Spring 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The nonlinear heat equation with high order mixed derivatives of the Dirac delta as initial values and Applications
Slim Tayachi, University Tunis El Manar
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Living Liquid Crystals
Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory
Monday, January 27, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On Bitcoin and Red Balloons
Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: The Babel Fish: Active Signal Detection in the Ear
Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, The Rockefeller University
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Statistical Mechanics and the Riemann Hypothesis
2:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Seminar Series: Jan 29 to March 12
Charles Newman, CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multiscale Geometry of High-Dimensional Data, with applications to Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems
Mauro Maggioni, Duke
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Are Black Holes Real ?
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
Friday, January 31, 2014
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: A sublinear bound for the variance of solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
Ivan Matic, Baruch College City University of New York
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Learning and Fast Simulation of Intrinsically Low-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical Systems in High Dimensions
Miles Crosskey, Duke University
Monday, February 03, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Keiichi Itatani,
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the well-posedness of an interface damped free boundary fluid-structure model
Igor Kukavica, USC
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: A model of the medial superior olive explains spatio-temporal features of local field potentials
Joshua Goldwyn, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 905
Title: Numerical simulations of Alfvenic turbulence in the solar wind
Jean Carlos Perez, University of New Hampshire
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Crossing Numbers and Combinatorial Characterization of Monotone Drawings of Kn
Radoslav Fulek, Columbia University
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Statistical Mechanics and the Riemann Hypothesis
2:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Seminar Series: Jan 29 to March 12
Charles Newman, CIMS
Special Lecture on Data Science and Applied Math
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Time series analysis and data-driven model discrimination beyond usual assumptions: mathematical ideas, algorithmic methods, HPC and application examples
Illia Horenko, ICS Lugano
Thursday, February 06, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A quantitative Brunn-Minkowski inequality and estimates on the the remainder in the Riesz rearrangement inequality
Eric Carlen, Rutgers University
NYU Science Chalk Talk
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Various topics will be presented
Kazem Edmond, Physics, Center for Soft Matter Research
Also speaking during this session: Alexander Shtukenberg, Chemistry, Molecular Design Institute
Friday, February 07, 2014
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Translation invariant Gibbs measures on tilings by Nx1 Rectangles.
Martin Tassy, Brown University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Physics-based Animation Sound: Progress and Challenges
Doug James, Cornell University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:20PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Simplest Complex Fluid? The Remarkable Rheology of Hard-sphere Suspensions
Jeff Morris, City College
NYC Teaching Seminar
3:30PM,
Off-Campus CU Mathematics 528
Title: Cognitive load theory
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Columbia University Mathematics Department
2990 Broadway
2990 Broadway
Monday, February 10, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Minerva: A Scalable and Highly Efficient Training Platform for Deep Learning
Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Geometric Analysis and Topology
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: On the regularity of varifold mean curvature flow
Yoshihiro Tonegawa, Hokkaido University
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Evolution is Pleased with Simplicity
Aviv Bergman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Bounding the equivariant Betti numbers and computing the generalized Euler-Poincaré characteristic of symmetric semi-algebraic sets.
Saugate Basu, Purdue University
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: From two-dimensional to rotating turbulence
Basile Gallet, U d'Orsay
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Models for “mixtures”, multifluid flows
Thierry Goudon, Inria, France
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Large-scale structures in (moist) convection
Alexandre Pieri, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council
Friday, February 14, 2014
Geometric Analysis and Topology
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Structure of measures in Lipschitz differentiability spaces
David Bate, University of Chicago
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The noisy Burgers equation and interacting diffusions.
Herbert Spohn, IAS Princeton and TUM Munich
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Investigation of Crouzeix's Conjecture via Optimization
Michael Overton, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Phyllotaxis, pushed pattern fronts and optimal packing
Alan Newell, Univ. of Arizona
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Courant Institute
12:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: Memorial for Samuel L. Marateck
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Please join us on Tuesday, February 18 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 109 for a memorial of our good friend and colleague, Sam Marateck
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Birational isotriviality of fiber spaces
Christian Böhning, Universität Hamburg
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Robust Analytics on Data Streams
Flip Korn, AT&T Labs
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A weak Dirichlet problem for the cold plasma model
Thomas Otway, Yeshiva University
Please note special time: Joint with Analysis Seminar
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A weak Dirichlet problem for the cold plasma model
Thomas H. Otway, Yeshiva University
Analysis Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 517
Title: Almost sure well-posedness for the periodic 3D quintic NLS below the energy space
Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, February 21, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Efficient Simulation of Gas Flow in a Pipe Network (Techniques and Theory in Model Order Reduction)
Sara Grundel, Max Planck Institute
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Biased random walk on supercritical percolation clusters
Alexander Fribergh, Université de Toulouse
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Localized representation of eigenspaces via convex optimization
Jianfeng Lu, Duke University
Monday, February 24, 2014
Special Seminar
5:10PM,
WWH Cantor Film Center (36 E. 8th Street), Room 101
Title: On the Computational and Statistical Interface & 'Big Data'
Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A convex optimization approach to generalized moment problems in multivariate spectral estimation
Michele Pavon, University of Padova
Special Applied Math Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 312
Title: Tightness of convex relaxations for certain inverse problems on graphs
Afonso Bandeira, Princeton University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:00PM,
WWH 317
Title: Lifting Galois covers to characteristic zero with non-Archimedean analytic geometry
Daniele Turchetti, Institut de mathemathiques de Jussieu
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Counting plane graphs: Perfect matchings, spanning cycles, and Kasteleyn's technique
Adam Sheffer, Tel Aviv University
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: KdV limit for geometric Schrodinger equations with potential
Pierre Germain, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A particle walks into an interface...
Vinothan Manoharan, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University
NYU Jordan Center of Russian Studies and History of Science Seminar conference at NYU on international role of math (with a focus on Courant)
1:00PM,
Other NYU Jordan Center, 2nd Floor at 19 University Place
Title: Mathematical Superpowers: The Politics of Universality in a Divided World
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Graph Expansion and Communication Complexity of Algorithms
Olga Holtz, UC Berkeley
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Vector fields on metric measure spaces, and 1-rectifiable structure
Andrea Schioppa, NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
12:00PM,
WWH 905
Title: Shimura curves contained in the Jacobian locus
Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Arnold Diffusion Problem and Applications to Celestial Mechanics, Part I
Marian Gidea, Yeshiva University
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Helicity-Flux-Driven Alpha Effect in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
Fatima Ebrahimi, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University and PPPL
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Landau damping in Sobolev spaces for the Vlasov-HMF model
Erwan Faou, INRIA Rennes and ENS Paris
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Novel Causal Score for Learning Conjunctive Bayesian Networks
Ilya Korsunsky, New York University
Algerbaic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: Toward GIT stability of syzygies of canonical curves
Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College
NYU Abu Dhabi Candidate Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Schemes for Cahn-Hilliard Type Models and Hybrid Discrete Systems
Andreas Aristotelous,
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Changes in the distribution of rain in response to warming
Angie Pendergrass, U Washington
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:30PM,
Off-Campus LC 400
Title: Extreme events and turbulence
President and Dean Sreenivasan, NYU Polytechinic School of Engineering
Thursday, March 06, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stability of infinite time aggregation for Keller-Seguel equation
Tej-eddin Ghoul, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Optimizing snake locomotion in the plane
Silas Alban, University of Michigan
Friday, March 07, 2014
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: TBA
Enrico Le Donne, University of Jyväskyä
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: A multi-scale refinement of the 2nd moment method
Nicola Kistler, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Representation, Modeling and Computation: Opportunities and Challenges of Modern Datasets
Alekh Agarwal, Microsoft Research
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Local Structure Analysis and Defect Characterization in Atomic-Resolution Images
Matt Elsey, CIMS
NYC Teaching Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 805
Title: Constructivism
O'Donnel,
Monday, March 10, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Random matrix and partial differential equation
Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University
***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Aspects of Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithms for (Gyro) Kinetic Simulations of Plasmas
Ammar Hakim, PPPL
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Sparsity-based Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Physiologic Dimensions
Leon Axel, Departments of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine
Special Probability Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Interface fluctuations and KPZ: experimental approach to mathematical sciences
Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, University of Tokyo
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Special divisors on hyperelliptic curves
Jacob Tsimerman, Harvard University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Intrinsic Volumes of Random Cubical Complexes
Michael Werman, Department of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Knowledge-Driven Text Understanding
Kenny Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Applied Math/CDS Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Convex-Programming Framework for Super-Resolution
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Stanford
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The life-cycle of wind generated near-inertial waves in strong ocean fronts
Dan Whitt, Stanford
Thursday, March 13, 2014
NYU Science Chalk Talk
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Various Topics
Mark Tuckerman and Eric DeGiuli, NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Generalized Witten conjectures for moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
Jake Solomon, Hebrew University
Special Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Universality in Extremal Statistics: the case of log-correlated random variables
Louis-Pierre Arguin, Université de Montréal
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:30PM,
WWH Rogers Hall 302
Title: Vertical versus horizontal Poincare inequalities
Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
Friday, March 14, 2014
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The thinned extremal process of the 2D discrete Gaussian Free Field
Oren Louidor, The Technion (Israel)
Geometric Analysis and Toplogy Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Gluing constructions for constant mean curvature (hyper)surfaces
Christine Breiner, Fordham
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Local quantum unique ergodicity for random matrices
Paul Bourgade, University of Cambridge
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Mathematics and Physics of weak turbulence
Pierre Germain, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Data-driven optimal transport
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Various dynamics for several vortex filaments
Valeria Banica, Universite d'Evry
Monday, March 24, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet
Keith Winstein, MIT
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Stochastic inference of dynamic system models: from single-molecule experiments to statistical estimation
Samuel Kou, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Sums of Squares and Varieties of Minimal Degree
Greg Blekherman, Georgia Tech
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Statistical Text Analysis for Social Science
Brendan O'Connor, Carnegie Mellon University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Copepod aggregations: influences of physics and collective behavior
Glenn Flierl, L'Ocean, Paris
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Higher regularity in stochastic homogenization for uniformly elliptic equations
Scott Armstrong,
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Mechanical reaction-diffusion equations in biological systems
Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, March 28, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Increase Accuracy of Immersed Boundary Methods Using Fourier Approximations of Delta Functions
Robert Guy, University of California, Davis
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Dynamics of ferromagnets: averaging methods, bifurcation diagrams, and thermal noise effects
Katie Newhall, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: On variational formulation of entropy solutions to nonlinear conservation laws
Eitan Tadmor, U. Maryland
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Shimura curves contained in the Jacobian locus in small genus
Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Global Stability of Dynamical Networks
Benjamin Webb, Rockefeller University
Monday, March 31, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Computational Foundations of Bayesian Inference and Probabilistic Programming
Daniel Roy, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Spectral asymptotics for "April Fools" wave equations on compact spacetimes that pretend to be elliptic
Bob Strichartz, Cornell
Materials Working Group
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Small-data materials informatics
Kris Reyes, Princeton
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Spectral asymptotics for "April Fools" wave equations on compact > spacetimes that pretend to be elliptic
Bob Strichartz, Cornell
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Tracking surface glycans on live cancer cells with single molecule sensitivity
Ben Ovryn, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Topographic Enhancement of Eddy Efficiency in Baroclinic Equilibration
Ryan Abernathy, LDEO/Columbia
Thursday, April 03, 2014
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:30PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 302
Title: Remarks on the conjectured Log-Brunn-Minkowski inequality
Christos Saroglou, Texas A&M University
Friday, April 04, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multiple Eigenvalues in Stability Analysis
Oleg Kirillov, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Liouville Brownian motion
Christophe Garban, CNRS ENS Lyon, UMPA
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Ricci flow through singularities
Bruce Kleiner, NYU
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Convergence of finite voter model densities
J. Theodore Cox, Syracuse University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Scalable Probabilistic Inference For Complex Dynamical Models
Lei Li, University of California, Berkeley
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multiple-Source Adaptation Problem
Mehryar Mohri, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Vortex Dynamics in Cyclotrons
Antoine Cerfon, CIMS
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Infrastructure Behind Google's Cloud (especially, the network)
Jeff Mogu, Google
Monday, April 07, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Lagrangian Relaxation for Natural Language Processing
Alexander Rush, MIT
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Taming diverging stochastic PDEs
Martin Hairer, University of Warwick
***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Helical magnetorotational instability of the MHD Couette-Taylor flow with Keplerian velocity profile
Oleg Kirillov, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: A model of the medial superior olive explains spatio-temporal features of local field potentials
Joshua Goldwyn, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Tetrahedron Contact Graphs
Justin Iwerks,
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Infrastructure Behind Google's Cloud (especially, the network)
Jeff Mogul, Google
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Direct Statistical Simulation of Geophysical Flows
Brad Marston, Brown
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Solitary water waves in three dimensions
Erik Wahlen, University of Lund
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Some mathematics as applied physics
Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge and Harvard University
Special Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Scattering Representations for Recogntion
Joan Bruna, NYU, Courant
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 302
Title: Uniqueness questions in Convex Geometry
Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
Friday, April 11, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Extended Sparsification and Hierarchical Compression Based Fast Direct Solvers
Sivaram Ambikasaran, CIMS
Analysis Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Stability problem in the dust-Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant
Mahir Hadzic, Kings College, London
*** Please note special day for this event
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Embedded minimal tori in S^3
Simon Brendle, Stanford
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Aha! Moment: From Data to Insight
Dafna Shahaf, Stanford University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Causes of Metastability and Their Effects on Transition Times
Katie Newhall, CIMS
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Oscillatory motions and Arnold diffusion in the restricted planar three body problem
Tere M Seara, UPC, Barcelona
Monday, April 14, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the geometry of maximum entropy problems
Michele Pavon, Universita di Padova
*** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Role of linker histones in the structure and dynamics of chromatin fibers
Antoni Luque, Biomath Group, Department of Chemistry, New York University
Special Seminar
12:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Principal component analysis with structured factors
Andrea Montanari, Stanford
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: An abstract approach to Ramsey theory
Slawomir Solecki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH
Title: Pathways for CO2 transfers between the atmosphere and the ocean interior
Marina Levy, L'Ocean, Paris
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On Multi-Dimensional Compressible Navier-Stokes Systems with Large Oscillations and Vacuum.
Zhouping Xin, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Motion and locomotion of liquid crystal elastomers and networks
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 201
Title: Around the Bridgeland differential on M_{g,n}
Andrei Caldarau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:30PM,
WWH TBA
Title: The half space property for minimal hypersurfaces in MxR
Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 18, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Finite-difference Gaussian Rules for Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operators, Perfectly Matched Layers and Inverse Problems
Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger Doll Research
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Dynamics of Ising spin systems..
Claude Godrèche, Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: The hypo elliptic Laplacian in real and complex geometry
Jean-Michel Bismut, Orsay
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Sandpiles and system-spanning avalanches
Lionel Levine, Cornell University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Convergence of harmonic maps
Zahra Sinaei, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Riemann--Hilbert problems and the inverse scattering transform: From asymptotics to computation
Tom Trogdon,
Monday, April 21, 2014
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 805
Title: Homotopical effects of k-dilation
Larry Guth, MIT
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Jon Lenchner,
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAST
Alexander Alekseyenko, NYU School of Medicine
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Distinct Volume Subsets
William Gasarch, University of Maryland, College Park
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Global well-posedness of incompressible elastodynamics in 2D
Zhen Lei, Fudan
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 302
Title: Valuations on lattice polytopes
Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Technology
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
5:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 302
Title: Hydrostatic properties of convex bodies
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
Friday, April 25, 2014
New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM,
Other Havemeyer Hall, Room 309
Title: Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia External Sponsorship by: Google
Various,
Program
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and bagels
10:00 - 10:55 Dr; Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Ad Allocation: Online Problems and Mechanism Design
10:55 - 11:05 Short break
11:05 - 12:00 Dr. Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research)
The Power of Locality for Network Algorithms
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 - 2:55 Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami (CMU)
Polar codes: Reliable communication with
complexity scaling polynomially in the gap to Shannon capacity
2:55 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 4:10 Prof. Adam Smith (Penn State)
Private Analysis of Graphs
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and bagels
10:00 - 10:55 Dr; Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Ad Allocation: Online Problems and Mechanism Design
10:55 - 11:05 Short break
11:05 - 12:00 Dr. Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research)
The Power of Locality for Network Algorithms
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 - 2:55 Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami (CMU)
Polar codes: Reliable communication with
complexity scaling polynomially in the gap to Shannon capacity
2:55 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 4:10 Prof. Adam Smith (Penn State)
Private Analysis of Graphs
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Calculating Electrical and Thermal Conductivities in a Hydrogen Plasma with Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics
Christian Scullard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Fragmentation-dilation processes and their limits
Jean Bertoin, Universität Zürich
Applied Mathematics Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Micro-swimming Navigation in Microfluidics
Vasily Kanstler, Warwick and SkolTech
**** PLEASE NOTE TIME / LOCATION OF SEMINAR CHANGE
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Order, Disorder, Symmetry and Complexity
Daniel L. Stein, CIMS and NYU Physics
Student Award Ceremony
2:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: Various
Various,
**Immediately followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Commons
Monday, April 28, 2014
Department of Statistics, Columbia University
9:00AM,
Other 1255 Amsterdam Ave
Title: Nonparametric Measures of Dependence
Please see link for details,
Location: The conference and workshop will be held in the School of Social Work Building (9th and 10thfloors; 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027).
As part of our 2013-2014 focus year on “Measures of Dependence”, the Department of Statistics at Columbia University is organizing a 3-day workshop and a 1-day conference on “Nonparametric Measure of Dependence” (Apr 28th to May 2nd). This conference is open to the public.
Please register (free) at http://bit.ly/Qnor9W.
As part of our 2013-2014 focus year on “Measures of Dependence”, the Department of Statistics at Columbia University is organizing a 3-day workshop and a 1-day conference on “Nonparametric Measure of Dependence” (Apr 28th to May 2nd). This conference is open to the public.
Please register (free) at http://bit.ly/Qnor9W.
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Numerical Algebraic Intersection with Applications
Charles Wampler, General Motors and University of Notre Dame
***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Frontier problems in feature selection for Big Data analytics
Constantin Aliferis, NYU Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Pascal Mysticum
Alex Ryba, Queens College (CUNY)
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Periodic variability in the large-scale middle latitude atmosphere
David Thompson, Colorado State U
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A qualitative central limit theorem for the effective diffusion in IID environments
Antoine Gloria, Univ Libre de Bruxelles
Magneto- Fluid Dynamics Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 705
Title: Chaotic motion of charged particles in toroidal magnetic configurations
Xavier Leoncini, Université Aix-Marseille
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Spectral theory of triangular difference operators and the combinatorial Gale transform
Igor Krichever, Columbia University
Friday, May 02, 2014
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multi-level Iterative Methods and Temporal Parallelism
Mike Minion, Stanford University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, SUNY New Paltz
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
11:00AM,
WWH 102
Title: Diapycnal mixing in the ocean interior: patterns, processes and parameterizations
Jen MacKinnon, Scripps
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: From Scattering to Spectral Networks
Joan Bruna, CIMS
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Quadrature by Expansion: A new method for the evaluation of layer potentials
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Quantitative stochastic homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Scott Armstrong, Univ of Paris Dauphine
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Minimal data rates and entropy for control problems
Christoph Kawan, Courant Insitute
Monday, May 05, 2014
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Cube complexes and the proof of Thurston's conjectures
Dani Wise, McGill
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Lax pairs, Hankel operators and transition to high frequencies
Patrick Gerard, Université Paris-Sud and Institut Universitaire de France
***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor)
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Special Analysis Seminar
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Rigidity of Isometric Immersions and degenrate deformations of Sobolev regularity
Reza Pakzad, University of Pittsburgh
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Noise and Signaling in Cancer Systems Pharmacology
Marc Birtwistle, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Cohomological Invariants of degree 3 and torsion in the Chow group of a versal flag
Kirill Zaynullin, University of Ottawa
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the biharmonic energy with Monge Ampere constraints
Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: A glimpse of supertropical algebra and its applications
Zur Izhakian, University of Aberdeen
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Irreducible representations of oscillatory and swirling flows in active soft matter
R. Adhikari, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Friday, May 09, 2014
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Harmonic maps in rigidity problems
Chikako Mese, Johns Hopkins
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Limiting distributions for intermittent systems with holes:
Mark Demers, Fairfield University
Monday, May 12, 2014
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Best approximation by algebraic and semi-algebraic sets
Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois, Chicago
***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: A model for falling-tone Chorus in the Earth magnetosphere
Rualdo Soto-Chavez, Princeton University and PPPL
Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Fun with gerbes II- 2-Galois theory and the algebraic interpretation of co-homology
Michael McQuillan, IHES, Paris
NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2014 SHOWCASE
5:00PM,
WWH 13th Floor Commons
Title: Showcase of various projects completed in computer science
,
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.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Analytical theory of the wind-driven sea
Vladimir Zakharov, U Arizona
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Large-amplitude solitary water waves with vorticity
Miles Wheeler, Brown
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
12:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Computational Problems in Tensors
Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois, Chicago
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Biomimetic propulsion of elastic structures
Sophie Ramananarivo, CIMS
Friday, May 16, 2014
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Phase Transitions in Directed Graphs
Lingjiong Zhu, University of Minnesota
Saturday, May 17, 2014
NYU Poly Event
10:00AM,
Off-Campus 5 Metrotech Center
Title: 500 YEARS OF MELANCOLIA IN MATHEMATICS
various,
Speakers:
John Conway, Princeton,
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton,
Jeffrey Lagarias, Michigan,
John Morgan, Columbia
Richard Schroeppel
Richard Stanley, MIT
Günter Ziegler, Berlin
http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/lectures-and-panels/free-lectures/melencolia-as-an-allegory-of-creation
John Conway, Princeton,
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton,
Jeffrey Lagarias, Michigan,
John Morgan, Columbia
Richard Schroeppel
Richard Stanley, MIT
Günter Ziegler, Berlin
http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/lectures-and-panels/free-lectures/melencolia-as-an-allegory-of-creation