CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin -
CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring
2009
| No. 3 | Tuesday, Feb. 10, 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. 10TH
Complex
Analysis & Dynamics Student Seminar
Meets
11:30AM–1:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
No meeting today – CUNY 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. 3209
Speaker: Mr. Michael
Munn (CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: “Ricci
curvature and mass transport”
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”
Algebraic
and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets
6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
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”
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”
Cryptography
Seminar
Meets
1:00PM – 2:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker:
Mike Anshel (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“The Commutator Method in Public-key Cryptography”
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
Stochastic
PDE Reading Seminar today
Topic: “A Crash Course
in Basic
Probability Theory”
by Alexander Kheyfits
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
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM –
4:00PM, Rm. 3209
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”
Algebraic
and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM
- 8:15PM, 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: “Curves
and coverings of surfaces”
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM
- 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker:
Chris Bregler (NYU)
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 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
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
(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: “Embedding
Differential Algebraic Groups in Algebraic Groups”
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 Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM
- 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Hans
Schoutens (Citytech
&
The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Schemes
as formulas: algebraic geometry for the logician”
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: “Generating
series for Hodge polynomials of symmetric products of varieties, part I”
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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TUESDAY, FEB.
24TH
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" (cont’d)
Differential
Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM –
4:00PM, Rm. 3209
No
meeting today – event at IAS
CUNY
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker:
Michael Marcus (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Limit
theorems for functions of Gaussian differences”
Algebraic
and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM
- 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker:
Victor Pan (Lehman College & The Graduate Center)
Title:
“Multiplication of structured matrices and related operations with polynomials,
III”
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THURSDAY, FEB. 26TH
CUNY
Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Melvyn
Nathanson (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
TBA
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM
- 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Andre
Scedrov (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Title: “Formal
Analysis of Kerberos 5 Authentication Protocol”
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
in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202
TEA:
5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 202
Speaker: Francois
Loeser (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Title:
”Some Applications of Model Theory to Algebraic Geometry”
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
in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202
TEA:
5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 202
Speaker: Francois
Loeser (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Title:
”Some Applications of Model Theory to Algebraic Geometry”
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FRIDAY, FEB. 27TH
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, II”
New
York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets
10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Russell
Miller (Queens College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
TBA
Complex
Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Fridays,
2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Karan Puri (Rutgers Univ., Newark)
Title:
“Factorization of Isometries of Hyperbolic 4-Space Through a Discreteness
Condition”
CUNY
Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Fridays,
3:00PM – 4:00PM,
Rm.
7314
Speaker:
TBA
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
Fridays,
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:
Laurentiu Maxim (Lehman College, CUNY)
Title: “Generating
series for Hodge polynomials of symmetric products of varieties, part II”
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: Bernhard
Kroen (Univ. of Vienna
& The
City College of New York)
Title:
"Vertex cuts”
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MONDAY, MARCH 2ND
NYC Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets
6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker:
Mr. Dustin Mulcahey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Spectral
sequences for a working category theorist”
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SPECIAL
EVENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 6TH & SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH
“The Eighth Colloquiumfest”
The
Eighth Colloquiumfest, to take place 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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MONDAY, MARCH 9TH
–
THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH
“Geometric and Asymptotic
Group Theory with
Applications”
Conference
To
take place at Stevens
Institute
of Technology, Hoboken NJ.
Tentative
list of main
speakers: Gilbert
Baumslag (CUNY); Joan Birman (Columbia Univ.); Volker
Diekert (Univ. of Stuttgart);
Rostislav Grigorchuk
(Texas A&M); Misha Gromov (IHES & NYU); Fritz
Grunewald (Univ. of Dusseldorf); Yuri
Gurevich (Microsoft);
Leonid
Levin (Boston Univ.); Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew Univ.); Alexander
Ol'shanskii (Vanderbilt Univ.); Mark Sapir
(Vanderbilt Univ.) Efim Zelmanov (Univ. of Cal., San Diego).
For more
info, see: http://www.algebraforum.org/conference/.
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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.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH – SUNDAY, APRIL 19TH
“24th Annual Geometry Festival in memory of Detlef Gromoll”
To
be held at SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY [Long
Island].
Speakers
include: Jeff Cheeger (NYU); Marcos Dajczer (Instituto de Matematica Pura e
Aplicada); Karsten Grove (Univ. of Notre Dame); Wolfgang Meyer (Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität Münster); Gabriel Paternain
(Univ. of Cambridge); Christina Sormani (Lehman College & The
CUNY
Graduate Center); Guofang Wei (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara).
For
further info, see: http://www.math.sunysb.edu/geomfest09/.