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/
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/~
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.cu
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/
Meets 3:00pm
– 4:00pm, Rm. 7314
Organizational meeting today
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry
Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.
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/
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/
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/~
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.
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/~
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker:
TBA
Title: TBA
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.
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/
Meets 3:00PM
– 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry
Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.
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.