Spring 2018

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: General Relativity at the Subatomic Scale
Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Rutgers

Friday, January 26, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Fabrication-Aware Geometry Processing
Daniele Panozzo, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Incentive Auctions and Spectrum Repacking: A Case Study for "Deep Optimization"
Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Dynamical freezing in a spin glass system with logarithmic correlations
Julian Gold, Northwestern University
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The analysis and application of Optimal Transport for Seismic Inversion
Yunan Yang, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, January 29, 2018

Materials Working Group
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Buckling of cylindrical shells from the perspective of the general theory
Yury Grabovsky, Temple University
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Theory of margination in blood and other multicomponent suspensions
Michael Graham, Wisconsin

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Analysis of Global Dynamics of Regulatory Networks: A Novel Mathematical Approach
Konstantin Mischaikow, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Math and Data Seminar
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: k-server and metrical task systems on trees
Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft Research

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Propagating annular modes
Aditi Sheshadri, Stanford University

Thursday, February 01, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On some fluid flows governed by the Euler and Einstein equations
Philippe Le Floch, Sorbonne

Friday, February 02, 2018

Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Data-Driven Multifidelity Methods for Monte Carlo Estimation
Benjamin Peherstorfer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: The maximum of the Riemann zeta function in a short interval of the critical line
Louis-Pierre Arguin, CUNY
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Systems of points with Coulomb interactions
Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute

Sunday, February 04, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Nina Holden, ETH Zurich
**Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Monday, February 05, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Boundary Regularity for Mass Minimising currents
Guido De Philippis, SISSA Trieste

Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Circadian Rhythmicity of Pain Sensitivity: A Firing-Rate Model of Dorsal Horn Circuitry
Jennifer Crodelle, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Nested Hilbert schemes, local Donaldson-Thomas theory, Vafa-Witten / Seiberg-Witten correspondence
Artan Sheshmani, Harvard University
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Trading Illiquid Goods: Market Making as a Sequence of Sealed-Bid Auctions, with Analytic Results
Peter Cotton, Data Science Division of J.P. Morgan
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Polyomino and Rectilinear Knot Projections.
Joseph Malkevitch, York College (CUNY)

Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Mathematics, Information and Computation (MIC) Seminar
10:15AM, WWH 905
Title: Connectivity of Neural Networks Optimization Landscapes
Luca Venturi, NYU
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Rigidity of Warped Cones and Coarse Geometry of Expanders
Wouter Van Limbeek, Michigan
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Sparse Linear Algebra in the Exascale Era
Erin Carson, CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The latitudinal dependence of geostrophic turbulence in the atmosphere and ocea
Rei Chemke, Columbia

Thursday, February 08, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Anisotropic Type II Blow-up for the Semi-linear Heat Equation
Charles COLLOT, NYU AD / Courant Institute
AMS / AML Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Granular erosion in Stokes flow and non-normal surface waves
Nick Moore, Florida State University
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: TBA
David Rothschild, Microsoft Research
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Summation formulae and speculations on L functions attached to triples of automorphic representations
Jayce Getz, Duke/IAS

Friday, February 09, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Support Function Based Optimization of Eigenvalues
Emre Mengi, Koc University, Turkey
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: TBA
Evita Nestoridi, Princeton University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Building Correct Programs
William Mansky, Princeton University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Derivation of kinetic equations from Hamiltonian systems
Pierre M Germain, Courant Institute
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: An algorithm for overcoming the curse of dimensionality in Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Yat Tin Chow, UCLA

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Implicit, manifold-preserving numerical representations and solvers for multiscale kinetic simulations of plasmas
Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Lab

Monday, February 12, 2018

Materials Working Group
9:30AM, WWH 1314
Title: Mathematical methods for the statistical mechanics of mesoscopic particles
Emilio Zappa, CIMS
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Kahler-Einstein metrics
Gabor Szekelyhidi, Notre Dame

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Next generation neural field models
Áine Byrne, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: 1-cycles and arithmetic of weighted complete intersections
Cristian Minoccheri, Stony Brook University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Constructive Polynomial Partitioning for Lines in R3: Revisiting Depth Cycle Elimination.
Esther Ezra, Bar-Ilan University and Georgia Tech.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Stable flight of meteors
Pejman Sanaei, partner: Georg Stadler,

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: $L^p$ Hardy inequality on $C^{1,\gamma}$ domains
Yehuda Pinchover, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Math and Data Seminar
3:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Autotuning the learning rate in stochastic gradient methods
Rachel Ward, UT Austin

Friday, February 16, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The Summation-by Parts Property: Provably Stable Discretizations of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
Dave Zingg, Toronto
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Another look into the Wong-Zakai theorem for stochastic heat equation
Yu GU, CMU
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Which subspaces can be the fixed points of a finite group acting on a space?
Sylvain Cappell, Courant Institute

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Wave kinetic equation in a nonstationary and inhomogeneous medium with a weak quadratic nonlinearity
Daniel Ruiz, Sandia National Laboratory
Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Wave kinetic equation in a nonstationary and inhomogeneous medium with a weak quadratic nonlinearity
Daniel Ruiz, Sandia National Laboratory
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Randomness and structure in neural representations for learning
Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Lower-Tropospheric Eddy Momentum Fluxes in Idealized Models and Reanalysis Data
Nicholas Lutsko, MIT

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Elasticity with residual stress and related problems
Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: A stochastic variational inequality (SVI) approach modeling free boundary dynamics on turbulent thermal convection
Jinzi Mac Huang, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: igenvalues in multivariate random effects models
Ivan Selesnick, NYU

Friday, February 23, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Graph Partitioning using Matrix Differential Equations
Nicola Guglielmi, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Spectral Theory Sum Rules, Meromorphic Herglotz Functions and Large Deviations
Barry Simon, Caltech
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Programming Abstractions for Data Stream Processing Systems
Konstantinos Mamouras, University of Pennsylvania
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: A Robust Inverse Scattering Transform for the Focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation
Peter Miller, University of Michigan

Monday, February 26, 2018

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Towards a More Stable Network Infrastructure
Radhika Mittal, University of California, Berkeley
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: A Conditional Gaussian Framework for Uncertainty Quantification, Data Assimilation and Prediction of Complex Turbulent Dynamical Systems
Nan Chen, CIMS

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: What modeling and aquaporin-1 can teach us about early atherosclerosis
David Rumschitzki, The City College of New York
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Adaptive Adversarial Learning for a Diverse Visual World
Judy Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Enhancing Turbulence in Ocean Models
Laure Zanna, University of Oxford
**Please note unusual day for this seminar

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Uniform measures: examples and characterizations
A. Dali Nimer, Chicago
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Transforming Computation and Communication Patterns for High-Performance
Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, Rutgers University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Toward Understanding the Multi-Scale Coupling in Global Oceanic Flows
Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester

Thursday, March 01, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Discrete harmonic analysis and applications to ergodic theory
Mariusz Mirek, Institute of Advanced Study
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Adaptive stochastic algorithms for particle systems in and out of equilibrium
Benedict Leimkuhler,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: TBA
Thomas Pock, TU Graz
AMS / AML Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Efficient Analytical and Numerical Treatment of High Contrast Composites
Yuliya Gorb, Univ of Houston
*** Please note the unusual time and day of the week of this event

Friday, March 02, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Pattern formation on the sphere
Hadrien Montanelli, Columbia
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Efficient sampling using stochastic differential equations, from molecular dynamics to large scale inference
Benedict Leimkuhler, University of Edinburgh

Monday, March 05, 2018

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Liquid Haskell: Usable Language-Based Program Verification
Niki Vazou, University of Maryland

Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Mechanical positioning of multiple myonuclei in muscle cells
Angelika Manhart, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Local-global principles for gerbes and homogeneous spaces over semi-global fields
Bastian Haase, Emory University
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Non-Traditional Datasets in Quantitative Investing: Challenges and Solutions
Gene Ekster, Alternative Data Group
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Connectivity of Bichromatic Matchings.
Greg Alupis, New York University

Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Rate of asymptotic convergence near isolated singularity of a manifold.
Gao Chen, Princeton

Thursday, March 08, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Exact relations for polycrystalline composites and rank-one convex, non-quasiconvex functions of high symmetry
Yury Grabovsky, Temple University
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: How to simulate the dynamics of drops?
Anna-Karin Tornberg, KTH
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems
Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton

Friday, March 09, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Optimal model reduction: An interpolatory framework
Serkan Gugercin, Virginia Tech
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Towards Generalizable Imitation in Robotics
Animesh Garg, Stanford
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Local law of addition of random matrices on optimal scale
Kevin Schnelli, KTH
CS Theory Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: FPT-Approximation Algorithms for k-Cut and k-Treewidth Deletion
Euiwoong Lee, NYU
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Highly accurate integral equation based methods for surfactant laden drops in two and three dimensions
Anna-Karin Tornberg, KTH

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Emergent symmetries in low-beta gyrokinetics
Ryan White, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Typical lattice zonotopes
Ben Lund, University of Georgia

Friday, March 16, 2018

CS Theory Seminar
2:00PM, WWH
Title: On the expressiveness of comparison queries.
Shay Moran, Princeton University
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Statistical mechanics of active matter
Julien Tailleur, Université Paris-Diderot

Monday, March 19, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Computational Cloaking: Local differential privacy for physical sensor data and sparse recovery
Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Extended MHD for High Energy Density Plasmas: Methods and Simulation Results
Charles E. Seyler, Laboratory of Plasma Studies, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Individualized multiple myeloma adaptive response modeling: mathematics for better treatment decisions
Guanyu Wang, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Stable reduction of foliated surfaces
Federico Buonerba, Courant Institute
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Riemannian curvature measures.
Thomas Wannerer, University of Jena

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Lower bound for the perimeter density at singular points of a minimizing cluster in R^N
Jonas Hirsch, SISSA
Mathematics, Information and Computation (MIC) Seminar
2:30PM, 60FifthAve 650
Title: Local and global obstructions for the random matrix norm regularization
Liza Rebrova, http://mad.cds.nyu.edu/micsem/
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Suppression of Arctic air formation, and enhanced frequency of Sudden Stratospheric Warming events in warm climates
Eli Tziperman, Harvard

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Minh-Binh Tran, University of Wisconsin, Madison
****CANCELLED******
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: How to make nanofibres with a fridge magnet and a hairbrush
Ian Griffiths, Oxford
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: [ Learning via Nonconvex Optimization: ReLUs, neural nets and submodular maximization]
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, USC

Friday, March 23, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: A fast direct solution technique for boundary value problems on locally perturbed geometries
Adrianna Gillman, Rice University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Radial processes on RCD*(K,N)-spaces
Kazuhiro Kuwae, Fukuoka University
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Some recent progress on quantum kinetics
Minh-Binh Tran, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Quantification of Analyticity and Geometric Measure of Nodal Set
Fanghua Lin, CIMS
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: iPhones and Dysons: using fluid dynamics to tailor technology
Ian Griffiths, University of Oxford

Monday, March 26, 2018

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Closing the Loop on Secure System Design
Amit Levy, Stanford University

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

the MIC Seminar
1:00PM, 60FifthAve C15
Title: Harmonic mappings valued in the Wasserstein space
Hugo Lavenant,
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Functorial compactification of the moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces
Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The Dispersion Bias
Lisa Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley and Aperio Group

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Stable constant-mean-curvature hypersurfaces: regularity and compactness.
Costante Bellettini, University College London
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Ice ages and the latent dynamics of the Indian Ocean
Jessica E. Tierney, University of Arizona

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: An indefinite Laplacian on a rectangle
Jussi Behrndt, Technische Universitaet Graz
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: The Immersed Boundary Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction
Charlie Peskin, CIMS
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: SHIMURA CURVES AND THE ABC CONJECTURE
Hector Pasten, Harvard

Friday, March 30, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: On the Evaluation of Sums of Periodic Gaussians
Andrei Osipov, Shaw Research
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Machine Learning for Computational Social Science
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: The Polaron Measure
Raghu Varadhan, Courant Institute
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Fighting the curse of dimensionality in kinetic simulations of plasmas
Antoine Cerfon, Courant Institute
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM, WWH 705
Title: Delay-coordinate maps and the spectra of Koopman operators
Dimitrios Giannakis, with Suddhasattwa Das, Courant Institute

Monday, April 02, 2018

Materials Working Group
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Data-driven problems in elasticity
Stefan Mueller, Univ of Bonn
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, WWH 101
Title: How Computer Science Informs Modern Auction Design
Tim Roughgarden,
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH
Title: Programming shape
L. Mahadevan, Harvard

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Compressing turbulence and a bound on its energy behavior
Seth Davidovits, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Remarks on degenerations of hyperkähler manifolds and OG10
Giulia Sacca, MIT
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 314
Title: On the number of lines on projective hypersurfaces
Saugata Basu, Purdue University

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Progress in Studying Ocean Turbulence from Lagrangian Trajectories
Jonathan Lilly, NWRA

Thursday, April 05, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Remarks on Onsager's Conjecture and Anomalous Dissipation on domains with and without boundaries
Theodore Drivas, Princeton University
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Modeling the relative diffusion of DNA-coated colloids
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: TBA
Justin Romberg, Georgia Tech

Friday, April 06, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Continuous analogues of Krylov methods for differential operators
Alex Townsend, Cornell
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Visual Perception and Navigation in 3D Scenes
Saurabh Gupta, University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Fast, Accurate Tools for Physical and Biophysical Modeling in Complex Geometries
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Pattern Growth from Interfacial Fluid Instabilities
Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT

Monday, April 09, 2018

Materials Working Group
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: On the extrapolation of analytic functions
Narek Hovsepyan, Temple Univ
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: The Kolmogorov code of turbulence
Oliver Buhler, CIMS

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: High Order Finite Volume Methods on Sparse Grids for Kinetic Plasma Simulation
Lee Ricketson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: High Order FInite Methods on Sparse Grids for Kinetic Plasma Simulation
Lee Ricketson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Stochastic Spatial Modeling of Attachment and Detachment Processes in Molecular Motor-Cargo Systems
Peter Kramer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Heights on stacks
Jordan Ellenberg, UW-Madison
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Geometric Energies: Between Combinatorial Geometry and Additive Combinatorics.
Adam Sheffer, Baruch College, CUNY

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Emmanuel GRENIER,

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The hidden landscape of localization
Svitlana Mayboroda, Univ of Minnesota
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: How complicated is Brownian motion in liquids?
Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Asynchronous Parallel Computing for Optimization
Wotao Yin, UCLA

Friday, April 13, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Polynomial approximations of the region of attraction of a polynomial control system
Didier Henrion, Toulouse
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Modeling thin liquid films: from liquid crystals to liquid metals
Lou Kondic, NJIT, UCLA
11th Moore-Sloan Data Science Showcase
3:30PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Neuroscience Showcase
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Invitation to Pre-Screening of PBS NOVA's "Decoding the Weather Machine
12:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Decoding the Weather Machine
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Fluid Mechanics at the Scale of the Cell
Prof. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: (Log-)epiperimetric inequality and regularity at isolated singularities for almost Area-Minimizing currents
Luca Spolaor,
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Bounded-angle spanning trees and their applications.
Matthew (Matya) Katz, Ben-Gurion University.

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: A nonlocal isoperimetric problem with dipolar repulsion
Thilo Simon, NJIT
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Should we worry about asteroid-generated tsunamis?
Marsha Berger, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 150
Title: Manifold Representation by an Unsupervised Neural Net: Biology, Mathematics and Computation
Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers

Friday, April 20, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Non-holonomic stability and rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of driving stability and of the falling cat phenomenon go sour
Andy Ruina, Cornell
Probability Seminar
11:15AM, WWH 512
Title: Approximate spectral approach to transport properties of waves in heterogeneous media
Mitia Duerinckx, Université Libre de Bruxelles
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Modeling granular materials from fundamentals to applications: Surprising complexity meets surprising simplicity
Ken Kamrin, MIT

Monday, April 23, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Steve Shkoller, UC Davis
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Back to the roots: Multivariate polynomial optimization by numerical linear algebra
Bart De Moor, University of Leuven
*** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Computational Modeling of Cardiac Electromechanics
Simone Rossi, Mathematics Department, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: The dual Minkowski problem and polytopes.
Karoly Boroczky, Central European University and Rényi Institute.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On the Mathematical Theory of Graphene and its artificial analogues
Michael Weinstein, Columbia University
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Industrial math problems; modeling membrane filtration; and the influence of internal membrane pore structure
Linda Cummings, NJIT
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Robustness Meets Algorithms
Ankur Moitra, MIT
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Representations of p-adic groups
Jessica Fintzen, University of Michigan and IAS

Friday, April 27, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: An accurate and fast solver for high-frequency wave propagation
Matthias Taus, MIT
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: The high-density hard-core model on a triangular lattice
Izabella Stuhl, Penn State
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Active Mechanics in the Cell
Michael Shelley, CIMS
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 312
Title: On dominability of hyperkaehler manifolds
Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook University

Monday, April 30, 2018

Mathematics, Information and Computation (MIC) Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 202
Title: Compressed sensing Petrov-Galerkin: When data science helps solve problem in applied mathematics
Jean-Luc Bouchot,

Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Pulsing Soft Corals are Novel Mesoscale Mixers
Laura Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Rigorous computation of the endomorphism ring of a Jacobian
John Voight, Dartmouth College
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Funding and Counterparty Credit Costs for CCP and OTC Trading
Leif Andersen, BAML and NYU Courant
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Approximating (k, l)-center clustering for curves.
Michael Horton, University of Sydney and NYU.

Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 517
Title: Title Uniform lattices acting on RAAG complexes
Jingyin Huang, Bonn
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Why has the tropical lower stratosphere stopped cooling for the last 20 years?
Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia

Thursday, May 03, 2018

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Gravity water waves and emerging bottom
Thibault de Poyferre, U. C. Berkeley
MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Simple computational methods for inertial microfluidic device design
Marcus Roper, UCLA
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Global Optimality in Matrix Factorization and Deep Learning
Rene Vidal, John Hopkins
Courant-CUNY Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Numerical and certified computation of the topology of projected curves
Rémi Imbach, New York University

Friday, May 04, 2018

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: How to Characterize the Worst-Case Performance of Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization
Frank E. Curtis, Lehigh University
CS Theory Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Spectral Algorithms and SoS Proofs for Planted Problems
Sam Hopkins, Cornell University
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Optimality in microvascular networks
Marcus Roper,

Monday, May 07, 2018

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Imaging with correlations
George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
****Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Tuesday, May 08, 2018

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: In silico–in vitro approach to study the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias
Alexander V. Panfilov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Gent University, Belgium

Wednesday, May 09, 2018

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

Thursday, May 10, 2018

MSG Lunch Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Optimal experimental design for inverse problems under uncertainty
Karina Koval, CIMS
Courant-CUNY Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Computational complexity of solving polynomial differential equations over unbounded domains
Amaury Pouly, Max Planck Institute, Saarbrücken

Friday, May 11, 2018

Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Interface Profile in the Planar Ising Model: exact results
Douglas Abraham, Oxford University
Courant-CUNY Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
2:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Optimality principles and identification of dynamic models of biosystems
Julio Banga, Marine Research Institute, Vigo
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: BioDDFT: A hybrid continuum-discrete mechanical collective cell model
John Lowengrub, University of California Irvine
Courant-CUNY Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:00PM, Off-Campus CUNY Graduate Center, room 9116
Title: Checking consistency of algebraic inequalities by prolongation and linear relaxation
Hoon Hong, NC State University

Monday, May 14, 2018

Computer Science Colloquium
11:15AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: A Mobile Ecosystem for Faster Web Access in Developing Regions
Yasir Zaki, NYU Abu Dhabi