AMS Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

April 22-23, 2006

Organizers:

Kim Ruane (kim.ruane@tufts.edu)

Jennifer Taback (jtaback@bowdoin.edu)

Peter Wong (pwong@bates.edu)

Schedule of Talks:

There will be four sessions of twenty minute talks, with ten minutes between talks.

Saturday morning
9-9:30 Francesco Matucci, On Trivalent Directed Graphs and Conjugacy Classes of Thompson's Group $F$. 
9:30-9:50 Collin Blaek, Wreath products in a group of homeomorphisms.
10:00-10:20 Claire Wladis, Thompson's group $F(p+1)$ is not minimally almost convex.
10:30-10:50 John Donnelly, Ruinous Subsets of Richard Thompson's Group F.

Saturday afternoon
2:30-2:50 Peter Wong,  Fundamental groups in fixed point theory.
3:00-3:20 Armando Martino, Conjugacy separability for virtual surface groups and Seifert fibred 3-manifolds.
3:30-3:50 Daciberg Lima Goncalves, Twisted classes for some torsion free groups.
4:00-4:20 Alexander Fel'shtyn, Twisted Burnside-Frobenius theory for infinite groups.
4:30-5:00 Julia Weber, The universal functorial equivariant Lefschetz invariant.
5:00-5:20 Chris Staecker, Computation of Reidemeister classes by nilpotentization.

Sunday morning
9:00-9:30 Adam Piggott, Primitive elements in finitely generated free groups.
9:30-9:50 Mauricio Gutierrez, Symmetric Automorphisms of right-angled Groups.
10:00-10:20 Ophir Feldman, Actions of Free Products of Two Cyclic Groups on  $\mathbb{R}$-Trees.
10:30-10:50  Eric M Freden, The growth series for $H_n=\langle b,s,t\ \vert\  sbs^{-1}=b^n=tbt^{-1} \rangle $.

Sunday afternoon
2:30-2:50 Kevin Wortman, Quasi-isometries of arithmetic groups over function fields.
3:00-3:20 Stefan Wenger, Isoperimetric inequalities and the large scale geometry of Hadamard spaces.
3:30-3:50  Scott A. Taylor, Non-compact Heegaard Splittings of Deleted Boundary 3-manifolds.
4:00-4:20  Nikolai A Krylov, Pseudo-isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of the  unknotted pairs $(S^{n+2},~S^n)$ and $(S^{2p+2},~S^p\times S^p)$.

Travel and Housing Information

Travel and housing information is available from the AMS web site through this link. This information is also available in the February 2006 issue of the Notices. It seems like on-campus housing (within walking distance of the train station) is very limited, so make your reservations early!

Registration Information

There will be a $40 registration fee for AMS or CMS members, $60 for nonmembers, and $5 for students, unemployed mathematicians and emeritus members. Fees are payable at the conference by cash, check or credit card.