CUNY
Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Fall
2009 | No. 8 | Tuesday, Oct. 13, 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, OCT. 13TH
Computational
Logic Seminar
Meets
2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3309
Speaker: Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Cornell
& The Univ. of Auckland, NZ)
Title:
“Infinite games played on finite graphs: decidability and complexity”
CUNY
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker:
David Mason (Univ. of Delaware)
Title:
“Large Self-normalized Levy process distributional behavior at small time and
large time”
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”
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:30PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker:
Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title:
“Displacement structure of matrices and computational applications, II”
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THURSDAY, OCT. 15TH
Impromptu Seminar in Arithmetic Geometry
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
Note: speakers & topics will vary each week
New York
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/
Meets
3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
No
meeting today - Integers Conference at the University of West Georgia
CUNY
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Meets 4:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6496
Speaker: Ara Basmajian (Hunter College
& The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
"Crossing number of closed geodesics and their lengths"
RTG New
York Joint Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Rotates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets
today at Columbia University
Meets
4:00PM - 4:45PM, Rm. 622
TEA: 5:00
- 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
Speaker: Yannan Qiu (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “SO(2,2) Periods of Non Tempered SO(3,2) Representations”
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets
4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker:
Hugo Scolnik (Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina)
Title: “How
to accelerate parallel algorithms for solving large systems of equations”
New York
Joint Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Rotates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets
today at Columbia University
Meets
5:30PM - 7:00PM, in Rm. 312
TEA: 5:00
- 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
Speaker: Yannan Qiu (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “SO(2,2) Periods of Non Tempered SO(3,2) Representations”
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FRIDAY, OCT. 16TH
Set
Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory/Fall2009
Meets
10:00AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Stephen Jackson (Univ. of North Texas)
Title:
“Partition Properties under Determinacy”
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, II”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Lourdes Juan
(Texas Tech. Univ.)
Title: “Differential
Galois Extensions with Specified Galois Groups”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Marcos Zyman (BMCC, CUNY)
Title: “IA-automorphisms of various
classes of groups”
Student
Topology & Geometry Seminar
Meets
12:00PM - 1:30PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker:
TBA
Title:
TBA
Model Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Fall2009
Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Brian Copeland (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Well-orderings and ordinals”
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:
Joseph Maher (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Title:
“Generic elements in the mapping class group”
CUNY
Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets
2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Benedikt Löwe (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Title:
“Applications of partition properties to choiceless
set theory”
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker:
Mr. Benjamin Baumer (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “A
Survey of Methods for the Statistical Evaluation of Defensive Ability in Major
League Baseball”
Applied
Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/Yuce/Seminar.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker:
Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Sophia Antipolis,
Cedex, France)
Title:
“Robust and Efficient Algebraic-Geometric Computing”
Collaborative
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422
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
Speaker:
TBA
Title:
TBA
New York
Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group Theory Seminars]
website: http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Tea at
3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker:
Charles Miller III (Melbourne Univ.)
Title:
“Finitely presented residually free groups”
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MONDAY, OCT. 19TH
Topology
Seminar
Meets
today 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker:
Ethan Devinetz (Univ. of Washington)
Title:
"Towards the finiteness of \pi_*L_{K(n)}S^0"
NYC
Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets
6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker:
Fred E.J. Linton (Wesleyan Univ.)
Title:
"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed,
..."
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TUESDAY, OCT. 20TH
Differential
Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets:
11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 6495
Speaker:
Mark Stern (Duke Univ.)
Title:
“The Geometry of Stable Yang-Mills connections”
Study
Group in Algebraic Number Theory
Meets
3:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker:
TBA
Title:
TBA
CUNY
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker
Ron Peled (Courant-NYU)
Title:
“Gravitational Allocation to Poisson Points”
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:30PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker:
Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title:
“Displacement structure of matrices and computational applications, III”
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21ST
Einstein Chair Seminar in Topology and Quantum Objects
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/einsteinchair.html
Meets 2:00PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Joan Millès (Université Nice)
Title:
“André-Quillen cohomology
theory of an algebra over an operad”
CUNY
Topology Seminar
Meets
5:00PM, Rm. 4214.03
Speaker:
Joel Zablow (Long Island Univ., Brooklyn campus)
Title:
“The Dehn Quandle and its
Homology, with Applications to Lefschetz Fibrations”
Restaurant:
TBA
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THURSDAY, OCT. 22ND
Impromptu Seminar in Arithmetic Geometry
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
Note: speakers & topics will vary each week
New York
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/
Meets
3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker:
Richard Bumby (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: “The
amazing discriminant 165”
CUNY
Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar
Meets
4:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6496
Speaker:
Cynthia Curtis (College of New Jersey)
Title:
“The Jones polynomial and boundary slopes of alternating knots”
RTG New
York Joint Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Rotates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets
today at the CUNY Graduate Center
Meets
4:00PM - 4:45PM, Rm. C415
TEA:
5:00-5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby
Speaker: Mihnea Popa (Chicago Circle)
Title:
“BGG correspondence and the cohomology of compact Kaehler manifolds”
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets
4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker:
Dina Sokol (Brooklyn College & The
CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “TRedD - A database for Tandem Repeats over the Edit
Distance”
New York
Joint Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Rotates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets
today at the CUNY Graduate Center
Meets
5:30PM - 7:00PM, Rm. C415
TEA:
5:00-5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby
Speaker: Mihnea Popa (Chicago Circle)
Title:
“BGG correspondence and the cohomology of compact Kaehler manifolds”
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FRIDAY, OCT. 23RD
Complex
Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009FallStudentSeminars.html
Meets
10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker:
Mr. Tao Chen (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“On canonical Thurston obstructures for branched
covers of two sphere, I”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential
Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets
10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker:
Lourdes Juan (Texas Tech Univ.)
Title:
TBA
Set
Theory Seminar
Meets
10:30AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker:
Mr. Douglas McLellan
Title: “A
Dense Subset Of The Real Line On Which The Ordering
Defines A Unique Metric Structure”
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: Eran Makover (Central State Univ.
of Connecticut)
Title:
TBA
Algebra
& Cryptography Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html
Meets
2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Xiaowen Zhang (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:
TBA
Title:
TBA
Applied
Mathematics Seminar
Meets
4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/Yuce/Seminar.html
Speaker:
Tim S.T. Leung (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Title:
TBA
Collaborative
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422
Speaker: Shuichiro Takeda (Purdue Univ.)
Title:
“On the non-vanishing problem of theta lifts”
Commutative
Algebra & Alg. Geom. Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
No
meeting this week; we will be at the Special Session on Commutative Algebra and
Applications to Algebraic Geometry
at the AMS meeting in University
Park, PA.
New York
Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group Theory Seminars]
website: http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Tea at
3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker:
Alexei Miasnikov (McGill Univ. & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
TBA
Logic and
Games Seminar
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets
4:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Radu Grosu (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Title:
“Finite Automata as Time-Invariant Linear Systems: Observability,
Reachability and More”
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MONDAY, OCT. 26TH
NYC
Category Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/CTseminar.html
Meets
6:00PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker:
Mr. Louis Thrall (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Category theory, Combinatorial Homotopy Theory and
Coverings of ‘Spaces’”
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TUESDAY, OCT. 27TH
Differential
Geometry Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets:
11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 6495
Speaker: Lan-Hsuan Huang (Columbia Univ.)
Title:
“Rigidity results on hemispheres”
CUNY
Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker:
Elena Kosygina (Baruch College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title:
“Limit laws of excited random walks on integers”
Study
Group in Algebraic Number Theory
Meets
3:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker:
TBA
Title:
TBA
Algebraic and Numerical Computations Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:30PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker:
Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate
Center)
Title:
TBA
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THURSDAY, OCT. 29TH
Impromptu Seminar in Arithmetic Geometry
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 4419
Note: speakers & topics will vary each week
New York
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/
Meets
3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
No
meeting today - Lehman math department meeting
CUNY Geometry
and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar
Meets
4:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6496
Speaker:
Roland van der Veen (KdV Institute, Univ. of Amsterdam)
Title:
TBA
RTG New
York Joint Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Rotates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets
today at NYU, Courant Institute
Meets
4:00PM - 4:45PM, in Warren Weaver Hall (WWH), Rm. 317
TEA: 5:00
- 5:30 served in WWH 317
Speaker: Zeev Rudnick (IAS)
Title:
"Lattice Points on Circles and Spheres and Nodal Sets of Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian"
Computer
Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets
4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker:
Patrick Louis Combettes (Univ. Paris 6)
Title:
TBA
New York Joint
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
[Rotates
between CUNY, NYU, and Columbia Univ.]
Meets today
at NYU, Courant Institute
Meets
5:30PM - 7:00PM, in Warren Weaver Hall (WWH), Rm. 317
TEA: 5:00
- 5:30 served in WWH 317
Speaker: Zeev Rudnick (IAS)
Title:
"Lattice Points on Circles and Spheres and Nodal Sets of Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian"
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FRIDAY, OCT. 30TH
Complex
Dynamical Systems Student Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.edu/~yjiang/HomePageYJ/LinkPages/2009FallStudentSeminars.html
Meets
10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Mr. Tao Chen (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “On canonical Thurston obstructures
for branched covers of two sphere, II”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 1:00PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Benjamin Antieau (Univ.ersity of Illinois at Chicago
Title: “Galois Theory of Difference Equations with Difference
Parameters”
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:
Laura De Marco (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, visiting)
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/Yuce/Seminar.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Tamay Ozgokmen (Univ. of Miami)
Title:
TBA
Collaborative
Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html
Meets
4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422
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:
TBA
Title: TBA
New York
Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group Theory Seminars]
website: http://www.grouptheory.org/
Meets
4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Tea at
3:30PM in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker: Tullia Dymarz (Yale Univ.)
Title: “Bilipschitz equivalence is not equivalent to
quasi-isometric equivalence for finitely generated groups”
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SPECIAL EVENTS
WEDNESDAY,
OCT. 21ST
University Professorship Lecture at NYU by Prof. Hartry
Field
Title:
“Revising Our Logic” Meets 6:00PM in Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East, 1st
Floor. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and will begin at
5:30 PM. RSVP is required. Registration is not a guarantee of admittance.
Please refrain from bringing large bags.
Hartry Field is a University Professor
and a Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Dr. Field's areas
of expertise include metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of
logic. Dr. Field is the author of Saving Truth from Paradox; Truth and the
Absence of Fact; Realism, Mathematics and Modality; and Science Without
Numbers, which won the Lakatos Prize. Dr. Field has
received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
For more
info and to RSVP, see: http://www.nyu.edu/fas/forms/universityprofessorshiplecture09/.
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.
Invited speakers include Inessa Epstein, Ilijas Farah, Greg Hjorth, Justin
Moore, Christian Rosendal, Saharon
Shelah, Slawomir Solecki and Jindrich Zapletal. Talks begins Oct.
23rd at 4PM; Oct. 24th at 9:30AM; and Oct. 25th at 10:00AM.