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Kolchin  Seminar  in Differential Algebra
Schedule for Academic Year 2003-2004

Talks are held in Room HW706 - Hunter College

September:  Saturday 13

• Marius van der Put, Groningen University, The Netherlands. "Moduli space of differential equations".
• Jerry Kovacic, City College - CUNY. "The differential Galois theory of strongly normal extensions". 

October:  Saturday 18;

• Emma Previato, Boston University. I: "Differential equations integrable by algebraic geometry: a survey of methods". II: "Differential equations integrable by algebraic geometry: two open directions and their interpretation in differential algebra"
• Richard C. Churchill, Hunter College - CUNY. "Cyclic vectors".

November:   Saturday 15

• Lourdes Juan, Texas Tech University. "A generic approach to the inverse differential Galois problem"
• Alexander B. Levin, Catholic University of America. "Finitely generated difference field extensions"

December: Saturday 13

• Felix Ulmer, Université de Rennes, France. 1. "Algorithms for computing Liouvillian solutions"
  2. "Construction of linear differential equations for finite groups"
• Jerry Kovacic, City College - CUNY. "Hyperelliptic Jacobians in Differential Galois Theory. A Preliminary Report".

February: Saturday 21 

• Henri Gillet, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Derivations, connections, exponential maps, and the Riemann-Roch Theorem."
• Jerry G. Ianni, LaGuardia Community College. "Synthetic musical scales and Busoni's problem".

March: Saturday 27

• Juan Morales, Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. "A Galois differential approach to perturbation of asymptotic surfaces in Hamiltonian systems." 
• Li Guo, Rutgers University. "Differential algebras and dendriform algebras".

April: Saturday 24 and Sunday 25

• Alexandru Buium,University of New Mexico.  "Arithmetic differential algebra and quotient spaces".
• Phyllis Cassidy, City College - CUNY. "Representing differential algebraic groups as symmetry groups".

May: Saturday15

• Andrew Magid, University of Oklahoma.
  1. "Iterated Picard-Vessiot extensions".
  2. "The construction of iterated Picard-Vessiot closures".
• William Sit, City College - CUNY. "Some symbolic computation software for differential equations".

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