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

----------- Fall 2008 | No. 13 | Tuesday, Nov. 25, 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. 25TH

Computational Logic Seminar

Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3309

Speaker: Mr. Evan Goris (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Dolev-Yao Cryptography, part 2”

Algebraic & Numerical Comp. Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/seminar.html

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306 

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

Title: “Polynomial Root-finding via Eigen-solving for Structured Matrices, I”

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     THURSDAY, NOV. 27TH

RTG New York Joint 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

No meeting today - Thanksgiving Recess

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

New York Joint 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

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”

Algebraic & Numerical Comp. Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/seminar.html

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306 

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

Title: “Polynomial Root-finding via Eigen-solving for Structured Matrices, II”

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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 4:00PM, Rm. 8404 

Speaker: Joan Birman (Columbia Univ.)

Title: “Heegaard splittings and the CGO invariant of a 3-manifold”

 

RTG New York Joint 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

New York Joint 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”

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

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

Two talks today

First talk: 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Rm. 3309

Speaker: Bianca Santoro (Duke Univ.)

Title: "Complete Ricci flat Kahler manifolds with topology at infinity"

Second talk: 2:00PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 3309

Speaker: Fernando Marquez (IMPA)

Title: “The space of positive scalar curvature metrics on the three sphere”

Model Theory Seminar

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

Meets 12:30PM, Rm. 6417

Speaker: Mr. Brent Cody (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “A many models theorem”

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: “Desperately seeking PSL2” 

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: “Systematic Missing-At-Random (SMAR) Design and Analysis for Translational Research Studies”

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: “Eisenstein series formed with eta multiplier”

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: “Reduced K-theory for Azumaya Algebras, an overview”

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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     TUESDAY, DEC. 9TH

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Reading Seminar 

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

Meets 1:30PM - 3:00PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA

CUNY Probability Seminar

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

Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 8405

Speaker: Julien Dubedat (NYU)

Title: TBA

Algebraic & Numerical Comp. Seminar

website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/vpan/seminar.html

Meets 6:30PM - 8:15PM, Rm. 3306 

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

Title: “Polynomial Root-finding via Eigen-solving for Structured Matrices, III”

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     WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10TH

Topology Seminar 

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

Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 4214.03

Speaker: Don Davis (Lehigh Univ.)

Title "Immersions of real projective spaces"

Restaurant: TBA

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     THURSDAY, DEC. 11TH

CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Ilya Kofman (College of Staten Island)

Title: “A new twist on Lorenz Links”

RTG New York Joint Number Theory Seminar

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

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute, 4:00PM - 4:45PM, in Warren Weaver Hall, Rm. 202

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

Speaker: Daniel Allcock (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Title: “A Banach Space Determined by the Weil Height”

Computer Science Colloquium

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

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

Speaker: Lucien Harriot (Mechanisms Digital Studios)

Title: “Behind the Curtain of 3D and Visual Effects for Film and Television”

Seminar in Logic and Games 

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

Meets 4:15PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Steven Brams (New York Univ.)

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

New York Joint Number Theory Seminar

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

Meets today at NYU, Courant Institute

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

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

Speaker: Daniel Allcock (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Title: “A Banach Space Determined by the Weil Height”

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     FRIDAY, DEC. 12TH

New York Algebra Colloquium

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

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

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

Title: TBA

Riemann Surfaces Student Seminar

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

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

Speaker: Mr. Ozgur Evren (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “The Schwarzian alternating procedure to a solution to the Dirichlet problem”

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Bianca Santoro (Duke Univ.)

Title: TBA

CUNY Statistics Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Ying Wei (Columbia Univ.)

Title: “An approach to multivariate covariate-dependent quantile contours with application to bivariate conditional growth charts"

Applied Mathematics Seminar 

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

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

Speaker: Maxim Goldberg-Rugalev (Ramapo College of N.J., Mahwah)

Title: TBA

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

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