American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 19, 2011 00:24:29

Associate secretaries:

Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday March 12, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 2201, College of Information Technology
Organizers:
Xiangdong Xie, Georgia Southern University xxie@georgiasouthern.edu
Jason A. Behrstock, Lehman College, CUNY
Denis Osin, Vanderbilt University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Right-angled Artin groups and mapping class groups.
  Thomas Koberda*, Harvard University
  (1068-20-16)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the length function of Coxeter groups of type B.
  Dongwen Qi*, Georgia Southwestern State University
  (1068-20-93)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The geometry of right angled Artin subgroups of mapping class groups.
  Matt T. Clay, Allegheny College
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Johanna Mangahas*, Brown University
  (1068-57-191)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Area relations in triangulations of a square.
  Aaron Abrams*, Emory University
  James Pommersheim, Reed College
  (1068-14-285)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stable $W$-length.
  Danny Calegari, Caltech
  Dongping Zhuang*, Vanderbilt University
  (1068-20-200)

Saturday March 12, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 2201, College of Information Technology
Organizers:
Xiangdong Xie, Georgia Southern University xxie@georgiasouthern.edu
Jason A. Behrstock, Lehman College, CUNY
Denis Osin, Vanderbilt University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Counterexamples to a simple loop conjecture for PSL(2,C).
  Daryl Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
  Jason Manning*, University at Buffalo
  (1068-20-96)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Group Theoretic Methods in Nanostructure Design.
  Gregory McColm*, University of South Florida
  (1068-20-100)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Dehn functions of Bestvina-Brady groups.
  Aaron Abrams, Emory University
  Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
  Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
  Moon Duchin, University of Michigan
  Robert Young, Courant Institute
  (1068-20-308)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Exact groups and bounded cohomology.
  Jacek Brodzki, University of Southampton
  Graham A. Niblo, University of Southampton
  Piotr W. Nowak*, Texas A&M University
  Nick J. Wright, University of Southampton
  (1068-20-86)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Space functions of finitely presented groups.
  A. Yu. Olshanskii*, Vanderbilt University
  (1068-20-162)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quasi-Isometric Properties of Graph Braid Groups.
  Praphat Xavier Fernandes*, Emory University
  (1068-51-318)

Sunday March 13, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 2201, College of Information Technology
Organizers:
Xiangdong Xie, Georgia Southern University xxie@georgiasouthern.edu
Jason A. Behrstock, Lehman College, CUNY
Denis Osin, Vanderbilt University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Hyperbolic surface subgroups of one-ended doubles of a free groups.
  Sang-hyun Kim*, Tufts University / KAIST
  Sang-il Oum, KAIST
  (1068-57-310)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial methods for detecting hyperbolic surface subgroups of right-angled Artin groups.
  Robert W. Bell*, Michigan State University
  (1068-20-17)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quasi-isometric rigidities of nilpotent-by-cyclic groups.
  Irine Peng*, Indiana University
  (1068-51-321)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Relatively hyperbolic hyperplane complements.
  Igor Belegradek*, Georgia Tech
  Chris Hruska, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1068-20-49)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On asymptotic dimension of the Thompson group F.
  Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
  Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University
  (1068-20-123)