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.-12:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, I
Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Complexity of computations on compressed words.
  Robert H. Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (1060-20-164)
- 10:30 a.m.
  $\mathbb{Z}$-forms of Kac-Moody groups.
  Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
  (1060-20-98)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Rewriting systems and geometry of groups.
  Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
  (1060-20-171)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Infinitely presented groups: constructions and algorithmic problems.
  Alexei Miasnikov*, Stevens Institute
  (1060-20-205)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Frameworks for Parallel and Distributed Computational Algebra.
  Stephen A. Linton*, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  (1060-20-200)
- 12:30 p.m.
  Fuzzy authentication.
  Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
  (1060-94-109)

Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, II
Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  $L^2$ Betti numbers.
  Andrzej Zuk*, University of Paris 7
  (1060-20-149)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Computing fundamental domains for congruence subgroups of $\text{SL}_2$.
  Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University
  Leigh Cobbs, Rutgers University
  Scott H. Murray*, University of Canberra
  (1060-20-145)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Graphs of groups and the Grzegorczyk hierarchy.
  Andrew J Duncan*, Newcastle University
  (1060-20-120)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Adapting Hilbert's Tenth Problem to Group Based Cryptography.
  Gilbert Baumslag, City University, New York City
  Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Douglas Troeger, City Unviersity, New York
  (1060-20-135)
- 6:00 p.m.
  A public key exchange using semidirect products of groups.
  Maggie Habeeb*, CUNY Graduate Center
  Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center
  Vladmir Shpilrain, CUNY Graduate Center
  (1060-20-128)
- 6:30 p.m.
  Factor Groups of the Baumslag-Solitar Groups and Subgroups of the Additive Group of Rational Numbers.
  Anthony E Clement*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
  (1060-20-99)

Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, III
Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Nonassociative algebra structures on sl(2)-modules.
  Andrew Douglas*, City University of New York
  Murray Bremner, University of Saskatchewan
  (1060-17-224)
- 9:00 a.m.
  How to compute the Wedderburn decomposition of an associative algebra.
  Murray R. Bremner*, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  (1060-16-45)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Equations in torsion feee hyperbolic groups.
  Olga Kharlampovich*, McGill University, Dept Math and Stats
  (1060-20-228)
- 10:00 a.m.
  How to cubulate a group.
  Tim Hsu*, San Jose State University
  Daniel T. Wise, McGill University
  (1060-20-144)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the Growth of Finitely Presented Rees Quotients of Free Inverse Semigroups.
  Lev M Shneerson*, Hunter College of CUNY
  (1060-20-143)

Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, IV
Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Structures related to intersection of curves on surfaces.
  Moira Chas*, Stony Brook University
  Anthony V. Phillips, Stony Brook University
  Steve Lalley, University of Chicago
  (1060-00-121)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Comparing Free Abelian Groups and Purely Transcendental Fields.
  Russell Miller*, Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY
  (1060-03-182)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A computational approach to the Andrews-Curtis Conjecture.
  Alex D Myasnikov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  (1060-20-184)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Length-based attack on a cryptosystem based on polycyclic groups.
  David Garber*, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
  (1060-20-131)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Averaging Group Elements.
  Alexander Ushakov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Natalia Mosina, CUNY
  (1060-20-230)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Group-Theoretic Cryptography: Respice, Adspice, Prospice.
  Nelly Fazio, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York
  William Skeith*, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York
  (1060-20-223)