Research Seminar

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bronx Community College


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?”