Fall 2017

Monday, August 14, 2017

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2017 SHOWCASE
5:30PM, WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2017 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, September 05, 2017

Special Lecture
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Gaussian Elimination
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: TBD
Laure Zanna,

Friday, September 08, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Some new vector spaces of possible linearizations for matrix polynomials
Heike Fassbender, University of Braunschweig
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Beurling estimates, heat kernel decay and DLA
Ariel Yadin, Ben Gurion University

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Special Lecture
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Random Functions and Random Differential Equations
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Algebraic representatives and intermediate Jacobians over perfect fields
Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, University of Colorado
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Further Consequences of The Colorful Helly Hypothesis.
Natan Rubin, Ben-Gurion University

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Understanding the Impact of Arctic Amplification on the Midlatitude Circulation Using a Hierarchy of Models
Yutian Wu, Lamont

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The Sphere Covering Inequality and Its Applications
Amir Moradifam, UC Riverside
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium Hall 150
Title: Adaptive Regularization
Yoram Singer, Princeton

Friday, September 15, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Low-rank methods for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty
Peter Benner, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Surface effects in dense random graphs with sharp constraints
Charles Radin, Universiy of Texas
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Statistics, Computation and Learning with Graph Neural Networks
Joan Bruna Estrach, CIMS

Monday, September 18, 2017

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: The Rough Energy Landscape Problem
Giulio Biroli, Institute for Theoretical Physics CEA Saclay

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Landau damping of sound waves in kinetic magnetohydrodynamics
Jesus Ramos, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
COB Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: A Numerical Study of Human Concept Categorization
Nicole Fider, Mathematics Department, University of California, Irvine
Special Lecture
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Chebyshev Series
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Gonality and the strong uniform boundedness conjecture for periodic points
Bjorn Poonen, MIT

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Understanding and quantifying the stratospheric circulation using age of air
Marianna Katherine Linz, MIT

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
11:00AM, 60FifthAve Room C15
Title: The statistical foundations of learning to control
Ben Recht,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium Hall 150
Title: Conditional Density Estimation through Optimal Transport
Esteban Tabak, CIMS

Friday, September 22, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Pursuing Rapid Convergence for Gradient Sampling-like Methods for Nonsmooth Optimization
Lucas Simoes, University of Campinas, Brazil
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Berry-Esseen Theorem for the Random Conductance Model
Sebastian Andres, Cambridge Univ
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Dense suspensions: Frictional effects in shear thickening and related phenomena
Jeffrey Morris, The City College of New York (Levich Institute)

Monday, September 25, 2017

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Signal Fragmentation for Low Frequency Radio Transmission
Russ Caflisch, NYU, CIMS

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Pseudo spectral collocation with Maxwell polynomials for kinetic equations with energy diffusion
Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet, CIMS
Special Lecture
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Rational Functions
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: The gonality of complete intersection curves
Brooke Ullery, Harvard University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 312
Title: Dynamic Orthogonal Range Searching on the RAM, Revisited.
Konstantinos Tsakalidis, NYU/Tandon

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The dynamics of Atlantic sea level change
Laure Zanna,

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: Extrapolation from sparsity
Laurent Demanet, MIT

Friday, September 29, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On the solution of elliptic partial differential equations on regions with corners
Kirill Serkh, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: On random walks, local limits, and random interlacements in dimension 2
Pierre-Francois Rodriguez, UCLA

Monday, October 02, 2017

Materials Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Surface Diffusion and Related Problems
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion

Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Online Blind Deconvolution for Sequential Through-the-Wall-Radar-Imaging
Hassan Mansour, MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Metriplectic dynamics -- a framework for plasma kinetic theory and numerics
Eero Hirvijoki, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Special Lecture
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Quadrature
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Almost all plane curves are simply connected
Michael McQuillan, IHES
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Optimal Execution, Order-Placement Tactics, and Hamiltonian Dynamics
Jerome Benveniste (joint work with Gordon Ritter), NYU Courant, M.S. Mathematics in Finance

Wednesday, October 04, 2017

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: A rectifiability theorem for anisotropic energies and Plateau problem
Antonio De Rosa, CIMS

Thursday, October 05, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Finite-time singularity formation in incompressible fluids
Tarek Elgindi, UCSD
CS Theory seminar and the Geometric Analysis and Topology (GAT) Seminar
12:15PM, WWH 1302
Title: Geometric Topology meets Computational Complexity
Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: A semidefinite relaxation of k-means clustering
Dustin Mixon, Ohio State

Friday, October 06, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Untangling the nonlinearity in inverse scattering using data-driven reduced order models
Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Homogenization of a class of 1-D nonconvex viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in random media
Atilla Yılmaz, Koç University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Observations of sub-mesoscale shallow, salinity fronts in the Bay of Bengal during winter monsoon
Amit Tandon, U Mass, Dartmouth
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Programming the dynamics of active colloids
Kyle Bishop, Columbia University

Monday, October 09, 2017

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Gauge-string duality in lattice gauge theories
Sourvav Chatterjee, Stanford
(The Tea Service will NOT be provided at this event)

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Does a photon have a linear polarizability and why does it matter?
Ilya Dodin, PPPL and Princeton University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve C15
Title: Tiny Functions for Codecs, Compilation, and (Maybe) Soon Everything
Keith Winstein, Stanford University
Special Lecture
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: ODEs
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Intersections of two Grassmannians in P^9
Alexander Perry, Columbia University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Constructing finite projective planes
J. B. Nation, University of Hawaii

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Computer Science Colloquium
12:30PM, 60FifthAve C15
Title: Under the Covers: The networks of a cloud provider
Jeff Mogul, Google
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Interactions between near-inertial waves and mesoscale mean flow in the ocean
Jin-Han Xie, CIMS

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The Shock Development Problem
Demetri Christodoulou, ETH Zurich
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: (un)conventional regularization for efficient large scale machine learning
Lorenzo Rosasco, MIT
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: NON-ARCHIMEDEAN AX-LINDEMANN THEOREM
Francois Loeser, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, Paris

Friday, October 13, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Isogeometric Analysis and Domain Decomposition
Olof Widlund, CIMS
2017 National Financial Mathematics Career Fair Program
10:00AM, Other 60 Washington Square South
Title: TBA
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Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Covariate-corrected biclustering methods for gene-expression and GWAS data
Aaditya Rangan, CIMS
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Markov chain Monte Carlo and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics in drug discovery
John Chodera,

Monday, October 16, 2017

Materials Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Rigidity of branching microstructures in shape-memory alloys
Thilo Simon, NJIT
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Elastic failures and stochastic successes on the top of the world
John Wettlaufer, Yale

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: The mimetic finite difference method and the mass-lumped finite element method for the Landau-Lifshitz equation
Eugenia Kim, University of California, Berkeley
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Reentrainment of the circadian pacemaker during jet lag: east-west asymmetry and the effects of north-south travel
Amitabha Bose, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: The local-global dimension spectrum of quadratic forms
Asher Auel, Yale
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Routing in Geometric Graphs.
Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Student Probability Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Self-Avoiding Walks on the Honeycomb Lattice
Guillaume Dubach,
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: A cocompactness theorem for convergence groups
Misha Kapovich, UC Davis
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Low-Dimensional Reduced-Order Models for Statistical Response and Uncertainty Quantification in Turbulent Systems
Andrew J. Majda, Courant
Analysis Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 312
Title: SPECIAL WEDNESDAY SEMINAR: The Threshold Theorem for Yang-Mills
Daniel Tataru, U. C. Berkeley

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On multi-dimensional compact solitary patterns
Philip Rosenau, Tel Aviv University
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: Bridging the Gap between Constant Step Size Stochastic Gradient Descent and Markov Chains
Francis Bach, INRIA, ENS
Dynamical Systems Seminar
3:45PM, WWH 705
Title: Rotation theory for higher dimensional torus mappings
Tianqi Wu, Courant

Friday, October 20, 2017

Courant Instructor Day
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Courant Instructor Day
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10:00-10:15 Antonio De Rosa
Anisotropic energies in Pure and Applied Mathematics

10:15-10:30 Margaret Bilu
Rational points on algebraic varieties

10:30-10:45 Ruojun Huang
Some random walk problems on time-dependent graphs

10:45-11:00 Shuyang Ling
Joint blind deconvolution and demixing via nonconvex optimization

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-11:45 Logan Chariker
Emergent dynamics in neuronal populations

11:45-12:00 Madhura Joglekar
Signal propagation in a large-scale circuit model of the primate cortex

12:00-12:15 Calina Copos
Modeling the mechanics of cell locomotion: the effects of cell-surface
interaction and the cytoskeleton

12:15-12:30 Pejman Sanaei
Mathematical Modeling of Tissue Engineering

12:30-12:45 Jin-Han Xie
The interaction between near inertial waves and mesoscale mean flow in
the ocean.
Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
11:00AM, 60FifthAve C15
Title: Approximation of Functions Over Manifolds by Moving Least Squares
Barak Sober, Tel Aviv University

Monday, October 23, 2017

Materials Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: A universal thin film model for Ginzburg-Landau energy with dipolar interaction
Cyrill Muratov, NJIT
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Propagation of chaos and irreversibility in gas dynamics
Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: On the dependence of the Brauer-Manin obstruction on the degree of a variety
Bianca Viray, University of Washington
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Machine Learning Applied to Portfolio Construction
Gontran de Quillacq, Clinton Group
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: When is a sphere quotient a sphere?.
Ben Blum-Smith,

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Homogenization results for Schrodinger operators with wildly varying potentials
Alexis Drouot, Columbia U.

Friday, October 27, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Convexification Techniques for Global Optimization of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization Problems
Aida Khajavirad,
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: The Path to Exascale Computing
Alessandro Morari and Abdullah Kay, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Quantifying simple connectivity: an introduction to the Dehn function
Robert Young, CIMS
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Modeling and large-scale simulation of thin film flows of nematic liquid crystal
Linda J. Cumming, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Next generation neural mass modelling
Áine Byrne, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Semi-stability and iterated logarithms
Fabian Haiden, Harvard University
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Alternative Data in Finance – Interworking of a Buy-Side R&D Team
Gene Ekster, Alternative Data Group
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Affine vs. Euclidean Sobolev inequalities.
Franz Schuster, TU Vienna

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Spaces and moduli spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics
Bernhard Hanke, Augsburg
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Extreme events, tail statistics, and large deviation theory in geophysical flows
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS

Thursday, November 02, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On singularity formation in a Hele-Shaw model
Hyu Nguyen, Princeton University
Special Analysis Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Approximation by Cahn-Hoffman facets and the crystalline mean curvature flow
Yoshikazu Giga, Tokyo University
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: ON RESIDUES OF EISENSTEIN SERIES - THROUGH A COHOMOLOGICAL LENS
Joachim Schwermer, Universität Wien

Friday, November 03, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Accelerated conditional gradient methods for continuous sparse optimization problems
Konstantin Pieper, Florida State University
The Eastern Conference on Mathematical Finance
12:00PM, Off-Campus Columbia University, 220 S. W. Mudd Building, Room 303, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027
Title: @ Columbia
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AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Dynamical fluctuations and large deviations in systems with and without detailed balance
Robert Jack, University of Cambridge

Saturday, November 04, 2017

home The 2nd Eastern Conference on Mathematical Finance
8:00AM, WWH 109
Title: @ NYU Courant
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Sunday, November 05, 2017

The 2nd Eastern Conference on Mathematical Finance
8:00AM, Tandon 5 Metro Tech Center
Title: @ NYU Tandon
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Monday, November 06, 2017

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Nonuniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation
Vlad Vicol, Princeton University

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Computational Neurology – Translational Multiscale Modeling of Brain Disorders
Pedro Doria Maia, Department of Radiology & Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Arithmetic restrictions on geometric monodromy
Daniel Litt, Columbia University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Inference Dimension
John Iacono, New York University and Université Libre de Bruxelles

Thursday, November 09, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Strichartz estimates on irrational tori, and applications
Yu Deng, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: Multiscale Methods for Dictionary Learning, Regression, Measure Estimation and Optimal Transport for data near low-dimensional sets
Mauro Maggioni, John Hopkins

Friday, November 10, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: An Optimal Control Framework for Efficient Training of Deep Neural Networks
Lars Ruthotto, Emory University
Probability Seminar
10:15AM, WWH 512
Title: Stein kernels, optimal transport and the CLT
Max Fathi, Inst. Mathématique de Toulouse
Probability Seminar
11:15AM, WWH 512
Title: On unitarily invariant ensembles of infinite Hermitian matrices
Joseph Najnudel, Univ. Cincinnati
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Untangling the annual cycle of the tropical tropopause layer with an idealized moist model
Edwin Gerber, CIMS
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Data-driven discovery of governing equations and physical laws
Nathan Kutz, University of Washington

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 201
Title: Bilinear inverse problems: theory, algorithms, and applications in imaging science and signal processing
Shuyang Ling, Courant
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
11:15AM, WWH 1314
Title: First of Two COB Talks for 11/14: Can Differential Geometry of Fitness Landscapes Solve the Genotype-Phenotype Problem? Hints from Bacteria, Cancer and Autism
Olivier Lichtarge, Cullen Chair Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Second of Two COB Talks for 11/14:Mechanistic Basis of Spindle Size Control and Scaling
Reza Farhadifar, Flatiron Institute, NY and Harvard University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Equivariant motives and Sheaves on moment graphs.
Kirill Zaynullin, University of Ottawa

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Ricci flow, diffeomorphism groups, and the Generalized Smale Conjecture
Bruce Kleiner, CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Large-Scale Tropospheric Transport: Constraints from Models and Observations
Clara Orbe, NASA

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Steady rotational water waves
Walter Strauss, Brown University
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: Graph powering: mixing Bayesian and spectral methods
Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton
Dynamical Systems Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 705
Title: Metastable states for weakly damped hamiltonian systems
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, U of Geneva

Friday, November 17, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Scalable Integral Equation Methods for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
Dhairya Malhotra, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Bitcoin, Payment Privacy and Beyond: Blockchains as Limited Trusted Third Parties
Ian Miers, Johns Hopkins University
Celebration in Honor of Cathleen Synge Morawetz
1:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Celebration
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: The Population Density Particle Method to Simulate Oscillator Populations
Adam Stinchcombe, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Irrational points on hyperelliptic curves
Joseph Gunther, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Monday, November 27, 2017

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Tropical motivic integration
Sam Payne, Yale University

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 201
Title: Recent developments on the super-resolution problem for separation below the Rayleigh length
Weilin Li, Norbert Wiener Center, U. of Maryland
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Modeling Single Neuron Dynamics and Dendritic Computation
Songting Li, CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Topology of moduli spaces of tropical curves
Sam Payne, Yale
Mathematical Finance Seminar
7:10PM, WWH 1302
Title: Deep Learning
Dhruv Madeka, Amazon

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Turbulent dynamics of the Arctic Ocean and its interactions with the sea ice
Georgy Manucharyan, Caltech

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Partial regularity for the hyperdissipative Navier-Stokes equations
Maria Colombo, ETH Zurich
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: Learning to Succeed while Teaching to Fail: Privacy in Machine Learning Systems
Guillermo Sapiro, Duke
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: TRANSFER OPERATORS BETWEEN RELATIVE TRACE FORMULAS IN RANK ONE
Yiannis Sakellaridis, Rutgers University, Newark and IAS

Friday, December 01, 2017

New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM, WWH 109
Title: IBM/NYU/Columbia
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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.
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Parallelizable Approach for Optimization Problems with Orthogonality Constraints
Xin Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Exit problems near hyperbolic equilibria and noisy heteroclinic networks
Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai, CIMS
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Localization-delocalization transition and random matrices
Paul Bourgade, CIMS
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Moving boundaries in fluid flows: Mudballs, meteorites, lollipops, and bubbles
Leif Ristroph, CIMS

Monday, December 04, 2017

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Topology of the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature
Boris Botvinnik, Univ. Oregon

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Probability Seminar
10:15AM, WWH 512
Title: On the extreme and large-value landscape of the discrete Gaussian free field and friends
Oren Louidor, Technion Hafia
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Stochastic models of tumor development
Izabella Stuhl, Penn State University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Motivic random variables and a cohomological stability conjecture
Sean Howe, Stanford University

Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, WWH 805
Title: A PSPACE Construction of a Hitting Set for the Closure of Small Algebraic Circuits
Amir Shpilka, Tel-Aviv University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Arctic-Antarctic Parity in High-latitude Climate Sensitivity: the Aerial Hydrologic Cycle, Ocean Dynamics, and Meridional Energy Transports
Hansi Alice Singh, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Thursday, December 07, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The dynamic $\phi^4$ model comes down from infinity
Jean-Christophe Mourrat, ENS Lyon
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: TBA
Alexandre d’Aspremont, ENS

Friday, December 08, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: High Performance Sparse Linear Algebra
Erin Carson, CIMS
Holiday Lecture and Party
2:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Exploring the Vastness of Biodiversity from Atoms to Ecosystems
Richard Bonneau, Director of CDS

Monday, December 11, 2017

Computer Science Colloquium
2:30PM, WWH 705
Title: The Polynomial Method Strikes Back: Tight Quantum Query Bounds via Dual Polynomials
Justin Thaler, Georgetown University
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Biological fluid dynamics at the microscale: nonlinearities in a linear world
Lisa Fauci, Tulane

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Model reduction and simulation design for Hamiltonian systems
Joshua Burby, Courant Institute, NYU

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Ice sheet model initialization as a Bayesian inverse problem
Georg Stadler, CIMS

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Nonlocal minimal cones and surfaces with constant nonlocal mean curvature
Xavier Cabre, ICREA and UPC, Barcelona
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Generalized linear regression with random data
Lenka Zdeborová, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA/SACLAY
Henry McKean's Birthday and Retirement Celebration
3:00PM, WWH Lounge
Title: Retirement Celebration
Various Speakers,

Friday, December 15, 2017

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: A Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin solver for axisymmetric plasma equilibrium
Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet, Courant
Probability Seminar
11:15AM, WWH 512
Title: The Fyodorov-Bouchaud conjecture and Liouville conformal field theory
Guillaume Rémy, École Normale Supérieure de Paris
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Directional stability of foils and swimming performance measures
Bill Schultz, University of Michigan
NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2017 SHOWCASE:
5:30PM, WWH 13th floor commons
Title: Computer Science Showcase
Various,
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, December 18, 2017

Materials Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Mathematical methods for the statistical mechanics of mesoscopic particles
Emilio Zappa, CIMS