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

----------- Fall 2008 | No. 3 | Tuesday, Sept. 16, 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. 

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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”

Probability Seminar

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

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/seminars/einsteinchair.html

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/behrstock/seminar/

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/~bumby/nyntsem/

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

No meeting today

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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/~ksda/gradcenter.html

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

General Discussion: “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: Sal Liriano (F.I.T., SUNY)

Title: “Algebro-geometric invariant of finitely generated groups”

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf

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/~zakeri/seminar.html

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/draghice/Seminar.html

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Ronald Neath (Baruch College)

Title: TBA

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html

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/maxim/gt.html

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/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

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/probability/

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/~bumby/nyntsem/

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/behrstock/seminar/

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Abhijit Champanerkar (College of Staten Island)

Title: TBA

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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/~ksda/gradcenter.html

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.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html  

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.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.

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/~zakeri/seminar.html

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/draghice/Seminar.html

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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/sormani/seminars/difflie.html

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/~bumby/nyntsem/

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/ behrstock/seminar/

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/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html

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/colloquium/

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/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html

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.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html  

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.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.

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/~zakeri/seminar.html

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

Speaker:  Dragomir Saric (Queens College)

Title: TBA

Algebra & Cryptography Seminar

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

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/draghice/Seminar.html

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.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html

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/probability/NEPS

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