AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session
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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
September 9-10, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1131
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Combinatorial/Geometric/Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory
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Saturday September 9, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial/Geometric/Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory, I
Room 90, Business Leadership Building
Organizers:
Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A University
Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A University
Dmytro Savchuk, University of South Florida
Zoran Sunic, Texas A University sunic@math.tamu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
On finitely presented self-similar groups.
Said Najati Sidki*, Universidade de Brasilia
(1131-20-372) -
9:30 a.m.
On bireversible Mealy automata and the Burnside problem.
Ines Klimann*, IRIF, Univ Paris Diderot \& CNRS
Thibault Godin, IRIF, Univ Paris Diderot \& CNRS
(1131-20-287) -
10:00 a.m.
Finitely Constrained Groups of Small Hausdorff Dimension.
Andrew Penland*, Western Carolina University
(1131-20-401) -
10:30 a.m.
The congruence subgroup problem for a family of branch groups.
Rachel Skipper*, Binghamton University
(1131-20-347)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday September 9, 2017, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial/Geometric/Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory, II
Room 90, Business Leadership Building
Organizers:
Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A University
Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A University
Dmytro Savchuk, University of South Florida
Zoran Sunic, Texas A University sunic@math.tamu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
On the growth rates of Dehn functions of finitely presented groups.
Alexander Olshanskii*, Vanderbilt University
(1131-20-159) -
3:00 p.m.
Word and Conjugacy Problems in Lacunary Hyperbolic Groups.
Arman Darbinyan*, Vanderbilt University
(1131-20-167) -
3:30 p.m.
What does a group algebra of a free group ``know'' about the group?
Olga Kharlampovich*, New York
Alexei Miasnikov, Stevens Institute of Technology
(1131-16-360) -
4:00 p.m.
Random interlacements and the Gaboriau-Lyons problem.
Lewis Bowen*, University of Texas
(1131-60-120) -
4:30 p.m.
Approximations of standard equivalence relations and Bernoulli percolation at the uniqueness threshold.
Robin Tucker-Drob*, Texas A University
(1131-20-311)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday September 10, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial/Geometric/Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory, III
Room 90, Business Leadership Building
Organizers:
Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A University
Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A University
Dmytro Savchuk, University of South Florida
Zoran Sunic, Texas A University sunic@math.tamu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
No positive cone in a free product is regular.
Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
Zoran Sunic, Hofstra University
(1131-20-244) -
9:00 a.m.
Autostackability of Thompson's Group F.
Nathan Corwin, Villanova University
Gili Golan, Vanderbilt University
Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Ashley Johnson*, University of North Alabama
Zoran Sunic, Texas A University
(1131-20-268) -
9:30 a.m.
Invariable generation of Thompson groups.
Tsachik Gelander, Weizmann Institute
Gili Golan*, Vanderbilt University
Kate Juschenko, Northwestern University
(1131-20-382) -
10:00 a.m.
Explicit finite generating sets of the stabilizers of rational numbers in Thompson's group $F$.
Krystofer Baker, University of South Florida
Dmytro M Savchuk*, University of South Florida
(1131-20-369) -
10:30 a.m.
Simple groups of intermediate growth.
Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A University
(1131-20-404) -
11:00 a.m.
Deciding if a right-angled Artin group is free-by-free is an NP-complete problem.
David Carroll, Saint Mary's College
Benjamin Francisco, Texas A University
Zoran Sunic*, Hofstra University
(1131-20-406)
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8:30 a.m.
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