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2012 Spring Western Section Meeting
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
March 3-4, 2012 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1078
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Special Session on Asymptotic Group Theory
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Saturday March 3, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotic Group Theory, I
Room 112, Webster Hall
Organizers:
Tara Davis, Hawaii Pacific University tara.c.davis@gmail.com
Erik Guentner, University of Hawaii erik@math.hawaii.edu
Michael Hull, Vanderbilt University michael.b.hull@vanderbilt.edu
Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University m.sapir@vanderbilt.edu
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8:30 a.m.
The dimension growth of groups.
Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
(1078-20-10) -
9:00 a.m.
Subgroup distortion in wreath products of cyclic groups.
Tara C Davis*, Hawaii Pacific University
Alexander Yu. Olshanskii, Vanderbilt University
(1078-20-186) -
9:30 a.m.
Divergence, thick groups, and morse geodesics.
Jason Behrstock*, CUNY Lehman College
Cornelia Drutu, Oxford
(1078-20-99) -
10:00 a.m.
Von Neumann algebras of hyperbolic groups.
Ionut Chifan, U. Iowa
Thomas Sinclair*, UCLA
(1078-46-93) -
10:30 a.m.
Modified right-angled Artin groups.
Noel Brady*, University of Oklahoma
(1078-20-357)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Asymptotic Group Theory, II
Room 112, Webster Hall
Organizers:
Tara Davis, Hawaii Pacific University tara.c.davis@gmail.com
Erik Guentner, University of Hawaii erik@math.hawaii.edu
Michael Hull, Vanderbilt University michael.b.hull@vanderbilt.edu
Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University m.sapir@vanderbilt.edu
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3:15 p.m.
Quasi-isometric properties of graph braid groups.
Aaron Abrams, Emory University
Praphat Xavier Fernandes*, Emory University
(1078-20-188) -
3:45 p.m.
Density of subgroups of Thompson's group F.
Sean Cleary*, The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center
(1078-20-158) -
4:15 p.m.
Definable subsets in a free group.
Olga Kharlampovich*, Hunter College, CUNY
Alexei Myasnikov, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ
(1078-20-315) -
4:45 p.m.
Derivation space and computation space in semigroups and groups.
Alexander Yu. Olshanskiy*, Vanderbilt University (U.S.A.) and Moscow State University (Russia)
(1078-20-101) -
5:15 p.m.
Algorithmic problems in metabelian groups.
Alexei Miasnikov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
(1078-20-100)
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3:15 p.m.
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Sunday March 4, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotic Group Theory, III
Room 112, Webster Hall
Organizers:
Tara Davis, Hawaii Pacific University tara.c.davis@gmail.com
Erik Guentner, University of Hawaii erik@math.hawaii.edu
Michael Hull, Vanderbilt University michael.b.hull@vanderbilt.edu
Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University m.sapir@vanderbilt.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Relations in the Torelli subgroup of $\mathrm{Aut}(F_n)$.
Matthew B. Day*, University of Arkansas
Andrew Putman, Rice University
(1078-20-169) -
9:00 a.m.
Direct embeddings of relatively hyperbolic groups with optimal $\ell^p$ compression exponent.
David Hume*, University of Oxford
(1078-20-157) -
9:30 a.m.
Cubulating relatively hyperbolic groups.
Chris Hruska*, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Daniel Wise, McGill University
(1078-20-408) -
10:00 a.m.
Quasimorphisms and bounded cohomology of groups with hyperbolically embedded subgroups.
Michael Hull*, Vanderbilt University
(1078-20-330) -
10:30 a.m.
Extremality of the rotation quasimorphism on the modular group.
Joel Louwsma*, The University of Oklahoma
(1078-20-295)
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8:30 a.m.
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