Spring 2016
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision Course
Babak Falsafi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Friday, January 22, 2016
NYC Crypto Day
9:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Crypto is the deadliest Espresso
Various,
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 102
Title: Fast Lingustic Information Retrieval from Big Data -- Introducing writing tools Linggle and WriteAhead
Jason Chang, National Tsing Hua University
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision Course
Babak Falsafi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: New bounds on curve tangencies and orthogonalities.
Joshua Zahl, MIT
Friday, January 29, 2016
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Random Partitions and the Quantum Benjamin-Ono Hierarchy
Alexander Moll, MIT
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Distributional Rank Aggregation Problem, and an Axiomatic Analysis
Pradeep Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Albert Cohen, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Monday, February 01, 2016
Special CS Seminar
2:00PM,
719BWAY 12th floor, Room 1221
Title: IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct
Jay Lorch, Microsoft Research
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A quantitative theory of stochastic homogenization
Scott Armstrong, CNRS Université Paris-Dauphine
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Micro-algae hit an obstacle: the role of hydrodynamic and contact forces
Enkeleida Lushi, Brown University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: On the boundedness of the second Betti number of hyperkähler manifolds
Nikon Kurnosov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Recent developments for combinatorial geometries.
Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University/IAS
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus
David Mazières, Stanford University
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Data Science Lunch Seminar
12:00PM,
Other 726 Broadway, 7th floor
Title: Archiving and Annotation: Two Aspects of Data Curation
Heiko Müller, Center for Data Science
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Applications of Terrestrial Radar Interferometry
Denis VOYTENKO, CIMS
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On Trudinger-Moser type inequalities in the whole space
Federica Sani, University of Milan
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Erosion and spreading of granular material
Alban Sauret, SVI Lab, CNRS & Saint Gobain - UMR 125.
Friday, February 05, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Eigenvalue Attraction
Ramis Movassagh, IBM Yorktown Heights
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Numerical Simulations for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Signal, Noise, and Temperature Considering Interactions Between Electromagnetic Fields and The Human Body
Chris Collins, NYU Medical School
Tuesday, February 09, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: EPA + Math = fewer estrogen receptor pathway disrupters
Jean Taylor, CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Representations of generalized braid groups on the derived category of a GIT quotient
Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Columbia University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Data Mule Scheduling in a Sensor Network.
Jiemin Zeng, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1320
Title: Making the World a Better Place with Cryptography
Muhammad Naveed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Predicting Arctic Sea Ice by Stochastic Models at Intra-Seasonal to Seasonal Time Scales
Xiaojun YUAN, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the structure of phase transition maps (Joint work with G.Fusco)
Nicholas Alikakos, University of Athens
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Nonlinear electrohydrodynamics of particles and drops in strong electric fields
David Saintillan, University of California San Diego
Friday, February 12, 2016
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Hypoelliptic Laplacian and probability
Jean-Michel Bismut, Orsay
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Certified Concurrent and Distributed Systems
Mohsen Lesani, MIT
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Data assimilation in high dimensions
David Kelly,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic approach to anomalous diffusion in two dimensional, incompressible, periodic, cellular flows.
Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai, CIMS
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Dynamics of the Ericksen-Leslie Model for Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows with General Leslie Stress
Mattias Hieber, University of Darmstadt
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Peter Foster, Applied Physics, Harvard University
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: A quantum algorithm for computing the unit group of a number field of arbitrary degree
Kristen Eisentraeger, Pennsylvania State University
Friday, February 19, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: 3D Eddy-current tomography of deposits in steam generators
Kamel Riahi, NJIT
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Chiranjib Mukherjee, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Event and Pattern Detection at the Societal Scale
Daniel B. Neill, Carnegie Mellon University
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Optimal Transportation for Practical Geometric Problems
Justin Solomon, Princeton/MIT
Monday, February 22, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Composing differentiable procedures for modeling, inference, and optimization
David Duvenaud, Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 10:45AM
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: The global nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime for self-gravitating massive fields
Philippe LeFloch, University of Paris 6 and CNRS
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Free-Boundary Equilibrium of Toroidal Plasma: Computational Methods and Applications
Holger Heumann, EP CASTOR, INRIA Méditerranée and University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The programmable bio-nano-chip system: a platform to digitize biology
John McDevitt, Biomaterials, NYU College of Dentistry
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The number of k-flats spanned by a set of points.
Ben Lund, Rutgers University
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Beyond Who and What: Answering How? and Why? by Modeling Large Graphs
Alex Beutel, Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served at 10:45AM
Special Data Science Lunch Seminar
12:00PM,
Other Center for Data Science, 726 Broadway, 7th floor
Title: Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Michael Betancourt,
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Invariant measures for stochastic reaction-diffusion equations.
Alex Misiats, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Decoding Drosophila photo-taxis and odor-taxis using natural and optogenetic stimuli
Marc Gershow, Department of Physics, NYU
Friday, February 26, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A generic acceleration scheme for large-scale gradient-based optimization
Zaid Harchaoui, CIMS
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Convergence of Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature
Richard Bamler, UC Berkeley
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Quantum chaos, eigenvalue statistics and the Fibonacci sequence
Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv and IAS
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Bayesian Machine Learning for Efficient Optimization of Black-box Functions
José Miguel Hernández Lobato, Harvard Unviersity
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Wall to wall optimal transport
Charles R. Doering, University of Michigan
Monday, February 29, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Convolutional Networks against the Curse of Dimensionality
Joan Bruna, University of California at Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Statistical Methods in Climatology
Michael Stein, University of Chicago
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Mathematical Modeling of Actin Regulation during Cancer Cell Motility
Nessy Tania, Smith College
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Feynman periods: numbers and geometry
Dmitry Doryn, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Scott Sheffield, MIT
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Improving the Cost and Reliability of Data Center Networks
Vincent Liu, University of Washington
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Key Uncertainties in Climate Forcing and Feedbacks
Andrew GETTELMAN, NCAR
Thursday, March 03, 2016
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Insect Flight: From Newton's Law to Neurons
Jane Wang, Cornell University
Friday, March 04, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Inverse medium scattering with multiple frequency data and multiple angles of incidence
Carlos Borges, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The frog model on trees
Toby Johnson, USC
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Unleashing Hardware Potential through Better OS Abstractions
Adam Belay, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Kernel methods for nonparametric analog forecasting
Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS
Monday, March 07, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: New machine learning for ubiquitous genomics and beyond
James Zou, Microsoft Research New England and MIT
Refreshments at 11:15am
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Freddy Bouchet, ENS de Lyon and CNRS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Freddy Bouchet, ENS de Lyon and CNRS
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Materials Working Group
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: A new theory of deformable solids with microstructure based on Finsler differential geometry
John Clayton, Army Research Lab
Note: Most "materials working group" talks will not be posted on the weekly bulletin. For current information see http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html
Computer Science Colloquium
12:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Multi-user, ambulatory, Mixed Reality
Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research
*please note no refreshments will be served prior
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Mathematical Models for a Model Experimental System
Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A method for calculating only part of an eigenstate and an application to quantum walks.
Seth Cottrell, New York City Technical College (CUNY)
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Automated Discovery and Learning of Complex Movement Behaviours
Igor Mordatch, University of California at Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Data-driven modeling and control of complex systems using sparse sensing and machine learning
Steven BRUNTON, University of Washington
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Classification and birational rigidity of del Pezzo fibrations with an action of the Klein simple g
Igor Krylov, University of Edinburgh
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: OPTIMAL STRONG APPROXIMATION FOR QUADRATIC FORMS
Naser Sardari, Princeton University
Friday, March 11, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Novel Skew-Symmetric Discontinuous Galerkin based Approach for Non-linear Conservation Laws: High Resolution, High Performance Computing and Robustness
Gregor Gassner, University of Cologne
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Discrete conformal mappings and Riemann surfaces
Alexander Bobenko, TU Berlin
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Static large deviations of reaction-diffusion model
Claudio Landim, IMPA
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Data-Driven Text Analysis with Joint Models
Greg Durrett, University of California at Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Local optimality and pessimality results in packing problems
Yoav Kallus, Santa Fe Institute
Monday, March 21, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Exploiting compositionality to explore a large space of model structures
Roger Grosse, University of Toronto
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Experiences in gyro-kinetic total distribution simulation development
Salomon Janhunen, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: 3-body elliptic Calogero model: a solution
Alexander Turbiner, Nuclear Science Institute, UNAM
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Art Gallery Problem, Indoor Localization and Sensor Scheduling.
Jie Gao, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Hardware and Software Techniques to Scale the Memory Wall
Nathan Beckmann, MIT
Refreshments at 11:15am
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Interfacial dynamics: drops & particles
Sungyon Lee, Texas A&M University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Limits of pfaffian cubic fourfolds
Asher Auel, Yale University
Friday, March 25, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Complexity Analysis of Root Clustering for a Complex Polynomial
Chee Yap, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Universal Randomness in 2D
Scott Sheffield, MIT
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Accelerating Advanced Analytics
Arun Kumar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Existence of rotating vortex patches for inviscid flows
Zineb Hassainia,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: From Seismology to Compressed Sensing and Back, a Brief History of Optimization-Based Signal Processing
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS
Monday, March 28, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Building Systems that Query on Compressed Data
Rachit Agarwal, University of California at Berkeley
**Refreshments at 11:15am
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the (un)reasonable (in)effectiveness of mathematics in biology
Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Accelerating the simulation of collisional plasma by using deviational particles
Bokai Yan, UCLA
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Passwords, keys, and coins: bridging usability and applied crypto
Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 314
Title: Distinct Roles of Inhibitory Neurons in Brain Oscillations
Songting Li, CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Genus one curves in Severi-Brauer varieties
David Saltman, Center for Communications Research, IDA
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: True Trees
Chris Bishop, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Knowledge Graph Construction using Machine Reading Methods
Ndapa Nakashole, Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments served at 11:15am
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The geometry of eddy-mean flow interaction in the ocean
David MARSHALL, Oxford
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Flow optimization for unconventional approaches to hydrokinetic energy conversion
Shreyas Mandre, Brown University
Friday, April 01, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Communication Lower Bounds for Loop Nests
Nicholas Knight, CIMS
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Busemann functions and second class particles
Eric Cator, Radboud University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Middleboxes as a cloud service
Justine Sherry, University of California at Berkeley
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Bridging scales through nonlocal modeling
Qiang Du, Colmbia University
Monday, April 04, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: DeepDive: A Data Management System for Machine Learning Workloads
Ce Zhang, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Planar Ising Model: random fields and curves, discrete and continuous structures
Clément Hongler, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Excited random walks in Markovian cookie environments on Z
Elena Kosygina, CUNY
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Bacterial cartels at steady supply
Ned Wingreen, Princeton University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Dynamical degrees of automorphisms of algebraic surfaces
Igor Dolgachev, University of Michigan
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Packing and covering convex bodies by cylinders
Károly Bezdek, University of Calgary
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Word meanings and human cognition: A computational perspective
Yang Xu, University of California at Berkeley
Hosted by Dennis Shasha. Refreshments at 11:15am.
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
5:00PM,
WWH 201
Title: On the arithmetic of integral representations of finite groups
Dmitry Malinin, University of the West Indies, Kingston
Thursday, April 07, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The degenerate special Lagrangian equation
Jake Solomon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Multiphysics models for hybrid kinetic-fluid systems
Cesare Tronci, Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, UK
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
2:45PM,
WWH 201
Title: TBA
Mikhail Verbitsky, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Probability Seminar
4:10PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Ising Interfaces and Exploration Trees
Clement Hongler, EPFL
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: LOWER BOUNDS ON DIMENSIONS OF MOD-p HECKE ALGEBRAS
Anna Medvedovsky, ICERM
Friday, April 08, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses: Seeing Through Walls, Gesture Control, and Vital Sign Monitoring
Fadel Adib, MIT
Refreshments at 11:15am
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the averaging principle of Freidlin and Wentzell and its refinement along trajectories containing saddle points.
Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: PRECESSION ON A ROTATING SADDLE: A GYRO FORCE IN AN INERTIAL FRAME
Oleg Kirillov, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow and Helmholtz-Zentrum, Dresden-Rossendorf
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Hertz Saved the Solar System
John Wettlaufer, Yale University
Monday, April 11, 2016
Probability Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Deviations of the maximum for a class of non-determinantal ensembles
Thomas Kriecherbauer, Bayreuth
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Newton-Raphson method for deducing error-field sources in the CNT stellarator
Kenneth Hammond, Columbia University
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Understanding entrainment properties of circadian oscillator models using a one-dimensional map
Amitabha Bose, NJIT
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Turán-Type Theorems for Triangles in Convex Point Sets.
Pat Morin, Carleton University, Ottowa
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Marginalization is not Marginal: Non-Convex, Bayesian-Inspired Algorithms for Sparse and Low-Rank Estimation
David Wipf, Microsoft Research Beijing
** Refreshments at 11:15am.
Special Applied Mathematics Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Trade-offs in Statistical Learning
Quentin Berthet, Cambridge
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Do mid-latitude jet shifts cause cloud feedbacks?
Kevin Michael GRISE, University of Virginia
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Symmetrization and stabilization of solution of nonlinear elliptic problem: dynamical systems approach
Messoud Efendiyev, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Problems in human motion planning
Brian Skinner, MIT
Friday, April 15, 2016
New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM,
Off-Campus Davis Auditorium, 412 Shapiro (CEPSR) building, Columbia University
Title: Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia External sponsorship by: Google
Various Speakers, http://cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/news/colloquium/844/
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Level Set Methods in Convex Optimization
James Burke, University of Washington
Geometric Analysis and Topolgy
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Certifying the Thurston norm via SL(2, C)-twisted homology
Ian Agol, UC Berkeley
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Emergent phases in large constrained graphs
Charles Radin, Austin
Special AMS Seminar in honor of Charlie Peskin
2:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: A Short History of the Immersed Boundary Method
Boyce Griffith, UNC
***3:30pm-5:30pm Reception to celebrate Charlie Peskin's 70th birthday, 13th floor lounge
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Multi-Level Regulation in the Mammalian Circadian Clock
Casey O. Diekman, NJIT
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Minimizing co-location potential for moving points.
David Kirkpatrick, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Applied Mathematics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Understanding umbrella sampling approaches to rare event simulation
Jonathan Weare, U. Chicago
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Nash-Kuiper theorem for $C^{1,1/5}$ isometric immersions of disks
Camillo de Lellis, Univ. Zurich
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: How does a neuron integrate spatiotemporal synaptic inputs?
Douglas Zhou, Institute of Natural Sciences & Math Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Friday, April 22, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Challenges in Multivalued Matrix Functions
Nick Higham, University of Manchester
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Mean field limits for stochastic differential games
Daniel Lacker, Brown
Geometric Analysis and Topology
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Notions of differential calculus on metric measure spaces
Nicola Gigli, SISSA
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Jack Hanson, CUNY
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Lattices and a Reverse Minkowski Conjecture
Oded Regev,
Student Prizes Ceremony
2:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: Student Prizes Ceremony
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A reception will follow in the lounge.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Tumor treatment with oncolytic viruses and dendritic cell vaccines: hierarchical model development and the robustness of optimal treatment protocols
Jana Gevertz, The College of New Jersey
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Convexity in Tree Spaces
Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: An asymptotic model for the coupled evolution of near-inertial waves and quasi-geostrophic flow
Gregory WAGNER, UCSD
NYU Tandon School of Engineering Colloquium
5:10PM,
Off-Campus 2MTC 9007
Title: Diffusion Models in Population Genetics
Charles Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Space Decomposition Framework for Nonlinear Optimization
Luis Vicente, University of Coimbra & Rice University
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Symmetry, quantitative Liouville theorems and analysis of large solutions of conformally invariant fully nonlinear elliptic equations
Yanyan Li, Rutgers Univ.
CS Theory Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 905
Title: When your big data seems too small: accurate inferences beyond the empirical distribution
Gregory Valiant, Stanford
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The (unreasonable?) effectiveness of resistive force theory in granular locomotion
Daniel Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 312
Title: CM LIFTINGS OF ABELIAN VARIETIES
Frans Oort, University of Utrecht
Friday, April 29, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Sparse Linear Programming method for Optimal Transportation
Adam Oberman, McGill University
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov stretch factors
Balazs Strenner, IAS
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Insights into Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience
Ein-Ya Gura,
CS Theory Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 905
Title: Fast Learning Requires Good Memory: A Time-Space Lower Bound for Parity Learning
Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Spot Solutions to Reaction-Diffusion Systems in R2
Michael Ward, University of British Columbia
Monday, May 02, 2016
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Inverse Problems in Optical Imaging
John Schotland, University of Michigan
** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Design principles of actin treadmill: lessons from the fragment
Alex Mogilner, New York University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Complexity of elimination for systems of differential equations.
Alexey Ovchinnikov, Queens College (CUNY)
Wednesday, May 04, 2016
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 512
Title: Phase retrieval with Gabor frames: reconstruction and stability
Palina Salanevich, Jacobs University Bremen
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Control and stabilization of the incompressible Euler equation with free surface
Thomas Alazard, ENS Paris
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Infectious disease transmission through the lens of fluid dynamics
Lydia Bourouiba, MIT
Retirement Party/Longer Service Awards
3:00PM,
WWH Lounge
Title: Retirement Party/Longer Service Awards
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Friday, May 06, 2016
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Finite Elements Methods on Non-Aligned Meshes for High Contrast Interface Problems
Marcus Sarkis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Random functions: A new road to universality
Van Vu, Yale
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: On growth of iterated monodromy groups: a geometric point of view
Misha Hlushchanka, Jacobs University Bremen
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The Arrow of Time - Images of Irreversible Behavior
Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zürich
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Dynamics of the brain: mathematics meets neuroscience
Lai-Sang Young, CIMS
CS Theory Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: oisy Population Recovery in Polynomial time
Michael Saks, Rutgers University
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Waves in space plasmas
Eun-Hwa Kim, PPPL
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.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The one dimensional cubic half wave equation: small mass solitons, almost integrability and transition to high frequencies
Patrick Gerard, University Paris-Sud
NYU Tandon School of Engineering Colloquium
5:05PM,
Off-Campus TBA
Title: New and missing volume inequalities for L_p zonotopes
Karoly Boroczky, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics,Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Central European University
Friday, May 13, 2016
Special Analysis Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 512
Title: The homogenization commutator
Antoine Gloria, Free University of Brussels
Monday, May 16, 2016
Special Analysis Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Large Deviations and a Conjecture of Lukic
Barry Simon, Caltech