Spring 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Well-posedness and regularity for a class of thin-film free boundary problems
Manuel Victor Gnann, University of Michigan
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Shock Development in Spherical Symmetry
André Lisibach, ETH Zurich
Monday, January 26, 2015
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Some aspects of realization spaces of polytopes
Karim Adiprasito, IHES and Hebrew U. of Jerusalem
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Rigorous asymptotic derivation of the Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic system from Navier-Stokes-Maxwell
Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Positional Fluctuations of Interphase Chromatin
Alexandra Zidovska, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Quantum cohomology, intersection cohomology and integrable systems
Michael McBreen, EPFL Lausanne
Friday, January 30, 2015
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Associative memory through self-assembly
Zorana Zeravcic, Rockefeller University
Monday, February 02, 2015
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Arithmetic Statistics in Function Fields
Jon Keating, Bristol
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Materials Working Group
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Approximately conical deformations of thin elastic sheets
Heiner Olbermann, Univ of Bonn
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 13014
Title: Vortex flow visualization in the cardiovascular system and its clinical applications
Keiichi Itatani, http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Cylinders in del Pezzo surfaces
Ivan Cheltsov, University of Edinburgh
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Guarding Variants: Continuous 1.5D Terrain Guarding and (Edge) 2-Transmitter Cover.
Christiane Schmidt, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Spectral density and eigenstate entanglement in quantum spin chains
Jon Keating, Univeristy of Bristol
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Polymerization Forces Exerted by Microtubules and the Position of Cellular Organelles
Jonathon Howard, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
Analysis Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Boltzmann equation in all space and the effects of dispersion and dissipation
Irene Gamba, Univ. Texas - Austin
Friday, February 06, 2015
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Rectifiable measures
Raanan Schul, Stony Brook
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Extreme values of the Riemann zeta function and characteristic polynomials of random matrices
Jonathan Keating, Bristol
Applied Mathematics Seminar
11:15AM,
WWH 1314
Title: A Topological Framework for Local Structure Analysis in Large Point Sets
Emanuel Lazar, University of Pennsylvania
***Please note this seminar will beheld at a different time than the regular weekly program.
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: The rare interaction limit in a fast-slow mechanical system
Domokos Szász, Budapest University of Technology
Monday, February 09, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Selective Inference via the Condition on Selection Framework and Communication-efficient Sparse Regression
Jason Lee, Stanford University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Self-Replication, Exponential Growth, Selection and Competition in Artificial Systems
Paul Chaikin, NYU
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Computation of three-dimensional ideal MHD equilibria with singular currents
Joaquim Loizu, Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, and PPPL
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: The Prym map revisited
Klaus Hulek, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Power of Preprocessing: Detecting and constructing intersections between geometric objects
Stefan Langerman, Free University of Brussels
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Frequency preference response to oscillatory inputs in neuronal models: a geometric approach to subthreshold resonance
Horacio Rotstein, NJIT
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The logarithmic Minkowski problem
Gaoyong Zhang, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Mechanics and Hydrodynamics of Cellular Assemblies.
Ehssan Nazockdast, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Friday, February 13, 2015
Special Analysis/Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Optimal transport and Schroedinger bridges from a control and computational perspective
Michele Pavon, University of Padova
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Busemann functions for the directed polymer model
Timo Seppalainen, Wisconsin
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Cohomological structures in geometry and topology inspired by mathematical physics
Hisham Sati, University of Pittsburgh
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Interactive Online Data Exploration and Analytics
Feifei Li, University of Utah
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Measure based regularization for variational image processing
Martin Holler, University of Graz (Austria)
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Tropical varieties and linear algebra
Louis Rowen, Bar-Ilan University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Elekes-Rónyai-Szabó theory and its applications
Micha Sharir, Tel-Aviv University/Courant Institute
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Structured Models for Unlocking Language Data
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, University of California, Berkeley
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Ocean boundary conditions for Greenland's fastest outlet glacier
Carl Gladish, MIT
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Gauge-invariant boundary conditions with possible applications to a millennium problem
Antonella Marini, Yeshiva Univ
Friday, February 20, 2015
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Hole probabilities and gap probabilities for products of random complex matrices
Eugene Strahov, Jerusalem
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Universality in numerical computations with random data
Thomas Trogdon, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 52
Title: The exact k-SAT threshold for large k
Nike Sun, Microsoft, MIT
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The hydrid resonance of Maxwell's equations in slab geometry: bessel functions and general dissipation tensor
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Low density phases in a uniformly charged liquid with homogeneous neutralizing background
Cyril Muratov, NJIT
Monday, February 23, 2015
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH TBA
Title: TBA
Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fibrations in rational surfaces and their sections
Brendan Hassett, Rice University
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Cytoskeletal dynamics in cell division and polarized cell growth
Dimitrios Vavylonis, Lehigh University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Fano varieties and Laurent polynomials
Viktor Przyjalkovski, Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Vertical Visibility among Parallel Polygons in Three Dimensions.
Radoslav Fulek, Columbia University, New York
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Deep Learning: Present, Challenges and Beyond
Kyunghyun Cho, University of Montreal
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Special Applied Math Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 312
Title: Tightness of convex relaxations for certain inverse problems on graphs
Afonso Bandeira, Princeton University
***Please note unusual day/location
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Insights into Forced Climate from Large Initial Condition Ensembles
Paul Kushner, University of Toronto
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Convexity properties of Grassmannians and the Bernstein problem
Juergen Jost, Max Planck Institute (Leipzig)
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Interfacial Responses to Mechanical Forcings
Emilie Dressaire, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Periodically driven noisy neuronal models: a spectral approach
Alla Borisyuk, University of Utah
Friday, February 27, 2015
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Columbia-NYU probability seminar series
various,
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Computationally-efficient Learning Algorithms for Large-scale Visual Recognition
Zaid Harchaoui, NYU and Inria
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Steady water waves
Miles Wheeler,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Near-flip buckling and scaling instability of critical loads
Yury Grabovsky, Temple University
Monday, March 02, 2015
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The porous media equation: Local and nonlocal
Luis Caffarelli,
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Beyond the Child-Langmuire Limit
Mark Rosin, Pratt Institute and UCLA
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Periodically driven noisy neuronal models: a spectral approach
Alla Borisyuk, University of Utah
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: CANCELLED Graph Chordality Via the Weil Lefschetz Map
Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University/IAS
CANCELLED
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Clouds, water vapor and (extra-) tropical circulation changes under global warming
Aiko Voigt, Columbia
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Euler-Maxwell system in 2D
Yu Deng, Princeton University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Some geometric mechanisms for Arnold Diffusion
Rafael de la Llave, Georgia Tech
Friday, March 06, 2015
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: inite Element Exterior Calculus and Applications.
Richard Falk, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Block Spin Transformation of 2D O(N) Sigma Model, Toward Solving a Millennium Problem
Keiichi R.Ito, Kyoto
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Long range order for random colourings on planar graphs
Roman Kotecky, Warwick
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Dispersing billiards and the heat equation
Peter Nandori,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Metastability and Access to the Ground State in a Class of Variational Models for Self-assembly
Rustum Choksi, McGill
Monday, March 09, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Situated Learning and Understanding of Natural Language
Yoav Artzi, University of Washington
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Gliders, Bicycles, Toys and Walking Robots
Andy Ruina, Cornell
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Scattering and Blow-up for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with complex valued data below the standing waves
Takahisa Inui, Kyoto University
**please note special TUESDAY seminar
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A New Structural Approach to Genomic Discovery of Disease: Example of Adult-Onset of Diabetes
Lawrence Sirovich, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Isosceles trapezoids, perpendicular bisectors, and few distinct distances
Ben Lund, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Probabilistic Models of Human Population Admixture
Sriram Sankararaman, Harvard
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: EnKF and catastrophic filter divergence
David Kelly, CIMS
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Faber-Krahn inequalities in sharp quantitative form
Guido de Phillipis, University of Lyon
NYU Science Chalk Talk
12:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Rahul Satija, Department of Biology and Genome Center AND, Ken Birnbaum, Department of Biology
**Please note the earlier start time for this event
Friday, March 13, 2015
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Larg-N analysis of the sinh-model
Karol Kozlowski, CNRS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Resonant delocalization
Simone Warzel, Munich
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Data-driven forecasting without a model and with a partially known model
Tyrus Berry, Pennsylvania State University
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM,
Off-Campus Davis auditorium, 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) building
Title: IBM/NYU/Columbia
Various,
*** Event is held at Columbia University
Monday, March 23, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery in the Big Data Era
James Faghmous, University of Minnesota
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Adventures in Urban Informatics
Steve Koonin, NYU
Special Seminar
5:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data
Laura Haas, IBM Fellow and Director, IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Nuclear Chromodynamics: Hydrodynamic description of chromatin dynamics in cell nucleus
Alexander Grosberg, Physics Department, NYU
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Higgs bundles, spectral data, and isomorphisms among low dimensional Lie groups
Steve Bradlow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: « having a ball » with spherical geometry.
Elizabeth Chen,
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Learning Systems: Systems and Abstractions for Large-Scale Machine Learning
Joseph Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stratified turbulence at laboratory and atmospheric scales
Michael Waite, U Waterloo
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Analysis Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On Wigner and Bohmian measures in semiclassical quantum dynamics
Christof Sparber, U. Illinois - Chicago
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Global existence solutions and geometric properties of the SGQ sharp front
Diego Cordoba, Madrid University
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Non-dissipative Shapable Sheet
Naomi Oppenheimer, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: An introduction to the Evans function, Birman-Schwinger operators, and Fredholm determinants in stability of traveling waves.
Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus 702 Rogers
Title: 2D Tilings: Dimers, Tetris and Percolation
David & Gregory Chudnovsky, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Friday, March 27, 2015
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the evaluation of prolate spheroidal wave functions and associated quadrature rules
Andrei Osipov,
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: On some criteria for quantum and stochastic confinement
Irina Nenciu, UI Chicago
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Parallel Proofs for Parallel Programs
Zachary Kincaid, University of Toronto
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Simulating passive and active Brownian suspensions of particles
Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Building polyhedra by self-assembly
Govind Menon, Brown University
New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering
4:00PM,
Off-Campus JAB 475 - Enter at 6 Metrotech Center
Title: Memorial for Professor Lesley Sibner
Please see below,
Program
4:00 - 4:30 Reception
4:30 - 4:45 : Lesley's life, Deane Yang
4:45 - 5:30 : Lesley's mathematics, Karen Uhlenbeck
5:30 - 6:00 : Memories of Lesley, Hanne Tierney
6:00 - 6:30 : "I remember Lesley"
4:00 - 4:30 Reception
4:30 - 4:45 : Lesley's life, Deane Yang
4:45 - 5:30 : Lesley's mathematics, Karen Uhlenbeck
5:30 - 6:00 : Memories of Lesley, Hanne Tierney
6:00 - 6:30 : "I remember Lesley"
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 102
Title: Fast algorithms based on asymptotic expansions of special functions
Alex Townsend, MIT
Monday, March 30, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Building a Better Web Browser
James Mickens, Microsoft Research
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Asymptotic properties of families of K3 surfaces
Simion Filip, University of Chicago
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Model skill and sensitivity to initial conditions in a sea-ice prediction system
Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, U Washington
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Active Colloidal Assemblies with Rotating Magnetic Fields
Sibani Lisa Biswal, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
Special Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Flexible and deep models for density estimation
Iain Murray, University Edinburgh
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Ergodic theory, cohomology and the diffraction spectrum of self-similar quasicrystals
Rodrigo Trevino, CIMS
Friday, April 03, 2015
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Numerical Modeling of Vesicle Electrohydrodynamics in Three Dimensions
Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz, SUNY Buffalo
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The Abelian sandpile on periodic Euclidean graphs
Charles Smart, Cornell
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: The impossibility of periodic motion in general relativity
Spyros Alexakis, University of Toronto
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Transportation Techniques for Geometric Data Processing
Justin Solomon, Stanford University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Group scheme theory
Sophie Marques,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Tractor beam by water waves
Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann
Monday, April 06, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Randomness Vs. Memory: A Treasure(s) Hunt
Omer Reingold, Weizmann and SRA
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Enabling small-scale hydraulics through bio-inspired design and active fluids
Anette Hosoi, MIT
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
1:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Fast reconnection and turbulence induced by the plasmoid instability
Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University and PPPL
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The cytokinetic actomyosin contractile ring: what does it do and how?
Ben O'Shaughnessy, Columbia University
Special Seminar
5:15PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Making Sense of Network Data
Patrick Wolfe, University College London
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: On the isotypic decomposition of cohomology modules of symmetric semi-algebraic sets: polynomial bounds on multiplicities.
Saugata Basu, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium ***CANCELLED
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Rigorous OS Design: an Idea Whose Time Has Come
Leonid Ryzhyk, Carnegie Mellon University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Beyond horizontal convection: laboratory and numerical experiments
Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, UCSD
Thursday, April 09, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Quantum complete integrability
Laurent Stolovitch, University of Nice
Science Chalk Talk 2
12:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Marija Vucelja, Rockefeller University, AND Lucas Champollion, Department of Linguistics
Dynamical Systems Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 705
Title: Regularity of invariant densities for systems with random switching
Tobias Hurth, University of Toronto
Dynamical Systems Seminar
5:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Introduction to normal form theory of analytic vector fields near a fixed point and to rigidity problem
Laurent Stolovitch, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Friday, April 10, 2015
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: On a new continuity path for canonical metrics in Kaehler geometry
Xiuxiong Chen, Stony Brook University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Airy diffusion and N^{1/3} fluctuations in the 2D Ising model.
Senya Shlosman, Marseille, Moscow
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The trouble with crystal facets
Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland
Monday, April 13, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Generalized Tangent Vector Fields for Fabrication-Aware Geometry Processing
Daniele Panozzo, ETH Zurich
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Turbulence, stressed horizontal convection and the oceans' overturning circulation
Francesco Paparella, Universita del Salento
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Modeling the Formation of Ring-Like Oligomers of Synaptotagmin During Synaptic Fusion
Jie Zhu, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Improved lower bounds for the chromatic number of several small dimensional Euclidean spaces.
Dan Ismailescu, Hofstra University.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Principled and Practical Web Application Security
Deian Stefan, Stanford University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Correlation and Causation
George Sugihara, Scripps
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Supercritical systems of Schroedinger equations in dimension two
Daniele Cassani, University of Insubria (Italy)
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Collective Dynamics in Active Biological Systems
Shawn D. Ryan, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Boundedness properties for birational automorphisms
Constantin Shramov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: The Curious Case of Non-Equilibrium Finance
Mike Lipkin,
Friday, April 17, 2015
New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM,
Off-Campus Davis auditorium, 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) building
Title: IBM/NYU/Columbia
Various,
*** Event is being held at Columbia University
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Variable coefficient and volume integral for Helmholtz equation
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Scaling window of Bernoulli percolation on Z^d
Hugo Duminil-Copin, Geneve
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: High-order Boundary Integral Algorithms for Soft Particles in Stokesian Flow
Abtin Rahimian,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fermi Pasta Ulam system - new ideas about old problem
Yuri Lvov, RPI
Monday, April 20, 2015
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases
Peter Bailis, University of California, Berkeley
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Linear methods for large data
Dean Foster, University of Pennsylvania
***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor)
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Mathematical modeling of cell adhesion forces: from delay to friction, an instantaneous limit
Vuk Milisic, Universite Paris 13
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 102
Title: Towards high-quality machine translation for complex language pairs
Arianna Bisazza, University of Amsterdam
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Computational Geometry Aspects of Monte Carlo Approaches to PDE Problems in Biology, Chemistry, and Materials
Michael Mascagni, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Moduli of tropical plane curves
Ralph Morrison, UC Berkeley
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Line Segment Visibility with Sidedness Constraints.
Jon Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Lower bounds for nodal sets of Laplacian eigenfunctions using heat flow arguments
Stefan Steinerberger, Yale University
Analysis Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Analysis of concentration in Banach spaces
Cyril Tintarev, Uppsala University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Existence and stability of traveling waves in a non-monotone feedforward chain of simple phase oscillators
Stanislav Mintchev, The Cooper Union
Book Signing
4:00PM,
WWH 13th floor lounge
Title: Peter Lax, Mathematician: Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh
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Friday, April 24, 2015
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: A class of (2+1)-dimensional growth process with explicit stationary measure
Fabio Toninelli, CNRS
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 605
Title: Water Waves with vorticity and asymptotic models
David Lannes, University of Bordeaux
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: The Kahler Ricci flow on Fano manifolds
Bing Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Fluctuations of the free energy of spherical spin glass
Jinho Baik, Michigan
Appllied Mathematics Seminar *Special time and place*
12:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Medium Amplitude Oscillatory Shear of Colloidal Dispersions
James W Swan, MIT Chemical Engineering
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Random walks on the random graph
Eyal Lubetzky,
Monday, April 27, 2015
Courant Lectures Part I
3:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: The Cryptographic Lens
Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Courant Lectures Part II
11:00AM,
WWH 102
Title: On Time and Order in Cryptography
Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Universal Structure in the Modulation of Neuronal Excitability: Synaptic Control of Coding, Resonance, and Network Synchronization
Christoph Kirst, The Rockefeller University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: From Quantum Groups to Noncommutative Geometry
Dimitri Gourevitch, Université de Valenciennes
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Some connections between measure partitions and polynomial partitioning.
Abdul Basit, Rutgers University
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Analysis Seminar
12:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Energy methods and blow-up rate for semilinear wave equations
Hatem Zaag, CNRS and University Paris 13
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Subspace Clustering with Ordered Weighted L1 Minimization
Ulas Ayaz, Brown University
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Variational methods for mean field games with degenerate diffusion
Jameson Graber, University of Texas at Dallas
NYU Science Chalk Talk
12:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
David Hogg, Astronomy AND, Michael Blanton, Astronomy
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Entropy, volume growth and SRB measures for Banach space mappings
Alex Blumenthal, CIMS
NYU SoE Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 702
Title: Some algebraic related structures in the family of convex sets
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Harold N. Shapiro Memorial Lecture and Reception Presented by Courant Institute and New York Number Theory Seminar
5:45PM,
Other Room 411, Silver Center at 31 Washington Place
Title: Markoff triples, graphs and strong approximation
Peter Sarnak, Princeton and I.A.S.
**preceded by tea in the lecture room from 5:15 P.M. to 5:45 P.M.
Also preceded by: RTG Seminar talk (providing background for graduate students & postdocs):
Presented by Alex Gamburd of CUNY Graduate Center
4:15-5:00 in Room 805 of the Courant Institute (Warren Weaver Hall), 251 Mercer St.
Reception: All are invited to the reception in memory of Prof. Harold N. Shapiro after the main talk.
The reception will be in the Courant Institute 13th floor lounge at 7:00 P.M. There will be some
reminiscences of Prof. Harold N. Shapiro by colleagues, students and representative of the family.
Also preceded by: RTG Seminar talk (providing background for graduate students & postdocs):
Presented by Alex Gamburd of CUNY Graduate Center
4:15-5:00 in Room 805 of the Courant Institute (Warren Weaver Hall), 251 Mercer St.
Reception: All are invited to the reception in memory of Prof. Harold N. Shapiro after the main talk.
The reception will be in the Courant Institute 13th floor lounge at 7:00 P.M. There will be some
reminiscences of Prof. Harold N. Shapiro by colleagues, students and representative of the family.
Friday, May 01, 2015
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The Z-invariant massive Laplacian on isoradial graphs
Beatrice de Tiliere, Paris 6
30th Annual Geometry Festival
2:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: Event held May 1 -3
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Monday, May 04, 2015
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs
Gunnar Martinsson, UC Boulder
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Introduction to mathematical biology applications in the pharmaceutical industry
Karim Azer, Interdisciplinary Pharmacometrics Program at Sanofi
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Some Geometric Partitioning Questions, Answers, Algorithms
William Steiger, Rutgers University
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Global Simulations of Atmospheric Rivers: Past, Present & Future
Jeff Kiehl, NCAR
Thursday, May 07, 2015
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Interfacial Dynamics of Dissolving Objects in Fluid Flow
Chris H. Rycroft, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Geometric ergodicity for diffusions with random regime switching
Xin Tong, CIMS
Friday, May 08, 2015
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Extreme-scale nonlinear Stokes solvers, with application to flow simulations in Earth's mantle
Georg Stadler, CIMS
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Fabio Martinelli, Roma
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Kevin Schnelli, IST Vienna
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Universal behaviors in geometric heat flows
Dan Knopf, University of Texas Austin
Special AML Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Numerical simulation of endocytosis: Diffuse interface models for membranes with curvature-inducing molecules
John Lowengrub, UC-Irvine
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Mathematical structure of hierarchies of reduced MHD models
Bruno Despres, UPMC
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Spring Showcase
4:00PM,
WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2016 SHOWCASE
Various speakers,
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Showcase
5:00PM,
WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2015 SHOWCASE
Various speakers,
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: An equation on random variables related to fermionic systems of particles
Anne-Sophie De Suzzoni, Paris 13
NYU Science Chalk Talk
12:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Holger Knaut Langone Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology AND, Thomas Neubert Langone Medical Center, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Friday, May 15, 2015
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Condensing zero-range processes
Claudio Landim, IMPA
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Around the complex interplay between organization, heterogeneity and collective dynamics of neuronal networks
Jonathan Toubou, College de France- INRIA