AMS :: Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, September 23, 2017 03:30:04

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday September 16, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 209, O'Brian Hall
Organizers:
Joel Louwsma, Niagara University jlouwsma@niagara.edu
Johanna Mangahas, University at Buffalo-SUNY
- 8:00 a.m.
  Convex Splittings of CAT(0) Groups.
  Christopher Hruska, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  Kim E Ruane*, Tufts University
  (1132-20-224)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Virtual splittings of RAAGs over abelian subgroups, and abstract commensurability.
  Matt Zaremsky*, University at Albany (SUNY)
  (1132-20-129)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Boundary maps for some hierarchically hyperbolic spaces.
  Sarah C. Mousley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1132-51-119)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Automorphisms of the Punctured Mapping Class Group.
  Victoria S Akin*, Duke University
  (1132-20-113)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectral gap of stable commutator length.
  Lvzhou Chen*, University of Chicago
  (1132-20-28)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rotation number, Ziggurat Fringes and Fractal boundary.
  Subhadip Chowdhury*, The University of Chicago
  (1132-37-170)

Saturday September 16, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 209, O'Brian Hall
Organizers:
Joel Louwsma, Niagara University jlouwsma@niagara.edu
Johanna Mangahas, University at Buffalo-SUNY
- 3:00 p.m.
  Convexity of balls in outer space.
  Yulan Qing*, University of Toronto
  Kasra Rafi, University of Toronto
  (1132-51-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geodesics in outer space.
  Catherine E Pfaff*, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Yael Algom-Kfir, Haifa University
  Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (1132-20-151)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rewriting and unique geodesics.
  Adam Piggott*, Bucknell University
  (1132-20-109)
- 4:30 p.m.
  TALK CANCELLED: Labelled geodesics in Coxeter groups.
  Elisabeth Fink*, University of Ottawa
  Kirill Zainoulline, University of Ottawa
  (1132-20-209)
- 5:00 p.m.
  C(6) groups that do not act on n-dimensional CAT(0) cube complexes.
  Kasia Jankiewicz*, McGill University
  (1132-20-164)
- 5:30 p.m.
  TALK CANCELLED: The primitive torsion problem.
  Khalid Bou-Rabee*, The City College of New York
  (1132-20-153)
- 5:30 p.m.
  NEW TIME: Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms not coming from branched covers.
  Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois
  Alan W Reid, Rice University
  (1132-57-157)

Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 209, O'Brian Hall
Organizers:
Joel Louwsma, Niagara University jlouwsma@niagara.edu
Johanna Mangahas, University at Buffalo-SUNY
- 8:00 a.m.
  Relatively hyperbolic groups vs 3-manifold groups.
  Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1132-20-104)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Counting loxodromics for actions of relatively hyperbolic groups.
  Giulio Tiozzo*, University of Toronto
  (1132-20-172)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Lifting curve pairs simply via hyperbolic geometry.
  Tarik Aougab*, Providence
  Priyam Patel, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Samuel Taylor, Temple University
  (1132-57-187)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Efficient geodesics in the complex of curves and the complex of arcs and curves: Preliminary report.
  William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
  Joan Birman, Barnard College of Columbia Univ.
  (1132-54-140)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Left-invariant pseudo-metrics on big mapping class groups.
  Matthew Gentry Durham, Yale University
  Federica Fanoni, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
  Nicholas G Vlamis*, University of Michigan
  (1132-20-126)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Soficity and variations on Higman's group.
  Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
  Vivian Kuperberg, Cornell University
  Timothy Riley*, Cornell University
  (1132-20-56)

Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 209, O'Brian Hall
Organizers:
Joel Louwsma, Niagara University jlouwsma@niagara.edu
Johanna Mangahas, University at Buffalo-SUNY
- 2:00 p.m.
  Subgroup distortion in hyperbolic groups.
  Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
  Timothy Riley, Cornell University
  (1132-20-110)
- 2:30 p.m.
  NEW TIME: Quasiconvexity and Dehn filling.
  Daniel Groves, University of Illinois Chicago
  Jason Fox Manning*, Cornell University
  (1132-20-155)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finiteness Properties of Nekrashevych groups.
  Rachel Skipper*, Binghamton University
  Matthew C.B. Zaremsky, University of Albany
  (1132-20-186)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mapping class groups, coverings, braids and groupoids.
  Tyrone Ghaswala*, University of Waterloo
  Alan McLeay, University of Glasgow
  (1132-20-87)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes from pure mapping classes.
  Yohsuke Watanabe*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  (1132-57-108)