Fall 2007 Schedule
September 25 Uma Iyer "Volichenko algebras" October 2 Luis Fernandez "Harmonic maps from the 2-sphere to spheres" October 9 Ali Enayat, American University "Automorphisms of the Complex Field" October 16 Gautam Chinta, City College of New York "Representation numbers for Quadratic Forms" October 23 Amir Togha "A theorem of Sikora" October 30 Russell Miller, Queens College and the GC "Algorithms on Computable Fields" November 6 Nikos Apostolakis "Lefschetz Fibrations and branched coverings, revisited" November 13 Tomek Nowicki, IBM "Convex Dynamics and Error diffusion. Iterations of the maps defined as piecewise translations on Voronoi regions of polytopes." November 20 No Seminar. Thursday schedule November 27 Cormac O'Sullivan "The Circle Method of Hardy and Ramanujan, and a new result." December 4 No Seminar. December 11 Linda Keen , Distinguished Professor, Lehman College and the Graduate Center
Tentative title: "Palindromes and discreteness in two generator groups"
SPRING 2007 Schedule
February 20 Mohamed Messaoudene, "On the Stability of Minimal Submanifolds in Riemannian Spaces" February 27 Noson Yanofsky, Brooklyn College-CUNY "An Introduction to Quantum Computing" March 6 STANLEY FRIEDLANDER LECTURE
Harold Weitzner, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU "The Motion of a Charged Particle in Given Electromagnetic Fields"March 13 Jorge Pineiro, "P-adic Analytic Spaces" March 20 Thomas Wilke, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet, Kiel, Germany, "Formal Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols" March 27 Marcos Zyman, "IA-Automorphisms and Localization of Nilpotent Groups" April 3 Spring Break April 10 Spring Break April 17 James H. Schmerl, University of Connecticut, "From Sierpinski's paradoxical 1919 decomposition of the plane and into the 21st century"
April 24 Ravi Kulkarni, Queens College and the Graduate Center CUNY, "Dynamics of Linear and Affine Maps" May 1 Philipp Rothmaler, "Steinitz transcendence done without algebra" May 8 Radek Wojciechowski, "Stochastic Completeness of Graphs" May 15 Tony Weaver, "The Isoperimetric Inequality for a Hyperbolic Group"
