Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:24

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 10-13, 2001
Meeting #962

• Wednesday January 10, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Stephen G. Brick, University of South Alabama ggg@math.usouthal.edu
  Igor Mineyev, University of South Alabama
  Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama
  Martin R. Bridson, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
  Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Semi-Direct Products of Graphs of Groups.
    Debra L Boutin*, Hamilton College
    Thomas A Stiadle, Wells College
    (962-20-138)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algebraic extensions of free groups.
    Alexei Miasnikov*, The City College of CUNY
    (962-20-1228)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On asymptotic dimension of discrete groups.
    Alexander N Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
    (962-20-944)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Translation lengths in $Out(F_n)$.
    Emina Alibegovic*, University of Utah
    (962-20-1424)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Splittings of mapping tori of free group automorphisms.
    Peter Brinkmann*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (962-20-1055)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Top-dimensional homology of automorphism groups of free groups.
    Karen L Vogtmann*, Cornell University
    (962-20-1071)
• Wednesday January 10, 2001, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
  Organizers:
  Stephen G. Brick, University of South Alabama ggg@math.usouthal.edu
  Igor Mineyev, University of South Alabama
  Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama
  Martin R. Bridson, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
  Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Generalizing Diagram Groups.
    John R Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
    (962-20-858)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Finiteness and CAT(0) properties of diagram groups.
    Daniel S Farley*, Penn State University
    (962-20-1045)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Closed surface subgroups of free-by-cyclic groups.
    Noel P Brady*, University of Oklahoma
    Graham Niblo, University of Southampton
    Eric Swenson, Brigham Young University
    (962-20-1107)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Large Tits' boundary diameter implies rank 1.
    Eric L Swenson*, BYU
    Kim Ruane, Tufts
    (962-20-902)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A Freiheitssatz for Semi-Staggered Relative Presentations.
    Julia D Fredericks*, John Carroll University
    (962-20-843)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Quasiconvexity in nonpositively curved spaces with isolated flats.
    Christopher Hruska*, Cornell University
    (962-20-1395)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Why do certain CAT(0) groups have unique boundary?
    Kim E Ruane*, Tufts University
    Mike Mihalik, Vanderbilt University
    (962-20-1389)
• Thursday January 11, 2001, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
  Organizers:
  Stephen G. Brick, University of South Alabama ggg@math.usouthal.edu
  Igor Mineyev, University of South Alabama
  Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama
  Martin R. Bridson, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
  Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Plane Polynomial Crystallographic Groups.
    Karel Dekimpe*, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Kortrijk
    (962-20-652)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Developments in coset enumeration.
    George Havas*, The University of Queensland
    Colin Ramsay, The University of Queensland
    (962-20-856)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An algorithm to detect a nonpositively-curved metric simplical complex.
    Jon McCammond*, Texas A\&M University
    Murray Elder, Texas A\&M University
    (962-20-787)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Subgroup structure of word-hyperbolic groups.
    Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Richard Weidmann, Ruhr-Universitat at Bochum
    (962-20-866)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph products and Cannon pairs.
    Joseph Loeffler*, The College of New Jersey
    John Meier, Lafayette College
    James Worthington, Binghamton University
    (962-20-1198)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Geometry of the space of semi-labelled binary trees, and an application to computational biology.
    Louis Billera, cornell university
    Susan Holmes*, statistics, stanford
    Karen Vogtmann, cornell
    (962-92-743)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Subgroup separability in tree groups and other graph groups.
    Tim Hsu*, Pomona College
    Daniel T. Wise, Brandeis University
    (962-20-1058)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Non-amenable finitely presented groups without free subgroups.
    Alexander Olshanskii, Vanderbilt University, Moscow State University
    Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
    (962-20-859)
• Thursday January 11, 2001, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
  Organizers:
  Stephen G. Brick, University of South Alabama ggg@math.usouthal.edu
  Igor Mineyev, University of South Alabama
  Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama
  Martin R. Bridson, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
  Philip L. Bowers, Florida State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Class of Rigid Coxeter Groups.
    Anton Kaul*, University of South Florida
    (962-20-647)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Visual JSJ Decompositions of Coxeter Groups.
    Michael L Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
    Steven T Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (962-20-133)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Commensurability classes of hyperbolic Coxeter simplex reflection groups.
    Norman W Johnson, Wheaton College
    Ruth Kellerhals, University of Fribourg
    John G Ratcliffe*, Vanderbilt University
    Steven T Tschantz, Vanderbilt University
    (962-20-696)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homological finiteness conditions and finite derivation type.
    Juan M Alonso, Industrilogik
    Susan M Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    (962-20-885)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Test elements on the boundary of a group.
    Edward C Turner*, SUNY Albany
    (962-20-895)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The canonical JSJ decomposition for fully residually free groups and Krull dimension of $F^n$.
    Olga G. Kharlampovich*, McGill University
    (962-20-1434)