CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin -
CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring
2009
| No. 2 | Tuesday, Feb. 3,
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
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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"
Differential
Geometry Reading Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets
2:00PM -
4:00PM, Rm.
4419
Speaker:
Isaac Chavel (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Introduction to the Theory of Perimeter and Functions of Bounded Variation”
Analysis,
Algebraic & Number Computation Seminar
Meets 6:30PM
- 8:30PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker:
Victor Pan (Lehman College & The Graduate Center)
Title:
“Multiplication of structured matrices and related operations with polynomials,
I”
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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
CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title: “Subgroups
of Out (F_n)”
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM
- 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Stephanie
Weirich (Univ.
of
Pennsylvania)
Title: “Engineering
Formal Metatheory”
RTG
Number Theory Seminar (for Graduate Students and Post Docs
Only)
(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
(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”
Kolchin
Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets
10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker:
Richard Churchill (Hunetr Ciollege & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Constrained Points in the Context of Differential Algebra”
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
Meets 2:00PM
- 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Laura
DeMarco (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
Title:
“Escape Combinatorics for Polynomial Dynamics”
CUNY
Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets
2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker
Mia Minnes (M.I.T.)
Title: “A
finite automaton perspective on linear orders”
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
CUNY
Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM -
4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Organizational
meeting today: all welcome
Applied
Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Giovanni
Ossola (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)
Title:
“New Techniques for the Reduction of One-Loop Scattering Amplitudes”
Collaborative
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html
Meets 4:00PM
- 5:30PM, Rm. 4422
Speaker: Min
Lee (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “Fourier
coefficients of Maass forms at various cusps”
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
CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title:
“Kudo-Araki/Dyer-Lashof operation in loop spaces”
NYC Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets
6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker:
Noson S. Yanofsky (Brooklyn College & The
CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title:
“On the algorithmic informational content of categories”
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TUESDAY, FEB. 10TH
Complex
Analysis & Dynamics Student Seminar
Meets 11:30AM–1:00PM, Rm.
4214-03
No
Meeting Today – classes follow a Thursday schedule
Differential
Geometry Reading Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets
2:00PM -
4:00PM, Rm.
4419
Speaker:
TBA
Topic:
TBA
CUNY
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm.
5417
Speaker:
Emmanuel Shertzer (Columbia Univ.)
Title:
“The Voter Model and the Potts Model in one dimension”
Analysis,
Algebraic & Number Computation Seminar
Meets 6:30PM
- 8:30PM, Rm. 3212
No
meeting today – 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)
(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
(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”
Kolchin
Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets
10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Mr. Camilo
Sanabria (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Symmetries of meromorphic connections over Riemann Surfaces”
CUNY
Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM -
4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker:
Hammou ElBarmi (Baruch College)
Title: “Peakedness
and Peakedness Ordering in Symmetric Distributions”
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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MONDAY, FEB. 16TH
NYC Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets
6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
No meeting
today – Presidents’ Day: the GC is closed
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TUESDAY, FEB.
17TH
Complex
Analysis & Dynamics Student Seminar
Meets 11:30AM
- 1:00PM,
Rm.
4214-03
Speaker:
Mr. Zhe Wang (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: "Asymptotic
Conformal Teichmuller Space"
Differential
Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets
2:00PM -
4:00PM. Rm.
4419
No
meeting today
CUNY
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker:
Anja Sturm (Univ. of Delaware)
Title:
“Coexistence and survival in some cancellative spin systems”
Analysis,
Algebraic & Number Computation Seminar
Meets 6:30PM
- 8:30PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker:
Victor Pan (Lehman College & The Graduate Center)
Title:
“Multiplication of structured matrices and related operations with polynomials,
II”
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THURSDAY, FEB. 19TH
CUNY
Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Igor
Rivin (Temple Univ.)
Title:
TBA
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM
- 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker:
TBA
Title:
TBA
RTG
Number Theory Seminar (for Graduate Students and Post Docs
Only)
(Rotates between
The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)
Meets
today at Columbia Univ.: 4:00PM
- 4:45PM
in Rm. 612
TEA:
5:00PM -
5:30PM
served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
Speaker: Hee
Oh (Brown Univ.)
Title:
TBA
New
York Joint Number Theory Seminar
(Rotates between
The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)
Meets
today at Columbia Univ.: 5:30PM – 7:00PM, Rm.
312
TEA:
5:00PM -
5:30PM
served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
Speaker: Hee
Oh (Brown Univ.)
Title:
TBA
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FRIDAY, FEB. 20TH
Set
Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009
Meets
10:00AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Samuel Coskey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Borel equivalence relations”
Kolchin
Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets
10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: David
Marker (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
Title: TBA
New
York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets
10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Yi-Zhi
Huang (Rutgers Univ.)
Title:
TBA
CUNY
Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Fridays,
3:00PM - 4:00PM,
Rm.
7314
Speaker: Jay
Verkuilen (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Statistical
Theory of the List Experiment to Measure Socially Sensitive Attitudes”
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
Fridays,
4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422
Speaker: Nicolas
Templier (IAS)
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:
Laurentiu Maxim (Lehman College, CUNY)
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:
Karen Vogtmann (Cornell Univ.)
Title: “Actions
of automorphisms of free groups on acyclic manifolds and homology spheres”
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MONDAY, FEB. 23RD
NYC Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets
6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker: Alex
Hoffnung (Univ, of California, Riverside)
Title:
“A categorification of Hecke algebras”
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SPECIAL
EVENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 6TH & SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH
“The Eighth Colloquiumfest”
The
Eighth Colloquiumfest, to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center, will
present invited talks on valuation theory and algebraic geometry, orderings and
model theory.
Tentative
list of speakers: Dale Cutkosky (Missouri); Samar
El Hitti (NYC College of Technology); Sara
Faridi (Dalhousie);
Krishna
Hanumanthu (Univ. of Kansas at Lawrence); Olga
Kashcheyeva (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago); Kiran
Kedlaya (MIT)
Hagen
Knaf (Kaiserslautern); Edward Mosteig (Loyola Marymont); Philipp
Rothmaler (Ohio State Univ.) Michael Temkin (Univ.
of Pennsylvania).
For more info,
see: http://math.usask.ca/fvk/Mb8.htm.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH & SATURDAY, MARCH 21ST
“A Conference in Teichmüller Theory and Related Topics In Honor of the 70th Birthday of Frederick P. Gardiner”
To
be held at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Tentative
List of Speakers: Ara Basmajian (CUNY); Andre
de Carvalho (Univ. of Sao Paulo);
Clifford
Earle (Cornell, Warwick); William Harvey (King's College); Yunping
Jiang (CUNY); Nikola Lakic (CUNY); Linda
Keen (CUNY); Irwin Kra (Stony Brook); Howard
Masur (Univ. of Chicago); Dennis Sullivan (CUNY and Stony Brook); Scott
Wolpert (Univ. of Maryland).
For
more info, see: http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/rchamanara/Fred.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD – SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
Philosophy of Mathematics Conference
To
be held at New York University through the Department of Philosophy. Attendance
is open, and there is no registration fee. However, anyone planning to
attend must register by emailing
shievak@hotmail.com no later than
February 31st, 2009.
List
of Speakers: John Burgess (Princeton Univ.); Matthew
Foreman (Univ. of California, Irvine);
Haim
Gaifman (Columbia Univ.);
Joel
Hamkins (CUNY); Kai Hauser (ICREA and Universitat de
Barcelona, & Technische Universität Berlin);
Peter
Koellner (Harvard Univ.);
Stewart
Shapiro (Ohio State Univ.); Stephen Simpson
(Pennsylvania State Univ.); William Tait (Univ.
of Chicago); Neil Tennant (Ohio State Univ.);
W.
Hugh Woodin (Univ. of California, Berkeley).
For more info,
see: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~sjk362/NYU_Conference.html.