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Central Spring Sectional Meeting
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
March 14-15, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1108

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory, and Number Theory

• Saturday March 14, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory, and Number Theory, I
  Room A118, Wells Hall
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Linowitz, University of Michigan linowitz@umich.edu
  D. B. Reynolds, Purdue University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of splittings of free-by-cyclic groups.
    Spencer Dowdall, University of Illinois
    Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois
    Christopher Leininger*, University of Illinois
    (1108-20-305)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commensurability classes and geometric invariants of hyperbolic knot complements.
    Christian R Millichap*, Temple University
    (1108-57-370)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Equivalent trace sets for arithmetic Fuchsian groups.
    Grant Lakeland*, Eastern Illinois University
    (1108-20-207)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Primitive geodesic lengths and (almost) arithmetic progressions.
    J.-F. Lafont*, Ohio State University
    D. B. McReynolds, Purdue University
    (1108-51-404)
• Saturday March 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory, and Number Theory, II
  Room A118, Wells Hall
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Linowitz, University of Michigan linowitz@umich.edu
  D. B. Reynolds, Purdue University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Equidistribution of translated cuspidal geodesics and applications.
    Dubi Kelmer*, Boston College
    Alex Kontorovich, Rutges
    (1108-11-328)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Distribution of gaps for slopes of saddle connections on the octagon.
    Grace Work*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1108-51-435)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local Factors of Global Representations.
    Britain Cox*, Purdue University
    (1108-11-512)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Knots and their A-polynomials.
    Kate Petersen*, Florida State
    (1108-57-487)
• Sunday March 15, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory, and Number Theory, III
  Room A118, Wells Hall
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Linowitz, University of Michigan linowitz@umich.edu
  D. B. Reynolds, Purdue University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mixed-sign Coxeter mapping classes.
    Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University
    (1108-37-320)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lifting immersed geodesics to embedded ones in finite covers.
    Priyam Patel*, Purdue University
    (1108-57-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some Natural Bijections for Locally Equivalent Fields.
    Nicholas Miller*, Purdue University
    (1108-11-501)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of the Maynard-Tao method.
    Lola Thompson*, Oberlin College
    (1108-11-372)
• Sunday March 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory, and Number Theory, IV
  Room A118, Wells Hall
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Linowitz, University of Michigan linowitz@umich.edu
  D. B. Reynolds, Purdue University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the sup-norm problem for eigenforms on arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds (joint work with Valentin Blomer and Gergely Harcos).
    Djordje Milićević*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1108-11-565)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Towards Computing the Cheeger Constant of Hyperbolic Surfaces.
    Brian Benson*, Kansas State University
    (1108-58-567)

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