AMS :: Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, April 3, 2015 03:30:09

Associate secretaries:

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

Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, I
Room 205, Shelby Center
Organizers:
Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Efficient geodesics and distance in the complex of curves.
  Joan S Birman*, Barnard-Columbia
  (1109-57-117)
- 3:30 p.m.
  MICC: A tool for computing short distances in the curve complex.
  William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
  Matthew Morse, University at Buffalo---SUNY
  Paul Glenn, University at Buffalo---SUNY
  Kayla Morrell, Buffalo State College---SUNY
  (1109-55-48)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The distribution of gaps for saddle connections on the octagon.
  Caglar Uyanik*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Grace Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1109-20-89)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Using the geometry of the mapping class group to solve combinatorial problems.
  Tarik Aougab*, Yale University
  (1109-57-81)

Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, II
Room 205, Shelby Center
Organizers:
Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Tori in the double handlebody.
  Matt Clay*, University of Arkansas
  Funda Gultepe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Kasra Rafi, University of Toronto
  (1109-20-170)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Stability and convex cocompactness in mapping class groups.
  Matthew Durham, University of Michigan
  Samuel J Taylor*, Yale University
  (1109-20-106)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The geometry of purely loxodromic subgroups of right-angled Artin groups.
  Thomas Koberda, Yale University
  Johanna Mangahas*, University at Buffalo
  Samuel J Taylor, Yale University
  (1109-20-113)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The primitivity index function for a free group, and untangling closed curves on surfaces.
  Neha Gupta*, UIUC
  (1109-20-147)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Palindromic automorphisms of free groups.
  Neil J. Fullarton*, Rice University
  (1109-20-120)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Separability Properties of Right-Angled Artin Groups.
  Priyam Patel*, Purdue University
  (1109-20-109)

Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, III
Room 205, Shelby Center
Organizers:
Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dual Digraphs and Entropy.
  Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University and AMS
  Kasra Rafi, University of Toronto
  Yael Algom-Kfir, Haifa University
  (1109-57-131)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Unbounded asymmetry of free group automorphism stretch factors.
  Spencer Dowdall*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1109-20-111)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Computations in the mapping class group via global coordinates.
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Tech
  S Oyku Yurttas*, Georgia Tech
  (1109-20-122)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes not arising from Penner's construction.
  Hyunshik Shin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Balazs Strenner, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  (1109-57-125)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes.
  Balazs Strenner*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1109-57-96)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Problem session.

Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, IV
Room 205, Shelby Center
Organizers:
Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Thoughts on convex cocompactness in mapping class groups.
  Richard Kent*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1109-20-90)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mapping class groups and simple covers.
  Rebecca R. Winarski*, Wittenberg University
  (1109-57-112)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Spectral rigidity for q-differential metrics.
  Anja Bankovic*, Boston College
  Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois
  (1109-51-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Finite rigid sets and homologically nontrivial spheres in the curve complex of a surface.
  Joan Birman, Barnard-Columbia University
  Nathan Broaddus*, Ohio State University
  William Manasco, University at Buffalo--SUNY
  (1109-20-110)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the geometry of the flip graph.
  Valentina Disarlo*, Indiana University Bloomington
  (1109-20-88)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Random graphs and applications to Coxeter groups.
  Jason Behrstock*, Columbia University and CUNY
  (1109-05-49)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A logarithm law for the earthquake flow.
  Ser-Wei Fu*, Temple University
  (1109-57-47)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Word metrics for arithmetic groups.
  Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
  (1109-20-127)