CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring 2009 | No. 13 | Tuesday, April 21, 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 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: “Analysis on Singular Spaces and Generalized Ricci Curvature”
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Victor de la Pena (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “New Exponential Inequalities for Self-Normalized Martingales”
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Randomized computations with structured matrices, I”
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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 & 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: "Quasi-alternating links and lens space surgeries"
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Wade Tinney (Large Animal Games)
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: “Torsion in the Homology of Arithmetic Groups”
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: “Torsion in the Homology of Arithmetic Groups”
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
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FRIDAY, APRIL 24TH
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Li Guo (Rutgers Univ. at Newark)
Title: “Classification of Rota-Baxter type operators”
Also today from 2:00PM - 5:00PM:
Bernard Malgrange will meet informally with KSDA in Rm. 8404
Also today at 6:30PM: There will be a gathering to celebrate the life and achievement of
Dr. Jerald J. Kovacic at his home. RSVP to ksda@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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"
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009
Meets 10:00AM - 11:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Scott Schneider (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: "More on Borel equivalence relations"
Differential Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets today 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Lydia Bieri (Harvard Univ.)
Title: "An Extension of the Stability Theorem of the Minkowski Space in General Relativity"
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Ermek Nurkhaidarov (Penn State Univ., Mont Alto)
Title: "On Automorphisms of Models of Peano Arithmetic"
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: “The Dehn Quandle, its Homology, and an Application to Lefschetz Fibrations”
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Samuel Coskey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “On dimension and Borel reducibility”
Algebra & Cryptography Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html
Meets 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Ayan Mahalanobis (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Title: "The MOR cryptosystem"
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 Times and Intersection Local Times 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 (Montclair State 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: Yakov Kerzhner (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “An effective ‘Uniqueness Principle’ in the theory of Eisenstien Series on higher rank groups”
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: "Commutative Rota-Baxter algebras"
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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TUESDAY, APRIL 28TH
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, II”
Differential Geometry Reading Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Bobo Hua (NYU)
Title: “Analysis on Singular Spaces and Generalized Ricci Curvature”
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”
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Randomized computations with structured matrices, II”
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THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Xiaobo Liu (Columbia Univ.)
Title: "Kashaev coordinates on Teichmuller space"
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “On Logical Foundations of Game Theory”
RTG Number Theory Seminar (for Graduate Students and Post Docs Only)
(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)
Meets today at The CUNY Graduate Center
Meets 4:00PM - 4:45PM, Rm. C415
Speaker: Umberto Zannier (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: “Hilbert Irreducibility above algebraic groups”
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby
New York Joint Number Theory Seminar
(Rotates between The CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and NYU)
Meets today at The CUNY Graduate Center
Meets 5:30PM - 7:00PM, Rm. C415
Speaker: Umberto Zannier (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Title: “Hilbert Irreducibility above algebraic groups”
TEA: 5:00-5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby
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FRIDAY, MAY 1ST
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: David Marker (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
Title: “Embdedding Differential Algebraic Groups in Algebraic Groups, II”
Differential Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30PM - 1:45PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Whanki Lee (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Recursively saturated models of PA generated by indiscernibles”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Sudeb Mitra (Queens College)
Title: TBA
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Valentina S. Harizanov (George Washington Univ.)
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: Jennifer Hill (NYU)
Title: "Non-parametric identification of lack of support in potentially high-dimensional covariate space"
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: TBA
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: Christopher D. Sinclair (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
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: G. Michael Guy (Queensborough Comm. College, CUNY)
Title: “Moduli of weighted stable curves and maps and some interesting intersections”
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: Gretchen Ostheimer (Hofstra Univ.)
Title: “On subgroups of free metabelian groups”
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TUESDAY, MAY 5TH
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. Qing Zhang (Univ. of New Zealand, Auckland)
Title: “Knots and two generator groups”
Differential Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Andre Neves (Princeton Univ.)
Title: TBA
CUNY Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Michael Kozdron (Univ. of Regina)
Title: “Using multiple SLE to explain a certain observable in the 2d Ising model”
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Randomized computations with structured matrices, III”
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THURSDAY, MAY 7TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: David Fisher (Indiana Univ. and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard)
Title: “Rigidity of Anosov Zd actions”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Michael O. Rabin (Harvard Univ. and Google Research)
Title: “Practical Zero Knowledge Proofs and Financial Cryptography”
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FRIDAY, MAY 8TH
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Parisa Babaali (CUNY) OR Stevens Institute of Technology?
Title: “Generating Random Automata and analyzing their Combinatorial Properties”
Differential Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting today - - Sormani in China
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Youngju Kim (Lehman College, CUNY)
Title: “Classification of Isometries Acting on Hyperbolic 4-Space”
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Hunter Johnson (John Jay College, CUNY)
Title: “Uniform type definability and Warmuth compression schemes”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Jose Blanchet (Columbia Univ.)
Title: "Fast Sampling Procedures for Large Excursions of Gaussian Processes"
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Asya Shpiro (Medgar Evers College, CUNY)
Title: “Modeling Bistable Perception”
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Jonathan Cornick (Queensborough Comm. College, CUNY)
Title: "Modules of Finite Projective Dimension over Generalizations of Group Algebras"
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SPECIAL EVENTS
TUESDAY, MAY 26TH – FRIDAY, MAY 29TH
CANT 2009: 7TH 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. For list of speakers and further info, see: http://www.theoryofnumbers.com/.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH - SATURDAY, JUNE 27TH
“Conference on Unstable Homotopy Theory”
To be held at the CUNY Graduate Center. Website TBA. For more info, email Dustin Mulcahey at dustinmulcahey@gmail.com.