AMS :: Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, March 30, 2014 00:22:10

Associate secretaries:

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Friday March 21, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 501, Dougherty Hall
Organizers:
Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee craigg@uwm.edu
Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Creating and topologizing universal covering spaces.
  Nikolay Brodskiy*, University of Tennessee
  (1097-55-318)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the Shrinkable U.S.C. Decomposition Spaces of Spheres.
  Shijie Gu*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1097-57-40)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The colored Kauffman skein relation and the tail of the colored Jones polynomial.
  Mustafa Hajij*, Louisiana State University
  (1097-55-20)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Determining the type of conformal tilings.
  Philip L. Bowers*, The Florida State University, Tallahassee
  Ken Stephenson, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (1097-51-438)

Saturday March 22, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 501, Dougherty Hall
Organizers:
Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee craigg@uwm.edu
Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hopfian Manifolds as Shape m$_{simpl}$ Fibrators.
  Violeta Vasilevska*, Utah Valley University
  (1097-57-302)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Paving the way to solving the R. L. Moore problem.
  Denise M Halverson*, Brigham Young University
  (1097-57-353)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Contractible 3-manifolds that are the union of two Euclidean spaces.
  David G. Wright*, Brigham Young University
  Dennis Garity, Oregon State University
  Dušan Repovš, University of Ljubljana
  (1097-57-121)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Homogeneity Groups of Ends of Open 3-Manifolds.
  Dennis J. Garity*, Oregon State University
  Dušan Repovš, University of Ljubljana
  (1097-57-249)

Saturday March 22, 2014, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 501, Dougherty Hall
Organizers:
Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee craigg@uwm.edu
Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Action dimension and $L^{2}$-homology.
  Boris Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Kevin Schreve, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1097-57-339)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Classification of free actions of $C_p$ on $S^1 \times S^n$.
  Qayum Khan*, Indiana U
  (1097-57-440)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Group actions on CAT(0)-spaces and the Farrell-Jones conjecture.
  Kun Wang*, The Ohio State University
  (1097-57-284)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Aspherical manifolds that cannot be triangulated.
  Michael W. Davis, The Ohio State University
  Jim Fowler*, The Ohio State University
  Jean-François Lafont, The Ohio State University
  (1097-57-374)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Space of Nonpositively Curved Metrics of a Negatively Curved Manifold.
  Pedro Ontaneda*, State University of New York at Binghamton
  (1097-57-290)
- 5:00 p.m.
  On Gromov's scalar curvature conjecture.
  Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
  (1097-53-168)

Sunday March 23, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 501, Dougherty Hall
Organizers:
Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee craigg@uwm.edu
Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
- 9:00 a.m.
  The cell-like approximation theorem for Pontryagin surfaces.
  Thomas L. Thickstun*, Texas State University
  (1097-57-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Characterizing ends of inward tame manifolds.
  F C Tinsley*, Colorado College
  (1097-57-365)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Connected Sum at Infinity.
  Jack S Calcut*, Oberlin College
  (1097-57-248)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Non-rigid CAT(0) groups with cell-like equivalent boundaries.
  Craig Guilbault, UW-Milwaukee
  Christopher P Mooney*, Bradley University
  (1097-20-386)
- 11:00 a.m.
  $\ell^2$-Betti numbers and graph embeddings.
  Timothy A Schroeder*, Murray State University
  (1097-57-528)
- 11:30 a.m.
  A New Approach to the Hilbert-Smith Conjecture.
  James Keesling*, University of Florida
  James Maissen, University of Texas Brownsville
  David Wilson, University of Florida
  (1097-22-301)