CUNY Mathematics Seminars Bulletin - CUNY Ph.D. Program in Mathematics
----------- Fall 2008 | No. 16 | Tuesday, Dec. 16, 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. NOTE: This is the last Seminars Bulletin of the fall 2008 semester; the Bulletin will resume in late January 2009. Happy holidays to all.
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TUESDAY, DEC. 16TH
Computational Logic Seminar
Meets 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Rm. 3309
Speaker: Walter Dean (CUNY Graduate Center)
Title: TBA
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: "Polynomial Root-finding via inverse iteration"
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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 - 5:45PM, Rm. 3209
Speaker: Steven Brams (NYU)
Title: “The Undercut Procedure: An Algorithm for the Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items”
(joint work with Marc Kilgour and Christian Klamler)
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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
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Coming up FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH – SATURDAY, MARCH 21ST, 2009
A Conference in Teichmüller Theory and Related Topics In Honor of the 70th Birthday of Frederick P. Gardiner
To be held at the CUNY Graduate Center
Tentative List of Speakers:
• Ara Basmajian (CUNY)
• Andre de Carvalho (University of Sao Paulo)
• Clifford Earle (Cornell, Warwick)
• William Harvey (King's College)
• Yunping Jiang (CUNY)
• Nikola Lakic (CUNY)
• Linda Keen (CUNY)
• Irwin Kra (Stony Brook)
• Howard Masur (University of Chicago)
• Dennis Sullivan (CUNY and Stony Brook)
• Scott Wolpert (University of Maryland)
For more info, see: http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/rchamanara/Fred
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Coming up FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD – SUNDAY, APRIL 5th, 2009
Philosophy of Mathematics Conference
To be held at New York University through the Department of Philosophy
The philosophy department at New York University will be hosting a conference on the Foundations of Mathematics, in April of 2009.
Attendance is open, and there is no registration fee. However, anyone planning to attend must register by emailing shievak@hotmail.com no later than February 31st, 2009.
List of Speakers:
John Burgess (Princeton University)
Haim Gaifman (Columbia University)
Joel Hamkins (City University of New York)
Kai Hauser (ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona, and
Technische Universität Berlin)
Peter Koellner (Harvard University)
Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University)
Stephen Simpson (Pennsylvania State University)
William Tait (University of Chicago)
Neil Tennant (Ohio State University)
W. Hugh Woodin (University of California, Berkeley)
For further info, see: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~sjk362/NYU_Conference.html.