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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
March 29-30, 2014 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1098
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Group Theory
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Saturday March 29, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Group Theory, I
Sondheim 109, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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8:00 a.m.
Subgroups of Coxeter Groups.
Genevieve S. Walsh*, Tufts University
(1098-51-138) -
8:30 a.m.
Congruence subgroup problems.
Richard P Kent*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
(1098-20-64) -
9:00 a.m.
Residual finiteness of some outer automorphism groups.
Yago Antolin*, Vanderbilt University
(1098-20-87) -
9:30 a.m.
Homological and homotopical Dehn functions are different.
Aaron Abrams*, Washington and Lee University
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Pallavi Dani, Louisiana State University
Robert Young, University of Toronto
(1098-20-290) -
10:00 a.m.
Geometry of groups through subdivision rules.
Brian Rushton*, Temple University
(1098-57-122) -
10:30 a.m.
Quasi-isometry and commability for groups acting on trees.
Mathieu Carette*, McGill University
(1098-20-191)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 29, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Group Theory, II
Sondheim 109, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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3:00 p.m.
Geometrically maximal knots.
Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jessica Purcell, Brigham Young University
(1098-57-206) -
3:30 p.m.
Geometrically and diagrammatically maximal knots.
Ilya Kofman*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jessica Purcell, Brigham Young University
(1098-57-185) -
4:00 p.m.
Hyperbolic pretzel knots with the same volume and systole length.
Christian R Millichap*, Temple University
(1098-57-130) -
4:30 p.m.
Proper affine deformations of two-generator Fuchsian groups.
Virginie Charette, Université de Sherbrooke
Todd A. Drumm, Howard University
William M. Goldman*, University of Maryland
(1098-53-49) -
5:00 p.m.
Polyhedra inscribed in a hyperboloid and anti-de Sitter geometry.
Jeffrey Danciger, University of Texas at Austin
Sara Maloni*, Brown University
Jean-Marc Schlenker, University of Luxembourg
(1098-57-139) -
5:30 p.m.
Amalgam Anosov representations.
Richard D Canary, University of Michigan
Michelle Lee, University of Maryland
Matthew Stover*, Temple University
(1098-20-117)
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3:00 p.m.
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Sunday March 30, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Group Theory, III
Sondheim 109, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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8:00 a.m.
Minimally intersecting filling pairs.
Tarik Aougab*, Yale University
Shinnyih Huang, Yale University
(1098-57-129) -
8:30 a.m.
Braid concordance classes and stable commutator length.
Michael Brandenbursky*, CRM, Universite de Montreal, Canada
(1098-57-72) -
9:00 a.m.
Limit sets of Teichmueller geodesics with minimal non-uniquely ergodic vertical foliations.
Christopher J Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
Anna Lenzhen, IRMAR Universite de Rennes 1
Kasra Rafi, University of Toronto
(1098-51-226) -
9:30 a.m.
Anti-trees and right-angled Artin subgroups of planar braid groups.
Sang-hyun Kim, KAIST
Thomas Koberda*, Yale University
(1098-20-45) -
10:00 a.m.
Totally geodesic subgraphs of the pants graph.
Samuel J Taylor*, University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Zupan, University of Texas at Austin
(1098-57-67) -
10:30 a.m.
Homological shadows and mapping tori.
Asaf Hadari*, Yale math department
(1098-20-95)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday March 30, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Low-dimensional Topology and Group Theory, IV
Sondheim 109, Sondheim Hall
Organizers:
David Futer, Temple University
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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3:00 p.m.
Volume of periodic free factors and an algorithm to detect full irreducibility.
Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
Johanna Mangahas*, Brown University
Alexandra Pettet, University of British Columbia
(1098-20-246) -
3:30 p.m.
Fibrations and polynomial invariants for free-by-cyclic groups.
Spencer Dowdall*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1098-20-127) -
4:00 p.m.
The geometry of $Out(F_n)$.
Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University - Newark
(1098-20-63) -
4:30 p.m.
Random limits of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Ian P Biringer*, Boston College
Miklos Abert, Renyi Institute
(1098-51-176) -
5:00 p.m.
Casson invariants of random Heegaard splittings.
Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University
Joseph Maher*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Conan Wu, Princeton University
(1098-57-46) -
5:30 p.m.
Statistics of random 3-manifold.
Igor Rivin*, Temple University and Brown University
(1098-57-177)
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3:00 p.m.
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