Fall 2008 Schedule
September 23 Tony Weaver "Dessins d'enfants" September 30 No classes , No Seminar October 7 Frederick Gardiner, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center
"Picture hanging problems and the uniform structure of Teichmuller space"October 14 Monday Schedule, No seminar October 21 Sergei Artamoshin "Spherical Symmetry of the 2-D Poisson kernel and its applications" October 28 Jorge Pineiro "Geometry of algebraic varieties with self-maps" November 4 Cormac O'Sullivan "Lehmer's conjecture on the non-vanishing of Poincare series" November 11 Uma Iyer "Cartan prolongations of orthogonal Lie (super) algebras" November 18 Nikos Apostolakis "Combinatorics of Hurwitz monodromies" November 25 Roman Kossak "Pseudo-exponentiation" December 2 Sam Coskey, CUNY Graduate Center "The Set Theory of classification problems" December 9 Luis Fernandez "The set of solutions of a particular system of Differential Equations"
Spring 2008 Schedule
February 19 Karel Hrbacek, City College of New York "Analysis Using Relative Infinitesimals" February 26 Roman Kossak "Two theorems on nonstandard models and their combinatorial/number theoretic content." March 4 Uma Iyer "Introduction to Quantum Groups, I" March 11 No Seminar March 18 Uma Iyer "Introduction to Quantum Groups, II" March 25 Delaram Kahrobaei, NYCCT "Application of Combinatorial Group Theory in Cryptography" April 1 Justin Vazquez-Poritz, Baruch College "Predictions from gauge-gravity duality" April 8 Radek Wojciechowski " Heat Kernel and Essential Spectrum of Infinite Graphs" April 15 STANLEY FRIEDLANDER LECTURE
Joseph Malkevitch, York College and the Graduate Center " Isosceles Triangle Polyhedra"April 22 SPRING BREAK April 29 Andrew McInerney " Things that happened while I was away (Contact Structures on tori)" May 6 Alex Kheyfits "Asymptotic behavior of harmonic functions at a singular boundary point" May 13 Victoria Gitman, NYCCT "Standard systems of non-standard models of Peano Arithmetic"