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

----------- Fall 2009 | No. 2 | Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 -----------

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars 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.  Note: A pdf version of this bulletin is attached in case the formatting of the text below is thrown off on your screen.

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 1ST

Computational Logic Seminar

Meets 2:00PM - 4:00 PM, Rm. 3309

Speaker: Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Knowledge-Based Rational Decisions Abstract”

Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/seminar.html

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)    

Title: TBA

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     THURSDAY, SEPT. 3RD

New York Number Theory Seminar  

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Mel Nathanson (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Phase transitions in infinitely generated groups”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: Wolf Kohn (Clearsight Systems)

Title: “Quantum Hybrid Controllers”   

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 4TH

Set Theory Seminar 

Meets 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 6417

website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Fall2009

Speaker: Mr. Brent Cody (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Extenders derived from elementary embeddings”

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html

Meets 10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421

Speaker: Alexey Ovchinnikov (Queens College, CUNY)

Title: “Introduction to Tannakian Categories”

Model Theory Seminar

Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Philipp Rothmaler (Bronx C.C. & The CUNY Graduate Center)

First meeting of seminar

Seminar in Mathematical Aspects of Cryptology

Meets 1:00PM – 2:15PM, Rm. 4214-03

Organizational meeting today - all welcome

CUNY Logic Workshop

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

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

Speaker: Peter Koepke (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Title: “Understanding Natural Language Mathematical Proofs”

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Sabine El Khoury (American Univ. of Beirut, Lebanon)

Title: “A class of Gorenstein artinian algebras of embedding codimension four”

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     TUESDAY, SEPT. 8TH

Differential Geometry Seminar

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

Meets: 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Rm. 8402

Speaker: Kei Kondo (Tokai Univ., Japan)

Title: “Total curvatures of model surfaces control topology of complete open manifolds with radial curvature bounded below, II and III”

Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/seminar.html

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)    

Title: TBA

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     THURSDAY, SEPT. 10TH

Hyperbolic Geometry Student Seminar 

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 6494   

Organizational meeting today; all welcome

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar 

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

Meets 4:00PM – 6:00PM, Rm. 6496 

Speaker: Lee Mosher (Rutgers Univ., Newark)

Title: “Subgroup classification in Out(Fn)”

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, SEPT. 11TH

Set Theory Seminar 

Meets 10:00AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 6417

website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Fall2009

Speaker: Victoria Gitman (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Making strong cardinals indestructible by ≤κ-weakly closed Prikry forcing”

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html

Meets 10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421

Speaker: Alexey Ovchinnikov (Queens College, CUNY)

Title: “Tannakian Categories and Algebraic Groups”

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar

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

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419 

Speaker: Jeremy Kahn (Stony Brook 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: Laura Ghezzi (New York City College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Hilbert functions in local rings”

Logic and Games Seminar

Meets 4:15PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Pilar Pozos Parra (Universidad Tecnologica de la Mixteca, Mexico )

Title: “Belief Merging without classical distance measures”

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     TUESDAY, SEPT. 15TH

Differential Geometry Seminar

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

Meets: 11:00AM – 12:00PM, Rm. 8402

Speaketr: Kei Kondo (Tokai Univ., Japan)

Title: “Toponogov's comparison theorem for open triangles”

Study Group in Algebraic Number Theory 

Meets 3:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03  

Speaker: Alberto Baider (Hunter College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: "Tate's Thesis"

Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/seminar.html

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)    

Title: TBA

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   THURSDAY, SEPT. 17TH   

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar 

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

Meets 4:00PM – 6:00PM, Rm. 6496 

Speaker: TBA 

Title: TBA  

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

Phenomenology & Foundations of Mathematics Reading Group

Meets 6:30PM - 8:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Discussion leader & topic TBA

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     FRIDAY, SEPT. 18TH

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar

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

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419 

No meeting today

CUNY Statistics Seminar  

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

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Organizational meeting today; all welcome

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

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SPECIAL EVENTS

  THURSDAY, OCT. 1ST - FRIDAY, OCT. 2ND

Conference: “Finitely Presented Groups: Where do we go from here?”

The fall 2009 New York Group Theory Seminar begins with a two-day conference at City College, CUNY.

Thursday, Oct 1st is a workshop aimed at graduate students, led by Profs. Gilbert Baumslag and Alexei Miasnikov.

Friday, Oct 2nd, Profs. Mladen Bestvina, Jim Cannon, Peter Kropholler, Zlil Sela, and Bill Thurston speak at CCNY in the Steinman Hall auditorium.

For more info, see: http://rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/caissny.org/events-1/GroupsConference/

  FRIDAY, OCT. 23RD – SUNDAY, OCT. 25TH

Fall 2009 MAMLS Conference

Will be held in Room 705 at the Hill Center on Busch Campus of Rutgers University, in Piscataway, NJ.  For complete info, see:  http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sthomas/RU2009.html