CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring 2009 | No. 8 | Tuesday, March 17, 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 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”
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “On Logical Foundations of Game Theory”
Differential Geometry Reading Seminar
website: 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: “GENI Overview & Plans”
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”
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, II”
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”
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30pm, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Roman Kossak (Bronx C.C. & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Recursively saturated models generated by indiscernibles”
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: Janet Striuli (Fairfield Univ.)
Title: “Canonical module and totally reflexive modules over Teter rings”
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: “Computing endo-fixed closures in free groups”
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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 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
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: ”Negative Curvature Phenomena in Outer Space”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Jòzef Dodziuk (Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Expanding graphs and combinatorial Laplacian”
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
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: William Keigher (Rutgers Univ., Newark)
Title: “On Partitioned Differential Quasifields, I”
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Asher Kach (Univ. of Connecticut)
Title: “Embeddings of Computable Structures”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Bodhisattva Sen (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems”
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
No meeting today - we have the Annual Research Conference at the New York City College of Technology
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: “Quotients of generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups”
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TUESDAY, MARCH 31ST
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, II”
Differential Geometry Seminar
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Lewis Coburn (SUNY Buffalo)
Title: "The Berezin operator calculus and the Bergman metric"
CUNY Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Jose Blanchet, (Columbia Univ., Operations Research)
Title: “Algorithms and Large Deviations”
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, APRIL 2ND
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Dylan Thurston (Barnard College, Columbia Univ.)
Title: “Computing with curves on surfaces”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Dinesh Verma (IBM)
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 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: Gunther Cornelissen (Univ. of Utrecht)
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 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: Gunther Cornelissen (Univ. of Utrecht)
Title: TBA
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: William Keigher (Rutgers Univ., Newark)
Title: “On Partitioned Differential Quasifields, II”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Alexander Rozenblyum (CityTech, CUNY)
Title: "Representations of the Group ISO(n) and Bessel Function with Matrix Index"
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets today 12:30PM - 1:45PM, Rm. 6417
Joint meeting today with the Model Theory Seminar
Speaker: Gunther Cornelissen (Univ. of Utrecht)
Title: TBA
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30PM - 1:45PM, Rm. 6417
Joint meeting today with the CUNY Logic Workshop
Speaker: Gunther Cornelissen (Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Title: “Toroidal automorphic forms and the Riemann hypothesis for some function fields of curves”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Rongning Wu (Baruch College, CUNY)
Title: TBA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting today
Collaborative Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html
Meets today 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Note special time and room today - - this will be a joint talk with the Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Gunther Cornelissen (Universiteit Utrect)
Title: “Toroidal automorphic forms and the Riemann hypothesis for some function fields of curves”
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Gunther Cornelissen (Universiteit Utrect)
Title: “Toroidal automorphic forms and the Riemann hypothesis for some function fields of curves”
Note: This is a joint talk with the Collaborative Number Theory Seminar. We will meet as usual in Rm. 6417
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: Zoran Sunic (Texas A&M Univ.)
Title: TBA
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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. 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); Mitsuhiro Shishikura (Kyoto Univ.); 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: Annual “Workshop in Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory”
To be held at the CUNY Graduate Center. Details TBA.
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