Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 25, 2014 00:29:02
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD
January 15-18, 2014 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1096
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
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Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
Room 321, BCC
Organizers:
Tariq Aougab, Yale University
Curt Kent, University of Toronto
Sang Rae Lee, Texas A&M University
Emily Stark, Tufts University emily.stark@tufts.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Convex cocompactness in mapping class groups via quasiconvexity in right-angled Artin groups.
Johanna Mangahas*, Brown University
Samuel J Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
(1096-20-1347) -
8:30 a.m.
TALK CANCELLED: Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes with dilatation of algebraic degree $2g$.
Hyunshik Shin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1096-57-2484) -
9:00 a.m.
Higher dimensional filling and divergence functions for mapping class groups.
Jason Behrstock*, CUNY, Lehman College and the Graduate Center
Cornelia Drutu, Oxford
(1096-20-2517) -
9:30 a.m.
TALK CANCELLED: Generalizations of the Kan-Thurston Theorem.
Raeyong Kim*, The Ohio State University
(1096-57-2520) -
10:00 a.m.
Nonpositively curved Eulerian cube complexes and reciprocity.
Richard A Scott*, Santa Clara University
(1096-57-826) -
10:30 a.m.
Almost Hyperbolic---Flat Strips are "Rare" in Rank One CAT(0) Spaces.
Russell M Ricks*, University of Michigan
(1096-51-2453) -
11:00 a.m.
TALK CANCELLED: Quasi-isometry properties of subdivision rules.
Brian C Rushton*, Temple University
(1096-57-2147) -
11:30 a.m.
A Space of CAT(-1) structures.
Sang-hyun Kim, KAIST
Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
(1096-57-2619)
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8:00 a.m.
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Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
Room 321, BCC
Organizers:
Tariq Aougab, Yale University
Curt Kent, University of Toronto
Sang Rae Lee, Texas A&M University
Emily Stark, Tufts University emily.stark@tufts.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Hyperbolicity of the Cyclic Splitting Complex.
Brian Mann*, University of Utah
(1096-51-949) -
1:30 p.m.
Subfactor projections for Out($F_n$).
Samuel J Taylor*, University of Texas, Austin
(1096-20-1151) -
2:00 p.m.
Quasi-isometry rigidity for right-angled Artin group with finite outer automorphism group.
Jingyin Huang*, New York University
(1096-20-1936) -
2:30 p.m.
Stable commutator length in Baumslag--Solitar groups.
Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
Max Forester, The University of Oklahoma
Joel Louwsma*, The University of Oklahoma
(1096-20-608) -
3:00 p.m.
Finiteness Properties of Arithmetic Groups.
Brendan Kelly*, University of Utah
(1096-22-1810) -
3:30 p.m.
Acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
Michael Hull*, University of Illinois at Chicago
(1096-20-2725)
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1:00 p.m.
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Friday January 17, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
Room 321, BCC
Organizers:
Tariq Aougab, Yale University
Curtis Kent, University of Toronto
Sang Rae Lee, Technion
Emily Stark, Tufts University emily.stark@tufts.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Visual Boundaries for Diestel-Leader Graphs.
Keith M Jones*, SUNY Oneonta
(1096-20-1738) -
8:30 a.m.
Large-scale geometry of certain right-angled Coxeter groups.
Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
Anne Thomas, University of Glasgow
(1096-20-1477) -
9:00 a.m.
Asymptotic dimension with control.
Alexander Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
(1096-51-1593) -
9:30 a.m.
TALK MOVED:Right-angled Artin groups and finite subgraphs of curve graphs.
Sang-hyun Kim, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Thomas Koberda*, Yale University
(1096-20-713) -
10:00 a.m.
Uniform hyperbolicity for arc and curve graphs.
Sebastian W. Hensel*, The University of Chicago
Piotr Przytycki, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Richard C. H. Webb, The University of Warwick
(1096-20-1511) -
10:30 a.m.
Stability phenomena for sequences of representations of the classical Weyl groups.
Jennifer C. H. Wilson*, University of Chicago
(1096-20-2165)
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8:00 a.m.