AMS :: Spring Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Monday, July 10, 2017 10:39:11

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday April 1, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, I
BH103, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Sarah Koch, University of Michigan
Kevin Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
Dylan Thurston, Indiana University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dynamics on the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_{0,n}$.
  Rohini Ramadas*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (1127-14-268)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Self-similar groups and invariant combinatorics.
  Russell Lodge*, Stony Brook
  Gregory Kelsey, Bellarmine University
  (1127-37-387)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Searching for convex sets in Teichm\"uller space.
  Maxime Fortier Bourque*, University of Toronto
  (1127-51-173)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Decidability of Thurston equivalence.
  Dzmitry Dudko*, Stony Brook University
  Laurent Bartholdi, \'Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure, Paris
  (1127-37-250)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Non-contractibility of deformation spaces.
  Tanya Firsova*, Manhattan
  (1127-37-413)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Dynamic portraits for nearly Euclidean Thurston maps.
  William J Floyd*, Virginia Tech
  Kevin M Pilgrim, Indiana University
  Walter R Parry, Eastern Michigan University
  (1127-37-210)

Saturday April 1, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, II
BH103, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Sarah Koch, University of Michigan
Kevin Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
Dylan Thurston, Indiana University
- 3:00 p.m.
  A spectral gap for the Thurston pullback map of an unbounded family.
  Holly C Krieger*, University of Cambridge
  (1127-37-357)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Tea
- 4:00 p.m.
  Prime orbit theorems and rational maps.
  Zhiqiang Li*, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University
  (1127-37-381)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rigidity of groups associated with dynamical systems.
  Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A University, College Station
  (1127-37-306)

Sunday April 2, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, III
BH103, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Sarah Koch, University of Michigan
Kevin Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
Dylan Thurston, Indiana University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Tea
- 8:30 a.m.
  Constructing pseudo-Anosov maps with given dilatations, and computing the Teichmuller polynomial.
  Ahmad Rafiqi*, Cornell University
  (1127-54-39)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computations for nearly Euclidean Thurston maps.
  Walter Parry*, Eastern Michigan University
  (1127-37-204)
- 9:30 a.m.
  3-D shapes associated to polynomial Julia sets.
  Kathryn A Lindsey*, University of Chicago
  (1127-37-298)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Obtaining rational maps from quadratic matings using Thurston's algorithm.
  Mary Elizabeth Wilkerson*, Coastal Carolina University
  (1127-37-368)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Subhyperbolicity and twists of quadratic Thurston maps with four postcritical points.
  Gregory A. Kelsey*, Bellarmine University
  Russell Lodge, Stony Brook University
  (1127-37-384)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Siegel's combinatorial garden.
  Rodrigo P\'erez*, IUPUI
  (1127-37-408)