Fall 2018

Monday, August 13, 2018

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2018 SHOWCASE:
5:30PM, WWH 13th floor commons
Title: CS Summer Showcase
Various,
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Sparse non-negative super-resolution: simplified and stabilised
Jared Tanner, University of Oxford

Thursday, August 30, 2018

CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Algebraic methods for point estimation
Jose Rodriguez,

Friday, August 31, 2018

NYC Geometry Seminar
2:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 4419
Title: Organizational Meeting
Various,

Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: How to be a successful graduate student: One ex-student's insight on how to get through graduate school and find a job
Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Thursday, September 06, 2018

CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Onsager's solution of the Ising model could have been guessed
Manuel Kauers,

Friday, September 07, 2018

CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
10:00AM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 5382
Title: Symbolic Computation and Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables
Stephen Melczer,

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Genomic prediction of disease through quasi-Mendelian loci
Lawrence Sirovich, Rockefeller University

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Particle Filters and Finite Ensemble Kalman Filters in Large Dimensions: Theory, Applied Practice, and New Phenomena
Andrew J. Majda, Courant

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Probabilistic local well-posedness and scattering for the 4D cubic NLS
Jonas LUEHRMANN, Johns Hopkins U.
Research and Training Group in Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Tax Guidance Modeling and Simulation: How to Replace the IRS Fixed-Point Iteration?
Sam Ferguson, (partner: Brennan Sprinkle)
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: TBA
Nate SIlver, FiveThirtyEight
CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:00PM, Off-Campus Place: CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: The P versus NP problem and the Tau conjecture
Mike Shub,

Friday, September 14, 2018

Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: First order phase transition for the Potts and random-cluster model with q>4.
Matan Harel, Tel Aviv University
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Bifurcation theory of swarm formation
Luis Bonilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Talk 1 of 2: Construction of a hyperelastic immersed boundary model of the human heart
Charles Puelz, CIMS
Special Seminar
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Block operators and spectral discretizations
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Coupled Dynamic-Thermodynamic Forcings during Tropical Cyclogenesis
Brian Tang, University at Albany

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Labile 2-dimensional ether through homogenization
Gilles FRANCFORT, Universite Paris XIII
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: What are the principles guiding the growth of microvascular networks?
Shyr-Shea Chang, UCLA
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Sparse Regularization via Convex Analysis
Ivan Selesnick, NYU

Friday, September 21, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Interpolatory Methods for Robust Control of Dynamical Systems
Matthias Voigt, TU Berlin
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Optimization via Langevin dynamics in complex landscapes.
Reza Gheissari, NYU
Conference in Honor of Professor Eliezer Hameiri
2:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Conference
Various speakers, for more info:

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: A continuous energy-based immersed boundary method with improved accuracy and applications
Ondrej Maxian, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Special Seminar
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Exponential integrators for stiff PDE
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: A general incidence bound in high dimensions.
Thao Do, MIT

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Recent Progress on Manifolds with Ricci Curvature Bounds
Aaron Naber, Northwestern
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Extratropical circulation response to warming: role of cloud radiative effects and ITCZ width changes
Oliver Watt-Meyer, University of Washington
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Approximation theoretic properties of deep ReLU neural networks
Felix Voigtlaender, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Analysis Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Toward a Faber Krahn inequality for the truncated Laplacian and other surprising phenomena
Isabeau Birindelli, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The asymptotically self-similar regime for the Einstein vacuum equations
Yakov SHLAPENTOKH-ROTHMAN, Princeton University
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: A Descent Down the Potential Energy Landscape for Short-Ranged Interactions
Anthony Trubiano, partner: Charles Puelz, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Statistical physics, statistical inference, and community detection in networks
Cristopher Moore, Santa Fe Institute
Joint CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: The geometry of gaussoids
Thomas Kahle, University Magdeburg

Friday, September 28, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Numerical Computation with Rational and Harmonic Functions
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Rigidity and tolerance for perturbed lattices
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Continuum and Molecular Dynamic Studies of The Hydrodynamics of Colloid Particles at a Fluid Interface
Charles Malderelli, CUNY

Monday, October 01, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Unusual aspects of solar convection
Katepalli Sreenivasan, NYU

Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:25PM, WWH 1314
Title: A one-dimensional vessel network model for the Fontan circulation
Charles Puelz, CIMS
Special Seminar
1:25PM, WWH 512
Title: Minimax, CF, and Hankel norm approximation
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: A simplicity criterion for normal isolated singularities
Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Incorporation of Text News Analytics in Risk Assessment
Dan diBartolomeo, Northfield

Wednesday, October 03, 2018

Student Probability Seminar
12:00PM, WWH 512
Title: Percolation and the Discrete Gaussian Free Field
Benjamin McKenna,
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Internal tide-driven mixing: processes, parameterizations, and impacts
Sonya Legg, Princeton

Thursday, October 04, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Boundary value problems for Schrodinger equations with strongly singular potentials
Moshe Marcus, Technion
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: How receptor diffusivity increases the rate of association with extracellular reactants
Chris Miles, partner: Karina Koval,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Topological data analysis for scientific inference
Andrew Blumberg, UT Austin
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Finiteness results for monodromy representations
Daniel Litt, University of Georgia/IAS

Friday, October 05, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Surveillance-Evasion Games under Uncertainty
Alexander Vladimirsky, Cornell
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Short time asymptotics for Liouviille heat kernel and graph distances
Ofer Zeitouni, Courant Institute/Weizmann Institute
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: How elasticity and entropy drive self-organization of filament crosslinking proteins, in and out of equilibrium
Glen Hocky, NYU

Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Special Seminar
1:25PM, WWH 1314
Title: Polynomials and multivariate polynomials
Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Automorphisms of hyperkähler manifolds and groups acting on CAT(0) spaces
Nikon Kurnosov, University of Georgia, Athens

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Local flexibility of open partial differential relations
Bernhard Hanke, Augsburg

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Regularity of optimal transport between planar convex domains
Hui Yu, Columbia University
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Adaptive mesh refinement for applications in gas dynamics
Andrew Giuliani, partner: Quynh Nguyen,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium Hall 150
Title: Learning Regularizers from Data
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Caltech

Friday, October 12, 2018

Probability Seminar
10:15AM, WWH 512
Title: Estimating graph parameters via multiple random walks
Roberto Oliveira, Weizmann Institute
Courant Instructor Day
10:30AM, WWH 1302
Title: Various
Various,

Monday, October 15, 2018

Geometry and Geometric Analysis Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: \(C^{1,\alpha}\) Reifenberg Theorems for Sets and Measures
Silvia Ghinassi, Stony Brook University
Courant Lectures Part I
3:45PM, WWH 109
Title: The Mathematics of Crime
Andrea L. Bertozzi, UCLA

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Spatial population dynamics with adaptation to a heterogeneous environment
Judith Miller, Georgetown University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Patching field arithmetic
Danny Krashen, Rutgers University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Convex 3-polytopes whose faces are equilateral or isosceles triangles.
Joseph Malkevitch, York College/CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center (Emeritus).

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Courant Lectures Part II
11:15AM, WWH 102
Title: Swarming by Nature and by Design
Andrea L. Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Storm Track Impacts and Predictability
Edmund Kar-Man Chang, Stony Brook University

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The cost of crushing: curvature-driven wrinkling of thin elastic shells
Ian Tobasco, Univ of Michigan
(RTG) in Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Rare Event Sampling of Extreme Weather
Rob Webber, partner: Leif Ristroph,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium Hall 150
Title: Big data, inequality, and democracy: what can mathematics offer?
Cathy O’Neil,
joint CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:30PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: A Combinatorial/Algebraic Topological Approach to Nonlinear Dynamics
Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University

Friday, October 19, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Moment limiters for the discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured meshes
Andrew Giuliani, Courant
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Sharp transition of invertibility of sparse random matrices
Anirban Basak, ICTS-TIFR
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Blockchains and Trusted Execution Environments: Towards a New Security Paradigm
Fan Zhang, Cornell University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Rigorous statistical bounds in uncertainty quantification for turbulent geophysical flows
Di Qi, Courant
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: From microchannels to blood vessels: A mathematical modeling perspective on flow in soft conduits
Ivan Christov, Purdue
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: The broken arrow
James McKernan, UCSD
***SPECIAL SEMINAR***

Monday, October 22, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Nonlinear PDEs, random walk, Gaussian processes, random matrices
Ofer Zeitouni, NYU and Weizmann Institute

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Global Identifiability of Differential Models
Gleb Pogudin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Special Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: The Fermat distance, percolation theory and applications in machine learning
Facundo Sapienza, University of Buenos Aires
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Local-to-Global Extensions for Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves
Renee Bell, University of Pennsylvania
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: In-depth Dive into Short-term Alpha Profiling of Portfolio Managers
Vlad Rashkovich, Bloomberg LP
Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 312
Title: Solving nonlinear PDEs with the Lasserre hierarchy
Didier Henrion, CNRS

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: A Bound on the Cohomology of Quasiregularly Elliptic Manifolds
Eden Prywes, UCLA
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: The Tale of Two Tails
Philip ROSENAU, Tel-Aviv University
Student Probability Seminar
12:00PM, WWH 512
Title: Displacement convexity, and an application to uniqueness of minimisers
Thomas Leblé, Thomas Leblé
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Iceberg dynamics in modern and glacial oceans
Ian Eisenman, UCSD

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Complex Poles, Branch Cuts and Integrability of 2D Surface Dynamics
Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Talk 1: Towards an accurate long-time equation for motion of DNA coated colloids. Talk 2: Asymmetry Helps: Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Analyses under Asymmetric Random Matrix Perturbation
Tristan Goodwill & Chen Cheng,

Friday, October 26, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Dynamic coupling of full and reduced models via randomized online basis updates
Benjamin Peherstorfer, Courant
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Distributional approximation of the characteristic polynomial of a Gaussian beta-ensemble
Elliot Paquette, Ohio State
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Resonances, quasi-resonances, and Wave Turbulence
Jalal Shatah, Courant
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Hybrid Monte Carlo methods for sampling probability measures on submanifolds
Gabriel Stoltz, CERMICS

Monday, October 29, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Interpolative decomposition and its applications
Lexing Ying, Stanford
**** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Modeling biofilms in medical environments
Ana Carpio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Compactifying moduli of curves with a differential
Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Stable singularity detection from low-resolution data
Dmitry Batenkov, MIT

Thursday, November 01, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Lagrangian chaos and scalar advection in stochastic fluid mechanics
Jacob Bedrossian, Univ. of Maryland
Innovative Teaching Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Innovation in teaching mathematics: objectives, methods, and outcomes
Annoesjka Cabo, Delft University of Technology
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: TOWARDS A DELIGNE-LUSTIG THEORY FOR p-ADIC GROUPS
Charlotte Chan, Princeton University

Friday, November 02, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: High Order Accurate Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Wave Equation in General Shaped Domains using Simple Meshes
Eli Turkel, Tel Aviv University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: The algorithmic hardness threshold for continuous random energy models
Pascal Maillard, CRM (Montréal) and Université Paris-Sud
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Sparse Recovery Beyond Compressed Sensing
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS
Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
1:30PM, WWH 202
Title: Structured Tensors and the Geometry of Data
Anna Seigal, Berkeley
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Nonlinear instabilities in viscous multilayer flows.
Demetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM, WWH 705
Title: Frequency synchronization conditions for coupled oscillators on lattices
Tianqi Wu, Courant

Monday, November 05, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: From biomedical imaging to online blogs: Graph signal processing
Jelena Kovacevic, NYU, Dean of Tandon

Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Stochastic modeling of blood vessel growth
Luis L. Bonilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Low degree points on curves
Isabel Vogt, MIT
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Time Scales in Finance & Event-Driven Modeling
Mike Lipkin,
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: “Affine” isoperimetric inequalities in real space forms.
Franz Schuster, TU Wien.

Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Student Probability Seminar
12:00PM, WWH 512
Title: Schilder's theorem
Jeanne Boursier,
Student Probability Seminar
12:00PM, WWH 512
Title: Schilder's theorem
Jeanne Boursier,

Thursday, November 08, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Kinetic theory, stochastic averaging, and large deviations for the two-dimensional stochastic Navier-Stokes and barotropic quasi-geostrophic equations
Freddy Bouchet, ENS- Lyon
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Transparent Boundary Conditions for the Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation
Jason Kaye, partner: Brennan Sprinkle,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium Hall 150
Title: Random initialization and implicit regularization in nonconvex statistical estimation
Yuxin Chen, Princeton
CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:30PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Galois Groups for Systems of Equations
Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
Joint Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 705
Title: Reversibility, Irreversibility, Friction and Nonequilibrium Ensembles in N-S Equations
Giovanni Gallavotti, Rome 1, visiting Courant

Friday, November 09, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Optimal transport for seismic inversion: tackling the nonlinearity
Yunan Yang, Courant
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: The Archimedean limit of random sorting networks
Duncan Dauvergne, U. Toronto

Monday, November 12, 2018

Geometry and Geometric Analysis Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Some topological isoperimetric problems
Fedor Manin, Ohio State University

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Progress toward efficient direct solution of the nonlinear inelastic Boltzmann equation
George Wilkie, Chalmers University of Technology
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Diffusivity and cooperativity in intracellular transport by nonprocessive motors
Chris Miles, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Very functorial, very quick, and very easy resolution of singularities.
Michael McQuillan, University of Roma Tor Vergata
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The Impact of Disputes on Financial Markets – Two Recent Case Studies: Disputes between Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Global Banks, and Disputes Arising from “Engineered” Credit Events under Credit Default Swap
Rick Grove and Bob Selvaggio, Rutter Associates
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: On totally separable translative packings.
Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Characterizing and predicting climate variability through the spectral theory of dynamical systems
Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Northeast Probability Seminar 2018
9:00AM, Other Kimmel Center for University Life (NYU), Room 912/914
Title: Various
Various,
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Some recent and ongoing gluing constructions in Geometry
Nicolaos Kapouleas, Brown Univ.
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium Hall 150
Title: Optimal Spectral Estimation via Atomic Norm Minimization
Gongguo Tang, Colorado School of Mines

Friday, November 16, 2018

Northeast Probability Seminar 2018
9:00AM, WWH 109
Title: Various
Various,
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Geometric flows and topology
Bruce Kleiner, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Anand Oza, NJIT

Monday, November 19, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Uncovering Multiscale Order in the Prime Numbers via Scattering
Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Special Analysis Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 314
Title: Segregated configurations involving the square root of the Laplacian and their free boundaries
Susanna Terrancini,
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Variants of the Strong Hanani–Tutte Theorem on Surfaces.
Radoslav Fulek, IST, Austria.

Monday, November 26, 2018

Geometry and Geometric Analysis Working Group
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Local minimality of strictly stable extremal submanifolds
Andrea Marchese, University of Pavia

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Roles of fluid mechanics in cell motility and polarization
Alex Mogilner, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Analysis Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Lipschitz estimates for every taste
Giuseppe Mingione, University of Parma
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Local properties of an invariant ring are determined by inertia groups (plus an application)
Ben Blum-Smith,

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Falconer's distance set problem and weighted restriction estimates
Yumeng OU, CUNY Baruch College
(RTG) in Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: An introduction to biological flow networks
Eleni Katifori, UPenn
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve Auditorium 150
Title: Stratification (or discretization) of Markov chain Monte Carlo
Jonathan Weare, Chicago
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Distribution of orders in number fields and related problems
Ramin Takloo-Bighash, UIC

Friday, November 30, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Numerical solution of two-phase flow in porous media at the pore scale
Beatrice Riviere, Rice University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Sculpting with flow: Mudballs, meteorites, bubbles & lollipops
Leif Ristroph, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Self-organization in biological transport networks
Eleni Katifori, UPenn
Columbia/Courant joint Probability Seminar
9:30PM, WWH 512
Title: Fall 2018
Various,

Monday, December 03, 2018

Special Analysis Seminar
12:50PM, WWH 317
Title: Singular Sphere Covering Inequality and Liouville-type problems
Changfeng Gui, University of Texas at San Antonio

Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Collateralized Networks
Samim Ghamimi, Goldman Sachs
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Erdős distinct distance problem in finite fields.
Ben Lund, Princeton University.

Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Relative volume comparison along Ricci flow
Gang Tian, Beijing University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Probing the drivers of the Northern Hemispheric response to Arctic sea ice loss
Paul Kushner, University of Toronto

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On singularities of the unsteady Prandtl’s equations and related problems
Charles COLLOT, Courant
(RTG) in Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Cut cell finite-volume methods
Sandra May, TU Dortmund, Germany
CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing seminar
3:30PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Orbit retrieval, with applications to cryo-electron microscopy
Joe Kileel, Princeton University

Friday, December 07, 2018

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: Fast, high-fidelity methods for simulation of particulate flows
Shravan Veerapaneni, University of Michigan
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Syntax-Guided Program Synthesis
Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Crouzeix's Conjecture and Nonsmooth Optimization
Michael Overton, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Programming colloidal architectures
Jasna Brujic, NYU Physics

Monday, December 10, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Surface hopping algorithms for non-adiabatic quantum systems
Jianfeng Lu, Duke University

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Computer Science Colloquium
10:30AM, WWH 1302
Title: Some Applications of the Multiplicative Weights Update Method in (Semi) Infinite Discrete Optimization
Khaled Elbassioni, Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Student Probability Seminar
12:00PM, WWH 512
Title: Random Matrices and Group Representations
Guillaume Dubach, CIMS

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The Maslov index and the spectrum of differential operators
Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri
MSG lunch
12:30PM, WWH
Title: Model Recovery Below the Reflector Using Pure Reflections
Yunan Yang, partner: Terrence Alsup,

Friday, December 14, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: An L-1 Augmented Lagrangian algorithm and why, at least sometimes, it is a very good idea
Andrew Conn, IBM Watson Research Center
Holiday Lecture and Party
2:00PM, WWH 109
Title: The Antikythera Mechanism: Mathematical Astronomy through Ancient Gears
Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Monday, December 17, 2018

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2018 SHOWCASE:
6:00PM, WWH 13th floor commons
Title: CS Fall 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.