CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Fall 2008 | No. 10 | Tuesday, Nov. 4, 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, NOV. 4TH
Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Unified algorithms for computations with structured matrices, I”
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THURSDAY, NOV. 6TH
Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Meets 1:30PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Frans Oort (Utrecht Univ., visiting Columbia Univ.)
Title: “Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties”
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker: Mark van Atten (Paris 1 & Princeton Univ.)
Title: “The Creating Subject”
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Natasa Macura (Trinity Univ. & Brandeis Univ.)
Title: “CAT(0) spaces with polynomial divergence of geodesics”
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 the CUNY Graduate Center
Time: 4:00PM – 4:45PM, Rm. C415
Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend
Speaker: Tom Tucker (Univ. of Rochester)
Title: “Dynamical Mordell-Lang Problems ”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (UIC)
Title: TBA
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 Rm. C415 (C-level: one floor down from lobby)
Speaker: Tom Tucker (Univ. of Rochester)
Title: “Dynamical Mordell-Lang Problems ”
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FRIDAY, NOV. 7TH
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Brent Cody (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Characterizations of Strongly Compact Cardinals, Part I”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Richard Cohn (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick)
Title: “Differentially Transcendental Functions”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Roozbeh Hazrat (Queen’s Univ., Belfast)
Title: “Reduced K-theory for Azumaya Algebras, An overview”
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: “WP near the frontier of Teichmuller space”
Model Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Fall2008
Meets 12:30PM - 1:45PM. Rm. 6417
Speaker: Sam Coskey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Ehrenfeucht-Mostowski models and omitting types II”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Hugo Parlier (IGAT Institute, Switzerland)
Title: “Bers' Constant for Punctured Spheres and Hyperelliptic Surfaces”
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Mathematical Logic of Justification”
Algebra & Cryptography Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html
Meets 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Alexander Ushakov (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Title: “The conjugacy problem in Grigorchuk's group”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: David Kim (Manhattan College)
Title: “Tests of Uniformity and Stochastic Order on (0,1)”
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Libor Pospisil (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “PDE Methods for the Maximum Drawdown”
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Hamid Rahamati (Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln)
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: Steve Majewicz (Kingsborough C.C., CUNY)
Title: “Classes of Exponential A-groups”
Seminar in Logic and Games
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Ramasubramanian Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai)
Title: "Infinite series in Kerala Mathematics: the Logic behind its generation/termination"
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MONDAY, NOV. 10TH
Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:30PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Dustin Mulcahey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Introduction to Stacks, III”
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TUESDAY, NOV. 11TH
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 – Veterans Day
CUNY Probability Seminar
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Pawel Hitczenko (Drexel Univ.)
Title: “Tails of perpetuities”
Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Unified algorithms for computations with structured matrices, II”
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12TH
Einstein Chair Seminar in Topology and Quantum Objects
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/einsteinchair.html
Meets 2:00PM - 6:15PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Jean Louis Loday (CNRS et Université de Strasbourg)
Two Talks Today
First talk: "Combinatorial Hopf algebras"
Second Talk: "Homotopy associative algebras and Stasheff polytope"
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THURSDAY, NOV. 13TH
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 Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html
Meets today at Columbia University, 4:00PM - 4:45PM in Rm. 622
Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend
Speaker: Rachel Ollivier (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Title: “Mod p Representations of p-adic GL(n) and Hecke Modules”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html
Meets today at Columbia University
Meets 5:30PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 312
Tea: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
Speaker: Rachel Ollivier (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Title: “Mod p Representations of p-adic GL(n) and Hecke Modules”
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FRIDAY, NOV. 14TH
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Brent Cody (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Characterizations of Strongly Compact Cardinals, Part II”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
No meeting today – Third International Workshop on Differential Algebra and Related Topics at Rutgers, Newark (see below)
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Peter Brinkmann (City College, CUNY)
Title: TBA
Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.
Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Speaker: Zeno Huang (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Title: “WP in the thick part”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Jane Hawkins (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Title: "Poles in Parameter Space of Iterated Elliptic Functions"
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Hyokyoung (Grace) Hong (Baruch College)
Title: “Prediction of Functional Status for the Elderly Based on a New Ordinal Regression Model”
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Don Jones (Arizona State Univ., Tempe)
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: David Harvey (CIMS/NYU)
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: Moira Chas (SUNY Stony Brook)
Title: “Minimal intersection of curves on surfaces and combinatorial group theory”
Seminar in Logic and Games
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets 4:15PM – 6:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Sonja Amadae (Ohio State Univ.)
Title: “Prisoner’s Dilemma vs. Stag Hunt Contractarianism: Must Joint Action be Strategic, or May Agreement Play a Transformative Role?"
Note: There will be a wine and cheese reception, roughly around 5:45 PM.
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TUESDAY, NOV. 18TH
Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets today 1:30PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Reading Seminar today
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Unified algorithms for computations with structured matrices, III”
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19TH
Einstein Chair Seminar in Topology and Quantum Objects
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/einsteinchair.html
Meets 2:00PM - 6:15PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Carl-Friedrich Boedigheimer (Mathematical Institute Univ. of Bonn)
Title: “Models for the Moduli Spaces of String Theory”
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THURSDAY, NOV. 20TH
Topology Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html
Meets today 3:30PM – 4:30PM, Rm. TBA
Speaker: Alex Suciu (Northeastern Univ.)
Title: “Geometry and topology of cohomology jumping loci”
Restaurant: TBA
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Danny Calegari (California Institute of Technology)
Title: TBA
RTG Student Seminar of the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html
Meets today at Columbia University, 4:00PM - 4:45PM in Rm. 612
Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend
Speaker: Tonghai Yang (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Title: “A Variant of the Gross-Zagier Formula”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html
Meets today at Columbia University
Meets 5:30PM - 7:00PM in Rm. 312
Tea: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
Speaker: Tonghai Yang (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Title: “A Variant of the Gross-Zagier Formula”
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FRIDAY, NOV. 21TH
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Earl Taft (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: “The Boson-Fermion correspondence and one-sided quantum groups”
Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.
Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Reza Chamanara (Brooklyn College)
Title: “Basics of geodesic laminations on surface”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Jeremy Kahn (SUNY Stony Brook)
Title: TBA
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Grigor Sargsyan (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
Title: TBA
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Yu (Ryan) Yue (Baruch College)
Title: TBA
Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets today 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 3309
Speaker: Steve Ferry (Rutgers Univ.)
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: Yu Yasufuku (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Manoj Kumini (Purdue 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
Tea at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker: John Meier
Title: “Snapshots of Buildings”
Seminar in Logic and Games
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets today 4:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Steven Brams (N.Y.U.)
Title: TBA
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SPECIAL EVENTS
SATURDAY, NOV. 8TH
Joe Fest: A Conference and Festschrift Honoring the Research and Teaching of Joe Malkevitch
To be held at York College, CUNY, Queens, NY. For complete info, see: http://www.york.cuny.edu/joefest.
THURSDAY, NOV. 13TH – SUNDAY, 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.
THURSDAY, NOV. 20TH – FRIDAY, NOV. 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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