AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
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)
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