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”