CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring 2009 | No. 9 | Tuesday, March 24, 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 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”
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets today 2:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3212
Two talks today
1st Speaker: Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “On Logical Foundations of Game Theory, II”
2nd Speaker: Robert Milnikel (Kenyon College)
Title: “Two Approaches to Conservativity in Logics of Justified Belief”
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
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: “The correlation among matrix structures ofToeplitz, Hankel, Vandermonde, and Cauchy types, I”
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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
Set Theory Seminar
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Samuel Coskey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Some basic set theory”
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”
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Brent Cody (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Large resplendent models generated by indiscernibles”
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 today from 3:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Two talks today:
1st Talk: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Speaker: Amador Muriel (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
Title: “Recent Theoretical and Experimental Advances on Turbulence”
2nd Talk: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Speaker: Ted Farnum (Keen Univ.)
Title: “A Low Dimensional Model for Pulsed Lasers - Local Attractors and Bifurcations”
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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MONDAY, MARCH 30TH
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, part 2”
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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: “The correlation among matrix structures ofToeplitz, Hankel, Vandermonde, and Cauchy types, II”
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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: “Deforming weak ramification”
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
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
Speaker: Gunther Cornelissen (Univ. of Utrecht)
Title: “Deforming weak ramification”
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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"
Set Theory Seminar
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: George Leibman (Bronx Comm. Col., CUNY)
Title: “Silver”
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: “Undecidable problems about rational points”
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: “Undecidable problems about rational points”
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: "A negative binomial model for time series of counts"
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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MONDAY, APRIL 6TH
Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Aron Fischer (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
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TUESDAY, APRIL 7TH
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: Fred Gardiner (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “The Banach spaces of Teichmuller theory, II”
Differential Geometry Seminar
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Ovidiu Munteanu (Columbia Univ.)
Topic: "The Poisson equation on complete manifolds"
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: “The correlation among matrix structures ofToeplitz, Hankel, Vandermonde, and Cauchy types, III”
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THURSDAY, APRIL 9TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
No meeting today
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
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
Meets 4:00PM - 4:45PM in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 317
TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in WWH 317
Speaker: TBA
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 NYU, Courant Institute
Meets 5:30PM - 7:00PM in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 317
TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in WWH 317
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM, Rm. 6421
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
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 - spring recess at CUNY
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
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
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SPECIAL EVENTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD - SUNDAY, APRIL 5th
Philosophy of Mathematics Conference
To be held at New York University through the Department of Philosophy.
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).
Registration for this event is now closed. Because of limited seating, only those who registered by the end of February will be able to attend. For further info, and for the list of those who have registered, 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. Graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and others interested in learning more about this area of mathematics are welcome to attend and to discuss their work. Website TBA. For more information, please contact Prof. Mel Nathanson at: melvyn.nathanson@lehman.cuny.edu.