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Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
September 24-25, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1121

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Special Session on Geometry of Nilpotent Groups

• Saturday September 24, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Nilpotent Groups, I
  Room 213, Searles Science Building
  Organizers:
  Moon Duchin, Tufts University
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
  Peter Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nilpotent groups: interplay between algebra, geometry, and number theory.
    Alexei Miasnikov*, Stevens Institute of Techniology
    (1121-20-244)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Full residual finiteness growth of nilpotent groups.
    Khalid Bou-Rabee, The City College of New York
    Daniel Studenmund*, The University of Utah
    (1121-57-141)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the dimension of matrix embeddings of torsion-free nilpotent groups.
    Funda Gul, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Armin Wei\ss*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1121-20-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-isometric \& Integrable Measure Equivalence Rigidity of Nilpotent Groups via Ergodic Theory.
    Mike Cantrell*, MSRI
    (1121-20-213)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Separated nets in nilpotent groups.
    Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Michael Kelly, University of Michigan
    Sean Li, University of Chicago
    Anton Lukyanenko*, University of Michigan
    (1121-22-215)
• Saturday September 24, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Nilpotent Groups, II
  Room 213, Searles Science Building
  Organizers:
  Moon Duchin, Tufts University
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
  Peter Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasiconformal geometry of boundaries of hyperbolic spaces Part I.
    Luca Capogna, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Jeremy T Tyson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1121-30-181)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasiconformal geometry of boundaries of hyperbolic spaces Part II.
    Luca Capogna*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Jeremy T. Tyson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1121-51-188)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Decomposability of Finitely Generated Torsion-free Nilpotent Groups.
    Gilbert Baumslag, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, City College of New York
    Charles F. Miller III, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
    Gretchen Ostheimer*, Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University
    (1121-20-139)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bubble Sets in the Heisenberg Group.
    Andrew P. S\'anchez*, Tufts University
    (1121-20-197)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The quasiconformal Jacobian problem and sub-Riemannian manifolds bi-Lipschitz equivalent to the Heisenberg group.
    Alex D. Austin*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1121-30-199)
• Sunday September 25, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Nilpotent Groups, III
  Room 213, Searles Science Building
  Organizers:
  Moon Duchin, Tufts University
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
  Peter Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Equations in nilpotent groups.
    Moon Duchin, Mathematics Department, Tufts University
    Hao Liang, Mathematics Department, Tufts University
    Michael Shapiro*, Mathematics Department, Tufts University
    (1121-20-95)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Systems of equations in random nilpotent groups.
    Albert Garreta-Fontelles*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Alexei Miasnikov, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Denis Ovchinnikov, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1121-20-22)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A geometric approach to the Bounded Burnside Problem.
    Khalid Bou-Rabee*, CCNY
    W. Patrick Hooper, CCNY
    (1121-20-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Distortion of embeddings of a torsion-free finitely generated nilpotent group into a unitriangular group.
    Funda Gul, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Alexei G. Myasnikov, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Mahmood Sohrabi*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1121-20-6)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigidity of quasiisometries and quasiconformal maps.
    Xiangdong Xie*, Bowling Green State University
    (1121-20-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fourier analysis and counting lattice points inside polytopes.
    Quang-Nhat Le*, Brown University, Providence, RI
    Ricardo Diaz, University of Northern Colorado
    Sinai Robins, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
    (1121-05-241)

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