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Research Seminar

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bronx Community College

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Talks at the Research Seminar are given by BCC department faculty members and invited speakers from other institutions. The seminar usually meets on Tuesdays at 12 p.m. in room CP 305 for one hour. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Coordinators: Quanlei Fang, Anthony Weaver

Spring 2013 Schedule

February 19	Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island   “Random Walks, Continued Fractions and Geodesics on Surfaces”
February 26	STANLEY FRIEDLANDER LECTURE Dusa McDuff,  Barnard College and Columbia University “Symplectic Embeddings and Continued Fractions”
March 5	Zhe Wang, “Quasiconformal Motion”
March 12	Christine Breiner, Columbia University   “A New Compactness Theory for Minimal Surfaces”
March 19	QuanLei Fang   “Hankel Operators on Hilbert Function Spaces”
March 26	Spring Break
April 2	Spring Break
April 9	Cormac O'Sullivan,   “Rademacher's Coefficients and Sylvester's Waves”
April 16	Joshua Sussan, Medgar Evers College   “Braid group actions and Heisenberg categorification”
April 23	Fred Gardiner,  Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center   “Four Bugs in a Holomorphic Motion”
April 30	Jose La Luz, Hostos Community College   “The Higher Derived Functors of the Primitive Element Functor of Quasitoric Manifolds”
May 7	Nikos Apostolakis, “On certain stabilizers of the Hurwitz action”

Fall 2013 Schedule

September 17	Augustin Banyaga, Penn State   “Morse Theory: From Elementary Calculus to Morse Homology”
September 24	Kealey Dias   “On the parameter space of complex polynomial vector fields”
October 1	Karen Taylor   “Hyperbolic Fourier coefficients of modular forms”
October 8	Michael Shub,  CONICET/IMAS/Universidad de Buenos Aires/CUNY-GC “Periodic Points on the Two-Sphere”
October 15	No seminar, Monday schedule
October 22	Roman Kossak “Elementary Extensions”
October 29	Marcos Zyman, BMCC   “IA-automorphisms of finitely generated solvable groups”
November 5	Richard Churchill, Hunter College   “Integer Differentiation, the Goldbach Conjecture, and the Twin Prime Conjecture”
November 12	Parul Laul “Localized Energy Estimates of the Wave Equation on Higher Dimensional Black holes”
November 19	Yunchun Hu   “One-point symmetry and symmetric conjugacy”
November 26	Philipp Rothmaler   “What is a type?”
December 3	Tatyana Khodorovskiy, Hunter College  “Smooth 4-manifolds and embeddings of rational homology balls”
December 10	Andrew McInerney “What is global analysis?”

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