Fall 2016
Monday, August 15, 2016
Summer Showcase
6:00PM,
WWH WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2016 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.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Special Event
10:00AM,
WWH 109
Title: Conference on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry at Courant
Various speakers, Please see link for further details
Thursday, September 01, 2016
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Uniqueness of weak solutions to Ricci flow, and Perelman's convergence conjecture
Bruce Kleiner, NYU
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Flow-structure interaction at the micro-scale
Megan Davis Wykes, CIMS
Friday, September 09, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the Linear Convergence of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm
Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon University
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Edge states in honeycomb structures
James Lee-Thorpe, CIMS
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 13014
Title: Fast Reactive Brownian Dynamics
Aleksandar Donev, Courant Institute, NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Locally conformally Kähler manifolds with potential
Liviu Ornea, University of Bucharest
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Mean Field Limits for Ginzburg-Landau Vortices
Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Explorations in biofluids: Stokes oddities
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Synchronization of Large Linear Oscillator Arrays
Peter Veerman, Portland State University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
5:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Topological conjugacy of iterated random orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle
Peter Veerman, Portland State University
Friday, September 16, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fast Approximation of the Stability Radius and the H-infinity Norm for Large-Scale Linear Dynamical Systems with Output Feedback
Michael Overton, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Absorbing-State Phase Transitions
Leo Rolla, U. de Buenos Aires and NYU Shanghai
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Entropic and Displacement interpolation of probability distributions
Tryphon Georgiou, University of Minnesota and UC Irvine
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:30PM,
WWH 705
Title: Topological conjugacy of iterated random orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle
Julian Newman, Imperial College
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Interactive Clustering
Adam Lelkes, University of Illinois at Chicago
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Geometrical Problems Inspired by Partitions and Compositions.
Joseph Malkevitch, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, York College (CUNY).
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Uniqueness of weak solutions to Ricci flow, and Perelman's convergence conjecture
Bruce Kleiner, CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long-term commitment
Matthias MENGEL, Potsdam Institute for Climate Research
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The relaxation of a general family of broken bond crystal surface models
Jeremy Marzuola, University of North Carolina
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Non-Monotonic Aging and Memory Retention in Disordered Mechanical Systems
Yoav Lahini, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Exponential Growth of Periodic Orbits and Entropy
Yun Yang, CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, September 23, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Mesh-free finite difference methods for fully nonlinear elliptic equations
Brittany Froese, NJIT
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Optimization on Sparse Random Graphs and its Applications
Subhabrata Sen, Stanford
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Variational problems on graphs and their continuum limits
Dejan Slepcev, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Variational current-coupling gyrokinetic-MHD
Joshua Burby, Courant Institute NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Good reduction of three-point Galois covers
Andrew Obus, University of Virginia
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Spectral thresholds in the bipartite stochastic block model
Laura Florescu, NYU
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: On Network Disconnectivities with Applications.
Alon Efrat, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the Cauchy problem for vortex rings
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1214
Title: Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast
Meredith Betterton, University of Colorado Boulder
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: TOWARD A CLASSIFICATION OF LOCAL OORT GROUPS
Andrew Obus, University of Virginia
Sunday, October 02, 2016
Probability Seminar
11:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: Splitting of a gap in the bulk of the spectrum of random matrices.
Igor Krasovsky, Imperial College
Monday, October 03, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBD
Vladimir ZAKHAROV, University of Arizona, Lebedev Physical Institute
Tuesday, October 04, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Spontaneous Oscillation and Fluid-Structure Interaction of Cilia
Jihun Han, Courant Institute, NYU
Wednesday, October 05, 2016
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Poincare inequalities via quantitative connectivity, and differentiability in metric measure spaces
Sylvester Eriksson-Bique, NYU
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Clouds, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity in Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations of Self-Aggregation of Convection
Allison WING, Columbia
Thursday, October 06, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Two-dimensional steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains
Julien Guillod, Princeton Univ.
Friday, October 07, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Cubature, approximation, and isotropy in the hypercube
Nick Trefethen, University of Oxford and CIMS
Probability Seminar
10:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: Heat kernel bounds for interacting particle systems
Jean-Christophe Mourrat, CNRS
Probability Seminar
11:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: Liouville quantum gravity and peanoshere
Xin Sun, MIT
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: From Seismology to Compressed Sensing and Back, a Brief History of Optimization-Based Signal Processing
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Large deviation theory applied to climate physics, a new frontier of statistical physics and applied mathematics
Freddy Bouchet, ENS de Lyon and CNRS
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Title: Inference on Graphs with Noisy Side Information: Tight Rates and Efficient Algorithms.
Dylan Foster, Cornell University
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Seasonal prediction and predictability of Arctic sea ice in a dynamical forecast system
Mitch BUSHUK, GFDL
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Remarks on incompatible and compatible sets of matrices
John Ball, University of Oxford
Friday, October 14, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Big Data Management and Apache Flink: Key Challenges and (Some) Solutions
Volker Markl, TU Berlin and DFKI
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stable Matchings and Scarf’s Lemma
Rakesh Vohra, UPenn
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Dynamos in Rapidly Rotating Convection with no Inertia
David Hughes, University of Leeds
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Mathematical biology and pharmacology models in Pharma: challenges and applications
Karim Azer, Translational Informatics, Sanofi US
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Log birational boundedness of Calabi-Yau pairs
Gabriele di Cerbo, Columbia University
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Bandits and agents: How to incentivize exploration?
Alex Slivkins, Microsoft Research
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Means and convex hulls in tree space.
Megan Owen, Lehman College, CUNY
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Radiative convective equilibrium as a framework for studying the interaction between convection and its large-scale environment
Levi SILVERS, GFDL
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fourth order equations in conformal geometry
Paul Yang, Princeton Univ.
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Formation of Large Scale Vortices in Rotating Convection and Their Resulting Dynamo Action
David Hughes, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
Special Applied Math Seminar
4:45PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Data-driven techniques for modeling, control, and sensor placement
Eurika Kaiser, U. Washington
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: A PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF RANKS OF ELLIPTIC CURVES
Alvaro Lozano Robledo, University of Connecticut
Friday, October 21, 2016
Courant Instructor Day
10:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Courant Instructor Day
Various Speakers,
10:00-10:15 Tobias Grafke
Computation of large deviation transition pathways for chemical and
biological systems
10:15-10:30 Ori Hirshberg
Real-space condensation: statics, dynamics and large deviations
10:30-10:45 Thang Nguyen
Quasi-isometric embeddings of symmetric spaces and euclidean buildings
10:45-11:00 Brandon Seward
Entropy theory for actions of non-amenable groups
BREAK
11:15-11:30 Lisa Hartung
Extremal processes in branching brownian motion and friends
11:30-11:45 Tobias Johnson
The frog model (an interacting particle system)
11:45-12:00 Thomas Leble
Microscopic behaviour of eigenvalues and charged particles
12:00-12:15 Emilio Zappa
Monte Carlo methods on submanifolds and applications to self-assembly of
sticky-sphere clusters
LUNCH
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Structured Prediction and Deep Learning
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Special Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 524
Title: Global solutions to the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system
P. LeFloch, Univ. Paris 6
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Modeling the Mitral Valve
Alex Kaiser, Courant Institute, NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Motivic Euler products
Margaret Bilu, ENS
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Lin Xiao, Microsoft Research
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Placing a Point to Maximize Angles.
Mark Yagnatinsky,
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Differentiability and rectifiability on metric planes
Guy David, NYU
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Extreme heat waves sampled through large deviation algorithms
Freddy BOUCHET, Lyon
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Prandtl's boundary layers: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Toan Nguyen, Penn State Univ.
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Hydrodynamic quantum analogs
John W. M. Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The ant in high-dimensional labyrinths (I)
Gérard Ben Arous, Courant
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: From Dominant Eigenspace Computation to Orthogonal Constrained Optimization Problems
Xin Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences and CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The ant in high-dimensional labyrinths (II)
Alexander Fribergh, U. Montréal
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Bistable Dynamics of Perceiving Ambiguous Stimuli
John Rinzel,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Optimization on manifolds to solve low-rank semidefinite relaxations
Nicolas Boumal, Princeton
Monday, October 31, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Convection, jets and atmospheric circulation in an idealized aquaplanet model
Penelope MAHER, University of Exeter
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Uniformity of integral points and Lang-Vojta's conjecture
Kenny Ascher, Brown University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Configurations of lines in 3-space and rigidity of planar structures.
Orit Raz, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.
Wednesday, November 02, 2016
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Bounded Ricci curvature and the codimension 4 conjecture
Jeff Cheeger, CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Representing Agricultural Land Management in Earth System Models
Sonali MCDERMID, NYU
Thursday, November 03, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Vectorial nonlinear potential theory
Tuomo Kuusi, Aalto University (Helsinki)
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Drop electrohydrodynamics under strong electric fields: Three singular limits
Ehud Yariv, Department of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Quantifying the ‘tails’ of extreme events in intermittent systems, a probabilistic-decomposition based approach
Mustafa MOHAMAD, MIT
Friday, November 04, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A fluctuating boundary integral method for Brownian suspensions
Aleks Donev, CIMS
Probability Seminar
10:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: Variational principles for discrete maps
Martin Tassy, UCLA
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Fibrations, subsurface projections and veering triangulations
Yair Minsky, Yale
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the asymptotic performance of l_q regularized least squares
Arian Maleki, Columbia
Probability Seminar
11:30PM,
WWH 512
Title: Quenched large deviations for random walks on supercritical percolation clusters
Chiranjib Mukherjee, WIAS Berlin
Monday, November 07, 2016
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: A message passing algorithm for cryo-EM and synchronization problems
Alex Wein, MIT
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A Probability Polling State—the Maximum Entropy Principle in Neuronal Data Analysis
Zhi-Qin John Xu, New York University, Abu Dhabi and Courant Institute, NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:10PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Existence of twisted symmetric differentials and the geometry of projective subvarieties
Christopher Langdon, University of Miami
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Sea surface temperatures, planetary rotation rate, and precipitation in the African Sahel and the Intertropical Convergence Zone
Spencer HILL, Caltech
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: A new vertical-versus-horizontal isoperimetric inequality on the Heisenberg group, with applications to metric geometry and approximation algorithms
Assaf Naor, Princeton
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: GEMPIC: Geometric ElectroMagnetic Particle-In-Cell Methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell System and Gyrokinetics
Michael Kraus, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the critical points of optimization problems arising from low rank factorization approaches to semidefinite programming
Afonso Bandeira, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The genesis of "critters": a multi-part story
Blaise Delmotte, Courant Institute, NYU.
Probability Seminar
5:00PM,
WWH
Title: Optimality and sub-optimality of PCA for spiked random matrix models
Amelia Perry, MIT
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: THE MINIMAL NUMBER OF GENERATORS AND DENSITY OF GENERATING SETS OF ALGEBRAS FINITE OVER THE INTEGERS
Marcin Mazur, SUNY at Binghamton
Friday, November 11, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Data assimilation by the Ensemble Kalman filter and other particle filters — why are 50 ensemble members enough?
Matti Morzfeld, University of Arizona at Tucson
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: LDP and CLT for fluctuations of Coulomb gases
Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Grand Computational Challenges in Phylogenomics
Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Traveling Waves in Myxobacteria
Angelika Manhart, CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Sea surface temperatures, planetary rotation rate, and precipitation in the African Sahel and the Intertropical Convergence Zone
Spencer HILL, Caltech
Monday, November 14, 2016
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Energy Identity for Stationary Yang Mills
Aaron Naber, Northwestern University
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Regularization of collapse in the dynamics of biological cells: connecting microscopic and macroscopic scales
Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:10PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Hyperplane sections of K3 surfaces
Enrico Arbarello, University of Rome
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Solving k-SUM using few linear queries using point location.
John Iacono, New York University.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: The structure of currents in R^n and in metric spaces
Andrea Schioppa, ETH
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The dynamics of a three-dimensional ocean overturning circulation
Andrew THOMPSON, Caltech
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Paracontrolled calculus and singular PDES through the heat semigroup
Frederic Bernicot, University of Nantes
Joint CUNY Graduate Center-Courant Seminar in Symbolic-Numeric Computing
4:10PM,
Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Root Separation Bound
Hoon Hong, NC State University
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: CAPACITY THEORY AND OPTIMALITY OF COPPERSMITH'S THEOREM
Zachary Scherr, Bucknell University
Friday, November 18, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fast convolution with free-space Green’s functions. Applications to molecular electrostatics, acoustic and electromagnetic scattering and plasma physics
Felipe Vico, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Predicting the cloud patterns of the Madden-Julian Oscillation through a low-order nonlinear stochastic model
Nan Chen, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: evolving dynamical systems for temperature compensated clocks and developmental patterning
Eric Siggia, Rockefeller
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Machine Learning, Data Science and Decisions for a Better Planet
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Oxford
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Monday, November 21, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Convergence of phase-field models and thresholding schemes to multi-phase mean-curvature flow
Tim Laux, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Prime number theorems for hyperbolic manifolds and rational maps
Hee Oh, Yale University
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Spike Triggered Regression on Neuronal Network Reconstruction
Yaoyu Zhang, New York University, Abu Dhabi and Courant Institute, NYU
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Load Balanced Routing using area-preserving maps and medial axis.
Mayank Goswami, Queens College (CUNY)
Monday, November 28, 2016
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Mathematical optimization for data analysis
Soledad Villar, UT Austin
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Special Applied Mathematics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: The dissassembly of viral capsids as a case study for the stability of large complexes made of repeated building blocks.
Paolo Cermelli, University of Torino
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:10PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Hyperelliptic loci in moduli spaces of curves
Nicola Tarasca, University of Utah
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Modeling and dynamics of the non-traditional Coriolis force in geophysical flows
Marine TORT, Scripps / UCSD
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Demixing Sines and Spikes: Spectral Super-resolution in the Presence of Outliers
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Motion of a hot particle in viscous fluids
Naomi Oppenheimer, Simons Foundation.
Friday, December 02, 2016
NEW YORK AREA THEORY DAY
9:30AM,
WWH 109
Title: Host: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Various Speakers,
The New York Area Theory Day is a semi-annual conference, aimed to bring together people in the New York Metropolitan area for one day of interaction and discussion. The meeting is free and open to everyone; in particular, students are encouraged to attend.
PROGRAM
9:15 - 9:45 Coffee and bagels
9:45 - 10:40 Prof. Sofya Raskhodnikova
Differentially Private Analysis of Graphs
10:40 - 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 - 12:00 Short presentations by students and postdocs
(details to be announced)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 - 2:55 Prof. Aleksander Madry
Continuous Optimization: The “Right” Language
for Graph Algorithms?
2:55 - 3:05 Coffee break
3:05 - 3:45 Short presentations by students and postdocs
(details to be announced)
3:45 - 3:55 Coffee break
3:55 - 4:50 Prof. Uriel Feige
Approximate Modularity Revisited
5:00 - 7:00 Follow-up social (location to be announced)
PROGRAM
9:15 - 9:45 Coffee and bagels
9:45 - 10:40 Prof. Sofya Raskhodnikova
Differentially Private Analysis of Graphs
10:40 - 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 - 12:00 Short presentations by students and postdocs
(details to be announced)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 - 2:55 Prof. Aleksander Madry
Continuous Optimization: The “Right” Language
for Graph Algorithms?
2:55 - 3:05 Coffee break
3:05 - 3:45 Short presentations by students and postdocs
(details to be announced)
3:45 - 3:55 Coffee break
3:55 - 4:50 Prof. Uriel Feige
Approximate Modularity Revisited
5:00 - 7:00 Follow-up social (location to be announced)
Probability Seminar
10:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: Gaussian complex zeros on the hole event: the emergence of a forbidden region
Alon Nishry, U. Michigan
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Model Reduction for Edge-Weighted Personalized PageRank
David Bindel, Cornell University
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multi-period Portfolio Selection and Bayesian Dynamic Models
Petter Kolm,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A mathematical framework for the classification of Self-assembling Polypeptide Nanoparticles
Giuliana Indelicato, University of Torino
Monday, December 05, 2016
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Nonlocality in Fluids
Peter Constantin, Princeton University
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Landau damping in the Kuramoto model
Helge Dietert, University Paris 7
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Simulating laser-wakefield acceleration with pseudo-spectral Particle-In-Cell algorithms
Remi Lehe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Counting Ordinary Lines over the Complex Numbers.
Charles Wolf, Rutgers University.
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO
Sulian THUAL, NYU
Thursday, December 08, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Hamiltonians and normal forms for water waves
Walter Craig, McMaster Univ.
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Bayesian determination of static chromatin structure from Hi-C data and DCS studies of chromatin dynamics in ESCs and derived neurons fluids
Simeon Carstens, Center for Soft Matter Research, Department of Physics, NYU
Computer Science Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 102
Title: Extensible, Performance-Aware, SMM-based Runtime Integrity Measurement
Karen Karavanic, Portland State University
***Please note the unusual time and day of this event
*Refreshments will be served at 12:15pm
*Refreshments will be served at 12:15pm
Friday, December 09, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Optimization methods for optimal transport in imaging
Dirk Lorenz, TU-Braunschweig
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Differential forms on Dirichlet spaces and Bakry-Emery estimates on metric graphs
Fabrice Baudoin, U. of Connecticut
Monday, December 12, 2016
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Uniqueness of weak solutions to the Ricci flow and topological applications
Richard Bamler, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Analysis Seminar
3:15PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Sergei Kuksin, Univ. Paris 7
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Elasto-capillary phenomena in thin solids: Singular mechanics and irregular geometry
Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Friday, December 16, 2016
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Florent Bekerman, MIT
Probability Seminar
11:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: Extensions of the Erdös-Rényi Law of Large Numbers
Yuri Kifer, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem and U. of Pennsylvania
Monday, December 19, 2016
NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2016 SHOWCASE
5:30PM,
WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2016 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.
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.