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2011 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 10-11, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1072
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Geometry of Arithmetic Groups
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Saturday September 10, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Arithmetic Groups, I
Room 230, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Ken Brown, Cornell University
Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Tim Riley, Cornell University tim.riley@math.cornell.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Survey of invariant orders on arithmetic groups.
Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
(1072-20-150) -
9:00 a.m.
Volume distortion in groups.
Hanna Bennett*, University of Michigan
(1072-20-239) -
9:30 a.m.
Recognizing 3-manifold groups.
Daniel Groves, University of Illinois, Chicago
Jason Fox Manning*, University at Buffalo
Henry Wilton, University College, London
(1072-20-76) -
10:00 a.m.
Torelli groups and symplectic groups.
Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
Dan Margalit*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1072-20-216)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday September 10, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Arithmetic Groups, II
Room 230, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Ken Brown, Cornell University
Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Tim Riley, Cornell University tim.riley@math.cornell.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Filling coarse manifolds in arithmetic groups.
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
(1072-20-235) -
4:00 p.m.
Bounds on eigenvalues of the Laplacian for certain hyperbolic $3$--manifolds.
Nina Juliana White*, University of Michigan
(1072-51-145) -
4:30 p.m.
The automorphisms of McCullough-Miller space.
Adam Piggott*, Bucknell University
(1072-20-193)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday September 11, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Arithmetic Groups, III
Room 230, Rockefeller Hall
Organizers:
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Ken Brown, Cornell University
Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Tim Riley, Cornell University tim.riley@math.cornell.edu
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8:00 a.m.
The Dehn function of $\text{SL}(n;\mathbb{Z})$.
Robert J Young*, University of Toronto
(1072-20-157) -
9:00 a.m.
Isomorphism vs. commensurability for certain classes of groups.
G. Arzhantseva, University of Vienna (Austria)
J.-F. Lafont*, Ohio State University (USA)
(1072-20-66) -
9:30 a.m.
Divergence in right-angled Coxeter groups.
Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
Anne Thomas, University of Sydney
(1072-20-100) -
10:00 a.m.
On restricting free factors in relatively free groups.
Lucas Sabalka*, Binghamton University
Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
(1072-20-153) -
10:30 a.m.
Local homotopy properties of asymptotic cones of groups.
Curtis Kent*, Vanderbilt University
(1072-20-167)
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8:00 a.m.
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