Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

• Saturday January 7, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Invariants of Groups and Related Topics, I
  Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Nic Koban, University of Maine, Farmington
  Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    ${\mathbb Z}G$-modules over $CAT(0)$ spaces. Preliminary report.
    Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1077-20-1173)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    $\Sigma^1$ for Semi-Direct Products Acting on Locally Finite Trees.
    Keith M Jones*, Trinity College, Hartford CT
    (1077-20-995)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Novikov homology of right-angled Artin groups.
    Dirk Schuetz*, Durham University
    (1077-20-1907)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Boundary of a CAT(0) 2-Complex.
    Yulan Qing*, Tufts University
    (1077-54-617)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric and homological finiteness in free abelian covers.
    Alexander I. Suciu*, Northeastern University
    (1077-20-1180)
• Saturday January 7, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Invariants of Groups and Related Topics, II
  Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Nic Koban, University of Maine, Farmington
  Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Sigma invariants of some self-similar groups.
    Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska
    Zoran Sunic*, Texas A&M University
    (1077-20-2773)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sigma invariants for Thompson and generalised Thompson groups.
    Dessislava Hristova Kochloukova*, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
    Robert Bieri, University of Binghamton, SUNY
    Ross Geoghegan, University of Binghamton, SUNY
    (1077-20-429)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The BNS-invariant of pure braid groups.
    John Meier*, Lafayette College
    (1077-20-1838)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The $\Omega$-invariant of a semi-direct product of groups.
    Nic Koban*, University of Maine Farmington
    Peter Wong, Bates College
    (1077-20-1666)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sigma theory and twisted conjugacy classes.
    Daciberg Lima Goncalves*, IME-Unversity of São Paulo
    Dessislava H. Kouchloukova, University of Campinas
    (1077-20-729)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $\Omega^n$ invariants and twisted conjugacy classes.
    Nic Koban, University of Maine, Farmington
    Peter Wong*, Bates College
    (1077-20-2323)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion