Fall 2015

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
4:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Asymmetry in regional sea level projections
Roderik VAN DE WAL, Utrecht University

Friday, September 04, 2015

Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Raney distribution and random matrices
Peter Forrester, Melbourne

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Cone volume measure of convex bodies.
Gaoyong Zhang, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: An Applied Math Perspective on Climate Science, Turbulence, and Other Complex Systems (Lagrange Prize Lecture)
Andrew Majda, Courant

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Special joint AMS + MFD Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Accelerated Simulation Methods for Plasma Kinetics
Russel Caflisch, IPAM, UCLA
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Flapping wings propelling in a fluid
Sophie Ramananarivo, CIMS

Friday, September 11, 2015

Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Long-time influence of small perturbations
Mark Freidlin, Maryland
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Sparse Mean-Field Optimal Control: Can Governments Really Lead the Society?
Massimo Fornasier, Technical University of Munich

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Sharp interface limit in a phase field model of cell motility
Leonid Berlyand, Pennsylvania State University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: The Kodaira dimension of complex hyperbolic manifolds
Benjamin Bakker, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Compactness questions for triholomorphic maps
Costante Bellettini,
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Internal Wave Excitation by Turbulent Convection
Daniel Lecoanet, UC Berkeley
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 905
Title: Open Gromov-Witten invariants and combinatorial counts of real rational plane curves
Amitai Zernik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Friday, September 18, 2015

Probability Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Scaling Limits of Disordered Systems: Marginal Relevance and Universality
Rongfeng Sun, Singapore
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: EULER-MACLAURIN, GREGORY, AND OTHER EQUISPACED INTERPOLANTS
Lloyd N. Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Products of random matrices
Arno Kuijlaars, Leuven
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Coupling surface diffusion and mean curvature motion
Amy Novick-Cohen,

Monday, September 21, 2015

Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM, WWH 1314
Title: Projection-Free Optimization and Online Learning
Elad Hazan, Princeton University

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Inhibition-based theta resonance in a hippocampal network: a modeling study
Horacio G. Rotstein, NJIT
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Skeletons, degenerations, and Gromov-Witten theory
Dhruv Ranganathan, Yale University

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Boundary Layer Thermodynamic Surveillance for High-Impact Local Weather Forecasting
Randolph 'Stick' WARE, Radiometrics

Friday, September 25, 2015

Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Signed loop representations of Ising correlations
Wouter Kager, Amsterdam

Monday, September 28, 2015

Data Science Seminar
12:00PM, Other 726 Broadway, 7th floor
Title: They can't arrest us all: working with the WikiLeaks Cable Release Data
Arthur Spirling, NYU

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Phase transitions in the evolution of phenotypic memory
Antun Skanata, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Non-abelian Lefschetz hyperplane theorems
Daniel Litt, Columbia University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Combinatorial geometry via equivariant topology and finite Fourier analysis.
Steven Simon, Wellesley College

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The role of mixed layer instabilities in submesoscale turbulence
Jorn CALLIES, MIT

Thursday, October 01, 2015

Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Diffusion and rheology in crowded, 3D-confined suspensions: A model for intracellular transport
Roseanna Zia, Cornell University
NYU SoE
5:10PM, Off-Campus Rogers Hall 302
Title: Valuations on Function Spaces
Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Science and Technology

Friday, October 02, 2015

Courant Instructor Day
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Various
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Monday, October 05, 2015

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Who Will save fusion- Harry Potter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, or Donald Trump?
Jeffrey Freidberg, MIT
***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Modeling cell calcium dynamics on fine spatio-temporal scales: comparison of deterministic and stochastic approaches, and novel steady-state "nano-domain" approximations
Victor Matveev, NJIT
Special Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 101
Title: Physical Aspects of Spindle Assembly
Daniel Needleman, Harvard
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Counterexamples to the local-to-global principle for rational points in low dimension
Alexei Skorobogatov, Imperial College, London
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: An Exposition of the Green-Tao Paper “On Sets Defining Few Ordinary Lines"
Jon Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Nuclear Famine: The Threat to Humanity From Nuclear Weapons
Alan ROBOCK, Rutgers University

Thursday, October 08, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Boundary expansions for the Loewner-Nirenberg problem
Qing Han, University of Notre Dame
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Earth-System Stability Through Geologic Time
Daniel Rothman, MIT
Special Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 101
Title: Spontaneous flow in active fluids
Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM, WWH 705
Title: Lyapunov exponents for SL(2,R) cocycles.
Thomas Spencer, IAS
NYU SoE Colloquium
5:10PM, Off-Campus
Title: Integral versus differential geometry
Joseph Fu, University of Georgia

Friday, October 09, 2015

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Fast Steerable Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications
Jane Zhao,
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
11:15AM, WWH 1302
Title: Atmospheric constraints on ocean physics and biogeochemistry
Laure RESPLANDY, Scripps
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Fluid-Structure Interaction by the Immersed Boundary Method
Charles S. Peskin, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The semidefinite program PhaseLift can solve phase retrieval with corrupted data
Paul Hand, Rice University

Monday, October 12, 2015

Data Science Lunch Seminar
12:00PM, Other 726 Broadway. 7th floor
Title: Introducing the Divergent Autoencoder Classifier for Machine Learning Applications
Kenneth J. Kurtz, Binghamton University (SUNY)

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Implicit particle-in-cell algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations
Guangye Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: How to count zeros arithmetically?
Jesse Kass, University of South Carolina

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On the Helmholtz equations with sign changing coefficients
Hoai-Minh Nguyen, EPFL
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: A high-order Immersed Boundary method for solving PDE on arbitrary smooth domains using Fourier spectral methods
David Stein, UC Davis

Friday, October 16, 2015

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Avoiding Communication in Krylov Subspace Methods
Erin Carson, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Local eigenvalue statistics for random regular graphs
Roland Bauerschmidt, Harvard
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM, WWH 1302
Title: Conveying and Analyzing Shapes: From Art to Science
Alla Sheffer, University of British Columbia
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Flexibility, stroke, and dimensionless parameters: the importance of telling the whole story for swimming micro-organisms in complex fluids
Becca Thomases, UC Davis

Monday, October 19, 2015

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Graphs, vectors and integers
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and Institute for Advanced Study
***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM, WWH 1314
Title: Logarithmic Time Online Multiclass Prediction
Anna Choromanska,

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Materials Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: The Ginzburg-Landau Model of Superconductivity with Prescribed Topological Degree on the Boundary
Alex Mesiats, CIMS
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: A benefit of randomness in synaptic vesicle release
Calvin Zhang, NYU Courant Institute
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Realization of sign matrices in Euclidean spaces
Noga Alon, Tel-Aviv University and IAS

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Title: A New Analytic Approach to Wave Turbulence
Tristan Buckmaster, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Avian flight as an inspiration for drone design
David Lentink, Stanford University

Friday, October 23, 2015

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Merits and Pitfalls of Splitting Methods
Alexander Ostermann, University of Innsbruck
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: The Gaussian Product Conjecture
Ivan Nourdin, Luxembourg
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Extremal processes for some Gaussian random fields
Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute and Courant Institute
Courant Faculty Meeting and New Faculty Reception
2:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Courant Faculty Meeting and New Faculty Reception
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** Reception to follow in the lounge
Math Career Panel Series
5:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Actuarial Science
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Monday, October 26, 2015

Data Science Lunch Seminar
12:00PM, Other 726 Broadway, 7th floor
Title: Classification of metagenomic sequences: How to make it faster and more accurate
Rachid Ounit, UC Rvierside
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: From discrete dislocation models to gradient plasticity
Stefan Mueller, Institute for Applied Mathematics & Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM, WWH 1314
Title: Machine Learning and Crowdsourcing
Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Rescuing phase space in higher-order variational drift kinetics
Joshua Burby, CIMS
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Rigidity and glassiness in dense biological tissues
Dapeng "Max" Bi, Rockefeller University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Enumerative Combinatorics of Graphs and Cell Complexes: Theorems of Trent and of Kirchhoff and Reidemeister-Franz Torsion.
Sylvain Cappell, CIMS

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Solar Geoengineering - what do (and don't) we know?
Douglas MCMARTIN, Caltech

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On the existence of the V-states for some transport models
Zineb Hassainia, CIMS

Friday, October 30, 2015

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Predicting Extreme Events in Fluid Turbulence with the Instanton Formalism: Numerical Computation of Large Deviation Minimizers
Tobias Grafke, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: TBA
Nicholas Cook, UCLA
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Mean Curvature Flow of Reifenberg Sets.
Or Hershkovits, NYU
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Jonathan Goodman, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Finding planets in very noisy data from stars.
David W Hogg, NYU Physics
Math Career Panel Series
5:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Finance/Consulting
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Monday, November 02, 2015

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Proximal Processing for Big Data
Patrick Combettes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Survival Analysis Using Probabilistic Graphical Models and Philosophical Causation with Applications to Cancer Genomics
Ilya Korsunsky, NYU Courant Institute
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: From chip-firing on graphs to the Brill-Noether theorem
Sam Payne, Yale University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Random walk with different directions.
Simao Herdade, Rutgers University

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Special Applied Math Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Biological morphology and discrete differential geometry
Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Turbulence, jets, and beta-plumes studied with laboratory altimetry
Lakov AFANASSIEV, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Thursday, November 05, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic Arnold diffusion of deterministic systems
Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 314
Title: Computations and analysis of the initial value problem for hydroelastic waves
Michael Siegel, NJIT
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Quadrics and twisted symmetric differentials
Bruno de Oliveira, University of Miami

Friday, November 06, 2015

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Core-Chasing Algorithms for Eigenvalue Computation
David Watkins, Washington State University
Analysis Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 101
Title: Continuous Data Assimilation for Geophysical Models Employing Coarse Mesh Observables
Edriss Titi, U. C. - Irvine
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Random walks in Beta random environment
Guillaume Barraquand, Columbia
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM, WWH 1302
Title: Snakes and Ladders
Jade Alglave, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) & University College London
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Modified scattering for the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (mKdV)
Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Topics in Equilibrium Transportation
Alfred Galichon,
Dynamical Systems Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 705
Title: Birkhoff Conjecture for convex planar billiards and spectral rigidity
Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland
Math Career Panel Series
5:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Entrepreneurship
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Monday, November 09, 2015

Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM, WWH 1314
Title: Online Methods for Prediction in Evolving (Social) Networks
Sasha Rakhlin, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Qualitative features of transient responses: A case study: scale-invariance
Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Icosahedral Order in Materials Science and Geometry, Part I: Real material.
Jean Taylor, CIMS

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

SPECIAL Applied Math Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 317
Title: Prediction and quantification of rare events in nonlinear water waves
Themis Sapsis,
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Low mode internal tide observation and propagation in a turbulent Ocean
Aurelien PONTE, IFREMER

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Linear and nonlinear waves on spherically symmetric spacetimes
Ioannis Angelopoulos, Princeton University
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Understanding particle transport and diffusion in active suspensions: a multiscale study
Blaise Delmotte, Courant Institute, NYU
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM, WWH 705
Title: Landau damping in the Kuramoto model
Bastien Fernandez, Université Paris Diderot
Dynamical Systems Seminar
5:00PM, WWH 705
Title: Landau damping in the Kuramoto model
Bastien Fernandez, Université Paris Diderot

Friday, November 13, 2015

New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM, WWH 109
Title: IBM/NYU/Columbia
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Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints methods: state-of-the-art, current implementation in PETSc and future perspectives.
Stefano Zampini, KAUST
Probability Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Further advances in nonconventional limit theorems
Yuri Kifer, Jerusalem
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Random transposition dynamics on Random regular graphs and the Gaussian Free Field
Shirshendu Ganguly, Seattle
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Corner singularities, Gibbs phenomenon and the Unified Transform Method
Tom Trogdon,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Counting of freedom in symmetric frameworks
Louis Theran, Aalto University
Math Career Panel Series
5:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Data Science
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: In silico pharmacology: from mathematical modeling to experiments
Hamid Noori, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Analysis Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: The program toward computing the topological degree of Toda system of rank 2
Chang-Shou Lin, National Taiwan University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: On rational varieties of small degree
Davide Fusi, Ohio State University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Erős-Szekeres type theorems for planar convex sets
Ted Bisztriczky, University of Calgary

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Absolute continuity and rectifiability of harmonic measure
Svitlana Mayboroda, Univ. Minnesota
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM, WWH 1302
Title: Computational Design with Nonlinear Constraints
Chengcheng Tang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Analytical model for internal wave generation using the characteristic method
Leo MAAS, Stony Brook
Lecture and Reception in Honor of the Glen de Vries Professorship in Health Statistics
4:00PM, WWH 109
Title: How Will Machine Learning Change Health Care?
David Sontag, Courant Institute
A reception will follow in the 13th floor lounge.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Northeast Probability Seminar
9:00AM, Other , Room 912/914 Kimmel Center
Title: Fourteenth Northeast Probability Seminar
Various Speakers, Please see link for details
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Pin Yu, Tsinghua University
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Flow Chemistry and Engineering with Microchemical Systems for Chemicals, Energy, Healthcare, and Sustainability
Ryan L. Hartman, NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00PM, WWH 905
Title: Bogomolov's program of birational anabelian geometry, and the disjoint divisor theorem
Aaron Silberstein, University of Chicago

Friday, November 20, 2015

Northeast Probability Seminar
9:00AM, WWH 109
Title: Fourteenth Northeast Probability Seminar
Various Speakers, Please click link for details
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On Nonsingular Saddle-Point Systems with a Maximally Rank-Deficient Leading Block
Chen Greif, UBC
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Quantitative Bi-Lipschitz embeddings of bounded curvature manifolds and orbifolds
Sylvester Eriksson-Bique, NYU
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM, WWH 1302
Title: Constrained optimization problems in MR image reconstruction: Current trends and open questions
Florian Knoll, New York University School of Medicine
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Rationality: reasonable or not
Alena Pirutka, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Sharp Interface Methods for Cardiac Fluid-Structure Interaction
Amneet Bhalla, University of North Carolina

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: The spectral web: A new angle on the stability of stationary plasma flows
J.P. (Hans) Goedbloed, FOM Institute DIFFER
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 412
Title: Kinetic, Nonlinear, Non-Stationary, Multimode, Self-Sustaining Structures in Vlasov Plasmas
Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Metabolic cooperation among tumor cells
Carlos Carmona-Fontaine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Conflict-Free Covering.
Gui Citovsky, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, December 01, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: On the Virtues of Simple Models: From Resolving a Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Anomaly to Quantifying the Efficacy of Brain Tumour Therapies
James Murray, Princeton University and University of Oxford

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Modeling the effects of Continental U.S. convection of the dynamics of the troposphere and stratosphere
Claudia STEPHAN,

Thursday, December 03, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Asymptotic behavior of the mKdV
Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths, CIMS
RTG Seminar
4:00PM, WWH 805
Title: Talk for Graduate Students
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RTG Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: On the module structure of holomorphic differentials in positive characteristic
Frauke Bleher, University of Iowa

Friday, December 04, 2015

Probability Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Aging in a logarithmically correlated potential
Oren louidor, Technion
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Parallel Computing and Numerical Optimization
Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Random walks, Laplacians, and volumes in sub-Riemannian geometry
Robert Neel, Lehigh University
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Curve complexes for cube complexes
Jason Behrstock, CUNY
Holiday Lecture and Party
1:00PM, WWH 109
Title: The Little Lab in the Lobby
Professor Jun Zhang, Courant Institute
A reception will follow in the lounge.

Monday, December 07, 2015

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Coordinate Descent Algorithms
Stephen J. Wright, U. Wisconsin - Madison

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Irregular neural activity: how to achieve it and how to restore it
Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Icosahedral Order in Materials Science and Geometry, Part II: If not tilings, then what?
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Spatiospectral localization on the sphere: Charting the interior of the Earth and mapping its ice cover melt through time-variable satellite gravity
Frederik SIMONS, Princeton University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:30PM, WWH 705
Title: Inspiration from respiration: new results in multiple-time-scale dynamics arising in the study of respiratory neuron models
Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Optimal Hardy-type inequality for nonnegative second-order elliptic operator: an answer to a problem of Shmuel Agmon
Yehuda Pinchover, Technion
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1214
Title: Science-Driven Robots to Study the Fluid Mechanics of Animal Propulsion
Michael Triantafyllou, MIT

Friday, December 11, 2015

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Transport of probability measures in high dimensions with applications to Bayesian inference
Alessio Spantini, MIT
Probability Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Asymptotics in periodic TASEP with step initial condition
Zhipeng Liu, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: A universality result for the random matrix hard edge
Brian Rider, Temple University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM, WWH 1302
Title: GIVEN A NETWORK, PREDICT ITS FUTURE
Roger Guimera, ICREA and Rovira i Virgili University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Odometers, cutting and stacking, graphs, and flat surfaces: a magic trick
Rodrigo Treviño,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Convex Duality in Math Finance
Qiji Zhu, Western Michigan University

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Analysis Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 102
Title: Quasi-periodic standing wave solutions of gravity-capillary water waves
Massimiliano Berti, SISSA
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, WWH 101
Title: Nonsmooth Optimization via Piecewise Differentiation
Andreas Griewank, Yachay Tech, Ecuador and Humboldt University, Berlin

Friday, December 18, 2015

Fall Showcase
4:00PM, WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2015 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.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH
Title: Time periodic solutions of the Navier-Stokes-Maxwell system: existence and stability
Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria