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

----------- Fall 2009 | No. 3 | Tuesday, Sept. 8, 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. 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

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

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

Topic: Basic operations with polynomials via operations with structured matrices, I

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     THURSDAY, SEPT. 10TH

Hyperbolic Geometry Student Seminar 

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 6494   

Organizational meeting today; all welcome

New York Number Theory Seminar

Meets 3:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

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

Title: “Phase transitions in infinitely generated groups”

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: Wolf Kohn (Clearsight Systems)

Title: “Quantum Hybrid Controllers”

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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”

Complex Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
Meets 10:30PM - 12:30PM, Rm. 4419 

Speaker: Yunping Jiang (Queens College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Topic: “Current work about combinatorial characterization of rational maps and unsolved problems, I”   

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”

Seminar in Mathematical Aspects of Cryptology

Meets 1:00PM - 2:15PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Michael Anshel (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Topic: The Status of the P versus NP Problem and its Relation to Cryptography

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

CUNY Logic Workshop

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Thomas Johnstone (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Resurrection axioms”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/Yuce/Seminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209 

Speaker: Vahid Anvari (York Univ., Toronto, Canada)

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 (NYC 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"

CUNY Probability Seminar

website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

Speaker: Jean Bertoin (Universite Paris VI)

Title: "A limit theorem for the tree of alleles in branching processes with rare neutral mutations"

Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar

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

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

Topic: Basic operations with polynomials via operations with structured matrices, II

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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: Joseph Maher (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

Title: “Asymptotics for pseudo-Anosovs in the Teichmuller lattice”

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

Seminar in Mathematical Aspects of Cryptology

Meets 1:00PM - 2:15PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Michael Anshel (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Topic: The Status of the P versus NP Problem and its Relation to Cryptography, cont’d.

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

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/Yuce/Seminar.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209 

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

No meeting today

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     TUESDAY, SEPT. 22ND: 

Differential Geometry Seminar

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

Meets: 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 8402

Speaker: Valentino Tosatti (Columbia Univ.)

Title: TBA

CUNY Probability Seminar

website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

Speaker: Fredrik Johansson (KTH)

Title: “Optimal Holder exponent for the SLE path”

Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar

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

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

Topic: Basic operations with polynomials via operations with structured matrices, III

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     THURSDAY, SEPT. 24TH

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar 

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

Meets 4:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6496 

No meeting today

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. 25TH

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, II”

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: “Differential Tannakian Categories and Differential Algebraic Groups”

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar

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

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419 

Speaker: Ara Basmajian (Hunter College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: TBA

CUNY Logic Workshop

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets: 2:00PM - 3:30PM,  Rm. 6417

Speaker: Gunther Fuchs (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

Title: TBA

CUNY Statistics Seminar  

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

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Iuliana Ismailescu (Pace Univ.)

Title: “The Reaction of Emerging Market Credit Default Swap Spreads to Sovereign Credit Rating Changes”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/Yuce/Seminar.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: Jooyoun Hong (Southern Connecticut State Univ.)

Title: TBA

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SPECIAL EVENTS

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11TH

    One-Day Conference: “Faces of Modern Cryptography”

   This all-day conference (9:00AM - 5:30PM), to be held at City College, CUNY, will feature five, 50-minute research talks by leading international experts on various aspects of modern cryptography.  Organized by Profs. Gilbert Baumslag, Nelly Fazio, and William E. Skeith III.       

See: http://www-cs.ccny.cuny.edu/~fazio/FoMC09/.

Printable version available at: http://www-cs.ccny.cuny.edu/~fazio/FoMC09/FoMC-poster.pdf

Participation is free.  Please pre-register online at: http://www-cs.ccny.cuny.edu/~fazio/FoMC09/Faces_of_Modern_Cryptography/Register.html

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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/

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FRIDAY, OCT. 23RD – SUNDAY, OCT. 25TH

   Fall 2009 MAMLS Conference

This 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

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