CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Fall 2008 | No. 9 | Tuesday, Oct. 28, 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. 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: Mel Nathanson (Lehman College & The Graduate Center)
Title: "Growth of infinitely generated groups and a problem in additive number theory"
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, 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: Nasir Memon (Polytechnic Institute of NYU)
Title: “File Carving for Forensics Recovery”
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
Topic: “General Involutivity Theorem”
We shall have an open discussion on the Koszul Complex, its homology groups and their relation to the General Involutivity Theorem for partial differential equations on complex manifolds.
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”
CUNY Logic Workshop + Model Theory Seminar (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 Univ.)
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
No meeting today
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: “Rigidity of the Frobenius endomorphism”
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: "Automorphism Groups of Right-Angled Artin Groups"
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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
Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Meets 1:30PM, Rm. 4214-03
Speaker: Frans Oort (Utrecht Univ., visiting Columbia Univ.)
Title: “Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties”
Subject: Re: arithmetic geometry seminar
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker: Mark van Atten (Paris 1 & Princeton Univ.)
Title: “The Creating Subject”
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”
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
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: “PDE Methods for the Maximum Drawdown”
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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TUESDAY, NOV. 11TH
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 – Veterans Day
CUNY Probability Seminar
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 5417
Speaker: Pawel Hitczenko (Drexel Univ.)
Title: “Tails of perpetuities”
Algebraic & Numerical Computing Seminar
Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306
No meeting today – Veterans Day
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12TH
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: Jean Louis Loday (CNRS et Université de Strasbourg)
Two Talks Today:
First talk: "Combinatorial Hopf algebras"
Second Talk: "Homotopy associative algebras and Stasheff polytope"
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THURSDAY, NOV. 13TH
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 Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.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: Rachel Ollivier (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Title: TBA
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html
Meets today at Columbia University
Meets 5:30PM - 7:00PM, Rm. 312
Tea: 5:00PM - 5:30PM served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
Speaker: Rachel Ollivier (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Title: TBA
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FRIDAY, NOV. 14TH
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 II”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
No meeting today – Third International Workshop on Differential Algebra and Related Topics at Rutgers, Newark (see below)
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Peter Brinkmann (City College, CUNY)
Title: TBA
Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.
Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Speaker: Zeno Huang (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Title: “WP in the thick part”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Jane Hawkins (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Title: "Poles in Parameter Space of Iterated Elliptic Functions"
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Hyokyoung (Grace) Hong (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: Don Jones (Arizona State Univ., Tempe)
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: David Harvey (CIMS/NYU)
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: 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: Moira Chas (SUNY Stony Brook)
Title: “Minimal intersection of curves on surfaces and combinatorial group theory”
Seminar in Logic and Games
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets 4:15PM – 6:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Sonja Amadae (Ohio State Univ.)
Title: “Prisoner’s Dilemma vs. Stag Hunt Contractarianism: Must Joint Action be Strategic, or May Agreement Play a Transformative Role?"
Note: There will be a wine and cheese reception, roughly around 5:45 PM.
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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, 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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