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Department Colloquium

The Department of Mathematics sponsors a colloquium that takes place approximately every two weeks throughout the school year. Visiting scholars and department faculty present their current directions of study to interested faculty and students. Each event is also open to the public. Most talks are from 12:15–1:05 on Wednesday or Thursday. Contact Christopher Hanusa if you would like to speak or if you would like to be added to the colloquium mailing list.

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Spring 2012

Day	Date	Room	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract
Wednesday	February 15, 2012	Kiely 242	Krzysztof Klosin	Queens College	Galois representations: An introduction
Wednesday	March 7, 2012	Kiely 242	Roman Kossak	Bronx Community College	What is Mathematical Logic?
Monday	March 12, 2012	Kiely 242	Ben Baumer Tina Chang Matthew Fried		What can you do with a math major?
Monday	March 19, 2012	Kiely 242	Shlomo Ben-Har	CUNY Grad Center	Real analysis, topology and connections with computability
Wednesday	March 28, 2012	Kiely 242	Steven Kahan	Queens College	Thinking Outside The Box: One Good Turn Deserves Another
Wednesday	April 4, 2012	Kiely 242	Christopher Hanusa	Queens College	A combinatorial introduction to reflection groups
Thursday 3:15-4:15	April 19, 2012	Kiely 312	Azita Mayeli	Queensborough Community College	Wavelet frames and some of their applications in practice
Monday	April 30, 2012	Kiely 242	Ryan Haskett Gregory Rae		Quantitative Careers

Fall 2011

Day	Date	Room	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract
Thursday	November 17, 2011	Kiely 323	Sudeb Mitra	Queens College	Schwarz's lemma for some Teichmuller spaces
Wednesday	November 30, 2011	Kiely 061	Todd Gaugler	Queens College	Apollonian Circle Packings

Spring 2011

Day	Date	Room	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract	Video
Wednesday	February 9, 2011	Kiely 242	Dan Lee	Queens College	Calculus of variations and minimal surfaces
Thursday	February 17, 2011	Kiely 061	Christopher Hanusa	Queens College	An introduction to LaTeX for students	View
Thursday	February 24, 2011	Kiely 061	Rebecca Steiner	CUNY Grad Center	Fields, Graphs, and Isomorphism Trees
Thursday	March 17, 2011	Kiely 061	Robert Cowen	Queens College	How to solve large combinatorial satisfiability problems with computers but without formal logic
Thursday	March 24, 2011	Kiely 061	Sandra Kingan	Brooklyn College	Excluded minor results in matroids
Wednesday	April 6, 2011	Kiely 315	Alex Ryba	Queens College	Pascal’s Hexagram
Thursday	April 28, 2011	Kiely 061	Dragomir Saric	Queens College	Parametrizing vector fields on the unit circle and computations of the Hilbert transform

Fall 2010

Day	Date	Room	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract
Tuesday	October 5th, 2010	Kiely 273	Krzysztof Klosin	Queens College	Modular forms and Galois representations
Tuesday	October 19th, 2010	Kiely 273	John Terilla	Queens College	Algebraic structures ex nihilo
Tuesday	November 9th, 2010	Kiely 273	Saeed Zakeri	Queens College	Mating Dendrites
Tuesday	November 23rd, 2010	Kiely 273	Scott Wilson	Queens College	What is a topological field theory?

Spring 2010

Day	Date	Room	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract
Wednesday	February 17, 2010	Kiely 242	Alexey Ovchinnikov	Queens College	Galois theory of linear differential equations
Wednesday	March 3, 2010	Kiely 061	Kerry Ojakian	Queens College	Computing with the real numbers
Wednesday	March 24, 2010	Kiely 242	Yunping Jiang	Queens College	Positive matrices and positive transfer operators
Wednesday	April 14, 2010	Kiely 061	Kent Boklan	Queens College	Every even except 22, 50, 114, 186, 212, 238, 364, 420, 428 and 454 and every odd congruent to 0, 1, 2, 7, 8 (mod 9) is the sum of seven cubes
Monday	April 26, 2010	Kiely 242	Joseph Hirsh	CUNY Grad Center	Applications of higher categories to topology
Wednesday	May 12, 2010	Kiely 242	Maria Sabitova	Queens College	Representations of abstract groups with Lie rings

Fall 2009

Day	Date	Room	Speaker	Institution	Title and Abstract	Video
Thursday	September 10, 2009	Kiely 326	Scott Wilson	Queens College	On some invariants and approximation results in algebraic topology
Wednesday	September 23, 2009	Kiely 283	Russell Miller	Queens College	Is it harder to factor a polynomial or to find a root?
Thursday	October 8, 2009	Kiely 326	Jozef Dodziuk	Queens College and CUNY Grad Center	Combinatorial Laplacian on Graphs	View
Monday	October 19, 2009	Kiely 242	Aviezri S. Fraenkel	Weizmann Inst. of Science	Guide for Painless Creation of Math Papers	View
Wednesday	October 21, 2009	Kiely 283	Dragomir Saric	Queens College	Circle Homeomorphisms and Shears	View
Monday	November 2, 2009	Kiely 283	Josiah Sugarman	Queens College	Subgroups of Direct Products of Groups	View
Thursday	November 5, 2009	Kiely 421	Hideki Miyachi	Osaka University	Introduction to the Teichmüller theory	View
Thursday	November 19, 2009	Kiely 421	Huyi Hu	Michigan State	Rates of convergence of the transfer operators for expanding systems	View
Wednesday	December 2, 2009	Kiely 283	Yu Yasufuku	CUNY Grad Center	Vojta's Conjecture and Greatest Common Divisors, the abc Conjecture, and Dynamics	View