AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

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, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Groups, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, I
Room 103, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Feng Luo, Rutgers University
Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- 8:00 a.m.
  On the geometry of the flip graph.
  Valentina Disarlo*, Indiana University Bloomington
  Hugo Parlier, Universit\'e de Fribourg
  (1115-57-187)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On type-preserving representations of the four-punctured sphere group.
  Tian Yang*, Stanford University
  (1115-57-10)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dehn filling and elementary splittings.
  Daniel Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Jason F Manning*, Cornell University
  (1115-20-326)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Random graphs and applications to Coxeter groups.
  Jason Behrstock*, CUNY, Lehman College and the Graduate Center
  (1115-05-343)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Random knots: their properties and algorithmic challenges.
  Nathan M Dunfield*, University of Illinois
  (1115-57-120)

Saturday November 14, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Groups, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, II
Room 103, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Feng Luo, Rutgers University
Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- 3:00 p.m.
  Coordinates for representations of 3-manifold groups.
  Christian K Zickert*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1115-57-171)
- 3:30 p.m.
  High-dimensional fillings and distortion in horospheres and Q-rank 1 lattices.
  Enrico Leuzinger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  Robert Young*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (1115-20-210)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The geometry of generic few-relator groups.
  David Futer*, Temple University
  Daniel T. Wise, McGill University
  (1115-20-304)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Volumes of Montesinos links.
  Kathleen Finlinson, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Jessica S Purcell*, Monash University, BYU, IAS
  (1115-57-212)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Realization of hyperbolic surfaces.
  BoGwang Jeon*, Columbia University
  (1115-57-53)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Macfarlane spaces and arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces and 3-manifolds.
  Joe Quinn*, CUNY Graduate Center
  (1115-57-378)

Sunday November 15, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Groups, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, III
Room 103, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Feng Luo, Rutgers University
Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spaces of polyhedral metrics.
  Ren Guo*, Oregon State University
  (1115-51-330)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Limit sets and boundaries.
  Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1115-57-327)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computer Driven Questions and Theorems and in Geometry.
  Moira Chas*, Stony Brook University
  (1115-57-172)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Equations over deformation spaces.
  Ara S. Basmajian*, City University of New York, Graduate Center and Hunter College
  (1115-30-103)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Degree-one maps, surgeries and Heegaard splittings.
  Tao Li*, Boston College
  (1115-57-246)

Sunday November 15, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Groups, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, IV
Room 103, Scott Hall
Organizers:
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
Feng Luo, Rutgers University
Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- 3:00 p.m.
  Volume density spectrum and biperiodic alternating links.
  Ilya Kofman*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Columbia University
  Jessica Purcell, Monash University and IAS
  (1115-57-366)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quantifying separability properties of right-angled Artin groups.
  Priyam Patel*, Purdue University
  Khalid Bou-Rabee, The City College of New York
  Mark F. Hagen, University of Cambridge
  (1115-20-329)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Coarse hyperbolicity and closed orbits for quasigeodesic flows.
  Steven Frankel*, Yale
  (1115-57-101)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Braided cobordisms and the braid rank of a knot.
  Mark C Hughes*, Brigham Young University
  (1115-57-368)