AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Friday, December 14, 2018 03:30:05

Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting

• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• April 14-15, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1138

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

• Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory and Dynamics, I
  Room 305, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington
  Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
  Grace Work, Vanderbilt University grace.work@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Random mapping class group elements have generic foliations.
    Vaibhav Gadre, University of Glasgow
    Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
    (1138-37-33)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Exotic limit sets of Teichmuller geodesic rays.
    Sarah C Mousley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1138-51-191)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dense conjugacy classes in mapping class groups.
    Nicholas G Vlamis*, University of Michigan
    (1138-57-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Introduction to Dilation Surfaces.
    Jane Wang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1138-37-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bending Convex Projective Manifolds to Achieve New Geometry in Cusps.
    Martin Bobb*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1138-51-162)
• Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory and Dynamics, II
  Room 305, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington
  Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
  Grace Work, Vanderbilt University grace.work@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some applications of ergodic ideas to geometric group theory.
    Alex Furman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1138-22-216)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Flexibility questions in dynamical systems and their connections with geometry.
    Alena Erchenko*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1138-37-80)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Critical exponents of invariant random subgroups in negative curvature.
    Ilya Gekhtman*, Yale University
    Arie Levit, Yale University
    (1138-37-168)
• Sunday April 15, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory and Dynamics, III
  Room 305, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington
  Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
  Grace Work, Vanderbilt University grace.work@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Horocycle orbits in strata of translation surfaces.
    Jon Chaika*, University of Utah
    John Smillie, University of Warwick
    Barak Weiss, Tel Aviv University
    (1138-37-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Divergent Trajectories and Expanding Curves on Homogeneous Spaces.
    Osama Khalil*, The Ohio State University
    (1138-37-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hausdorff Dimension, Divergence, and Teichmuller Geodesic Flow!
    Paul Apisa*, University of Chicago
    Hamid al-Saqban, University of Maryland
    Alena Erchenko, Penn State University
    Osama Khalil, The Ohio State University
    Shahriar Mirzadeh, Brandeis University
    Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
    Howard Masur, University of Chicago
    (1138-37-245)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Translation surfaces with multiple short saddle connections.
    Benjamin Dozier*, Stanford University
    (1138-37-224)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Comparison of Period Coordinates and Teichmüller Distance.
    Ian Alexander Frankel*, University of Chicago
    (1138-51-177)
• Sunday April 15, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory and Dynamics, IV
  Room 305, Buttrick Hall
  Organizers:
  Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington
  Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
  Grace Work, Vanderbilt University grace.work@vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Continued Fraction Algorithms for a set of Fuchsian Triangle Groups.
    Kariane Calta*, Vassar Collage
    (1138-37-373)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ergodicity of Iwasawa continued fractions via markable geodesics.
    Anton Lukyanenko*, George Mason University
    Joseph Vandehey, Ohio State University
    (1138-37-211)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geodesics in Outer Space.
    Catherine Pfaff*, University of California Santa Barbara
    Yael Algom-Kfir, Haifa University
    Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    (1138-20-348)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Counting conjugacy classes of fully irreducibles in $Out(F_r)$.
    Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Michael Hull, University of Florida
    Catherine Pfaff, University of California at Santa-Barbara
    (1138-20-68)