CUNY Mathematics
Seminars Bulletin - CUNY
Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Fall 2008 | No. 3 | Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008
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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.
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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”
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:15PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Jay Rosen (College of Staten Island & The CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title: “A CLT for the L^{2} modulus of continuity of local times”
Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College &
The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Multiplication of structured matrices and polynomials, II”
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17TH
Einstein Chair Seminar in Topology and Quantum
Objects
website:
http://math.gc.cuny.edu/
Meets 2:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Vasiliy Dolgushev (Univ. of Calif.,
Riverside)
Title:
“Proof of Swiss cheese conjecture”
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: “The mapping class group cannot be realized by homeomorphisms”
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 18TH
New York Number Theory Seminar
website:
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~
Meets
3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
No meeting today
Computer Science Colloquium
website:
http://cslogic.info/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Vladimir
A. Uspensky (Moscow Univ.)
Title: “Four
Algorithmic Faces of Randomness"
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 19TH
Set Theory Seminar
website:
http://nylogic.org/SetTheory
Meets 10:00AM
– 11:45AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Victoria Gitman (NYC Technical College, CUNY)
Title: “Ramsey and Virtually Ramsey Cardinals”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website:
http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
General Discussion:
“Malgrange ideas: Jet Bundles ”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.
Meets 10:30AM
– 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Sal Liriano (F.I.T., SUNY)
Title:
“Algebro-geometric invariant of finitely generated
groups”
Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar
website:
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.
Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419
No meeting today
Model Theory Seminar
Meets
12:30PM - 1:45PM, Rm.
6417
Speaker: Ms.
Rebecca Steiner (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Models definable in models of PA”
CUNY Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Seminar
Meets
1:00PM - 2:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
No meeting today
CUNY Logic Workshop
website:
http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: James Schmerl (Univ. of Connecticut)
Title: “Coloring Graphs and Reverse Mathematics”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website:
http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/
Meets 3:00PM
– 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker:
Ronald Neath (Baruch College)
Title: TBA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker:
Allen Tesdall (College of Staten Island)
Title: TBA
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry
Seminar
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Janet Striuli (Fairfield Univ.)
Title:
“Representation Theory in commutative algebra”
Seminar in Logic and Games
Meets 4:15PM
- 6:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Mr. Loes Olde Loohuis (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Multi-Player Logics”
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MONDAY, SEPT. 22ND
Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar
Meeys
4:00PM – 5:30PM, Rm.
4214-03
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/
Speaker: Laurentiu-George Maxim (Lehman College)
Title: “Motivic Integration, II”
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 23RD
Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Jason Behrstock (Lehman College, CUNY)
Title:
“Geometry and Rigidity of Mapping Class
Groups"
Probability Seminar
website:
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:15PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Jingchen Liu (Columbia Univ.)
Title:
“ Rare-event Simulation for Heavy-tailed Multi-server
Queue”
Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Multiplication of structured matrices and polynomials, III”
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 25TH
New York Number Theory Seminar
website:
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~
Meets
3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Julia Wolf (MSRI and Rutgers Univ.)
Title: “The Structure
of Popular Difference Sets”
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Abhijit Champanerkar (College of Staten Island)
Title: TBA
Computer Science Colloquium
website:
http://cslogic.info/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Bruno Motta de Carvalho (Brasil/Virginia)
Title: TBA
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 26TH
Set Theory Seminar
website:
http://nylogic.org/SetTheory
Meets 10:00AM
– 11:45AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Ms. Shoshana Friedman (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Coding Supercompactness into HOD”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website:
http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Varadharaj Ravi Srinivasan (Univ. of Oklahoma)
Title:
“On Certain Towers of Extensions by
Antiderivatives”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.
Meets 10:30AM
– 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Anthony Clement (Brooklyn College)
Title: “The Baumslag-Solitar Groups: A solution for the Isomorphism
Problem”
Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar
website:
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.
Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Mr. Oleg Musician (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Perron's method to solve the Dirichlet problem”
CUNY Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Seminar
Meets
1:00PM - 2:00pm, Rm. 4421
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Jun Hu (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Kobayashi Metric on the Teichmuller Space of Symmetric Circle
Homeomorphisms ”
CUNY Logic Workshop
website:
http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Joel David Hamkins (College of Staten Island & The CUNY
Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website:
http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/
Meets 3:00PM
– 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting today
New York Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group
Theory Seminars]
website:
http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417
Tea at 3:30PM in Math Lounge
Speaker: Gilbert Baumslag (City College & The CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title: “Cyclically Pinched Groups”
Seminar in Logic and Games
Meets 4:15PM to 6:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
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TUESDAY, SEPT.
30TH
Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
No meeting today
Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker:
TBA
Title: TBA
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THURSDAY, OCT. 2ND
New York Number Theory Seminar
website:
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Kevin O'Bryant (CSI & the CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Can you hear the shape of a Beatty sequence?”
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker:
TBA
Title: TBA
RTG Seminar of the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~
Note:
The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend
Meets
4:00PM - 4:45PM at
NYU, Courant Institute, in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202
Speaker:
Kai-Wen Lan (Princeton Univ.)
Title: Extensions over Toroidal
Boundaries of Shimura Varieties”
Computer Science Colloquium
website:
http://cslogic.info/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Umut Topkara (Purdue Univ./CMU)
Title: TBA
Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~
Meets
5:30PM - 7:00PM at
NYU, Courant Institute, in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202
Tea: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in WWH Rm.202
Speaker:
Kai-Wen Lan (Princeton Univ.)
Title:
Extensions over Toroidal Boundaries of
Shimura Varieties”
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FRIDAY, OCT. 3RD
New York Algebra Colloquium
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.
Meets 10:30AM
– 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Alistair Savage (Univ. of Ottawa)
Title: “Moduli
spaces of sheaves and the boson-fermion
correspondence”
Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar
website:
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.
Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Fred Gardiner (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Minimum norm principle, III”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Dragomir Saric
(Queens College)
Title:
TBA
Algebra & Cryptography Seminar
website:
http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~
Meets 2:30PM - 3:30 PM,
Rm. 8405
Speaker:
Vladimir Shpilrain (City College & The CUNY
Graduate Center)
Title: "Authentication schemes"
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website:
http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/
Meets 3:00PM
– 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Jingchen Liu (Columbia Univ.)
“Statistics Can Lie But Can Also Correct for Lies: Reducing Response
Bias in NLAAS via Bayesian Imputation”
Applied Mathematics
Seminar
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
New York Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group
Theory Seminars]
website:
http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417
Tea at 3:30PM in Math Lounge
Speaker: Olga Kharlampovich (McGill Univ.)
Title: “Fully
Residually Free Groups, a
Survey”
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SPECIAL EVENTS
NOV. 20TH – 21 ST, 2008
Seventh Northeast Probability Seminar
To be held
at New York University
For complete info, see: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/
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