American Mathematical Society

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, November 20, 2015 11:26:24

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday November 14, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of CAT(0) Cube Complexes, I
Room 101, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Megan Owen, Lehman College of the City University of New York
- 9:00 a.m.
  Spaces of Trees.
  Katherine St. John*, Lehman College-- City University of New York
  (1115-05-321)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stochastic processes on Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann tree-space.
  Tom Nye*, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, UK
  (1115-60-277)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Regression for Tree Structured Populations.
  Sean Skwerer*, Yale Biostatistics
  (1115-62-400)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Normalizing kernels in the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann treespace.
  Grady Weyenberg, Bristol University
  Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
  Daniel Howe, University of Kentucky
  (1115-05-40)

Saturday November 14, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of CAT(0) Cube Complexes, II
Room 101, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Megan Owen, Lehman College of the City University of New York
- 3:00 p.m.
  Computing geodesics in CAT(0) cube complexes.
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
  Megan Owen, CUNY -- Lehman College
  Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
  (1115-57-169)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Shortest path problem in CAT(0) rectangular complexes.
  Daniela Maftuleac*, University of Waterloo
  (1115-52-184)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moving robots efficiently using the combinatorics of CAT(0) cubical complexes.
  Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University / Universidad de Los Andes
  (1115-05-347)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Universal Memory Architectures: CAT(0) cubical event representations for learning and control.
  Dan P. Guralnik*, University of Pennsylvania
  Daniel E. Koditschek, University of Pennsylvania
  (1115-68-308)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Turaev's glide complexes.
  Aaron D Abrams*, Washington and Lee University
  (1115-51-380)

Sunday November 15, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of CAT(0) Cube Complexes, III
Room 101, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Sean Cleary, City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Megan Owen, Lehman College of the City University of New York
- 9:00 a.m.
  Topology of Configurations on Graphs.
  Safia Chettih*, University of Oregon
  (1115-57-272)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Isometries of cube complexes and the Torelli subgroup for a right-angled Artin group.
  Corey Bregman*, Rice University
  (1115-20-332)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Geometry of Outer Automorphism Groups of Right-angled Coxeter Groups.
  Charles E Cunningham*, Department of Mathematics, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
  (1115-20-320)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rearrangements of Fractals and CAT(0) Cube Complexes.
  James Belk, Bard College
  Bradley Forrest*, Stockton University
  (1115-20-324)