Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 15, 2011 00:29:54

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

• Friday January 7, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Groups, Geometry, and Applications, I
  Borgne Room, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subgroup distortion and bounded cohomology.
    Indira Chatterji*, Orléans (France) and OSU
    Guido Mislin, ETHZ and OSU
    Christophe Pittet, Marseille (France)
    Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University
    (1067-20-1346)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolic Surface Subgroups of One-ended Doubles of Free Groups.
    Sang-hyun Kim*, Tufts University/KAIST
    Sang-il Oum, KAIST
    (1067-20-1187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pushing fillings in right-angled Artin groups.
    Aaron Abrams, Emory University
    Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
    Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
    Moon Duchin, Univerisity of Michigan
    Robert Young, IHES
    (1067-20-1806)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generic Properties of Groups and Surface Subgroups.
    Sang-hyun Kim, Tufts University
    Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1067-20-1709)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Infinite words and groups.
    Alexei Miasnikov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1067-20-1095)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy.
    Mark F Hagen*, McGill University
    (1067-20-526)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Involutions and the word length of the Mobius group.
    Ara S. Basmajian*, CUNY, Graduate center and Hunter college
    (1067-30-367)
• Saturday January 8, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Groups, Geometry, and Applications, II
  Borgne Room, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Generating random braids.
    Juan Gonzalez-Meneses*, Universidad de Sevilla
    (1067-20-462)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dehn functions and finiteness properties of subgroups of CAT(0) groups.
    Noel P. Brady*, University of Oklahoma
    Dan P. Guralnik, University of Oklahoma
    Sang Rae Lee, University of Oklahoma
    (1067-20-1640)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Divergence in right-angled Artin groups.
    Jason Behrstock, Lehman College, CUNY
    Ruth Charney*, Brandeis University
    (1067-20-1127)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Enumerating Primitives and Palindromes in Rank Two Free Groups.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers University, Newark
    Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY and Graduate Center
    (1067-20-338)