Fall 2011 Schedule

September 13  

 

Katherine St. John, Lehman College   Walks on Trees: Exploring Phylogenetic Treespace

 

 

 

September 20  

 

Quanlei Fang,  Essential normality of polynomial-generated submodules

 

 

 

September 27  

 

Silvius Klein, Medgar Evers College   Spectral Problems for Discrete Quasi-Periodic Schrodinger Operators

 

 

 

October 4  

 

No Seminar: Classes Follow Friday Schedule

 

 

 

October 11  

 

Tony Weaver,   Graphs on Surfaces: conformal and analytic approaches

 

 

 

October 18  

 

Zhe Wang,   Holomorphic Motions

 

 

 

October 25  

 

David Marker, University of Illinois at Chicago  Model Theory and Exponentiation

 

 

 

November 1  

  Nikos Apostolakis,  “Covering Moves and invariants of 3-manifolds based on quandles”
     

November 8  

 

Zheng Huang, College of Staten Island   A Tale of Three Equations-Immerse Surfaces into Hyperbolic 3-manifolds

 

 

 

November 15  

 

Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island    The geometry of knot complements

 

 

 

November 22  

 

No Seminar: Classes Follow Thursday Schedule

     

November 29  

  Kealey Dias,   Quadratic Differentials: What are they, and why do we care?
     

December 6  

  Philip Ording,  Medgar Evers College   Heegaard diagrams and knots
     

 

 

Spring 2011 Schedule

March 1  

 

Catherine Williams,  Columbia University  Boundaries of black holes in general relativity”

 

 

 

March 8  

 

Andrew Parker,  BMCC & Baruch College    “Towards an Obstruction Theory for Projective Modules”

 

 

 

March 15  

 

Marcello Lucia,  College of Staten Island  “Uniqueness and Antisymmetry of Solutions for Some Semilinear Problems”

 

 

 

March 22  

 

Michael Munn,  New York City Tech  Volume Growth and Nonnegative Ricci curvature

 

 

 

March 29  

 

Mark DeBonis, Manhattan College  Another Way to Solve Systems of Multi-polynomial Equations

 

 

 

April 5  

 

Kealey Dias,  Counting Combinatorial Classes of Complex Polynomial Vector Fields in C

 

 

 

April 12  

 

Christian Laing, Biomathematics Group, NYU  The writhe of polygonal open curves and its application as an RNA shape descriptor

 

 

 

April 19  

 

SPRING BREAK

 

 

 

April 26  

 

SPRING BREAK

 

 

 

May 3  

 

STANLEY FRIEDLANDER LECTURE
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University  “On the notion of quasilocal mass in General Relativity

     

May 10  

  Natalia Novak  Computer-aided reasoning about knowledge and justifications