CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Spring 2009 | No. 14 | Tuesday, April 28, 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 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”
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 2:00PM - 400PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska (Univ. of Opole, Poland)
Title: “Systems of consequence theories”
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
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009
Meets 10:00AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Scott Schneider (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: “Hyperfinite equivalence relations”
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: “Embedding 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. 4214-03
Speaker: Michael Pevzner (Univ. Reims)
Title: “"Rankin-Cohen brackets and covariant quantization"
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30PM - 1:30PM, 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: "Holomorphic Families of Mobius Groups"
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Valentina S. Harizanov (George Washington Univ.)
Title: “Orderable groups”
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
No meeting today
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
Differential Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets today from 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Two talks today:
2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 3209: Andres Neves (Univ. Técnica de Lisboa)
3:30PM - 4:30PM, Rm. 8404: Cédric Villani (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
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
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009
Meets 10:00AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Ms. Shoshana Friedman (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
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”
Collaborative Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422
Speaker: Paul Gunnells (Univ. of Massachusetts)
Title: “Modular forms and elliptic curves over Q(zeta_5)”
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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TUESDAY, MAY 12TH
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. Oleg Moyzytchyn (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Douady-Earle extension, I”
Differential Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting today - - Sormani in China
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3212
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Topic: TBA
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13TH
Topology Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6493
Speaker: Mark Johnson (Penn State Univ., Altoona)
Title: “Pi-algebras and Higher Homotopy Operations”
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THURSDAY, MAY 14TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Philip Ording (Medgar Evers College, CUNY)
Title: “Constructing Heegaard knot diagrams for (1,1) knots”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
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FRIDAY, MAY 15TH
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Spring2009
Meets 10:00AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Brent Cody (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “The Laver preparation”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Peter Hegarty (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden)
Title: “Some fairly elementary problems concerning automorphisms of (mostly, but not only, finite) groups”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Jane Gilman (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: TBA
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Justin Moore (Cornell Univ.)
Title: TBA
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Note: different location today; meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM at Hunter College, East Bldg. (SE corner of Lex. Ave. & 68th St.), Rm. 920
Speaker: Jay Emerson (Yale Univ.)
Title: “The bigmemory package: massive data, shared memory, and concurrent programming”
[Today’s seminar is organized jointly with ASA NYC; http://www.nycasa.org/]
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: TBA
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: TBA
Title: TBA
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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. Jointly organized by the CUNY Graduate Center and Johns Hopkins University, with a special emphasis on chromatic phenomena. Confirmed Speakers: Martin Bendersky, CUNY; Mike Boardman, JHU; Jack Morava, JHU; Dustin Mulcahey, CUNY; Andrew Salch, JHU. For more info, see: https://wfs.gc.cuny.edu/DMulcahey/www/conference2009/2009_Unstable_Homotopy_Theory_Conference.