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

----------- Fall 2008 | No. 1 | Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 -----------

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.  Note: Additional seminars will begin later in the semester.

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     THURSDAY, SEPT. 4TH

New York Number Theory Seminar

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

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

Title: “Problems and results in combinatorial number theory”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

Meets  4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205

Speaker: Archan Misra (IBM Watson)

Title: "Advances in Utility-Based Distributed Congestion Control Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks"

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     FRIDAY, SEPT. 5TH

Set Theory Seminar 

website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory

Meets 10:00AM – 11:45AM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Victoria Gitman (NYC Technical College, CUNY)

Title: “Weakly Compact Cardinals are not Downward Absolute”

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra

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

Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421

Speaker: Mr. Camilo Sanabria (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Hors d'oeuvre to Malgrange ideas: Jet Bundles”

New York Algebra Colloquium

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

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Ben Fine (Fairfield Univ.)

Title: “Surface Groups: Motivating Examples in Combinatorial Group Theory”

Model Theory Seminar

Meets 12:30PM - 1:45PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Roman Kossak (Bronx C.C. & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Model theory of linearly ordered structures I”

CUNY Logic Workshop 

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

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

Speaker: Ali Enayat (American Univ.)

Title: “Omega-models of finite set theory”

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

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

Meets 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Rm. 7314

Organizational meeting today

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Laura Ghezzi (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Minimal free resolutions of points in the projective space”

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     THURSDAY, SEPT. 11TH

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Jason Behrstock (Columbia Univ.)

Title: “Asymptotic geometry of infinite groups, an introduction”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: Alex Dent (Information Security Group, UK)

Title: TBA

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     FRIDAY, SEPT. 12TH

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra

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

Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421

Speaker: Mr. Camilo Sanabria (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Hors d'oeuvre to Malgrange ideas: Jet Bundles, cont’d.”

New York Algebra Colloquium

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

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Stephen Majewicz (Kingsborough C.C., CUNY)

Title: “Nilpotent Q[x]-powered groups”

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

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

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

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     TUESDAY, SEPT. 16TH

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

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

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

Tea after the talk in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214

Speaker: Kei Kondo (Tokai Univ.) 

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

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     WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17TH

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

Meets today at 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Dragomir Saric (Queens College)

Title: TBA

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     THURSDAY, SEPT. 18TH

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: Vladimir Uspensky (Moscow Univ.)

Title: TBA

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     FRIDAY, SEPT. 19TH

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra

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

Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421

Speaker: TBA 

Title: TBA

New York Algebra Colloquium

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

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Sal Liriano (F.I.T.)

Title: TBA

CUNY Logic Workshop 

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

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

Speaker: James Schmerl (Univ. of Connecticut)

Title: TBA

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

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

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

Seminar in Logic and Games

Meets 4:15PM to 6:15PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Mr. Loes Olde Loohuis (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Multi-Player Logics”

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SPECIAL EVENTS

     FRIDAY, SEPT. 5TH

Special Logic Event: Film "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem" (2008) Followed by a Panel Discussion

The panel discussion, "Women in Mathematics: Then and Now" will be chaired by Gretchen Ostheimer (Hofstra Univ.) with Carol Wood (Wesleyan Univ.), Tamar Schlick (NYU), and Dusa McDuff (SUNY Stony Brook).  The even t is sponsored by the New York Women in Mathematics Network (NYWIMN) jointly with the Graduate Center’s Einstein Chair.  Time: 4:00pm - 6:45pm, Rm. C205.