AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, January 7, 2020 09:25:35

Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting

• Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
• October 12-13, 2019 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1151

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

• Saturday October 12, 2019, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Group Actions on Manifolds and Related Spaces, I
  Room 329, Classroom Wing
  Organizers:
  Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
  Yash Lodha, École Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne, Switzerland yash.lodha@epfl.ch
  Matt Zaremsky, University at Albany, State University of New York
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space.
    Spencer Dowdall*, Vanderbilt University
    Grace Work, Girls' Angle and MIT
    (1151-37-278)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Actions of mapping class groups on homology.
    Bena Tshishiku*, Brown University
    (1151-57-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher spin mapping class groups and their applications.
    Aaron Calderon, Yale University
    Nick Salter*, Columbia University
    (1151-57-32)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Higher connectivity of complexes for braided Higman-Thompson groups.
    Rachel Skipper*, The Ohio State University
    Xiaolei Wu, University of Bonn
    (1151-20-109)
• Saturday October 12, 2019, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Group Actions on Manifolds and Related Spaces, II
  Room 329, Classroom Wing
  Organizers:
  Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
  Yash Lodha, École Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne, Switzerland yash.lodha@epfl.ch
  Matt Zaremsky, University at Albany, State University of New York
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Random Outer Automorphisms of Free Groups.
    Catherine Pfaff*, Queen's University
    Ilya Kapovich, Hunter College
    Joseph Maher, CUNY College of Staten Island
    Samuel J. Taylor, Temple University
    (1151-20-81)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weil-Petersson translation length and manifolds with many fibered fillings.
    Chris Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Yair Minsky, Yale University
    Juan Souto, Universite de Rennes
    Samuel J Taylor*, Temple University
    (1151-57-99)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Maps between 3-manifolds.
    Michael Hull*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1151-57-186)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Incoherent free by free groups.
    Robert P Kropholler, Tufts University
    Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
    (1151-20-34)
• Sunday October 13, 2019, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Group Actions on Manifolds and Related Spaces, III
  Room 329, Classroom Wing
  Organizers:
  Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
  Yash Lodha, École Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne, Switzerland yash.lodha@epfl.ch
  Matt Zaremsky, University at Albany, State University of New York
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Semistability Problem.
    Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University
    (1151-57-38)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Addition in Bounded Cohomology.
    James Farre*, Yale University
    (1151-57-102)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vanishing in top-dimensional cohomology of $GL_n(\mathcal{O})$.
    Andrew Putman, University of Notre Dame
    Daniel Studenmund*, University of Notre Dame
    (1151-20-132)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Heat kernels are not uniform expanders.
    Wouter Van Limbeek*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Mikolaj Fraczyk, Institute of Advanced Study
    (1151-37-255)
• Sunday October 13, 2019, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Group Actions on Manifolds and Related Spaces, IV
  Room 329, Classroom Wing
  Organizers:
  Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
  Yash Lodha, École Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne, Switzerland yash.lodha@epfl.ch
  Matt Zaremsky, University at Albany, State University of New York
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Locally solvable subgroups of PLo(I) are countable.
    Amanda Taylor*, Alfred University
    (1151-20-192)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Groups of automata acting on dendrites.
    Casey Donoven*, Binghamton University
    (1151-20-107)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Group of Boundary Fixing Homeomorphisms of the Disc is Not Left-Orderable.
    James Thomas |Hyde*, Cornell University
    (1151-06-265)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability of boundary actions and applications.
    Jonathan Bowden, Monash University
    Kathryn Mann*, Cornell University
    (1151-57-232)