CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Fall 2008 | No. 14 | Tuesday, Dec. 2, 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, 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
New York Number Theory Seminar
website: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~bumby/nyntsem/
Meets 3:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 4419
No meeting today
CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar
website: http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/behrstock/seminar/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 4214-03
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 and Motivic Galois Groups”
Computer Science Colloquium
website: http://cslogic.info/colloquium/
Meets 4:15PM - 5:30PM, Rm. 9204/9205
Speaker: Naum Goldburt
Title: “Challenges of Message Routing”
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 and Motivic Galois Groups”
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FRIDAY, DEC. 5TH
Set Theory Seminar
website: http://nylogic.org/SetTheory
Meets 10:00AM - 11:45AM, Rm. 6417
Speaker: Joel David Hamkins (College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center)
Title: “Searching Within Rather Than Without for Large Cardinals”
Note: This is joint work with Arthur Apter and Victoria Gitman
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
Two talks today:
10:30AM: Speaker: Li Guo (Rutgers Univ. at Newark)
Title: “Rota-Baxter algebra and related structures”
11:40AM: Speaker: William Sit (City College, CUNY)
Title:
“Constrained Systems”
Note: The second talk will be followed by an informal discussion on constrainability and computability after lunch (Rm. TBA)
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: Isaac Chavel (City College & The Graduate Center)
Topic: “Isoperimetric inequalities and mass transport”
CUNY Probability Seminar
website: http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/
Meets 4:00PM, Rm. 8405
Speaker: Julien Dubedat (Columbia Univ.)
Title: “Dimers and analytic torsion”
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
Kolchin Seminar in Differential Algebra
website: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~ksda/gradcenter.html
Meets 10:30AM - 12:30PM, Rm. 6421
Speaker: Michael F. Singer (North Carolina State Univ.)
Title: “Differential Groups and the Gamma Function”
New York Algebra Colloquium
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/adouglas/NYALGCOL.html
Meets 10:30AM - 11:30AM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Alex Dent (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK)
Title: “Transitivity in Intransitive Groups”
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
Complex Analysis and Dynamics Seminar
website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~zakeri/seminar.html
Meets today 2:00PM - 4:30PM, Rm. 4419
Two talks today:
2:00PM - 3:00PM:
Speaker: Yair Minsky (Yale Univ.)
Title: TBA
3:30PM - 4:30PM:
Speaker: Ege Fujikawa (Chiba Univ., Japan)
Title: “The Intermediate Teichmuller Spaces”
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: "Application of Some Novel Formulas for Finite State Markov Chains"
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
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TUESDAY, DEC. 16TH
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 - committee conflict
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WEDNESDAY DEC. 17TH
Topology Seminar
website: http://math.hunter.cuny.edu/~mbenders/seminar.html
Meets 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Rm. 4214.03
Speaker: Andrew Salch (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Title "A computational motivation for topological Langlands correspondences”
Restaurant: TBA
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THURSDAY, DEC. 18TH
Seminar in Logic and Games
website: http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/seminar.html
Meets 4:15pm to 6:15pm, Rm. 4419
Speaker: Steven Brams (NYU)
Title: “The Undercut Procedure: An Algorithm for the Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items”
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FRIDAY, DEC. 19TH
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
Applied Mathematics Seminar
website: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/hyuce/AMSeminar.html
Meets 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA