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

----------- Fall 2008 | No. 15 | Tuesday, Dec. 9, 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. 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: Adam Lowrance (Louisiana State Univ.)

Title: “The Khovanov width of closed 3-braids”

 

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”

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”

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

New York Algebra Colloquium

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

Meets today at 4:00PM, Rm. 3209

Speaker: Alex Dent (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK)

Title: “Transitivity in Intransitive Groups”

Seminar in Logic and Games 

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

Meets 4:25PM, Rm. 4419

Speaker: Can Baskent (CUNY Graduate Center)

Title: “Distributed Knowledge and Announcements”

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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

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: TBA

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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 - 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

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     TUESDAY, DEC. 23RD

Differential Geometry and Lie Theory Seminar 

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

Meets 1:30PM - 3:00PM: Reading Seminar Rm. 4419

Speaker: TBA

Title: TBA