AMS :: Fall Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Wednesday, February 5, 2020 07:49:26

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu

Saturday November 9, 2019, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Geometric Group Theory and Teichm\"uller Theory, I
Room 2136, Interdisciplinary Studies South
Organizers:
Matthew Durham, University of California, Riverside mdurham@ucr.edu
Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  Groups of type FP and their quasi-isometry classes.
  Robert Kropholler, Tufts University
  Ian J. Leary, University of Southampton
  Ignat Soroko*, Louisiana State University
  (1153-20-15)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random walks and quasi-convexity.
  Michael Hull*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  (1153-20-247)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Action rigidity for free products of hyperbolic manifold groups.
  Emily R Stark*, University of Utah
  Daniel J Woodhouse, University of Oxford
  (1153-20-351)

Saturday November 9, 2019, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Geometric Group Theory and Teichm\"uller Theory, II
Room 2136, Interdisciplinary Studies South
Organizers:
Matthew Durham, University of California, Riverside mdurham@ucr.edu
Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discreteness Algorithms: A Case Study.
  Caleb J. Ashley*, University of Michigan
  (1153-51-421)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Counting hyperbolic manifolds which bound geometrically.
  Michelle Chu*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Alexander Kolpakov, Universite de Neuchatel
  (1153-57-231)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Holomorphic retracts of Teichmuller space.
  Dmitri Gekhtman*, Caltech and QGM Aarhus
  (1153-51-441)

Sunday November 10, 2019, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Geometric Group Theory and Teichm\"uller Theory, III
Room 2136, Interdisciplinary Studies South
Organizers:
Matthew Durham, University of California, Riverside mdurham@ucr.edu
Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
- 8:00 a.m.
  Spectral Rigidity of q-differential Metrics.
  Marissa Kawehi Loving*, Georgia Tech
  (1153-20-261)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Statistics for random curves on surfaces.
  Tarik Aougab*, Haverford College
  Jonah Gaster, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  (1153-57-337)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discrete harmonic maps from hyperbolic surfaces.
  Jonah Gaster*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Brice Loustau, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
  L\'eonard Monsaingeon, Universidade de Lisboa
  (1153-52-410)