AMS :: Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 28, 2012 00:28:15

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday October 20, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Geometry and Topology, I
Room 311, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Dan Farley, Miami University
Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Almost flat manifolds with cyclic holonomy groups bound.
  James F Davis*, Indiana University
  Fuquan Fang, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
  (1084-57-215)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Rigidity of pseudo-free group actions on contractible manifolds.
  Frank Connolly, University of Notre Dame
  James F Davis, Indiana University Bloomington
  Qayum Khan*, Indiana University Bloomington
  (1084-57-152)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Manifolds realizing rational homotopy types.
  Jim Fowler*, The Ohio State University
  Zhixu Su, University of California, Irvine
  (1084-57-352)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tits Geometry and Positive Curvature.
  Fuquan Fang*, University of Notre Dame
  Karsten Grove, Universrity of Notre Dame
  Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, University of Koeln, Germany
  (1084-57-307)
- 10:30 a.m.
  End structures and boundaries for open manifolds.
  Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Frederick C Tinsley, Colorado College
  (1084-57-255)

Saturday October 20, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Geometry and Topology, II
Room 311, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Dan Farley, Miami University
Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Simplicial Maps of the Complexes of Curves of Nonorientable Surfaces.
  Elmas Irmak*, Bowling Green State University
  (1084-57-98)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Atiyah Conjecture for right-angled Hecke--von Neuman Algebras.
  Boris Okun*, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
  Richard Scott, Santa Clara University
  (1084-57-278)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Minimal and Simplicial Volume of Generalized Graph Manifolds.
  Chris Connell*, Indiana University
  Pablo Suárez-Serrato, UNAM, Mexico City
  (1084-53-201)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Asymptotically harmonic manifolds.
  Andrew Martin Zimmer*, University of Michigan
  (1084-53-213)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Ends of hyperbolic $n$-manifolds.
  Matthew Stover*, University of Michigan
  (1084-57-130)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Geometry and Topology, III
Room 311, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Dan Farley, Miami University
Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Scattering geodesics: Sojourn times and self intersections.
  Patrick Michael Boland*, Ann Arbor, MI
  (1084-51-345)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Ends of finite volume, negatively curved manifolds.
  Tam Nguyen-Phan*, Ohio State University
  (1084-51-230)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Action dimension of right angled Artin groups.
  Grigori I Avramidi*, University of Chicago
  (1084-51-275)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Riemannian manifolds with nontrivial local symmetry.
  Wouter Van Limbeek*, University of Chicago
  (1084-51-335)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Locally Solvable Subgroups of PLo(I).
  Amanda Taylor*, Binghamton University
  (1084-20-362)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Farrell-Jones Conjecture for Z[1/p] semidirect product with Z
  Xiaolei Wu*, SUNY Binghamton
  (1084-19-216)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Geometry and Topology, IV
Room 311, Leigh Hall
Organizers:
Dan Farley, Miami University
Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University jlafont@math.ohio-state.edu
Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University
- 1:30 p.m.
  Dimension of Classifying Spaces with Virtually Cyclic Stabilizers for Certain Three-Dimensional Geometry Groups.
  Kyle Joecken*, Ohio State University
  (1084-19-315)
- 2:00 p.m.
  Algebraic Rank of $\mathrm{CAT}(0)$ Groups.
  Raeyong Kim*, The Ohio State University
  (1084-52-286)
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Geometric Burnside's Problem.
  Brandon M. Seward*, University of Michigan
  (1084-51-361)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Intersection growth on groups.
  Khalid Mohammed Bou-Rabee*, University of Michigan
  Ian Biringer, Yale University
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  Francesco Matucci, University of Virginia
  (1084-20-359)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Local topology of boundaries for CAT(0) spaces with isolated flats.
  Chris Hruska*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Kim Ruane, Tufts University
  (1084-20-365)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some examples of quasiisometries of nilpotent Lie groups.
  Xiangdong Xie*, Bowling Green State University
  (1084-20-111)