Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 15, 2011 00:29:53

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011 (Thursday - Sunday)
Meeting #1067

• Thursday January 6, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
  Napoleon C1, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
  Organizers:
  Joshua B. Barnard, University of South Alabama
  Pallavi Dani, Louisiana State University pdani@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometric properties of Thompson's group F.
    Sean Cleary, The City College of New York
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    Melanie Stein, Trinity College
    Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
    (1067-20-993)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Snowflake Groups with Super-Exponential 2-Dimensional Dehn Functions.
    Quan T Tran*, University of Oklahoma
    (1067-00-1330)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of Houghton's Group.
    Sang Rae Lee*, University of Oklahoma
    (1067-20-1535)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Automorphisms of Buildings Constructed Via Covering Spaces.
    Aliska L. Gibbins*, Ohio State University
    (1067-20-2002)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymmetry of the Lipschitz metric on Outer Space.
    Yael Algom-Kfir*, Yale University
    Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
    (1067-20-2403)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Line Patterns in Free Groups.
    Christopher H. Cashen*, University of Utah
    (1067-20-698)
• Thursday January 6, 2011, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
  Napoleon C1, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
  Organizers:
  Joshua B. Barnard, University of South Alabama
  Pallavi Dani, Louisiana State University pdani@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    On (co)homological characterizations of exact groups.
    Jacek Brodzki, University of Southampton
    Graham A. Niblo, University of Southampton
    Piotr W. Nowak*, Texas A&M University
    Nick J. Wright, University of Southampton
    (1067-20-370)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Reduced 1-cohomology and relative (T).
    Talia Fernos*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Alain Valette, Universite de Neuchatel
    (1067-20-2422)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Extremality of the rotation quasimorphism on the modular group.
    Joel Louwsma*, California Institute of Technology
    (1067-57-1530)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Stable commutator length and maps from bounded surfaces to closed surfaces.
    Matthew B. Day*, California Institute of Technology
    (1067-57-682)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    What is a cross ratio?
    Francois Labourie*, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay
    (1067-51-1350)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Hyperplane arrangements in negatively curved manifolds and relative hyperbolicity.
    Igor Belegradek, Georgia Institute of Technology
    G. Christopher Hruska*, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
    (1067-20-2414)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Local Quasiconvexity of Groups acting on Small Cancellation Complexes.
    Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza*, McMaster University
    Daniel T. Wise, McGill University
    (1067-20-563)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Conjugacy classes of solutions to systems of equations over hyperbolic groups.
    Daniel Groves*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Henry Wilton, California Institute of Technology
    (1067-20-1392)