CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics

----------- Spring 2009 | No. 11 | Tuesday, April 7, 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, 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”

Computational Logic Seminar

Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3212

Speaker: Ms. Cagil Tasdemir (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Epistemic Conditions for Nash Equilibrium”

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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     TUESDAY, APRIL 21ST

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: Ms. Yunchun Hu (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Martingale in probability theory, I”

Differential Geometry Reading Seminar  

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Bo Bo Hua (Fudan Univ.; Visiting NYU)

Title: TBA [a talk about Ricci on metric measure spaces]

Probability Seminar

website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

Speaker: Souvik Ghosh (Columbia Univ.)

Title: “Large Deviation Principle for a Class of Long Range Dependent Infinitely Divisible Process”

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     WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22ND

Einstein Chair Seminar in Topology and Quantum Objects  

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/einsteinchair.html

Meets 2:00PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Gregory Ginot (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

Title: "Hochschild (co)homology over spaces and String Topology"

Topology Seminar

website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html

Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 4214.03

Speaker: Rob Thompson (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Unstable operations in v_n-periodic homotopy groups and v_n-periodic Pi-algebras”

Restaurant: TBA

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     THURSDAY, APRIL 23RD

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar 

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Josh Greene (Princeton Univ.)

Title: TBA

Computer Science Colloquium

website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/

Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

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: Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford Univ.)

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

Speaker: Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford Univ.)

Title: TBA

TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor

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     FRIDAY, APRIL 24TH

New York Algebra Colloquium  

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html

Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Leigh Cobbs (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: "Infinite descending chains of cocompact lattices in Kac-Moody groups"

Differential Geometry Seminar 

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

Meets today from 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. TBA

Speaker: Lydia Bieri (Harvard Univ.)

Title: "An Extension of the Stability Theorem of the Minkowski Space in General Relativity"

 

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar

website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html

Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Joel Zablow (Long Island Univ., Brooklyn)

Title: TBA

CUNY Logic Workshop  

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Samuel Coskey (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: TBA

Algebra & Cryptography Seminar 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html

Meets 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405

Speaker: Alexander Ushakov (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: “Strong Law of Large Numbers for Graph(Group)-Valued Random Elements”

CUNY Statistics Seminar

website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Mr. Subir Dhamoon (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Local Time and Intersection Local Time for Symmetric Stable Processes”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

website http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: David Trubach (___)

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: Yakov Kerzhner (Columbia Univ.)

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: Li Guo (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: TBA

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: Charlie Sims (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: “A Tale of Two Groups”

 

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SPECIAL EVENTS

  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.