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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