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Central Spring Sectional Meeting
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
March 14-15, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1108
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Geometry of Manifolds, Singular Spaces, and Groups
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Saturday March 14, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Manifolds, Singular Spaces, and Groups, I
Room A130, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Benjamin Schmidt, Michigan State University schmidt@math.msu.edu
Meera Mainkar, Central Michigan University
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9:00 a.m.
Submanifolds of solvmanifolds: a generalization to nilsolitons.
Megan M Kerr*, Wellesley College
Tracy L Payne, Idaho State University
(1108-53-317) -
9:30 a.m.
A gap in the homological dimensions of discrete subgroups of $Sp(n;1)$ and $F_4^{-20}$.
Chris Connell*, Indiana University
Benson Farb, University of Chicago
Ben McReynolds, Purdue University
(1108-57-369) -
10:00 a.m.
A Combinatorial Systolic Inequality.
Ryan Kowalick, Columbus, OH
Jean-François Lafont, The Ohio State University
Barry Minemyer*, The Ohio State University
(1108-57-345) -
10:30 a.m.
Non-compact, homogeneous Einstein spaces.
Michael Jablonski*, University of Oklahoma
(1108-53-259)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Manifolds, Singular Spaces, and Groups, II
Room A130, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Benjamin Schmidt, Michigan State University schmidt@math.msu.edu
Meera Mainkar, Central Michigan University
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2:30 p.m.
Totally geodesic submanifolds in 2-step nilpotent Lie groups.
Rachelle C DeCoste, Wheaton College, MA
Lisa A DeMeyer*, Central Michigan University
(1108-53-283) -
3:00 p.m.
Quasiisometric rigidity of some solvable Lie groups.
Xiangdong Xie*, Bowling Green State University
(1108-20-111) -
3:30 p.m.
Marked length spectrum rigidity for Fuchsian buildings.
J.-F. Lafont*, Ohio State University
D. Constantine, Wesleyan University
(1108-51-408) -
4:00 p.m.
Marked length spectrum and volume rigidity for Fuchsian buildings.
David Constantine*, Wesleyan University
(1108-51-321) -
4:30 p.m.
The Geometry of Two-Step and Three-Step Nilpotent Lie Algebras and Nilmanifolds Constructed from Schreier Graphs.
Allie Ray*, University of Texas-Arlington
(1108-53-284)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday March 15, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Manifolds, Singular Spaces, and Groups, III
Room A130, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Benjamin Schmidt, Michigan State University schmidt@math.msu.edu
Meera Mainkar, Central Michigan University
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9:00 a.m.
Applying evolutionary game theory to geometric flows.
Tracy Lin Payne*, Idaho State University
(1108-37-467) -
9:30 a.m.
Symmetry gaps in Riemannian geometry and minimal orbifolds.
Wouter Van Limbeek*, University of Chicago
(1108-51-438) -
10:00 a.m.
Gromov hyperbolicity and the Kobayashi metric.
Andrew Zimmer*, University of Chicago
(1108-51-446) -
10:30 a.m.
On 4-manifolds with positive biorthogonal curvature.
Renato G. Bettiol*, University of Notre Dame
(1108-53-292)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday March 15, 2015, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Manifolds, Singular Spaces, and Groups, IV
Room A130, Wells Hall
Organizers:
Benjamin Schmidt, Michigan State University schmidt@math.msu.edu
Meera Mainkar, Central Michigan University
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1:30 p.m.
Can an orbifold be isospectral to a manifold?
Benjamin Linowitz*, University of Michigan
Jeffrey S Meyer, University of Oklahoma
(1108-53-98) -
2:00 p.m.
The full surface spectrum of a hyperbolic 3-manifold.
D. B. McReynolds*, Purdue University
Alan W. Reid, University of Texas at Austin
(1108-57-140) -
2:30 p.m.
Can you hear the metric on a sphere?
Emily B. Dryden*, Bucknell University
Diana Macedo, Instituto Superior Tecnico
Rosa Sena-Dias, Instituto Superior Tecnico
(1108-58-356) -
3:00 p.m.
Spectral asymptotics for magnetic Dirac operators.
Nikhil A Savale*, University of Notre Dame
(1108-58-364) -
3:30 p.m.
On conformally flat almost $C(\alpha)$-manifolds.
Handan Yildirim*, Istanbul University (Current address: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
(1108-53-156)
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1:30 p.m.
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