CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin

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

----------- Spring 2008 | No. 17 | Tuesday, May 13, 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. Note: This is the last CUNY Seminars Bulletin for spring 2008. Enjoy your summer; we will resume in the fall.

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TUESDAY, MAY 13TH

Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:15PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Isaac Meilijson (Tel Aviv Univ.; on sabbatical leave at Columbia Univ.)
Title: "On the expected diameter of an L_2-bounded martingale"

Algebraic & Numerical Comp. Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/seminar.html
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The Graduate Center)
Title: "Randomization in matrix computations, III"

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH

Einstein Chair Seminar in Topology and Quantum Objects
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/einsteinchair.html
Meets 2:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Tom Lada (North Carolina State Univ.)
Title: "Homotopy Algebras and Brace Algebras"

Combinatorics Seminar [aka Seminar on Combinatorial Computing]
website: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/ [Seminars -> Combinatorics Seminar]
Meets 6:30PM - 8:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Alexey Glazyrin (Univ. of Texas, Brownsville)
Title: "Anti-Durer conjecture for nonconvex polytopes"

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FRIDAY, MAY 16TH

Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2008
Meets 10:00AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Mr. Sam Coskey (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: "Countable Borel Equivalence Relations"

Model Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Spring2008
Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Sergio Fratarcangeli (College of New Rochelle)
Title: "Topological Atomization (Positive Logic X)"

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:000PM, Rm. 3309
Speaker: Fred Gardiner (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: "A Dirichlet Principle for Partial Measured Foliations in the Unit Disk"

CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Gregory Cherlin (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: "Permutation groups of finite Morley rank"

CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Todd Ogden (Columbia Univ.)
Tritle: "Regression Models with Signals or Images as Predictors"

Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 9204 [note room change]
Speaker: Tobias Schaefer (College of Staten Island & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: Mini Lecture Series in Financial Mathematics: Lecture IV: "Continuous time models,
risk-neutral measures and deriving the Black-Scholes formula using the Girsanov Theorem"

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Yalın Fırat Çelikler (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)
Title: "From Varieties to Inequalities"

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST

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: Michael Freedman (Microsoft)
Title: "Positivity of the universal pairing in dimension=3"

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FRIDAY, MAY 23RD

CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Wei Biao Wu (Univ. of Chicago)
Title: "New Perspectives in the Theory of Time Series"

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SPECIAL EVENTS

MONDAY, MAY 19TH - FRIDAY, MAY 23RD

The Analytic Number Theory and Higher Rank Groups Conference will take place at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU.

This conference will focus on aspects of analytic number theory related to Lie groups, especially in higher rank, as well as the analytic theory of automorphic forms. This includes: Analytic theory of L-functions on GL(2) and higher rank groups, e.g. nonvanishing and subconvexity questions;

Analytic aspects of the trace and relative trace formula, e.g. absolute convergence, Weyl's law; Analytic theory of multiple Dirichlet series and relations to higher rank Eisenstein series; Equidistribution and dynamics on homogeneous spaces, and arithmetic applications, e.g. Duke's theorem on uniform distribution of CM points. Prehomogeneous vector spaces and applications to arithmetic, e.g. enumeration of number fields of low degree. There will be two instructional courses, by P. Michel (EPFL Lausanne) and S. Miller (Rutgers). These courses are aimed at graduate students. There will also be several research lectures. For complete information, see: http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Evenkatesh/NTconference2008.html.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST - FRIDAY, MAY 23RD

Gala Opening Conference of the Saul Kripke Center. This three-day conference, which celebrates the opening of the GC's Saul Kripke Center, established to promote the study of the intellectual achievements of Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Saul Kripke, a brilliant logician and one of the greatest living philosophers, will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center. For complete info, see: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/KripkeCenter/events/opening.htm.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST - SATURDAY, MAY 24TH

The New York Number Theory Seminar Sixth Annual Workshop on Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory (CANT 2008) will be held at The CUNY Graduate Center, Concourse level, Rms. C201/C202.

This is the sixth in a series of annual workshops on problems in combinatorial and additive number theory and related parts of mathematics. Program information will (eventually) be posted on the conference website: www.NewYorkNumberTheory.com.

Speakers: Mathematicians who wish to speak at the meeting should submit a title and abstract by email to: melvyn.nathanson@lehman.cuny.edu.

Support: It is expected that there will be some financial support, especially for graduate students and young faculty. For more information, contact Mel Nathanson by email at melvyn.nathanson@lehman.cuny.edu, or by phone at 1-201-306-4041.

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