CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY
Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
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Fall 2008 | No. 8 | Tuesday, Oct. 21, 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. 21ST
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 6493
Speaker: Mr. Hide Kurokawa (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Tableaux and Hypersequents for Jusitification
Logic”
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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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22ND
Einstein Chair Seminar in
Topology and Quantum Objects
website:
http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/einsteinchair.html
Meets 2:00PM - 6:15PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Alastair Hamilton (Univ.
of Connecticut)
Title: “Noncommutative
geometry, compactifications of the moduli space of curves and A-infinity algebras”
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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: Craig Spencer (Institute
for Advanced Study)
Title: "The Circle Method in
Function Fields"
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 6:30PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Gregory Wheeler (The New
University of Lisbon)
Title: “Coherence and
Confirmation”
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
Speaker: Mr. Camilo
Sanabria (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Entrée to Malgrange ideas: General Involutivity
Theorem, IV”
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”
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, CUNY)
Title: “The Mapping Class Group
Cannot be Realized by Homeomorphisms”
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: Andrew Poje (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Title: “Persistent Patterns in
Advection-Diffusion Dynamics”
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
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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MONDAY, OCT. 27TH
Geometry and Topology Reading
Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:30PM, Rm.
4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Dustin Mulcahey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Introduction to Stacks,
I”
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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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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29TH
Topology Seminar
website:
http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 6493
Speaker: Constance Leidy
(Wesleyan Univ.)
Title: “The complexity of the
structure of the knot concordance group”
Restaurant: TBA
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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: “Large scale geometry of
certain solvable Lie groups”
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
Set Theory Seminar
website:
http://nylogic.org/SetTheory
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Norman Perlmutter (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “An Exposition of Solovay”
Kolchin
Seminar in Differential Algebra
website:
http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Richard Cohn (Rutgers
Univ., New Brunswick)
Title: “Differentially
Transcendental Functions”
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/ModelTheory/Fall2008 -and- http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 12:30PM – 2:00PM, Rm.
6417
Speaker: Bruno Poizat (Université Claude Bernard
Lyon)
Title: “What a logician sees in
an algebraically closed field”
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: “Godel
Maximality, the Hyperuniverse
and Internal Consistency”
Algebra & Cryptography
Seminar
website:
http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~shpil/algcryp.html
Meets 2:30PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Ben Fine (Fairfield
University)
Title: “Challenge-Response
Password Security Using Combinatorial Group Theory”
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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MONDAY, NOV. 3RD
Geometry and Topology Reading
Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:30PM, Rm.
4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Dustin Mulcahey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Introduction to Stacks,
II”
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TUESDAY, NOV. 4TH
Differential Geometry and Lie
Theory Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Meets today 1:30PM - 3:00PM, Rm.
4419
Reading Seminar today
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Algebraic & Numerical
Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
Speaker: Victor Pan (Lehman
College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
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THURSDAY, NOV. 6TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology
Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM – 5:00PM, Rm.
4214-03
Speaker: Natasa
Macura (Trinity Univ. & Brandeis Univ.)
Title: “CAT(0)
spaces with polynomial divergence of geodesics”
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 the CUNY Graduate
Center
Time: 4:00PM – 4:45PM, Rm. C415
Note: The RTG talk is aimed at
graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend
Speaker: Tom Tucker (Univ. of
Rochester)
Title: “Dynamical Mordell-Lang Problems ”
Computer Science Colloquium
website:
http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm.
9204/9205
Speaker: Piotr
Gmytrasiewicz (UIC)
Title: TBA
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 Rm.
C415 (C-level: one floor down from lobby)
Speaker: Tom Tucker (Univ. of
Rochester)
Title: “Dynamical Mordell-Lang Problems ”
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FRIDAY, NOV. 7TH
Set Theory Seminar
website:
http://nylogic.org/SetTheory
Meets 10:00AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Mr. Brent Cody (CUNY
Graduate Center)
Title: “Characterizations of
Strongly Compact Cardinals, Part I”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Roozbeh
Hazrat (Queen’s Univ., Belfast)
Title: “Reduced K-theory for Azumaya Algebras, An overview”
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: “WP near the frontier of Teichmuller space”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics
Seminar
website:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Hugo Parlier (IGAT
Institute, Switzerland)
Title: TBA
CUNY Logic Workshop
website:
http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Sergei Artemov (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: David Kim (Manhattan
College)
Title: TBA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website:
http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Libor Pospisil (Columbia Univ.)
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: Hamid
Rahamati (Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln)
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: Steve Majewicz (Kingsborough C.C., CUNY)
Title: “Classes of Exponential
A-groups”
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MONDAY, NOV. 10TH
Geometry and Topology Reading
Seminar
website:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/maxim/gt.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:30PM, Rm.
4214-03
Speaker: Mr. Dustin Mulcahey (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Introduction to Stacks,
III”
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SPECIAL EVENTS
FRIDAY, OCT. 24TH – SUNDAY, OCT.
26TH
MAMLS Meeting in Honor of Gregory
Cherlin's 60th Birthday
The Fall
2008 MAMLS Meeting will be held at Rutgers University, beginning with the
Friday Departmental Colloquium. The
invited speakers are John Baldwin, Zoe Chatzidakis,
Lou van den Dries, Ehud Hrushovski, Eric Jaligot, Angus Macintyre, Bruno Poizat,
Saharon Shelah, Alex Wilkie and Boris Zilber. For the complete schedule of events, see:
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sthomas/RU2008.
SATURDAY, NOV. 8TH
Joe Fest: A Conference and
Festschrift Honoring the Research and Teaching of Joe Malkevitch
To be held at York College, CUNY, 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.