Talks at the Research Seminar are given by BCC department faculty members and invited speakers from other institutions. The seminar usually meets on Tuesdays at 12 p.m. in room CP 305 for one hour. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Spring 2014 Schedule
Coordinators: Quanlei Fang and Anthony Weaver
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February 11 |
Peter Spaeth, Penn State Altoona, Topological rigidity of contact and symplectic isotopies | |
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February 18 |
Moshe Kamensky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Introduction to Picard-Vessiot theory | |
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February 25 |
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Nikos Apostolakis, Mind-body duality and self-dual embeddings of complete graphs |
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March 4
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Tony Weaver, The wild automorphisms of the complex numbers |
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March 11
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Montserrat Alsina, Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), EPSEM Manresa, Number theory meets coding theory: from quaternion algebras to Fuchsian codes |
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March 18
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Sean Cleary, CCNY CUNY, The unusual geometry of Thompson's groups |
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March 25
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Roman Kossak, How to build a tall rigid ordered ring |
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April 1 |
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Zhe Wang, Quadratic differentials and Teichmuller spaces |
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April 8
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Gautam Chinta, CCNY CUNY, Zeta functions, heat kernels, and spectral asymptotics on discrete tori |
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April
15
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Spring Break |
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April 22 |
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Spring Break |
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April 29 |
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Andrew Greene, Manhattan College, Operator-valued derivations on tensor algebras |
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May 6 |
Quanlei Fang, Introduction to the Kadison-Singer problem | |
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May 13 |
STANLEY FRIEDLANDER LECTURE Linda Keen, Graduate Center and Lehman College, Discreteness and the hyperbolic geometry of hexagons |
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Fall 2014 Schedule
Coordinators: Maria Psarelli and Quanlei Fang
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September 16 |
Mariela Carvacho Bustamante, Graduate Center, Some aspect on the classification of group actions on compact Riemann surfaces | |
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September 23 |
No Seminar, Classes Follow a Friday Schedule | |
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September 30 |
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Radek Wojciechowski, York College, The Feller property for graphs |
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October 7 |
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Roman Kossak, BCC, Elementary extensions of the ring of integers |
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October 14 |
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Jorge Pineiro, BCC, Two numbers correcting the behavior of rational maps: the dynamical degree and the d-ratio |
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October 21 |
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Kerry Ojakian, BCC, Characterizing Cop-Win Graphs |
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October 28 |
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Yunping Jiang, Queens College and the Graduate Center, Complex Analysis in Solving a Real Problem |
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November 4 |
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Chris Conidis, College of Staten Island, New Interactions between Computability Theory and Algebra |
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November 11 |
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Tony Weaver, BCC A tale of two permutaion groups |
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November 18 |
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Manachanallur S. Ravi, Queensborough Community College, TBA |
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November 25 |
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Jo Nelson, Barnard College, Columbia University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
Invariants of contact structures and Reeb dynamics |
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December 2 |
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Azita Mayeli, Queensborough Community College, Connection between exponential bases and translation bases |
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December 9 |
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Joel Nagloo, Graduate Center of CUNY, Model theory and the Painleve equations |