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2012 Spring Central Section Meeting
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
March 30 - April 1, 2012 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1081
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory
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Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, I
Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
Organizers:
Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
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4:00 p.m.
Combinatorics of hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds.
Hossein Namazi*, The University of Texas at Austin
(1081-57-366) -
4:30 p.m.
Cusp geometry of fibered 3-manifolds.
David Futer*, Temple University
Saul Schleimer, University of Warwick
(1081-57-225) -
5:00 p.m.
The Sunada construction and the simple length spectrum.
Rasimate Maungchang*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
(1081-57-181) -
5:30 p.m.
Shrinking targets in moduli space.
Spencer Dowdall*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jayadev Athreya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1081-37-332)
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4:00 p.m.
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Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, II
Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
Organizers:
Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
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9:00 a.m.
Collisions at infinity.
David Ben McReynolds*, Purdue University
Alan Reid, University of Texas in Austin
Matthew Stover, University of Michigan
(1081-57-339) -
9:30 a.m.
Congruence subgroups of braid groups.
Tara E. Brendle, University of Glasgow
Dan Margalit*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1081-20-358) -
10:00 a.m.
The metric completion of Outer Space.
Yael Algom-Kfir*, Yale University
(1081-20-180) -
10:30 a.m.
The Birman Hilden theorem for irregular branched covers.
Rebecca Winarski*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1081-20-67)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, III
Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
Organizers:
Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
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2:30 p.m.
Beyond the Twisted Rabbit.
Russell Lodge*, Indiana University Bloomington
(1081-37-259) -
3:00 p.m.
Canonical metrics in a conformal class.
Dmitri Scheglov*, University of Oklahoma
(1081-53-178) -
3:30 p.m.
Asymptoticity of grafting and Teichmüller rays.
Subhojoy Gupta*, Yale University
(1081-53-175) -
4:00 p.m.
Presentation problem for the profinite completion of the Grigorchuk group.
Mustafa Gokhan Benli*, Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics
(1081-20-169)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, IV
Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
Organizers:
Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
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9:00 a.m.
Convex real projective structures, polynomials, and polygons.
David Dumas*, University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Wolf, Rice University
(1081-53-365) -
9:30 a.m.
Non-Rigidity of Cyclic Automorphic Orbits in Free Groups.
Brian Ray*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1081-20-106) -
10:00 a.m.
Extremality of the rotation quasimorphism on the modular group.
Joel Louwsma*, The University of Oklahoma
(1081-20-223) -
10:30 a.m.
Geometry of the Lipschitz metric on Teichmuller space.
Jing Tao*, University of Utah
(1081-51-309)
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9:00 a.m.
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