Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:09

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

• Wednesday January 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, Complexity, and Theory of Security, I
  Room 101, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Maggie Habeeb, City University of New York
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms and isomorphism of finite p-groups.
    James B Wilson*, Colorado State University
    (1077-20-919)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polynomial-time isomorphism test for groups with abelian Sylow towers.
    László Babai, the University of Chicago
    Youming Qiao*, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University
    (1077-68-1157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On restricting free factors in relatively free groups.
    Lucas Sabalka*, Binghamton University
    Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
    (1077-20-1122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algorithms in \textsf{GAP} for permutability and Sylow permutability in finite groups.
    Adolfo Ballester-Bolinches, Universitat de València
    Ramon Esteban-Romero*, Universitat Politècnica de València
    (1077-20-1079)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Statistics about curves on surfaces.
    Moira Chas*, Stony Brook University
    Steven Lalley, University of Chicago
    Keren Li, Stony Brook University
    Bangrui Chen, Stony Brook University
    (1077-57-357)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Infinite primitive permutation groups whose set of subdegrees has a finite upper bound.
    Simon M. Smith*, Syracuse University
    (1077-20-716)
• Wednesday January 4, 2012, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, Complexity, and Theory of Security, II
  Room 101, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Maggie Habeeb, City University of New York
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Polynomial-time Theory of Matrix Groups.
    László Babai*, University of Chicago
    Robert Beals, Renaissance Technologies
    Ákos Seress, Ohio State University
    (1077-20-1481)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Stackable groups.
    Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    (1077-20-834)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Security assumptions in non-commutative cryptography.
    Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
    (1077-94-1322)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Subgroups of semigroups freely generated by idempotent matrices.
    John C. Meakin*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1077-20-856)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The submonoid membership problem for groups.
    Markus Lohrey, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig
    Benjamin Steinberg*, City College of New York
    (1077-20-1462)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Generic properties of finitely presented groups.
    Robert H Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
    (1077-20-1395)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Extreme compression and efficient computation, with application to the word problem.
    Will Dison, Bank of England
    Tim Riley*, Cornell
    (1077-20-1682)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    On the Dimension of Matrix Representations of Nilpotent Groups.
    Maggie Habeeb*, CUNY Graduate Center
    Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1077-68-1207)
• Thursday January 5, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, Complexity, and Theory of Security, III
  Room 101, Hynes
  Organizers:
  Maggie Habeeb, City University of New York
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A More Efficient Approach to Bayesian Variable Selection.
    Eric R Ruggieri*, Duquesne University
    (1077-62-1198)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Schreier graphs and Schreier dynamical system of the action of Thompson's group $F$ on the Cantor set.
    Dmytro M Savchuk*, Binghamton University
    (1077-20-1887)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some Observations Involving the Baumslag groups $G(m,n)$.
    Anthony E Clement*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    (1077-20-1297)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    From indexed languages to generating functions.
    Jared Adams, Southern Utah University
    Eric M Freden*, Southern Utah University
    Marni Mishna, Simon Fraser University
    (1077-05-864)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Abelian extensions of orthogonal Lie algebras in $E_6$ and $E_8$.
    Andrew Douglas*, City University of New York
    Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York
    Joe Repka, University of Toronto
    (1077-17-1454)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Twin Towers of Hanoi: diameters of coupled graphs.
    Zoran Sunic*, Texas A&M University
    (1077-20-2767)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Permutational isomorphism of permutation groups.
    László Babai, The University of Chicago
    Paolo Codenotti*, IMA, University of Minnesota
    Youming Qiao, Tsinghua University
    (1077-68-1334)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Quantum Algorithms for Fixed Points and Invariant Subgroups.
    Stephen Majewicz*, Kingsborough Community College
    (1077-20-902)