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

----------- Fall 2008 | No. 7 | Tuesday, Oct. 14, 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, OCT. 14TH

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 - CUNY on a Monday schedule

Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html

Meets today 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Mr. Aron Fischer (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “ Introduction to Intersection Homology, I”

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

CUNY Probability Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

No meeting today

Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

No meeting today - CUNY on a Monday schedule

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     THURSDAY, OCT. 16TH

New York Number Theory Seminar

website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/

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

Speaker: Gautami Bhowmik (Univ. of Lille, France)

Title: “Olson's Constant for some p-groups'”

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

RTG  Student Seminar of the New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.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, Rm. C415

Speaker: Felipe Voloch (Univ. of Texas) 

Title: “The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Curves”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: David G. Stork (Ricoh Innovations & Stanford Univ.)

Title: “When computers look at art: Image analysis in humanistic studies of the visual arts” 

New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at the CUNY Graduate Center

Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM, Rm. C415

TEA: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in Room C415 (C-level: one floor down from lobby) 

Speaker: Felipe Voloch (Univ. of Texas) 

Title: “The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Curves”

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     FRIDAY, OCT. 17TH

Set Theory Seminar

Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Thomas Johnstone (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Indestructibility for strong cardinals”

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html

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

Speaker: Mr. Camilo Sanabria (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Entree to Malgrange ideas: General Involutivity Theorem, III”

New York Algebra Colloquium

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/ NYALGCOL.html

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Lisa Carbone (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: “Lattices, buildings and Kac-Moody groups”

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

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

Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Zeno Huang (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

Title: “Introduction to Weil-Petersson metric”

Model Theory Seminar

website: http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Fall2008

Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Sam Coskey (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Ehrenfeucht-Mostowski models and omitting types”

CUNY Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Seminar

Meets 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Rm. 4421

Speaker: Wes Skeith (City College, CUNY)

Title: “Private Information Retrieval & Homomorphic Encryption, II”

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar 

website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html

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

Sreaker: Xiaobo Liu (Columbia Univ.)

Title: “Quantum Teichmuller Spaces”

CUNY Logic Workshop 

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Rohit Parikh (Brooklyn College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Belief Revision, Language splitting and relevance”

Algebra and Cryptography Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Alex Myasnikov (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: “Cryptanalysis of the Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld-Lemieux key agreement protocol”

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

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

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Roger Pinkham (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: “The Birthday Problem”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Ionut Florescu (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Title: “Leverage effect in Stochastic Volatility models. What is it and what are conditions for its appearance?”

Collaborative Number Theory Seminar 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~chinta/seminars/cnts.html

Meets 4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422 

Speaker: Carlos Moreno (Baruch College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “A survey of the representation theory of SL(2) over a p-adic field. I: Structure theory of SL(2) and classes of representations”

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Uma Iyer (Bronx Community College, CUNY)

Title: “Volichenko differential operators”

New York Group Theory Seminar [a.k.a. Magnus Group Theory Sem inars] 

website: http://www.grouptheory.org/

Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 5417

Tea at 3:30PM in Math Lounge

Speaker: Delaram Kahrobaei (NYC College of Technology & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Residual Solubility and True Prosoluble Completion of a Group”

Seminar in Logic and Games

website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html

Meets 4:15PM to 6:15PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Frank Jackson (ANU and Princeton Univ.)

Title: “Meaning, information, logical space”

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     MONDAY, OCT. 20TH

Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html

Meets today 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Mr. Aron Fischer (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Introduction to Intersection Homology, II”

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     TUESDAY, OCT. 21ST

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

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

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

No meeting today – conflicts with committee meetings 

CUNY Probability Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

No meeting today

Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Linking polynomial division, evaluation and interpolation

to computations with structured matrices, II”

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     THURSDAY, OCT. 23RD

New York Number Theory Seminar

website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/

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

Speaker: Benjamin Girard (Ecole Polytechique, Paris)

Title: TBA

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

No meeting today

RTG Student Seminar of the New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute, at 4:00PM – 4:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202

Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend

Speaker: Ulrich Derenthal (Princeton Univ.)

Title: “Rational Points on Cubic Surfaces”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: Nasir Memon (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)

Title: “File Carving for Forensics Recovery” 

Seminar in Logic and Games

website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html

Meets today 4:15PM ???, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Greg Wheeler (The New University of Lisbon)

New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute

Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM, in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202

Tea: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in Rm. 202 WWH

Speaker: Ulrich Derenthal (Princeton Univ.)

Title: “Rational Points on Cubic Surfaces”

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     FRIDAY, OCT. 24TH 

Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra 

website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html

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

General Discussion today on “Malgrange's ideas: General Involutivity Theorem”

New York Algebra Colloquium

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Christophe Hohlweg (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Title: “Descent algebras and characters of finite Coxeter groups”

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

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

Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Zeno Huang (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

Title: “Two-dimensional geometric variational problems”

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

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

Meets 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Reading Seminar today

Speaker: Michael Munn (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)

Title: “Mass Transport” 

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

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

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Robert A Yaffee (NYU)

Title: “An Experiment in Epidemiological Forecasting: Comparing the Forecast Accuracies of Different Forecasting Methods on a ‘Difficult’ Time Series”

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 the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214

Speaker: Mark Feighn (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: “A hyperbolic Out(F_n)-complex”

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     TUESDAY, OCT. 28TH

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Dan Lee (Queens College)

Title: TBA

CUNY Probability Seminar

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417

Speaker: Ross Pinsky (Technion Univ.)

Title: “Spectral Calculations for Diffusion operators”

Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306

Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Linking polynomial division, evaluation and interpolation

to computations with structured matrices, III”

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     THURSDAY, OCT. 30TH

New York Number Theory Seminar

website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/

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

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

Meets 4pm, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Tullia Dymarz (Yale Univ.)

Title: TBA

RTG Student Seminar of the New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at Columbia University, 4:00PM - 4:45PM in Rm. 622

Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend

Speaker: Gautam Chinta (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Orthogonal Periods of a GL(3) Eisenstein Series”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

New York Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html

Meets today at Columbia University, 5:30PM - 7:00PM in Rm. 312

Tea: 5:00PM -5:30PM served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor

Speaker: Gautam Chinta (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Orthogonal Periods of a GL(3) Eisenstein Series”

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     FRIDAY, OCT. 31ST

New York Algebra Colloquium

website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

No meeting today

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

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

Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Mr. Zhe Wang (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Noncompleteness of the Weil-Petersson metric for Teichmuller space”

Model Theory Seminar & CUNY Logic Workshop (co-sponsored talk today)

websites:

http://nylogic.org/Workshop -and- http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Fall2008

Meets 12:30PM – 2:00PM, Rm. 6417  

Speaker: Bruno Poizat (Université Claude Bernard Lyon)

Title: TBA

CUNY Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Seminar

Meets 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Rm. 4421

Speaker: Wes Skeith (City College, CUNY)

Title: “Private Information Retrieval & Homomorphic Encryption, III”

CUNY Logic Workshop 

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Sy David Friedman (Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, Univ. of Vienna)

Title: TBA

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

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

Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Colin Begg (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)

Title: “Statistical Methods for Differentiating Second Primary Cancers from Metastases”

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: TBA

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: Carlos Moreno (Baruch College & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “A Survey of the representation theory of SL(2) over a p-adic field, II: The Plancherel Formula”

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Claudia Miller (Syracuse Univ.)

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 the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214

Speaker: Ruth Charney (Brandeis Univ.)

Title: TBA

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   SPECIAL EVENTS

     SATURDAY, NOV. 8TH

Joe Fest: A Conference and Festschrift Honoring the Research and Teaching of Joe Malkevitch

   To be held at York College, CUNY, in Queens, NY

   For complete info, see: http://www.york.cuny.edu/joefest

     THURSDAY, NOV. 13TH – SUNDAY, NOV. 16TH

Third International Workshop on Differential Algebra and Related Topics

   To be held at Rutgers University, Newark in Newark, NJ

   For complete info, see: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~liguo/DARTIII/diffalg.html

     THURSDAY, NOV. 20TH – FRIDAY, NOV. 21ST

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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