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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