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, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 217, Searles Science Building
Organizers:
Charles Cunningham, Bowdoin College
Moon Duchin, Tufts University
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quasimorphisms on groups that act on trees.
  Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
  Max Forester, The University of Oklahoma
  Joel Louwsma*, Niagara University
  (1121-20-98)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On groups presented by monadic rewriting systems.
  Adam Piggott*, Bucknell University
  (1121-20-127)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the set of homomorphisms to a relatively hyperbolic group.
  Nicholas Touikan*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Inna Bumagin, Carleton University
  (1121-20-80)

Saturday September 24, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 217, Searles Science Building
Organizers:
Charles Cunningham, Bowdoin College
Moon Duchin, Tufts University
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  After the Masur--Minsky machinery.
  Johanna Mangahas*, University at Buffalo
  (1121-20-202)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Symmetric automorphisms of free groups and finiteness properties of certain subgroups.
  Matthew Zaremsky*, Cornell University
  (1121-20-71)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Geometry of Outer Automorphism Groups of Universal Right-angled Coxeter Groups.
  Charles Cunningham*, Bowdoin College
  (1121-20-147)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Right-angled Coxeter Group Recognition and Decomposition.
  Andy Eisenberg*, Oklahoma State University
  Charles Cunningham, Bowdoin College
  Adam Piggott, Bucknell University
  Kim Ruane, Tufts University
  (1121-20-256)

Sunday September 25, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 217, Searles Science Building
Organizers:
Charles Cunningham, Bowdoin College
Moon Duchin, Tufts University
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Lifting Homeomorphisms and Cyclic Branched Covers of Spheres.
  Tyrone Ghaswala, University of Waterloo
  Rebecca R Winarski*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1121-57-81)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random elements and subgroups of Thompson's groups T and V.
  Sean Cleary*, City College of New York
  Ariadna Fossas Tenas, University of Fribourg
  (1121-20-74)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Automorphisms of higher rank lamplighter groups.
  Melanie Stein*, Trinity College
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
  Peter Wong, Bates College
  (1121-20-207)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Boundaries of Kleinian groups.
  Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1121-51-70)

Sunday September 25, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 217, Searles Science Building
Organizers:
Charles Cunningham, Bowdoin College
Moon Duchin, Tufts University
Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Coloring curves on surfaces.
  Jonah Benjamin Gaster*, Boston College
  Joshua Evan Greene, Boston College
  Nicholas G Vlamis, University of Michigan
  (1121-20-182)
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Further Investigation into Twisted Conjugacy and Geometric Invariants.
  Nic Koban*, University of Maine Farmington
  Peter Wong, Bates College
  (1121-20-104)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Contracting Boundary of CAT(0) Groups.
  Devin Murray*, Brandeis University
  (1121-20-96)