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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