Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:12

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

• Friday January 5, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS-AWM Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University charney@brandeis.edu
  Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University vogtmann@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms of right-angled groups.
    Adam Piggott*, Tufts University
    Mauricio Gutierrez, Tufts University
    (1023-20-237)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quasi-isometric classification of graph manifolds.
    Jason A. Behrstock*, University of Utah
    Walter D. Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
    (1023-20-136)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dual presentations for Artin groups.
    Jon McCammond*, U C Santa Barbara
    (1023-20-476)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spaces with nonpositive immersions.
    Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
    (1023-20-1164)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A geometric perspective on the conjugacy problem in Thompson's group F.
    Kai-Uwe Bux*, University of Virginia
    Dimitriy Sonkin, University of Virginia
    (1023-20-1088)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hilbert space compression of groups.
    Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
    (1023-20-1372)
• Friday January 5, 2007, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS-AWM Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
  Organizers:
  Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University charney@brandeis.edu
  Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University vogtmann@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Systolic spaces: Minimal surfaces, Flat Torus Theorem and related results, according to Tomasz Elsner.
    Tadeusz Januszkiewicz*, Ohio State University
    (1023-20-297)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    $\mathbf{SL_3}(\mathbb{Z}[t])$ is not $FP_2$.
    Kai-Uwe Bux, University of Virginia
    Kevin Wortman*, Yale University
    (1023-20-1678)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Lattices in automorphism groups of polygonal complexes with symmetric links.
    Anne Thomas*, University of Chicago
    (1023-20-421)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Algebraic finiteness for Kleinian and relatively hyperbolic groups.
    Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Richard Weidmann, Heriott-Watt University
    (1023-20-442)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Relative hyperbolicity of countable groups.
    G Christopher Hruska*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1023-20-906)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    The Isomorphism Problem for toral relatively hyperbolic groups.
    Daniel P Groves*, California Institute of Technology
    Francois Dahmani, Laboratoire Emile Picard, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
    (1023-20-391)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    High dimensional isoperimetric functions of groups.
    Noel Brady*, University of Oklahoma
    Max Forester, University of Oklahoma
    (1023-20-1530)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    High dimensional isoperimetric functions of groups.
    Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
    Max Forester*, University of Oklahoma
    (1023-20-1532)
• Saturday January 6, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS-AWM Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
  Organizers:
  Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University charney@brandeis.edu
  Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Wicket groups and ring groups.
    Tara E Brendle*, Louisiana State University
    Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
    (1023-57-1754)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Brownstein-Lee Conjecture.
    Craig Jensen*, University of New Orleans
    Jon McCammond, UC - Santa Barbara
    John Meier, Lafayette College
    (1023-20-69)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Core and intersection number in compactified outer space, Part I.
    Michael Handel, Lehman College, CUNY
    Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
    (1023-20-838)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Core and intersection number in compactified outer space, Part II.
    Michael Handel*, Lehman College, CUNY
    Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark
    (1023-20-839)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unstable Morita Classes in the Homology of the Mapping Class Group.
    James R Conant*, University of Tennessee
    (1023-20-258)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of some subgroups of the automorphism group of a free group.
    Alexandra R Pettet*, Stanford University
    (1023-20-1070)