AMS :: Spring Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 11, 2020 03:30:04

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday April 4, 2020, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Group Theory and Logic, I
Room 121, Class of 1950 Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Meng-Che (Turbo) Ho, Purdue University ho140@purdue.edu
Julia F. Knight, University of Notre Dame
D.B. McReynolds, Purdue University
Thomas Sinclair, Purdue University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Conjugacy and power conjugacy problems in finitely presented groups.
  Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
  Alexander Olshanskii, Vanderbilt University
  (1157-20-377)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Residual Finiteness of solvable groups and distortion of cyclic subgroups.
  Mark A Pengitore*, The Ohio State University
  (1157-20-605)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Equationally noetherian groups and families.
  Michael Hull*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  (1157-20-445)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Acylindrically hyperbolic groups and elementary equivalence.
  Simon André*, Vanderbilt University
  (1157-20-416)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Saturday April 4, 2020, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Group Theory and Logic, II
Room 121, Class of 1950 Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Meng-Che (Turbo) Ho, Purdue University ho140@purdue.edu
Julia F. Knight, University of Notre Dame
D.B. McReynolds, Purdue University
Thomas Sinclair, Purdue University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Some model theory of proalgebraic groups.
  Anand Pillay*, University of Notre Dame
  (1157-03-447)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dp-Minimality in Continuous Logic.
  Victoria Noquez*, Indiana University Bloomington
  (1157-03-616)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Generic 2-Transitive Actions with Solvable Point Stabilizers.
  Mark Pullins*, University of Colorado-Boulder
  (1157-20-533)

Sunday April 5, 2020, 8:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Special Session on Group Theory and Logic, III
Room 121, Class of 1950 Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Meng-Che (Turbo) Ho, Purdue University ho140@purdue.edu
Julia F. Knight, University of Notre Dame
D.B. McReynolds, Purdue University
Thomas Sinclair, Purdue University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:00 a.m.
  Orbit equivalence relations of some classes of non-locally compact Polish groups.
  Alexander S. Kechris, California Institute of Technology
  Maciej Malicki, Warsaw School of Economics
  Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, California Institute of Technology
  Joseph Zielinski*, Chicago, Illinois
  (1157-03-330)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Coarse computability, the density metric and the Hausdorff distance between Turing degrees.
  Carl G. Jockusch, University of Illinois
  Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois
  (1157-03-202)