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Previous Weekly Bulletins

11-09-07
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 512
Title: Coarsening and the deep quench obstacle problem
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
11-09-09
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Title: Stochastic Approaches for Parabolic and Elliptic Diffraction Equations
Denis Talay, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

CBBL SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 719 Broadway, Rm. 1221
Title: Mini-batch Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., WWH 1302  **Please note special time**
Title: Revisiting brittle fracture variationally
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
 11-09-13
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

BIOMATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 P.M., WWH 102
Title: Are anomalous effects of genetically deleting a sodium/proton antiporter of Staphylococcus aureus due to loss of cell-wide stress response?
Terry Krulwich, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium 








  
  11-09-14




WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: TBA

Craig Lee

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



PRINCETON MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:  

4:30 P.M., Fine Hall 314 

Title: Ultrametric subsets with large Hausdorff dimension

Assaf Naor, CIMS

http://www.math.princeton.edu/~seminar/DepartmentColloquium.html






  
  11-09-15




THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Triangular Fourier series and physical reality

Camil Muscalu, Cornell University


http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html



APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:  

12:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in two types
of complex fluid media: a viscoelastic fluid and porous medium

Bin Liu, Brown University

http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html










  
  11-09-16




FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Universality in Levy spin glasses.

Helmut Katzgraber, Texas A&M University and ETH Zurich

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



COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY: 

10:30A.M., WWH 1302



10:45-11:00 - Ryan Hynd

 Free boundary problems with gradient
constraints



11:00-11:15 -  Zaher Hani

 Global and dynamical aspects of
nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on compact manifolds



11:15-11:30 - Benoit Pausader

 The energy critical nonlinear
Schrodinger equation on curved background



BREAK



11:45-12:00 - Jacob Bedrossion

 Aggregation equations and
Patlak-Keller-Segel models with nonlinear diffusion



12:00-12:15 - John Head

 Mean Curvature Flow of Hypersurfaces
in Euclidean Space



12:15-12:30 - Iyla Karzhemanov

 Asymptotic invariants of algebraic
varieties



LUNCH Break



1:30-1:45 - Shirshendu Chatterjee

 Particle systems on random graphs



1:45-2:00 - Hana Kogan

 Permanental vectors in three
dimensions and their properties



2:00-2:15 - Katie Newhall

 Applications of stochastic dynamics



2:15-2:30 - Gemma Huguet

 Dynamical systems and applications
to Neuroscience



BREAK



2:45-3:00 - Jordan Fisher

 Efficiently removing stiffness from
the immersed boundary method



3:00-3:15 - Benedikt Wirth

 Variational methods in shape space



3:15-3:30 - Matt Elsey

 Diffusion-generated motion
algorithms for simulations of grain boundary motions














  
  11-09-20




TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011



Biomath/COB COLLOQUIUM:  

12:25 P.M., WWH 102 

Title: TBA

Demian Szyld, NYUMC

 http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium



GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

6:00 P.M., WWH 201 

Title: Polyhedral geometries and graphs for crystallographic groups

Egon Schulte, Northeastern University, Boston

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011







  
  11-09-22




THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 

11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

Title: Long time
strong instability and unbounded orbits for some nonlinear Schrodinger
equations

Zaher Hani, CIMS


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






  
  11-09-23




FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Critical drifts for random walks in attractive potentials

Dmitry Ioffe, Technion

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



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Gibbs measures and phase transitions on sparse random graphs

Amir Dembo, Stanford University

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



GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS and TOPOLOGY
SEMINAR:

11:00 A.M., WWH 905

Title: Mean Curvature Flow of
Two-Convex Hypersurfaces

John Head, NYU

http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html



NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Computation of the Lower Spectral Radius of a Set of
Nonnegative Matrices

Nicola Gugliemi, University L'Aquila

http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

:

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 


11:30 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Sub-Teraherz Wireless
Communications: The Future Edge of the Internet

Theodore Rappaport, University of Texas at Austin

Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. 

http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia



APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: An underutilized statistic: the Euclidiean distance (instead
of chi-square)

Mark Tygert, CIMS

http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/





  
  11-09-27






TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR:

10:00 A.M., WWH 1314

Title: Minimal surfaces and entire
solutions og the Allen-Cahn equation

Xavier Cabre, ICREA-UPC

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



COB COLLOQUIUM:

12:25 P.M., WWH 102 (brown bag lunch)

Title: Image-based modeling of the
upper airway in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

David Wooton, Cooper Union



GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

6:00 P.M., WWH 512 

Title: The Erdos distinct distance problem

Larry Guth, CIMS

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011







  
  11-09-28




WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Moisture Sensitivity Studies for an Idealized Midlatitude
Storm, with a Nod Towards Global Warming

Jimmy Booth, Columbia University

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





  
  11-09-29




THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 

11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

Title: The Energy Critical Schrodinger Equation on
the 3D Torus

Benoit  Pausader, CIMS 

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



APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:  

12:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Imaging the microscopic structure of shear thinning and
thickening colloidal suspensions

Xiang Cheng, Cornell University

http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html








  
  11-09-30




FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: On difusions interacting through their ranks.

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov, Stanford University

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



NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Non-conforming Finite Element Methods for the Brinkman
Problem and a Singularly Perturbed Fourth-order Problem

Johnny Guzman, Brown University

http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Gibbs measures and phase transitions on sparse random graphs

Amir Dembo, Stanford University

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



COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 

11:30 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Seattle: A Peer-to-Peer
Platform for Safe Code Execution 

Justin Cappos, NYU Poly 

Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. 

http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia



APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Tracking Multiphase Physics: Geometry, Foams, and Thin Films

J.A. Sethian, University of California Berkeley

http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/






  
  11-10-04




TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 4, 2011



COB COLLOQUIUM: 

12:25 P.M., WWH 102 (brown bag lunch) 

Title: Estimating multiple haplotypes
and their frequencies from next-generation sequencing data

Alexander V. Aleksyenko, NYU School of Medicine

http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium






  
  11-10-05




WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 5, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: A Hierarchical Bayesian Statistical Perspective on
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics

Christopher Wilke, University of Missouri

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



PRINCETON MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:

4:30 P.M., Fine Hall 314

Title: Stability Theorems for some
Sharp Inequalities and their Applications

Eric Carlen, Rutgers University

http://www.math.princeton.edu/~seminar/DepartmentColloquium.html






  
  11-10-06




THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 6, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR:

11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

Title: A Krein-Moser theorem for
Vlasov-Poisson

George Hagstrom, CIMS

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



APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:

12:30 P.M., WWH 1314

Title: Falling bodies through sharply
stratified fluids: theory and experiments

Rich McLaughlin, University of North Carolina

http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html



JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:  


5:30 - 7:00 P.M.,
Columbia University, Room 312 Math 

Title: Some Orbital Integrals and Arithmetic Intersection Numbers 

Wei Zhang, Columbia University


TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
 


Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622   

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS17.html






  
  11-10-07




FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 7, 2011



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Computing the moments of the GOE bijectively

Olivier Bernardi, MIT

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



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Gibbs measures and phase transitions on sparse random graphs

Amir Dembo, Stanford University

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



GRADUATE STUDENT and POST DOC SEMINAR:

1:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Title: Water vaporand atmospheric dynamics, from convection to the
global circulation

O. Pauluis, CIMS

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/



APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Simulations of Grain Boundary Evolution via
Diffusion-Generated Motion Algorithims

Matthew Elsey, CIMS

http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/






  
  11-10-12




WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Numerical Modeling of multiscale atmospheric flows: from
cloud microscale to climate

Wojciech Grabowski, NCAR Boulder, Colorado

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





  
  11-10-13




THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 

11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

Title: Sharp Adams-type inequalities in R^N

Federica Sani, CIMS and University of Milan

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



APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:

12:30 P.M. WWH 1314

Title: Shake and Break: Earthquake
Physics and Fault Geometry

Bruce Shaw, Columbia University

http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html



JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:  


5:30 - 7:00 P.M.,
Columbia University, Room 312 Math 

Title: Some Unlikely Intersections Beyond Andre-Oort

Andre Habeggar, Goethe-University Frankfurt


TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
 


Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622   

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS17.html






  
  11-10-14






FRIDAY, OCTOBER
14, 2011



NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Fast Solvers for Geodynamic Flows

Scott MacLachlan, Tufts University

http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: From random interlacements to coordinate and infinite
cylinder percolation

Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA

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



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Rigidity of 3-colorings of the d-dimensional discrete torus

Ohad Feldheim, Tel Aviv University

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



GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS and TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH  202 

Title: Singularities in 4d Ricci flow

Robert Haslhofer, ETH Zurich

http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html



COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 

11:30 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Distributed Optimization and
Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Stephen Boyd, Stanford

Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. 

http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia



GRADUATE STUDENT and POST DOC SEMINAR:

1:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Title: TBA

Sourav Chatterjee, CIMS

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/



APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: A diffuse-interface approach to morphological image
registration

Benedikt Wirth, CIMS

http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/







  
  11-10-17




MONDAY, OCTOBER
17, 2011






MATHEMATICS
in FINANCE SEMINAR:


5:30 P.M., WWH 109

Title: Tools for a Successful Career:
What Are the Nonmathematical Skill Sets Needed?

Kenneth Jedding

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~kolm/Announcement.pdf










  
  11-10-18




TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 18, 2011



COB COLLOQUIUM:

12:25 P.M., WWH 102

Title: Global Analysis of Cell Growth
Programs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

David Gresham, NYU

 http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium




ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

4:30 P.M., WWH 201

Title: On the CR-embedding problem in
3-dimensions

Charles Epstein, University of Pennsylvania



GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

6:00 P.M., WWH  512 

Title: Dynamic Algorithims for Half-Space Depth

Michael Burr, Fordham University

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011








  
  11-10-19




WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 19, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: New Nonlinear Models of Rapidly Rotating Thermal Convection
and Baroclinic Instability

Geoffrey Vasil

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






  
  11-10-20




THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 20, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 

11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

Title:
Global
Existence and Finite Time Blow-up for critical Patlak-Keller-Segel
Models with Spatially Inhomogenous Diffusion

Jacob Bedrossian, CIMS 

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



APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:

12:30 P.M., WWH 1314

Title: An integrated model of lamprey
swimming: Fluid structure interaction and segmental coupling

Eric Tytell, Johns Hopkins University

http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html



MATHEMATICS in FINANCE SEMINAR:

5:30 P.M., WWH 102

Title: Repo 2008

Terence Ma, South Street Securities

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



JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:  


5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, 4 Washington
Place, Meyer 121

Title:  Lower bounds for Galois orbits of CM points

Jacob Tsimerman, Harvard University


TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Meyer lobby 


Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Meyer 121

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS17.html








  
  11-10-21




FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 21, 2011



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Factor models on locally tree-like graphs

Amir Dembo, Stanford University

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



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Brownian Gibbs line ensembles

Ivan Corwin, Microsoft Research - Cambridge, MA

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



GRADUATE STUDENT and POSTDOC SEMINAR

1:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Title: Epistemic logic and dynamics
of information change

Andreas Witzel, CIMS

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/



APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Thermostats for flexible control of a statistical ensemble

Ben Leimkuhler, Univeristy of Edinburgh

http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/



VISITING MEMBERS RECEPTION:

4:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons






  
  11-10-24






MONDAY, OCTOBER
24, 2011




MATHEMATICS
COLLOQUIUM:


3:45 P.M., WWH 1302

Title: Strong and weak epsilon nets
and their applications

Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS Princeton


Colloquium
Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).


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







  
    
    11-10-23
  
  
    

    TUESDAY,
      OCTOBER 25, 2011

      

    COB COLLOQUIUM:

      12:25 P.M., WWH 102

        Title: Probing transcription
          requlation in live cells, one mRNA at a time

        Timothee Lionnet, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

       http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
    

    

    ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

    4:30 P.M., WWH 201

    Title: Open Problems in Complex
      Geometry

    Fedor Bogomolov, CIMS

    http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem.html

    

    GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

    6:00 P.M., WWH 201 

    Title: Guarding polyominoes

    Justin Iwerks, SUNY, Stony Brook

    http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011

    

    

  




  
  11-10-27




THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011



ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 


11:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Asymptoic models for internal waves in the long wave regime,
and the dead water phenomenon

Vincente Duchene, Columbia University

http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html



APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:

12:30 P.M. WWH 1314

Title: The Wonders of Thin Objects:
Coiling Spaghetti and Pressing Eggshells

Pedro Reis, MIT

http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html










  
    
    11-10-28
  
  
    

      

      FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011

    

    NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Optimal Newton-type Algorithms for Large-scale Nonlineal
      Optimization

    Coralia Cartis, University of Edinburgh

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

    

    PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 317

    Title: Coherence stability and effect of random natural
      frequencies in populations of coupled oscillators

    Giambatista Giacomine, Universite Paris 7

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

    

    PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

    11:00 A.M., WWH 317

    Title: Tree polymers under weak/strong disorder

    Edward Waymire, Oregon State University

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

    

    GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS and TOPOLOGY
      SEMINAR:

    11:00 A.M., WWH 201

    Title: On the geometry of surfaces
      in normed spaces

    Dmitry Burago, Penn State University

    http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

    

    COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
    

    11:30 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Photographing Events Over
      Time

    Bill Freeman, MIT

    Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. 

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

    

    GRADUATE STUDENT and POSTDOC
      SEMINAR

    1:00 P.M., WWH 1302

    Title: TBA

    Jonathan Goodman, CIMS

    http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

    

    DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:

    1:00 P.M., WWH 317

    Title: A spectral gap for the
      transfer operator of the Lorentz gas

    Mark Demers, Fairfield University

    http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

    

    APPLIED MATHEMATICS
      SEMINAR:  

    2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: The interplay between fluid dynamic instability and
      potentially singular behavior of the 3D Euler/Navier-Stokes
      equations

    Tom Hou, Caltech

    http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

    

    DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:

    4:00 P.M., WWH 317

    Title: A mehanical model for
      Fourier's Law of heat conduction

    David Ruelle, IHES, France

    http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

    
  



  
    
    11-11-01
  
  
    

    TUESDAY,
      NOVEMBER 1, 2011

    

    PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL
      PHYSICS SEMINAR:

    2:00 P.M., WWH 1314

    Title: large deviation principle
      of the empiracle current for Markov processes

    Lorenzo Bertini, Universita di Roma La Sapienza

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

    

    ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

    4:30 P.M., WWH 201

    Title: Stein Manifolds and an
      example of Rossi

    Lukas Koehler, CIMS

    http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem.html

    

    GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

    6:00 P.M., WWH  512 

    Title: The Computation of multiple roots of polynomials whose
      coefficients are inexact

    Jaob Winkler, University of Sheffield

    http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011

    

  




  
  11-11-02




WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 2, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Oceanic overturning in the adiabatic regime

Christopher Wolfe

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





  
    
    11-11-03
  
  
    

    THURSDAY, 
NOVEMBER
      3, 2011

    

    ANALYSIS SEMINAR:

    11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

    Title: On the local extension of
      Killing vector-fields in Ricci flat manifolds

    Alex Ionescu, Princeton

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

    

    APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:

    12:30 P.M., WWH 1314

    Title: Hydrodynamics of
      Microorganism Motility: Flagellar Shapes and Boundary Effects

    Saverio Spagnolie, Brown 

    http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html

  




  
  11-11-04




FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 4, 2011



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

10:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Some rigorous result on the East Model

Roberto Cyril, Universite de Marne-La-Vallee

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



PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

11:00 A.M., WWH 317

Title: Potts and independent set models on d-regular graphs

Nike Sun, Stanford University

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



GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS and TOPOLOGY
SEMINAR:

11:00 A.M., WWH 201

Title: Isoperimetric structure of
initial data sets

Michael Eichmair, MIT

http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html



COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 

11:30 A.M., WWH 1302 

 Title: Real Time Surveillance of
Medical Patients' Medical Records

David Sontag, CIMS

Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. 

http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia



S.U.R.E PRESENTATIONS:

12:00-2:30 P.M., WWH 109

http://math.nyu.edu/degree/undergrad/ug_research.html



GRADUATE STUDENT and POSTDOC SEMINAR

1:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Title: The Positive Mass Theorem and
the Intrinsic Flat Distance

Christina Sormani, CUNY GC and Lehman College

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/



APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: Investigating jammed matter from a granocentric point of view

Katherine Newhall, CIMS

http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/






  
  11-11-07




MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 7, 2011






MATHEMATICS
COLLOQUIUM:


3:45 P.M., WWH 1302

Title: Statistical Mechanics on
Sparse Random Graphs: Mathematics and Applications

Amir Dembo, Stanford University


Colloquium
Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).


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







  
    
    11-11-08
  
  
    

    TUESDAY,
      NOVEMBER 8, 2011

    

    COB COLLOQUIUM:

      12:25 P.M., WWH 102

        Title: Advances in Protein
          Biophysics

        Harold Scheraga, Cornell University

       http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium 

    

    ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

    4:30 P.M., WWH 201

    Title: Closed Symmetric
      Differentials on Surfaces and their Geometry

    Bruno de Oliveira, University of Miami

    http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem.html

     

    GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

    6:00 P.M., WWH  512 

    Title: Existence of small families of t-wise independent
      permutations and t-designs via local limit theorems

    Shachar Lovett, IAS, Princeton

    http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011

  



  
    
    11-11-09
  
  
    

      WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011

    

    PROBABILITY and MATHEMATICAL
      PHYSICS SEMINAR: **Special Talk**

    10:00 A.M., WWH 517

    Title: Some Wonderful Conjectures
      at the Boundary Between Analysis, combinatorics and probability

    Alan Sokal, NYU Physics

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

    

    

  



  
    
    11-11-10
  
  
    

      THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011

    

    ANALYSIS SEMINAR:

    11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

    Title: A degree theory approach
      for the shooting method

    Comgming Li, University of Boulder

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

    

    APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:  

    12:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Physics of earthquake interactions: Progress, challenges
      and lessons

    Jian Lin, Woods Hole Oceanic Institution, MA

    http://www.math.nyu.edu/~trush/AMLindex.html

    

    DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:

    2:00 P.M., WWH 312

    Title: Ergodic properties of
      random billiards driven by theromostats

    Tatiana Yarmola, Toronto

    http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

    

    MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:

    5:30 P.M., WWH 102

    Title: A novel method to esitmate
      returns from option prices and it's application in portfolio
      selection

    Huaquiang Ma, Univeristy of Maryland and Wells Fargo

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

     
  



  
    
    11-11-11
  
  
    

    FRIDAY,
      NOVEMBER 11, 2011

      

    NUMERICAL
ANALYSIS
      and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Efficient Basis Set for Kohn-Sham Density Functional
      Theory

    Jianfeng Lu, CIMS

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

    

    PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 317

    Title: What does a Point Process Outside a Domain tell us about
      What's Inside?

    Subhrosekhar Ghosh, UC Berkeley

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

    

    PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 317

    Title: The Romance of the Ising Model

    Barry McCoy, SUNY, Stony Brook

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

    

    COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 

    11:30 A.M., WWH 109 

     Title: IBM Research/NYU/Columbia
      Theory Day

    Various Speakers

    Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. 

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

    

    ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

    2:00 P.M., WWH 1314

    Title: Potential Theory on Almost
      Complex Manifolds

    Blaine Lawson, Stony Brook

    http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem.html

    

    APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

    2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Nonlinear Laplacian spectral analysis for time series:
      Capturing intermittency and low-frequenncy variability

    Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS

    http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

  



  
    
    11-11-14
  
  
    

    MONDAY,
      NOVEMBER 14, 2011

    

    SPECIAL AML SEMINAR:

    12:00 P.M., WWH 1314

    Title: Modeling and parallel
      simulation of global-scale geophysical mantle flow and seismic
      wave propagation

    Georg Stadler, University of Texas at Austin

    http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html

    


      

    MATHEMATICS


      COLLOQUIUM: 

    3:45 P.M., WWH 1302

      Title: Scale Bridging
        Simulations for Soft Matter: Current status and Conceptual
        Problems

      Kurt Kremer, Max Planck Institute, Germany

     Colloquium Tea at
      3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor). 

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

    

    NYU/Poly MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:

    4:35 P.M., RH 214

    Title: Gradient Systems of Phase
      Transitions

    Fanghua Lin, CIMS

    http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml

    

    

    

  



  
    
    11-11-15
  
  
    

    TUESDAY,
      NOVEMBER 15, 2011

    

    APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:

    11:00 A.M., WWH 1314

    Title: Self-organizing principles
      for small-scale structures

    Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Harvard

    http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html

    

    COB COLLOQUIUM:

      12:25 P.M., WWH 102

        Title: Modeling membrane
          binding and permeabilization by antimicrobial peptides

        Themis Lazaridis, City College of New York

       http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium 

    

    ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

    4:30 P.M., WWH 201

    Title: closed symmetric
      differentials on surfaces and their geometry II

    Bruno de Oliveira, University of Miami

    http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem.html

    

    GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

    6:00 P.M., WWH  512 

    Title: Sylvester-Gallai-like Theorems for Polygons in the Plane

    Jon Lenchner, IBM

    http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011

  




  
  11-11-16




WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 16, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:  

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

Title: What sets the mean state of the extra-tropical atmosphere?

Malte Jansen

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





  
    
    11-11-17
  
  
    

      THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011

    

    TENTH NORTHEAST PROBABILITY
      SEMINAR:

    9:30 A.M., 914/912 Kimmel

    http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar/ConferenceDetails.tex

    

    ANALYSIS SEMINAR:  

    11:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Well-posedness for Euler 2D in non-smooth domains

    Christophe Lacave, Universite Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)

    
      http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

    

      APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:  

    12:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: The Convective Modoki: the LInear and Nonlinear Dynamics
      of Real Flows

    Jean-Marc Chomaz, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, France

    http://www.math.nyu.edu/~trush/AMLindex.html

    

    NYU/Poly MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:

    4:35 P.M., RH 302

    Title: What is quantum
      probability?

    Greg Kuperberg, University of California - Davis

    http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml

    

  



  
    
    11-11-18
  
  
    

      FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011

      

    TENTH NORTHEAST PROBABILITY
      SEMINAR:

    9:30 A.M., WWH 109

    http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar/ConferenceDetails.tex

     

    NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 
    

    10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Random Sampling Preconditioners

    Haim Avron, IBM

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

    

    GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS and TOPOLOGY
      SEMINAR:

    11:00 A.M., WWH 201

    Title: Intersection Space
      Cohomology and Hypersurace Singularities

    Laurentiu Maxim, UW Madison

    http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

    

    APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

    2:30 P.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: (Not So) Distant Cousins: Some Common Statistical
      Relations Underlying Models Across Disperate Social Process

    David K.A. Mordecai, Risk Economics Inc. 

    http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

  



  
    
    11-11-22
  
  
    

        TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011

          

          ANALYSIS SEMINAR:

          11:00
            A.M., WWH 1314

            Title: Periodic
              Homogenization of Green's and Neumann Functions

            Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky

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

           

        COB COLLOQUIUM:

      12:25 P.M., WWH 102

        Title: Forward and inverse
          methods applied to imaging the topography and reflectivity of
          the ventral surface of fixed and live cells using confocal
          interference microscopy

        Ben Ovryn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

       http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium

    

    ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

    4:30 P.M., WWH 201

    Title: TBA

    Jordan Thomas, CIMS

    http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem.html

     
  



  
    
    11-11-28
  
  
    

       MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011

        

        MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:

        3:45
      P.M., WWH 1302

      Title: The Kolmogrov-Obukhov
        Theory of Turbulence

      Bjorn Birnir, UC Santa Barbara

     Colloquium Tea at
      3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor). 

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

    

    NYU/Poly MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:

    4:35 P.M., RH 214

    Title: Geometric convexity and
      design of freeform lenses and mirrors

    Vladimir Oliker, Emory University

    http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
  



  
    
    11-11-29
  
  
    

    TUESDAY,
      NOVEMBER 29, 2011

    

    ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:

    4:30 P.M., WWH 201

    Title: Manin's conjecture and
      balanced line bundles

    Sho Tanimoto, CIMS

    http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem.html

  




  
  11-11-30




WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 30, 2011



ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:

3:30 P.M., WWH 1302

Title: Climate Determinism Revisited:
Multiple Equilibria in a Complex Climate Model 

John Marshall, MIT

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





  
    
    11-12-01
  
  
    

    THURSDAY,
      DECEMBER 1, 2011

      

    ANALYSIS SEMINAR:

    11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

    Title: Effective dynamics of a
      non-linear wave equation

    Oana Pocovnicu, Imperial College London

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

     

    APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB
      SEMINAR:

    12:30 P.M., WWH 1314

    Title: Microfluidics of Active
      Filaments

    Daniel T.N. Chen, Brandeis University

    http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html

    

    ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE
      COLLOQUIUM:

    2:00 P.M., WWH 1302

    Title: On the atmospheric
      wave-turbulence jigsaw, and on plasma flows in tokamaks and the
      Sun's interior

    Michael McIntyre, Cambridge

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

  



  
    
    11-12-02
  
  
    

    FRIDAY,
      DECEMBER 2, 2011

      

    PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 317

    Title: Polymers measures and branching diffusions

    Leonid Koralov, University of Maryland

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

    

    PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:  

    11:00 A.M., WWH 317

    Title: A simplified proof of the relation between scaling
      exponents in first-passage percolation

    Michael Damron, Princeton University

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

    

    NUMERICAL
      ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Using Random Models in Derivative-free Optimization

    Katya Scheinberg, Lehigh University

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

    

    COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
    

    11:30 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Your Abstractions are Worth
      ^H^H^H^H^HPowerless! Non-Volatile Storage and COmputation on
      Embedded Devices* (*Batteries Not Included)

    Kevin Fu, University of Massachusetts

    Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. 

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

    

    APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:  

    2:30 P.M., WWH 517 **Please note
      room change**

    Title:  A Model of
      Electrodiffusion and Osmosis in Cells and Tissues

    Yoichiro Mori, University of Minnesota

    http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

    

    RECEPTION in Honor of Raghu
      Varadhan:

    4 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons

    Winner of the National Medal of
      Science

  



  
    
    11-12-05
  
  
    

      

      TUESDAY,
      DECEMBER 6, 2011

    

    COB COLLOQUIUM:

    12:25 P.M., WWH 102

    Title: The Cardiovascular-Renal
      Simulator (CVR-sim): a large scale mechanistic model for
      evaluating the effects of antihypertensive agents on chronic heart
      failure

    K. Melissa Hallow, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

    http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium

      

      GEOMETRY SEMINAR:  

    6:00 P.M., WWH  512 

    Title: Biogeometry, 1941

    Marjorie Senechal, Smith College

    http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html#Fall2011
  



  
    
    11-12-08
  
  
    

      THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011

        

        ANALYSIS SEMINAR:

      11:00 A.M., WWH 1302

      Title: The
        Defocusing Cubic Nonlinear Wave Equation in the Energy
        Super-critical Regime

      Aynur Bulut, IAS

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

        

      APPLIED MATH LAB
      SEMINAR:

    12:30 P.M., WWH 1314

    Title: Skipping, sloshing and
      washboards

    Neil Balmforth, The Universityof British Columbia 

    http://cims.nyu.edu/~moore/AMLindex.html

     

       NYU/Poly MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:

    4:35 P.M., RH 302

    Title: An algorithmic look at some
      seventeenth century number theory

    Kenneth A. Ribet, UC Berkeley

    http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml

    

    MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:

    5:30 P.M., WWH 102

    Title: Pricing Derivitives on Multiscale Diffusions: Simplicity
    through Spectral Theory

    Matthew Lorig, Princeton

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

  



  
    
    11-12-09
  
  
    

      

      FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2011

      

     NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND
      SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:  

    10:00 A.M., WWH 1302 

    Title: Antibandwidth Maximization: A Map Coloring Problem

    Jennifer Scott, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

    

    COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:

    11:30 A.M., WWH 1302

    Title: Qualitative Data-driven
      Image Understanding

    Alyosha Efros, Carnegie Mellon University

    http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
    

    

    HOLIDAY LECTURE and PARTY:

    3:00 P.M., WWH 109

    Speaker: Chris Bregler, CIMS

    Followed by reception in the 13th floor commons

  



  
    
    11-12-12
  
  
    

    MONDAY,
      DECEMBER 12, 2011

    

     MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 

    3:45 P.M., WWH 1302

      Title: Vector Diffusion Maps and
        the Connection Laplacian

      Amit Singer, Princeton University

     Colloquium Tea at
      3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor). 

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

    

    NYU/Poly MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:

    4:35 P.M., RH 302

    Title: Strong and weak epsilon
      nets and their applications

    Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS

    http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml