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, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups and Geometric Structures: A Session in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of Andrew Nicas, I
Room 210, O'Brian Hall
Organizers:
Hans Boden, McMaster University
David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The tower method and subgroups of non-positively curved groups.
  Richard G Hanlon, Emera Inc.
  Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza*, Memorial University, Canada.
  (1132-57-158)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The $SL(2, {\mathbb C})$-Casson invariant: a survey.
  Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
  (1132-57-180)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Branched Covers of Quasipositive Links and L-Spaces.
  Steven Boyer*, UQAM
  Cameron McA. Gordon, University of Texas at Austin
  Michel Boileau, Université de Aix-Marseille
  (1132-57-147)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Representations of Web Groups and Spider Evaluation.
  Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
  (1132-57-19)

Saturday September 16, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups and Geometric Structures: A Session in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of Andrew Nicas, II
Room 210, O'Brian Hall
Organizers:
Hans Boden, McMaster University
David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Parametrized Fixed Point Theory and Traces.
  Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
  (1132-55-176)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Even manifolds.
  Laurence R Taylor*, University of Notre Dame
  (1132-57-166)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Normal right-angled Artin group subgroups of mapping class groups.
  Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
  Johanna Mangahas*, University at Buffalo
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1132-20-193)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Assembly maps for topological cyclic homology.
  Wolfgang Lück, HIM & Mathematisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
  Holger Reich, Institut für Mathematik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  John Rognes, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
  Marco Varisco*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
  (1132-19-253)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The transfer map of free loop spaces.
  Cary Malkiewich*, SUNY Binghamton
  (1132-55-206)

Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Groups and Geometric Structures: A Session in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of Andrew Nicas, III
Room 210, O'Brian Hall
Organizers:
Hans Boden, McMaster University
David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Morse moves in framed flow categories.
  Dirk Schuetz*, Durham University
  (1132-55-41)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Metric-transforms of $\delta$-hyperbolic spaces.
  George C. Dragomir*, McMaster University
  (1132-54-203)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quasimorphisms on groups that act on trees.
  Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
  Max Forester, The University of Oklahoma
  Joel Louwsma*, Niagara University
  (1132-20-218)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Triple linking numbers and surface systems.
  Christopher W. Davis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  Matthias Nagel*, Université du Québec à Montréal
  Patrick Orson, Université du Québec à Montréal
  Mark Powell, Université du Québec à Montréal
  (1132-57-136)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Enhanced efficient geodesics in the complex of curves.
  William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
  (1132-54-182)