Fall 2012 Schedule

October 2

 

Karen Taylor   Sums of three squares and class numbers

 

 

 

October 9 

 

Luis Fernandez   Almost complex maps from the 2-dimensional sphere to the 6-dimensional sphere

 

 

 

October 16 

 

Kerry Ojakian   Cops and Robber on the Hypercube

 

 

 

October 23

 

Radek Wojciechowski  York College-CUNY  “Intrinsic metrics on weighted graphs

 

 

 

October 30

 

CUNY closed

 

 

 

November 6

 

Tao Chen   Geometric characterization of a family of entire functions

 

 

 

November 13

 

Krzysztof Klosin  Queens College-CUNY   “Galois representations and modular forms

 

 

 

November 20

 

Sajjad Lakzian   “Smooth Convergence Away From Large Singular Sets

 

 

 

November 27

 

Jorge Pineiro   A Presentation of the Algebraic Fundamental Group”

 

 

 

December 4

 

Tao Chen   No Invariant Line Fields on the Escaping Sets of a Family of Entire Functions

     

December 11

  Karen Taylor  “Sums of three squares and class numbers, Part II”

 

 

Spring 2012 Schedule

February 28 

 

Asya Shpiro,   Medgar Evers College   Modeling Bistable Perception

 

 

 

March 6 

 

Neil Katz,   New York City College of Technology   A synthetic lower curvature bound on length measure spaces

 

 

 

March 13 

 

QuanLei Fang   “Invariant subspaces for certain finite-rank perturbations of diagonal operators”

 

 

 

March 20 

 

Roman Kossak   Hilbert's Program

 

 

 

March 27 

 

Alexey Ovchinnikov,  Queens College  Integrability conditions for systems of linear differential equations with parameters

 

 

 

April 3 

 

Bart Van Steirteghem,   Medgar Evers College  The weight monoid of a smooth affine spherical variety

 

 

 

April 10 

 

SPRING BREAK

 

 

 

April 17 

 

Karen Taylor,  The Selberg Trace Formula

 

 

 

April 24 

 

STANLEY FRIEDLANDER LECTURE
Charles Steinhorn, Vassar College   Partial and total orders in o-minimal structures with an application to economics

 

 

 

May 1 

 

Austin Daughton,   Temple University  The Abundance Principle for Dirichlet Series

     

May 8 

  Allen Tesdall,  College of Staten Island   “Modeling the triple point paradox and some related problems”