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 2009 Schedule

September 22  

 

Uma Iyer"Differential operators on the free associative algebras"

 

 

 

September 29    

 

No Seminar: Classes follow a Monday schedule

 

 

 

October 6    

 

Marcello Lucia, College of Staten Island-CUNY, "Uniqueness of steady-states for a chemotaxis model"

 

 

 

October 13    

 

Martin Bendersky, Hunter College and the Graduate Center  "An application of spectral sequences to normal forms"

 

 

 

October 20    

 

Durvudkhan Suragan, Almaty  "A boundary condition of the Newton potential and its applications"

 

 

 

October 27    

 

Huseyin Yuce, New York City College of Technology-CUNY, "Perturbation methods for biharmonic eigenvalue problem"

 

 

 

November 3    

 

Lan-Hsuan Huang, Columbia University,  "Center of mass in general relativity"

 

 

 

November 10  

 

Tony Weaver,   "A Diophantine Frobenius Problem: the Largest Non-genus of a Cyclic Group"

 

 

 

November 17  

 

No Seminar

 

 

 

November 24   

 

Cancelled

 

 

 

December 1   

 

Dan Lee, Queens College,  "The notion of mass in general relativity and Riemannian geometry"

 

 

 

December 8   

 

Nikos Apostolakis,   "Lefschetz Fibration Structures on Four–manifolds"

 

 

 

Last Seminar: December 14, Monday- Please note day change

 

Dijana Jakelic, University of North Carolina, Wilmington   "Hyper Loop Algebras and Representation Theory"

 

 

Spring 2009 Schedule

February 17  

 

Jonas Reitz, New York City College of Technology   "Set Theoretic Geology"

 

 

 

February 24    

 

No talk scheduled

 

 

 

March 3    

 

Roman Kossak,   "Sets"

 

 

 

March 10    

 

Nikos Apostolakis,   "Counting trees and (not) Burnside's Lemma"

 

 

 

March 17    

 

Mohamed Messaoudene,   "Applications of Minimal Surfaces to Topology" 

 

 

 

March 24    

 

Olympia Hadjiliadis, Brooklyn College   "Quickest Detection and Applications in Engineering"

 

 

 

March 31    

 

Andrew Douglas, New York City College of Technology   "Generalized Lie-Yamaguti Structures on the sl(3,C)- module V(n,n)"

 

 

 

April 7   

 

Sheila Miller, Westpoint Military Academy   "An open problem pertaining to finite algebras, braid groups, and large cardinals"

 

 

 

April 15    

 

SPRING BREAK

 

 

 

April 21    

 

Nikos Apostolakis,   "Trees, Braids, Actions"  

 

 

 

April 28   

 

Philipp Rothmaler,   "Cantor-Bendixson rank in topological spaces"  

 

 

 

May 5   

 

STANLEY FRIEDLANDER LECTURE
  Dorian Goldfeld, Columbia University   "Low lying zeros of L-functions in higher rank"