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Previous Bulletins
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: On the Loss of Regularity for the Three-Dimensional Euler Equations
Edriss S. Titi, University of California - Irvine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: An insect-inspired micropumping paradigm: theory and Stokeskets-meshfree computations
Yasser Aboelkassem, Virginia Tech
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Dynamics of soft elastic particles in viscous fluids
Tong Gao, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
PROBABILITY and MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: Ferromagnetic Ising measures on large locally tree-like graphs
Anirban Basak, Stanford University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: The Renaissance of Wireless Communications in the Massively Broadband® ERA
Ted Rappaport, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 & 16, 2012
Random Structures and Limit Objects: A conference to celebrate the 60th birthday of David Aldous
see http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/Aldous-2012/ for more information.
Warren Weaver Hall Room 109 at 9:00 am.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Evolutionary dynamics of restriction site avoidance
Long Qian, Center for Geomics and System Biology, NYU
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Scaling & Near-Geostrophic Approximations of the
Spherical Shallow-Water Equations
Jeffrey Early, NWRA
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: **Please note change in time and day of week
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Title: The role of noise in ensembles of nanomagnetic particles
Misha Neklyudov, University of Tubingen
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:11:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Finite energy method for compressible fluids
Philippe LeFloch, University of Paris 6
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Polymer networks: modeling and emerging applications
Hassan Masoud, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:11:00 A.M., WWH 517
Title: Microlocal analysis over the Maslov cycle
Alan Weinstein, Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks
Joel Spencer, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Better Pseudorandom Generators from Milder Pseudorandom Restrictions
Raghu Meka, IAS
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Controlled Active Vision / Image Processing with APplications to Medical Image Computing
Allen Tannenbaum, ECE, UAB
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: TBA
Marcelo Magnasco, Mathematical Physics Lab, The Rockefeller University
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Order-types, Erdos-Szekeres theorems, and realization spaces for convex sets
Andreas Holmsen, KAIST, Republic of Korea
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: What can natural variability tell us about the
Antarctic's response to climate change?
Karen Smith, LDEO
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Linear instability of solitary waves in nonlinear Dirac equation
Andrew Comech, Texas A&M University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Lagrange Newton Interpolation, Divided Differences, Splines and Sobolev Spaces
Bogdan Bojarski, Polish Academy of Sciences
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars
COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY:
11:30am to 3:45pm, WWH 1302
11:30-11:45 Tej-eddine Ghoul
Stability of sign changing blow up solution
11:45-12:00 Ray Yang
Some Problems concerning the Fractional Laplacian
12:00-12:15 Arie Israel
The Whitney extension problem in Sobolev spaces
12:15-12:30 Auel Asher
Quadratic forms and Clifford algebras over algebraic varieties
Lunch Break
2:00-2:15 Robert Haslhofer
Singularities in the Ricci flow
2:15-2:30 Antti Knowles
Random band matrices and the extended states conjecture
2:30-2:45 Yao Li
Small Random Perturbation of Dynamical Systems, Theory
and Application
Break
3:00-3:15 Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
Self-assembly: how to make things without trying
3:15-3:30 Molei Tao
Multiscale Geometric Integration and Analysis
3:30-3:45 Michael Oneil
Toward integral equation-based design and engineering tools
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Macromolecule Dynamics - from a Coarse Grained Approach to Continuum Modeling
Marco Bacci, Doctoral Candidate Engineering Division, University of Florence, Italy
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: TBA
Jordan Thomas
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Visibility Coverage Tours
Joe Mitchell, SUNY, Stony Brook
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012
MATERIALS SCIENCE WORKING GROUP:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The Gamma-limit of the Ohta-Kawasaki energy: the droplet density and derivation of a renormalized energy
Dorian Goldman, CIMS
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: A Multiple scales asymptotic framework for analysis and simulation of spatially-extended ocean surface boundary-layer dynamics
Greg Chini, UNH
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Tej-eddin Ghoul, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 1314 WWH
Title: Planetary convection: heat transfer by rotating flows
Eric King, Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012
GRADUATE STUDENT AND POST DOC SEMINAR:1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Partial difference equations over compact Abelian groups
Speaker: Professor Tim Austin
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Multiscale Geometric Integration of Deterministic and Stochastic Systems
Molei Tao, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Motivic Hirzebruch class and its zeta function
Shoji Yokura, Kagoshima University
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Porting the computer Science toolbox to Game Theory and Economics
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Conformal metrics of prescribed Gauss curvature
Michael Struwe, ETH Zurich
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: TBA
Joao Xavier, Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Delunay (and other) triangulations of moving points: What's going on?
Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012
MATERIALS SCIENCE
WORKING GROUP:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Grain growth with surface
effects: coupled mean curvature motion and surface diffusion
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Predictability of the Ocean State on Multi-year Time Scales
Grant Branstator, NCAR
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Whitney Extension Problem in Sobolev Spaces
Arie Israel, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Analysis of Boolean functions, influence and noise
Gil Kalai, Yale University & Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds for Solving Rank-structured Matrix and Tensor Problems
Bart Vandereycken, Princeton University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Lattice-Based Cryptography
Oded Regev, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Mikkel Thorup, AT&T / University of Copenhagen
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Singularities and Instantons
Rainer Grauer, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universiaet Bochum
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Integrable Probability
Ivan Corwin, Microsoft Research New England / MIT
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:4:00 P.M., WWH 705
Title: Asymptotic effects of small random perturbations and applications
Yao Li, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The weakness of Strong Ties in Social Networks: Revisited
Jie Gao, Stony Brook University
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Constraints on ice-ocean interactions from solid Earth
geophysics: Glacial earthquakes and glacier dynamics in
Greenland
Meredith Nettles, LDEO
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
ALGEBRAIC
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 202
Title: Cycles on K3 Surfaces
Daniel Huybrechts, Universität Bonn
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem3.html
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Large time behavior for the two-dimensional motion of a disc in a viscous fluid
Christophe Lacave, Paris 6
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 1314 WWH
Title: Variational multiscale modeling of biomolecules
Guo-wei Wei, Michigan State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 705
Title: Persistence of Activity in Threshold Contact Process, an "annealed Approximation" of Random Boolean Networks
Shirshendu Chatterjee, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/
NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Shadow systems of asymmetric Lp zonotopes
Manuel Weberndorfer, Vienna University of Technology
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: A Convex Perspective on Spectral Methods in Signal Processing
Ben Recht, University of Wisconsin - Madison
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars
PROBABLITLY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: An Invariance Principle for Polytopes
Raghu Meka, IAS, Princeton
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
PROBABLITLY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: A shape theorem for an epidemic model in dimension larger than 3.
Ellen Saada, Universite Paris Descartes
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: The Theory of Crowdsourcing Contests
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Testing and Reconstruction of Lipschitz Functions with Applications to Data Privacy
Madhav Jha, Penn State University
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Kinetics of particles with short-ranged interactions
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Schroedinger maps
Daniel Tataru, University of California Berkeley
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH101
Title: Parameter-free statistical model invalidation for biochemical reaction networks
Kenneth Ho, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 317 WWH
Title: Oscillating contact lines
William Schultz, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: New Propagation of ocean waves on planetary scales:
where the swell begins
William Young, Scripps
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Well-posedness of the nematic liquid crystal flow in $L3_{uloc}(R3)$
Wang Changyou, University of Kentucky
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Modeling the interaction between fluid and an elastic filament: Two examples in biology
Yuan-nan Young, New Jersey Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Fine asymptotic geometry of groups
Moon Duchin, Tufts University
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: A Randomized Approximate Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
Andrei Osipov, Yale University
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars
PROBABLITLY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: Strict Local Martingales and Financial Bubbles
Philip Protter, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (S.U.R.E) PRESENTATIONS :
2:00 P.M., WWH TBA
http://math.nyu.edu/degree/undergrad/ug_research.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The incompressable Euler equations in Lagrarian coordinates, with applications to analyticity of fluid particle trajectories and to numerical simulations
Uriel Frisch, CNRS, Lab. Cassiopée, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: On the f-vectors of families of boxes in R^d and minimum numbers of cliques in graphs
Juergen Eckhoff, Technische University Dortmund
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Challenges in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice projection
and prediction
John Fyfe, CCCma
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Bounded L2 curvature conjecture
Jeremie Szeftel, ENS, France
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: TBA
Fanghua Lin, CIMS
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Dmitry Panchenko, Texas A&M University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Exact Geometric Computing - From Numerical Analysis to Algebraic Geometry
Michael Sagraloff, Max-Planck-Institut for Informatik
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Rational cubic fourfolds containing a plane with nontrivial Clifford invariant
Marcello Bernardara, University of Toulouse
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012
UNDERGRAD MATHEMATICS LECTURE:12:00 P.M., WWH 512
Title: Solutions to x3 + y3 + z3 + w3 = (x + y + z + w)3: cubic surfaces, 27 lines, and the icosahedron
Marcello Bernardara, University of Toulouse
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: A dynamic, embedded Lagrangian model for ocean climate
models
Michael Bates, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Elasto-plasticity: heterogenity and homogenization
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: TBA
Edward Spiegel, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 412
Title: Learning Poisson Binomial Distributions
Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh
NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Computer Vision, Convolutions, Complexity and Algebraic Geometry
Gregory Chudnovsky & David Chudnovsky, NYU-POLY
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 805
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012
GRADUATE STUDENT and POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Quantum One-Way Communication can be Exponentially Stronger Than Classical Communication
Oded Regev, CIMS
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Communication-Avoiding Algorithms for Linear Algebra and Beyond
James Demmel, University of California Berkeley
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Surface Instabilities and Topological Phase Transitions in Soft Sides
Evan Hohlfeld, UMass Amherst
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 805
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 605
Title: TBA
Emmanuel Ullmo, Universite Paris-Sud
http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: On Dettmann's 'Horizon' conjectures
Domokos Szasz, Budapest University of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html
Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor)
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:20 P.M., WWH 805
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Structural characterization of the Red Blood Cell skeleton by Cryoelectron Tomography
Alejandra Leo-Macias, NYU School of Medicine
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 317
Title: The field of periods for doubly cyclic cubic threefolds
James Carson, University of Utah
http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic multicloud models for organized tropical
convection
Boualem Khouider, U. Victoria, Canada
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Large vorticity local minimizers to the Ginzburg-Landau functional
Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
THEORY SEMINAR:
12:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Covering CSPs
Gillat Kol, Weizmann Institute
NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Some analytic aspects of conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: The Search for an Efficient and Robust Solver for Large-scale Nonlinear Optimization
Daniel Robinson, Johns Hopkins University
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH Title: From Data To the People: Solving the Scalability, Flexibility and Usability Challenges of Database Systems Azza Abouzied, Yale University http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquiaGRADUATE STUDENT and POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: How long does it take to compute the eigenvalues of a random symmetric matrix?
Percy Deift, CIMS
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Collective dynamics in suspensionsof micro-swimmers
Enkeleida Lushi, Imperial College, London
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:12:30 P.M., WWH101
Title: A discrete model of the red blood cell cytoskeleton and its use in Immersed Boundary method simulations
Thomas Fai, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Computing the DIstance between Piecewise-Linear Bivariate Functions
Boris Arnov, NYU Poly
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Surface Subgroup Theorem and the Ehrenpreis conjecture
Jeremy Kahn, Brown University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Insights into Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience
Ein-Ya gura, Hebrew University
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Classification of large energy equivalent wave maps
Andrew Lawrie, Univesity of Chicago
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:55 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Boltzmann equation, Besov spaces, and optimal decay rates in R^n
Vedran Sohinger, University of Pennsylvania
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
THEORY SEMINAR:
12:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The Geometry of Differential Privacy: the Approximate and Sparse Cases
Aleksander Nikolov, RUtgers University
NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: TBA
Mina Teicher, Bar-Ilan University
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012
WORKSHOP ON UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION AND INVERSE PROBLEMS:9:00 A.M.- 5:30 P.M., 317 WWH
8:30 – 9:00am Welcome Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00am Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University
“Phase field models for two phase flows in karstic geometry”
10:00 – 10:15am Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:15am Michal Branicki, CIMS
"Quantifying Uncertainty and Improving Statistical Predictions for
Turbulent Dynamical Systems via Information Theory"
11:15 – 12:15pm Jin Cheng, Fudan University
“Tikhonov Regularization and Inverse Problems for PDE”
12:15 – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:00pm John Harlim, North Carolina State University
“Filtering ‘processed’ data in the presence of model errors”
3:00 – 3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:15pm Themis Sapsis, CIMS
“Blended Reduced Subspace Methods for Uncertainty Quantification of Unstable Stochastic Systems”
4:15 – 5:15 Shuai Lu, Fudan University
“On the Inverse Problems for the Coupled Continuum Pipe Flow model for flows in karst aquifers”
30th Anniversary of New York Area Theory Day IBM/NYU/Columbia 9:00 A.M., Davis auditorium, 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) building Columbia University, New York, NY
External sponsorship by: Google Please join us on Nov 30 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the New York Area Theory Day, featuring talks by Sanjeev Khanna, Vijay Vazirani, and two new MacArthur Fellows Maria Chudnovsky and Daniel Spielman. The New York Area Theory Day is a semi-annual conference, aimed to bring together people in the New York Metropolitan area for one day of interaction and discussion. The meeting is free and open to everyone; in particular, students are encouraged to attend. For directions, please go to: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/directions.html Lunch will be provided; to get it you must RSVP by sending an email to theorydayny@gmail.com.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: A Composite Spectral Method for Variable Coefficient Elliptic PDEs with its Own Fast Direct Solver
Adrianna Gillman, Dartmouth College
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars
GRADUATE STUDENT AND POST DOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Capturing intermittent and low-frequency spatiotemporal patterns in high-dimensional data
Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2012
WORKSHOP ON UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION AND INVERSE PROBLEMS:10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
10:00 – 10:15am Welcome Breakfast
10:15 – 11:15am Wenbin Chen, Fudan University
“Some algorithms and results for the Darcy-Stokes problem”
11:15 – 12:15pm Yu Jiang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
“Data Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Elastography”
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Yang-Mills Fields in super-critical Dimensions
Tristan Riviere, ETH Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html
Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor)
PING SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., 715 Broadway, Room 1003
Title: Information, communication, and interaction via categories
David Spivak, MIT Mathematics
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: **Please note special day/location10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Title: Transport of BMO-type spaces by a measure=preserving map and applications to 2D Euler equation
Frederic Bernicot, University of Nantes
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Molecular Machines
Ron Elber, University of Texas
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Impulsive Gravitational Waves
Jonathan Luk, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Stable blow-up dynamics for the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis
Remi Schweyer, Toulouse
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 317
Title: The diurnal cycle and the meridional extent of the tropics
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2012
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: A Simple, Combinatorial Algorithm for Solving Laplacian
Systems in Nearly-Linear Time Without Recursive Preconditioning
Jonathan Kelner, MIT
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Undercompressive shocks and surface pattern formation
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Gaussian Elimination As An Iterative Algorithm
Lloyd N. Trefethan, Oxford University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2012
COB COLLOQUIUM:12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Frequency Shift Detector Model for Shepard Tone Comparison
Chengcheng Huang, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Mathematics of Black Holes
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton U
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The age of stratopheric air and its relationship to the
stratospheric circulation
Alan Plumb, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., 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.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012
APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:12:30 P.M., WWH 317
Title: Viscoelastic effects in glass fiber spinning
William Schultz, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
10:00 A.M., WWH 109
Title: Mime-matics
Professor Tim Chartier, Davidson College
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Material Appearance Modeling
Holly Rushmeier, Yale University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
2:00 P.M., WWH 109
Robots with Learning (Dis)abilities, Yann LeCun
The Holiday Party will immediately follow in the 13th floor Commons
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012
GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: An elementary recursive bound for Hilbert 17th problem
Marie-Francoise Roy, University of Rennes, France
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012