AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:33

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 10, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Zlil Sela, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University ross@math.binghamton.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Cut vertices in commutative graphs.
  James Conant, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
  Ferenc Gerlits, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
  (990-20-108)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An Analogue of the Johnson Homomorphism for $Aut(F_n)$.
  Kai-Uwe Bux*, Cornell University
  (990-20-209)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic cones of uniform lattices.
  Simon Thomas*, Rutgers University
  (990-20-37)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Proper $3$-realizability.
  Francisco F. Lasheras*, University of Seville, Spain
  Manuel Cardenas-Escudero, University of Seville, Spain
  (990-57-23)

Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 10, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Zlil Sela, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University ross@math.binghamton.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Upper distortion functions and the membership problem.
  Stuart W Margolis, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  John Meakin, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  Zoran Sunik*, Texas A&M University
  (990-20-88)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Forest Diagrams for Elements of Thompson's Group $F$.
  James M Belk*, Cornell University
  Kenneth S Brown, Cornell University
  (990-20-258)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Picture Groups: Homological and CAT(0) properties.
  Daniel S. Farley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (990-20-260)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On bilipschitz imbeddings into a product of trees.
  Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
  Viktor Schroeder, University of Zurich
  (990-51-131)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On finitely generated subgroups in a certain torsion group of intermediate growth.
  Rostislav I Grigorchuk*, Texas A&M University
  John S Wilson, University of Oxford
  (990-20-86)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Extensions of surface groups by irreducible groups of mapping classes.
  Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
  (990-20-229)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 10, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Zlil Sela, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University ross@math.binghamton.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Simplicial nonpositive curvature.
  Tadeusz Januszkiewicz*, The Ohio State Univrsity
  Jacek Swiatkowski, Wroclaw University
  (990-51-197)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Relatively hyperbolic groups and almost convexity.
  Inna Bumagin*, McGill University
  (990-20-245)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Periodic rank one geodesics in foldable cubical complexes.
  Xiangdong Xie*, Washington University
  (990-53-17)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Relative hyperbolicity of limit groups.
  Emina Alibegovic*, University of Michigan
  (990-51-109)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rapid Decay and Geometry - Part I.
  Indira Chatterji*, Cornell University
  (990-20-194)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Rapid Decay and Geometry - Part II.
  Kim E. Ruane*, Tufts University
  (990-20-192)

Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 10, Lecture Hall
Organizers:
Zlil Sela, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University ross@math.binghamton.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Garside structures for Artin groups.
  Jon McCammond*, U.C. Santa Barbara
  (990-20-123)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Poly-free constructions for Artin groups.
  Susan M. Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
  Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University
  (990-20-248)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Even Isomorphism Theorem for Coxeter Groups.
  Mike Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
  (990-20-150)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Loops in Coxeter diagrams: what do they get us?
  Patrick Bahls*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  (990-20-53)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The cohomology of right angled Artin groups with group ring coefficients.
  John Meier*, Lafayette College
  (990-20-149)

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