AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 20, 2013 00:27:41

Associate secretaries:

Steven H. Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday October 12, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Topology and Group Theory, I
Room 304, Tuttleman Learning Center
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University dfuter@temple.edu
Ben McReynolds, Purdue University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Systoles and Dehn Surgery for 3-manifolds.
  Lakeland Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
  Christopher Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
  (1093-57-217)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Filling multiples of embedded curves.
  Robert J. Young*, University of Toronto
  (1093-51-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A one-parameter family of two-disk packing problems on hyperbolic surfaces.
  Jason DeBlois*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1093-57-293)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Thoughts about mapping class group and Out$(F_n)$.
  Kasra Rafi*, University of Toronto
  (1093-20-374)

Saturday October 12, 2013, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Topology and Group Theory, II
Room 304, Tuttleman Learning Center
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University dfuter@temple.edu
Ben McReynolds, Purdue University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Congruence subgroup problems.
  Richard Peabody Kent*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1093-20-161)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Components of representation spaces.
  Kathryn Mann*, University of Chicago
  (1093-51-226)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Fuchsian Groups, Circularly Ordered Groups, and Dense Invariant Laminations on the Circle.
  Hyungryul Baik*, Cornell University
  (1093-20-282)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the totally geodesic commensurability spectrum of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds.
  Jeffrey S. Meyer*, University of Oklahoma
  (1093-53-318)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An introduction to "The Big Dehn surgery graph".
  Neil Hoffman, University of Melbourne
  Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1093-51-222)

Sunday October 13, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Topology and Group Theory, III
Room 304, Tuttleman Learning Center
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University dfuter@temple.edu
Ben McReynolds, Purdue University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Asymptotics of Weil-Petersson geodesics.
  Jeffrey F. Brock*, Brown University
  (1093-30-378)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Statistics for Teichmuller geodesics.
  Joseph Maher*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Vaibhav Gadre, Harvard University
  Giulio Tiozzo, Harvard University
  (1093-20-49)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Iterations in Schottky space.
  Ian Biringer*, Boston College
  Cyril Lecuire, Toulouse III
  (1093-51-304)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Uniform phenomena on boundaries of 3-manifolds.
  Yair N Minsky*, Yale University
  (1093-57-379)

Sunday October 13, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Aspects of Topology and Group Theory, IV
Room 304, Tuttleman Learning Center
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University dfuter@temple.edu
Ben McReynolds, Purdue University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Polynomial divergence and thick groups.
  Jason Behrstock*, City University of New York
  Cornelia Drutu, Oxford
  (1093-20-109)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finite subdivision rules for cubulated groups.
  Brian C. Rushton*, Temple University
  (1093-57-92)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Optimal intersection numbers in the curve graph.
  Tarik Aougab*, Yale University
  (1093-57-132)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Masur-Minsky style curve complex machinery for right-angled Artin groups.
  Sang-hyun Kim, KAIST
  Thomas Koberda*, Yale University
  (1093-20-47)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Quasi-convexity in the curve complex.
  Vaibhav Gadre, University of Warwick
  Saul Schleimer*, University of Warwick
  (1093-57-338)