AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:23

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Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday November 17, 1995, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Southern Crescent Ballroom-Virginia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Mark E. Feighn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Michael Handel, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
- 8:30 a.m.
  Cerf theory for graphs.
  Allen E. Hatcher, Cornell University, Ithaca
  Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University, Ithaca
  (906-20-59)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Local growth of subgroups of Lie groups and a discreteness criterion.
  Eleanor G. Rieffel*, University of Southern California
  (906-22-70)
- 9:30 a.m.
  All automorphisms of free groups with max rank fixed subgroups.
  Edward C. Turner*, State University of New York, Albany
  Donald J. Collins, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, England
  (906-20-68)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Boundaries and $L^2$-cohomology for finitely generated groups.
  Gabor Elek*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
  (906-20-12)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Counting fixed points of automorphisms of free groups.
  Gilbert Levitt*, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France
  (906-20-62)

Friday November 17, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Southern Crescent Ballroom-Virginia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Mark E. Feighn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Michael Handel, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
- 2:15 p.m.
  Normal subgroups and end invariants of groups.
  Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
  (906-20-57)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Local connectivity of certain amalgamated products.
  Michael L. Mihalik, Vanderbilt University
  Kim E. Ruane*, Florida State University
  (906-20-60)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Higher geometric invariants of graph groups.
  John E. Meier*, Lafayette College
  Leonard A. VanWyk, Hope College
  (906-20-58)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Rewriting systems and $3$-manifold groups.
  Susan M. Hermiller*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
  (906-20-183)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Kernels of actions on non-positively curved spaces.
  Robert Bieri, University of Frankfurt, Germany
  Ross Geoghegan*, State University of New York, Binghamton
  (906-20-61)

Saturday November 18, 1995, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Southern Crescent Ballroom-Virginia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Mark E. Feighn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Michael Handel, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
- 8:00 a.m.
  Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups.
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Noel Patrick Brady*, University of Utah
  (906-20-66)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Hyperbolic groups with Pontryagin space boundary.
  Sean T. Cleary*, University of Pennsylvania
  (906-20-23)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Combinatorial moduli and finite subdivision rules.
  James W. Cannon, Brigham Young University
  William J. Floyd*, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
  Walter R. Parry, Eastern Michigan University
  (906-20-56)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Sufficiently rich families of planar rings.
  James W. Cannon, Brigham Young University
  William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
  Walter R. Parry*, Eastern Michigan University
  (906-20-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Polygonal complexes, combinatorial and geometric properties.
  Nadia Benakli*, Columbia University
  (906-20-67)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A complex for $GL_2$ and the non-finite presentability of $IA(F_3)$.
  Sava Krstic*, Tufts University
  James McCool, University of Toronto
  (906-20-156)

Saturday November 18, 1995, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Southern Crescent Ballroom-Virginia, Greensboro Hilton Hotel
Organizers:
Mark E. Feighn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Michael Handel, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York
- 2:15 p.m.
  Symmetric patterns of geodesics and surface automorphisms.
  Richard Schwartz*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (906-51-104)
- 2:45 p.m.
  Generalizations of the outer space and collapses of graphs of groups.
  Renfang Jiang*, Michigan Technological University
  (906-20-95)
- 3:15 p.m.
  An example of a non-quasiconvex subgroup of a word hyperbolic group with exotic limit set.
  Ilya Kapovich*, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
  (906-20-21)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Normal forms for free group automorphisms.
  Martin Lustig*, Ruhr University, Germany
  (906-20-14)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Quasi-isometries and Baumslag-Solitar groups.
  Lee D. Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
  Benson S. Farb, University of Chicago
  (906-20-101)
- 4:45 p.m.
  A nonpositively curved squared complex with no finite covers.
  Daniel Wise*, Princeton University
  (906-20-206)

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