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

----------- Fall 2009 | No. 4 | Tuesday, Sept. 15, 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. 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"

Computational Logic Seminar

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

Speaker: Melvin Fitting (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Intensions Axiomatized”

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

Working Seminar in Arithmetic Geometry

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Clay Petsche (Hunter College)

Title: “Counter example to the Dynamic Manin- Mumford of Shouwu Zhang (after Ghioca and Tucker)”

New York Number Theory Seminar

Meets 3:00PM, Rm 4214-03

Speaker: Ms. Zeljka Ljujic (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “An inverse problem for lattice points in the plane”

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

No colloquium today; Memorial service at City College for Prof. Gary Bloom, 5:00PM in Shepard Hall, Rm. 250

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

Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar

Meets 10:30AM, Rm. 8404

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

Title: “Legendre's sieve and the Mobius function”

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

Seminar in Logic and Games

Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Benedikt Loewe (ILLC, Univ. of Amsterdam)

Title: “Formalizing stories as games of mistaken beliefs”

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: “Degenerations of Calabi-Yau metrics”

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," cont’d.

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: Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)

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”

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: “Some Results on Extraction of Roots in Nilpotent R-Powered Groups”

Student Topology & Geometry Seminar

Meets 12:00PM - 1:30PM, Rm. TBA

Speaker: Mr. Aron Fischer (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: TBA

Model Theory Seminar

Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

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

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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TUESDAY, SEPT. 29TH

Differential Geometry Seminar

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

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

No meeting today; GC classes follow a Monday schedule

Study Group in Algebraic Number Theory

Meets 3:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today; GC classes follow a Monday schedule

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THURSDAY, OCT. 1ST

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM – 6:00PM, Rm. 6496

No regular seminar today; go to “Finitely Presented Groups: Where do we go from here?” at City College [See: http://grouptheory.org/conferences-1/finitely-presented-groups-where-do-we-go-from-here/]

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: Rave Harpaz (Columbia Univ.)

Title: TBA

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FRIDAY, OCT. 2ND

Set Theory Seminar

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

Meets Fridays, 10:00AM - 11:45AM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Mr. Norman Perlmutter (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “The consistency of MA + ¬CH”

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

Speaker: Frederick Gardiner (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Ccenter)

Title: “Tracking moving points on a Riemann surface”

Algebra & Cryptography Seminar

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html

Meets 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

CUNY Statistics Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Andrew Robertson (The Earth Institute at Columbia Univ.)

Title: “Hidden Markov Models for Daily Rainfall Modeling and Dowscaling of Climate Predictions”

Applied Mathematics Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Jan Vecer (Columbia Univ.)

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Suanne Au (Le Moyne College)

Title: TBA

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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/

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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