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

----------- Spring 2009 | No. 1 | Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 -----------

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: Additional seminars will begin in the coming weeks.

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     TUESDAY, JAN. 27TH

Computational Logic Seminar

Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3212

Speaker: Paolo Bonardi (Univ. of Geneva/NYU)

Title: “Kaplan on Quine's Theorem”

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     FRIDAY, JAN. 30TH

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra [OK]

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

Meets 10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421

Speaker: Richard Churchill (Hunter College & The Graduate Center)

Title: “A Topological Approach to Constrained Points”

New York Algebra Colloquium  

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

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Maria Wesslen (Univ. of Toronto)

Title: “A Geometric Interpretation of Tensor Product Decompositions in su(3)”

Model Theory Seminar 

website: http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Spring2009

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

Speaker: Haim Gaifman (Columbia Univ.)

Title: “Partial Orderings with Monadic Predicates”

Cryptography Seminar

Meets 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Rm. 4421

Organizational meeting today; all are welcome

CUNY Logic Workshop

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM – 3:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Charles Steinhorn (Vassar College)

Title: “On ordered structures of higher rank with an application in economics”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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

Organizational Meeting Today: All are Welcome

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Samar Elhitti (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Algebraic resolution of formal ideals along a valuation”

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     TUESDAY, FEB. 3RD

Complex Analysis & Dynamics Student Seminar

Meets 11:30AM–1:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

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

Title: "The Banach Spaces of Teichmueller Theory"

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THURSDAY, FEB. 5TH

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar 

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

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Michael Handel (Lehman College & The Graduate Center)

Title: TBA

RTG Number Theory Seminar (for Graduate Students and Post Docs Only)

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

(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)

Meets today at The Graduate Center: 4:00PM - 4:45PM, Rm. C415

TEA: 5:00PM -5:30PM served in Rm. C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby

Speaker: Abhinav Kumar (MIT)

Title: “K3 Surfaces, Shioda Inose Structures and Real Multiplication”

New York Joint Number Theory Seminar

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

(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)

Meets today at the Graduate Center: 5:30PM – 7:00PM, Rm. C415

TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in Rm. C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby

Speaker: Abhinav Kumar (MIT)

Title: “K3 Surfaces, Shioda Inose Structures and Real Multiplication”

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     FRIDAY, FEB. 6TH

Set Theory Seminar

website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009

Meets 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Benedikt Löwe (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Tuitle: “The eventually different topology on the second level of the projective hierarchy”

New York Algebra Colloquium  

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

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Olga Kharlampovich (McGill Univ.)

Title: “Fully residually hyperbolic groups”

Model Theory Seminar

website: http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Spring2009

Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417 (Joint with CUNY Workshop)

Speaker: Karen Lange (Univ. of Notre Dame)

Title: “Measuring the Complexity of Homogeneous Models”

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Laura DeMarco (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)

Title: TBA

CUNY Logic Workshop

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM – 3:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker Mia Minnes (M.I.T.)   

Title: TBA

Algebra & Cryptography Seminar  

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

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

Speaker: Antonio Nicolosi (Stevens Institute)

Title: TBA

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: TBA

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: TBA

Title: TBA

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

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

website: http://grouptheory.org/

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417; Tea at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214

Speaker: Ekaterina Blagoveshchenskaya (St. Petersburg Polytechnical Univ.)

Title: “Almost completely decomposable groups and their endomorphism rings” 

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     MONDAY, FEB. 9TH

Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar

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

Meets 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Martin Bendersky (Hunter College & The Graduate Center)

Title: “Kudo-Araki/Dyer-Lashof operation in loop spaces”

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TUESDAY, FEB. 10TH

Complex Analysis & Dynamics Student Seminar

Meets 11:30AM–1:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No Meeting Today – CUNY classes follow a Thursday schedule

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THURSDAY, FEB. 12TH

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar 

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

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

RTG Number Theory Seminar (for Graduate Students and Post Docs Only)

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

(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute: 4:00PM - 4:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202

TEA: 5:00PM -5:30PM served in WWH 202 

Speaker: Joseph Silverman (Brown Univ.)
Title: “Specialization Theorems and Unlikely Intersection” 

New York Joint Number Theory Seminar

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

(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute: 5:30PM – 7:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202

TEA: 5:00PM -5:30PM served in WWH 202 

Speaker: Joseph Silverman (Brown Univ.)
Title: “Specialization Theorems and Unlikely Intersection” 

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     FRIDAY, FEB. 13TH

Set Theory Seminar

website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009

Meets 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Mr. Paul Ellis (Univ. of Connecticut)

Title: “Introduction to Descriptive Set Theory”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

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. Geom. Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech Univ.)

Title: “Auslander's Conjecture on Vanishing of Cohomology”

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

website: http://grouptheory.org/

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417; Tea at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214

No meeting today

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