CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring 2009 | No. 7 | Tuesday, March 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, MARCH 10TH
Complex Analysis & Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009SpringStudentSeminars.html
Meets 11:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Mike Beck (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Teichmuller space of a closed set in the Riemann sphere, I”
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Mr. Loes Olde Loohuis (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Multi-player Logics”
Differential Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting today
Cyclotomic Fields Study Group
Meets 5:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: TBA
Topic: TBA
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: "Polynomial and Rational Interpolation and Structured Matrices, II"
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11TH
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: Max Lipyanskiy (Columbia Univ.)
Title: "Geometric cycles in classical topology and Floer theory"
Topology Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 4214.03
Speaker: Rob Thompson (Hunter College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
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THURSDAY, MARCH 12TH
Hyperbolic Geometry Student Seminar
Meets 2:45PM - 3:45PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
New York Number Theory Seminar
Meets 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/
Speaker: Mel Nathanson (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Problems in additive number theory (PANT)”
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Denis Osin (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Title: “Dehn surgery in groups acting on hyperbolic spaces”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Steve Zdancewic ((Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Tiitle: “Aura: A Programming Language with Authorization and Audit”
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 CUNY Graduate Center: 4:00PM - 4:45PM in Rm. C415
TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in Rm. C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby
Speaker: Robert Rumely (Univ. of Georgia)
Title: “P-adic complex numbers and the Berkovich Line”
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 CUNY 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: Robert Rumely (Univ. of Georgia)
Title: "The Berkovich Julia set of a rational function and the equicontinuity locus"
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FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Samuel Coskey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: ”Scott sets generated by Cohen reals”
Set Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30PM - 1:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Simon Thomas (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: “Some remarks on the Higman-Neumann-Neumann Embedding Theorem”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Raymond Hoobler (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: "Differential Spectrum and Other Matters"
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Margaret Dean (BMCC, CUNY)
Title: “Embedding a wreath product in a skew field of fractions”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Fridays, 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Hiroshige Shiga (Tokyo Institute of Tech.)
Title: "Monodromy and Complex Structures of Surface Fibrations"
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: John Bourke (Bucknell Univ.)
Title: “Mob families on higher cardinals”
Algebra & Cryptography Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html
Meets 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Marina Pudovkina (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Title: “Group properties of generalized Feistel ciphers”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Alessandra Giannini (The Earth Institute at Columbia Univ.)
Title: "Climate change in the African Sahel"
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
Speaker: Felix Apfaltrer (BMCC, CUNY)
Title: “Stochastic Integrals”
Collaborative Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422
Speaker: Jayce Getz (Princeton/IAS)
Title: “Relative trace formulae with a view towards unitary groups”
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Fabrizio Zanello (Michigan Tech Univ.)
Title: “On the structure of pure O-sequences”
New York Group Theory Seminar
website: http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM; Rm. 5417
Tea at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker: Alexander V. Mikhalev (Moscow State Univ.)
Title: “Prime radical of linear groups and Lie algebras”
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MONDAY, MARCH 16TH
NYC Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets 6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker: Mr. Louis Thrall (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Applications of Braided Tensor Categories”
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TUESDAY, MARCH 17TH
Complex Analysis & Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009SpringStudentSeminars.html
Meets 11:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Mike Beck (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Teichmuller space of a closed set in the Riemann sphere, II”
Differential Geometry Reading Seminar
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Isaac Chavel (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: TBA
CUNY Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:15PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Olympia Hadjiliadis (Brooklyn College)
Title: “Formulas for Stopped Diffusion Processes with Stopping Times based on Drawdowns and Drawups”
Cyclotomic Fields Study Group
Meets 5:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Karen Taylor (Hunter College)
Topic: "The Kronecker-Weber Theorem"
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: "Polynomial and Rational Interpolation and Structured Matrices, III"
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18TH
Topology Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, 4214.03
Speaker: Murad Ozaydin (Univ. of Oklahoma)
Title: TBA
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THURSDAY, MARCH 19TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: David Futer (Temple Univ.)
Title: “The geometry of unknotting tunnels”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Heidi Picher Dempsey ((BBN Technologies Inc.)
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)
No meeting today – spring break at Columbia U.
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)
No meeting today – spring break at Columbia U.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009
Meets 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Kerry Ojakian (Instituto Superior Tecnico & SQIG--Instituto de Telecomunicacoes)
Title: “Characterizing computable analysis with differential equations”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Yalin Celikler (CityTech, CUNY)
Title: “Weierstrass Preparation Theorem in Analytic Geometry of Valued Fields”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
No meeting today due to Fred Gardiner's 70th Birthday Conference at the Graduate Center
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Yevgenii Gordon (Eastern Illinois Univ.)
Title: “On nonstandard analysis proofs of G. Birkhoff's Ergodic Theorem”
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Ruddy Horne (Florida State Univ.)
Title: “Solitary Waves in Discrete Media and Four Wave Mixing Products”
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: Greg Piepmeyer (Univ. of Missouri) [to be confirmed]
Title: TBA
New York Group Theory Seminar
website: http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM; Rm. 5417
Tea at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker: Enric Ventura (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
Title: TBA
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MONDAY, MARCH 23RD
NYC Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets 6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker: Florian Lengyel (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “The Curry-Howard-Lambek isomorphism for CCCs with LP structure”
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TUESDAY, MARCH 24TH
Complex Analysis & Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009SpringStudentSeminars.html
Meets 11:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Tao Chen (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Geometry of the Julia set of the fixed point of period doubling, I”
Differential Geometry Seminar
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Isaac Chavel (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: TBA
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: TBA
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THURSDAY, MARCH 26TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Yael Algom-Kfir (Univ. of Utah)
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)
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: Ivan Fesenko (Univ. of Nottingham)
Title: “Adelic Analysis on Arithmetic Surfaces”
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: Ivan Fesenko (Univ. of Nottingham)
Title: “Adelic Analysis on Arithmetic Surfaces”
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FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Asher Kach (Univ. of Connecticut)
Title: TBA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Ted Farnum (Keen 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: Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv Univ. & IAS)
Title: “Statistics of the zeros of zeta functions in ensembles of hyperelliptic curves over a finite field”
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
website: http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM; Rm. 5417
Tea at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker: Derek Robinson (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana)
Title: TBA
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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/.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27TH – SATURDAY, MAY 30TH
CANT 2009: 7TH Annual Workshop in Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory
To be held at the CUNY Graduate Center. Details TBA.