AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 29, 2010 00:46:48

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc.
Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Logic and Groups, I
Room 208, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Peggy Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
Claire Wladis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York cwladis@gmail.com
Marcos Zyman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
- 10:00 a.m.
  A negative result regarding the construction of groups with word problem of a given Turing degree.
  Jay R. Williams*, Rutgers University
  (1060-20-133)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Automorphism groups of nonstandard models of arithmetic.
  Roman Kossak*, City University of New York
  (1060-03-160)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Something for Nothing: Some Consequences of the Solution to the Tarski Problems.
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  (1060-20-138)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Groups with logspace normal forms.
  Gillian Z. Elston, Hofstra University
  Gretchen Ostheimer*, Hofstra University
  (1060-20-208)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Equations in groups, actions on trees, algorithmic topology and dynamical systems.
  Olga Kharlampovich*, McGill University, Dept of Math and Stats
  (1060-20-179)

Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Logic and Groups, II
Room 208, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Peggy Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
Claire Wladis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York cwladis@gmail.com
Marcos Zyman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
- 4:00 p.m.
  How tall is the automorphism tower of a group?
  Joel David Hamkins*, The City University of New York
  (1060-03-22)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The generic word problem.
  Robert H. Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (1060-20-167)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Almost Locally Free Groups and a Theorem of Magnus.
  Anthony M Gaglione*, U.S. Naval Academy
  Seymour Lipschutz, Temple University
  Dennis M Spellman, Temple University
  (1060-20-18)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Symmetric Logic of Proofs and Provability.
  Elena Y. Nogina*, BMCC, CUNY
  (1060-03-29)
- 6:30 p.m.
  Pseudofinite abelian groups.
  Philipp Rothmaler*, BCC CUNY
  (1060-20-146)

Sunday May 23, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Logic and Groups, III
Room 208, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Peggy Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
Claire Wladis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York cwladis@gmail.com
Marcos Zyman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Lower Bound on the Asymptotic Density of Minimal Automata.
  Parisa Babaali*, York College of The City University of New York
  (1060-68-198)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rank two free groups and the non-Euclidean Euclidean algorithm.
  Jane Gilman*, Rutgers University, Newark and the National Science Foundation
  (1060-20-195)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Schreier graphs of the action of Thompson's group $F$ on the Cantor set.
  Dmytro M Savchuk*, Binghamton University
  (1060-20-174)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion