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