Previous Weekly Bulletins

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
New Instabilities of Viscoelastic Free Surfaces
Andrew Belmonte, W.G. Pritchard Laboratories
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16

NYU WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING: An All-Day Event, 10:00 A.M. - 5:40 P.M., WWH 1302
18 speakers from CS, Math, CNS, Stern, Psychology, and Steinhardt. Program and information available at
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/nyuwcbl/index.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Microrheology and Stress Fluctuations in Living Cells
Andy Lau, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Antarctic
Ryan Walker
There will also be a discussion about schedule
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, JANUARY 26

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S WINTER 2004 DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES: 11:00 A.M., Interschool Lab, 7th floor, Shapiro CEPSR Building
Prospects for Quantum Computation
David DiVincenzo, IBM Research
Hosted by Columbia's Computer Science Department
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/lectureseries_divincenzo.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On Conflict-Free Colorings
Shakhar Smorodinsky, Tel Aviv University and MSRI
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmospheric Boundary Layers in the Framework of Multiple Scales Asymptotics
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of the Ancient Carbon Cycle
Dan Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistically Relevant Conserved Quantities in Systems with Many Conservation Laws
Rafail Abramov
There will also be a discussion about schedule
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Microrheology and Stress Fluctuations in Living Cells
Andy Lau, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Antarctic
Ryan Walker
There will also be a discussion about schedule
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, JANUARY 26

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S WINTER 2004 DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES: 11:00 A.M., Interschool Lab, 7th floor, Shapiro CEPSR Building
Prospects for Quantum Computation
David DiVincenzo, IBM Research
Hosted by Columbia's Computer Science Department
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/lectureseries_divincenzo.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Data 700 Million Years Old: A Survey of Mitochondrial Genomes
Jack Schwartz, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On Conflict-Free Colorings
Shakhar Smorodinsky, Tel Aviv University and MSRI
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmospheric Boundary Layers in the Framework of Multiple Scales Asymptotics
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of the Ancient Carbon Cycle
Dan Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Finance and Economics Modelling
Larry Shepp, Rutgers University
Note change in room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Continuum Approach to Profile Scaling in Nanostructures Decay Below the Roughening Temperature
Dionisios Margetis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistically Relevant Conserved Quantities in Systems with Many Conservation Laws
Rafail Abramov
There will also be a discussion about schedule
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On the Chromatic Numbers of Some Spaces
Andrei Raigorodski, Moscow
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Effects of Latent Heating on Midlatitude Atmospheric Eddies
Isaac Held, Princeton University/GFDL
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Some Like It Smooth and Some Like It Rough: Untangling Continuous and Jump Components in Measuring, Modeling and Forecasting Asset Return Volatility
Torben Andersen, Northwestern University
Note change in room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes via Multiscale Geometric Analysis
Gilad Lerman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Predictability of the Barotropic Flow on a Sphere with Realistic Earth Topography and Climate
Rafail Abramov
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

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Reader Information

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmospheric Boundary Layers in the Framework of Multiple Scales Asymptotics
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of the Ancient Carbon Cycle
Dan Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Finance and Economics Modelling
Larry Shepp, Rutgers University
Note change in room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Continuum Approach to Profile Scaling in Nanostructures Decay Below the Roughening Temperature
Dionisios Margetis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistically Relevant Conserved Quantities in Systems with Many Conservation Laws
Rafail Abramov
There will also be a discussion about schedule
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Ions in Channels
Robert Eisenberg, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics, Rush University Medical Center

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On the Chromatic Numbers of Some Spaces
Andrei Raigorodski, Moscow
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Effects of Latent Heating on Midlatitude Atmospheric Eddies
Isaac Held, Princeton University/GFDL
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ergodicity of Quantum Eigenfunctions in Classically Chaotic Systems
Alex Barnett, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Some Like It Smooth and Some Like It Rough: Untangling Continuous and Jump Components in Measuring, Modeling and Forecasting Asset Return Volatility
Torben Andersen, Northwestern University
Note change in room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms for Mesh Warping with Applications to Cardiology (joint work with Steve Vavasis)
Suzanne Shontz, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Verifying Floating-Point Algorithm Using Formalized Mathematics
John Harrison, Intel Corporation
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov_21_1.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes via Multiscale Geometric Analysis
Gilad Lerman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 3:45 P.M.: Alberto Abbondandolo, Pisa
  On the Floer Homology of Cotangent Bundles
• 5:15 P.M.: Matthias Schwarz, Leipzig
  On the Floer Homology of Cotangent Bundles, II: Pair of Pants and Loop Structures

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Predictability of the Barotropic Flow on a Sphere with Realistic Earth Topography and Climate
Rafail Abramov
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Global Existence in Nonlinear Elastodynamics
Thomas Sideris, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Inferring 'Network Physics': Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches
Chris Wiggins, Dept. of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Scattering by Magnetic Fields
D.R. Yafaev, University of Rennes
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Error Diffusion: Recent Developments in Theory and Applications
Chai Wah Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions in Antarctica from Satellite Radar Interferometry
Eric Rignot, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Alberto Abbondandolo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
Zeros of Epstein Zeta Functions: A Survey
Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamic Conditional Correlation Models of Tail Dependence
Robert Engle, NYU
The location for this lecture will be announced. A reception will follow in the thirteenth floor lounge of Warren Weaver Hall
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Current Density Imaging Technique
June-Yub Lee, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Christof Schuette, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of the Cauchy Problem for the Modified KdV Equation with Periodic Boundary Condition
Yoshio Tsutsumi, Tohoku University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Compressible Solvation Model for Molecular Solutes in Supercritical Fluids
Harry Luo, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Build a Heart
David McQueen, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Fourier and Wavelet Frame Constructions and Applications
John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

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Reader Information

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Recovering Sparse Expansions After Noisy Blur
Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University and CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Effects of Latent Heating on Midlatitude Atmospheric Eddies
Isaac Held, Princeton University/GFDL
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ergodicity of Quantum Eigenfunctions in Classically Chaotic Systems
Alex Barnett, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Some Like It Smooth and Some Like It Rough: Untangling Continuous and Jump Components in Measuring, Modeling and Forecasting Asset Return Volatility
Torben Andersen, Northwestern University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms for Mesh Warping with Applications to Cardiology (joint work with Steve Vavasis)
Suzanne Shontz, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
A Phase Transition in the Random Transposition Random Walk
Nathaniel Berestycki, Cornell University

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Verifying Floating-Point Algorithm Using Formalized Mathematics
John Harrison, Intel Corporation
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov_21_1.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Examples of Modeling and Simulation in Biology
Arjun Raj, Laura Miller, Sam Isaacson, Yoichiro Mori, and Boyce Griffith -- introduced by their advisor, Charlie Peskin

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes via Multiscale Geometric Analysis
Gilad Lerman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 3:45 P.M.: Alberto Abbondandolo, Pisa
  On the Floer Homology of Cotangent Bundles
• 5:15 P.M.: Matthias Schwarz, Leipzig
  On the Floer Homology of Cotangent Bundles, II: Pair of Pants and Loop Structures

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Predictability of the Barotropic Flow on a Sphere with Realistic Earth Topography and Climate
Rafail Abramov
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Global Existence in Nonlinear Elastodynamics
Thomas Sideris, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Inferring 'Network Physics': Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches
Chris Wiggins, Dept. of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Scattering by Magnetic Fields
D.R. Yafaev, University of Rennes
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

CAS SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES: 5:00 P.M., Irving Jurow Lecture Hall, Room 101A Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
'D' is for Digital, and Why It Matters
Brian Kernighan, Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University
This talk is intended for a general audience, but will be of interest to everyone.
Formerly of Bell Labs, Professor Kernighan gave a very similar talk to the entering Princeton freshmen class last Fall, and received a standing ovation. See http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0929/3a.shtml

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Error Diffusion: Recent Developments in Theory and Applications
Chai Wah Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions in Antarctica from Satellite Radar Interferometry
Eric Rignot, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Alberto Abbondandolo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ordered Upwind Methods for Approximating Invariant Manifolds
Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
Zeros of Epstein Zeta Functions: A Survey
Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamic Conditional Correlation Models of Tail Dependence
Robert Engle, NYU
A reception will follow in the thirteenth floor lounge of Warren Weaver Hall
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Current Density Imaging Technique
June-Yub Lee, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

JOINT PRINCETON-NYU-COLUMBIA DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 314

• 2:00 - 3:00 P.M.: Tom Ilmanen, ETH, Switzerland
  Title TBA
• 3:30 - 4:30 P.M.: Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Science
  Gauge Theory Scattering and Twistor Space

Please note WWH 314 is the correct room number

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Christof Schuette, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Revealing the Math of Aging: Quantitative Models of Cell Death
Natalie Arkus, Dept. of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Optimality of the Leech Lattice Among Lattices
Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions in Antarctica from Satellite Radar Interferometry
Eric Rignot, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of the Cauchy Problem for the Modified KdV Equation with Periodic Boundary Condition
Yoshio Tsutsumi, Tohoku University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Mechanics of Venus Fly Trap Closure
Jan Skotheim, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, WWH 13th Floor
Tba
Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Yield Curve Forecasting
Francis Diebold, University of Pennsylvania
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Compressible Solvation Model for Molecular Solutes in Supercritical Fluids
Harry Luo, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape Optimization Using Sensitivity Analysis and a Level-Set Method
Gregoire Allaire, Ecole Polytechnique
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Build a Heart
David McQueen, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Fourier and Wavelet Frame Constructions and Applications
John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html <\BLOCKQUOTE>

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Error Diffusion: Recent Developments in Theory and Applications
Chai Wah Wu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
On the Morse Complex for Infinite Dimensional Manifolds
Alberto Abbondandolo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Ordered Upwind Methods for Approximating Invariant Manifolds
Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 P.M., Meyer Building, Room 122
Composite Actin Networks: How a Cell Holds It Together
David Weitz, Harvard University

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
Zeros of Epstein Zeta Functions: A Survey
Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamic Conditional Correlation Models of Tail Dependence
Robert Engle, NYU
A reception will follow in the thirteenth floor lounge of Warren Weaver Hall
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Current Density Imaging Technique
June-Yub Lee, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COURANT PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Flow-Line Geometries and Gaussian Loop Ensembles
Scott Sheffield, Microsoft

GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
On the Rational Homology of the Group of Automorphisms of the Free Group
Jim Conant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Justifying Formal-Method Abstractions of Cryptography: A Provably Secure Dolev-Yao Model
Birgit Pfitzmann, IBM Zurich
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

JOINT PRINCETON-NYU-COLUMBIA DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Princeton University, Fine Hall, Room 314

• 2:00 - 3:00 P.M.: Tom Ilmanen, ETH, Switzerland
  Title TBA
• 3:30 - 4:30 P.M.: Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Science
  Gauge Theory Scattering and Twistor Space

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Modeling and Computations for Solids
Xiantao Li, Princeton University
Note change of speaker
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

NYCNLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Evaluating Text Generation without Penalizing Variation
Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Revealing the Math of Aging: Quantitative Models of Cell Death
Natalie Arkus, Dept. of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Optimality of the Leech Lattice Among Lattices
Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Casimir Constants of the Motion in MHD
Eliezer Hameiri, CIMS
Note change in time and location.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., Physics Building, Room 433
Unraveling the Fourier Law for Hamiltonian Systems
Lai-Sang Young, CIMS

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions in Antarctica from Satellite Radar Interferometry
Eric Rignot, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of the Cauchy Problem for the Modified KdV Equation with Periodic Boundary Condition
Yoshio Tsutsumi, Tohoku University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Mechanics of Venus Fly Trap Closure
Jan Skotheim, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, WWH 13th Floor
Tba
Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
From Local Volatillity to Local Levy Models
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland, College Park
Note change in speaker
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Compressible Continuum Solvation Model for Molecular Solutes in Supercritical Fluids
Harry Luo, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COURANT PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Walks on Carnot Groups and Canonical Approximations of Hypoelliptic Diffusions
Josef Teichman, Vienna

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape Optimization Using Sensitivity Analysis and a Level-Set Method
Gregoire Allaire, Ecole Polytechnique
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Held, I.M., 1982: "On the height of the tropopause and the static of the troposphere" (JAS 39 412-417)
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Build a Heart
David McQueen, CIMS

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
First lecture of the series. Other days: 3/2 (2nd lecture); 3/22 (third lecture); 3/30 (fourth lecture); 4/8 (fifth and last lecture)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Fourier and Wavelet Frame Constructions and Applications
John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Gustavo Ponce, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anette Hosoi, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5417
Tba
Andrew Granville, Universite de Montreal
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Smile of a Mathematician: Mathematical Operation Planning in Facial Surgery
Peter Deuflhard, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum and Freie Universitaet, Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Brownian Loop-Soup and Conformal Field Theory
Wendelin Werner, Orsay

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Demographic Forecasting
Gary King, Harvard University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Casimir Constants of the Motion in MHD
Eliezer Hameiri, CIMS
Note change in time and location.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., Physics Building, Room 433
Unraveling the Fourier Law for Hamiltonian Systems
Lai-Sang Young, CIMS

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions in Antarctica from Satellite Radar Interferometry
Eric Rignot, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of the Cauchy Problem for the Modified KdV Equation with Periodic Boundary Condition
Yoshio Tsutsumi, Tohoku University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
This lecture series resumes from previous semester. Talks are planned on Thursdays between 12 and 1:30 P.M. on February 19, March 11, March 25, and April 1
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Mechanics of Venus Fly Trap Closure
Jan Skotheim, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT NUMBER THEORY AND DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Lattices in Automorphism Groups of Product of Trees and Arithmeticity
Shahar Mozes, Hebrew University
This is joint work with Marc Burger and Bob Zimmer
For abstract see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~elonl/special040219.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, WWH 13th Floor
Estimates of Automorphic Functions and Representation Theory
Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
From Local Volatillity to Local Levy Models
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland, College Park
Note change in speaker
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Compressible Continuum Solvation Model for Molecular Solutes in Supercritical Fluids
Harry Luo, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COURANT PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Walks on Carnot Groups and Canonical Approximations of Hypoelliptic Diffusions
Josef Teichman, Vienna

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape Optimization Using Sensitivity Analysis and a Level-Set Method
Gregoire Allaire, Ecole Polytechnique
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Held, I.M., 1982: "On the height of the tropopause and the static of the troposphere" (JAS 39 412-417)
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Build a Heart
David McQueen, CIMS

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture I
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
Preceded by tea in the lounge at 3:00 P.M.
First lecture of the series. Other days: 3/2 (2nd lecture); 3/22 (third lecture); 3/30 (fourth lecture); 4/8 (fifth and last lecture)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Fourier and Wavelet Frame Constructions and Applications
John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314

• 4:00 P.M.: Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
  Unipotent Flows on Branched Covers of Veech Surfaces
• 5:15 P.M.: Emmanuel Breuillard, Yale University
  Title TBA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Gustavo Ponce, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anette Hosoi, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5417
Tba
Andrew Granville, Universite de Montreal
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Smile of a Mathematician: Mathematical Operation Planning in Facial Surgery
Peter Deuflhard, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum and Freie Universitaet, Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Brownian Loop-Soup and Conformal Field Theory
Wendelin Werner, Orsay

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Demographic Forecasting
Gary King, Harvard University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Lindzen, R.S., 1993: "Baroclinic neutrality and the troposphere" (JAS 50 1148-1151)
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, MARCH 1

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302 Critical Two-Dimensional Random Systems and Conformal Invariance
Wendelin Werner, Orsay
Preceded by tea in the lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, MARCH 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Frequency Domain Analysis of Difference Equation Models of Chaotic Beetle Population Dynamics
Daniel C. Reuman, Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture II
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
3/22 (third lecture); 3/30 (fourth lecture); 4/8 (fifth and last lecture)

JOINT NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS (Physics) AND CAOS (CIMS) SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Physics Department, Room 122
Self-Consistent Finite-Mode Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Set of 3 talks given by speaker. The second talk is a Special Seminar on 3/4 at Courant Institute, and the third talk is a CAOS Colloquium given on 3/10 at the Courant Institute

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Pseudo-Lines, Pseudo-Triangles and Other Pseudos
Ileana Streinu, Smith College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Pseudochaos for Two-Dimensional Piecewise Isometries
John Lowenstein, Physics Department, NYU

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mesoscale Eddy Motions at Ocean Boundaries
Raffaele Ferrari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Weak Null Condition and Global Existence for Einstein's Equations
Hans Lindblad, UC San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Hanna Salman, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Response to Frontal Perturbations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Second talk by speaker

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Alternative RAPMs for Alternative Investments
Milind Sharma, Merrill Lynch
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
Special Values of L-Functions and Non-Commutative Iwasawa Theory
Guido Kings, Universitaet Regensburg
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 5

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ab initio Molecular Dynamics with Help from Computational Invariant Theory
Bas Braams, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Quasi-Random Permutations
Josh Cooper, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Walking on Water
John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building P131

• 4:00 P.M.: Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins
  Topology of Symplectomorphism Groups
• 5:15 P.M.: Katrin Wehrheim, Princeton University
  Energy Quantization and Lagrangian Boundary Conditions for Anti-Self-Dual Instantons

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Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Fourier and Wavelet Frame Constructions and Applications
John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314

• 4:00 P.M.: Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
  Unipotent Flows on Branched Covers of Veech Surfaces
• 5:15 P.M.: Emmanuel Breuillard, Yale University
  Title TBA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
On the Interaction of Nearly Parallel Vortex Filaments
Gustavo Ponce, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anette Hosoi, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5417
Tba
Andrew Granville, Universite de Montreal
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Arbitrage, Symmetry and Dominance
Bruno Dupire, Bloomberg L.P.
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Smile of a Mathematician: Mathematical Operation Planning in Facial Surgery
Peter Deuflhard, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum and Freie Universitaet, Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Brownian Loop-Soup and Conformal Field Theory
Wendelin Werner, Orsay

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Convergence of Numerical Schemes in the Total Variation Sense
Jose Perez, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Demographic Forecasting
Gary King, Harvard University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Lindzen, R.S., 1993: "Baroclinic neutrality and the troposphere" (JAS 50 1148-1151)
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, MARCH 1

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302 Critical Two-Dimensional Random Systems and Conformal Invariance
Wendelin Werner, Orsay
Preceded by tea in the lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, MARCH 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Frequency Domain Analysis of Difference Equation Models of Chaotic Beetle Population Dynamics
Daniel C. Reuman, Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture II
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
3/22 (third lecture); 3/30 (fourth lecture); 4/8 (fifth and last lecture)

JOINT NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS (Physics) AND CAOS (CIMS) SEMINAR: 4:30 - 5:30 P.M., Physics Department, Room 122
Self-Consistent Finite-Mode Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Note the change in time!
Set of 3 talks given by speaker. The second talk is a Special Seminar on 3/4 at Courant Institute, and the third talk is a CAOS Colloquium given on 3/10 at the Courant Institute

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Pseudo-Lines, Pseudo-Triangles and Other Pseudos
Ileana Streinu, Smith College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Pseudochaos for Two-Dimensional Piecewise Isometries
John Lowenstein, Physics Department, NYU

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mesoscale Eddy Motions at Ocean Boundaries
Raffaele Ferrari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Weak Null Condition and Global Existence for Einstein's Equations
Hans Lindblad, UC San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Hanna Salman, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Response to Frontal Perturbations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Second talk by speaker

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
Toward True 3D Object Recognition
Jean Ponce, Beckman Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign
Joint work with Svetlana Lazebnik, Frederick Rothganger, and Cordelia Schmid

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Alternative RAPMs for Alternative Investments
Milind Sharma, Merrill Lynch
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
Special Values of L-Functions and Non-Commutative Iwasawa Theory
Guido Kings, Universitaet Regensburg
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 5

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ab initio Molecular Dynamics with Help from Computational Invariant Theory
Bas Braams, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Quasi-Random Permutations
Josh Cooper, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Walking on Water
John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building P131

• 4:00 P.M.: Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins
  Topology of Symplectomorphism Groups
• 5:15 P.M.: Katrin Wehrheim, Princeton University
  Energy Quantization and Lagrangian Boundary Conditions for Anti-Self-Dual Instantons

MONDAY, MARCH 8

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Kakutani Shift Equivalence: Cross-Sections and Return Maps for Non-Invertible Flows
Dan Rudolph, University of Maryland
Preceded by tea in the lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Deciphering the Gene Regulatory Code that Patterns the Drosophila Embryo
Stephen Small, Biology Dept., New York University

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Singular Sets of Integral 1-1 Currents
Tristan Riviere, ETH-Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Computing the Visibility Graph of Points Within a Polygon
Joe Mitchell, SUNY Stony Brook
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
MHD Physics Research on NSTX
Jonathan Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistical Models of Photographic Images with Application to Bayes Denoising
Eero Simoncelli, NYU Center for Neural Science and CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Equatorial Waves
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Constructing Stable Asymptotics for Corner Singularities of Elliptic Systems
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Second lecture of the series. Third lecture: March 25 and forth lecture: April 1
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Klebert Feitosa, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Peter Bank, Columbia University
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Adaptive DNS/LES: A New Approach to Computational Turbulence Modeling
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Homogeneisation of Random Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Raghu Varadhan, CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inhomogeneously Resolved Molecular Simulations: From Simple Liquids to Polymers
Cameron Abrams, Drexel University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

JOINT NYU-PRINCETON-COLUMBIA GEOMETRY SEMINAR SERIES: WWH 1302

• 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
  Fundamental Groups of Manifolds with Positive Curvature and Symmetry
• 2:15 - 3:15 P.M.: Simon Brendle, Princeton University
  The Concentration-Compactness Principle and the Yamabe Flow in Conformal Geometry
• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.: Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
  Mean Curvature Flows for Lagrangian Manifolds

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Pseudochaos for Two-Dimensional Piecewise Isometries
John Lowenstein, Physics Department, NYU

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mesoscale Eddy Motions at Ocean Boundaries
Raffaele Ferrari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Invariant Measures for Horocycle Flows on Abelian Covers
Omri Sarig, Penn State University
See http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~elonl/special040303.html for more detials

THURSDAY, MARCH 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Weak Null Condition and Global Existence for Einstein's Equations
Hans Lindblad, UC San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Anomalous Diffusion Reveals Active Transport of Nuclear Proteins in the Cytoplasm
Hanna Salman, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Response to Frontal Perturbations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Second talk by speaker

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
Toward True 3D Object Recognition
Jean Ponce, Beckman Institute and Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign
Joint work with Svetlana Lazebnik, Frederick Rothganger, and Cordelia Schmid

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Alternative RAPMs for Alternative Investments
Milind Sharma, Merrill Lynch
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
Special Values of L-Functions and Non-Commutative Iwasawa Theory
Guido Kings, Universitaet Regensburg
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 5

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ab initio Molecular Dynamics with Help from Computational Invariant Theory
Bas Braams, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Quasi-Random Permutations
Josh Cooper, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Walking on Water
John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Thuburn, J. and G.C. Craig, 1997: ``GCM Tests of Theories for the Height of the Tropopause'' (JAS 54 869-882)
Andrea Barrerio
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building P131

• 4:00 P.M.: Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins
  Topology of Symplectomorphism Groups
• 5:15 P.M.: Katrin Wehrheim, Princeton University
  Energy Quantization and Lagrangian Boundary Conditions for Anti-Self-Dual Instantons

MONDAY, MARCH 8

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M.,, WWH 1302
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
Sayan Mukherjee, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Markov Chains Related to Plancherel Measure and Polynuclear Growth Process
Alexei Borodin, Caltech

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Kakutani Shift Equivalence: Cross-Sections and Return Maps for Non-Invertible Flows
Dan Rudolph, University of Maryland
Preceded by tea in the lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Deciphering the Gene Regulatory Code that Patterns the Drosophila Embryo
Stephen Small, Biology Dept., New York University

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Singular Sets of Integral 1-1 Currents
Tristan Riviere, ETH-Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Computing the Visibility Graph of Points Within a Polygon
Joe Mitchell, SUNY Stony Brook
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
MHD Physics Research on NSTX
Jonathan Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistical Models of Photographic Images with Application to Bayes Denoising
Eero Simoncelli, NYU Center for Neural Science and CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Equatorial Waves
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Constructing Stable Asymptotics for Corner Singularities of Elliptic Systems
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Second lecture of the series. Third lecture: March 25 and forth lecture: April 1
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Inelastic Gas: An Experimental Study of Vribrofluidized Dilute Granular Media
Klebert Feitosa, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Multi-Armed Bandits and American Options: A New Approach to Optimal Stopping
Peter Bank, Columbia University
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Adaptive DNS/LES: A New Approach to Computational Turbulence Modeling
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Homogeneisation of Random Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Raghu Varadhan, CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inhomogeneously Resolved Molecular Simulations: From Simple Liquids to Polymers
Cameron Abrams, Drexel University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 2:30 P.M., 715 Broadway, 12th floor
Learning the 'Epitome' of an Image
Brendan J. Frey, University of Toronoto
Go to http://research.microsoft.com/~jojic/epitome.htm for a sneak preview

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Semiclassical Evaluation of Quantum Fidelity
Jiri Vanicek, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

JOINT NYU-PRINCETON-COLUMBIA GEOMETRY SEMINAR SERIES: WWH 1302

• 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
  Fundamental Groups of Manifolds with Positive Curvature and Symmetry
• 2:15 - 3:15 P.M.: Simon Brendle, Princeton University
  The Concentration-Compactness Principle and the Yamabe Flow in Conformal Geometry
• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.: Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
  Mean Curvature Flows for Lagrangian Manifolds

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

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Reader Information

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
MHD Physics Research on NSTX
Jonathan Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

SPECIAL LECUTRE: 1:25 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Stochastic Metric Partitions and the Lipschitz Extension Problem
Assaf Naor, Microsoft
Joint work with James R. Lee

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistical Models of Photographic Images with Application to Bayes Denoising
Eero Simoncelli, NYU Center for Neural Science and CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Equatorial Waves
Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Constructing Stable Asymptotics for Corner Singularities of Elliptic Systems
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
Second lecture of the series. Third lecture: March 25 and fourth lecture: April 1

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Inelastic Gas: An Experimental Study of Vribrofluidized Dilute Granular Media
Klebert Feitosa, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Multi-Armed Bandits and American Options: A New Approach to Optimal Stopping
Peter Bank, Columbia University
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor
A Fundamental Lemma for Kloosterman Sums
Herve Jacquet, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
Please note the change in place and speaker!
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Adaptive DNS/LES: A New Approach to Computational Turbulence Modeling
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Homogeneisation of Random Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Raghu Varadhan, CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inhomogeneously Resolved Molecular Simulations: From Simple Liquids to Polymers
Cameron Abrams, Drexel University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 3:00 P.M., 715 Broadway, 12th floor
Learning the 'Epitome' of an Image
Brendan J. Frey, University of Toronoto
Note the change in time
Go to http://research.microsoft.com/~jojic/epitome.htm for a sneak preview

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Estimators for Supervised Learning
Ronald DeVore, University of South Carolina
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Semiclassical Evaluation of Quantum Fidelity
Jiri Vanicek, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room C198, CUNY Graduate Center
The Class Number Problem
Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers and NYU
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

JOINT NYU-PRINCETON-COLUMBIA GEOMETRY SEMINAR SERIES: WWH 1302

• 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
  Fundamental Groups of Manifolds with Positive Curvature and Symmetry
• 2:15 - 3:15 P.M.: Simon Brendle, Princeton University
  The Concentration-Compactness Principle and the Yamabe Flow in Conformal Geometry
• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.: Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
  Mean Curvature Flows for Lagrangian Manifolds

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Quantum Chaos and Atom Optics: From Experiments to Number Theory
Shmuel Fishman, Dept. of Physics, Technion

MONDAY, MARCH 22

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture III
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
3/30 (fourth lecture); 4/8 (fifth and last lecture)

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Formal Model for the Statistics of RNA Polymerase Motion during Transcriptional Elongation of the Nascent RNA Chain
Richard Yamada, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College, Cornell University

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Obstructions to Shiftedness
Carly Klivans, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

SPECIAL CAT PRESENTATION: 6:00 P.M., Large Conference Room, 719 Broadway, 12th Floor
Film: The Destruction of the Schwartzes
The Holocaust memoirs of Jack Schwartz's cousin Tibor Schwartz, one of 3 survivors of about 30 relatives on Jack Schwartz's father's side. The film covers the period from 1944 - 1946. This is one of the thousands of interviews taped by the Spielberg Shoah Foundation.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Improved Time Bounds for Near-Optimal Sparse Fourier Representations
Martin J. Strauss, AT&T Labs and University of Michigan
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Self-Similarity in Piecewise Isometric Systems
G. Poggiaspalla, Queen Mary, University of London

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Climate and Dynamics in the Southern Ocean: A Lagrangian Perspective
Sarah Gille, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Behavior of Solutions to Some Chemotaxis Systems in High Space Dimensions
Lucilla Corrias, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
Third lecture of the series. Fourth and last lecture: April 1

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Médéric Argentina, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Models of Tidal Conversion
Stefan Llewellyn Smith, University of California, San Diego
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
(Relatively) Robust Replication of Volatility Derivatives
Roger Lee, Stanford University
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
On the Non-Vanishing of the Central Value of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions
Dihua Jiang, University of Minnesota
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the Fifth floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Spectra of Large Sample Covariance Matrices
Sandrine Peche, Institut Joseph Fourier, Grenoble

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/mar26.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Coarse-Graining and Large Scale Monte Carlo Simulation of Stochastic Lattics Systems
Markos Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Estimators for Supervised Learning
Ronald DeVore, University of South Carolina
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Semiclassical Evaluation of Quantum Fidelity
Jiri Vanicek, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room C198, CUNY Graduate Center
The Class Number Problem
Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers and NYU
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

JOINT NYU-PRINCETON-COLUMBIA GEOMETRY SEMINAR SERIES: WWH 1302

• 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
  Fundamental Groups of Manifolds with Positive Curvature and Symmetry
• 2:15 - 3:15 P.M.: Simon Brendle, Princeton University
  The Concentration-Compactness Principle and the Yamabe Flow in Conformal Geometry
• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.: Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
  Mean Curvature Flows for Lagrangian Manifolds

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Quantum Chaos and Atom Optics: From Experiments to Number Theory
Shmuel Fishman, Dept. of Physics, Technion

MONDAY, MARCH 22

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture III
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
3/30 (fourth lecture); 4/8 (fifth and last lecture) http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Formal Model for the Statistics of RNA Polymerase Motion during Transcriptional Elongation of the Nascent RNA Chain
Richard Yamada, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College, Cornell University

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Obstructions to Shiftedness
Carly Klivans, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

SPECIAL CAT PRESENTATION: 6:00 P.M., Large Conference Room, 719 Broadway, 12th Floor
Film: The Destruction of the Schwartzes
The Holocaust memoirs of Jack Schwartz's cousin Tibor Schwartz, one of 3 survivors of about 30 relatives on Jack Schwartz's father's side. The film covers the period from 1944 - 1946. This is one of the thousands of interviews taped by the Spielberg Shoah Foundation.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Improved Time Bounds for Near-Optimal Sparse Fourier Representations
Martin J. Strauss, AT&T Labs and University of Michigan
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Self-Similarity in Piecewise Isometric Systems
G. Poggiaspalla, Queen Mary, University of London

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Climate and Dynamics in the Southern Ocean: A Lagrangian Perspective
Sarah Gille, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Behavior of Solutions to Some Chemotaxis Systems in High Space Dimensions
Lucilla Corrias, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
Third lecture of the series. Fourth and last lecture: April 1

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Médéric Argentina, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Models of Tidal Conversion
Stefan Llewellyn Smith, University of California, San Diego
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
(Relatively) Robust Replication of Volatility Derivatives
Roger Lee, Stanford University
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
On the Non-Vanishing of the Central Value of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions
Dihua Jiang, University of Minnesota
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the Fifth floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Universality in the Bulk and at the Edge of the Spectrum of Large Sample Covariance Matrices
Sandrine Peche, Institut Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Note change in title

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/mar26.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Coarse-Graining and Large Scale Monte Carlo Simulation of Stochastic Lattics Systems
Markos Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 30

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Ilya Nemenman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/mar30.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Immersed Boundary Method with Thermal Fluctuations as a Model of Small Length-Scale Fluid Dynamics with Applications
Paul Atzberger, RPI

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture IV
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
4/8 (fifth and last lecture) http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
The Kissing Number in Four Dimensions
Oleg Musin, Moscow State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Perceptual Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity
Zhou Wang, Laboratory for Computational Vision, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Novel Approach to Accelerated Simulation of Passive Tracers in Ocean Circulation Models
Samar Khatiwala, Columbia University/LDEO
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Small Sets and Differentiability of Lipschitz Functions between Banach Spaces
Joram Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
Fourth and last lecture of the series.

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Molecules, Muscles, and Machines: Universal Performance Characteristics of Motors
James Marden, Penn University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT NYU-CIMS NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Subspace Theorem of Schmidt and Some of Its Applications
Umberto Zannier, Università Udine and Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Keith Lewis
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Weakly Anharmonic (resp. weakly disordered) Wave Equations and the Phonon Boltzmann Equation
Herbert Spohn, TU Munich

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Improved Time Bounds for Near-Optimal Sparse Fourier Representations
Martin J. Strauss, AT&T Labs and University of Michigan
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Self-Similarity in Piecewise Isometric Systems
G. Poggiaspalla, Queen Mary, University of London

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Climate and Dynamics in the Southern Ocean: A Lagrangian Perspective
Sarah Gille, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Behavior of Solutions to Some Chemotaxis Systems in High Space Dimensions
Lucilla Corrias, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
Third and last lecture of the series. NOTE: The fourth lecture on April 1 has been cancelled!

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Filaments in Fluids: Fluttering Flags, Fishes and Bridges
Médéric Argentina, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Models of Tidal Conversion
Stefan Llewellyn Smith, University of California, San Diego
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
(Relatively) Robust Replication of Volatility Derivatives
Roger Lee, Stanford University
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 312 Math, Columbia University
On the Non-Vanishing of the Central Value of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions
Dihua Jiang, University of Minnesota
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the Fifth floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

SPECIAL CAT PRESENTATION: 6:00 P.M., Large Conference Room, 719 Broadway, 12th Floor
Film: The Destruction of the Schwartzes
The Holocaust memoirs of Jack Schwartz's cousin Tibor Schwartz, one of 3 survivors of about 30 relatives on Jack Schwartz's father's side. The film covers the period from 1944 - 1946. This is one of the thousands of interviews taped by the Spielberg Shoah Foundation.

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Universality in the Bulk and at the Edge of the Spectrum of Large Sample Covariance Matrices
Sandrine Peche, Institut Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Note change in title

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Rational Kernels: A General Machine Learning Framework for the Analysis of Biological Sequences, Text, and Speech
Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/mar26.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Determinants, Traces, and 'Hearing' the Shape of a Surface
Jean Steiner, CIMS
For abstract, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Extracting Randomness from Few Independent Sources
Boaz Barak, Institute of Applied Science
For abstract, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Coarse-Graining and Large Scale Monte Carlo Simulation of Stochastic Lattics Systems
Markos Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, MARCH 29

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Semi-Groups for Model Specification, Robustness, Prices of Risk, and Model Detection
Thomas Sargent, ^* Economic Department, NYU
Joint work with Evan Anderson and Lars Hansen
Colloquium Tea starting at 3:15 in the Courant Institute Lounge, also on the 13th (top) floor
^* http://www.stanford.edu/~sargent/

TUESDAY, MARCH 30

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Estimating Information Content of Biological Data
Ilya Nemenman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/mar30.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Immersed Boundary Method with Thermal Fluctuations as a Model of Small Length-Scale Fluid Dynamics with Applications
Paul Atzberger, RPI

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture IV
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
4/8 (fifth and last lecture) http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
The Kissing Number in Four Dimensions
Oleg Musin, Moscow State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Perceptual Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity
Zhou Wang, Laboratory for Computational Vision, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Novel Approach to Accelerated Simulation of Passive Tracers in Ocean Circulation Models
Samar Khatiwala, Columbia University/LDEO
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Small Sets and Differentiability of Lipschitz Functions between Banach Spaces
Joram Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: CANCELLED
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
Note: This last lecture has been cancelled.

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Molecules, Muscles, and Machines: Universal Performance Characteristics of Motors
James Marden, Penn University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiple Ergodic Averages
Bryna Kra, Penn State University
Additional details can be found at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~elonl/special040401.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Subspace Theorem of Schmidt and Some of Its Applications
Umberto Zannier, Università Udine and Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Risks of Risk-Neutral Pricing
Keith Lewis
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Weakly Anharmonic (resp. weakly disordered) Wave Equations and the Phonon Boltzmann Equation
Herbert Spohn, TU Munich

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Eigenfunctions for Partially Rectangular Systems
M. Zworski, University of California at Berkeley

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Randomness Extraction via Common Pseudorandom Functions and Its Application to the Hashed Diffie-Hellman Transform
Hugo Krawczyk, IBM and Technion
For abstract, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

TUESDAY, APRIL 6

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Influence of Chromosome Flexibility on Anaphase A Chromosome Movement as Driven by an Imperfect Brownian Ratchet Molecular Motor
Arjun Raj, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ann Lee, Yale University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
To What Extent are Weather and Climate Models Random Number Generators?
Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Klaus Ecker, Freie Universitat Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Unzip Instability: Oscillatory Fracture Paths in Thin Elastic Sheets
Pedro Reis, Levich Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture V
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
Last lecture of the series http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Voluntary or Mandatory Retirement
Phil Dybvig, Washington University of St. Louis
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
How Well Does the Finite Fourier Transform Approximate the Fourier Transform?
Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Towards a Constructive Approach to Lyapunov Exponents
Ilya Goldsheid, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Reverse-Engineering the Internet
Neil Spring, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/apr9.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
New Notions of Security: Universal Composability without Trusted Setup
Manoj Prabhakarn, Princeton University
For abstract, Click here
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Perceptual Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity
Zhou Wang, Laboratory for Computational Vision, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Novel Approach to Accelerated Simulation of Passive Tracers in Ocean Circulation Models
Samar Khatiwala, Columbia University/LDEO
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Small Sets and Differentiability of Lipschitz Functions between Banach Spaces
Joram Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TALKS ON INVARIANT MEASURES: CANCELLED
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
Note: This last lecture has been cancelled.

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Molecules, Muscles, and Machines: Universal Performance Characteristics of Motors
James Marden, Penn University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiple Ergodic Averages
Bryna Kra, Penn State University
Additional details can be found at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~elonl/special040401.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Subspace Theorem of Schmidt and Some of Its Applications
Umberto Zannier, Università Udine and Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Risks of Risk-Neutral Pricing
Keith Lewis
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Weakly Anharmonic (resp. weakly disordered) Wave Equations and the Phonon Boltzmann Equation
Herbert Spohn, TU Munich

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Eigenfunctions for Partially Rectangular Systems
M. Zworski, University of California at Berkeley

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamics in Random Media
Gerard Ben Arous, CIMS
For abstract, Click here
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Randomness Extraction via Common Pseudorandom Functions and Its Application to the Hashed Diffie-Hellman Transform
Hugo Krawczyk, IBM and Technion
For abstract, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Techniques for Multiscale Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Di Liu, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Juckes, M.N., 2000 ``The Static Stability of the Midlatitude Troposphere: The Relevance of Moisture'' (JAS 57 3050-3057)
Helga Schaffrin
There will also be a discussion about schedule
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, APRIL 6

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Influence of Chromosome Flexibility on Anaphase A Chromosome Movement as Driven by an Imperfect Brownian Ratchet Molecular Motor
Arjun Raj, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Intrinsic Geometry of Natural Image Data and Learning by Diffusion
Ann Lee, Yale University
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
To What Extent are Weather and Climate Models Random Number Generators?
Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Local Monotonicity Formulas for Some Nonlinear Diffusion Equations
Klaus Ecker, Freie Universitat Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Unzip Instability: Oscillatory Fracture Paths in Thin Elastic Sheets
Pedro Reis, Levich Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT CIMS-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 813
Analog to Digital Encoding by a Class of Piecewise Maps
Sinan Gunturk, CIMS

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture V
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
Note slight change in time
Last lecture of the series http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Voluntary or Mandatory Retirement
Phil Dybvig, Washington University of St. Louis
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
How Well Does the Finite Fourier Transform Approximate the Fourier Transform?
Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS-PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Towards a Constructive Approach to Lyapunov Exponents
Ilya Goldsheid, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Reverse-Engineering the Internet
Neil Spring, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/apr9.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
New Notions of Security: Universal Composability without Trusted Setup
Manoj Prabhakarn, Princeton University
For abstract, Click here
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

TUESDAY, APRIL 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Significance of 'Clap and Flap' to the Smallest Flying Insects
Laura Miller, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis in Geophysics: Multiwindow and Multiwavelet Methods in 1D, 2D and on the Sphere
Frederik J. Simons, Princeton University
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Which Way Does a Wave Break? Quantifying Asymmeteric Mixing and Two-Way Transport
Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
For more about the speaker, Click here
For a complete listing of the the CAOS seminars, see http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 15

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling, Computatinos and Experiments for Rising Gas Bubbles in Surfactant Solutions
Demetrius Papageorgiou, New Jersey Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Hyperelliptic Jacobians and l-Adic Representations
Y. Zarhin, Penn State University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: One floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Generalised Fractional-Black-Scholes Equation: Pricing and Hedging
Alvaro Cartea, Birkbeck College, University of London
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the Mathematical Finance seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 16

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Longest Paths of the Minimal Spanning Tree
Irene Hueter, CUNY

SPECIAL GEOMETERY/ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Mass Transportation, Entropy Dissipation and Nonlinear Diffusions on Manifolds
Karl-Theodor Sturm, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universitat Bonn

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Content Delivery in the Modern Internet
Stefan Saroiu, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M. - 12:45 P.M., WWH 1013
Universality in Random Matrix Theory for Orthogonal and Symplectic Ensembles (joint work with P. Deift)
Dimitri Gioev, University of Pennsylvania and CIMS

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Proving Hard-Core Predicates Using List Decoding
Adi Akavia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For abstract, Click here
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CIMS-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 520 Math. Bldg.
Witten's Conjecture and Property P
Tomasz Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508 at 5:00 P.M.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Computing Time Scales from Reaction Coordinates of Milestoning
Ron Elber, Cornell University
Note the earlier starting time!
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CIMS STUDENT PRIZE CEREMONY: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the 13th floor lounge

JOINT COLUMBIA-CIMS-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., Columbia University, Room 520 Math. Bldg.
Tba
Mikhail Gromov, CIMS
Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508 at 5:00 P.M.

THURSDAY, APRIL 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Hypoellipticity with Loss of Derivatives
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 - SUNDAY, MAY 2

SPECIAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL: APRIL 30 - MAY 2, 2004
The full program and registration can be found at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/geomfest04.html
Please register as soon as possible!
Banquet Saturday evening, May 1, at the NYU Torch Club. Fee: $35.00

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

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Reader Information

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Intrinsic Geometry of Natural Image Data and Learning by Diffusion
Ann Lee, Yale University
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
To What Extent are Weather and Climate Models Random Number Generators?
Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Local Monotonicity Formulas for Some Nonlinear Diffusion Equations
Klaus Ecker, Freie Universitat Berlin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Unzip Instability: Oscillatory Fracture Paths in Thin Elastic Sheets
Pedro Reis, Levich Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT CIMS-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 813
Analog to Digital Encoding by a Class of Piecewise Maps
Sinan Gunturk, CIMS

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM AND ANALYSIS LECTURE SERIES: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Whitney's Extension Problem, Lecture V
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University and CIMS
Note slight change in time
Last lecture of the series http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Voluntary or Mandatory Retirement
Phil Dybvig, Washington University of St. Louis
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
How Well Does the Finite Fourier Transform Approximate the Fourier Transform?
Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS-PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Towards a Constructive Approach to Lyapunov Exponents
Ilya Goldsheid, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Reverse-Engineering the Internet
Neil Spring, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/web/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/apr9.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
An Introduction to Random Matrix Theory
Dimitri Gioev
Note: The talk by Chris Wendl will be held on April 30th.
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
New Notions of Security: Universal Composability without Trusted Setup
Manoj Prabhakarn, Princeton University
For abstract, Click here
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

NYC NLP SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Identifying Structure Across Pre-Partitioned Data
Zvika Marx, NYU
For abstract, Click here
For complete NYCNLP Seminar listings, see http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp

TUESDAY, APRIL 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Significance of 'Clap and Flap' to the Smallest Flying Insects
Laura Miller, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis in Geophysics: Multiwindow and Multiwavelet Methods in 1D, 2D and on the Sphere
Frederik J. Simons, Princeton University
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

JOINT CIMS-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Convergence of Invariant Densities in the Small-Noise Limit
Kevin Lin, CIMS

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Which Way Does a Wave Break? Quantifying Asymmeteric Mixing and Two-Way Transport
Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
For more about the speaker, Click here
For a complete listing of the the CAOS seminars, see http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 15

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling, Computatinos and Experiments for Rising Gas Bubbles in Surfactant Solutions
Demetrius Papageorgiou, New Jersey Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Hyperelliptic Jacobians and l-Adic Representations
Y. Zarhin, Penn State University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: One floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Generalised Fractional-Black-Scholes Equation: Pricing and Hedging
Alvaro Cartea, Birkbeck College, University of London
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the Mathematical Finance seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 16

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Longest Paths of the Minimal Spanning Tree
Irene Hueter, CUNY

SPECIAL GEOMETERY/ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Mass Transportation, Entropy Dissipation and Nonlinear Diffusions on Manifolds
Karl-Theodor Sturm, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universitat Bonn

MACHINE LEARNING LECTURE: 11:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M., Columbia University, Interschool Lab, 7th Floor, Schapiro CEPSR Building
For directions, see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/directions.html#, and for abstract scroll down at that link and click on title of talk
Meaning Machines
Deb Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Professor Roy's and the Cognitive Machines Group webpage are at: http://www.media.mit.edu/cogmac/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Content Delivery in the Modern Internet
Stefan Saroiu, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M. - 12:45 P.M., WWH 1013
Universality in Random Matrix Theory for Orthogonal and Symplectic Ensembles (joint work with P. Deift)
Dimitri Gioev, University of Pennsylvania and CIMS
For abstract, see http://www.math.upenn.edu/~gioev/CIMS_16_Apr_04.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Alex Barnett, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Proving Hard-Core Predicates Using List Decoding
Adi Akavia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For abstract, Click here
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CIMS-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Columbia University, Room 520 Math. Bldg.

• 2:00 - 3:00 P.M.
  Witten's Conjecture and Property P
  Tomasz Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 3:30 - 4:30 P.M.
  Tba
  Mikhail Gromov, CIMS

Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508 at 5:00 P.M.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Computing Time Scales from Reaction Coordinates of Milestoning
Ron Elber, Cornell University
Note the earlier starting time!
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CIMS STUDENT PRIZE CEREMONY: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the 13th floor lounge

MONDAY, APRIL 19

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Message-Passing Algorithms in Graphical Models and Their Applications to Large-Scale Stochastic Systems
Martin Wainwright, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Quasi-Local Mass in General Relativity
S.T. Yau, Harvard University
This seminar will start at 4:00 P.M. instead of 3:45 P.M. Tea will be served at 3:30 P.M.
To see the Math Colloquium webpage, click on the link http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 20

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Systems of PDE's with Variable Multiplicities of Eigenvalues and Diagonalization of Matrix Functions: Part I
Yevsey Nisnevich, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Structure and Scaling of Non-Precipitating Moist Convection
Bjorn Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Hypoellipticity with Loss of Derivatives
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Fast Inversion of the Attenuated Radon Transform with Partial Measurements
Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
Note that this seminar will be held at 1:30 P.M. in Room 813
For abstract, Click here
For complete AML Seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Why Do Stock Markets Crash?
Didier Sornette, UC California, Los Angeles
For abstract, Click here
For complete Mathematical Finance Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math.
The Height Pairing of Arithmetic Theta Series
Stephen Kudla, University of Maryland
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5-th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 23

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Scene and Object Recognition
Kevin Murphy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR "Double Feature!": 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Batch Codes and Amortized PIR
Yuval Ishai, Technion
Based on joint work with Eyal Kushilevitz, Amit Sahai, and Rafail Ostrovsky. For abstract, Click here
followed by Tba
Daniele Micciancio (UC San Diego)
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamic Scaling, Smoluchowski Ripening, and Burgers Turbulence
Robert Pego, University of Maryland
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
What We Understand and What We Do Not Understand About the Oceanic Overturning Circulation
Miguel Maqueda
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

CIMS-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 102

• 3:45 P.M.
  Property P for Knots
  Peter Kronheimer
• 4:45 P.M.
  Gromov-Witten Theory and Donaldson-Thomas Theory
  Rahul Pandharipande, Princeton University

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 513
Systems of PDE's with Variable Multiplicities of Eigenvalues and Diagonalization of Matrix Functions: Part II
Yevsey Nisnevich, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

FRIDAY, APRIL 30

PATTERNS AND NETWORKS IN GENOMES:
3rd Annual Symposium of the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, New York University, Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

• 9:00 - 9:15 A.M.
  INTRODUCTION: Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)

  MORNING SESSION (Moderator: Mike Shelley, NYU Courant)

• 9:30 - 10:20
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Andrew Murray, Harvard University
  Yeast Finds a Mate: Studies on a Model Module

• 10:30 - 10:50
  Steve Small (NYU Biology)
  Defining and Deciphering Regulatory Information in a Drosophila Genome
• 10:50 - 11:20
  Nikolaus Rajewsky (NYU Biology and Courant)
  Computational Identification of Transcriptional and Translational Regulatory Elements

• COFFEE BREAK

• 11:30 - 11:50
  Francesca Chiaromonte (Penn State)
  Comparative Identification of Functional Sequences in Genomes: Regulatory Potential Scores from Human-Mouse-Rat Alignments
• 11:50 A.M. - 12:10 P.M.
  Richard McCombie (Cold Spring Harbor Labs)
  Finding Genes and Their Transcriptional Start Sites
• 12:10 - 12:30
  Gilad Lerman (Mishra Lab, NYU Courant)
  Multiscale Techniques for Normalization and Identification of Large Scale Microarray Data Sets

• INTERMISSION: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M.

  AFTERNOON SESSION (Moderator: Kris Gunsalus, NYU Biology)

• 1:30 - 2:20 P.M.
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Charlie Boone, University of Toronto
  Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network: Discovering Gene and Drug Function

• 2:30 - 2:50
  Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)
  Integrating Functional Genomics in C. elegans Early Development
• 2:50 - 3:10
  Floria Coruzzi (NYU Biology)
  Identifying N-Networks in Arabidopsis
• 3:10 - 3:20
  Ken Birnbaum (NYU Biology)
  Patterns in Cellular Identity: Comparing the Global Expression Profile of Cells in the Arabidopsis Root

• COFFEE BREAK

• 3:50 - 4:10
  Jane Hubbard (NYU Biology)
  Modeling C. elegans Developmental Networks: System Design Meets Biology
• 4:10 - 4:30
  Paolo Barbano (Yale and NYU Courant)
  Signal Processing Algorithms for Biological Networks
• 4:30 - 4:50
  Dennis Shasha (NYU Courant)
  The Graph of Life

A WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW
Organized by the NYU Department of Biology and the Courant Institute.
Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics and the Office of the Dean for Science.
NOTE: A conference website is currently being set up. Please check back here for URL

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 - SUNDAY, MAY 2

SPECIAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL: APRIL 30 - MAY 2, 2004
The full program and registration can be found at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/geomfest04.html
Please register as soon as possible!
Banquet Saturday evening, May 1, at the NYU Torch Club. Fee: $35.00

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis in Geophysics: Multiwindow and Multiwavelet Methods in 1D, 2D and on the Sphere
Frederik J. Simons, Princeton University
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

JOINT CIMS-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Convergence of Invariant Densities in the Small-Noise Limit
Kevin Lin, CIMS

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Which Way Does a Wave Break? Quantifying Asymmeteric Mixing and Two-Way Transport
Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
For more about the speaker, Click here
For a complete listing of the the CAOS seminars, see http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 15

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling, Computations and Experiments for Rising Gas Bubbles in Surfactant Solutions
Demetrius Papageorgiou, New Jersey Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Hyperelliptic Jacobians and l-Adic Representations
Y. Zarhin, Penn State University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: One floor down from lobby
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Generalised Fractional-Black-Scholes Equation: Pricing and Hedging
Alvaro Cartea, Birkbeck College, University of London
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the Mathematical Finance seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 16

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Longest Paths of the Minimal Spanning Tree
Irene Hueter, CUNY

SPECIAL GEOMETERY/ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Mass Transportation, Entropy Dissipation and Nonlinear Diffusions on Manifolds
Karl-Theodor Sturm, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universitat Bonn

MACHINE LEARNING LECTURE: 11:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M., Columbia University, Interschool Lab, 7th Floor, Schapiro CEPSR Building
For directions, see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/directions.html#, and for abstract scroll down at that link and click on title of talk
Meaning Machines
Deb Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Professor Roy's and the Cognitive Machines Group webpage are at: http://www.media.mit.edu/cogmac/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Content Delivery in the Modern Internet
Stefan Saroiu, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M. - 12:45 P.M., WWH 1013
Universality in Random Matrix Theory for Orthogonal and Symplectic Ensembles (joint work with P. Deift)
Dimitri Gioev, University of Pennsylvania and CIMS
For abstract, see http://www.math.upenn.edu/~gioev/CIMS_16_Apr_04.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Chaotic Billiards and Quantum Ergodicity
Alex Barnett, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Proving Hard-Core Predicates Using List Decoding
Adi Akavia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
For abstract, Click here
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CIMS-PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Columbia University, Room 520 Math. Bldg.

• 2:00 - 3:00 P.M.
  Witten's Conjecture and Property P
  Tomasz Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 3:30 - 4:30 P.M.
  Tba
  Mikhail Gromov, CIMS

Tea will be served in the Math Lounge, Room 508 at 5:00 P.M.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Computing Time Scales from Reaction Coordinates of Milestoning
Ron Elber, Cornell University
Note the earlier starting time!
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CIMS STUDENT PRIZE CEREMONY: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the 13th floor lounge

MONDAY, APRIL 19

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Message-Passing Algorithms in Graphical Models and Their Applications to Large-Scale Stochastic Systems
Martin Wainwright, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Quasi-Local Mass in General Relativity
S.T. Yau, Harvard University
This seminar will start at 4:00 P.M. instead of 3:45 P.M. Tea will be served at 3:30 P.M.
To see the Math Colloquium webpage, click on the link http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 20

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Hyperbolic Systems of PDE's with Variable Multiplicities of Characteristics and Diagonalization of Matrix Functions: Part I
Yevsey Nisnevich, CIMS
For abstract, Click here
To see the Special Analysis Seminars website, click on the link: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: WWH 1314

• 2:00 P.M.: Michael Shub, University of Toronto and IBM
  Stable Ergodicity, Unique Ergodicity and the Mautner Phenomenon for Diffeomorphisms
• 3:30 P.M.: Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
  Commuting Automorphisms of the Torus

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Structure and Scaling of Non-Precipitating Moist Convection
Bjorn Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Hypoellipticity with Loss of Derivatives
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Fast Inversion of the Attenuated Radon Transform with Partial Measurements
Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
Note that this seminar will be held at 1:30 P.M. in Room 813
For abstract, Click here
For complete AML Seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Why Do Stock Markets Crash?
Didier Sornette, UC California, Los Angeles
For abstract, Click here
For complete Mathematical Finance Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math.
The Height Pairing of Arithmetic Theta Series
Stephen Kudla, University of Maryland
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5-th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 23

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Scene and Object Recognition
Kevin Murphy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR "Double Feature!": 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Batch Codes and Amortized PIR
Yuval Ishai, Technion
Based on joint work with Eyal Kushilevitz, Amit Sahai, and Rafail Ostrovsky. For abstract, Click here
followed by Tba
Daniele Micciancio (UC San Diego)
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamic Scaling, Smoluchowski Ripening, and Burgers Turbulence
Robert Pego, University of Maryland
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
What We Understand and What We Do Not Understand About the Oceanic Overturning Circulation
Miguel Maqueda
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

CIMS-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 102

• 3:45 P.M.
  Property P for Knots
  Peter Kronheimer
• 4:45 P.M.
  Gromov-Witten Theory and Donaldson-Thomas Theory
  Rahul Pandharipande, Princeton University

MONDAY, APRIL 26

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
From TimeSync to EmStar: What's Really Hard in Sensor Networks?
Jeremy Elson, UC Los Angeles
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete list of CS seminars, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

TUESDAY, APRIL 27

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Enumeration from a Quasi-Symmetric Point of View
Louis J. Billera, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Using Geometry and Iterated Refinement for Inverse Problems
Stan Osher, UC Los Angeles
Note special day and time: 10:00 A.M. in 1302
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Gilad Lerman, CIMS
For abstract, Click here
For abstract, For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Super-Parameterization: Global Context for Cloud-Scale Processes
Wojtek Grabowski, National Center for Atomospheric Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Alberto Bressan, Penn State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Whisper Detection of Biomolecules and Weak Localizaiton of Nanospheres
Frank Vollmer, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 513
Hyperbolic Systems of PDE's with Variable Multiplicities of Characteristics and Diagonalization of Matrix Functions: Part II
Yevsey Nisnevich, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Some Singular Measures Applied to Problems in Number Theory and the Distribution of Sequences
Andrew Pollington, Brigham Young University and NSF
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
David Eliezer, Goldman Sachs
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 30

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast Semi-Lagrangian Computations with Complex Interfaces
John Strain, University of California at Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Stability of sub-Gaussian Heat Kernel Estimates and an Application to Stochastic Models
Takashi Kumagai, RIMS, Kyoto

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Holomorphic Curves, Foliations and Dynamcis: How a PDE Helps to Solve an ODE Problem
Chris Wendl, CIMS
For abstract, Click here
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

PATTERNS AND NETWORKS IN GENOMES:
3rd Annual Symposium of the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, New York University, Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

• 9:00 - 9:15 A.M.
  INTRODUCTION: Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)

  MORNING SESSION (Moderator: Mike Shelley, NYU Courant)

• 9:30 - 10:20
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Andrew Murray, Harvard University
  Yeast Finds a Mate: Studies on a Model Module

• 10:30 - 10:50
  Steve Small (NYU Biology)
  Defining and Deciphering Regulatory Information in a Drosophila Genome
• 10:50 - 11:20
  Nikolaus Rajewsky (NYU Biology and Courant)
  Computational Identification of Transcriptional and Translational Regulatory Elements

• COFFEE BREAK

• 11:30 - 11:50
  Francesca Chiaromonte (Penn State)
  Comparative Identification of Functional Sequences in Genomes: Regulatory Potential Scores from Human-Mouse-Rat Alignments
• 11:50 A.M. - 12:10 P.M.
  Richard McCombie (Cold Spring Harbor Labs)
  Finding Genes and Their Transcriptional Start Sites
• 12:10 - 12:30
  Gilad Lerman (Mishra Lab, NYU Courant)
  Multiscale Techniques for Normalization and Identification of Large Scale Microarray Data Sets

• INTERMISSION: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M.

  AFTERNOON SESSION (Moderator: Kris Gunsalus, NYU Biology)

• 1:30 - 2:20 P.M.
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Charlie Boone, University of Toronto
  Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network: Discovering Gene and Drug Function

• 2:30 - 2:50
  Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)
  Integrating Functional Genomics in C. elegans Early Development
• 2:50 - 3:10
  Floria Coruzzi (NYU Biology)
  Identifying N-Networks in Arabidopsis
• 3:10 - 3:20
  Ken Birnbaum (NYU Biology)
  Patterns in Cellular Identity: Comparing the Global Expression Profile of Cells in the Arabidopsis Root

• COFFEE BREAK

• 3:50 - 4:10
  Jane Hubbard (NYU Biology)
  Modeling C. elegans Developmental Networks: System Design Meets Biology
• 4:10 - 4:30
  Paolo Barbano (Yale and NYU Courant)
  Signal Processing Algorithms for Biological Networks
• 4:30 - 4:50
  Dennis Shasha (NYU Courant)
  The Graph of Life

A WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW
Organized by the NYU Department of Biology and the Courant Institute.
Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics and the Office of the Dean for Science.
NOTE: A conference website is currently being set up. Please check back here for URL

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 - SUNDAY, MAY 2

SPECIAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL: APRIL 30 - MAY 2, 2004
The full program and registration can be found at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/geomfest04.html
Please register as soon as possible!
Banquet Saturday evening, May 1, at the NYU Torch Club. Fee: $35.00

THURSDAY, MAY 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Analysis of Dispersive PDEs
Luis Vega, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain and IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: WWH 1314

• 2:00 P.M.: Michael Shub, University of Toronto and IBM
  Stable Ergodicity, Unique Ergodicity and the Mautner Phenomenon for Diffeomorphisms
• 3:30 P.M.: Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
  Commuting Automorphisms of the Torus

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Structure and Scaling of Non-Precipitating Moist Convection
Bjorn Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Hypoellipticity with Loss of Derivatives
Joseph J. Kohn, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Fast Inversion of the Attenuated Radon Transform with Partial Measurements
Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
Note that this seminar will be held at 1:30 P.M. in Room 813
For abstract, Click here
For complete AML Seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Why Do Stock Markets Crash?
Didier Sornette, UC California, Los Angeles
For abstract, Click here
For complete Mathematical Finance Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math.
The Height Pairing of Arithmetic Theta Series
Stephen Kudla, University of Maryland
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5-th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 23

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steven F. Ashby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Scene and Object Recognition
Kevin Murphy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete CS Seminar listings, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

PROPOSAL WRITING SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
For postdocs and advanced graduate students, Professor L.-S. Young will answer questions and discuss various aspects of proposal writing

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR "Double Feature!": 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Batch Codes and Amortized PIR
Yuval Ishai, Technion
Based on joint work with Eyal Kushilevitz, Amit Sahai, and Rafail Ostrovsky
For abstract, Click here
followed by Tba
Daniele Micciancio (UC San Diego)
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamic Scaling, Smoluchowski Ripening, and Burgers Turbulence
Robert Pego, University of Maryland
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
What We Understand and What We Do Not Understand About the Oceanic Overturning Circulation
Miguel Maqueda
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

CIMS-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 102

• 3:45 P.M.
  Property P for Knots
  Peter Kronheimer
• 4:45 P.M.
  Gromov-Witten Theory and Donaldson-Thomas Theory
  Rahul Pandharipande, Princeton University

MONDAY, APRIL 26

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
From TimeSync to EmStar: What's Really Hard in Sensor Networks?
Jeremy Elson, UC Los Angeles
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For abstract, Click here
For complete list of CS seminars, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

TUESDAY, APRIL 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
From Flow-Induced Oscillation to Forward Flight
Silas Alben, CIMS

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Conformally Compact Einstein Manifolds and Conformal Invariants
Jie Qing, UC Santa Cruz
To see all Special Analysis Seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Enumeration from a Quasi-Symmetric Point of View
Louis J. Billera, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Using Geometry and Iterated Refinement for Inverse Problems
Stan Osher, UC Los Angeles
Note special day and time: 10:00 A.M. in 1302
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiscale Curve and Strip Constructions and Their Application to Microarray and ChIP-chip Data
Gilad Lerman, CIMS
(Joint work with Joseph McQuown and Bud Mishra)
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Super-Parameterization: Global Context for Cloud-Scale Processes
Wojtek Grabowski, National Center for Atomospheric Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Hyperbolic Systems of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Differential Games
Alberto Bressan, Penn State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Whisper Detection of Biomolecules and Weak Localizaiton of Nanospheres
Frank Vollmer, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 513
Hyperbolic Systems of PDE's with Variable Multiplicities of Characteristics and Diagonalization of Matrix Functions: Part II
Yevsey Nisnevich, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

SPECIAL JOINT NUMBER THEORY AND DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Topological Tits Alternative
Tsachik Gelander, Yale University

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Some Singular Measures Applied to Problems in Number Theory and the Distribution of Sequences
Andrew Pollington, Brigham Young University and NSF
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
David Eliezer, Goldman Sachs
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 30

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast Semi-Lagrangian Computations with Complex Interfaces
John Strain, University of California at Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Stability of sub-Gaussian Heat Kernel Estimates and an Application to Stochastic Models
Takashi Kumagai, RIMS, Kyoto

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Holomorphic Curves, Foliations and Dynamcis: How a PDE Helps to Solve an ODE Problem
Chris Wendl, CIMS
For abstract, Click here
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Anonymous Identification in Ad-Hoc Groups
Antonio Nicolosi, NYU
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR (GENOMIC DAY)
Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Everybody: CAOS Student Feedback Forum
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

PATTERNS AND NETWORKS IN GENOMES:
3rd Annual Symposium of the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, New York University, Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

• 9:00 - 9:15 A.M.
  INTRODUCTION: Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)

  MORNING SESSION (Moderator: Mike Shelley, NYU Courant)

• 9:30 - 10:20
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Andrew Murray, Harvard University
  Yeast Finds a Mate: Studies on a Model Module

• 10:30 - 10:50
  Steve Small (NYU Biology)
  Defining and Deciphering Regulatory Information in a Drosophila Genome
• 10:50 - 11:20
  Nikolaus Rajewsky (NYU Biology and Courant)
  Computational Identification of Transcriptional and Translational Regulatory Elements

• COFFEE BREAK

• 11:30 - 11:50
  Francesca Chiaromonte (Penn State)
  Comparative Identification of Functional Sequences in Genomes: Regulatory Potential Scores from Human-Mouse-Rat Alignments
• 11:50 A.M. - 12:10 P.M.
  Richard McCombie (Cold Spring Harbor Labs)
  Finding Genes and Their Transcriptional Start Sites
• 12:10 - 12:30
  Gilad Lerman (Mishra Lab, NYU Courant)
  Multiscale Techniques for Normalization and Identification of Large Scale Microarray Data Sets

• INTERMISSION: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M.

  AFTERNOON SESSION (Moderator: Kris Gunsalus, NYU Biology)

• 1:30 - 2:20 P.M.
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Charlie Boone, University of Toronto
  Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network: Discovering Gene and Drug Function

• 2:30 - 2:50
  Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)
  Integrating Functional Genomics in C. elegans Early Development
• 2:50 - 3:10
  Floria Coruzzi (NYU Biology)
  Identifying N-Networks in Arabidopsis
• 3:10 - 3:20
  Ken Birnbaum (NYU Biology)
  Patterns in Cellular Identity: Comparing the Global Expression Profile of Cells in the Arabidopsis Root

• COFFEE BREAK

• 3:50 - 4:10
  Jane Hubbard (NYU Biology)
  Modeling C. elegans Developmental Networks: System Design Meets Biology
• 4:10 - 4:30
  Paolo Barbano (Yale and NYU Courant)
  Signal Processing Algorithms for Biological Networks
• 4:30 - 4:50
  Dennis Shasha (NYU Courant)
  The Graph of Life

A WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW
Organized by the NYU Department of Biology and the Courant Institute.
Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics and the Office of the Dean for Science.
For details: Schedule, speakers, talks, and location see:
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/dept/biology/newsevents/patterns.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 - SUNDAY, MAY 2

SPECIAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL: APRIL 30 - MAY 2, 2004
The full program and registration can be found at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/geomfest04.html
Please register as soon as possible!
Banquet Saturday evening, May 1, at the NYU Torch Club. Fee: $35.00

MONDAY, MAY 3

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Eric Poe Xing, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
For complete list of CS seminars, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Influence of Pressure-Gradient and Shear on Ballooning Stability in Stellarators
Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Density and Redundancy of Irregular Gabor-like Frames
Radu Balan, Siemens Corporate Research
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, MAY 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: RESCHEDULED TO MAY 13
Analysis of Dispersive PDEs
Luis Vega, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain and IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Orientation of Rigid Bodies Sedimenting in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids
Ashwin Vaidya, University of Pittsburgh
For abstract, Click here
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Malik Magdon-Ismail, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, MAY 7

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Description of Strain-Driven Self-Assembly of SiGe Quantum Dots Based on the Physics of Surface Steps
Vivek Shenoy, Brown University
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: NO MEETING (Eurocrypt)
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

THURSDAY, MAY 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Analysis of Dispersive PDEs
Luis Vega, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain and IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MAY 14

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: *** SUPER-THEORY DAY (at Columbia)***
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

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

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

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

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Using Geometry and Iterated Refinement for Inverse Problems
Stan Osher, UC Los Angeles
Note special day and time: 10:00 A.M. in 1302
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Multiscale Curve and Strip Constructions and Their Application to Microarray and ChIP-chip Data
Gilad Lerman, CIMS
(Joint work with Joseph McQuown and Bud Mishra)
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Super-Parameterization: Global Context for Cloud-Scale Processes
Wojtek Grabowski, National Center for Atomospheric Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Hyperbolic Systems of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Differential Games
Alberto Bressan, Penn State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Whisper Detection of Biomolecules and Weak Localizaiton of Nanospheres
Frank Vollmer, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 513
Hyperbolic Systems of PDE's with Variable Multiplicities of Characteristics and Diagonalization of Matrix Functions: Part II
Yevsey Nisnevich, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

SPECIAL JOINT NUMBER THEORY AND DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Topological Tits Alternative
Tsachik Gelander, Yale University

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Some Singular Measures Applied to Problems in Number Theory and the Distribution of Sequences
Andrew Pollington, Brigham Young University and NSF
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
David Eliezer, Goldman Sachs
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, APRIL 30

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast Semi-Lagrangian Computations with Complex Interfaces
John Strain, University of California at Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Stability of sub-Gaussian Heat Kernel Estimates and an Application to Stochastic Models
Takashi Kumagai, RIMS, Kyoto

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Holomorphic Curves, Foliations and Dynamcis: How a PDE Helps to Solve an ODE Problem
Chris Wendl, CIMS
For abstract, Click here
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Anonymous Identification in Ad-Hoc Groups
Antonio Nicolosi, NYU
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR (GENOMIC DAY)
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Everybody: CAOS Student Feedback Forum
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

LINEAR ALGEBRA SEMESTER PROJECT PRESENTATION: 4:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Plotting Three-Dimensional Objects
NYU undergraduate students present their amazing pictures, computed for the semester project of their liner algebra class. Guidance by Matthias Heymann, CIMS
See the Linear Algebra course website at
http://www.bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~heymann/linearalgebra.html

PATTERNS AND NETWORKS IN GENOMES:
3rd Annual Symposium of the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, New York University, Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

• 9:00 - 9:15 A.M.
  INTRODUCTION: Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)

  MORNING SESSION (Moderator: Mike Shelley, NYU Courant)

• 9:30 - 10:20
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Andrew Murray, Harvard University
  Yeast Finds a Mate: Studies on a Model Module

• 10:30 - 10:50
  Steve Small (NYU Biology)
  Defining and Deciphering Regulatory Information in a Drosophila Genome
• 10:50 - 11:20
  Nikolaus Rajewsky (NYU Biology and Courant)
  Computational Identification of Transcriptional and Translational Regulatory Elements

• COFFEE BREAK

• 11:30 - 11:50
  Francesca Chiaromonte (Penn State)
  Comparative Identification of Functional Sequences in Genomes: Regulatory Potential Scores from Human-Mouse-Rat Alignments
• 11:50 A.M. - 12:10 P.M.
  Richard McCombie (Cold Spring Harbor Labs)
  Finding Genes and Their Transcriptional Start Sites
• 12:10 - 12:30
  Gilad Lerman (Mishra Lab, NYU Courant)
  Multiscale Techniques for Normalization and Identification of Large Scale Microarray Data Sets

• INTERMISSION: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M.

  AFTERNOON SESSION (Moderator: Kris Gunsalus, NYU Biology)

• 1:30 - 2:20 P.M.
  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Charlie Boone, University of Toronto
  Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network: Discovering Gene and Drug Function

• 2:30 - 2:50
  Fabio Piano (NYU Biology)
  Integrating Functional Genomics in C. elegans Early Development
• 2:50 - 3:10
  Floria Coruzzi (NYU Biology)
  Identifying N-Networks in Arabidopsis
• 3:10 - 3:20
  Ken Birnbaum (NYU Biology)
  Patterns in Cellular Identity: Comparing the Global Expression Profile of Cells in the Arabidopsis Root

• COFFEE BREAK

• 3:50 - 4:10
  Jane Hubbard (NYU Biology)
  Modeling C. elegans Developmental Networks: System Design Meets Biology
• 4:10 - 4:30
  Paolo Barbano (Yale and NYU Courant)
  Signal Processing Algorithms for Biological Networks
• 4:30 - 4:50
  Dennis Shasha (NYU Courant)
  The Graph of Life

A WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW
Organized by the NYU Department of Biology and the Courant Institute.
Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics and the Office of the Dean for Science.
For details: Schedule, speakers, talks, and location see:
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/dept/biology/newsevents/patterns.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 - SUNDAY, MAY 2

SPECIAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL: APRIL 30 - MAY 2, 2004
The full program and registration can be found at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/geomfest04.html
Please register as soon as possible!
Banquet Saturday evening, May 1, at the NYU Torch Club. Fee: $35.00

MONDAY, MAY 3

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: CANCELLED
Eric Poe Xing, UC Berkeley
For complete list of CS seminars, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp04/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Modelling on Global Population Growth
Sergey Kapitza, Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Preceded by Colloquium tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/colloq04.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Influence of Pressure-Gradient and Shear on Ballooning Stability in Stellarators
Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Density and Redundancy of Irregular Gabor-like Frames
Radu Balan, Siemens Corporate Research
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, MAY 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: RESCHEDULED TO MAY 13
Analysis of Dispersive PDEs
Luis Vega, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain and IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Orientation of Rigid Bodies Sedimenting in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids
Ashwin Vaidya, University of Pittsburgh
For abstract, Click here
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Malik Magdon-Ismail, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, MAY 7

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 9:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Six Ocean Dynamics Class Student Presentations
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Description of Strain-Driven Self-Assembly of SiGe Quantum Dots Based on the Physics of Surface Steps
Vivek Shenoy, Brown University
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Six Ocean Dynamics Class Student Presentations (Continued)
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: NO MEETING (Eurocrypt)
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

THURSDAY, MAY 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Self-similar Approximation: Singularity Formation
Luis Vega, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain and IAS
Note change in title
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor
Long Arithmetic Progressions of Primes
Ben Green, University of British Columbia
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For abstract in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat), Click here
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MAY 14

THE IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: Davis Auditorium, 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University, New York

• 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and Bagals

• 10:00 - 10:15:
  Richard Karp (UC Berkeley)
  Current Challenges in Computational Genomics: Haplotyping

• 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break

• 11:05 A.M. - 12:00 Noon:
  Prabhakar Raghavan (Verity/Stanford)
  Finding Information in Networks

• 12:00 - 1:55 P.M.: Lunch at the Faculty House, Columbia University
  (tickets will be distributed at Davis at 12:00 Noon)

• 1:55 - 2:25:
  Shafi Goldwasser (MIT/Weitzmann)
  Proving Hard-Core Predicates using List Decoding

• 2:30 - 3:25:
  Peter Shor (MIT)
  Tba

• 3:25 - 3:45: Coffee Break

• 3:45 - 4:40 P.M.:
  Panel Discussion: The Future of CS Theory
  Speakers will be joined by Avi Wigderson (IAS), discussion will be moderated by Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia)

See http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/sp04.html for more information

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Large Deviations for Random Trees and RWRE with Holding Times
Amir Dembo, Mathematics and Statistics Departments, Stanford University
For abstract in pdf format, Click here
For a listing of all PMPS seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Onset of Nonlinear MHD Instabilities: Analysis, Simulations and Experiments
Dylan Brennan, General Atomics
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Schneider, T., 2004: The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere ( JAS -- In press)
Buhler and Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, MAY 18

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Nearly Sharp Bounds for Erd\H{o}s Distinct Distances in High Dimensions
Van Vu, University of California, San Diego
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Influence of Pressure-Gradient and Shear on Ballooning Stability in Stellarators
Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Density and Redundancy of Irregular Gabor-like Frames
Radu Balan, Siemens Corporate Research
For abstract, Click here
For complete HASP Seminars, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, MAY 6

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Orientation of Rigid Bodies Sedimenting in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids
Ashwin Vaidya, University of Pittsburgh
For abstract, Click here
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Tba
Malik Magdon-Ismail, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
See http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html for abstract if available

FRIDAY, MAY 7

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 9:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Six Ocean Dynamics Class Student Presentations
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Description of Strain-Driven Self-Assembly of SiGe Quantum Dots Based on the Physics of Surface Steps
Vivek Shenoy, Brown University
For abstract, Click here
For a complete listing of the AMS schedule, see http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Six Ocean Dynamics Class Student Presentations (Continued)
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: NO MEETING (Eurocrypt)
For up-to-date listing of Cryptography Seminars, see http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

TUESDAY, MAY 11

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Geometric Enumeration, Quasisymmetric Functions and a Construction of Provan
Louis J. Billera, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MAY 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 Noon, WWH 1302
Self-Similar Approximation: Singularity Formation
Luis Vega, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain and IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

POST-COMMENCEMENT RECEPTION: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge, Warren Weaver Hall

NYU BIOINFORMATICS GROUP SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 102
A New DNA Word Design Strategy Using Random de Bruijn Sequences
Christine Heitsch, University of Wisconsin - Madison
To see the abstract, click on the link: http://www.bioinformatics.nyu.edu/temp/

SPECIAL DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Universal Characteristic Factors and Furstenberg Averages
Tamar Ziegler, Ohio State University

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor
Long Arithmetic Progressions of Primes
Ben Green, University of British Columbia
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
For a complete listing of the Joint Number Theory seminars, see http://www.math.columbia.edu/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MAY 14

THE IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: Altschul Auditorium, Room 417 of the International Affairs Building (SIPA), Columbia University, New York
Note change in location
See http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/sp04.html for more information

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Large Deviations for Random Trees and RWRE with Holding Times
Amir Dembo, Mathematics and Statistics Departments, Stanford University
For abstract in pdf format, Click here
For a listing of all PMPS seminars, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Onset of Nonlinear MHD Instabilities: Analysis, Simulations and Experiments
Dylan Brennan, General Atomics
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

CAOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Schneider, T., 2004: The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere ( JAS -- In press)
Buhler and Smith
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, MAY 18

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Nearly Sharp Bounds for Erd\H{o}s Distinct Distances in High Dimensions
Van Vu, University of California, San Diego
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

TUESDAY, JUNE 15

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Taming Lambda's for Applications: The OptIPuter System Software
Andrew A. Chien, University of California, San Diego
For abstract, Click here
For complete list of CS seminars, see http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sum04/

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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 struse@cims.nyu.edu

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