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Previous Weekly Bulletins

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY: WWH 1302
Corrected
  • 9:30 - 9:45 A.M.
    Noise-Induced Failure of Metallic Crystals
    Di (Richard) Liu
  • 9:45 - 10:00
    Transition Measures for SPDE
    Toufic Suidan
  • 10:00 - 10:15
    Scaling Limit of Critical Systems and Conformal Invariance
    Julien Dubedat
  • 10:30 - 10:45
    Does a Typical Projection Preserve the Dmension of a Set?
    William Ott
  • 10:45 - 11:00
    Whitney Disks and Low-Dimensional Topology
    Rob Schneiderman
  • 11:00 - 11:15
    Toric Action on Small Blow Ups Off CP2 and Pseudoholomorphic Curves
    Liat Kessler
  • 11:30 - 11:45
    Determinants, Traces, and Geometry
    Jean Steiner
  • 11:45 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
    The Ricci Flow
    Natasa Sesum
  • 12:00 Noon - 12:15 P.M.
    Energy Concentration and the Willmore Functional
    Roger Moser
  • 2:00 - 2:15
    Global Existence in Nonlinear Elasticity
    Becca Thomases
  • 2:15 - 2:30
    Low Frequency Dynamics of Atmospheric Flow
    Daan Crommelin
  • 2:30 - 2:45 P.M.
    Quantum Ergodicity and Billiards
    Alex Barnett
  • 2:45 - 3:00 P.M.
    Independent Components and fMRI Data Analysis
    Cliona Golden
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
On the Exact Security of Luby-Rackoff with 4, 7 or 10 Rounds
Prashant Puniya
The speaker will talk about a recent paper by Patarin
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
NYC NLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Speaking with Hands: Creating Animated Conversational Characters from Recordings of Human Performance
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
For abstract, see http://www.nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/abstract09-10-2004.html
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/index.shtml
COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Mathematics Building, Room P-131
  • 4:00 P.M.
    Pseudoholomorphic Curves in 4-Orbifolds
    Weimin Chen, Tulane University
  • 5:15 P.M.
    DeRham Model for Chen-Ruan Cohomology Ring of Abelian Orbifolds
    Shengda Hu, Montreal

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Nonuniform Sparse Approximation via Haar Wavelets
S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University
For abstract, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Data/Muthukrishnan_abstract.html
To see the seminar speaker's home page, see http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~muthu/ For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Ellipticity Criterion for Flowing Two-Fluid High Beta Equilibria
Akio Ishida, Niigata University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Basing Cryptography on Biometrics and Other Noisy Data
Yevgeniy Dodis, CIMS
Joint with Cryptography Seminar
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/sept17.html
For complete list of CS seminars, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
CAOS Ph.D. Student Orientation, and Discussion of Plans for Student Seminars
CAOS Faculty
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor
The Density of Quartic and Quintic Number Fields
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Solution of Nonlinear, Structured, Parametric Eigenvalue Problems
Volker Mehrmann, Technical University of Berlin
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Approximate Factorization of Complex Multivariate Polynomials
Erich Kaltofen, North Carolina State University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/sept24.html
For complete list of CS seminars, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Stability of Ice Age Sheets
Dan Goldberg
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Nonuniform Sparse Approximation via Haar Wavelets
S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University
For abstract webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Data/Muthukrishnan_abstract.html
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~muthu/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Ellipticity Criterion for Flowing Two-Fluid High Beta Equilibria
Akio Ishida, Niigata University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Basing Cryptography on Biometrics and Other Noisy Data
Yevgeniy Dodis, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Joint with Cryptography Seminar
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/sept17.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
From Spikes to Speed-Accuracy via the Brainstem
Eric Brown, CIMS
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
CAOS Ph.D. Student Orientation, and Discussion of Plans for Student Seminars
CAOS Faculty
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Look Back at the Tree of Life: Exon Lengths, Protein Alignments, Hyperstable Genes
Jack Schwartz, CIMS
Note: If you would like to be on the email list of this seminar, send a request to that effect to: peskin@cims.nyu.edu
The email list is recreated anew each academic year, so please send in a request even if you were on the list previously.
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Convex Hull of Random Hyperplanes in $R^3$
Bill Steiger, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerically Converged Solutions of the Global Primitive Equations for Testing the Dynamical Core of Atmospheric General Circulation Models
Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.columbia.edu/~lmp/
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discretization of Expanding Maps
Oscar Lanford, ETH Zurich
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor
The Density of Quartic and Quintic Number Fields
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Solution of Nonlinear, Structured, Parametric Eigenvalue Problems
Volker Mehrmann, Technical University of Berlin
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Approximate Factorization of Complex Multivariate Polynomials
Erich Kaltofen, North Carolina State University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/sept24.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
On New Advances in IBE Schemes without Random Oracles
Carl Bosley
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Stability of Ice Age Sheets
Dan Goldberg
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

GRAPH DRAWING CONFERENCE AT CITY COLLEGE, CUNY:
12th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, September 29 - October 2
For further information, see: http://www.gd2004.org/
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Motion-based 3-D Wavelet Frames and Probability Models for Video Processing
Ivan Selesnick, Polytechnic University
See the speaker's webpage! http://taco.poly.edu/selesi/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Buoyancy-forced Circulations in Shallow Marginal Seas
Michael Spall, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/people/mspall/
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Natasa Sesum, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
What's Happening in the Courant Applied Math Lab
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
A Geometric Interpetation of Quadratic Base Change
Herve Jacquet, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Objective Numerical Generation of the Jacobian Matrices for Nonlinear Mechanics Analysis
K.-C. Park, University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Field Work in the Arctic Ocean Over the Seasons
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5

JOINT SPECIAL PHYSICS-CIMS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
D. Treschev, Moscow University

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerically Converged Solutions of the Global Primitive Equations for Testing the Dynamical Core of Atmospheric General Circulation Models
Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.columbia.edu/~lmp/
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY
Generalized De Bruijn Cycles
Joshua Cooper, CIMS
See the Combinatorial Computing wepage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Quantum Chaos for Cat Maps
Ronny Hadani and Shamgar Gurevich
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discretization of Expanding Maps
Oscar Lanford, ETH Zurich
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor
The Density of Quartic and Quintic Number Fields
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Stock Pinning on Option Expiration Dates: A Langevin Approach Contracts (joint with M. Avellaneda)
Mike Lipkin, AMEX
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Solution of Nonlinear, Structured, Parametric Eigenvalue Problems
Volker Mehrmann, Technical University of Berlin
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Counting Connected Graphs Using a Biased Brownian Bridge
Joel Spencer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Approximate Factorization of Complex Multivariate Polynomials
Erich Kaltofen, North Carolina State University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/sept24.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeta Functions and Applications
Peter Sarnak, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 101
Fuzzy Identity Based Encryption: A paper by Amit Sahai and Brent Waters
Carl Bosley
See the authors' paper at: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/086/
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Small Random Perturbations, Large Deterministic Effects
Eric Vanden Eijnden, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Stability of Ice Age Sheets
Dan Goldberg
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Space of Strings and the Stable Cohomology of Moduli Space
Ulrike Tillmann, Oxford University
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
See the Mathematics Colloquium webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Stable and Unstable Growth Pattern Formation in Physicochemical Hydrodynamics: Experiments, Theory, and Numerical Simulations
Guillermo Marshall, University of Buenos Aires and CIMS
Note: If you would like to be on the email list of this seminar, send a request to that effect to: peskin@cims.nyu.edu
The email list is recreated anew each academic year, so please send in a request even if you were on the list previously.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

GRAPH DRAWING CONFERENCE AT CITY COLLEGE, CUNY:
12th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, September 29 - October 2
For further information, see: http://www.gd2004.org/
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Motion-based 3-D Wavelet Frames and Probability Models for Video Processing
Ivan Selesnick, Polytechnic University
See the speaker's webpage! http://taco.poly.edu/selesi/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Buoyancy-forced Circulations in Shallow Marginal Seas
Michael Spall, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/people/mspall/
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Convergence of the Ricci Flow
Natasa Sesum, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
What's Happening in the Courant Applied Math Lab
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
A Geometric Interpetation of Quadratic Base Change
Herve Jacquet, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Prepay Risk-and-Option-Adjusted Valuation
Alex Levin, Andrew Davidson and Company
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Objective Numerical Generation of the Jacobian Matrices for Nonlinear Mechanics Analysis
K.-C. Park, University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Travelling Waves for the Random KPP Equation
Joseph Conlon, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Ocean Circulation Under an Ice Shelf
Ryan Walker
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Lagrangian Fluid Dynamics
Peter Constantin, University of Chicago
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
See the Mathematics Colloquium webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Why Does a Spark Not Ignite a Bonfire? Towards a Quantitative Understanding of Calcium Release in the Heart
Eric Sobie, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
JOINT SPECIAL PHYSICS-CIMS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
D. Treschev, Moscow University
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Radii Minimal Projections of Polytopes and Constrained Optimization of Symmetric Polynomials
Thorsten Theobald, Yale University
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Fourth Order Equations for Image Processing
John Greer, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Moments of Quadratic Dirichlet L-Functions
Calin Adrian Diaconu, Lehman College, CUNY
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On Valuation of Life Insurance Contracts with Equity-Linked Maturity Guarantees
Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On Incompressible Navier-Stokes Dynamics: A New Approach for Analysis and Computation
Jian-guo Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Excursion Decompositions for SLE and Watts' Formula
Julien Dubedat, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
JOINT COLLOQUIUM OF THE NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND THE NYC NLP FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Stopping Spam
Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct8.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Field Work in the Arctic Ocean Over the Seasons
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/
COURANT-SONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 102
  • 4:00 P.M. Richard Hind, Notre Dame
    Lagrangian Spheres in Stein Surfaces
  • 5:15 P.M. Felix Schlenk, University of Leipzig
    Closed Orbits of Classical Mechanical Systems at Low Energy

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
A Variational Approach to Quasistatic Damage Evolution
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
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Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

GRAPH DRAWING CONFERENCE AT CITY COLLEGE, CUNY:
12th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, September 29 - October 2
For further information, see: http://www.gd2004.org/
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Motion-based 3-D Wavelet Frames and Probability Models for Video Processing
Ivan Selesnick, Polytechnic University
See the speaker's webpage! http://taco.poly.edu/selesi/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Buoyancy-forced Circulations in Shallow Marginal Seas
Michael Spall, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/people/mspall/
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Convergence of the Ricci Flow
Natasa Sesum, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
What's Happening in the Courant Applied Math Lab
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
A Geometric Interpetation of Quadratic Base Change
Herve Jacquet, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Prepay Risk-and-Option-Adjusted Valuation
Alex Levin, Andrew Davidson and Company
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Objective Numerical Generation of the Jacobian Matrices for Nonlinear Mechanics Analysis
K.-C. Park, University of Colorado at Boulder
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Travelling Waves for the Random KPP Equation
Joseph Conlon, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Plaintext Awareness
Alex Dent
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~alex/
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Ocean Circulation Under an Ice Shelf
Ryan Walker
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
6th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, October 1 - 3, 2004

There is no registration fee
See the Workshop Program at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/workshop/dd/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Diffusive Lagrangian Fluid Dynamics
Peter Constantin, Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
See the Mathematics Colloquium webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Why Does a Spark Not Ignite a Bonfire? Towards a Quantitative Understanding of Calcium Release in the Heart
Eric Sobie, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
JOINT SPECIAL PHYSICS-CIMS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Evolution of Measures in Phase Space of a Dynamical System
D. Treschev, Moscow University
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Radii Minimal Projections of Polytopes and Constrained Optimization of Symmetric Polynomials
Thorsten Theobald, Yale University
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6

AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 513
Special Values of L-Functions of Representations of Orthogonal Groups
Erez Lapid
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Fourth Order Equations for Image Processing
John Greer, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Jian Zhang, Physics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Entropy-Determined Dynamics
Jerome Buzzi, CNRS Paris
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Moments of Quadratic Dirichlet L-Functions
Calin Adrian Diaconu, Lehman College, CUNY
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On Valuation of Life Insurance Contracts with Equity-Linked Maturity Guarantees
Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On Incompressible Navier-Stokes Dynamics: A New Approach for Analysis and Computation
Jian-guo Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Excursion Decompositions for SLE and Watts' Formula
Julien Dubedat, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
JOINT COLLOQUIUM OF THE NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND THE NYC NLP FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Stopping Spam
Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct8.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
A Note on an Encryption Scheme of Kurosawa and Desmedt
Victor Shoup, CIMS
A joint work with Rosario Gennaro
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.shoup.net/
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
An Efficient New Approach for Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Protein
John Zhang, NYU Chemistry
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Field Work in the Arctic Ocean Over the Seasons
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/
COURANT-SONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 102
  • 4:00 P.M. Richard Hind, Notre Dame
    Lagrangian Spheres in Stein Surfaces
  • 5:15 P.M. Felix Schlenk, University of Leipzig
    Closed Orbits of Classical Mechanical Systems at Low Energy

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Nonlinear Links between Continuity and Discreteness: Hungarian Vowel Harmony
Adamantios Gafos, Department of Linguistics, NYU
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Planar Soap Bubble Clusters
Frank Morgan, Williams College
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Thomas Yu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.rpi.edu/%7Eyut/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Nonlinear Hartree Equation
Enno Linzmann, ETHZ
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
2D and 3D Turbulence
Sunghwan Jung, Physics, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Local Rigidity, Implicit Function Theorems and First Cohomology
David Fisher
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Vladimir Dobric, Lehigh University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
The Motivic Fundamental Group and Diophantine Geometry
Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Identifying Core Sets and Its Algorithmic Implications in Large-Scale Geometric Optimization
Alper Yildirim, Stony Brook University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Extremes of the Discrete Gaussian Free Field in 2D
Olivier Daviaud, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
The Microprocessor of the Year 2014: Do Pentium 4, Pentium M, and Power 5 Provide Any Hints?
Yale N. Patt, University of Texas at Austin
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct15.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
If Archimedes Had a Computer: Continuing His Work on Floating Bodies
Chris Rorres, University of Pennsylvania
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
A Variational Approach to Quasistatic Damage Evolution
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Understanding the Adaptive Immune System: A Computational Approach Based on Cellular Automata
Dario Ghersi and Claudia Calcagno, Hospital for Joint Diseases, NYU

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
Roberto Torasso, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Lp Bounds for Eigenfunctions of Completely Integrable Laplacians
John Toth
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Distributed Immersed Boundary Simulation in Titanium
Edward Givelberg, CIMS

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6

AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 513
Special Values of L-Functions of Representations of Orthogonal Groups
Erez Lapid
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Fourth Order Equations for Image Processing
John Greer, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Soft Materials: From Colloids on Template to Polymers in Nematic
Jian Zhang, Physics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Entropy-Determined Dynamics
Jerome Buzzi, CNRS Paris
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Moments of Quadratic Dirichlet L-Functions
Calin Adrian Diaconu, Lehman College, CUNY
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On Valuation of Life Insurance Contracts with Equity-Linked Maturity Guarantees
Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On Incompressible Navier-Stokes Dynamics: A New Approach for Analysis and Computation
Jian-guo Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Excursion Decompositions for SLE and Watts' Formula
Julien Dubedat, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
JOINT COLLOQUIUM OF THE NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND THE NYC NLP FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Stopping Spam
Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct8.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 2:00, WWH 101
A Note on an Encryption Scheme of Kurosawa and Desmedt
Victor Shoup, CIMS
A joint work with Rosario Gennaro
Note the change in time!
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.shoup.net/
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
An Efficient New Approach for Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Protein
John Zhang, NYU Chemistry
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Field Work in the Arctic Ocean Over the Seasons
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/
COURANT-SONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 102
  • 4:00 P.M. Richard Hind, Notre Dame
    Lagrangian Spheres in Stein Surfaces
  • 5:15 P.M. Felix Schlenk, University of Leipzig
    Closed Orbits of Classical Mechanical Systems at Low Energy

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Perelman's Work on the Ricci Flow
Bruce Kleiner, University of Michigan and CIMS
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
See the Mathematics Colloquium webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Nonlinear Links between Continuity and Discreteness: Hungarian Vowel Harmony
Adamantios Gafos, Department of Linguistics, NYU
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Planar Soap Bubble Clusters
Frank Morgan, Williams College
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiscale Refinement Subdivision in Nonlinear and Geometric Settings
Thomas Yu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.rpi.edu/%7Eyut/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Nonlinear Hartree Equation
Enno Linzmann, ETHZ
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
2D and 3D Turbulence
Sunghwan Jung, Physics, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Local Rigidity, Implicit Function Theorems and First Cohomology
David Fisher
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Vladimir Dobric, Lehigh University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
The Motivic Fundamental Group and Diophantine Geometry
Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2004 (VIGRE): 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Student presentations of this year's summer research projects
All are welcome
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Identifying Core Sets and Its Algorithmic Implications in Large-Scale Geometric Optimization
Alper Yildirim, Stony Brook University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Extremes of the Discrete Gaussian Free Field in 2D
Olivier Daviaud, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
The Microprocessor of the Year 2014: Do Pentium 4, Pentium M, and Power 5 Provide Any Hints?
Yale N. Patt, University of Texas at Austin
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct15.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
If Archimedes Had a Computer: Continuing His Work on Floating Bodies
Chris Rorres, University of Pennsylvania
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
A Variational Approach to Quasistatic Damage Evolution
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Understanding the Adaptive Immune System: A Computational Approach Based on Cellular Automata
Dario Ghersi and Claudia Calcagno, Hospital for Joint Diseases, NYU
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
This talk continues on Oct. 26, Nov. 2, and Nov. 16
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tangents to (various kinds) of Objects in R^3
Hervé Brönnimann, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
Roberto Torasso, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Dynamics of Boosting
Cynthia Rudin, NYU Center for Neural Science
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~rudin/main.html
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Results from Ultrafine Resolution Global Atmospheric Simulation Models
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Horng-Tzer Yau, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Random Matrices, Dark Kinetics, with Applications to Protein Folding and Fed Watching
Andrew Mullhaupt, SAC
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
L^p Bounds for Eigenfunctions of Completely Integrable Laplacians
John Toth
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
Models of the Wind and Buoyancy Driven Sub-tropical Ocean Gyres
Andrew Willmott, Keele University
Note special date. Seminar to be held in Room 613.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Statistical Analysis of Hedge Funds
Luis Rodriguez
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
Tba
Akshay Venkatesh, Clay Institute and NYU
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Monte Carlo Model Checking
Scott Smolka, SUNY Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct22.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Moist Convection
Olivier Pauluis
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Distributed Immersed Boundary Simulation in Titanium
Edward Givelberg, CIMS

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Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiscale Refinement Subdivision in Nonlinear and Geometric Settings
Thomas Yu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.rpi.edu/%7Eyut/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 513
Configurations in the Punctured Torus and Identities
Greg McShane, Toulouse Univesity
Note special time and place!
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Nonlinear Hartree Equation
Enno Linzmann, ETHZ
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
2D and 3D Turbulence
Sunghwan Jung, Physics, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Local Rigidity, Implicit Function Theorems and First Cohomology
David Fisher, CUNY
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Prevalence and Projections
William Ott, Courant Instructor
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Vladimir Dobric, Lehigh University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
The Motivic Fundamental Group and Diophantine Geometry
Minhyong Kim, University of Arizona and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2004 (VIGRE): 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Student presentations of this year's summer research projects
All are welcome
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Identifying Core Sets and Its Algorithmic Implications in Large-Scale Geometric Optimization
Alper Yildirim, Stony Brook University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Extremes of the Discrete Gaussian Free Field in 2D
Olivier Daviaud, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 613
Perelman's Work on the Ricci Flow
Bruce Kleiner, University of Michigan and CIMS
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
This is a continuation of the October 11th Math Colloquium on Professor Kleiner's work on the Ricci Flow
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Finite Range Decompositions of Gaussian Processes
David Brydges, UBC
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
The Microprocessor of the Year 2014: Do Pentium 4, Pentium M, and Power 5 Provide Any Hints?
Yale N. Patt, University of Texas at Austin
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct15.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Research in Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Relevant to Thermonuclear Fusion and Space Plasmas
Eliezer Hameiri, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
If Archimedes Had a Computer: Continuing His Work on Floating Bodies
Chris Rorres, University of Pennsylvania
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
A Variational Approach to Quasistatic Damage Evolution
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Understanding the Adaptive Immune System: A Computational Approach Based on Cellular Automata
Dario Ghersi and Claudia Calcagno, Hospital for Joint Diseases, NYU
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
This talk continues on Oct. 26, Nov. 2, and Nov. 16
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tangents to (various kinds) of Objects in R^3
Hervé Brönnimann, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Stability of Ballooning Modes in the Hall Magnetohydrodynamics Model
Roberto Torasso, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Dynamics of Boosting
Cynthia Rudin, NYU Center for Neural Science
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~rudin/main.html
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Results from Ultrafine Resolution Global Atmospheric Simulation Models
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for the Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensate
Horng-Tzer Yau, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiple Equilibria and Oscillations in Laboratory Models of Ocean and Earth
John Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
L^p Bounds for Eigenfunctions of Completely Integrable Laplacians
John Toth, McGill Univesity
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Horseshoes in the Forced van der Pol Equation
Radu Haiduc, Cornell University
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
Models of the Wind and Buoyancy Driven Sub-tropical Ocean Gyres
Andrew Willmott, Keele University
Note special date. Seminar to be held in Room 613.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Statistical Analysis of Hedge Funds
Luis Rodriguez
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Equidistribution, Periods, and Subconvexity
Akshay Venkatesh, Clay Institute and NYU
TEA: 13:00 - 13:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Tug of War and the Infinity Laplacian
Scott Sheffield, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Monte Carlo Model Checking
Scott Smolka, SUNY Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct22.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Moist Convection
Olivier Pauluis
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Distributed Immersed Boundary Simulation in Titanium
Edward Givelberg, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
This talk continues on Nov. 2, and Nov. 16
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
A New Proof of Stanley's Reciprocity Theorem
Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Coupling of Hydrodynamic Models
Annalisa Ambroso, CEA, Saclay, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A New Multi-Scale Model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Joseph Biello, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Random Matrices, Dark Kinetics, with Applications to Protein Folding and Fed Watching
Andrew Mullhaupt, SAC
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
New Nonvanishing Theorems for Automorphic L-Functions on GL(n)
Wenzhi Luo, Ohio State University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Ratio and Ratio-like Inequalities Involving Functionals of Brownian Motion
Majid Hosseini, Newpaltz
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Grant Writing for Ph.D. Funding
Shafer Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Stability of Ballooning Modes in the Hall Magnetohydrodynamics Model
Roberto Torasso, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Dynamics of Boosting
Cynthia Rudin, NYU Center for Neural Science
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~rudin/main.html
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Results from Ultrafine Resolution Global Atmospheric Simulation Models
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for the Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensate
Horng-Tzer Yau, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiple Equilibria and Oscillations in Laboratory Models of Ocean and Earth
John Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Models of the Wind and Buoyancy Driven Sub-tropical Ocean Gyres
Andrew Willmott, Keele University
Note special date. Seminar to be held in Room 613.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
L^p Bounds for Eigenfunctions of Completely Integrable Laplacians
John Toth, McGill Univesity
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Horseshoes in the Forced van der Pol Equation
Radu Haiduc, Cornell University
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Statistical Analysis of Hedge Funds
Luis Rodriguez
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Equidistribution, Periods, and Subconvexity
Akshay Venkatesh, Clay Institute and NYU
TEA: 13:00 - 13:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Tug of War and the Infinity Laplacian
Scott Sheffield, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Monte Carlo Model Checking
Scott Smolka, SUNY Stony Brook
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/oct22.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Universality for Mathematical and Physical Systems
Percy Deift, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 2:15 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 101
Constant-Round Resettable Zero Knowledge with Concurrent Soundness in the Bare Public-Key Model
Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Telcordia Technologies
A joint work with Giuseppe Persiano and Ivan Visconti
Note the change in time!
See the speaker's abstract: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/dicrescenzo_abstract_10_22_04.html
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Moist Convection
Olivier Pauluis
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Distributed Immersed Boundary Simulation in Titanium
Edward Givelberg, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
The talk continues on Nov. 2 as scheduled.
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
A New Proof of Stanley's Reciprocity Theorem
Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Coupling of Hydrodynamic Models
Annalisa Ambroso, CEA, Saclay, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A New Multi-Scale Model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Joseph Biello, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Elliptic Equations with Critical Powers on S^3: New Nonminimising Solutions
Peletier, University of Leiden
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Random Matrices, Dark Kinetics, with Applications to Protein Folding and Fed Watching
Andrew Mullhaupt, SAC
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Atmospheric Regime Transitions and Heteroclinic Cycles
Daan Crommelin, CIMS
SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 5:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Complexifications of Riemannian Manifolds
Richard Hind, University of Notre Dame
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
New Nonvanishing Theorems for Automorphic L-Functions on GL(n)
Wenzhi Luo, Ohio State University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Multi-Factor Binomial Interest Rate Model with State Time Dependent Volatilities
Tom Ho
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF JACK SCHWARTZ: 9:00 A.M., - 5:00 P.M., WWH 109
A one-day symposium in honor of Jack Schwartz
The program includes a series of lectures, followed by a reception at CIMS and a dinner at the University Torch Club
For the Symposium webpage, see: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/schwartz_symposium.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
Organized by the Computer Science Department and CIMS
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Ratio and Ratio-like Inequalities Involving Functionals of Brownian Motion
Majid Hosseini, Newpaltz
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Grant Writing for Ph.D. Funding
Shafer Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/
COURANT-SUNY-JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Room P131
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: Michael Usher, Harvard University
    Standard Surfaces and Nodal Curves
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.: Dusa McDuff, Stony Brook
    Ono's Proof of the Flux Conjecture

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
No Seminar, ELECTION DAY
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
Next talk is on Nov. 16
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Erdos-Hajnal Sets and Semigroup Decompositions
Joshua Cooper, CIMS
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stochastic Dynamics of Sea Surface Wind
Adam Monahan, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Reward and Decision
Sam McClure, Princeton University
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/%7Esmcclure/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

3rd NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Threatre (first floor), 365 Fifth Ave.
Speakers: Peter Morters (University of Bath), Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University), Oded Schramm (Microsoft), and Sylvie Méléard (Université Paris X)

See the website for further details and for information on some financial support available to participants from U.S. universities:

http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar
This two-day seminar (11/4 and 11/5) is organized jointly by NYU, CUNY and Columbia University
The CIMS contact is Gérard Ben Arous at 998-3108
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
David Cai, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Stephen Quake, Applied Physics, Caltech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Bias Ratio: Measuring the Shape of Behavior
Adil Abdulali
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Explicit Descent on Elliptic Curves
Catherine O'Neil, MIT
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

3rd NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Threatre (first floor), 365 Fifth Ave.
Speakers: Peter Morters (University of Bath), Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University), Oded Schramm (Microsoft), and Sylvie Méléard (Université Paris X)

See the website for further details and for information on some financial support available to participants from U.S. universities:
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar
This two-day seminar (11/4 and 11/5) is organized jointly by NYU, CUNY and Columbia University

The CIMS contact is Gérard Ben Arous at 998-3108
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computer Aided Design of MEMS: Eigenvalues, Energy Losses, and Dick Tracy Watches
David Bindel, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Non-clausal Calculus for Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov5.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Philip Broadbridge, University of Delaware
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Variability of Dense Water Formation in the Ross Sea
Karen Assmann
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:45 P.M., WWH 1013
Stability and Instability of Vlasov Plasmas
Zhiwu Lin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Coupling of Hydrodynamic Models
Annalisa Ambroso, CEA, Saclay, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
A New Multi-Scale Model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Joseph Biello, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 513
On the Analytic Continuation of the Exterior Square L-function
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers Univesity
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
O(loglog n)-Competitive Binary Search Trees
John Iacono, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
For further information contact Janos Pach at (212) 650-6123 or email pach@cims.nyu.edu , or visit our website:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
On Conservation Laws
Bert Peletier, University of Leiden
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Random Matrices, Dark Kinetics, with Applications to Protein Folding and Fed Watching
Andrew Mullhaupt, SAC
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Atmospheric Regime Transitions and Heteroclinic Cycles
Daan Crommelin, CIMS
SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 5:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Complexifications of Riemannian Manifolds
Richard Hind, University of Notre Dame
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
New Nonvanishing Theorems for Automorphic L-Functions on GL(n)
Wenzhi Luo, Ohio State University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Multi-Factor Binomial Interest Rate Model with State Time Dependent Volatilities
Tom Ho
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF JACK SCHWARTZ: 9:30 A.M., - 5:00 P.M., WWH 109
A one-day symposium in honor of Jack Schwartz
This symposium will host 3 Courant Lecturers: Martin Davis (NYU, Emeritus), Domenico Cantone (University of Catania), and Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University).
A Breakfast begins from 9:30 - 10:00 A.M. The symposium is later followed by a reception at CIMS and a dinner at the University Torch Club. There is a $60 per person charge for dinner, payable by check to New York University. To RSVP for dinner, see Anne Seaton, Room 1307, ext. 8-3256.

For the Symposium webpage, see: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/schwartz_symposium.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
Organized by the Computer Science Department and CIMS
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Ratio and Ratio-like Inequalities Involving Functionals of Brownian Motion
Majid Hosseini, Newpaltz
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Pseudospectra and Nearest Matrix Problems
Michael Overton, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Grant Writing for Ph.D. Funding
Shafer Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/
COURANT-SUNY-JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Room P131
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: Michael Usher, Harvard University
    Standard Surfaces and Nodal Curves
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.: Dusa McDuff, Stony Brook
    Ono's Proof of the Flux Conjecture

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
No Seminar, ELECTION DAY
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
Next talk is on Nov. 16
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Erdos-Hajnal Sets and Semigroup Decompositions
Joshua Cooper, CIMS
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Stability and Instability of Vlasov Plasmas
Zhiwu Lin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Stochastic Dynamics of Sea Surface Wind
Adam Monahan, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Reward and Decision
Sam McClure, Princeton University
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/%7Esmcclure/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

3rd NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Threatre (first floor), 365 Fifth Ave.
Speakers: Peter Morters (University of Bath), Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University), Oded Schramm (Microsoft), and Sylvie Méléard (Université Paris X)

See the website for further details and for information on some financial support available to participants from U.S. universities:

http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar
This two-day seminar (11/4 and 11/5) is organized jointly by NYU, CUNY and Columbia University
The CIMS contact is Gérard Ben Arous at 998-3108
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Kinetic Theories in Large-scale Neuronal Dynamics Modeling
David Cai, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Stephen Quake, Applied Physics, Caltech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Bias Ratio: Measuring the Shape of Behavior
Adil Abdulali
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Explicit Descent on Elliptic Curves
Catherine O'Neil, MIT
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

3rd NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Threatre (first floor), 365 Fifth Ave.
Speakers: Peter Morters (University of Bath), Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University), Oded Schramm (Microsoft), and Sylvie Méléard (Université Paris X)

See the website for further details and for information on some financial support available to participants from U.S. universities:
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar
This two-day seminar (11/4 and 11/5) is organized jointly by NYU, CUNY and Columbia University

The CIMS contact is Gérard Ben Arous at 998-3108
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computer Aided Design of MEMS: Eigenvalues, Energy Losses, and Dick Tracy Watches
David Bindel, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Non-clausal Calculus for Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov5.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Philip Broadbridge, University of Delaware
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Variability of Dense Water Formation in the Ross Sea
Karen Assmann
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Parallel, Locally Adaptive Implementation of the Immersed Boundary Method Using SAMRAI, hypre, and PETSc
Boyce Griffith, CIMS
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Convex-Concave Subsets of Real Projective Space
Dmitry Novikov, Cornell University, Ithaca
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Ballooning Instability and Substorm Onset Mechanism
C.Z. Cheng, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Impact of the Stratosphereic State on Tropospheric Forecasts
Andrew Charlton, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
Vanishing and Non-vanishing Central Values of Twisted Elliptic L-functions
Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Pricing and Valuation of Credit Derivatives
Alex Kreinin, Algorithmics
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Weak Lacunae of Electromagnetic Waves in Dilute Plasma
Semyon Tsynkov, North Carolina State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
On the Parabolic Anderson Model with Moving Catalysts
Jurgen Gartner, TU Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Immersive Integration of Physical and Virtual Environments
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov12.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
JOINT COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Optimal Metrics, Curvature Functionals, and the Differential Topology of 4-Manifolds
Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook and NYU
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cugliando-Kurchan Equations for Aging of Spin Glasses
Gerard Ben Arous, CIMS
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 101
Volume Growth and Moduli Spaces of Critical Riemannian Metrics in Dimension Four
Jeff Viaclovsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



A ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF JACK SCHWARTZ:
See the Friday, October 29th listing for more details

16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Stability and Instability of Vlasov Plasmas
Zhiwu Lin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Stochastic Dynamics of Sea Surface Wind
Adam Monahan, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Reward and Decision
Sam McClure, Princeton University
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/%7Esmcclure/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
Iterative Processes in the Plane
Rados Radoicic, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
For further information contact Janos Pach at (212) 650-6123 or email pach@cims.nyu.edu , or visit our website:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

3rd NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Threatre (first floor), 365 Fifth Ave.
Speakers: Peter Morters (University of Bath), Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University), Oded Schramm (Microsoft), and Sylvie Méléard (Université Paris X)

See the website for further details and for information on some financial support available to participants from U.S. universities:

http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar
This two-day seminar (11/4 and 11/5) is organized jointly by NYU, CUNY and Columbia University
The CIMS contact is Gérard Ben Arous at 998-3108
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Kinetic Theories in Large-scale Neuronal Dynamics Modeling
David Cai, CIMS
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Stephen Quake, Applied Physics, Caltech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Bias Ratio: Measuring the Shape of Behavior
Adil Abdulali
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Explicit Descent on Elliptic Curves
Catherine O'Neil, MIT
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

3rd NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Threatre (first floor), 365 Fifth Ave.
Speakers: Peter Morters (University of Bath), Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University), Oded Schramm (Microsoft), and Sylvie Méléard (Université Paris X)

See the website for further details and for information on some financial support available to participants from U.S. universities:
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar
This two-day seminar (11/4 and 11/5) is organized jointly by NYU, CUNY and Columbia University

The CIMS contact is Gérard Ben Arous at 998-3108
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computer Aided Design of MEMS: Eigenvalues, Energy Losses, and Dick Tracy Watches
David Bindel, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 613
Perelman's Work on the Ricci Flow
Bruce Kleiner, University of Michigan and CIMS
This is a continuation of previous talks
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Non-clausal Calculus for Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov5.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Exact Solution of Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems for Surface Diffusion
Philip Broadbridge, University of Delaware
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
THE NYC NLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Multi-party Speech
Followed by...
Machine Translation using Large Syntactic Transformation Rules
Michael Galley, Columbia University
For abstract webpages: http://cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/abstract11-05-2004_1.html
and
http://cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/abstract11-05-2004_2.html
See the NYC NLP Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/index.shtml
Due to a scheduling conflict, the NYC NLP Forum will meet today instead of the usual 2nd Friday of the month. One of Columbia's rising stars will hold forth on two of his research interests.
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Variability of Dense Water Formation in the Ross Sea
Karen Assmann
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Parallel, Locally Adaptive Implementation of the Immersed Boundary Method Using SAMRAI, hypre, and PETSc
Boyce Griffith, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Vorticity and Evolution Flows for the Ginzburg-Landau Energy
Didier Smets, University of Paris 6
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Convex-Concave Subsets of Real Projective Space
Dmitry Novikov, Cornell University, Ithaca
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Ballooning Instability and Substorm Onset Mechanism
C.Z. Cheng, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Impact of the Stratosphereic State on Tropospheric Forecasts
Andrew Charlton, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
SEE THE SPECIAL EVENTS SECTION for today at 4:30 P.M.!
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
Vanishing and Non-vanishing Central Values of Twisted Elliptic L-functions
Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Pricing and Valuation of Credit Derivatives
Alex Kreinin, Algorithmics
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Weak Lacunae of Electromagnetic Waves in Dilute Plasma
Semyon Tsynkov, North Carolina State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
On the Parabolic Anderson Model with Moving Catalysts
Jurgen Gartner, TU Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
Another seminar follows!
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Gaussian Closure and Fourier's Law
Antti Kupianinan, Helsinki
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Immersive Integration of Physical and Virtual Environments
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov12.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
JOINT COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Optimal Metrics, Curvature Functionals, and the Differential Topology of 4-Manifolds
Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook and NYU
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cugliando-Kurchan Equations for Aging of Spin Glasses
Gerard Ben Arous, CIMS
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 101
Volume Growth and Moduli Spaces of Critical Riemannian Metrics in Dimension Four
Jeff Viaclovsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling Osmotic Effects in Biological Systems from the Macroscale to the Microscale
Paul Atzberger, RPI
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
Next talk is on Nov. 17
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Polyline Fitting of Planar Points under Min-Sum Criteria
Tetsuo Asano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
M. Alex O. Vasilescu, Media Research Lab, CIMS
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ealex/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Trials, Tribulations and (Minor) Triumphs in Treating Eddies in the Ocean General Circulation
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Tba
David Cai, NYU
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/cai/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Identifying a Region by How Its Boundary Vibrates: Analytical and Geometrical Aspects
Michael Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Mathematical Properties of Time-Windowed Neural Systems
Colleen Mitchell, Math Dept., Boston University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Divisor Problems
John Friedlander, University of Toronto and IAS, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Computing Derivatives
Harvey Stein, Bloomberg
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

THE IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: Courant Institute, Auditorium 109
  • 9:30 - 10:00: Coffee and Bagels
  • 10:00 - 10:55: Prof. Sampath Kannan
    Algorithms for Streamed Graphs and Streaming Lower Bounds
  • 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
  • 11:05 - 12:00: Prof. Sanjeev Arora
    Geometric Embeddings, Graph Partitioning, and Expander Flows: A Survey of Recent Results
  • 12:00 - 2:00: Lunch Break
  • 2:00 - 2:55: Prof. Silvio Micali
    Collusion Free Protocols
  • 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
  • 3:15 - 4:10: Prof. Joan Feigenbaum
    Progress on the PORTIA Project
For the Theory Day webpage with abstracts, see: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov19.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Scalable Solvers and Software for PDE-based Simulations
David Keyes, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
JOINT SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR / PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Tridiagonal Random Matrices: A New Perspective on the Old $\beta$-ensembles of Random Matrix Theory
Ioana Dumitriu, University of California, Berkeley
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Cai, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Grier, NYU Physics
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



You are invited to join a celebration of the nominations of Fang-Hua Lin and Lai-Sang Young into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Thursday, November 11th beginning at 4:30 P.M. in the 13th Floor common.

16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Ballooning Instability and Substorm Onset Mechanism
C.Z. Cheng, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Impact of the Stratosphereic State on Tropospheric Forecasts
Andrew Charlton, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
David Ambrose
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Swimming into the Dark: Observations and Modelling of Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Analytic Continuation of Eisenstein Series
Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv
First lecture in a series of three lectures
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
You are invited to join a celebration of the nominations of Fang-Hua Lin and Lai-Sang Young into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at 4:30 P.M. in the 13th floor common.
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
Vanishing and Non-vanishing Central Values of Twisted Elliptic L-functions
Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Pricing and Valuation of Credit Derivatives
Alex Kreinin, Algorithmics
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Weak Lacunae of Electromagnetic Waves in Dilute Plasma
Semyon Tsynkov, North Carolina State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
On the Parabolic Anderson Model with Moving Catalysts
Jurgen Gartner, TU Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
Another seminar follows!
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Gaussian Closure and Fourier's Law
Antti Kupianinan, Helsinki
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Immersive Integration of Physical and Virtual Environments
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov12.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Topics in Applied Stochastic Analysis
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 613
Privacy-Preserving Bayesian Neetwork Structure Computation on Distributed Heterogeneous Data
Zhiqiang Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology
Joint work with Rebecca Wright. The paper appeared at the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2004 and is available at:
http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~rwright/Publications/kdd04.ps
See the speaker's abstract: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/yang_abstract_11_12_04.html
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
JOINT COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Optimal Metrics, Curvature Functionals, and the Differential Topology of 4-Manifolds
Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook and NYU
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cugliando-Kurchan Equations for Aging of Spin Glasses
Gerard Ben Arous, CIMS
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 101
Volume Growth and Moduli Spaces of Critical Riemannian Metrics in Dimension Four
Jeff Viaclovsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Freak Waves: An Application of Stochastic Ray Tracing
Alex Hasha
Based on White and Fornberg, 1998: ``On the chance of freak waves at sea'', J. Fluid Mech. , 355, 113-138.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15

QUANTUM SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., Room 424-B, Physics Department, 4 Washington Place
What is the Difference between a Quantum Observer and a Weatherman?
Chris Fuchs, Lucent Bell Labs
Sponsored by the Physics Department, NYU

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: Time and Place TBA
Analytic Continuation of Eisenstein Series
Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv
Second lecture in a series of three lectures
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling Osmotic Effects in Biological Systems from the Macroscale to the Microscale
Paul Atzberger, RPI
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
Next talk is on Nov. 17
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
Richard Foley, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Peter Lennie, Dean of Science of the Faculty of Arts and Science invite you to the presentation of the Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences to LESLIE GREENGARD, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Courant Intitute of Mathematical Sciences and Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Greengard will lecture on Models and Supermodels in Computational Science at 5 P.M. today. The talk will be held in the Irving H. Jurow Lecture Hall at 100 Washington Square East.

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Polyline Fitting of Planar Points under Min-Sum Criteria
Tetsuo Asano, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED!
Tba
M. Alex O. Vasilescu, Media Research Lab, CIMS
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ealex/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Trials, Tribulations and (Minor) Triumphs in Treating Eddies in the Ocean General Circulation
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Tba
David Cai, NYU
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/cai/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY
Online Conflict-Free Colorings
Shakhar Smorodinsky, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Identifying a Region by How Its Boundary Vibrates: Analytical and Geometrical Aspects
Michael Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Joint work with M. Anderson, A. Katsuda, Y. Kurylev,. and M. Lassas
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Mathematical Properties of Time-Windowed Neural Systems
Colleen Mitchell, Math Dept., Boston University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Analytic Continuation of Eisenstein Series
Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv
Third lecture in a series of three lectures
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Divisor Problems
John Friedlander, University of Toronto and IAS, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Computing Derivatives
Harvey Stein, Bloomberg
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

THE IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: Courant Institute, Auditorium 109
  • 9:30 - 10:00: Coffee and Bagels
  • 10:00 - 10:55: Prof. Sampath Kannan
    Algorithms for Streamed Graphs and Streaming Lower Bounds
  • 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
  • 11:05 - 12:00: Prof. Sanjeev Arora
    Geometric Embeddings, Graph Partitioning, and Expander Flows: A Survey of Recent Results
  • 12:00 - 2:00: Lunch Break
  • 2:00 - 2:55: Prof. Silvio Micali
    Collusion Free Protocols
  • 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
  • 3:15 - 4:10: Prof. Joan Feigenbaum
    Progress on the PORTIA Project
For the Theory Day webpage with abstracts, see: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov19.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Scalable Solvers and Software for PDE-based Simulations
David Keyes, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Full Scaling Limit of 2D Critical Percolation
Federico Camia, Eurandom
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
JOINT SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR / PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Tridiagonal Random Matrices: A New Perspective on the Old $\beta$-ensembles of Random Matrix Theory
Ioana Dumitriu, University of California, Berkeley
Please note the change of room location and time for this talk.
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Cai, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Grier, NYU Physics
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:45 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Kinetic Electrostatic Electron Nonlinear Waves in Laser-Produced Plasmas
Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc., CA
Note the change in day, time, and room number!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Cell-Based and Mean-Field Models of Spontaneous Electrical Activity in the Developing Spinal Cord
Boris Vladimirski, CIMS

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Geometry of the Spin Equation
Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
See the Mathematics Colloquium webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



Sixth Annual Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science Winter Workshop: December 3-4, 2004: Large Scale Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Ocean

This Workshop will take place on the first floor of the Courant Institute at Warren Weaver Hall, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012. Attendance is open to all interested parties, but because space is limited, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To register, simply send an email to the Workshop Organizer, Michelle Cordero ( cordero@cims.nyu.edu), stating your name, institution, and which days you plan to attend. Formal admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis, so please register early if you plan to attend. Some space will be held aside for Courant attendees. See the Workshop website at: http://www.caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop_2004.html

The Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, the Courant Institute and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University.

16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
Barry Simon will not be speaking today. His next scheduled talk will be December 7th.
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Trials, Tribulations and (Minor) Triumphs in Treating Eddies in the Ocean General Circulation
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Modeling of Large-scale Neuronal Network Dynamics
David Cai, NYU
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/cai/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY
Online Conflict-Free Colorings
Shakhar Smorodinsky, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Identifying a Region by How Its Boundary Vibrates: Analytical and Geometrical Aspects
Michael Taylor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Joint work with M. Anderson, A. Katsuda, Y. Kurylev,. and M. Lassas
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Mathematical Properties of Time-Windowed Neural Systems
Colleen Mitchell, Math Dept., Boston University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Analytic Continuation of Eisenstein Series
Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv
Third lecture in a series of three lectures
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~venkatesh/seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Divisor Problems
John Friedlander, University of Toronto and IAS, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Risky Measures of Risk: Error Analysis of Numerical Differentiation
Harvey Stein, Bloomberg
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

THE IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: Courant Institute, Auditorium 109
  • 9:30 - 10:00: Coffee and Bagels
  • 10:00 - 10:55: Prof. Sampath Kannan
    Algorithms for Streamed Graphs and Streaming Lower Bounds
  • 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
  • 11:05 - 12:00: Prof. Sanjeev Arora
    Geometric Embeddings, Graph Partitioning, and Expander Flows: A Survey of Recent Results
  • 12:00 - 2:00: Lunch Break
  • 2:00 - 2:55: Prof. Silvio Micali
    Collusion Free Protocols
  • 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
  • 3:15 - 4:10: Prof. Joan Feigenbaum
    Progress on the PORTIA Project
For the Theory Day webpage with abstracts, see: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov19.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Scalable Solvers and Software for PDE-based Simulations
David Keyes, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Full Scaling Limit of 2D Critical Percolation
Federico Camia, Eurandom
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
JOINT SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR / PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Tridiagonal Random Matrices: A New Perspective on the Old $\beta$-ensembles of Random Matrix Theory
Ioana Dumitriu, University of California, Berkeley
Please note the change of room location and time for this talk.
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Privacy Breaches in Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/nov19-gehrke.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Physics of Spatially Extended Systems
David Cai, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stability of Mixing and Decay of Correlations for Hyperbolic Flows
Ian Melbourne, Surrey, UK
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Tba
David Grier, NYU Physics
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Central Limit Theorem for Suspension Flows
Ian Melbourne, Surrey, UK

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Kinetic Electrostatic Electron Nonlinear Waves in Laser-Produced Plasmas
Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc., CA
Note the change in day, time, and room number!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Cell-Based and Mean-Field Models of Spontaneous Electrical Activity in the Developing Spinal Cord
Boris Vladimirski, CIMS

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Geometry of the Spin Equation
Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
See the Mathematics Colloquium webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Existence and Calculations for the Zakai Equation in Nonlinear Filtering
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
Joint work with Stephen Yau
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Double-Permutation Sequences and Pseudoline Transversals
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, CUNY
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Particle Simulation Study of Collisionless Driven Reconnection
H. Ohtani, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Reduced Atmospheric Models: Proper Basis Functions, Dimensionality, Replacing Fast Degrees of Freedom by Stochastsic Terms
Frank Kwasniok, University of London
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Tba
Larry Sirovich, Mt. Sinai
See the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine webpage! http://camelot.mssm.edu/people/people.html/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
A Singular Energy Minimizing Free Boundary
Daniela De Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
John Lowengrub, Math, UC Irvine
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
Rank Four Galois Representations and Modular Forms
Jacques Tilouine, Universite Paris 13 and UCLA
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Martin Haugh, Columbia University
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

SIXTH ANNUAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE WINTER WORKSHOP: December 3rd and 4th
This two-day Workshop will take place on the first floor of the Courant Institute at Warren Weaver Hall, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012. Attendance is open to all interested parties, but because space is limited, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To register, simply send an email to the Workshop Organizer, Michelle Cordero ( cordero@cims.nyu.edu), stating your name, institution, and which days you plan to attend. Formal admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis, so please register early if you plan to attend. Some space will be held aside for Courant attendees. See the Workshop website at: http://www.caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop_2004.html
The Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, the Courant Institute and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Interior Point Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization with Applications in Circuit Tuning
Andreas Waechter, IBM Yorktown Heights
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM: 3:40 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Annual Math Graduate Student Forum. Pizza will follow in the lounge on the 13th floor. For further details and this year's agenda, please visit the Math Graduate Student Resources page at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/student_resources/studentforum.php

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

SIXTH ANNUAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE WINTER WORKSHOP: December 3rd and 4th
For more information see above. See the Workshop website at: http://www.caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop_2004.html
The Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, the Courant Institute and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University.


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Geometry of the Spin Equation
Yongbin Ruan, University of Wisconsin
Preceeded by Colloquium Tea at 3:15 in the Lounge
See the Mathematics Colloquium webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Existence and Calculations for the Zakai Equation in Nonlinear Filtering
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
Joint work with Stephen Yau
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Double-Permutation Sequences and Pseudoline Transversals
Jacob E. Goodman, City College, CUNY
See the Geometry Seminars webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Hall Effect on the Relaxation Process of Flowing Plasmas
S. Ohsaki, Tokyo University
Please note the change in speaker
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Image Representation via Local Multiscale Orientation
David Hammond, CIMS
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ehammond/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Reduced Atmospheric Models: Proper Basis Functions, Dimensionality, Replacing Fast Degrees of Freedom by Stochastsic Terms
Frank Kwasniok, University of London
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Stability and Synchrony in Neuronal Populations
Larry Sirovich, Mt. Sinai
See the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine webpage! http://camelot.mssm.edu/people/people.html/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
A Singular Energy Minimizing Free Boundary
Daniela De Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Computer Simulation of Cancer Invasion and Response to Therapy
John Lowengrub, Math, UC Irvine
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
Rank Four Galois Representations and Modular Forms
Jacques Tilouine, Universite Paris 13 and UCLA
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Martin Haugh, Columbia University
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

SIXTH ANNUAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE WINTER WORKSHOP: December 3rd and 4th
This two-day Workshop will take place on the first floor of the Courant Institute at Warren Weaver Hall, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012. Attendance is open to all interested parties, but because space is limited, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To register, simply send an email to the Workshop Organizer, Michelle Cordero ( cordero@cims.nyu.edu), stating your name, institution, and which days you plan to attend. Formal admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis, so please register early if you plan to attend. Some space will be held aside for Courant attendees. See the Workshop website at: http://www.caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop_2004.html
The Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, the Courant Institute and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Interior Point Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization with Applications in Circuit Tuning
Andreas Waechter, IBM Yorktown Heights
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Set-Theoretically Oriented Proof Verifier
Jack Schwartz, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/dec3.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM: 3:40 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Annual Math Graduate Student Forum. Pizza will follow in the lounge on the 13th floor. For further details and this year's agenda, please visit the Math Graduate Student Resources page at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/student_resources/studentforum.php
COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101
  • 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.: John Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania
    Symplectic Fillability and the Genus of Open Book Decompositions
  • 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.: Peter Ozsvath, Columbia University
    Heegaard Floer Homology and Dehn Surgeries
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Two Particle Model of Brownian Motion: Part 2
Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

SIXTH ANNUAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE WINTER WORKSHOP: December 3rd and 4th
For more information see above. See the Workshop website at: http://www.caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop_2004.html
The Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, the Courant Institute and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Particle Simulation Study of Collisionless Driven Reconnection
H. Ohtani, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Phase Reduction and Response Dynamics of Neural Oscillator Populations
Eric Brown, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8

NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Tba
Steve Coombes, University of Nottingham
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/coombes_stephen.phtml
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ocean Circulation: A Heat Budget Perspective
Giulio Bocalletti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Joachim Krieger, Harvard University
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Lou Kondic, Math, NJIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Keynote Speaker: Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University
NOTE: This lecture will take place in Room 102. A reception will follow in the 13th Floor Lounge of Warren Weaver Hall.
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Eigenmodes of Polygonal Drums
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 613
Dynamical Zeta Function, Nielsen Theory and Reidemeister Torsion
Alexander Fel'tshyn, University of Siegen and Texas A&M University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Words, Links, and Patterns: Novel Representations for Web-Scale Text Mining
Dragomir R. Radev, University of Michigan
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/dec10.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Primer on the Parameterization of Eddy Tracer Fluxes
Shafer Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
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Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1

SPECIAL AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 613
Spectral Representation for the Automorphic Laplace-Beltrami Operator without Eisenstein Series
Peter Lax, CIMS
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Hall Effect on the Relaxation Process of Flowing Plasmas
S. Ohsaki, Tokyo University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Image Representation via Local Multiscale Orientation
David Hammond, CIMS
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ehammond/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Reduced Atmospheric Models: Proper Basis Functions, Dimensionality, Replacing Fast Degrees of Freedom by Stochastsic Terms
Frank Kwasniok, University of London
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Stability and Synchrony in Neuronal Populations
Larry Sirovich, Mt. Sinai
See the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine webpage! http://camelot.mssm.edu/people/people.html/
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
A Singular Energy Minimizing Free Boundary
Daniela De Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Computer Simulation of Cancer Invasion and Response to Therapy
John Lowengrub, Math, UC Irvine
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 520 Math
Rank Four Galois Representations and Modular Forms
Jacques Tilouine, Universite Paris 13 and UCLA
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Portfolio Evaluation and Optimization: A Duality Approach
Martin Haugh, Columbia University
See the Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

SIXTH ANNUAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE WINTER WORKSHOP: December 3rd and 4th
This two-day Workshop will take place on the first floor of the Courant Institute at Warren Weaver Hall, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012. Attendance is open to all interested parties, but because space is limited, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To register, simply send an email to the Workshop Organizer, Michelle Cordero ( cordero@cims.nyu.edu), stating your name, institution, and which days you plan to attend. Formal admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis, so please register early if you plan to attend. Some space will be held aside for Courant attendees. See the Workshop website at: http://www.caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop_2004.html
The Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, the Courant Institute and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Interior Point Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization with Applications in Circuit Tuning
Andreas Waechter, IBM Yorktown Heights
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Set-Theoretically Oriented Proof Verifier
Jack Schwartz, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/dec3.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00, WWH 101
Universally Composable Password-based Key Exchange
Shai Halevi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Joint work with Ran Canetti (IBM), Jonathan Katz (U Maryland), Yehuda Lindell (Bar-Ilan University), and Philip MacKenzie (DoCoMo)
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Scattering Resonances of Photonic Microstructures and Homogenization Theory
Michael Weinstein, Columbia University
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM: 3:40 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Annual Math Graduate Student Forum. Pizza will follow in the lounge on the 13th floor. For further details and this year's agenda, please visit the Math Graduate Student Resources page at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/student_resources/studentforum.php
COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101
  • 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.: John Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania
    Symplectic Fillability and the Genus of Open Book Decompositions
  • 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.: Peter Ozsvath, Columbia University
    Heegaard Floer Homology and Dehn Surgeries
JOINT PROBABILITY MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Two Particle Model of Brownian Motion: Part 2
Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

SIXTH ANNUAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE WINTER WORKSHOP: December 3rd and 4th
For more information see above. See the Workshop website at: http://www.caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop_2004.html
The Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, the Courant Institute and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Particle Simulation Study of Collisionless Driven Reconnection
H. Ohtani, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Phase Reduction and Response Dynamics of Neural Oscillator Populations
Eric Brown, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials: I, II, III and IV
Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Tensor Framework for Image Analysis (Vision) and Synthesis (Graphics)
M. Alex O. Vasilescu, Media Research Lab, CIMS
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ealex/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Bumps, Breathers, and Waves in a Neural Network with Spike Frequency Adaptation
Steve Coombes, University of Nottingham
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/coombes_stephen.phtml
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ocean Circulation: A Heat Budget Perspective
Giulio Bocalletti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Regularity of Solutions for the Yang-Mills Equations on High-Dimensional Minkowski Spaces
Joachim Krieger, Harvard University
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL SEMINAR IN COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Shortest Monotone Descent Path Problem in Restricted Polyhedral Terrain
Subhas Chandra Nandy, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Thin Liquid Films with Contact Lines: Instabilities, Coalescence and Rupture
Lou Kondic, Math, NJIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Geometric Aspects of the Moduli Space of Riemann Surfaces
X. Sun, Harvard University
Joint work with Kefeng Liu and Shing-Tung Yau.
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
If not there, see the Analysis webpage at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Keynote Speaker: Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University
NOTE: This lecture will take place in Room 102. A reception will follow in the 13th Floor Lounge of Warren Weaver Hall.
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Eigenmodes of Polygonal Drums
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 613
Dynamical Zeta Function, Nielsen Theory and Reidemeister Torsion
Alexander Fel'tshyn, University of Siegen and Texas A&M University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
JOINT PROBABILITY MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Matrix Models for Circular Ensembles
Irina Nenciu, Caltech
JOINT COLLOQUIUM OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND NYC NLP FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Words, Links, and Patterns: Novel Representations for Web-Scale Text Mining
Dragomir R. Radev, University of Michigan
Note the different time and room than usual.
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH

For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/dec10.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Weinan E, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Primer on the Parameterization of Eddy Tracer Fluxes
Shafer Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How the Stalactite Got Its Shape
Raymond Goldstein, Dept. of Physics, U Arizona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT MFDD AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Pattern Formation in Granular Gas, or Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox
B. Meerson, Hebrew University
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
l-Division Fields and Conductors of Abelian Varieties
Armand Brumer, Fordham University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
majordomo@cs.nyu.edu
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Tensor Framework for Image Analysis (Vision) and Synthesis (Graphics)
M. Alex O. Vasilescu, Media Research Lab, CIMS
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/%7Ealex/
See the HASP Seminars webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html
NYU COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Bumps, Breathers, and Waves in a Neural Network with Spike Frequency Adaptation
Steve Coombes, University of Nottingham
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/coombes_stephen.phtml
See the CN Forum webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~ebrown/seminar.htm
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ocean Circulation: A Heat Budget Perspective
Giulio Bocalletti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Regularity of Solutions for the Yang-Mills Equations on High-Dimensional Minkowski Spaces
Joachim Krieger, Harvard University
See the Analysis Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL SEMINAR IN COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Shortest Monotone Descent Path Problem in Restricted Polyhedral Terrain
Subhas Chandra Nandy, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Thin Liquid Films with Contact Lines: Instabilities, Coalescence and Rupture
Lou Kondic, Math, NJIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Geometric Aspects of the Moduli Space of Riemann Surfaces
X. Sun, Harvard University
Joint work with Kefeng Liu and Shing-Tung Yau.
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
If not there, see the Analysis webpage at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Keynote Speaker: Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University
NOTE: This lecture will take place in Room 102. A reception will follow in the 13th Floor Lounge of Warren Weaver Hall.
See the Seminar webpage: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Julia's Method of Overlapping Intervals and Subconvexity
Phillipe Michel, Montpellier
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Eigenmodes of Polygonal Drums
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 613
Concluding talk on Perelman's work on Ricci flow and 3-manifolds
Bruce Kleiner, University of Michigan and CIMS
NOTE THAT THIS IS THE CORRECTED SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT AND DIFFERS FROM THE UNCORRECTED DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY WEBSITE ITSELF
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
JOINT PROBABILITY MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Matrix Models for Circular Ensembles
Irina Nenciu, Caltech
JOINT COLLOQUIUM OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND NYC NLP FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Words, Links, and Patterns: Novel Representations for Web-Scale Text Mining
Dragomir R. Radev, University of Michigan
Note the different time and room than usual.
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH

For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/dec10.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Dynamical Zeta Function, Nielsen Theory and Reidemeister Torsion
Alexander Fel'tshyn, University of Siegen and Texas A&M University
NOTE THAT THIS IS THE CORRECTED SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT AND DIFFERS FROM THE UNCORRECTED DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY WEBSITE ITSELF
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00, WWH 101
Resource Fairness and Composability of Cryptographic Protocols
Juan Garay, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies
Joint work with Phil MacKenzie (DoCoMo Labs), Manoj Prabhakaran (Princeton), and Ke Yang (Google)
See the speaker's webpage! http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/garay/
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., Meyer Hall, Room 122, 2-4 Washington Place
Jamming in Glasses and Granular Media: Questions and Simple Models
Daniel Fisher, Harvard University
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Modeling of Solids
Weinan E, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage for link to abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Primer on the Parameterization of Eddy Tracer Fluxes
Shafer Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15

ANNUAL HOLIDAY LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Physics of Toys
Tadashi Tokieda
ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY: 4:30 P.M., 13th Floor Common
You are cordially invited to attend the CIMS annual holiday celebration!

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How the Stalactite Got Its Shape
Raymond Goldstein, Dept. of Physics, U Arizona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT MFDD AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Pattern Formation in Granular Gas, or Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox
B. Meerson, Hebrew University
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
l-Division Fields and Conductors of Abelian Varieties
Armand Brumer, Fordham University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
From Gliding Ants to Sichuan Bumblebees: The Evolution of Animal Flight Performance
Robert Dudley, Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

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Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15

ANNUAL HOLIDAY LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Physics of Toys
Tadashi Tokieda, Cambridge University
Abstract: Look carefully at many toys and you will find that they rely on interesting physics. I will show a number of simple toys that have intrigued me, both for the fun they bring and for the complex physical and mathematical principles underlying them. The main theme is the effects of friction and of nonholonomic constraints. I hope that the lecture will be nontrivial for seasoned scientists and entertaining for young children.
ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY: 4:30 P.M., 13th Floor Common
You are cordially invited to attend the CIMS annual holiday celebration!

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How the Stalactite Got Its Shape
Raymond Goldstein, Dept. of Physics, U Arizona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT MFDD AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Pattern Formation in Granular Gas, or Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox
B. Meerson, Hebrew University
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
l-Division Fields and Conductors of Abelian Varieties
Armand Brumer, Fordham University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS3%20.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Applications of Random Matrices in Spectral Computations and Machine Learning
Dimitris Achlioptas, Microsoft
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/dec17.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall04/

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
From Gliding Ants to Sichuan Bumblebees: The Evolution of Animal Flight Performance
Robert Dudley, Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5

SPECIAL HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
What is a Function?
R. Thiele, Leipzig


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu