CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Fall 2008 | No. 12 | Tuesday, Nov. 18, 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. 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: Isaac Chavel (City College & The CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “Isoperimetric Inequalities and Mass Transport: Introduction”
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00 PM, Rm. 3309
Speaker: Ahmet Ayhan Citil (former faculty, Kocaeli Univ., Turkey; Visiting Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “An inquiry into the ontological foundations of Gödel's incompleteness theorems in particular and the formal systems in general, and the consequences of this inquiry for the proof of the Church-Turing thesis”
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
Number Theory Student Seminar
Meets 2:00PM – 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Ms. Zeljka Ljujic (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: “The Erdos-Fuchs theorem in additive number theory”
New York Number Theory Seminar
Meets 3:00PM – 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Benjamin Girard (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Title: "Davenport's constant for groups, and some combinatorial aspects of the theory of non-unique factorization"
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: "Combable functions, quasimorphisms, and the central limit theorem" (joint with K. Fujiwara)
RTG Student Seminar of the 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. 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://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.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”
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Mr. Nathan Penton (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: "A Spectral Sequence Approach to Solving Linear Ordinary Differential Equations"
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: "Gromov-Hausdorff convergence to non-manifolds"
Model Theory Seminar
Meets 12:30PM – 1:45PM, Rm. 6417
website: http://nylogic.org/ModelTheory/Fall2008
Speaker: Amir Togha (Bronx Comm. College, CUNY)
Title: “Elementary extensions of linearly ordered sets”
CUNY Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Seminar
Meets 1:00PM - 2:00PM, Rm. 4421
Speaker: Sean Zhang (College of Staten Island)
Title: “RFID”
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: “The Mouse Set Conjecture”
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: “Homological invariants of bipartite edge ideals”
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 (New York Univ.)
Title: “The Undercut Procedure: An Algorithm for the Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items”
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MONDAY, NOV. 24TH
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: “Orbifolds as grupoids”
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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://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
No meeting today - Thanksgiving Recess
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FRIDAY, NOV. 28TH
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 - Thanksgiving Recess
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM – 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
No meeting Today - Thanksgiving Recess
Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar
website: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~jun/Fmorningseminar08f.pdf.
Meets 10:30AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 4419
No meeting Today - Thanksgiving Recess
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
No meeting Today - Thanksgiving Recess
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 - Thanksgiving Recess
Commutative Algebra & Alg. Geometry Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/lghezzi/seminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 6417
No meeting Today - Thanksgiving Recess
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TUESDAY, DEC. 2ND
Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/seminars/difflie.html
Tea after the talk in the Math Lounge, Rm. 4214
Speaker: Pawel Hictzenko
Title: TBA
CUNY Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Pawel Hictzenko (Drexel Univ.)
Title: “Tails of perpetuities”
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3RD
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: Victor Turchin (Kansas State Univ.)
Title: “Hodge decomposition in the homology of long knots”
(joint work in progress with G. Arone and P. Lambrechts)
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THURSDAY, DEC. 4TH
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets today 3:300PM – 6:00PM, Rm. 8404
Two Talks Today: Double Header
3:30PM, Rm. 8404
Speaker: Joan Birman (Columbia Univ.)
4:45PM, Rm. 8404
Speaker: David Fisher (Indiana Univ.)
Title: TBA
RTG Student Seminar of the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar
website: http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/jointnumbertheory.html
Meets today at the CUNY Graduate Center, 4:00PM – 4:45PM, in Rm. C415
Note: The RTG talk is aimed at graduate students and post-docs; regular faculty are requested not to attend
Speaker: Madhav Nori (Univ. of Chicago)
Title: “Galois Image”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
Seminar in Logic and Games
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets 4:15PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Mr. Can Baskent (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
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: Madhav Nori (Univ. of Chicago)
Title: “Galois Image”
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FRIDAY, DEC. 5TH
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Andrew Douglas (NYC College of Technology, CUNY)
Title: “Lie-Yamaguti structures on the sl(3,C)-modules V(n,n)”
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: “Definition of Thurstion's boundary of Teichmuller spaces with comparison to the easier Euclidean version of the torus”
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Melkana Brakalova (Fordham Univ.)
Title: “On Conformality at a Point Using a Geometric Approach”
CUNY Logic Workshop
website: http://nylogic.org/Workshop
Meets 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Adrien Deloro (Rutgers Univ.)
Title: TBA
CUNY Statistics Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/draghice/Seminar.html
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 7314
Speaker: Ilana Belitskaya-Levy (New York Univ. School of Medicine)
Title: TBA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle (Columbia 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: Karen Taylor (Hunter College)
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: Roozbeh Hazrat (Queen’s Univ., Belfast)
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: Marcos Zyman (BMCC, CUNY)
Title: “Localization and IA-automorphisms of nilpotent groups”
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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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