CUNY
Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
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Fall 2009 | No. 5 | Tuesday, Sept. 22, 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. 22ND:
Computational
Logic Seminar
Meets
2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3309
Speaker:
Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Belief-Based Rational Decisions”
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
New
York Number Theory Seminar
Meets
3:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker:
Mel Nathanson (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“An introduction to addition and multiplication of quantum integers”
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/colloquiumschedule.htm
Meets
4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker:
Sergei Artemov (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Knowledge-Based Rational Decisions”
Impromptu Seminar in Arithmetic Geometry
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
Note: speakers & topics will vary each week
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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”
Complex
Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009FallStudentSeminars.html
Meets
10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Yunping Jiang (Queens College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“On combinatorial characterization of rational maps, II”
Graduate
Student Number Theory Seminar
Meets
10:30AM, Rm. 8404
Speaker:
Mr. Satyanand Singh (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Multiplication of quantum integers”
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. 8405
Speaker:
Mr. Aron Fischer (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“You could have invented Stacks”
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:
Jun Hu (Brooklyn College & The
CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
"Conformal natural barycentric extensions of
continuous circle maps”
CUNY
Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets:
2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm.
6417
Speaker:
Gunther Fuchs (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Title: ”Maximality Principles and the
Generic Multiverse”
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:
Huseyin Yuce (NYC College
of Technology, CUNY)
Title:
“Perturbation Methods for Vibration of Moderately Elliptical Plates”
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:
“Chern numbers of parameter ideals”
Logic
and Games Seminar
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets
4:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Ms. Loes Olde Loohuis (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Obligations in a responsible world”
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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”
Complex
Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009FallStudentSeminars.html
Meets
10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Fred Gardiner (Brooklyn College & The CUNY
Graduate Center)
Title:
“Moving points on Riemann surfaces”
Kolchin Seminar in
Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets
10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker:
Varadharaj Ravi Srinivasan
(Rutgers Univ. at Newark)
Title:
TBA
Model
Theory Seminar
Meets
12:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Mr. Thomas Ferguson (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
"Cantor's theorems on orderings"
Speaker:
Mr. D. Dakota Blair (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Cantor's theorems on linear orders”
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.)
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:
Suanne Au (Le Moyne College)
Title:
TBA
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TUESDAY, OCT. 6TH
Differential
Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets:
11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 8402
Speaker:
Nan Li (Rutgers Univ.)
Title:
TBA
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.
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7TH
Topology
Seminar
Meets
5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 4214.03
Speaker:
Gerard Walschap (Univ. of Oklahoma)
Title:
“Metric fibrations and nonnegative curvature”
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THURSDAY, OCT. 8TH
RTG
New York Joint Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Alternates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets
today at NYU’s Courant Institute
Meets
4:00PM - 4:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall (WWH), Rm. 317
TEA:
5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317
Speaker:
Dimitar Jetchev (Hudson
River Trading LLC)
Title:
“Global Divisibility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers”
CUNY
Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar
Meets
4:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6496
Speaker:
Jason Manning (SUNY Buffalo)
Title:
“Virtually geometric words and Whitehead's algorithm”
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets
4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker:
Heng Ji (Queens College
& The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
TBA
New
York Joint Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Alternates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets
today at NYU’s Courant Institute
Meets
5:30PM - 7:00PM, in Warren Weaver Hall (WWH) Rm. 317
TEA:
5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317
Speaker:
Dimitar Jetchev (Hudson
River Trading LLC)
Title:
“Global Divisibility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers”
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FRIDAY, OCT. 9TH
Set
Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Fall2009
Meets
10:00AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Mr. Jason Schanker (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Making a measurable cardinal κ indestructible by forcing to add κ+ subsets
to κ”
Complex
Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009FallStudentSeminars.html
Meets
10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Mr. Oleg Muzician (CUNY
Graduate Center)
Title: “On barycenter extensions of quasisymmetric homeomorphisms, I”
Kolchin Seminar in
Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets
10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Rahim Moosa
(Univ. of Waterloo)
Title: TBA
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Aaron Lauda (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “Categorifying quantum 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, cont’d.
Complex
Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets
2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Dragomir Saric (Queens
College, CUNY)
Title:
TBA
CUNY
Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets
2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Rahim Moosa (Univ. of
Waterloo)
Title:
TBA
Algebra
& Cryptography Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html
Meets
2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker:
Vladimir Shpilrain (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Zero-knowledge authentication by the Sherlock Holmes method”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker:
Mr. Benjamin Baumer (The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
TBA
Applied
Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/Yuce/Seminar.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker:
Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle (Columbia Univ.)
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:
Lars Winther Christensen (Texas Tech Univ.)
Title:
“Floor plans in local algebra”
New
York Group Theory Seminar
website: http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets
4:15PM - 5:15PM, Rm. 5417; Tea beforehand at 3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm.
4214
Speaker:
Gilbert Baumslag (City College, & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Some unanswered questions to think about”
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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.
Talks begins Oct. 23rd at 4PM; Oct. 24th at 9:30AM; and Oct. 25th at
10:00AM