CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring 2009 | No. 10 | Tuesday, March 31, 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 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
website: 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
New York Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Kevin Broughan (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand)
Title: “Gram lines and the average of the real part of the Riemann zeta function”
Note: This talk will be accessible to non-specialists
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: “Principles of Systems Management”
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
Set Theory Seminar
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: George Leibman (Bronx Comm. Col., CUNY)
Title: “Silver”
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: “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”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Ara Basmajian (Hunter College and The Graduate Center)
Title: “Hyperbolic Motions as Commutators, II”
Note: This will be a continuation of his talk from the fall.
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: “Spatial Homology Truncation, Intersection Homology and String Theory”
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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 - spring recess at CUNY
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
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. 102
TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in WWH 102
Speaker: Michael Zieve (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Title: "The Intersection of Subfields of a Function Field"
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. 102
TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in WWH 102
Speaker: Michael Zieve (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Title: "The Intersection of Subfields of a Function Field"
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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
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
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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TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH
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
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
Differential Geometry Seminar
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
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THURSDAY, APRIL 16TH
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)
(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)
Meets today at Columbia University
Meets 4:00PM - 4:45PM, Rm. 622
Speaker: Wee Teck Gan (Univ. of California at San Diego)
Title: TBA
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
New York Joint Number Theory Seminar
(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)
Meets today at Columbia University
Meets 5:30PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 312
Speaker: Wee Teck Gan (Univ. of California at San Diego)
Title: TBA
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM, 6421
No meeting today - spring recess at CUNY
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
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.
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