New York University Faculty of Arts and Science College of Arts and Science Graduate School of Arts and Science

Previous Weekly Bulletins

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Formation of Black Holes in General Relativity
Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 109*
An Application of Logic to p-adic Analysis
David Kazhdan, Hebrew University
Colloquium Tea at 3:30 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Note the change from the usual day and time! *Note also the change in room number!

http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Short Pulse Method
Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH
This seminar is in lieu of the Math Colloquium
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

SATURDAY, SEPT. 6 - WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10

MICCAI 2008
11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, New York University
(at Washington Square South and LaGuardia Place)
MICCAI typically attracts over 600 world leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery.
Overview Program:
http://miccai2008.rutgers.edu/program/overview_program.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 P.M., WWH 101
Adding Robustness to Information Theoretic Primitives
Daniel Wichs
This talk is based on the speaker's Eurocrypt '08 paper, which can be viewed at the link:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/030

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Organizational Meeting
Speakers: O. Sorkine, C. Yap, D. Zorin
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Eexact/ctag_seminar.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Filtering Sparse Regular Observed Linear and Nonlinear Turbulent Systems
John Harlim, CAOS
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Domain Evolution and Relaxation in Langmuir Films
Andrew Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College, Mathematics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

SPECIAL SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., 715 Broadway
Hermite Point Set Surfaces
Professor Marc Alexa, Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Alexa is the head of the Computer Graphics group at TU Berlin and a very prominent figure in geometric modeling, among other things.
All are cordially invited.

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Extractors, Error-Correction and Hiding All Partial Information
Yevgeniy Dodis
The survey paper can be found at:
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~yevgen/ps/ent-survey.ps
The NYU/Courant Theory Seminar listing can be viewed at:
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Quantitative Analysis of Cardiac Repolarization Time Markers: A Bidomain - LR1 Simulation Study
L.F. Pavarino, University of Milan
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 P.M., WWH 101
Trapdoors for Hard Lattices and New Cryptographic Constructions
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, IBM Watson
The paper can be found here:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/432

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stirring in the Global Surface Ocean
Darryn Waugh, Johns Hopkins
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
On Selecting Nodes for Monitoring a Network
Howard Karloff
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Modelling Stochastic Correlation: A Wishart Approach
Martino Grasselli, University of Padova
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

NEUROFRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Generation of Action Potential in Neurons
Maxim Volgushev, Dept. of Psychology, University of Connecticut
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
What is Good Transactional Memory?
Rachid Guerraoui, Professor of Computer Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Shallow Water Dynamics on the Spinning Earth: New Analytic Findings Supported by Numerical Calculations
Nathan Paldor, Hebrew University
Please note the different day, time and room number!
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Few Inverse Problems in Classical Statistical Mechanics and Photonics
Mikael Rechtsman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY, SEPT. 26th
Living Suspensions
Michael Shelley, NYU-Math
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

FRIDAY, SEPT. 19 - SATURDAY, SEPT. 20

FAST ALGORITHMS FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
A Symposium in Honor of Olof B. Widlund on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday
Courant Institue, New York University
For invited speakers, registration, accommodation, directions and further information, please click on:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/nyc08/

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Mathematical Model for Brain Tumor Stem Cells
Adam Stinchcombe, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Sanjiv Kumar, Google
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
The Unified Theory of Pseudorandomness
Aristeidis Tentes
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Conservation Laws on Manifolds
Matania Ben-Artzi, Hebrew University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Shading-Based Surface Editing
Yotam Gingold, NYU
http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/ctag_seminar/

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
The Finite Field Kakeya Conjecture and Applications to the Construction of Mergers and Extractors
Zeev Dvir
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
The Study of Price Impact and Effective Spread
Anna Obizhaeva, University of Maryland
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 102
Multilevel Preconditioning Algoirthms for Large-Scale Nonconvex PDE-Constrained Optimization
Olaf Schenk, University of Basel
Note: For this date we will be in 102 WWH
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Exit Measures for Isotropic Random Walk in Random Environments: A Perturbative Approach
Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute and University of Minnesota
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NEUROFRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Towards a Theory of the Structural and Functional Organization of the Retina
Vijay Balasubramanian, Dept. of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:15 A.M., WWH 312
Survival Time of Random Walk in Random Environment Among Soft Obstacles
Nina Gantert, Universität Munster
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Motivic Characteristic Classes for Singular Spaces
Joerg Schürmann, Münster
Please note the slight change in time and also the change in room number.
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/DiffGeom-Fall08.html

COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., CIWW 1302

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
No Colloquium (CI Day)
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No Seminar (CI Day)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Living Suspensions
Michael Shelley, NYU-Math
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

WOMEN IN COMPUTING (WinC):
5:00 P.M., WWH 109, NYU, Courant Institute
Algorithmic Methds for Sponsored Search Advertising
Jon Feldman, Google Research, Ph.D., Computer Science, MIT 2003
Refreshments will be served!
Join us for our annual Google Tech Talk and stay afterward to find out how you can be part of the Google adventure. Googlers will be present to field questions about job opportunities at the company that Fortune Magazine cited as the "Best Company To Work For," for two years running.
RSVP and info.:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Spike-Time Reliability of Neural Oscillator Networks
Lai-Sang Young, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ameet Talwalkar, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
4:00 - 4:45 P.M., Conference Room, 7th Floor, 719 Broadway
Predicting Content of a User's Utterance in a Dialog
Svetlana Stoyanchev, SUNY, Stony Brook
See the URL below and click on directions:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/directions
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Network Extractor Protocols
Anup Rao
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Monte Carlo Methods for Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere
Robert Pincus, NOAA-CIRES
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Finite-Time-Blow-Up of L Weak Solutions of an Aggregation Equation
Jeremy Brandman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Stability, Sound and Forced Motion of a Flag
Avshalom Manela, MIT, Mathematics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error
Dana Moshkovitz
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Markov Model for the Dynamics of a Limit Order Book
Sasha Stoikov, Cornell Theory Center
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, WWH 202
Extensions over Toroidal Boundaries of Shimura Varieties
Kai-Wen Lan, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 202.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ill-Posedness and Conditioning
Adrian Lewis, Cornell University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
A Particular Bit of Universality: Inhomogeneity and SLE(6)
Pierre Nolin, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Compiling Array Languages for Multicore Processors
Niall Dalton, KX Systems
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Analysis of Evaluation-Based Root Isolation via Integration Bounds
Michael Burr and Felix Krahmer
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Analysis of Variational Integrators for Langevin Processes
Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
POSTPONED TO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10th
Towards Discovering Cancer Pathways
Alex Greenfield, Sackler
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Optimal Gap Junction Distributions
Paul E. Hand, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ameet Talwalkar, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Hyperbolic Free-Boundary Problem for 3D Compressible Euler Flow in Physical Vacuum
Steve Shkoller, UC Davis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Envelope Surfaces
Gert Vegter, University of Groningen
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Partially Connected Networks: Information Theoretically Secure Protocols and Open Problems
Juan Garay, AT&T Research
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Toward a Next-Generation Community Ice Sheet Model
Bill Lipscomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Juhi Jang, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Self-Assembly of Spherical Colloidal Particles at Low N
Natalie Arkus, Harvard, Engineering and Applied Sciences
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
No Meeting
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS11.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Richard Bonneau, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Diffusion Limits for Eigenvalues of Random Matrices
José Ramírez Universidad de Costa Rica
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
As-Rigid-As-Possible Deformations for Surfaces and Images
Olga Sorkine, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
RESCHEDULED TO MONDAY, OCTOBER 13th
Word Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups and Quasi-Conformal Geometry
Marc Bourdon, University of Lille
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/DiffGeom-Fall08.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
de Rham Cohomology Essentials
Carl Gladish
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Dynamics and Multiscale Sampling through Statistical Projections
Alexandre Chorin, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Longitudinal Variations in Stratosphereic Ozone and Its Effects on Stratospheric Wave-Mean Flow Interaction
John Albers, UC Davis
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Towards Discovering Cancer Pathways
Alex Greenfield, Sackler
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Word Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups and Quasi-Conformal Geometry
Marc Bourdon, University of Lille
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/DiffGeom-Fall08.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Eugene Weinstein, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Polynomial Representations of Polyhedra
Martin Henk, Universität Magdeburg
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Optimal Cryptographic Hardness of Learning Monotone Functions
Andrew Wan, Columbia University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Complexity of Conic Splines
Gert Vegter

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stability Issues for Einstein-Scalar Field Lichnerowicz Equations
Emmanuel Hebey, Université Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Randomly Supported Independence
Per Austrin
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Curves
F. Voloch, University of Texas
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24th
Tba
Tamar Shinar, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Invasion Percolation in 2D
Michael Damron, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Computer Games That Move Us: Making the Gaming Experience More Socially and Emotionally Powerful
Katherine Isbister, Associate Professor, NYU-Poly
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

S.U.R.E. and R.E.U. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 109

Come and listen to brief research presentations from NYU mathematics undergraduate students who participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (S.U.R.E.) and R.E.U.'s over the summer!
RSVP: By Monday, October 13 to Jackie at jklein@cims.nyu.edu
Refreshments will be served.

Undergraduate Student Participants:

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
How Should We Model Heart Cells?
Paul Hand
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dispersive Corrections to the Compressible Navier-Stokes System
Dave Levermore, University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Ice Shelf Buttressing and Grounding Line Movement: An Adaptive Approach
Dan Goldberg
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Look-Ahead Model for the Transcriptional Dnynamics of RNA Polymerase
Charles Peskin, NYU, Math Faculty
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Recent North Atlantic Warming and Some Consequences Thereof
Helge Drange, Unviersity of Bergen, Norway
Please note the day, time, and room number for this seminar.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
An Efficient Semi-Implicit Immersed Boundary Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Eugene Weinstein, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Partial Differential Equations with Highly Oscillatory Random Coefficients: Convergence to Homogenized Equations or to Stochastic Equations?
Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Noise Sensitivity, Noise Stability and Percolation
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Collusion-Free Protocols in the Mediated Model
Joel Alwen
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Symmetry Detection and Structure Discovery for Digital 3D Geometry
Mark Pauly, ETH Zurich

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Eddy-Driven Buoyancy Gradients on Eastern Boundaries
Paola Cessi, Scripps Institute
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Stabilizing Effects of Convection for 3D Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
Tom Hou, Caltech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Physical and Computational Models of Low Reynolds Number Swimmers
Eric Keaveny, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Basis of Traceroute Sampling
David Kempe
Another seminar follows with a change in room.
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 317
Pseudorandom and k-wise Independent Random Graphs
Asaf Nussbaum
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

VISITING MEMBERS RECEPTION:
4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor Commons
All are welcome!

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Convertible Bond Arbitrageurs as Suppliers of Capital
Mila Getmansky, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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, WWH 202
Rational Points on Cubic Surfaces
Ulrich Derenthal, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 202.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 202
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

PANEL DISCUSSION:
7:00 P.M., Onassis Cultural Center (Olympic Tower, 645 Fifth Ave.)
Greek Mathematician: The Story of Constantin Carathéodory (Berlin 1873-1950 Munich)
Also screening of documentary Constantin Carathéodory: 1873-1950
Reception to follow at Atrium Café
Reservations Required: Begins October 13th, please call 917-657-9904

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Coupling Incompressible Flow to Volumetric and Thin Solids
Tamar Shinar, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:45 - 11:45 A.M., Room 507, Columbia University
Beta Ensembles, Random Schroedinger, and Diffusion
Brian Rider, University of Colorado, Boulder
Coffee and tea will be served at 10:15 A.M., The Math Lounge, Room 508
Another PMPS Seminar follows at 12:00 Noon in Room 520

http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12 Noon, WWH 813
On Normalized Ricci Flow and Smooth Structures on 4-Manifolds
Ioana Suvaina, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/DiffGeom-Fall08.html

NEUROFRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 815, Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall
Calcium Dependence of Transmitter Release at the Hair Cell Ribbon Synapse
Professor Elizabeth Glowatzki, Center for Hearing and Balance, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Moore's Law and Microcmputer History
Stan Mazor, Intel et al. (retired)
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., Room 520, Columbia University
Modeling Fine-Scale Uncertainty in Bayesian Parameter Estimation and Applications
George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Chris Wiggins, Columbia University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
Not meeting due to PlumbFest 2008, Friday and Saturday, October 24-25, 2008 at Columbia University
http://plumbfest.columbia.edu/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
The First Internet Election?
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May of 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In this talk, he will explore the notion that the 2008 presidential election is the first true 'Internet Election'.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Surprising Linearity of the Visual Pathway
Robert Shapley, Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Arrangements of Double Pseudolines
Michel Pocchiola, ENS, Paris
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Zero Knowledge Sets with Short Proofs
Dario Fiore, University of Catania
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Extraction and Visualization of Topological Structure in Vector Fields
Tino Weinkauf, Zuse Institute, Berlin

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Vertically Propagating Kelvin Waves and Tropical Tropopause Variability
Sukyoung Lee, Penn State
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Existence for Nonlinear Dispersive Equation
Pierre Germain, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Granular Flow: A 'Fluid' with Zero Surface Tension
Xiang Cheng, University of Chicago, Physics
Please note the new start time for this seminar.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
NO SEMINAR; FOCS + Princeton Geometry Workshop
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Class of Levy Process Models with Almost Exact Calibration to Both Barrier and Vanilla FX Options
John Crosby, Glasgow University
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, Room 312 Math
Orthogonal Periods of a GL(3) Eisenstein Series
G. Chinta, City College of New York
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Fred Gustavson, IBM Watson
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Efficient Image Search and Retrieval using Compact Binary Codes
Rob Fergus, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Propp Machine on Z
Juliana Freire
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Diagrammatic Subnetwork Expansion for Pulse-Coupled Network Dynamics
Adi Rangan, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Vertical Mixing in a Gaussian Random Wave Field
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Transition Pathways of Rare Reactive Events in Molecular Simulations
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, NYU, Math Faculty
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Causation in the Sciences: Evidence, Inference, Purpose
Julian Reiss
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Black Holes and Linear Waves
Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 109
Ksh and the AST Toolkit
David Korn, AT&T Laboratories
Reception to follow in the 13th floor commons.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Geometric Propereties of Multivariate Bernstein Basis and Certificates of Positivity
Marie Francoise Roy, University of Rennes
Please note the change in room number!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Sufficient Conditions for Intractability over Back-Box Groups
Alexander Dent, Royal Holloway
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Curvature-Continuous Bicubic Subdivision Surfaces for Polar Configurations
Ashish Myles

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Average Predictability Time: A New Method for Seamlessly Diagnosing Predictability on Multiple Time Scales
Timothy Del Sole, COLA
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Open Source Democracy
Douglas Rushkoff
Winner of the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author of ten best-selling books, a professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and an award-winning documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Green Function, Elliptic Functions and Mean Field Equations on the Torus
Chang-Shou Lin, National University of Taiwan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stimulus Space Geometry and Topology from Neural Activity
Carina Curto, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Alex Andoni
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

2008 NYU Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences:
5:00 P.M., Irving H. Jurow Lecture Hall, 100 Washington Square East
Andrew Majda, NYU Samuel Morse Professor of Arts & Sciences, is this year's recipient of the Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences. This award is presented annually to a member of the science faculty in recognition of excellence in his or her work for the University as a teacher, scholar, and colleague. He will be presented with the award and will give a lecture on his research.
Climate Change and Modern Applied Mathematics
Andrew J. Majda

Note: Institutional/student ID required for admission.

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Hard-to-Borrow Stocks, Bubbles, Crashes and Volatility
Mike Lipkin, Columbia University and Katama Trading
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 C415
Dynamical Brauer-Manin Problems
T. Tucker, University of Rochester
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

SPEAKERS ON THE SQUARE:
6:00 - 8:00 P.M., Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor, The Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South

Following immediately after the Sokol Lecture given by Andy Majda, the Speakers on the Square event will feature distinguished NYU Faculty and include special remarks by John Sexton and Jerry Hultin, President of the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

Event details and a registration form are on the FAS alumni website:
http://www.nyu.edu/alumni/speakers/index.shtml

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Proximal Point Algorithms for Large-Scale Ill-Posed and Nonconvex Problems
Russell Luke, University of Delaware
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Current Large Deviations in Stochastic Systems
Thierry Bodineau, Ecole Normale Supérieure
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Domain Adaptation with Multiple Sources
Yishay Mansour, Tel Aviv University and Google Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
No seminar due to Student Forum preparatory meeting - please attend
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Conflict-Free Colorings
Janos Pach, CIMS and EPFL
Please note different time and location!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Arbitrage in the U.S. Equities Market
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
Joint work with Jeong Hyun Lee
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Moment-Angle Manifolds, Polytopes and Intersection of Quadrics
Santiago Lopez de Medrano, Mexican National University
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/DiffGeom-Fall08.html

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 109
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Extracting Essential Features of Biological Signaling Networks
Natalie Arkus, Harvard University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Does Unlabeled Data Provably Help? Worst-Case Analysis of the Sample Complexity of Semi-Supervised Learning
Ashish Rastogi, Google
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Public Key Cryptography from Different Assumptions
Boaz Barak, Princeton University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multicloud Model for Organized Tropical Convection: Linear Theory on a Beta-Plane and GCM Simulations
Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Technology, Networks, and Journalism
Amanda Michel

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Quasiconvexity of Sets in Optimal Design
Pablo Pedregal Tercero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Distributed Monotonicity Reconstruction
Mike Saks
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Mod p Representations of p-Adic GL(n) and Hecke Modules
Rachel Ollivier, Ecole Normale Supérieure
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

ANNUAL LEON LEVY LECTURE:
6:00 P.M., NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, ISAW Building, 15 East 84th St. (bet. 5th Ave. and Madison), 2nd Floor, Common Room
The History of the Sahara in Antiquity: Mirage or Scientific Project?
Mario Liverani, Professor, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
This lecture is free and open to the public, but please be sure to RSVP. For more information on the lecture and other ISAW events, please visit:
http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/events.htm
You may also contact ISAW directly at (212) 992-7843

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Conférence à l'occasion du cinquantenaire de l'IHÉS
Joint scientific conference to celebrate the IHÉS 50th Anniversary

This event will take place at the Henry Kaufman Center, 44 West 4th Street, Room 170, with a reception to follow in the 13th floor lounge of Warren Weaver Hall

Scientific Committee:
Mikhail Gromov (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and CIMS)
Nikita Nekrasov (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques)
Peter Lax (CIMS)
Jalal Shatah (CIMS)

Morning Session:

  • 9:00 A.M.: Peter Goddard, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
    Reminiscences
  • 9:20 A.M.: Leslie Greengard, CIMS
    A New Formalism for Electromagnetic Scattering in Complex Geometry
  • 10:10 A.M.: Igor Klebanov, Princeton University
    String Theory and Strong Interactions
  • 11:30 A.M.: Dennis Sullivan, SUNY, Stony Brook
    Combinatorial Poincaré Duality and Physical Models

Afternoon Session:

  • 2:00 P.M.: Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University
    The Gemetry of Grand Unificatin in String Theory
  • 3:10 P.M.: Charles S. Peskin, CIMS
    Mathematics of the Heart
  • 4:00 P.M.: Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
    Expansion in Linear Groups and Applications
http://www.ihes.fr/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=286

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 102
The Numerical Evaluation of Fredholm Determinants with Applications to Random Matrix Theory
Folkmar Bornemann, Technische Universität München
Please note the room change for this seminar!
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 102
How to Reconcile Anonymity with Accountability
Anna Lysyanskaya, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
Please note the room change for this seminar!
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 312
An Asymptotic Isoperiometric Inequality
Sean Li
Please note the change in room number for this seminar!
http://math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 102
Multiscale Methods for Hydrodynamics of Polymer Chains in Solution
Aleksandar Donev, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling and Tropospheric Predictability
Ed Gerber
Please note the change in room number!
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Rational Design of Modulators of the Unfolded Protein Response
Hong Wang, Sackler
and
Simple Model Reduction Techniques Applied to Apoptosis
Kenneth Ho, NYU, Math
There will be no more COB colloquiums this term. However, please note, COB Day attendance will be required in lieu of any further COB colloquiums. Please plan to attend COB Day, scheduled for Saturday, December 6th .
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

FRIDAY, NOV. 14 - SATURDAY, NOV. 15

SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY, ORANGIZATION AND USE:
Warren Weaver Hall, New York University
For invited speakers, registration, accommodation, and directions and further information, please click on:
http://www.nlp.cs.nyu.edu/sk-symposium/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Predicting Cancer Progression with Systems Pathology
Faisal M. Khan
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 613
Metric Properties of Singularities of oComplex Algebraic Surfaces
Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Please note the special day and time of this seminar.
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/DiffGeom-Fall08.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Observing the High Latitude Limb of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation
Svein Osterhus, University of Bergen
Please note the special day, time, and room number for this seminar.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Phenomena in the Space of Contingency Tables
Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
An Approximation Algorithm for Counting Contingency Tables
Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Finding Significant Fourier Transform Coefficients Deterministically and Locally
Adi Akavia
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Efficient and Complete Algorithms for Isotopic Approximation of Implicit Curves
Chee Yap, CIMS

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Structures and Heat Transport in Turbulent Convection
Joerg Schumacher, University of Ilmenau
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Democracy, Civic Action, and Politics in a Networked World
Andrew Rasiej
Andrew Rasiej is a social entrepreneur and the founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and community website about the intersection of politics and technology. He is also the co-founder of techPresident. He has served as an adviser to Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Tom Daschle, Congressman Dick Gephardt, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on the use of Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes. Mr. Rasiej also maintains the position of senior technology adviser for the Sunlight Foundation.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

SEVENTH NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
Room 914/912 Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South)
(Continued Friday, November 21 at Warren Weaver Hall)

Morning Session:

Afternoon Session:

Arnab Sen (UC Berkeley)
Spectra of Random Trees

Ruoting Gong (GA Tech)
Viscosity and Principal-Agent Problem

Sergio Almada (GA Tech)
Asymptotic Estimates on the Exit Distribution of a Bounded Domain for a Small Noise Diffusion Driven by White Noise

Dongsheng Wu (University of Alabama, Huntsville)
Regularity of ILT of FBM

Bob Wooster (University of Connecicut)
Evolution Systems of Measures for Non-Autonomous SDEs

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Attraction to Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Models based on the Klein-Gordon Equation
Andrew Comech, Texas A&M
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU's INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD LECTURE:
12:00 Noon, ISAW Building, 15 East 84th St. (bet. 5th Ave. and Madison), 2nd Floor, Common Room
Nubia's Other Civilization: The Forgotten Glories of the Medieval Kingdoms
William Y. Adams
This lecture is free and open to the public, but please be sure to RSVP. For more information on the lecture and other ISAW events, please visit:
http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/events.htm
You may also contact ISAW directly at (212) 992-7843

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Patterns of Convection in Solidifying Binary Solutions
Shane Keating, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Stateless Distributed Gradient Descent for Positive Linear Programs
Rohit Khandekar
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM GUEST LECTURE:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 109
From Max Payne to Alan Wake: The Art and Science of Creating a Triple-A Game
Saku Lehtinen, Remedy Entertainment
Saku Lehtinen, a multi-talented man with background in architecture, has been in an integral role at Remedy since 1996 and is responsible for the audiovisual experience of Remedy's games. Saku's work ranges from leading the art team to various design tasks and directing. He has also been heavily involved in designing the game creation tools and technology.

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
A Variant of the Gross-Zagier Formula
Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21

SEVENTH NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109, Courant Institute, 251 Mercer St.

Morning Session:

Afternoon Session:

Mang Wu (University of Connecticut)
A Brownian Motion on the Group of Orientation Preserving Diffeomorphisms of the Unit Circle

John Mayberry (Cornell University)
Gaussian Perturbations of Circle Maps: A Spectral Approach

Vlas Vysotsky (University of Delaware)
A Functional Limit Theorem for the Position of Particle Moving in Random Medium

Alexandra Chronopoulou (Purdue University)
Hurst Index Estimation and Reproduction Property for Non-Gaussian Hermite Processes

George Fellouris (Columbia University)
Asymptotically Optimal Schemes in Decentralized Detection

Hongzhong Zhang (CUNY GC)
Drawdowns and Rallies in a Finite Time-Horizon

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Matrix-Free Interior-Point Method for Large-Scale Nonlinear Nonconvex Optimization Problems
Joshua Griffin, SAS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Abstract Interpretation-based Static Analysis of Safety-Critical Embedded Software
Patrick Cousot, Professor of Computer Science, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Surfactant-Laden Interfaces in Viscous Flow
Kela Lushi
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
NO SEMINAR
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Moist and Dry Baroclinic Eddies
Juliana Dias
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Sato-Tate Conjecture
Richard Taylor, Harvard University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Turbulence from Statistical Theory to Wigner Measure
Claude Bardos, Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions, Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Mathematical Model of Telomere Length Regulation and Cellular Senescence
Ignacio Rodriguez, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Elliptic Functional Differential Equations and Applications
Alexander L. Skubachevsky, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Please note the special day and time for this seminar.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Basing Lower-Bounds for Learning on Worst-Case Assumptions
Benny Applebaum, Princeton University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Adding Secondary Dynamics to Animated Characters
Tamar Shinar, CIMS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27

HAPPY HOLIDAY TO ALL!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
Thanksgiving Break, No Seminar
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
Thanksgiving Break, No Seminar
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
Thanksgiving Break, No Seminar
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Expander Graphs: A Playground for Combinatorics, Algebra and Computer Science
Avi Wigderson, Institute of Advanced Study
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistical Properties in Slow Wave Neuronal Dynamics with Noise
Sukbin Lim, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Spectral Hashing
Rob Fergus, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 1221, 715 Broadway
Designing Everything by Yourself: End-User Interfaces for Graphics, CAD, and Robots
Takeo Igarashi, University of Tokyo, JST ERATO
Special Lecture

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Morse Theory and a Scalar Field Equation on Compact Surfaces
Andrea Malchiodi, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Note the day, time and room number!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Random Matrices: Universality of the Spectral Distribution and the Circular Law
Van Vu, Rutgers University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 312
3D Effects of the Boundary on Linear Growth Rates of MHD Unstable Modes in the Reversed Field Pinch
Roberto Paccagnella, Instituto di Gas Ionizzati del C.N.R., Padua, Italy
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Atmospheric Water Cycling Rates Deduced from Water Vapour Isotopes
David Noone, University of Colorado
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
To Absorb Energy into a Fractal
Umberto Mosco, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optically Tweezing Soft Matter Interfaces
Shobo Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Galois Image
Madhav Nori, University of Chicago
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5

THE IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY:
Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall (Courant Institute-NYU)

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Fengyan Li, RPI
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
NO SEMINAR DUE TO
CAOS Workshop 2008: Real Time Filtering and Prediction for Turbulent Signals in Weather and Climate

http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
No Seminar Due to Student Forum
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Collective Dynamics in Particle Suspensions
David Saintillan, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 and SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6

Workshop 2008: Real Time Filtering and Prediction for Turbulent Signals in Weather and Climate
Ninth Annual Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science Winter Workshop

WWH 102 on Friday, and WWH 101 on Saturday on the first floor of the Courant Institute at Warren Weaver Hall.

Friday, December 5 -- Room 102

Saturday, December 6 -- Room 101

Please Note: Registration is required to attend this Workshop!
For more information see http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/caos.workshop2008.fall

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6

COB DAY 2008:
9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M., Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall
This is a day COB students and Faculty won't want to miss, although all are invited. We have arranged for 4 featured lectures as follows and presentations of student posters.

Our speakers include:

  • 9:45 A.M.: Marcelo Magnasco, Ph.D. (Rockefeller University), Professor and Head, Mathematical Physics Lab
    Dynamical and Statistical Criticality in a Model of Neural Tissue
  • 11:00 A.M.: Edo Kussell, Ph.D. (NYU), Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
    Sensing and Selection in Bacterial Populations
  • 1:30 P.M.: Chris Wiggins, Ph.D. (Columbia University), Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
    Inferring and Encoding Modules in Biological Networks
  • 2:45 P.M.: Stevan R. Hubbard, Ph.D. (NYU), Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Skirball Institute Program of Structural Biology
    Structural Basis for Protein Recruitment to Activated Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Molecular Noise Enhances Oscillations in SCN Network
Richard Yamada, University of Michigan
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Lower Bounds for Pinning Lines by Balls
Xavier Goaoc, Loria, France
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Silencing, Optimization and Noise: Exploring the Complex Behavior of a Neuron
Daniel Forger, University of Michigan
Please note the unusual DAY, TIME, and ROOM for this seminar.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:50 - 3:25 P.M., WWH 101
Internet Path-Quality Monitoring in the Presence of Adversaries
Sharon Goldberg, Princeton University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Generation of Three-Dimensional Internal Tides by an Oscillating Sphere
Bruno Voisin, LEGI - Grenoble
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11

COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2008 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 7:00 and 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. (two sessions), WWH 13th Floor Commons
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Light refreshment will be served.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 202
A Banach Space Determined by the Weil Height
Daniel Allcock, University of Texas Austin
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 202.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 202
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Chebfun and Chebop
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 102
Experiments with the Cognitive Packet Network
Erol Gelenbe, Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair, Imperial College London
Note the change in room number.
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 202
The Lattice Faddeev Model
Hans Shmidheiser
and
Static Born-Infield Theory
Yong Yu
Please note the change in ROOM!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

COURANT HOLIDAY LECTURE:
3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Einstein's Chest and Its Mathematics
Engelbert Schucking, Professor of Physics, NYU

CIMS HOLIDAY PARTY!
4:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons