FRIDAY, JANUARY 31

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Conditional Averaging for the KdV-Burgers Equation
Alexandre Chorin, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
An Integrated Network for Invariant Visual Detection and Recognition
Yali Amit, University of Chicago, Statistics and Computer Science
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 in WWH 1302

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ryan Walker, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sparse Geometrical Representations with Bandelets
Stephane Mallat, Erwan Le Pennec
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Thermodynamic Coupling and Predictability in the Tropical Atlantic
R. Saravanan, NCAR
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Recent Qualitative Result for the Blow-Up Solution for Critical NLS
Frank Merle, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
More Free Surface Flows
John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Note the change in time and room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Minimizing Downside Risk via Reinforcement Learning
John Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast Algorithms for Structured Matrices and Applications
Vadim Olshevsky, University of Connecticut
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Learning to Trade via Direct Reinforcement
John Moody, Oregon Health and Science University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Rhythms in the Developing Spinal Cord
John Rinzel, CNS and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas: A Survey of Results
Domokos Szasz, Technical University, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Variational Principles and Singular Perturbation in the Theory of Flowing Plasmas
Zensho Yoshida, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 613
Navigating the Semantic Web
Guillermo Cecchi, Biometaphorical Computing, IBM Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
Recurrence and Local Limit Theorem for the Lorentz Process
Domokos Szasz, Technical University, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Jurow Lecture Hall in the Silverstein Building (100 Washington Square East)
Explaining the Statistical Properties of Markets via Random Low Intelligence Agents
J. Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute
A reception will follow hosted by Instinet and Island ECN.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 101
Conditional Averaging for the KdV-Burgers Equation
Alexandre Chorin, University of California, Berkeley
Note the change in room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
An Integrated Network for Invariant Visual Detection and Recognition
Yali Amit, University of Chicago, Statistics and Computer Science
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 in WWH 1302

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Small-Scale Waves and Large-Scale Flows
Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ryan Walker, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sparse Geometrical Representations with Bandelets
Stephane Mallat, Erwan Le Pennec
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Study of Ideal MHD Ballooning Modes and Stability Boundaries in 3D Toroidal Geometry
Roberto Torasso, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stable 3D Vortex Solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau System
Peter J. Sternberg, Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Accurate Eigenvalues and SVDs of Totally Positive Matrices
Plamen Koev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation
Bob Kohn, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Asymmetric Layers for Phase Transitions
Michelle Schatzman, Universite de Lyon I
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
An Energy-Diagnostics Intercomparison of Coupled Ice-Ocean Artic Models
Petteri Uotila, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sleep/Wake Cycles, Circadian Clocks and Molecular Oscillators
Justin Blau, Department of Biology, NYU

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

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Variational Principles and Singular Perturbation in the Theory of Flowing Plasmas
Zensho Yoshida, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 613
Navigating the Semantic Web
Guillermo Cecchi, Biometaphorical Computing, IBM Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
Recurrence and Local Limit Theorem for the Lorentz Process
Domokos Szasz, Technical University, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Jurow Lecture Hall in the Silverstein Building (100 Washington Square East)
Explaining the Statistical Properties of Markets via Random Low Intelligence Agents
J. Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute
A reception will follow hosted by Instinet and Island ECN.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 101
Conditional Averaging for the KdV-Burgers Equation
Alexandre Chorin, University of California, Berkeley
Note the change in room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
An Integrated Network for Invariant Visual Detection and Recognition
Yali Amit, University of Chicago, Statistics and Computer Science
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 in WWH 1302

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Small-Scale Waves and Large-Scale Flows
Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sparse Geometrical Representations with Bandelets
Stephane Mallat, Erwan Le Pennec
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Study of Ideal MHD Ballooning Modes and Stability Boundaries in 3D Toroidal Geometry
Roberto Torasso, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

JOINT COMPUTER SCIENCE/COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Delaunay Meshes over Time and Space
Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stable 3D Vortex Solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau System
Peter J. Sternberg, Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Forward Flapping Flight as a Bifurcation
Steven Childress, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Accurate Eigenvalues and SVDs of Totally Positive Matrices
Plamen Koev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation
Bob Kohn, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Asymmetric Layers for Phase Transitions
Michelle Schatzman, Universite de Lyon I
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
An Energy-Diagnostics Intercomparison of Coupled Ice-Ocean Artic Models
Petteri Uotila, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sleep/Wake Cycles, Circadian Clocks and Molecular Oscillators
Justin Blau, Department of Biology, NYU

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Cutting Triangular Cycles of Lines in Space
Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University and NYU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Some Psychophysical Experiments on the Perception of Glass Patterns Visual Motion, and the Cafe Wall Illusion, with Some Observations on the Relationship between Psychophysics and Direct Brain Probing
Jack Schwartz, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Level Set Methods for Analyzing, Verifying and Controlling Hybrid Systems
Ian Mitchell, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Characteristic Polynomials: Riemann-Hilbert Approach
Eugene Strahov, Brunel University, United Kingdom

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ocean Circulation Theory
Jose Koiller, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stratospheric Connection to Surface Weather: Implications for Climate Change and Weather Prediction
David Thompson, Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optical Fluorescence Tomography in Molecular Imaging
Alexander Klose, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Credit Contagion and Aggregate Losses
Kay Giesecke, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Large Sparse Semidefinite Programming with Applications to the Nearest Correlation Matrix Problem
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Animal Flight Performance in Physically Variable Gas Mixtures: Biomechanical and Evolutionary Perspectives
Robert Dudley, Berkeley
Note this special seminar is at 12:00 Noon and on a Friday.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape from Moments
Gene Golub, Computer Science, Stanford
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ice Shelf Modeling
Ryan Walker, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS / SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
  Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas in Dynamical Systems
  Oscar Lanford, ETH Zurich
• 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
  The Floor Complex and the Serre Spectral Sequence
  Octav Cornea, Montreal

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

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

JOINT COMPUTER SCIENCE/COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Delaunay Meshes over Time and Space
Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 P.M. in WWH 1302
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stable 3D Vortex Solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau System
Peter J. Sternberg, Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Forward Flapping Flight as a Bifurcation
Steven Childress, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Accurate Eigenvalues and SVDs of Totally Positive Matrices
Plamen Koev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Space-Optimized Texture Maps and Extension to Volume Warping
Laurent Balmelli, IBM Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation
Bob Kohn, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Asymmetric Layers for Phase Transitions
Michelle Schatzman, Universite de Lyon I
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
An Energy-Diagnostics Intercomparison of Coupled Ice-Ocean Artic Models
Petteri Uotila, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sleep/Wake Cycles, Circadian Clocks and Molecular Oscillators
Justin Blau, Department of Biology, NYU

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Cutting Triangular Cycles of Lines in Space
Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University and NYU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Some Psychophysical Experiments on the Perception of Glass Patterns Visual Motion, and the Cafe Wall Illusion, with Some Observations on the Relationship between Psychophysics and Direct Brain Probing
Jack Schwartz, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Recent Progress in Conformal Geometry
Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Level Set Methods for Analyzing, Verifying and Controlling Hybrid Systems
Ian Mitchell, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Characteristic Polynomials: Riemann-Hilbert Approach
Eugene Strahov, Brunel University, United Kingdom

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Large and Small Vortices, or a Storm in a Teacup
Oliver Buhler

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ocean Circulation Theory
Jose Koiller, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Changing Anti-Virus Memory due to Peptide Cross-Reactivity
Franco Celada, University of Genoa and NYU - Hospital for Joint Diseases

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stratospheric Connection to Surface Weather: Implications for Climate Change and Weather Prediction
David Thompson, Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optical Fluorescence Tomography in Molecular Imaging
Alexander Klose, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Credit Contagion and Aggregate Losses
Kay Giesecke, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Large Sparse Semidefinite Programming with Applications to the Nearest Correlation Matrix Problem
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Animal Flight Performance in Physically Variable Gas Mixtures: Biomechanical and Evolutionary Perspectives
Robert Dudley, Berkeley
Note this special seminar is at 12:00 Noon and on a Friday.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Reconstructing Volatility: An Application of Large-Scale Deviation Methods to the Pricing of Index Options in Finance
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape from Moments
Gene Golub, Computer Science, Stanford
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ice Shelf Modeling
Ryan Walker, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS / SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
  Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas in Dynamical Systems
  Oscar Lanford, ETH Zurich
• 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
  The Floer Complex and the Serre Spectral Sequence
  Octav Cornea, Montreal

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How the Sand Scorpion Localizes Its Prey: What is a Neuronal Map Good For?
J. Leo van Hemmen, Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich

SPECIAL PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
An Exactly Soluble Spin-Glass Model: How Large Deviations are Easy and Efficient to Describe Physics
Leo van Hemmen, Physics Department, TU Munich

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Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Some Psychophysical Experiments on the Perception of Glass Patterns Visual Motion, and the Cafe Wall Illusion, with Some Observations on the Relationship between Psychophysics and Direct Brain Probing
Jack Schwartz, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Recent Progress in Conformal Geometry
Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Level Set Methods for Analyzing, Verifying and Controlling Hybrid Systems
Ian Mitchell, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Characteristic Polynomials: Riemann-Hilbert Approach
Eugene Strahov, Brunel University, United Kingdom

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Large and Small Vortices, or a Storm in a Teacup
Oliver Buhler

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ocean Circulation Theory
Jose Koiller, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Changing Anti-Virus Memory due to Peptide Cross-Reactivity
Franco Celada, University of Genoa and NYU - Hospital for Joint Diseases

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stratospheric Connection to Surface Weather: Implications for Climate Change and Weather Prediction
David Thompson, Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optical Fluorescence Tomography in Molecular Imaging
Alexander Klose, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Credit Contagion and Aggregate Losses
Kay Giesecke, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Large Sparse Semidefinite Programming with Applications to the Nearest Correlation Matrix Problem
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Animal Flight Performance in Physically Variable Gas Mixtures: Biomechanical and Evolutionary Perspectives
Robert Dudley, Berkeley
Note this special seminar is at 12:00 Noon and on a Friday.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Reconstructing Volatility: Applications of Large Deviations Methods to the Pricing of Index Options in Finance
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape from Moments
Gene Golub, Computer Science, Stanford
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ice Shelf Modeling
Ryan Walker, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS / SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
  Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas in Dynamical Systems
  Oscar Lanford, ETH Zurich
• 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
  The Floer Complex and the Serre Spectral Sequence
  Octav Cornea, Montreal

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How the Sand Scorpion Localizes Its Prey: What is a Neuronal Map Good For?
J. Leo van Hemmen, Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich

SPECIAL PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
An Exactly Soluble Spin-Glass Model: How Large Deviations are Easy and Efficient to Describe Physics
Leo van Hemmen, Physics Department, TU Munich

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mechanisms of Ocean Climate Variability as Diagnosed with Adjoint Models
Thomas Haine, Johns Hopkins University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ken Miller, UCSF
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Variations on a Theme of Morawetz
James Colliander, University of Toronto
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Granular Materials Need a New Statistical Mechanics
Hernan Makse, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Residual Information and the Regularization of Large-Scale Discrete Ill-Posed Problems
Misha Kilmer, Tufts University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Simulation of Void Nucleation, Growth and Evolution in Interconnects of Microelectronic Circuits
Allan Bower, Applied Math, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Fabio Tal, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

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

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stratospheric Connection to Surface Weather: Implications for Climate Change and Weather Prediction
David Thompson, Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On Uniqueness for the Semilinear Wave Equation
Fabrice Planchon, Paris 13, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optical Fluorescence Tomography in Molecular Imaging
Alexander Klose, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Credit Contagion and Aggregate Losses
Kay Giesecke, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Large Sparse Semidefinite Programming with Applications to the Nearest Correlation Matrix Problem
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Animal Flight Performance in Physically Variable Gas Mixtures: Biomechanical and Evolutionary Perspectives
Robert Dudley, Berkeley
Note this special seminar is at 12:00 Noon and on a Friday.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Reconstructing Volatility: Applications of Large Deviations Methods to the Pricing of Index Options in Finance
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape from Moments
Gene Golub, Computer Science, Stanford
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ice Shelf Modeling
Ryan Walker, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS / SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
  Introduction to Renormalization Group Ideas in Dynamical Systems
  Oscar Lanford, ETH Zurich
• 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
  The Floer Complex and the Serre Spectral Sequence
  Octav Cornea, Montreal

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Internet Infrastructure for Efficient Overlays
John Jannotti, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How the Sand Scorpion Localizes Its Prey: What is a Neuronal Map Good For?
J. Leo van Hemmen, Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Prescribing the Scalar Curvature under Minimal Boundary Conditions on the Half Sphere
Khalil El Mehdi, Nouakchott University, Mauritania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

SPECIAL PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
An Exactly Soluble Spin-Glass Model: How Large Deviations are Easy and Efficient to Describe Physics
Leo van Hemmen, Physics Department, TU Munich

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mechanisms of Ocean Climate Variability as Diagnosed with Adjoint Models
Thomas Haine, Johns Hopkins University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

SPECIAL LECTURE: 9:45 - 10:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Molecular Dynamics as a Multiscale Problem
Christof Schuette, Institute of Mathematics, FU Berlin

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ken Miller, UCSF
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Variations on a Theme of Morawetz
James Colliander, University of Toronto
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Granular Materials Need a New Statistical Mechanics
Hernan Makse, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Residual Information and the Regularization of Large-Scale Discrete Ill-Posed Problems
Misha Kilmer, Tufts University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Pseudoeigenvalues
Michael Overton, CIMS

SPECIAL LECTURE: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 102
Quantum Mechanics and Fast Mode Effects in Molecular Dynamics
Christof Schuette, Institute of Mathematics, FU Berlin

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Simulation of Void Nucleation, Growth and Evolution in Interconnects of Microelectronic Circuits
Allan Bower, Applied Math, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Fabio Tal, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, MARCH 4

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Sums, Products, and Incidences
Jozsef Solymosi, UC San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows
Piotr Smolarkiewicz, NCAR
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Varying Volume Fractions
John Ball, Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Dave Muraki, SFU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Statistical Properties of Order Books and Price Impact
Marc Potters, Science et Finance, Capital Fund Management
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Impact Problems in Finite Number of Degrees of Freedom and Their Approximation
Michelle Schatzman, CNRS, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Appliquees de Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Eddie Kohler, ICIR
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Mark Demers, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Existence and Blow Up of Solutions to a Model Associated with Surface Corrosion
Michael Vogelius, Mathematics, Rutgers
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Traffic Flow Theory
Alexandros Sopaskis, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, MARCH 10

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 513
Growth Instabilities on Vicinal Surfaces
Joachim Krug, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen

TUESDAY, MARCH 11

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Classical and Quantum Approaches to Molecular Reaction Dynamics
Joel Bowman, Chemistry Department, Emory University, Atlanta

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Computational Approaches for Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Gene Expression
Nikolaus Rajewsky, Department of Biology, NYU

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

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mechanisms of Ocean Climate Variability as Diagnosed with Adjoint Models
Thomas Haine, Johns Hopkins University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

SPECIAL LECTURE: 9:45 - 10:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Molecular Dynamics as a Multiscale Problem
Christof Schuette, Institute of Mathematics, FU Berlin

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ken Miller, UCSF
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Variations on a Theme of Morawetz
James Colliander, University of Toronto
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Granular Materials Need a New Statistical Mechanics
Hernan Makse, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Residual Information and the Regularization of Large-Scale Discrete Ill-Posed Problems
Misha Kilmer, Tufts University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Pseudoeigenvalues
Michael Overton, CIMS

SPECIAL LECTURE: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 102
Quantum Mechanics and Fast Mode Effects in Molecular Dynamics
Christof Schuette, Institute of Mathematics, FU Berlin

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Simulation of Void Nucleation, Growth and Evolution in Interconnects of Microelectronic Circuits
Allan Bower, Applied Math, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Fabio Tal, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, MARCH 4

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Recent Results in Neural Characterization using Stochastic Stimuli
Eero Simoncelli, CIMS and Center for Neural Science

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Qualitative Properties of Positive Solutions to Nonlinear Elliptic Problems
Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Sums, Products, and Incidences
Jozsef Solymosi, UC San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows
Piotr Smolarkiewicz, NCAR
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Varying Volume Fractions
John Ball, Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Dave Muraki, SFU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Statistical Properties of Order Books and Price Impact
Marc Potters, Science et Finance, Capital Fund Management
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Impact Problems in Finite Number of Degrees of Freedom and Their Approximation
Michelle Schatzman, CNRS, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Appliquees de Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Analytic Torsion on Calabi-Yau Moduli
Hao Fang, CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Click: From Extensible Router to Versatile Packet Processor
Eddie Kohler, ICIR
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical Systems with Holes
Mark Demers, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Existence and Blow Up of Solutions to a Model Associated with Surface Corrosion
Michael Vogelius, Mathematics, Rutgers
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Traffic Flow Theory
Alexandros Sopaskis, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, MARCH 10

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Black-Box Approach to Machine Learning
Yoav Freund, Banter Inc.
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 513
Growth Instabilities on Vicinal Surfaces
Joachim Krug, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen

TUESDAY, MARCH 11

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Classical and Quantum Approaches to Molecular Reaction Dynamics
Joel Bowman, Chemistry Department, Emory University, Atlanta

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Computational Approaches for Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Gene Expression
Nikolaus Rajewsky, Department of Biology, NYU

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On a Cross-Diffusion System in Population Dynamics
Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
The Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture for Spherical Polytopes
Karoly Bezdek, Eotvos University, Budapest, and Cornell University, Ithaca
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Souheil Inati, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Symmetry of Densest Packings of Euclidean and Hyperbolic Spaces
Charles Radin, University of Texas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Seungseok Oh, Purdue University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
Tom Ilmanen, ETH Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Time-variation in the Covariance between Stock Returns and Consumption Growth
Gregg Duffee, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Michael Vogelius, Mathematics, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptivity and Computability in CFD
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MARCH 17

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
Tom Ilmanen, ETH Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

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

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows
Piotr Smolarkiewicz, NCAR
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Varying Volume Fractions
John Ball, Oxford University and Institute for Advanced Study
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Tba
Dave Muraki, SFU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Statistical Properties of Order Books and Price Impact
Marc Potters, Science et Finance, Capital Fund Management
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Impact Problems in Finite Number of Degrees of Freedom and Their Approximation
Michelle Schatzman, CNRS, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Appliquees de Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Analytic Torsion on Calabi-Yau Moduli
Hao Fang, CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Click: From Extensible Router to Versatile Packet Processor
Eddie Kohler, ICIR
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

GRADUATE STUDENT/POST DOCTORAL SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical Systems with Holes
Mark Demers, CIMS

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Existence and Blow Up of Solutions to a Model Associated with Surface Corrosion
Michael Vogelius, Mathematics, Rutgers
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Traffic Flow Theory
Alexandros Sopaskis, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, MARCH 10

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Black-Box Approach to Machine Learning
Yoav Freund, Banter Inc.
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 513
Growth Instabilities on Vicinal Surfaces
Joachim Krug, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen

TUESDAY, MARCH 11

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Classical and Quantum Approaches to Molecular Reaction Dynamics
Joel Bowman, Chemistry Department, Emory University, Atlanta

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Computational Approaches for Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Gene Expression
Nikolaus Rajewsky, Department of Biology, NYU

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On a Cross-Diffusion System in Population Dynamics
Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
The Kneser-Poulsen Conjecture for Spherical Polytopes
Karoly Bezdek, Eotvos University, Budapest, and Cornell University, Ithaca
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Souheil Inati, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Symmetry of Densest Packings of Euclidean and Hyperbolic Spaces
Charles Radin, University of Texas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Nonlinear Multigrid Inversion for Bayesian Optical Diffusion Tomography
Seungseok Oh, Purdue University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
New Singularities in the Kahler-Ricci Flow
Tom Ilmanen, ETH Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Time-variation in the Covariance between Stock Returns and Consumption Growth
Gregg Duffee, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
FETI-DP for Linear Elasticity
Axel Klawonn, University of Essen, Germany
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Shape Fluctuations for Faceted Crystals
Herbert Spohn, Zentrum Mathematik, TU Munchen

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Fabio Piano, Biology, NYU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptivity and Computability in CFD
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MARCH 17

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Mean Curvature Flow of Surfaces Embedded in $\mathbb R^3$
Tom Ilmanen, ETH Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

FRIDAY, MARCH 21

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR -- SPRING BREAK
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: NYU SPRING BREAK
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Include Friction in a One-Dimensional Model of Arterial or Venous Blood Flow
Karim Azer, CIMS and Merck and Co.

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

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

NEURO THURSDAY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Souheil Inati, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Symmetry of Densest Packings of Euclidean and Hyperbolic Spaces
Charles Radin, University of Texas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Nonlinear Multigrid Inversion for Bayesian Optical Diffusion Tomography
Seungseok Oh, Purdue University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
New Singularities in the Kahler-Ricci Flow
Tom Ilmanen, ETH Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Time-variation in the Covariance between Stock Returns and Consumption Growth
Gregg Duffee, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
FETI-DP for Linear Elasticity
Axel Klawonn, University of Essen, Germany
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Shape Fluctuations for Faceted Crystals
Herbert Spohn, Zentrum Mathematik, TU Munchen

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tackling the `Function' Part of Functional Genomics: Developing a Phenotype-based Map Using C. Elegans Embryogenesis
Fabio Piano, Biology, NYU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptivity and Computability in CFD
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, MARCH 17

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mean Curvature Flow of Surfaces Embedded in $\mathbb R^3$
Tom Ilmanen, ETH Zurich
Note change in time and room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

THURSDAY, MARCH 20

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Analogue of the Fourier Formula $u = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} v(k) e^{kx-\omega (k) t} dt$ for Solutions of KdV and Other Integrable Systems
Mikhail Kovalyov, Queens College of CUNY and University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 21

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR -- SPRING BREAK
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: NYU SPRING BREAK
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Include Friction in a One-Dimensional Model of Arterial or Venous Blood Flow
Karim Azer, CIMS and Merck and Co.

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Relaxing Planarity for Topological Graphs
Geza Toth, Renyi Institute, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Achieving Scale and Reliability in Distributed Systems: A Probabilistic Protocol Methodology
Indranil Gupta, Cornell University
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Coupling of Tropical Wave Dynamics and Diabatic Heating Fields: A Case Study
Minghua Zhang, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, MARCH 27

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Discreteness of the Spectrum for Schrodinger Operators
Mikhail Shubin, Northeastern University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Granular Kinetic Theory
Mark Shattuck, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Mr. Oedipus, CFA
Les Gulko, Paloma Partners
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Sam Madden, University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Stephane Raynaud, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, APRIL 7

SPECIAL LECTURE: 9:30 - 11:0 A.M., WWH 1314
Families Torsion and Morse Functions
Jean-Michel Bismut, Universite Paris Sud., Orsay

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Special Geometry: A Variational Approach
Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/colloq/colloq02.html

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, MARCH 20

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Analogue of the Fourier Formula $u = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} v(k) e^{kx-\omega (k) t} dt$ for Solutions of KdV and Other Integrable Systems
Mikhail Kovalyov, Queens College of CUNY and University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 21

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR -- SPRING BREAK
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: NYU SPRING BREAK
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Include Friction in a One-Dimensional Model of Arterial or Venous Blood Flow
Karim Azer, CIMS and Merck and Co.

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Relaxing Planarity for Topological Graphs
Geza Toth, Renyi Institute, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Achieving Scale and Reliability in Distributed Systems: A Probabilistic Protocol Methodology
Indranil Gupta, Cornell University
Refreshments will be served at 10:45 A.M. in WWH 1302

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Coupling of Tropical Wave Dynamics and Diabatic Heating Fields: A Case Study
Minghua Zhang, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, MARCH 27

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Discreteness of the Spectrum for Schrodinger Operators
Mikhail Shubin, Northeastern University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Granular Kinetic Theory
Mark Shattuck, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

GENOMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 813
Discovering Conserved Pathways and Core Molecular Machinery on a Global Scale
Josh Stuart, Stanford University School of Medicine

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
The Non-relativistic Limit of Dirac-Fock Equations
Maria J. Esteban, University of Paris-Dauphine
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Mr. Oedipus, CFA
Les Gulko, Paloma Partners
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Sam Madden, University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sensitivity of ENSO-like Variability to Lateral Diffusion in a Coupled General Circulation Model
Stephane Raynaud, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MUSIC AT CIMS: 5:00 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge
Rob Schneiderman, piano and Todd Coolman, bass