AMS :: Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

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

Associate secretaries:

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

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, I
Room 301, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Hull, University of Florida
- 8:00 a.m.
  Subgroup distortion in hyperbolic groups.
  Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
  Timothy Riley, Cornell University
  (1138-20-145)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalizations of quasiconvexity in a word-hyperbolic group.
  Heejoung Kim*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (1138-20-48)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On strongly quasiconvex subgroups.
  Hung Cong Tran*, The University of Georgia
  (1138-20-230)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Distortion of surfaces in $3$--manifolds.
  Hoang Thanh Nguyen*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1138-20-76)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Obstructions to Riemannian smoothings of locally CAT(0) manifolds.
  Bakul Sathaye*, The Ohio State University
  (1138-20-296)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Diffeomorphism groups of critical regularity.
  Sang-hyun Kim, Seoul National University
  Thomas Koberda*, University of Virginia
  (1138-20-34)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, II
Room 301, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Hull, University of Florida
- 3:00 p.m.
  Random subgroups of acylindrical groups.
  Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
  Alessandro Sisto, ETH
  (1138-20-32)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A dynamical characterization of acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
  Bin Sun*, Vanderbilt University
  (1138-20-126)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $\mathcal{H} -$ and $\mathcal{AH} -$ accessibility.
  Carolyn Abbott, UC Berkeley
  Sahana H Balasubramanya*, Vanderbilt University
  Denis Osin, vanderbilt University
  (1138-20-136)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Property $P_{naive}$ for acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
  Carolyn R Abbott*, University of California, Berkeley
  Francois Dahmani, University of Grenoble, Alpes
  (1138-20-238)

Sunday April 15, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, III
Room 301, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Hull, University of Florida
- 8:00 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 8:30 a.m.
  Cohomology of Bowditch boundaries.
  Jason F Manning*, Cornell University
  Oliver Wang, Cornell University
  (1138-20-236)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Relatively hyperbolic groups with boundary a $2$-sphere.
  Bena Tshishiku*, Harvard University
  Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
  (1138-20-25)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Boundaries and Splittings of CAT(0) Groups.
  Kim E Ruane*, Tufts University
  Chris Hruska, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  (1138-20-339)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Graphs of groups and corresponding splittings of spaces.
  G Christopher Hruska*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Kim Ruane, Tufts University
  (1138-20-345)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Proper homotopy types and Z-boundaries of spaces admitting geometric group actions.
  Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Molly A Moran, Colorado College
  (1138-57-130)

Sunday April 15, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, IV
Room 301, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Hull, University of Florida
- 2:00 p.m.
  Normal generators for mapping class groups are abundant.
  Justin Lanier*, Georgia Tech
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Tech
  (1138-20-244)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Coarse geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Ivan Levcovitz*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  (1138-57-290)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Outer automorphism groups of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Tim Susse*, Bard College at Simon's Rock
  Andrew Sale, Cornell University
  (1138-20-187)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Thermodynamic metrics for moduli of graphs.
  Tarik Aougab*, Providence
  Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
  Yo'av Rieck, University of Arkansas
  (1138-20-278)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A uniform McCarthy-type theorem for linearly growing outer automorphisms of a free group.
  Edgar A. Bering IV*, Temple University
  (1138-20-84)