The Department Seminars

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bronx Community College

  The Department Seminars are given by BCC department faculty and invited speakers from other institutions. The seminar usually meets on Tuesdays at 12 p.m. in room CP 305. Talks generally last one hour. All are welcome.

Coordinator:  Maria Psarelli   ( maria.psarelli@bcc.cuny.edu )

 

 Fall 2006 Schedule

September 19		Pedram Safari   "Gluing Seiberg-Witten monopoles"
September 26		Uma Iyer   "Lie Superalgebras, Part I"
October 3		No seminar (Monday schedule)
October 10		Uma Iyer   "Lie Superalgebras, Part II"
October 17		Cormac O'Sullivan   "Number Theory meets Geometry: counting lattice points in tetrahedra"
October 24		Roman Kossak   "Isomorphism invariants for a class of discretely ordered rings (from algebra to set theory and back)"
October 31		Nikos Apostolakis   "Branched coverings, Lefschetz fibrations and open books"
November 7		Sharon Persinger   "The Darker Side of Poe: Secret Codes BC and PC".  Part of CTE Week in RBSC 208 from 12-2
November 14		Lucien Szpiro, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, "Diophantine geometry from a dynamical point of view"
November 21		Wladimir Pribitkin, College of Staten Island,   "Sign Changes of Coefficients of Generalized Dirichlet Series"
November 28		Jaya Iyer,  Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton   "Parabolic bundles in Algebraic Geometry"
December 5		Tony Weaver   "Gromov Hyperbolicity I"
December 12		Tony Weaver   "Gromov Hyperbolicity II"
January 12, 2007 Friday, 1 pm		C. C. Yang, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,   "The Distribution of Values Theory and Functional Equations"

 SPRING 2006 Schedule

February 14		Tony Weaver   "Stratifying Riemann's moduli space via equisymmetry I"
February 21		No Seminar    (Monday Schedule)
February 28		Jorge Pineiro   "An Introduction to Algebraic Geometry"
March 7		Joel Zablow,  Rochester Institute of Technology "On Relations and Homology in the Dehn Twist Quandle of a Surface"
March 14		Jean Steiner, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU "Hide-and-Seek and the `Trace' of Laplace Inverse"
March 21		Ravi Kulkarni, Queens College and the Graduate Center "Evolution of the Idea of Space and its Curvature"
March 28		Cancelled
April  4		Cormac O'Sullivan, "What's the largest number of Chicken McNuggets you cannot buy?"   (Subtitle: New closed-form solutions to a 4 dim. Frobenius problem)
April 11		Tony Weaver  "Stratifying Riemann's moduli space via equisymmetry II"
April 18		***Spring Break***
April 25		Roman Kossak,  "Godel's Centennial"
May 2		Amir Togha, "Algebraic Construction of Infinitesimals"
May 9		Nikos  Apostolakis, "Completing Hurwitz, moduli and configuration spaces.  (To say  nothing of the ribbon graphs.)"