John M Mackay*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1059-20-94)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Reflections on Rigidity and Random Groups.
  Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (1059-20-192)