CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics

----------- Fall 2008 | No. 6 | Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 -----------

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will meet at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), NYC.  Seminars are listed below in chronological order, and show dates for the upcoming three weeks. Special Events, if any, are listed at the end.  A seminar's website, if available, may contain abstracts of the talks plus additional information. 

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     TUESDAY, OCT. 7TH

Computational Logic Seminar

Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM. Rm. 6493,

Speaker: Mr. Mark Alfano (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Toward a Semantics for the Primary Processes”

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Michael Puls (John Jay College, CUNY)

Title: "The first reduced l^p-cohomology of finitely generated infinite groups"

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/

Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

CUNY Probability Seminar

website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

Speaker: Emanuel Milman (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Title: “A stability result for the mixing time of Brownian motion with

boundary reflectance on a convex domain”

Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Linking polynomial division, evaluation and interpolation

to computations with structured matrices, I”

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     THURSDAY, OCT. 9TH

New York Number Theory Seminar

website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

No meeting today

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

RTG Seminar of the New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets 4:00PM - 4:45PM; alternates between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia

No meeting today

Computer Science Colloquium

website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/

Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205

No meeting today

New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets 5:30PM - 7:00PM; alternates between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia

No meeting today

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     FRIDAY, OCT. 10TH

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html

Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421

Speaker: Mr. Camilo Sanabria (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Entree to Malgrange ideas: General Involutivity Theorem, II”

New York Algebra Colloquium

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html  

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Murray Bremner (Univ. of Saskatchewan)

Title: “Lattice basis reduction and polynomial identities”

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.

Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Fred Gardiner (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Minimum norm principle, IV”

Model Theory Seminar

Meets 12:30PM - 1:45PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Jennifer Chubb (George Washington Univ.)

Title: Algorithmic properties of relations on computable structures

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar 

website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html

Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419

No meeting today

CUNY Logic Workshop 

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Julia Knight (Univ. of Notre Dame)

Title: “Comparing classes of countable structures”

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Kobi Abayomi (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Title: “Copula Based Independent Component Analysis”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209

No meeting today

Collaborative Number Theory Seminar 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422 

No meeting today

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Andrew Crabbe (Syracuse Univ.)

Title: TBA

New York Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group Theory Seminars] 

website: http://www.grouptheory.org/

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417

No meeting today – the seminar is cancelled today due to a Conference in honor of Ben Fine’s 60th birthday

Seminar in Logic and Games

Meets 4:15PM - 6:15PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Tomasz Sadzik (NYU)

Title: "Beliefs Revealed in Bayesian-Nash Equilibrium"

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     TUESDAY, OCT. 14TH

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

No meeting today - CUNY on a Monday schedule

Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html

Meets today 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Mr. Aron Fischer (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Introduction to Intersection Homology, I”

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/

Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

CUNY Probability Seminar

website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

No meeting today

Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

No meeting today; CUNY on a Monday schedule

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     THURSDAY, OCT. 16TH

New York Number Theory Seminar

website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Gautami Bhowmik (Univ. of Lille)

Title: TBA

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/

Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

RTG  Student Seminar of the New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend

Meets 4:00PM - 4:45PM, Rm. Rm. C415

Speaker: Felipe Voloch (Univ. of Texas) 

Title: “The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Curves”

Computer Science Colloquium

website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/

Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205

Speaker: David G. Stork (Ricoh Innovations & Stanford Univ.)

Title: “When computers look at art: Image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts” 

New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at the CUNY Graduate Center

Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM, Rm. C415

TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in Room C415 (C-level: one floor down from lobby) 

Speaker: Felipe Voloch (Univ. of Texas) 

Title: “The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Curves”

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     FRIDAY, OCT. 17TH

Set Theory Seminar

Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Thomas Johnstone (NYCity College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Indestructibility for strong cardinals”

New York Algebra Colloquium

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html  

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Lisa Carbone (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: “Lattices, buildings and Kac-Moody groups”

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.

Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Zeno Huang (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

Title: “Introduction to Weil-Petersson metric”

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar 

website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html

Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419

Sreaker: Xiaobo Liu (Columbia Univ.)

Title: “Quantum Teichmuller Spaces”

CUNY Logic Workshop 

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Rohit Parikh (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: TBA

Seminar in Logic and Games

Meets 2:00PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Rohit Parikh (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: TBA

Algebra and Cryptography Seminar

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html

Meets 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405

Speaker: Alex Myasnikov (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: “Cryptanalysis of the Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld-Lemieux key agreement protocol”

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Roger Pinkham (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: “The Birthday Problem”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Ionut Florescu (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: TBA

Collaborative Number Theory Seminar 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422 

Speaker: Carlos Moreno (Baruch College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “A survey of the representation theory of SL(2) over a p-adic field. I: Structure theory of SL(2) and classes of representations”

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Uma Iyer (Bronx Community College, CUNY)

Title: “Volichenko differential operators”

New York Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group Theory Seminars] 

website: http://www.grouptheory.org/

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417

Tea at 3:30PM in Math Lounge

Speaker: Delaram Kahrobaei (NYC College of Technology & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Residual Solubility and True Prosoluble Completion of a Group”

Seminar in Logic and Games

Meets 4:15PM to 6:15PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

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     MONDAY, OCT. 20TH

Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html

Meets today 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Mr. Aron Fischer (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Introduction to Intersection Homology, II”

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     TUESDAY, OCT. 21ST

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

Meets today 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

No meeting today – conflicts with committee meetings 

CUNY Probability Seminar

website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

No meeting today

Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Linking polynomial division, evaluation and interpolation

to computations with structured matrices, II”

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     THURSDAY, OCT. 23RD

New York Number Theory Seminar

website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Benjamin Girard (Ecole Polytechique, Paris)

Title: TBA

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

RTG Student Seminar of the New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute, at 4:00PM – 4:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202

Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

Computer Science Colloquium

website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/

Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205

Speaker: Nasir Memon (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)

Title: “File Carving for Forensics Recovery” 

New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute

Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM, in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202

Tea: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in Rm. 202 WWH

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA     

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     FRIDAY, OCT. 24TH 

New York Algebra Colloquium

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html  

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Christophe Hohlweg (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Title: “Descent algebras and characters of finite Coxeter groups”

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.

Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Zeno Huang (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

Title: “Two-dimensional geometric variational problems”

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

Meets 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Reading Seminar today

Speaker: Michael Munn (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Mass Transport” 

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Robert A Yaffee (NYU)

Title: “An Experiment in Epidemiological Forecasting: Comparing the Forecast Accuracies of Different Forecasting Methods on a ‘Difficult’ Time Series”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

New York Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group Theory Seminars] 

website: http://www.grouptheory.org/\

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417

Tea at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214

Speaker: Mark Feighn (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: “A hyperbolic Out(F_n)-complex”

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   SPECIAL EVENTS

     NOV. 8TH

Joe Fest: A Conference and Festschrift Honoring the Research and Teaching of Joe Malkevitch

   To be held at York College, CUNY, in Queens, NY

   For complete info, see: http://www.york.cuny.edu/joefest

     NOV. 13TH – NOV. 16TH

Third International Workshop on Differential Algebra and Related Topics

   To be held at Rutgers University, Newark in Newark, NJ

   For complete info, see: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~liguo/DARTIII/diffalg.html

     NOV. 20TH – 21ST

Seventh Northeast Probability Seminar

   To be held at New York University

  For complete info, see: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NEPS

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