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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.

Spring 2016 Research Seminar Schedule

Coordinator: Maria Psarelli

February 16	Joel Nagloo, BCC,  On degree bounds for Lie integrability of algebraic differential equations.
February 23	Mark Edelman, BCC/NYU/Yeshiva,  Systems with power-law memory and fractional dynamics
March 1	Medhi Lejmi, BCC,  The symplectic Futaki invariant as an asymptotic invariant
March 8	Nishan Chatterjee, Graduate Center of CUNY,  Some metric properties of Teichmuller space of a closed set in the sphere
March 15	Uma Iyer, BCC,  Quantum Differential Operators
March 22	Yves Martin, University of Chile,  On collections of Fourier coefficients which determine Siegel cusp forms of degree two
March 29	Andres Villaveces, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia,  Model Theory and j-functions
April 5	Roman Kossak, BCC and the Graduate Center of CUNY,  On some applications of nonstandard models
April 12	Earl Taft, Rutgers University,  Left Quantum Groups
April 19	Mehdi Lejmi, BCC,  Quaternionic Bott-Chern cohomologies and existence of HKT metrics
April 26	SPRING RECESS no lecture scheduled
May 3	Sudeb Mitra, Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY,  TBA
May 10	The Stanley Friedlander Lecture Jason Behrstock, Lehman College and the Graduate Center of CUNY,  Random graphs and applications to Coxeter groups
May 17	Karen Taylor, BCC,  The Shintani Lift on the Full Modular Group

Fall 2016 Research Seminar Schedule

Coordinator: Cormac O'Sullivan

September 20	Alexander Kheyfits, BCC,  The Lambert W function
September 27	Ivan Horozov, BCC,  4-dimensional regular and semi-regular polytopes
October 4	No Seminar (Holiday)
October 11	No Seminar (Holiday)
October 18	Joel Zablow, BCC,  Relations in quandles, groups, and braiding
October 25	Cris Poor, Fordham University,  Examples of modularity in degree two
November 1	Roman Kossak, BCC and Graduate Center of CUNY,  Borel reducibility
November 8	Nikos Apostolakis, BCC  Non crossing trees and their medial directed trees
November 15	Mel Nathanson, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY  Asymptotic approximate groups
November 22	Deirdre Haskell, McMaster University  Using model theory to find upper bounds on VC density
November 29	Tony Weaver, BCC  A counting problem arising in mapping class groups
December 6	Luis Fernandez, BCC  Quantization of the curvature of harmonic surfaces in spheres

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