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Previous Weekly Bulletins

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5

SPECIAL HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
What is a Function?
R. Thiele, Leipzig

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Masayuki Abe, NTT Labs
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 613
Tba
Oleg Viro, University of Uppsala, Sweden
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.uu.se/%7Eoleg/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Speaker Tba
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Modeling of Complex Fluids and Micro-Fluidics
Weiqing Ren, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, JANUARY 24

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Analysis and Diffusion Geometries on Digital Data Sets
Ronald Coifman, Yale University
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Anti-self-dual Instantons with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions
Katrin Wehrheim, Institute for Advanced Study
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wehrheim/main.html
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Nenad Dedic, BU
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Portfolio Optimization under Incomplete Information
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.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

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tag-KEM/DEM: A New Framework for Hybrid Encryption
Masayuki Abe, NTT Labs
This is a joint work with Rosario Gennaro (IBM Research) and Kaoru Kurosawa (Ibaraki University)
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Enumeration Problems of Real Algebraic Geometry
Oleg Viro, University of Uppsala, Sweden
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.uu.se/%7Eoleg/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Speaker Tba
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Modeling of Complex Fluids and Micro-Fluidics
Weiqing Ren, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, JANUARY 24

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Analysis and Diffusion Geometries on Digital Data Sets
Ronald Coifman, Yale University
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Anti-self-dual Instantons with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions
Katrin Wehrheim, Institute for Advanced Study
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wehrheim/main.html
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Paolo Bientinesi, University of Texas, Austin
Note the change in time for this seminar!
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Nenad Dedic, BU
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Portfolio Optimization under Incomplete Information
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



16th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD16 at Courant Institute) January 12 - January 15, 2005
Hosted by the Courant Institute, in cooperation with Columbia's Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and SIAM Special Interest Group for Supercomputing
  • Registration: Early registration ends November 15, 2004
  • Tutorials: January 11, 2005 at 9:00 A.M. and January 12 at 12:00 Noon (held at Columbia University)
  • Conference: January 12, 1:00 P.M. - January 15, 5:00 P.M.
  • Welcome Reception: January 12, 2005, evening
  • Conference Banquet: January 14, 2005, evening
For all further information, see the DD16 website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/dd16/index.html

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
New Tools for Studying Stress-Driven Grain Boundary Diffusion
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Enumeration Problems of Real Algebraic Geometry
Oleg Viro, University of Uppsala, Sweden
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.uu.se/%7Eoleg/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Efficiently Refactoring Java Applications to Use Generic Libraries
Frank Tip, IBM Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/jan21.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Speaker Tba
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Modeling of Complex Fluids and Micro-Fluidics
Weiqing Ren, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, JANUARY 24

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Analysis and Diffusion Geometries on Digital Data Sets
Ronald Coifman, Yale University
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Anti-self-dual Instantons with Lagrangian Boundary Conditions
Katrin Wehrheim, Institute for Advanced Study
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wehrheim/main.html
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Paolo Bientinesi, University of Texas, Austin
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Nenad Dedic, BU
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Portfolio Optimization under Incomplete Information
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Mike Freedman, NYU
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***




THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
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AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
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Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Model Free Results on Volatility Derivatives
Bruno Dupire, Bloomberg
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
New Results on the Ergodicity of the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations under Very Degenerate Forcing
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Toward a Final Generation of Linear Algebra Libraries
Paolo Bientinesi, University of Texas, Austin
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Upper and Lower Bounds on Black-Box Steganography
Nenad Dedic, BU
Joint work with G. Itkis (BU), L. Reyzin (BU) and S. Russell (BU)
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Brief Introduction to Topological Classification of Spaces and Their Subspaces and Symmetries
Sylvain Cappell, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Portfolio Optimization under Incomplete Information
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Lorenz, E.N., 1963: Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow
Lyubov Chumakova
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Discrete Isoperimetry and Fourier Analysis of Boolean Functions
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University and Yale University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
High-Frequency Cavity Modes: Efficient Computation and Applications
Alex Barnett, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Immersive Virtual Reality in Scientific Viscualization
Andries van Dam, Brown University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/feb4.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Mike Freedman, NYU
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: CANCELLED. TO BE RESCHEDULED LATER THIS SPRING
The Ocean Internal Wave Field
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Leith, C.E., 1975: Climate Response and Fluctuation Dissipation
Andrea Barreiro
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Information Contained in Statistical Predictions
Richard Kleeman, CIMS Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
The Partitioning of the Poleward Heat Transport between the Ocean and Atmosphere
Arnaud Czaja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Two Stage Stochastic Semi-Definite Programming: Decomposition Methods, Implementation, and Applications
Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Generalized Lindeberg Principle
Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Anna-Karin Tornberg, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Jon Greer, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Plumb, R., 1977: The Interaction of Two Internal Waves with the Mean Flow: Implications for the Theory of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***




THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Transition State Theory for Ergodic Systems
Fabio Tal, University of Sao Paulo
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Robust Bayesian Allocation
Attilio Meucci, Relative Value International
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
High-Frequency Cavity Modes: Efficient Computation and Applications
Alex Barnett, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Immersive Virtual Reality in Scientific Viscualization
Andries van Dam, Brown University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/feb4.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Keyword Search and Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions
Mike Freedman, NYU
Joint work with Yuval Ishai, Benny Pinkas and Omer Reingold
To see the abstract, see the pdf file at:
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/mfreed/docs/FIPR05-ks.pdf
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: CANCELLED. TO BE RESCHEDULED LATER THIS SPRING
The Ocean Internal Wave Field
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Leith, C.E., 1975: Climate Response and Fluctuation Dissipation
Andrea Barreiro
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Information Contained in Statistical Predictions
Richard Kleeman, CIMS Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Small Population Effects in Stochastic Population Dynamics
Jerome Percus, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
The Partitioning of the Poleward Heat Transport between the Ocean and Atmosphere
Arnaud Czaja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 P.M., Meyer Hall, Room 122
Induced-Charge Electro-Osmosis: Towards Portable Microfluidics
Todd Squires, Caltech
To see the abstract click on the link!
http://physics.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/forecast#DAY8/

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Two Stage Stochastic Semi-Definite Programming: Decomposition Methods, Implementation, and Applications
Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Generalized Lindeberg Principle
Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Anna-Karin Tornberg, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computing PDEs on Implicit Surfaces
Jon Greer, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Frederic Laliberte
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Dynamics of the NAO and Annular Patterns of Variability
Geoffrey Vallis, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Jean Van Schaftingen, Université Catholique de Louvain
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions for Multiple Scattering Problems
Marcus Grote, University of Basel and CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Junyeop Park, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Time-Reversal for Temporal Compression and Spatial Focusing of Acoustic Waves in Enclosures
Debbie Berebichez, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***




THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
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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.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
The Partitioning of the Poleward Heat Transport between the Ocean and Atmosphere
Arnaud Czaja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: 4:00 P.M., Meyer Hall, Room 122
Induced-Charge Electro-Osmosis: Towards Portable Microfluidics
Todd Squires, Caltech
To see the abstract click on the link!
http://physics.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/forecast#DAY8/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Stochastic Risk Premiums, Stochastic Skewness in Currency Options, and Stochastsic Discount Factors
Liuren Wu, Baruch College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Two Stage Stochastic Semi-Definite Programming: Decomposition Methods, Implementation, and Applications
Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Generalized Lindeberg Principle
Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flows with Dynamic Interfaces and Internal Structures
Anna-Karin Tornberg, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computing PDEs on Implicit Surfaces
Jon Greer, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Manabe, S. and Wetherald, R., 1967: Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity
Frederic Laliberte
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Monotone Systems and the Stability of Biological Systems
German Enciso (speaker) and Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University
NOTE SLIGHT CHANGE OF TIME (THIS WEEK ONLY)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:45 P.M., WWH 1013
On the Role of Magnetic Fluctuations in Plasma Turbulence
Frank Jenko, Tokamakphysik, Max-Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching
NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Dynamics of the NAO and Annular Patterns of Variability
Geoffrey Vallis, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
L1 Estimates for Vector Fields
Jean Van Schaftingen, Université Catholique de Louvain
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions for Multiple Scattering Problems
Marcus Grote, University of Basel and CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
A GUE Central Limit Theorem and Universality of Last Passage Percolation in Thin Rectangles
Toufic Suidan, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamic Risk Factor Model for Correlation Matrices: From Random Matrix Theory to Econometrics
Junyeop Park, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Time-Reversal for Temporal Compression and Spatial Focusing of Acoustic Waves in Enclosures
Debbie Berebichez, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Greedy Optimal Homotopy and Homology Generators
Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Frank Merle, University of Chicago and University de Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Marcus Sarkis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Eigenvalues of Large Sample Covariance Matrices of Spiked Population Models
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 613
Global Convergence of the Q-curvature Flow on S [sup] 4
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
Please note the time change for this talk!
See the Princeton University webpage: http://www.princeton.edu/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Samuel Lisi, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Transforming Mesoscopic (Bio)Materials with Holographic Optical Traps
David Grier, NYU Physics
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Emmanuel, K., 1988: The Maximum Intensity of Hurricanes
Agnieszka Smith Mrowiec
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***




THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:45 P.M., WWH 1013
On the Role of Magnetic Fluctuations in Plasma Turbulence
Frank Jenko, Tokamakphysik, Max-Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching
NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Dynamics of the NAO and Annular Patterns of Variability
Geoffrey Vallis, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
L1 Estimates for Vector Fields
Jean Van Schaftingen, Université Catholique de Louvain
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Primary Visual Cortex
Aaditya Rangan, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html
JOINT CRYPTO-GROUP AND THEORY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
On the (Non)Universality of the One-Time Pad
Yevgeniy Dodis, CIMS
Joint work with Joel Spencer (NYU)
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Decay of Correlations for the Rauzy-Veech-Zorich Map and the Central Limit Theorem for the Teichmueller Geodesic Flow
Alexander I. Bufetov, Princeton University
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Black-Scholes-Merton with Long Memory
Dmitry Ostrovsky, Lehigh University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE, 13th Floor
A Whittaker-Placherel Inversion Formula for SL(2,R)
Moshe Baruch, Technion, Israel
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions for Multiple Scattering Problems
Marcus Grote, University of Basel and CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
A GUE Central Limit Theorem and Universality of Last Passage Percolation in Thin Rectangles
Toufic Suidan, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamic Risk Factor Model for Correlation Matrices: From Random Matrix Theory to Econometrics
Junyeop Park, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Time-Reversal for Temporal Compression and Spatial Focusing of Acoustic Waves in Enclosures
Debbie Berebichez, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
EOF Lesson
Andrea Barreiro
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Delay-Induced Neural Oscillations and Communication in Electric Fish
Brent Doiron, Center for Neural Science
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Global Solutions for 2D Klein-Gordon with Critical Exponential Nonlinearity
Slim Ibrahim, McMaster University
NOTE SPECIAL TIME FOR THIS SEMINAR
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Greedy Optimal Homotopy and Homology Generators
Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
On Profiles at the Blow-Up for Critical NLS
Frank Merle, University of Chicago and University de Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Evolutionary Dynamics of DNA Genomes: Extension of the Quasispecies Model to Living Systems
Emmanuel Tannenbaum, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Please note special place
THEORY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Secure Network Coding via Filtered Secret Sharing
Jon Feldman, Columbia University
Please note the change in speaker and title of talk
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Two-Person Game for Pricing Convertible Bonds
Steve Shreve, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas, Austin
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Marcus Sarkis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Eigenvalues of Large Sample Covariance Matrices of Spiked Population Models
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 613
Global Convergence of the Q-curvature Flow on S [sup] 4
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
Please note the time change for this talk!
See the Princeton University webpage: http://www.princeton.edu/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Transforming Mesoscopic (Bio)Materials with Holographic Optical Traps
David Grier, NYU Physics
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Emmanuel, K., 1988: The Maximum Intensity of Hurricanes
Agnieszka Smith Mrowiec
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Statistics, Geometry, Computation: Searching for Low Dimensional Manifolds in High Dimensional Data
Lawrence Saul, University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/feb28.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, MARCH 1

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Respective Contributions of Two Negative Feedback Processes in Relaxation Oscillations
Joel Tabak, National Institutes of Health
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Decomposition of Multiple Coverings
Geza Toth, Renyl Institute, Budapest
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
TBA
Nicol Harper, University College London
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Self-Organizing Molecular Machines in Cell Division: How Mathematical Models and Experiment Help to Understand Them
Alex Mogilner, Mathematics and Center for Genetics and Development, UC-Davis
Please note special place
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
5-Year Copula Function Approach to Credit Portfolio Modelings
David Li, Barclays Capital
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, 312 Math
Tba
Wieslawa Niziol, University of Utah
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Hunting for Homoclinic Orbits (with a geometric PDE)
Samuel Lisi, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Nicolaus Rajevsky, NYU Biology
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



"Submanifolds, Singular Varieties and Stratified Spaces" (Julius's Ides of March Topology Festival), March 13-16, 2005

For information on the speakers, registration, hotel, and more see their website at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/05geomfest.html.


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
On Profiles at the Blow-Up for Critical NLS
Frank Merle, University of Chicago and University de Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Evolutionary Dynamics of DNA Genomes: Extension of the Quasispecies Model to Living Systems
Emmanuel Tannenbaum, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Please note special place
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Growth of the Number of Simple Closed Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces
Maryam Mirzakhani
THEORY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Secure Network Coding via Filtered Secret Sharing
Jon Feldman, Columbia University
Please note the change in speaker and title of talk
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Two-Person Game for Pricing Convertible Bonds
Steve Shreve, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas, Austin
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Variational Construction of Solutions for Planar Circular Restricted 3-body Problem
Vadim Kaloshin, Caltech
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Elliptic PDEs with Highly Oscillatory or Stochastic Coefficients: Numerical Discretizations and Analysis
Marcus Sarkis, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro and WPI
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Eigenvalues of Large Sample Covariance Matrices of Spiked Population Models
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 613
Global Convergence of the Q-curvature Flow on S [sup] 4
Simon Brendle, Princeton University
Please note the time change for this talk!
See the Princeton University webpage: http://www.princeton.edu/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
CRYPTO-GROUP SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Toward Privacy in Public Databases
Adam Smith, Weizmann Institute of Science
Joint work with Shuchi Chawla (Carnegie Mellon University), Cynthia Swork and Frank McSherry (Microsoft Research SVC), and Hoeteck Wee (UC Berkeley)
See the speaker's webpage!
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~asmith/

See the Crypto-Group webpage at:
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Transforming Mesoscopic (Bio)Materials with Holographic Optical Traps
David Grier, NYU Physics
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Emmanuel, K., 1988: The Maximum Intensity of Hurricanes
Agnieszka Smith Mrowiec
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/
COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building, Room P-131
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: Heegaard Splittings and Seiberg-Witten Monopoles
    Yi Jen Lee, Purdue University
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.: Combinatorics in the Study of the Moduli Space of Bordered Riemann Surfaces and the Loop-Operations
    Veronique Godin, IAS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Statistics, Geometry, Computation: Searching for Low Dimensional Manifolds in High Dimensional Data
Lawrence Saul, University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/feb28.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, MARCH 1

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Respective Contributions of Two Negative Feedback Processes in Relaxation Oscillations
Joel Tabak, National Institutes of Health
SPECIAL SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY MINI-COURSE: 12:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Liat Kessler, CIMS
First of three talks in this series
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Decomposition of Multiple Coverings
Geza Toth, Renyl Institute, Budapest
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
TBA
Nicol Harper, University College London
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Nonlinear Instability for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Susan Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Self-Organizing Molecular Machines in Cell Division: How Mathematical Models and Experiment Help to Understand Them
Alex Mogilner, Mathematics and Center for Genetics and Development, UC-Davis
Please note special place
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Spikes, Synchrony, and Decisions: A From-Scratch Tour of Some Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience
Eric Brown, CIMS and CNS
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
5-Year Copula Function Approach to Credit Portfolio Modelings
David Li, Barclays Capital
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, 312 Math
Tba
Wieslawa Niziol, University of Utah
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Convergence of Iterative Eigensolvers, with Applications to Fluid Stability Problems
Mark Embree, Rice University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Hunting for Homoclinic Orbits (with a geometric PDE)
Samuel Lisi, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Nicolaus Rajevsky, NYU Biology
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Emmanuel, K. 1988: The maximum intensity of hurricanes
Agnieszka Smith Mrowiec
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, MARCH 7

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Robust Internet Routing
Nick Feamster, M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/mar7.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, MARCH 8

SPECIAL SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY MINI-COURSE: 12:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Liat Kessler, CIMS
Second of three talks in this series. The final talk will be held on Tuesday, March 15th
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Landau-de Gennes Model and Nucleation of Smectics
Xingbin Pan, Michigan State University and East China Normal University
NOTE SPECIAL TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Convex Polytopies, Rigidity, and Classical Geometry
Igor Pak, M.I.T., Cambridge
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Westerly Wind Bursts: ENSO's Tail Rather Than the Dog?
Eli Tziperman, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Weighted Strichartz Estimates and Self-Similar Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equations
Tohru Ozawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Comparative Mammalian Genomics: Models of Evolution and Detection of Functional Elements
Adam Siepel, Computer Science and Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, UC-Santa Cruz
Note special place
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE, 13th Floor
The Arthur Trace Formula and a Weak Ramanujan Conjecture
Werner Mueller, Bonn and I.A.S.
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Fast and Flexible CDO Computations in the Affine Markov Chain Credit Model
Tom Hurd, McMaster University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Alexander Gray, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/feb28.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Sinan Gunturk, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations: The Fixed-Node Approximation for Fermion Systems
Tony Lelievre, ENPC Paris
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



"Submanifolds, Singular Varieties and Stratified Spaces" (Julius's Ides of March Topology Festival), March 13-16, 2005

For information on the speakers, registration, hotel, and more see their website at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/05geomfest.html.


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Neural Population Coding of Sound Level Adapts to Stimulus Statistics
Nicol Harper, University College London
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/research/spheres/nh/
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY
Independence in Euclidean Ramsey Theory
Jacob Fox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Nonlinear Instability for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Susan Friedlander, University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Self-Organizing Molecular Machines in Cell Division: How Mathematical Models and Experiment Help to Understand Them
Alex Mogilner, Mathematics and Center for Genetics and Development, UC-Davis
Please note special place
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Spikes, Synchrony, and Decisions: A From-Scratch Tour of Some Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience
Eric Brown, CIMS and CNS
THEORY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Hinged Dissection of Polypolyhedra
Jeff Lindy, NYU
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: CANCELLED
5-Year Copula Function Approach to Credit Portfolio Modelings
David Li, Barclays Capital
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, 312 Math
Motivic Cohomology and p-Adic Periods
Wieslawa Niziol, University of Utah
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Convergence of Iterative Eigensolvers, with Applications to Fluid Stability Problems
Mark Embree, Rice University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Commutation of SLEs
Julien Dubedat, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Hunting for Homoclinic Orbits (with a geometric PDE)
Samuel Lisi, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Prediction of microRNA Targets
Nicolaus Rajevsky, NYU Biology
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Emmanuel, K. 1988: The maximum intensity of hurricanes
Agnieszka Smith Mrowiec
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, MARCH 7

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Robust Internet Routing
Nick Feamster, M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/mar7.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, MARCH 8

SPECIAL SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY MINI-COURSE: 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M., WWH 613
Torus Actions on Equal Symplectic Blow-Ups of CP^2
Liat Kessler, CIMS
NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME!
Second of three talks in this series. The final talk will be held on Tuesday, March 15th
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Landau-de Gennes Model and Nucleation of Smectics
Xingbin Pan, Michigan State University and East China Normal University
NOTE SPECIAL TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Convex Polytopies, Rigidity, and Classical Geometry
Igor Pak, M.I.T., Cambridge
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data
Tong Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/mar7.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Westerly Wind Bursts: ENSO's Tail Rather Than the Dog?
Eli Tziperman, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Weighted Strichartz Estimates and Self-Similar Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equations
Tohru Ozawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Comparative Mammalian Genomics: Models of Evolution and Detection of Functional Elements
Adam Siepel, Computer Science and Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, UC-Santa Cruz
Note special place
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Ergodicity and Averaging: A Discussion of a Theorem by Anosov and a Possible Application
Paul Wright, CIMS
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE, 13th Floor
The Arthur Trace Formula and a Weak Ramanujan Conjecture
Werner Mueller, Bonn and I.A.S.
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Fast and Flexible CDO Computations in the Affine Markov Chain Credit Model
Tom Hurd, McMaster University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Homogenization of Stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Elena Kosygina, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Foundations for Statistical Learning: Enabling Massive Science
Alexander Gray, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/feb28.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Sinan Gunturk, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Concurrent General Composition of Secure Protocols in the Timing Model
Yael Tauman Kalai
Joint work with Y. Lindell and M. Prabhakaran
To see the abstract, see:
http://www.eprint.iacr.org/2005/036
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations: The Fixed-Node Approximation for Fermion Systems
Tony Lelievre, ENPC Paris
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Plumb, R. 1977: The interaction of two internal waves with the mean flow: Implications for the theory of the quasi-biennial oscillation
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SUNDAY, MARCH 13 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

JULIUS'S IDES OF MARCH TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL: ``Submanifolds, Singular Varieties and Stratified Spaces''
For the program, registration, transportation, and accommodation information, click on the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/05geomfest.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 15

SPECIAL SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY MINI-COURSE: 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M., WWH 613
Torus Actions on Equal Symplectic Blow-Ups of CP^2
Liat Kessler, CIMS
NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME!
Last talk in this series

THURSDAY, MARCH 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Scattering Theory for a Nonlinear Wave Equation with a Potential
Kimitoshi Tsutaya, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Fred Diamond, Brandeis 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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data
Tong Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Westerly Wind Bursts: ENSO's Tail Rather Than the Dog?
Eli Tziperman, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Weighted Strichartz Estimates and Self-Similar Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equations
Tohru Ozawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Comparative Mammalian Genomics: Models of Evolution and Detection of Functional Elements
Adam Siepel, Computer Science and Center for Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering, UC-Santa Cruz
Note special place
THEORY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Conflict-Free Colorings
Shakhar Smorodinsky, NYU
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Ergodicity and Averaging: A Discussion of a Theorem by Anosov and a Possible Application
Paul Wright, CIMS
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE, 13th Floor
The Arthur Trace Formula and a Weak Ramanujan Conjecture
Werner Mueller, Bonn and I.A.S.
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Fast and Flexible CDO Computations in the Affine Markov Chain Credit Model
Tom Hurd, McMaster University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Homogenization of Stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Elena Kosygina, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Foundations for Statistical Learning: Enabling Massive Science
Alexander Gray, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/feb28.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 613
Mapping Class Groups and Complexes of Curves
Nikolai Ivanov, Michigan State University
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.mth.msu.edu/%7Eivanov/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Mathematics of Analog-to-Digital Conversion
Sinan Gunturk, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Concurrent General Composition of Secure Protocols in the Timing Model
Yael Tauman Kalai
Joint work with Y. Lindell and M. Prabhakaran
To see the abstract, see:
http://www.eprint.iacr.org/2005/036
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations: The Fixed-Node Approximation for Fermion Systems
Tony Lelievre, ENPC Paris
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Plumb, R. 1977: The interaction of two internal waves with the mean flow: Implications for the theory of the quasi-biennial oscillation
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SUNDAY, MARCH 13 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

JULIUS'S IDES OF MARCH TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL: ``Submanifolds, Singular Varieties and Stratified Spaces''
For the program, registration, transportation, and accommodation information, click on the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/05program.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 15

SPECIAL SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY MINI-COURSE: 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M., WWH 613
Torus Actions on Equal Symplectic Blow-Ups of CP^2
Liat Kessler, CIMS
NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME!
Last talk in this series

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
A Burgess-like Subconvex Bound for Twisted L-Functions
Gergely Harcos, University of Texas at Austin

THURSDAY, MARCH 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Scattering Theory for a Nonlinear Wave Equation with a Potential
Kimitoshi Tsutaya, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Scattering Around Non-Zero Constants for the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Kenji Nakanishi, Nagoya University
NOTE SPECIAL TIME!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Fred Diamond, Brandeis 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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

MONDAY, MARCH 21

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Mathematical Analysis of Programs
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDSAY, MARCH 22

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Image-Based Modeling of Biological Systems for Clinical Predictions
Dalin Tang, Worcester Polytechnic Institutes
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On Distinct Distances from a Vertex of a Convex Polygon
Adrian Dumitrescu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Energy Sources and Sinks for Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation
David Straub, McGill University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
A New Approach to the Regularity of Free Boundaries via Free Boundary Measures and Level Sets
Marianne Korten, Kansas State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL LECTURE: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Power Series for Solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes System
Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math Serre's Conjectures on MOD [sub p] Galois Representations
Chandrashekhar Khare, University of Utah
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Asymptotic Analysis of Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets for "Small" Number of Contingent Claims
Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
End Point-Based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Performance
Aditya Akella, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/mar7.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Locally Homogeneous Turbulence: Is it an inconsistent framework?
Uriel Frisch, Observatoire de Nice
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Call Optinos, Semi-static Arbitrage and Markov Chain Models
Laurent Cousot, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Critical Thresholds in Eulerian Dynamics
Eitan Tadmor, CSCAMM Maryland
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
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Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

JULIUS'S IDES OF MARCH TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL: ``Submanifolds, Singular Varieties and Stratified Spaces'': WWH 101 Last day!
  • 8:30 AM: Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM: Tim Cockran, Rice University
    Concordance of Classical Knots
  • 10:30 AM: Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
    Pushing Manifolds Togther in Gromov-Hausdorff Spaces
  • 11:30 AM: Morning Break
  • Blaine Lawson, SUNY Stoney Brook
    Projective Linking and Boundaries of Varieties in P [sup n]
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/events/05program.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
A Burgess-like Subconvex Bound for Twisted L-Functions
Gergely Harcos, University of Texas at Austin
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Random Walk on Oriented Hypercubes
Tibor Szabo, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Scattering Theory for a Nonlinear Wave Equation with a Potential
Kimitoshi Tsutaya, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Scattering Around Non-Zero Constants for the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Kenji Nakanishi, Nagoya University
NOTE SPECIAL TIME!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Fred Diamond, Brandeis 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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

MONDAY, MARCH 21

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Mathematical Analysis of Programs
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDSAY, MARCH 22

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Image-Based Modeling of Biological Systems for Clinical Predictions
Dalin Tang, Worcester Polytechnic Institutes
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On Distinct Distances from a Vertex of a Convex Polygon
Adrian Dumitrescu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Energy Sources and Sinks for Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation
David Straub, McGill University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Sliding Disks in the Plane
Adrian Dumitrescu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
A New Approach to the Regularity of Free Boundaries via Free Boundary Measures and Level Sets
Marianne Korten, Kansas State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL LECTURE: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Power Series for Solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes System
Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math Serre's Conjectures on MOD [sub p] Galois Representations
Chandrashekhar Khare, University of Utah
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Asymptotic Analysis of Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets for "Small" Number of Contingent Claims
Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
End Point-Based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Performance
Aditya Akella, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/mar7.html/
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Locally Homogeneous Turbulence: Is it an inconsistent framework?
Uriel Frisch, Observatoire de Nice
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Call Optinos, Semi-static Arbitrage and Markov Chain Models
Laurent Cousot, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Critical Thresholds in Eulerian Dynamics
Eitan Tadmor, CSCAMM Maryland
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, MARCH 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Program Analysis using Random Interpretation
Sumit Gulwani, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, MARCH 29

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Exploring the Neural Code with a Simple Neural Encoding Model
Jonathon Pillow, Center for Neural Science, NYU
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Boxes and Voting Paradoxes
Noga Alon, I.A.S. and Tel Aviv University
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Modeling Sea Ice Dynamics
Helga Schaffrin, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Tba
Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/zador.html
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, MARCH 31

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Stabilization and Control for NLS on a Compact Surface
B. Dahmen, University of Tunis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE, 13th Floor
Semisimple Lie Groups and Some Transcendental Number Theory
Gopal Prasad, University of Michigan
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Credit Spread, Endogenous Default, Implied Volatility with Jump Risk
Steven Kou, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 1

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computing the Stability Number of a Graph via Linear and Semidefinite Programming
Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Make Better Design Decisions As You Code
Vibha Sazawal, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On the Continuity of Morphological Transitions in One Dimension
Olivier Pierre-Louis, Grenoble
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Moisture-Coupled Travelling Waves for a Simplified Tropical Climate Model
Sam Stechman
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 11

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Development of Nonlinear Science
Alwyn Scott, University of Arizona
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Energy Sources and Sinks for Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation
David Straub, McGill University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Sliding Disks in the Plane
Adrian Dumitrescu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
A New Approach to the Regularity of Free Boundaries via Free Boundary Measures and Level Sets
Marianne Korten, Kansas State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Characterizing Patterns of Natural Selection Across the Human Genome
Scott Williamson, Cornell University
Please note special place
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Nonvanishing of Class Group L-Functions at the Critical Point
Valentin Blomer, University of Toronto
SPECIAL LECTURE: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Power Series for Solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes System
Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math Serre's Conjectures on MOD [sub p] Galois Representations
Chandrashekhar Khare, University of Utah
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Asymptotic Analysis of Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets for "Small" Number of Contingent Claims
Dmitry Kramkov, Carnegie-Mellon University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
End Point-Based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Performance
Aditya Akella, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/mar25.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Locally Homogeneous Turbulence: Is it an inconsistent framework?
Uriel Frisch, Observatoire de Nice
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Call Optinos, Semi-static Arbitrage and Markov Chain Models
Laurent Cousot, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Critical Thresholds in Eulerian Dynamics
Eitan Tadmor, CSCAMM Maryland
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, MARCH 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Program Analysis using Random Interpretation
Sumit Gulwani, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, MARCH 29

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Exploring the Neural Code with a Simple Neural Encoding Model
Jonathon Pillow, Center for Neural Science, NYU
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Boxes and Voting Paradoxes
Noga Alon, I.A.S. and Tel Aviv University
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Modeling Sea Ice Dynamics
Helga Schaffrin, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Tba
Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/zador.html
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, MARCH 31

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Stabilization and Control for NLS on a Compact Surface
B. Dahmen, University of Tunis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Mapping Complex Disease Genes
Sebastian Zollner, Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Please note special place
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Nonvanishing of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions and Distribution
C. Cornut, University of Paris (Jessieu)
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE, 13th Floor
Semisimple Lie Groups and Some Transcendental Number Theory
Gopal Prasad, University of Michigan
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Credit Spread, Endogenous Default, Implied Volatility with Jump Risk
Steven Kou, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 1

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computing the Stability Number of a Graph via Linear and Semidefinite Programming
Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Make Better Design Decisions As You Code
Vibha Sazawal, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
KdV and All That
Henry McKean, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On the Continuity of Morphological Transitions in One Dimension
Olivier Pierre-Louis, Grenoble
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Moisture-Coupled Travelling Waves for a Simplified Tropical Climate Model
Sam Stechman
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 4

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Models of Text and Images
David Blei, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Automatically Checking the Correctness of Program Analyses and Transformations
Sorin Lerner, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Energy Transports in an Idealized Moist GCM
Dargan Frierson, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Reduced Measures for Nonlinear Elliptical Equations
Augusto Ponce, I.A.S., Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator: Two Examples of Computational Systems Biology
Richard Bonneau, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Please note special place
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On the Numerical Evaluation of Option Prices in Jump Diffusion Models
Anita Mayo, Baruch College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Jordan Ellenberg, Princeton 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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Lothar Reichel, Kent State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Robust DHT Lookups with Accordion
Jinyang Li, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/apr8.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Nikolaus Rajewsky
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 11

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Development of Nonlinear Science
Alwyn Scott, University of Arizona
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
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Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
Modeling Sea Ice Dynamics
Helga Schaffrin, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem
Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/zador.html
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, MARCH 31

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Stabilization and Control for NLS on a Compact Surface
B. Dahmen, University of Tunis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Mapping Complex Disease Genes
Sebastian Zollner, Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Please note special place
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Nonvanishing of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions and Distribution
C. Cornut, University of Paris (Jessieu)
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, COURANT INSTITUTE, 13th Floor
Semisimple Lie Groups and Some Transcendental Number Theory
Gopal Prasad, University of Michigan
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Credit Spread, Endogenous Default, Implied Volatility with Jump Risk
Steven Kou, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 1

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computing the Stability Number of a Graph via Linear and Semidefinite Programming
Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Most Visited Sites for Symmetric Stable Processes
Jay Rosen, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Make Better Design Decisions As You Code
Vibha Sazawal, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
KdV and All That
Henry McKean, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Spreading Rumors Quietly and the Subgroup Escape Problem
Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Yale University
Joint work with James Aspnes, Zoe Diamadi, Kristian Gjosteen and Rene Peralta
To see the abstract, see:
http://www.www.cs.yale.edu/~yampolsk/coupon.ps
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On the Continuity of Morphological Transitions in One Dimension
Olivier Pierre-Louis, Grenoble
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Moisture-Coupled Travelling Waves for a Simplified Tropical Climate Model
Sam Stechman
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 4

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Models of Text and Images
David Blei, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M.,, WWH 1302
Gas Dynamics Beyond Navier-Stokes
David Levermore, University of Maryland
NOTE SPECIAL TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 5

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Entrainment and Chaos in the Pulse-Driven Hodgkin-Huxley Oscillator
Kevin Lin, CIMS
2005 ABEL PRIZE CELEBRATION FOR PETER LAX: 3:30 - 5:30 P.M., 13th Floor Common, WWH
Please join us for the celebration!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Automatically Checking the Correctness of Program Analyses and Transformations
Sorin Lerner, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., WWH 813
Elastic Turbulence in Viscoelastic Flows
Victor Steinberg, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Energy Transports in an Idealized Moist GCM
Dargan Frierson, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Reduced Measures for Nonlinear Elliptical Equations
Augusto Ponce, I.A.S., Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator: Two Examples of Computational Systems Biology
Richard Bonneau, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Please note special place
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On the Numerical Evaluation of Option Prices in Jump Diffusion Models
Anita Mayo, Baruch College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Jordan Ellenberg, Princeton 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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Iterative Methods for Tikhonov Regularization
Lothar Reichel, Kent State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Matrices, Statistical Mechanics, and Hyperbolic Symmetry Breaking
Tom Spencer, IAS, Princeton
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Robust DHT Lookups with Accordion
Jinyang Li, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/apr8.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Nikolaus Rajewsky
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 11

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Lakshminarayan Subramanian, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Development of Nonlinear Science
Alwyn Scott, University of Arizona
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Well-Balanced Schemes of Arbitrary Order of Accuracy for Geophysical Flows
Sebastian Noelle, RWTH Aachen
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Dynamics of Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns Growth and Decay
Christian Franzke, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Tba
Gayle Wittenberg, Princeton University
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, APRIL 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Nikolay Tzvetkov, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Surface Tension I
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Independent Components Analysis
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland
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, 312 Math Tba
Barry Mazur, Harvard University
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

THE IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University, New York, New York
For the complete program of talks, see:
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/apr15.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Electromagnetics for Microstructured Materials
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 613
Area-Contracting Diffeomorphisms between Rectangles
Larry Guth, M.I.T.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Efficient and Robust Routing in the Presence of Competing Interests
Ratul Mahajan, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Regulatory Potential Scores from Multiple Mammalian Alignments
Francesca Chiaromonte, Courand and NYU Biology
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Plumb, R., 1977: The Interaction of Two Internal Waves with the Mean Flow: Implications for the Theory of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Exponential Decay of the Subcritical Contact Process on Nonamenable Graphs
Paul Jung, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Automatically Checking the Correctness of Program Analyses and Transformations
Sorin Lerner, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., WWH 813
Elastic Turbulence in Viscoelastic Flows
Victor Steinberg, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Energy Transports in an Idealized Moist GCM
Dargan Frierson, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Reduced Measures for Nonlinear Elliptical Equations
Augusto Ponce, I.A.S., Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL CIMS-BIOLOGY JOINT SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 101
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator: Two Examples of Computational Systems Biology
Richard Bonneau, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Please note special place
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On the Numerical Evaluation of Option Prices in Jump Diffusion Models
Anita Mayo, Baruch College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
Jordan Ellenberg, Princeton 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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY: Princeton University Friend Center, Bowl 006
For agenda of talks, please contact Erhan Cinlar at: ecinlar@princeton.edu
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Iterative Methods for Tikhonov Regularization
Lothar Reichel, Kent State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Matrices, Statistical Mechanics, and Hyperbolic Symmetry Breaking
Tom Spencer, IAS, Princeton
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Robust DHT Lookups with Accordion
Jinyang Li, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
For abstract webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/apr8.html
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Decoding Gene Expression
Nikolaus Rajewsky
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Hierarchical Identity Based Encryption with Constant Size Ciphertext
Nelly Fazio, CIMS, will be giving a talk on the work of Dan Boneh, Xavier Boyen and Eu-Jin Goh
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
NYC NLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Eliciting the Information Need: The Core of Information Access and Refinement
Fredrik Olsson, SICS/Gothenburg University, Sweden
Followed by:
Acquiring Hyponymy Relations from Web Documents
Keiji Shinzato, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/index.shtml
MUSIC AT CIMS: 5:00 - 8:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons
Works by Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, and Scriabin
David Schuster, piano

MONDAY, APRIL 11

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Decentralized Security Mechanisms for Internet Routing
Lakshminarayan Subramanian, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Development of Nonlinear Science
Alwyn Scott, University of Arizona
Preceded by Colloquium Tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Computational Experiments with a Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Model of the Cochlea
Edward Givelberg, CIMS
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Well-Balanced Schemes of Arbitrary Order of Accuracy for Geophysical Flows
Sebastian Noelle, RWTH Aachen
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Closed Forms Transverse to Singular Foliations
Janko Latschev, University of Zurich
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 613
Counting Rational Points on Smooth Hypersurfaces
Tim Browning, Oxford

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Exceptional Situations and Program Reliability
Westley Weimer, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Dynamics of Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns Growth and Decay
Christian Franzke, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Tba
Gayle Wittenberg, Princeton University
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, APRIL 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Nikolay Tzvetkov, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Surface Tension I
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Independent Components Analysis
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland
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, 312 Math Descent Bounds for Rational Points on Varieties
Barry Mazur, Harvard University
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

THE IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University, New York, New York
For the complete program of talks, see:
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/apr15.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Electromagnetics for Microstructured Materials
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 613
Area-Contracting Diffeomorphisms between Rectangles
Larry Guth, M.I.T.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Efficient and Robust Routing in the Presence of Competing Interests
Ratul Mahajan, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Regulatory Potential Scores from Multiple Mammalian Alignments
Francesca Chiaromonte, Courand and NYU Biology
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Plumb, R., 1977: The Interaction of Two Internal Waves with the Mean Flow: Implications for the Theory of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 18

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Alignment of Whole Genomes: Algorithms and Tools
Michael Brudno, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, APRIL 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Population Density Methods in Two Spatial Dimensions and Application to Neural Networks with Realistic Synaptic Kinetics
Felix Apfaltrer, CIMS
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Geometric Set Cover
Ken Clarkson, Bell Laboratories
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Classification Problems with Heterogeneous Information
Gert Lanckreit, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Using Tracers of Last Saturation to Understand What Controls Subtropical Humidity
Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Surface Tension II
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
L-Theory of PSL 2(Z) and Connected Sums of Manifolds
Jim Davis, Indiana
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Correlation in Credit Risk
Stephen Figlewski, NYU Stern School of Business
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
RITT LECTURE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
Functoriality Principle and the Spectral Theory of Automorphic Functions
Freydoon Shahidi, Purdue University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
NOTE: No time, room, or tea time actually shown at the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory website.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Donna Calhoun, University of Washington
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Exponential Decay of the Subcritical Contact Process on Nonamenable Graphs
Paul Jung, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Riemannian Geometry and Text Classification
Guy Lebanon, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmosphere Ocean Science Research Group
Joseph Biello, Christian Franzke, and Rafail Abramov
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms for Comparative Genomics: The Lion, the Leopard, the Wolf or the Boar, Why Not More
Bud Mishra, CIMS
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Hilber, 1979: A Dynamic Thermodynamic Sea Ice Model
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/


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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Exceptional Situations and Program Reliability
Westley Weimer, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
Dynamics of Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns Growth and Decay
Christian Franzke, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Dissecting Synaptic Learning Rules in the Hippocampus
Gayle Wittenberg, Princeton University
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, APRIL 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED!
Tba
Nikolay Tzvetkov, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Waves Generated by Airflow over a Mountain Ridge
David Muraki, Math, Simon Fraser University
Please note change in speaker and title
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Independent Components Analysis
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland
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, 312 Math Descent Bounds for Rational Points on Varieties
Barry Mazur, Harvard University
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

THE IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University, New York, New York
For the complete program of talks, see:
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/apr15.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Electromagnetics for Microstructured Materials
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 613
Area-Contracting Diffeomorphisms between Rectangles
Larry Guth, M.I.T.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Efficient and Robust Routing in the Presence of Competing Interests
Ratul Mahajan, Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Regulatory Potential Scores from Multiple Mammalian Alignments
Francesca Chiaromonte, Courand and NYU Biology
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
JOINT BIOLOGY/COURANT GENOMICS SEMINAR: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Classifiers for Detection of Regulatory Elements
Anirvan Sengupta, Department of Physics, Rutgers University
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Plumb, R., 1977: The Interaction of Two Internal Waves with the Mean Flow: Implications for the Theory of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Alex Hasha
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 18

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Alignment of Whole Genomes: Algorithms and Tools
Michael Brudno, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Categories and Curvature
Michael McQuillan, University of Glasgoe

TUESDAY, APRIL 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Population Density Methods in Two Spatial Dimensions and Application to Neural Networks with Realistic Synaptic Kinetics
Felix Apfaltrer, CIMS
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Geometric Set Cover
Ken Clarkson, Bell Laboratories
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Classification Problems with Heterogeneous Information
Gert Lanckreit, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Using Tracers of Last Saturation to Understand What Controls Subtropical Humidity
Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Local Energy Decay for Isotropic Hyperbolic Systems and Applications to Elasticity
Becca Thomases, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Surface Tension I
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
L-Theory of PSL 2(Z) and Connected Sums of Manifolds
Jim Davis, Indiana
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Correlation in Credit Risk
Stephen Figlewski, NYU Stern School of Business
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
RITT LECTURE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
Functoriality Principle and the Spectral Theory of Automorphic Functions
Freydoon Shahidi, Purdue University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
NOTE: No time, room, or tea time actually shown at the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory website.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Exact Far-Field Boundary Conditions for the Two-Dimensional Heat Equation
Donna Calhoun, University of Washington
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Exponential Decay of the Subcritical Contact Process on Nonamenable Graphs
Paul Jung, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Riemannian Geometry and Text Classification
Guy Lebanon, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmosphere Ocean Science Research Group
Joseph Biello, Christian Franzke, and Rafail Abramov
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms for Comparative Genomics: The Lion, the Leopard, the Wolf or the Boar, Why Not More
Bud Mishra, CIMS and NYU School of Medicine
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
2005 STUDENT PRIZES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Reception to follow in the 13th floor lounge
  • Henning Biermann Award for outstanding contributions by a doctoral student to education or service to the department of computer science
    Michael Freedman
  • Sandra Bleistein Prize for notable achievement by a woman in applied mathematics or computer science
    Bing Sun
  • Hollis Cooley Price for excellence and promise in undergraduate mathematics
    David Valdman
  • Janet Fabri Prize for an outstanding dissertation in computer science
    Lexing Ying
  • Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for an outstanding dissertation in mathematics
    Silas Alben and Maria Reznikoff
  • Max Goldstein Prize for undergraduate creativity in computing
    Eric Buth
  • Harold Grad Memorial Prize for outstanding performance and promise as a graduate student
    Paris Pender and Shabsi Walfish
  • Moses A. Greenfield Research Award for outstanding interdisciplinary studies by a current student
    Samuel Isaacson
  • Wilhelm T. Magnus Memorial Prize for significant contributions to the mathematical sciences
    Paolo Cascini and Sivan Rottenstreich
  • Bella Manel Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics on the graduate level by a woman or a member of another under-represented group
    Xuemin Tu
  • Matthew Smosna Prize for excellence in computer science
    Benjamin Poserow
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Hilber, 1979: A Dynamic Thermodynamic Sea Ice Model
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 25

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms for Path-Planning
Shuchi Chawla, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CIMS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Fluctuations, Noise and Survival: An Outsider's View on Bacterial Life
Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge

TUESDAY, APRIL 26

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Rom Pinchasi, Technion, Haifa
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
Waves, Information and Local Predictability
Joseph Tribbia, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Tba
Josh Brumberg, Queens College
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Diffusive Limit in the Boltzmann Theory: Beyond the Navier-Stokes Approximation
Yan Guo, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Surface Tension II
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Use and Misuse of Models
Emmanuel Derman, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Fast and Stable Polynomial Root-Finder
Ming Gu, SAC Meridian Fund
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
George Candea, Stanford
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical Systems Research Group
Kevin Lin, William Ott, and Paul Wright
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Spheres by Drying
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

SYMPLECTIC SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M., WWH 613
A Symplectic Approach to Tropical Geometry
Brett Parker, Stanford University
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Classification Problems with Heterogeneous Information
Gert Lanckreit, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 101
The Complexity of Online Memory Checking
Guy Rothblum, Weizmann Institute
Joint work with Moni Naor
NOTE THE NON-STANDARD TIME AND DAY!
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
Using Tracers of Last Saturation to Understand What Controls Subtropical Humidity
Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Local Energy Decay for Isotropic Hyperbolic Systems and Applications to Elasticity
Becca Thomases, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Surface Tension I
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
AUTOMORPHIC FORMS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
L-Theory of PSL 2(Z) and Connected Sums of Manifolds
Jim Davis, Indiana
THEORY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
String Matching with Wildcards for Large Alphabets and Related Problems
Richard Cole, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Correlation in Credit Risk
Stephen Figlewski, NYU Stern School of Business
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
RITT LECTURE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
Functoriality Principle and the Spectral Theory of Automorphic Functions
Freydoon Shahidi, Purdue University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
NOTE: No time, room, or tea time actually shown at the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory website.
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Exact Far-Field Boundary Conditions for the Two-Dimensional Heat Equation
Donna Calhoun, University of Washington
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Exponential Decay of the Subcritical Contact Process on Nonamenable Graphs
Paul Jung, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Riemannian Geometry and Text Classification
Guy Lebanon, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Mercurial Commitments with Applications to Zero-Knowledge Sets
Tal Malkin, Columbia University
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Applied Mathematics for the Atmospheric Sciences
Joseph Biello, Christian Franzke, and Rafail Abramov
Please note the change in the title of the talk!
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms for Comparative Genomics: The Lion, the Leopard, the Wolf or the Boar, Why Not More
Bud Mishra, CIMS and NYU School of Medicine
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
2005 STUDENT PRIZES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Reception to follow in the 13th floor lounge
  • Henning Biermann Award for outstanding contributions by a doctoral student to education or service to the department of computer science
    Michael Freedman
  • Sandra Bleistein Prize for notable achievement by a woman in applied mathematics or computer science
    Bing Sun
  • Hollis Cooley Price for excellence and promise in undergraduate mathematics
    David Valdman
  • Janet Fabri Prize for an outstanding dissertation in computer science
    Lexing Ying
  • Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for an outstanding dissertation in mathematics
    Silas Alben and Maria Reznikoff
  • Max Goldstein Prize for undergraduate creativity in computing
    Eric Buth
  • Harold Grad Memorial Prize for outstanding performance and promise as a graduate student
    Paris Pender and Shabsi Walfish
  • Moses A. Greenfield Research Award for outstanding interdisciplinary studies by a current student
    Samuel Isaacson
  • Wilhelm Magnus Memorial Prize for significant contributions to the mathematical sciences
    Paolo Cascini and Sivan Rottenstreich
  • Bella Manel Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics on the graduate level by a woman or a member of another under-represented group
    Xuemin Tu
  • Matthew Smosna Prize for excellence in computer science
    Benjamin Poserow
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Hilber, 1979: A Dynamic Thermodynamic Sea Ice Model
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 25

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: CANCELLED!
Algorithms for Path-Planning
Shuchi Chawla, CMU
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: RESCHEDULED TO MAY 3
Fluctuations, Noise and Survival: An Outsider's View on Bacterial Life
Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge

TUESDAY, APRIL 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Line-Motion Illusion in Primary Visual Cortex
Aaditya Rangan, CIMS
SYMPLECTIC SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Some New Results on Calabi Quasimorphisms
Yaron Ostrover, Tel Aviv University
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M, WWH 1302
On Schrodinger Maps Near Harmonic Maps
Stephen Gustafson, University of British Columbia
NOTE CHANGE IN TIME!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On Geometric Graphs with No Pair of Parallel Edges
Rom Pinchasi, Technion, Haifa
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
Waves, Information and Local Predictability
Joseph Tribbia, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
Tba
Josh Brumberg, Queens College
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Diffusive Limit in the Boltzmann Theory: Beyond the Navier-Stokes Approximation
Yan Guo, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Surface Tension II
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Use and Misuse of Models
Emmanuel Derman, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Fast and Stable Polynomial Root-Finder
Ming Gu, SAC Meridian Fund
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Nonlinear Energy Transfer in a Simple Stochastic Model
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
George Candea, Stanford
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
New Explicit Constructions of Randomness Extractors from Weak Sources, and of Bipartite Ramsey Graphs
Guy Kindler, IAS
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical Systems Research Group
Kevin Lin, William Ott, and Paul Wright
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Spheres by Drying
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, MAY 2

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: CANCELLED!
Adaptive Algorithms for Price-Setting and Overlay Routing
Robert Kleinberg, M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
Please note the earlier time
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/

TUESDAY, MAY 3

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Fluctuations, Noise and Survival: An Outsider's View on Bacterial Life
Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Extensions of Adiabatic Invariant Theory for a Charged Particle
Harold Weitzner, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Boosted Sampling and Minimum Spanning Trees
Jan Vondrak, M.I.T., Cambridge
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
David Quere, College de France, Paris
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

FRIDAY, MAY 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sparse Principal Component Analysis and Applications
Laurent El Ghaoui, SAC Meridian Fund
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Birth of the Equilibrium Droplet
Roman Kotecky, Charles University, Prague and Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Ancient Solutions for Mean Curvature Flow
Maria Calle
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/BR> Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Tba
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

JOINT CIMS AND BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator: Two Examples of Computational Systems Biology
Richard Bonneau, Institute for Systems Biology
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M. in WWH 1302
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator: Two Examples of Computational Systems Biology
Richard Bonneau, Institute for Systems Biology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
Waves, Information and Local Predictability
Joseph Tribbia, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 815
The Barrel: A Window into Cortical Circuitry
Joshua C. Brumberg, Queens College, CUNY
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Diffusive Limit in the Boltzmann Theory: Beyond the Navier-Stokes Approximation
Yan Guo, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Fluid Jets and Sheets
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
THEORY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Perturbations and Vertex Removal in a 3D Delaunay Triangulation
Monique Teillaud, INRIA
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Use and Misuse of Models
Emmanuel Derman, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Fast and Stable Polynomial Root-Finder
Ming Gu, SAC Meridian Fund
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Nonlinear Energy Transfer in a Simple Stochastic Model
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Reboot-based Approach to High Availability
George Candea, Stanford
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in room 1302 WWH
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp05/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
New Explicit Constructions of Randomness Extractors from Weak Sources, and of Bipartite Ramsey Graphs
Guy Kindler, IAS
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical Systems Research Group
Kevin Lin, William Ott, and Paul Wright
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Spheres by Drying
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
COURANT-STONY BROOK-JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building, Room P-131
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: M. Pinsonnault, Toronto
    Maximal Tori in Hamiltonian Groups of Symplectic Four-Manifolds
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.: Y. Ostrover, Tel Aviv
    On the Extremality of Hofer's Metric

MONDAY, MAY 2

LECTURE: 2:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
3D Photography
Jean Ponce, Beckman Institute and Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
See The Ponce Group Computer Vision and Robotics webpage!
http://www-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu/ponce_grp/

This lecture is hosted by Yann Lecun
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
A Computational Approach to Artistic Style
Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth College
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge

TUESDAY, MAY 3

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Fluctuations, Noise and Survival: An Outsider's View on Bacterial Life
Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
On the Complexity of Pseudo-Circle Arrangements
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Extensions of Adiabatic Invariant Theory for a Charged Particle
Harold Weitzner, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Boosted Sampling and Minimum Spanning Trees
Jan Vondrak, M.I.T., Cambridge
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MAY 5

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
David Quere, College de France, Paris
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

FRIDAY, MAY 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sparse Principal Component Analysis and Applications
Laurent El Ghaoui, SAC Meridian Fund
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Birth of the Equilibrium Droplet
Roman Kotecky, Charles University, Prague and Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
On Error Correction in the Exponent
Prashant Puniya, NYU
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Ancient Solutions for Mean Curvature Flow
Maria Calle
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!

MONDAY, MAY 9

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Werner Mueller, University of Bonn and Institute for Advanced Study
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge

TUESDAY, MAY 10

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The IDA Architecture as a Cognitive System
Stan Franklin, Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tiling 3-Space with Golden Rhombohedra
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College, Northampton
Last seminar of the season
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Tba
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!

THURSDAY, MAY 12

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
All Bent Out of Shape: Buckling Instabilities of Fluid Sheets and Threads
Neil Ribe, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
FOLLOWED BY
SPECIAL JOINT AML-APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
Diffusion at Finite Speed and Multiple Eigenvalues
Joe Keller, Mathematics, Standford University
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
From Stochastic Integration to Integrated Finance
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert Merton, Harvard University
Event sponsored by Riskdata and Finance Concepts
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
PH.D. REPORTS: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Please see the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar webpage for the list of speakers and titles of talks
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 - FRIDAY, MAY 27

SECOND MINICONFERENCE: Columbia University Workshop on p-adic Methods in Automorphic Forms
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Extensions of Adiabatic Invariant Theory for a Charged Particle
Harold Weitzner, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
CIMS LONGER SERVICE RECOGNITION AND RTIREMENT CELEBRATION: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons
  • Staff: 25 Years, Pat Struse; 30 Years, Larry Cohen
  • Faculty:
    20 Years -- Fang-Hua Lin and Bud Mishra
    25 Years -- Allan Gottlieb and Henry R. Strauss
    35 Years -- Henry McKean
    40 Years -- Simeon Berman
    45 Years -- Mel Hausner and Ricky Pollack
  • Retirees: Robert Dewar, Mel Hausner, and Jack Schwartz
Champagne, Cake and Soft Drinks will be served.
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Boosted Sampling and Minimum Spanning Trees
Jan Vondrak, M.I.T., Cambridge
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MAY 5

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tortured Interfaces: Heavy Rain, Leidenfrost Drops and Samovars
David Quere, College de France, Paris
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

FRIDAY, MAY 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sparse Principal Component Analysis and Applications
Laurent El Ghaoui, SAC Meridian Fund
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Birth of the Equilibrium Droplet
Roman Kotecky, Charles University, Prague and Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
On Error Correction in the Exponent
Prashant Puniya, NYU
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Ancient Solutions for Mean Curvature Flow
Maria Calle
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface
John Bush, Applied Math, MIT
NOTE special time and room
SPECIAL JOINT AML-APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MONDAY, MAY 9

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer Index Theorem and Number Theory
Werner Mueller, University of Bonn and Institute for Advanced Study
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge

TUESDAY, MAY 10

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The IDA Architecture as a Cognitive System
Stan Franklin, Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis
Tea will be served at 3:15 P.M. in the Lounge
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tiling 3-Space with Golden Rhombohedra
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College, Northampton
Last seminar of the season
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

SPECIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Analysis of the Hypoelliptic Laplacian
Jean-Michel Bismut, University of Paris, Orsay

THURSDAY, MAY 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
All Bent Out of Shape: Buckling Instabilities of Fluid Sheets and Threads
Neil Ribe, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
FOLLOWED BY
SPECIAL JOINT AML-APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
Diffusion at Finite Speed and Multiple Eigenvalues
Joe Keller, Mathematics, Standford University
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
ANALYSIS/DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Poisson Geometry and Deformation Quantization Near a Pseudoconvex Boundary
Alan Weinstein, University of California at Berkeley
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
From Stochastic Integration to Integrated Finance
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert Merton, Harvard University
Event sponsored by Riskdata and Finance Concepts
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
PH.D. REPORTS: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Please see the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar webpage for the list of speakers and titles of talks
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Jim Propp's Random Walk Simulator
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
Please note the change in day!
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!

TUESDAY, MAY 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 - FRIDAY, MAY 27

SECOND MINICONFERENCE: Columbia University Workshop on p-adic Methods in Automorphic Forms
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

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

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

SPECIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Analysis of the Hypoelliptic Laplacian
Jean-Michel Bismut, University of Paris, Orsay
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Tba
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!

THURSDAY, MAY 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Kinetic Models for Wave Propagation in Random Media
Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
All Bent Out of Shape: Buckling Instabilities of Fluid Sheets and Threads
Neil Ribe, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
SPECIAL JOINT AML-APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Diffusion at Finite Speed and Multiple Eigenvalues
Joe Keller, Mathematics, Standford University
Presented by the Applied Math Lab Seminar. See their website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html
ANALYSIS/DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Poisson Geometry and Deformation Quantization Near a Pseudoconvex Boundary
Alan Weinstein, University of California at Berkeley
See the speaker's webpage! http://math.berkeley.edu/%7Ealanw/
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 101A, NYU's Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
From Stochastic Integration to Integrated Finance
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Robert Merton, Harvard University
NOTE THE CHANGE IN PLACE!
There will be a cocktail reception afterwards
Event sponsored by Riskdata and Finance Concepts
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
PH.D. REPORTS: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Please see the Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar webpage for the list of speakers and titles of talks
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 NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html
SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING: 6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6417 (corner of 34th St.)
Jim Propp's Random Walk Simulator
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
Please note the change in day!
See the Seminar website at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

Last seminar of the Spring 2005 semester!

FRIDAY, MAY 13

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Collusion-Free Protocols
Carl Bosley
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical Systems Research Group
Kevin Lin, William Ott, and Paul Wright
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Spheres by Drying
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
See the AMS webpage and abstract: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

TUESDAY, MAY 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Concentration Phenomena and Bouquet Solutions for the H-Surface Equation
Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MAY 20

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
On Obfuscating Point Functions
Hoeteck Wee, Berkeley
See the Cryptography Seminar webpage: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
MUSIC AT CIMS: 6:30 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge
Music by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Mendelsohn, Schubert, Ravel
Alexander Barnett and Roland Guillaume Nelet, piano

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 - FRIDAY, MAY 27

SECOND MINICONFERENCE: Columbia University Workshop on p-adic Methods in Automorphic Forms
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, and Columbia University
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS4.html

THURSDAY, MAY 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Modeling of Quantum Transport in Nanostructures
Pinaud Olivier, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html


*** SPECIAL UPCOMING CIMS EVENTS ***



THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
SUBSCRIBING electronically to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin is easy:
Go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/cimsbulletin
where you may subscribe or unsubscribe easily using the web-based GNU Mailman. This process requires a password that you will choose at that time or where one would be then generated for you.

AFTER you have subscribed to the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, the more technical might enjoy reading the email-based interface for users that goes into fine detail regarding using commands for the web-based GNU Mailman. You start by sending a message with just the word 'help' (no apostrophes) as subject or in the body, to:
cimsbulletin-request@cs.nyu.edu


Information Technology Services


NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.
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