AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, October 7, 2016 14:15:51

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday September 24, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Cocompactness, I
Room 16, Druckenmiller Hall
Organizers:
Tarik Aougab, Brown University tarik_aougab@brown.edu
Sara Maloni, Brown University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Contexts for convex cocompactness.
  Johanna Mangahas*, University at Buffalo
  Samuel J. Taylor, Yale University
  (1121-20-203)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The geometry of purely loxodromic subgroups of right-angled Artin groups.
  Thomas Koberda*, University of Virginia
  Johanna Mangahas, University at Buffalo
  Samuel J Taylor, Yale University
  (1121-20-100)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Schottky Presentations of Maximal Representations.
  Jean-Philippe Burelle*, University of Maryland
  Nicolaus Treib, Heidelberg University
  (1121-51-192)

Saturday September 24, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Convex Cocompactness, II
Room 16, Druckenmiller Hall
Organizers:
Tarik Aougab, Brown University tarik_aougab@brown.edu
Sara Maloni, Brown University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Coxeter mapping classes.
  Eriko Hironaka*, American Mathematical Society/Florida State Univesrity
  (1121-57-260)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Laminations on the boundary of a handlebody.
  Ian Biringer*, Boston College
  (1121-57-267)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Basmajian's identity in higher Teichm\"uller theory.
  Nicholas G Vlamis*, University of Michigan
  Andrew Yarmola, Boston College
  (1121-57-124)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Connected components of the SO(p,q) character variety.
  Brian Collier*, University of Maryland
  (1121-51-172)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Characterizing subgroup stability in finitely generated groups.
  Tarik Aougab, Brown University
  Matthew G Durham*, University of Michigan, MSRI
  Samuel Taylor, Yale University
  (1121-20-156)

Sunday September 25, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Cocompactness, III
Room 16, Druckenmiller Hall
Organizers:
Tarik Aougab, Brown University tarik_aougab@brown.edu
Sara Maloni, Brown University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Foliations by crooked planes.
  Virginie Charette*, Universit\'e de Sherbrooke
  Youngju Kim, Konkuk University
  (1121-53-144)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Varieties of Characters.
  Sean D Lawton*, George Mason University
  (1121-14-167)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Positively ratioed representations and length functions in higher rank.
  Giuseppe Martone*, University of Southern California
  Tengren Zhang, California Institute of Technology
  (1121-51-123)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Splittings of CAT(0) Groups with Isolated Flats.
  Kim E Ruane*, Tufts University
  Chris Hruska, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  (1121-20-265)