AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 31, 2009 01:40:04

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Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

Saturday October 24, 2009, 8:20 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic and Profinite Groups, I
Room 112, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Alireza Salehi-Golsefidy, Princeton University
Martin D. Kassabov, Cornell University kassabov@math.cornell.edu
Mikhail V. Ershov, University of Virginia
- 8:20 a.m.
  Commensurator Growth of Lattices.
  Nir Avni*, Harvard University
  (1052-20-32)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Heuristics on Pro-p Groups arising as Galois Groups.
  Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  (1052-11-126)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Rank gradient and torsion groups.
  D. V. Osin*, Vanderbilt University
  (1052-20-250)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Bounding the residual finiteness of free groups.
  Francesco Matucci*, University of Virginia
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  (1052-20-269)

Saturday October 24, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic and Profinite Groups, II
Room 112, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Alireza Salehi-Golsefidy, Princeton University
Martin D. Kassabov, Cornell University kassabov@math.cornell.edu
Mikhail V. Ershov, University of Virginia
- 3:00 p.m.
  Torsion elements in stabilizers of apartments.
  Peter Abramenko*, University of Virginia
  (1052-20-154)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Survey of invariant orders on arithmetic groups.
  Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge
  (1052-20-141)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Reducing Dehn functions of arithmetic groups to the Dehn functions of parabolic groups.
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
  (1052-20-186)
- 4:45 p.m.
  The Haagerup property, Property (T) and the Baum-Connes conjecture for lattices in locally compact Kac-Moody groups.
  Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
  (1052-20-322)
- 5:20 p.m.
  A question of Iwasawa.
  Ilir Snopce*, Binghamton University, SUNY
  (1052-20-66)

Sunday October 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic and Profinite Groups, III
Room 112, Thomas Building
Organizers:
Alireza Salehi-Golsefidy, Princeton University
Martin D. Kassabov, Cornell University kassabov@math.cornell.edu
Mikhail V. Ershov, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the Mordell-Weil rank of Jacobians of principal modular curves of prime power level.
  Guillermo Mantilla*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
  (1052-11-83)
- 8:40 a.m.
  Residual properties of 1-related groups.
  Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
  (1052-20-135)
- 9:20 a.m.
  Groups with bounded generation.
  Andrei S. Rapinchuk*, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
  (1052-20-146)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Bounded generation and second bounded cohomology of wreath products.
  Igor V. Erovenko*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Nikolay Nikolov, Imperial College, London
  B. Sury, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
  (1052-20-120)

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