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”