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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY
May 6-7, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1129
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Infinite Permutation Groups, Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups, and Geometric Group Theory
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Saturday May 6, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Permutation Groups, Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups, and Geometric Group Theory, I
Large Cafe, 3rd Floor, Hunter West
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, New York City College of Technology and Graduate Center-CUNY
Simon Smith, University of Lincoln, U.K. sismith@lincoln.ac.uk
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8:30 a.m.
Minimal laminations by hyperbolic surfaces.
Joaqu\'{\i}n Brum*, Universidad de la Rep\'ublica (Uruguay)
(1129-20-272) -
9:00 a.m.
Randomness and complexity in matrix groups.
Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
(1129-20-65) -
9:30 a.m.
The essentially chief series of compactly generated locally compact groups.
Colin Reid, University of Newcastle, Australia
Phillip Wesolek*, Binghamton University
(1129-20-46) -
10:00 a.m.
Computing closures in the pro-nilpotent topology on a free group.
Jorge Almeida, University of Porto
M. H. Shahzamanian, University of Porto
Benjamin Steinberg*, City College of New York
(1129-20-230) -
10:30 a.m.
Discrete groups of automorphism of trees.
Luke Morgan*, University of Western Australia, Australia
(1129-20-341)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 6, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Infinite Permutation Groups, Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups, and Geometric Group Theory, II
HW424, Hunter West
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, New York City College of Technology and Graduate Center-CUNY
Simon Smith, University of Lincoln, U.K. sismith@lincoln.ac.uk
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3:00 p.m.
On limit groups of relatively hyperbolic groups.
Inna Bumagin*, Carleton University
Nicholas Touikan, Stevens Institute of Technology
(1129-20-300) -
3:30 p.m.
Commutation relations and structure constants for Kac-Moody groups.
Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
(1129-20-359) -
4:00 p.m.
Outer space dictating normalizers and centralizers.
Catherine E Pfaff*, University of California Santa Barbara
(1129-20-449) -
4:30 p.m.
Controling the automorphism group of a covering graph.
Primo\v{z} Poto\v{c}nik*, University of Ljubljana
(1129-20-261)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday May 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Infinite Permutation Groups, Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups, and Geometric Group Theory, III ROOM LOCATION CHANGED
HN 1022, Hunter North
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, New York City College of Technology and Graduate Center-CUNY
Simon Smith, University of Lincoln, U.K. sismith@lincoln.ac.uk
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8:00 a.m.
On Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Second Countable Groups with Two-sided Invariant Metrics.
Cheng Chang*, Mercy College
(1129-03-294) -
8:30 a.m.
Flexibility of surface group actions on the line.
Juan Alonso*, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Joaquin Brum, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Cristobal Rivas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
(1129-20-253) -
9:00 a.m.
On the Covering Number of Small Symmetric, Alternating Groups, and Some Sporadic Simple Groups.
Daniela B Nikolova-Popova*, Florida Atlantic University
Luise-Charlotte Kappe, SUNY Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
Spyros Magliveras, Florida Atlantic University
Eric Swartz, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187
Michael Epstein, Florida Atlantic University
(1129-20-237) -
9:30 a.m.
No positive cone in a free product is regular.
Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
Zoran Sunic*, Texas A University
(1129-20-491) -
10:00 a.m.
Minimal Faithful Representation of Chevalley Groups over finite rings.
Keivan Mallahi-Karai*, Jacobs University
Hadi Salmasian, University of Ottawa
Mohammad Bardestani, University of M\"unster
Camelia Karimianpour, University of Michigan
(1129-20-236) -
10:30 a.m.
Coset growth and formal languages.
Yago Antolin*, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
(1129-20-443)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday May 7, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Infinite Permutation Groups, Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups, and Geometric Group Theory, IV, ROOM LOCATION CHANGED
HN 1022, Hunter North
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, New York City College of Technology and Graduate Center-CUNY
Simon Smith, University of Lincoln, U.K. sismith@lincoln.ac.uk
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2:00 p.m.
Minimal valency of an Abels-Cayley graph and group properties.
R\"ognvaldur G. M\"oller*, Science Institute, University of Iceland
(1129-22-166) -
2:30 p.m.
Quasi-isometry invariants associated to Heintze groups.
Matias Carrasco*, Universidad de la Republica
Emiliano Sequeira, Universidad de la Republica
(1129-20-156) -
3:00 p.m.
Compactly generated subgroups of totally disconnected, locally compact groups.
Colin Reid*, University of Newcastle, Australia
(1129-20-340) -
3:30 p.m.
Coordinatizing groups with Lie tensor products.
James B Wilson*, Colorado State University
(1129-20-145) -
4:00 p.m.
Duality in reversible automata generating lamplighter type groups.
Ievgen Bondarenko, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
Dmytro M Savchuk*, University of South Florida
(1129-20-299) -
4:30 p.m.
On the classification of arithmetic Fuchsian groups.
Gerhard Rosenberger*, University of Hamburg
(1129-20-125) -
5:00 p.m.
Classifications of groups with finitely many circular orderings.
Adam Clay, University of Manitoba
Kathryn Mann, University of California
Crist\'obal Rivas*, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
(1129-06-54) -
5:30 p.m.
The Surface Group Conjecture : cyclically pinched and conjugacy pinched one-relator groups.
Laura Ciobanu, Herriott-Watt University. Edinburgh, Scotland EH14AS
Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University, Fairfield,CT 06824, USA
Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Hambrug, Germany
(1129-20-154)
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2:00 p.m.
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