AMS :: 2011 Spring Western Section Meeting, Program by AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 7, 2011 00:22:48

Associate secretaries:

Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, I
Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Planar Subdivision Rule in Geometric Group Theory and Dynamical Systems.
  James W. Cannon*, Brigham Young University
  (1071-20-112)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantitative shrinking target results.
  Jon Chaika*, University of Chicago
  (1071-37-128)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Distortion in Wreath Products of Cyclic Groups.
  Tara C Davis*, Vanderbilt University
  Alexander Yu. Olshanskii, Vanderbilt University
  (1071-20-38)

Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, II
Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Promotion maps and Smith theory.
  Max Forester*, University of Oklahoma
  (1071-55-147)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Combinatorial Curvature Condition for Triangle-Square Complexes.
  Rena M.H. Levitt*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1071-57-129)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 4:30 p.m.
  Factoring euclidean isometries.
  Jon McCammond*, UC Santa Barbara
  (1071-20-73)

Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, III
Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  The connectivity threshold and automorphisms of random right-angled Artin groups.
  Matthew B. Day*, California Institute of Technology
  (1071-20-229)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Geometry of a Proposed Curve Complex Analogue for $Out(F_n)$.
  Lucas Sabalka*, Binghamton University
  Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
  (1071-20-136)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Isometric endomorphisms of free groups.
  Danny Calegari, Caltech
  Alden Walker*, Caltech
  (1071-20-56)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Virtually Geometric Multiwords.
  Christopher H. Cashen*, University of Utah
  (1071-20-39)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Abelian quotients of subgroups of the mapping class group and higher Pyrm representations.
  Andrew Putman*, Rice University
  Ben Wieland, Providence, RI
  (1071-57-256)

Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, IV
Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Immersed surfaces in the modular orbifold.
  Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology
  Joel Louwsma*, California Institute of Technology
  (1071-57-236)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometry, arithmetic, and group theory.
  Matthew Stover*, University of Michigan
  (1071-22-58)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Mapping classes, finite covers and large hyperbolic $3$--manifolds.
  Thomas Koberda*, Harvard University
  (1071-57-118)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Coarse differentiation and the rank of Teichmüller space.
  Kasra Rafi*, University of Oklahoma
  Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
  Howard Masur, University of Chicago
  (1071-51-119)