Spring 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping: a stochastic semiclassical algorithm for high dimensional Schroedinger equations
Jianfeng Lu, Duke
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A Mathematical Model of the Rat Kidney: K+-Induced Natriuresis
Alan M. Weinstein, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Parabolicity of leaves
Mario Bonk, UCLA
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Optimal Shrinkage of Covariance Matrices in light of the Spiked Covariance Model
David Donoho, Stanford
Friday, January 27, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Solving Conic Optimization Problems with MOSEK
Erling Andersen, MOSEK
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Reinforced Random Walks and Statistical Physics
Pierre Tarres, Université Paris-Dauphine
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Extreme Events and Metastability in Fluids and Waves
Tobias Grafke, CIMS
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
4:00PM,
60FifthAve CDS 650
Title: Optimal rates of estimation for the multi-reference alignment problem
Jonathan Weed, MIT
Monday, January 30, 2017
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: High dimensional sparse approximation of elliptic PDEs with lognormal coefficients
Albert Cohen, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Recent advances in the variational formulation for reduced Vlasov-Maxwell equations
Alain Brizard, Saint Michael's College
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Sensory transduction by active, noisy oscillators on the brink of self-oscillation
Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, The Rockefeller University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Local and adelic Hecke algebra isomorphisms
Valentijn Karemaker, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, February 02, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Large time behavior of solutions to 3-D MHD system with initial data near equilibrium
Ping Zhang,
Friday, February 03, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Incremental methods for additive convex cost optimization
Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Rutgers
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Hardware-conscious data processing systems
Holger Pirk, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Towards a continuum mechanics for (dry) active particles
Wen Yan, Simons Foundation
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Materials Working Group
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: A problem in the evolution of crystal facets from a continuum view
Dionisios Margetis, Univ of Maryland
NOTE: Most "Materials Working Group" talks will NOT be announced in the seminar bulletin. To receive announcements by email, contact Bob Kohn (kohn@cims.nyu.edu).
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: No equations, no variables, no parameters, no space, no time: Data and the computational modeling of complex/multiscale systems
Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Princeton University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Good and bad reduction of dynatomic modular curves
Andrew Obus, University of Virginia
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Insights from Euler's polyhedral formula into the structure of 3-polytopes.
Joseph Malkevitch, Department of Mathematics, York College (CUNY)
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The development of 2015 El Nino and the end of global warming "hiatus"
Alexey FEDOROV, Yale U.
Thursday, February 09, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The master equation in mean field games
Pierre Cardaliaguet, Universite Paris-Dauphine
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Inverse problems in acoustic scattering and cryo-electron microscopy
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
Friday, February 10, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Computational Methods for Storm Surge Modeling
Kyle Mandli, Columbia
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Uniform large deviations principle for a general class of stochastic partial differential equations.
Mickey Salins, Boston University
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: From atomistic dynamics to mesoscale models of epitaxial growth
Dionisios Margetis, U Maryland
Monday, February 13, 2017
Special Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: ePCA: Exponential family PCA
Edgar Dobriban, Stanford University
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stability theorems for geometric variational problems
Francesco Maggi, ICTP, Trieste
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Variational integration for ideal MHD and formation of current singularity
Yao Zhou, Princeton University
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The master equation in mean field games
Pierre Cardaliaguet, Universite Paris-Dauphine
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Calabi-Yau compactifications and Landau-Ginzburg Hodge numbers
Victor Przyjalkowski, Steklov Institute
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Approximation Algorithms for Time-Window TSP and Prize Collecting TSP Problems.
Su Jia, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Lagrangian View of Oceanic Turbulence
Dhruv BALWADA, Courant
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Renormalized martingale solutions to the Boltzmann equation with stochastic forcing
Sam Punshon-Smith, Maryland
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Organization and Analysis on data tensors
Ronald Coifman, Yale
JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: STRONG ARITHMETIC EQUIVALENCE
Andrew Sutherland, MIT
Friday, February 17, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Simulating semi-flexible fiber suspensions in Stokes flow applied to cell mechanics
Ehssan Nazockdast, Simons Foundation
Probability Seminar
10:30AM,
WWH 512
Title: KPZ growth in a half space
Guillaume Barraquand, Columbia
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Randomized Algorithms Meets Formal Verification
Justin Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Probability Seminar
11:30PM,
WWH 512
Title: Large Deviations Theory for Chemical Reactions Networks
Andrea Agazzi, Stanford and Université de Genève
Monday, February 20, 2017
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Subexponential growth, measure rigidity, strong property (T) and Zimmer’s conjecture"
David Fisher, Indiana University
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 805
Title: Zimmer's conjecture: subexponential growth, measure rigidity and strong property (T)
David Fisher, Indiana University
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Some results on estimation of synaptic conductances
Toni Guillamon, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and NJIT
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Geometric Burnside's Problem
Brandon Seward, NYU
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Hardening Cloud and Datacenter Systems Against Configuration Errors
Tianyin Xu, University of California, San Diego
***Refreshments will be served
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Investigating the role of external radiative forcing in driving the Atlantic Multidecal Oscillation
Katinka BELLOMO, Columbia U.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Regularity of free boundaries in obstacle problems
Xavier Ros-Oton, Univ. Texas
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Nonconvex Recovery of Low-Complexity Models
John Wright, Columbia
Friday, February 24, 2017
Probability Seminar
10:15AM,
WWH 512
Title: Percolative properties of Brownian interlacements and its vacant set
Xinyi Li, U. Chicago
Probability Seminar
11:15AM,
WWH 512
Title: Random coalescing geodesics in first-passage percolation
Daniel Ahlberg, IMPA and Uppsala University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: A New Approach to Network Functions
Aurojit Panda, University of California, Berkeley
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Special Lecture in Honor of Olof Widlund's Retirement
2:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: Domain Decomposition: From Poisson to Coupled Multi-physics
Xiao-Chuan Cai, University of Colorado at Boulder
A reception will follow in the lounge.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: Langmuir wave filamentation in the kinetic regime and multidimensional Vlasov simulations
Denis Silantyev, University of New Mexico
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Ciliated tissue creates microfluidic habitats with distinct filtering and mixing properties
Eva Kanso, University of Southern California
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Topological Drawings of Complete Bipartite Graphs.
Jean Cardinal, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Simple Stochastic Dynamical Models Capturing the Statistical Diversity of El Nino Southern Oscillation
Nan CHEN, Courant
Thursday, March 02, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Boundary Layers in Periodic Homogenization of Neumann Problems
Zhongwei Shen, Univ. Kentucky
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Optimal Approximation with Sparse Deep Neural Networks
Gitta Kutyniok, TU Berlin
Friday, March 03, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Anisotropic Multiscale Systems on Bounded Domains (with Applications to Efficient Solvers for PDEs)
Gitta Kutyniok, TU-Berlin
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: A Sharp Quasi-Invariance Result for Gaussian Measures under NLS with Quartic Dispersion
Philippe Sosoe, Harvard
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Making the Fastest Routers Programmable
Anirudh Sivaraman, MIT
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Optimal wall-to-wall transport by incompressible flows
Ian Tobasco, University of Michigan
Monday, March 06, 2017
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Robots in Clutter: Learning to Understand Environmental Changes
David Held, University of California, Berkeley
***Refreshments will be served at 1:45pm
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Effects of mechano-electric feedback of the cardiac bioelectrical activity: a simulation study
Simone Scacchi, University of Milan, Italy
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Graph formulas for tautological cycles
Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic approximation for representation learning
Raman Arora, Johns Hopkins University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: TSP With Point Locational Uncertainty.
Tyler Mayer, Stony Brook University.
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Geometry and large N asymptotics in Laughlin states.
Semyon Klevtsov, Cologne
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The life of vortex knots and links: the flow of knottiness across scales
William Irvine, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago.
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 150
Title: Learning determinantal point processes
Philippe Rigollet, MIT
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: A TOPOLOGICAL/COMBINATORIAL DESCRIPTION OF GALOIS GROUPS
Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania
joint Center for Data Science and PRIISM Seminar
11:30PM,
Other 246 Greene Street, Kimball Hall, 3rd Floor Conference Room
Title: Simple Rules for Decision-Making
Ravi Shroff, NYU/CUSP
Friday, March 10, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Clustered Particle Filtering for High Dimensional Non-Gaussian Systems
Yoonsang Lee, CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Harnack inequality for a balanced random environment
Xiaoqin Guo, U. Purdue
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online
Justin Cheng, Stanford University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Invariant polynomials and quotients of spheres
Ben Blum-Smith,
Monday, March 20, 2017
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Towards Automated Machine Learning
Alp Kucukelbir, Columbia University
***Refreshments will be served at 1:45pm
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: From the liquid drop model for nuclei to the ionization conjecture for atoms
Rupert Frank, LMU Munich and Caltech
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Reaction-diffusion model of hair-bundle morphogenesis
Adrian Jacobo, The Rockefeller University
Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 650
Title: Local and global obstructions for the random matrix norm regularization
Liza Rebrova, University of Michigan
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Statistical Cost Sharing
Umar Syed, Google Research, NYC
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH
Title: Geometric ideas in Sum-Product theory.
Abdul Basit, Rutgers University
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Special Lectures on Game Theory -- Lecture 1 of 4
9:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Finite Composite Games
Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Building Fully Trustworthy Sequential and Concurrent System Software
Ronghui Gu, Yale University
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Multireference alignment, bispectrum inversion and cryo-EM
Tamir Bendory, Princeton University
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Special Lectures on Game Theory -- Lecture 2 of 4
9:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Asymptotic Values of Dynamic Games
Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Monge-Ampere eigenvalue problem and global smoothness of the eigenfunctions
Nam Le, Indiana
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: PCA from noisy linearly transformed measurements
Amit Singer, Princeton
Friday, March 24, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Anderson Acceleration: Convergence Theory and Numerical Experience
Tim Kelley, NCSU
Probability Seminar
10:15AM,
WWH 512
Title: Random perturbations of non-normal matrices
Elliot Paquette, Ohio State University
Probability Seminar
11:15AM,
WWH 512
Title: Numerical analysis of random matrices
Tom Trogdon, UC Irvine
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Natural Language Understanding with Paraphrases and Composition
Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Small Noise, Big Impact: The Inexorable Effect of Random Perturbations on Dynamical Systems
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Tales of Emerging Complexity: from Self-Assembly to Self-Replication
Alexei Tkachenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Cell Movement - Zooming In
Angelika Manhart, CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Chow groups with coefficients for some twisted homogeneous varieties
Patrick McFaddin, University of South Carolina
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Addressing Computational and Statistical Gaps with Deep Neural Networks.
Joan Bruna, CIMS
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: VC-dimension and Ramsey's problem.
Janos Pach, EPFL and Renyi Institute
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Special Lectures on Game Theory -- Lecture 3 of 4
9:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Strategic Learning
Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Safeguarding Users from Adversarial Networks
Roya Ensafi, Princeton University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The vertical structure of ocean eddies
Joe LACASCE, U. of Oslo
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Special Lectures on Game Theory -- Lecture 4 of 4
9:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Continuation from lectures 1-3
Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Bilinear estimates in quasilinear evolution equations
Alexander Ionescu, Princeton Univ.
Analysis Seminar
12:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Scattering of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the 3D radial energy space
Zaher Hani, Georgia Tech
****Special noon seminar
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Spatiotemporal Self-Organization of Fluctuating Bacterial Colonies
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Mathematial Mysteries of Deep Convolutional Networks
Stephane Mallat, ENS Ulm
Friday, March 31, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Variable Coefficients and Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic Waves
Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard, CIMS
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: On Phase Transitions for Spiked Random Matrix and Tensor Models
Afonso Bandeira, CIMS
Monday, April 03, 2017
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Revolutionizing Medicine through Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Mihaela van der Schaar, UCLA, University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Harmonic Functions and Irreducible Affine Representations
Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A new more realistic model of visual cortex can explain selectivity, its diversity, dynamics and more
Robert Shapley, NYU Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute
Computer Science Colloquium
1:00PM,
WWH 101
Title: Constrained Counting and Sampling: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Kuldeep Meel, Rice University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Deformations of symplectic singularities and the orbit method
Ivan Losev, Northeastern University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Valuations on lattice polytopes
Karoly Boroczky, Central European University and Rényi Institute
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: New perspectives on El Nino dynamics and East Asian Monsoon variability
Malte STUECKER, U. Washington, Seattle
Thursday, April 06, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: An Algorithm for Advancing Slow Features in Fast-Slow Systems without Scale Separation - A Young Measure Approach
Edriss Titi, Texas A&M
Math and Data Seminar
11:00AM,
Other 12 Waverly pl, L120
Title: Optimization Challenges in Deep Learning
Ben Recht, UC Berkeley
Analysis Seminar **Noon event**
12:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Instability, index theorems, and exponential dichotomy of Hamiltonian PDEs
Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Tech
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Self-organization of confined microbial suspensions
Enkeleida Lushi, Courant Institute, NYU.
NYU Tandon Math Colloquium
5:05PM,
Tandon Rogers Hall 304
Title: New conjectures on intrinsic volumes on Riemannian and Alexandrov spaces
Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv University
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: THE SPHERE PACKING PROBLEM IN DIMENSIONS 8 AND 24
Maryna Viazovska, Berlin Mathematical School
NYU Tandon Math Colloquium
6:30PM,
Tandon Rogers Hall 707
Title: The Lp-Minkowski problem for negative p after Chou-Wang
Károly Böröczky, Central European University and Renyi Institute
Friday, April 07, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Sketchy Decisions: Convex Low-Rank Matrix Optimization with Optimal Storage
Madeleine Udell, Cornell
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Exponential number of equilibria and depinning threshold for directed polymers in a random potential
Yan Fyodorov, King's College London
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Enabling Data-Driven Optimization of Quality of Experience for Internet Applications
Junchen Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University
***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Sphere packings, singularities, and statistical mechanics
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Building a model of visual cortex
Lai-Sang Young, CIMS, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Birational geometry of moduli spaces of parabolic bundles
Han-Bom Moon, Fordham University
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Models for boundary layer separation: the Prandtl equation and beyond?
Anne-Laure Dalibard, UPMC Paris 6
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Shape up to run - how bacterial motilities impact selective cellular morphologies
Bin Liu, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve Room 150
Title: Collaborative Dictionary Learning from Big, Distributed Data
Waheed Bajwa, Rutgers
Probability Seminar
3:20PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Macroscopic fluctuations of discrete particle systems
Vadim Gorin, MIT
Friday, April 14, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Approximate Versions of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)
Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers
Probability Seminar
10:15AM,
WWH 512
Title: The SK model is FRSB at zero temperature.
Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern Univ.
Probability Seminar
11:15AM,
WWH 512
Title: Lyapunov exponents of products of non-identically distributed independent matrices and transformations.
Ilya Goldsheid, Queen Mary University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: 1d/2d log-gases: searching for transitions
Thomas Leblé,
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Design at the Nanoscale: Reaching the Limits of Light-Matter Interactions
Owen Miller, Yale
Monday, April 17, 2017
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Phase transitions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Allan Sly, Princeton University
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Traveling waves in a free boundary problem modeling cell motility
Jan Fuhrmann, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
Memorial in Honor of Joe Keller
12:30PM,
WWH 109
Title: Colleagues and friends will discuss Joe's work and impact
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**** Followed mid-afternoon by a reception in the 13th floor lounge.
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Local-global principles over arithmetic function fields
David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 201
Title: Geometric transversality.
Florian Frick, Cornell University
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 11:00am
Title: Hyperbolic rank rigidity for strict quarter-pinching negatively curved manifold.
Thang Nguyen, NYU
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Summer heat overwinters in the Arctic Ocean
Mary-Louise TIMMERMANS, Yale U.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Dirichlet problems for mixed type equations
Kevin Payne, University of Milano
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Entrapment, escape, and diffusion of active particles in complex environments
Saverio Spagnolie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: The Landscape of some Statistical Learning Problems
Andrea Montanari, Stanford
Friday, April 21, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Should you derive, or let the data drive? A stochastic optimization approach for model mis-specification mitigation
Lior Horesh, IBM TJ Watson
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: An Eulerian Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme for the Fully Kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell System
James Juno, University of Maryland, College Park
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Local-To-Global Principles for Galois Covers of Curves in Characteristic P
Renee Bell, MIT
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Combinatorial Inference
Han Liu, Princeton University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Representation of convex geometries by convex shapes.
Kira Adaricheva, Hofstra University
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Special Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Two generalizations of the original Volume Conjecture
Qingtao Chen, NYUAD
Special Applied Math Lecture
2:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Optimal transport for particle image velocity and variational methods for fluid flows
Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Balanced Radiative Effect of Tropical Anvil Clouds
Dennis HARTMANN, U. Washington, Seattle
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 312
Title: Structured sparse recovery with sparse random matrices
Bubacarr Bah, AIMS South Africa
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Ill-posedness for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Tsukasa Iwabuchi, Tohoku University
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Sketchy Decisions: Low-rank matrix optimization with optimal storage
Joel Tropp, Caltech
Friday, April 28, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Space Decomposition Framework for Nonlinear Optimization
Luis Nunes Vicente, University of Coimbra & Rice University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Central Limit Theorems and Bootstrap in High Dimensions
Victor Chernozhukov,
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Baroclinic turbulence in Earth's oceans
Shafer Smith, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Elasticity, Geometry and Buckling
Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 201
Title: Universality and hyperuniformity of Weyl-Heisenberg ensembles
Luis Daniel Abreu, ARI-Vienna
Analysis Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: Relative equilibria for planar Euler equations
Zineb Hassainia, CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 201
Title: Tropical Schemes
Noah Giansiracusa, Swarthmore College
Machine Learning Ph.D. Seminar
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic Variance Reduction Methods for Policy Evaluation
Lihong Li, Microsoft Research
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The shape of phylogenetic treespace.
Katherine St. John, Lehman College (CUNY), New York
Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Geometry Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Index of A Free Boundary Minimal Surface
Hung Tran, UC Irvine
Thursday, May 04, 2017
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Counterexamples to Sobolev regularity for degenerate Monge-Ampere equations
Connor Mooney, ETH Zurich
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Level-Set strategy for SCFT
Gaddiel Ouaknin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University.
Math and Data Seminar
2:30PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Murder, Matrices, and Minima - Adventures in Blind Deconvolution
Thomas Strohmer, UC Davis
NYU Tandon Math Colloquium
5:05PM,
WWH 6 Metrotech Center, Rogers Hall 325
Title: A Few Fairy Math Tales
Dmitri Burago, Penn State University
Friday, May 05, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Fast Algorithms for Robust Stability Measures
Tim Mitchell, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg
Monday, May 08, 2017
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Singularities in geometry, topology and strings
Antonella Grassi, University of Pennsylvania
***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2018 SHOWCASE:
5:30PM,
WWH 13th floor Commons
Title: Computer Science 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.
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 10, 2017
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Ensemble Kalman filters in high dimensions
Xin TONG, U of Singapore
NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2017 SHOWCASE
5:30PM,
WWH 13th floor commons
Title: NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2017 SHOWCASE
Various Speakers,
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event
showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer
science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a
great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS
department.
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 11, 2017
MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR
11:00AM,
WWH 905
Title: The interesting dynamics of weakly collisional high-beta plasmas
Jonathan Squire, Caltech
Math and Data Seminar
4:00PM,
60FifthAve 150
Title: Inverse problems in acoustic scattering and cryo-electron microscopy
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
NYU Tandon Math Colloquium
5:05PM,
Tandon 6 Metrotech Center, Rogers Hall 304
Title: Translating solitons for the mean curvature flow in 3-space
Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
Followed by coffee, 6 Metrotech Center, Rogers Hall 305, 5:50pm - 6:20pm
NYU Tandon Math Colloquium
6:30PM,
Tandon 6 Metrotech Center, Rogers Hall 707
Title: Sharp geometric and functional inequalities and applications to geometry and PDEs
Guozhen Lu, University of Connecticut
Friday, May 12, 2017
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Numerical Aspects of Flow Stabilization by Riccati Feedback
Heiko Weichelt, The Mathworks, UK
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:15PM,
WWH 517
Title: Positive polynomials and numerical approximation
Bruno Després, Laboratoire J.-L. Lions, Université Paris 6