Fall 2014
Monday, September 01, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Discrete or Continuous?
Nick Trefethen, NYU and University of Oxford
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Computing Teichmuller maps between polygons.
Mayank Goswami, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken.
Friday, September 05, 2014
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Viruses and geometry – a new perspective on virus assembly and anti-viral therapy
Reidun Twarock, University of York
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Symposium
1:00PM,
WWH 101
Title: A Symposium Marking Jean Taylor's 70th Birthday
Various speakers,
Friends and Colleagues of Jean Taylor will gather to celebrate her scientific accomplishments and impact. If you wish to participate, please sign up at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6T3RFDJ
Also note: the Museum of Mathematics will hold a related event later the same day (Sat Sept 6, 8-10:30pm). Besides being an opportunity to recognize Jean Taylor's many contributions, it provides an opportunity to see MoMath's exhibits. For more information and/or to register for the MoMath event, see:
https://in.momath.org/civicrm/event/info?id=234&reset=1
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6T3RFDJ
Also note: the Museum of Mathematics will hold a related event later the same day (Sat Sept 6, 8-10:30pm). Besides being an opportunity to recognize Jean Taylor's many contributions, it provides an opportunity to see MoMath's exhibits. For more information and/or to register for the MoMath event, see:
https://in.momath.org/civicrm/event/info?id=234&reset=1
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Role of linker histones in the structure and dynamics of chromatin fibers
Antoni Luque, Postdoc, Schlick Lab, Chemistry Department, New York University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Combinatorial discrepancy for boxes via the ellipsoid-infinity norm.
Sasho Nikolov, Rutgers University
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Individual and collective surfing of chemically active particles
Hassan Masoud, CIMS
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Noncollision Singularities in a Planar Four-body Problem
Jinxin Xue, University of Chicago
Friday, September 12, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment
Randall J LeVeque, University of Washington
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Optimal Arrangements of Rigid Shapes -- A Voronoi Approach
Lisa Larsson, CIMS
Monday, September 15, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Discrete or Continuous?
Nick Trefethen, NYU and University of Oxford
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Geometry Seminar
6:00AM,
WWH
Title: Shallow Packing: Revisiting Housler's Proof
Esther Ezra, CIMS
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Zeta functions of prehomogeneous vector spaces
Gautam Chinta, City College of New York
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Transitions and Tipping Points in the Changing Arctic Cryosphere
Ivan SUDAKOV, Utah
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Onsager's Conjecture
Tristan Buckmaster, CIMS
Friday, September 19, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A level-set based mesh evolution method for shape optimization
Charles Dapogny, Rutgers, New Brunswick
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Continuity of phase transitions for models of Statistical Mechanics.
Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data
Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA
*** Please note time change, seminar will be held at 4:00pm
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: The HiFi multi-fluid modeling framework: Computational fluid modeling of magnetized plasmas in laboratory and space
Vyacheslav Lukin, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Morphogenetic models: from genetic networks to patterns
Pablo Padilla, Institute for Applied Mathematics, National University of Mexico
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Kodaira dimension and zeros of holomorphic one-forms
Christian Schnell, Stony Brook University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A Generalization of the Convex Kakeya Problem.
Hee-Kap Ahn, Pohang, South Korea
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Solitary water waves on shear flows and with surface pressure
Miles Wheeler, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Optimization, Adaptation, and Initiation of Biological Transport Networks
Dan Hu, Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Structured chaos shapes spike-response noise entropy in balanced neural networks
Guillaume Lajoie, Max Planck Institute
Friday, September 26, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Asymptotically compatible discretization of parametrized variational problems with applications to nonlocal models
Qiang Du, Columbia University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Non-backtracking spectrum of random graphs.
Charles Bordenave, Toulouse
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Mathematics of the Faraday Cage
Nick Trefethen, NYU, Oxford
Monday, September 29, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Ramanujan graphs and symmetric error correcting codes
Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Understanding the role of cellular replication limits as a tumor suppressor pathway
Ignacio A. Rodriguez Brenes, University of California, Irvine
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Singularities of moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces and Nakajima quiver varieties
Giulia Sacca, Stony Brook University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Geometric constructions of exotic (hyper)graphs
Noga Alon, Tel-Aviv University, Israel and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Wednesday, October 01, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Interaction of atmospheric and oceanic weather
Ivy FRENGER, Princeton
Thursday, October 02, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Morse and Maslov indices for multidimensional Schroedinger operators with matrix-valued potentials
Yuri Latushkin, U. of Missouri
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Scalar Active Matter: Field Theories, Phase Ordering and Fluid Dynamics
Michael E. Cates, University of Edinburgh
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
2:45PM,
WWH 505
Title: Variations of Neron-Severi ranks of reductions of algebraic surfaces
Edgar Costa, CIMS
NYU SoE Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 304
Title: Valuations and the Special Linear Group
Christoph Haberl, Vienna University of Science and Technology
Friday, October 03, 2014
Courant Instructor Day
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Courant Instructor Day
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Courant Instructor Day
Friday, October 3rd from 10:00 to 4:00pm
CIWW 1302
10:15-10:30 Tom Trogdon
Universality in numerical computations with random data
10:30-10:45 Zhipeng Liu
Discrete Toeplitz determinants and their applications
10:45-11:00 Rodrigo Trevino
Flatland: a straight dance of many dimensions
BREAK
11:15-11:30 Miles Wheeler
Large-amplitude solitary water waves with vorticity
11:30-11:45 Lisa Larsson
Optimal Arrangements of Shapes
11:45-12:00 Mark Wilkinson
Liquid Crystals, Order Parameters and Non-spherical Particle Systems
LUNCH BREAK
1:15-1:30 David Belius
Random walks and Cover Times
1:30-1:45 Wei Wu
Random walks, trees, and Gaussian fields
1:45-2:00 David Kelley
Fast-slow systems with chaotic noise
2:00-2:15 Laurent Mertz
Cycles of a stochastic variational inequality modeling
a simple elasto-plastic structure
BREAK
2:30-2:45 Jane Zhao
Cryo-EM single particle reconstruction and data-driven methods
for dynamical systems
2:45-3:00 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard
Waves in plasmas: theory and numerics
3:00-3:15 Lee Ricketson
Accelerated Monte Carlo methods for the kinetic equations of
plasma dynamics
3:15-3:30 Jun Lai
The fast solver for wave scattering in two dimension
Friday, October 3rd from 10:00 to 4:00pm
CIWW 1302
10:15-10:30 Tom Trogdon
Universality in numerical computations with random data
10:30-10:45 Zhipeng Liu
Discrete Toeplitz determinants and their applications
10:45-11:00 Rodrigo Trevino
Flatland: a straight dance of many dimensions
BREAK
11:15-11:30 Miles Wheeler
Large-amplitude solitary water waves with vorticity
11:30-11:45 Lisa Larsson
Optimal Arrangements of Shapes
11:45-12:00 Mark Wilkinson
Liquid Crystals, Order Parameters and Non-spherical Particle Systems
LUNCH BREAK
1:15-1:30 David Belius
Random walks and Cover Times
1:30-1:45 Wei Wu
Random walks, trees, and Gaussian fields
1:45-2:00 David Kelley
Fast-slow systems with chaotic noise
2:00-2:15 Laurent Mertz
Cycles of a stochastic variational inequality modeling
a simple elasto-plastic structure
BREAK
2:30-2:45 Jane Zhao
Cryo-EM single particle reconstruction and data-driven methods
for dynamical systems
2:45-3:00 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard
Waves in plasmas: theory and numerics
3:00-3:15 Lee Ricketson
Accelerated Monte Carlo methods for the kinetic equations of
plasma dynamics
3:15-3:30 Jun Lai
The fast solver for wave scattering in two dimension
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Intersections of SLE paths
Hao Wu, MIT
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Some geometric aspects of the theory of convex polytopes
Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAST
Alexander Alekseyenko, NYU School of Medicine
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Rationality questions and quartic threefolds
Alena Pirutka, Centre de Mathematiques Laurent Schwartz
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Clustered planarity testing for trees
Radoslav Fulek, Columbia University, New York
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Quantification and prediction of rare events in nonlinear waves
Themistoklis SAPSIS,
Thursday, October 09, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Field Theory for Four Fundamental Interactions
Shouhong Wang, U. of Indiana
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Nearly integrable systems with orbits accumulating to KAM tori
Marcel Guardia, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Friday, October 10, 2014
Columbia / Courant Probability Seminar Series
9:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: Joint Columbia-NYU probability talks, organized by probabilists from both institutions
Various,
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A class of Laplacian multiwavelets bases for high-dimensional data
Nir Sharon, Tel Aviv
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Filling multiples of embedded curves
Robert Young, NYU
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Revisiting Network Resource Allocation in Data Centers
Fahad Dogar, Tufts University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Onsager's Conjecture
Tristan Buckmaster,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multilevel methods for kinetic equations of plasma dynamics
Lee Ricketson, CIMS
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Integral versions of the Tate conjecture over finite fields
Alena Pirutka, Centre de Mathematiques Laurent Schwartz
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Filtering with noisy Lagrangian tracers
Xin TONG, CIMS
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Gibbs-like behavior of dispersive PDEs
Tom Trogdon, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A trajectory equation for walking droplets: hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory
Anand U. Oza, CIMS
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Quasistatic dynamical systems
Mikko Stenlund, University of Helsinki
Friday, October 17, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: BDDC deluxe domain decomposition algorithms
Olof Widlund, Courant Institute
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Stationary random graphs and the hyperbolic Poisson Voronoi tessellation
Elliot Paquette, Weizmann
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Getting to the Cloud and Using it, Securely
Thomas Ristenpart, University of Wisconsin - Madison
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Universality in random matrix theory
Paul Bourgade,
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A novel method for decoding neural activity in sensory and frontal cortices during perceptual decision-making in rodents
Michele Insanally, New York University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Analytic Root Isolation: A complete unconditional Clustering Algorithm
Chee Yap, Courant Institute, New York University, New York
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability as a Thermally Coupled Mode Enhanced by Cloud Feedback
Amy CLEMENT, University of Miami
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On-Site and Off-Site Solitary Waves of the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Multiple Dimensions
Michael Jenkinson, Columbia
Jack Keil Wolf Lecture Series
11:00AM,
Off-Campus 5 MetroTech Center, Auditorium
Title: Information Theory: Old and New--A Personal View
Shlomo Shamai, Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Microtubule/Motor Protein Assemblies
Tong (Tony) Gao, CIMS
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Analytic quasiperiodic matrix cocycles
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine
NYU SoE Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
WWH TBA
Title: The Set-Indexed Levy Process: Stationarity and Local regularity
Ely Merzbach, Bar-Ilan University
Friday, October 24, 2014
Undergraduate Mathematics Research Presentations
10:00AM,
WWH 109
Title: Various presenters
,
Come join the students of the Mathematics Department at an event presenting their research projects that have been completed over the summer. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and diligence of NYU's undergraduate Math department. You may come and go as you like throughout the day, a schedule is posted on flyers.
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Random tilings and Hurwitz numbers
Jonathan Novak, MIT
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 517
Title: Satellite operators and piecewise-linear concordance
Adam Levine, Princeton
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fast algorithms for Gaussian processes
Michael O'Neil,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF TURBULENCE
David Ruelle, IHES
Monday, October 27, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The mysterious role of stability in solids with defects
Gilles Francfort, Universite Paris 13 and Institut Universitaire de France
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M.
in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A Novel Characterization of Amalgamated Networks in Natural Systems Using Sparse and Low-Rank Optimization
Victor Barranca, Courant Institute and NYUAD Institute, New York University
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Local Analysis of Wave Fields produced from Hindcasted Rogue Wave Sea States
Frederic Dias, University College, Dublin
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: "Positivity and singularities in characteristic p
Mircea Mustaţă, University of Michigan
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic Models and Statistics for Extreme Precipitation Events
Sam STECHMANN,
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Mark Wilkinson, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Bacterial Swimming in Polymer Solutions
Wilson Poon, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Diffusion through non-transversal transition chains
Adrià Simon, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech
Friday, October 31, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Upwind methods for second order wave equations.
Thomas Hagstrom, Southern Methodist University
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: 4-dimensional arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds and quantum error correcting codes.
Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University/NYU
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Set-Indexed processes and regularity.
Ely Merzbach, Bar-Ilan
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fast-slow systems with chaotic noise
David Kelly, CIMS
Monday, November 03, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Surface Subgroup Problem
Vladimir Markovic, Caltech
Tuesday, November 04, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The fluid dynamics of jellyfish swimming and feeding
Laura Miller, University of North Carolina
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Stable pairs and knot invariants
Davesh Maulik, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Northern Hemisphere summertime circulation: Mechanisms and future changes
Tiffany SHAW, Columbia
Thursday, November 06, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Yang-Mills Plateau problem in supercritical dimensions
Mircea Petrache, ETH/Zurich
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Brownian Interactions in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures
Mehdi Karzar-Jeddi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut
Special Analysis Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The lifespan of small data solutions to the KP-I
Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths, Univ. of California - Berkeley
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Markov partitions and 1-dimensional tilings
Maciej Wojtkowski,
Friday, November 07, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Scalable finite element viscous flow solvers on octree meshes, with application to ice sheet dynamics
Tobin Isaac, University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness
David Johnson, Columbia University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Inverse problems governed by large-scale PDE models
Georg Stadler, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Phase behaviors of non-Brownian suspensions
Kyongmin Yeo, IBM Watson Research Center
Saturday, November 08, 2014
Conference
9:00AM,
WWH 13th Floor Commons
Title: The Goodman-Pollack Fest/Feast.
Various Speakers,
Sunday, November 09, 2014
Conference
9:00AM,
WWH 13th floor Commons
Title: The Goodman-Pollack Fest/Feast.
Various Speakers,
Monday, November 10, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Dynamics of Calcium: Oscillations and Waves, Experiments and Theory
James Sneyd, University of Auckland
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Numerical algorithms applied to RadioFrequency problems in fusion.
John Wright, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Multiscale Modelling in Physiology: Lungs and Saliva
James Sneyd,
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Repairing tropical curves by means of linear tropical modifications
Maria Angelica Cueto, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Special Applied Math Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Matching, choice and entropy
Alfred Galichon, Sciences Po
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 805
Title: Regularity results for general nonlocal equations of quasilinear type
Yannick Sire, Aix-Marseille University
Mathematics Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Infinite Dimensional Superalgebras
Efim Zelmanov, University of California, San Diego
** Please note the change of time for this event
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multiple regimes and thermohaline variability in the quasi-adiabatic pole-to-pole circulation
Christopher WOLFE,
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Weakly regular Einstein spacetimes with symmetry
Philippe Le Floch, Univ. Paris 6
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A predictive Model for Yeast Cell Polarization in Pheromone Gradients
Nicolas Meunier, MAP5, Universite Paris Descartes, France
NYU SoE Mathematics Colloquim
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 304
Title: Infinite Groups --- from the very beginning (1900 + ?) to our time
Efim Zelmanov, University of California - SD
event location: 6 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn
NYU SoE Mathematics Colloquium
5:30PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 304
Title: Random methods in geometry
Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University, visiting NYU
event location: 6 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn
Friday, November 14, 2014
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Poisson and compound Poisson asymptotics for statistics of multiple recurrencies to shrinking sets.
Yuri Kifer, Jerusalem
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multigrid Methods for Saddle Point Problems.
Duk-Soon Oh, Rutgers
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Markov type for planar graphs and applications
Yuval Peres, Microsoft
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Activities in Considerate Systems
Ted Selker, University of California-Berkeley
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Cell movement as a free boundary problem
Alex Mogilner, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Grain Growth and Grain Growth Stagnation in Metallic Films: The Curious Tail of a Tale and an Ear
Katayun Barmak, Columbia University
Monday, November 17, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Search games and Optimal Kakeya Sets
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Scattering of radio frequency waves by plasma blobs
Abhay Ram, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: How cells tell left from right: Active Chiral Processes in Soft Biological Matter
Sebastian Fürthauer, NYU Courant Institute and Harvard Center for System Biology
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Extensions of Golomb’s Tromino Theorem
Jonathan Lenchner, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Coastal-open ocean exchange of carbon: Mechanisms and ecological implications
Zouhair LACHKAR, NYUAD
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: PDE Models for Ferrofluids and Their Numerical Analysis
Ignacio Tomas, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Moduli of curves and differentials with real periods
Chaya Norton, University of Montreal
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Renormalization of critical circle maps and rotational attractors of two-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems
Michael Yampolsky, University of Toronto
NYU SoE Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 304
Title: Enumeration of graphs, Random matrices and applications in Computational Biology
Nikita Alexeev, Steklov Institute at St.Petersburg
** 6 MetroTech Roadway, Brooklyn
Friday, November 21, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Time Reversal for the Inverse problem of locating sources and obstacles
Eli Turkel, Tel Aviv University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Erdos-Hajnal Conjecture and Combinatorial Clustering with Forbidden Patterns
Krzysztof Choromanski, Google Research New York
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic variational inequalities and their applications in engineering
Laurent Mertz, CIMS
Monday, November 24, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Riemann-Hilbert Method
Alexander Its, IUPUI
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Biomathematics/Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Force generation and propagation, and contraction of random actomyosin ring
Dietmar Oelz,
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Measuring Distances Between Road Networks.
Brittany Therese Fasy, Department of Computer Science, Tulane University
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Special Applied Math Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Motility at microscopic scale
Antonio De Simone, SISSA
Monday, December 01, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Singular Eigenvalue Perturbation Theory
Barry Simon, Caltech
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Force scaling behavior of actomyosin stress fibers
Ben Fogelson, NYU Courant Institute
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Arithmetic quotients of the mapping class group
Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Big science with little data: a new wave-vortex decomposition method for one-dimensional spectra in the atmosphere and ocean
Oliver BUHLER, CIMS
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: evisiting Contact and Conformal Geometry
Abbas Bahri, Rutgers Univ.
Friday, December 05, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: An immersed-boundary method for suspensions of rigid bodies
Aleksandar Donev, Courant Institue
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Statistical Mechanics arising from Random Matrix theory
Thomas Spencer, IAS
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Noisy heteroclinic networks and sequential decision making
Yuri Bakhtin,
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 102
Title: The total surgery obstruction
Andrew Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
*** Please note the time and location have changed for this seminar
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function
Lucy Colwell, Cambridge University
Monday, December 08, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A new potential-theoretic formulation for Maxwell's equations: geometry and analysis
Felipe Vico, Polytechnic University of Valencia
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Modeling the zebrafish animal model
Maurizio Porfiri, Polytechnic School of Engineering, NYU
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Computational Geometry in Air Traffic Management
Joseph Mitchell, Stony Brook University
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A non-local variational problem arising from studies of nonlinear charge screening in graphene monolayers
Cyrill Muratov, NJIT
NYU SoE
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 304
Title: Randomness and genericity in (some of) mathematics
Igor Rivin, Temple University
Six Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Friday, December 12, 2014
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Violation of the area law in quantum spin chains
Ramis Movassagh, Northeastern, MIT
Holiday Lecture and Party
2:00PM,
WWH 109
Title: The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences: A Historical Perspective, 1934-1972
Brittany Shields, CIMS
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Two modes of urine formation in neonatal rat kidney by means of optimization problems
Mariano Marcano, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Showcase
5:00PM,
WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2014 SHOWCASE
Various speakers,
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions for the thin-film equation
Mohamed Majdoub, Faculte de Sciences de Tunis