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

----------- Fall 2008 | No. 11 | Tuesday, Nov. 11, 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, NOV. 11TH

Computational Logic Seminar

Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 6493

Speaker: Mr. Evan Goris (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Dolev-Yao Cryptography”

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 Probability Seminar

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

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

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

Title: “Unified algorithms for computations with structured matrices, II”

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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"

Topology Seminar

website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html

Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Santiago Lopez de Medrano (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Title: “Moment-angle manifolds and intersection of quadrics”

Restaurant: TBA

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THURSDAY, NOV. 13TH

New York Number Theory Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Ms. Brooke Orosz (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Sequences asymptotic to a growth function”

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: “Mod p Representations of p-adic GL(n) and Hecke Modules”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speakers: Will Schroeder & Bill Hoffman (Kitware, Inc)

Title: “Quality Software Process In the Era of Collaborative Computing”

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: “Mod p Representations of p-adic GL(n) and Hecke Modules”

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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: "Detecting automorphic orbits in free groups"

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”

Model Theory Seminar

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

Meets 12:30PM - 1:45PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Roman Kossak (Bronx C.C & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Indiscenibles (and discernibles) in models of PA”

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 Logic Workshop

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

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

Speaker: Roman Kossak (Bronx C.C. & The CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Elementary pairs of models of PA”

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: “Prediction of Functional Status for the Elderly Based on a New Ordinal Regression Model”

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: “Mathematical Analysis of Geophysical Balance Models”

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: “Large-scale verification of Vandiver's conjecture”

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 around 5:45 PM

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MONDAY, NOV. 17TH

Geometry and Topology Reading Seminar

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

Meets 5:00PM - 6:30PM, Rm. 4214-03

Speaker: Mr. Louis Thrall (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Naive introduction to orbifolds”

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TUESDAY, NOV. 18TH

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: “Unified algorithms for computations with structured matrices, III”

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19TH

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: Carl-Friedrich Boedigheimer (Mathematical Institute Univ. of Bonn)

Title: “Models for the Moduli Spaces of String Theory”

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THURSDAY, NOV. 20TH

Topology Seminar

website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html

Meets today 3:30PM - 4:30PM, Rm. 4430

Speaker: Alex Suciu (Northeastern Univ.)

Title: “Geometry and topology of cohomology jumping loci”

Restaurant: TBA

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Danny Calegari (California Institute of Technology)

Title: TBA

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. 612

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

Speaker: Tonghai Yang (Univ. of Wisconsin)

Title: “A Variant of the Gross-Zagier Formula”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: Mark Wegman (IBM)

Title: “Computer Science Challenges for the next 25 years”

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 in Rm. 312

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

Speaker: Tonghai Yang (Univ. of Wisconsin)

Title: “A Variant of the Gross-Zagier Formula”

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FRIDAY, NOV. 21TH

Set Theory Seminar

website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory

Meets 10:00AM - 11:45AM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Jonas Reitz (New York City College of Technology)

Title: “Killing Strong Compactness by Prikry Forcing Up High”

New York Algebra Colloquium

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

Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Earl Taft (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: “The Boson-Fermion correspondence and one-sided quantum groups”

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Reza Chamanara (Brooklyn College)

Title: “Basics of geodesic laminations on surface”

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar

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

Meets today 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 3309

Speaker: Steve Ferry (Rutgers Univ.)

Title: TBA

Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Jeremy Kahn (SUNY Stony Brook)

Title: TBA

CUNY Logic Workshop

website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop

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

Speaker: Mr. Grigor Sargsyan (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Title: TBA

CUNY Statistics Seminar

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

Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314

Speaker: Yu (Ryan) Yue (Baruch College)

Title: “Bayesian Adaptive Smoothing Priors”

Collaborative Number Theory Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 4422

Speaker: Yu Yasufuku (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: ”Schmidt's Subspace Theorem and Inequalities of Greatest Common Divisors”

Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Manoj Kumini (Purdue 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: John Meier (Lafayette College)

Title: “Snapshots of Buildings”

Seminar in Logic and Games

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

Meets today 4:15PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Steven Brams (N.Y.U.)

Title: “The Undercut Procedure: An Algorithm for the Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items”

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TUESDAY, NOV. 25TH

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar

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

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

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

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THURSDAY, NOV. 27TH

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

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

No meeting today - Thanksgiving Recess

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

No meeting today - Thanksgiving Recess

Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar

website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html

No meeting today - Thanksgiving Recess

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FRIDAY, NOV. 28TH

New York Algebra Colloquium

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

Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209