Spring 2019

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Covariant and compositional neural network architectures for learning from graphs, images and physical systems
Risi Kondor, University of Chicago
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: TBD
Tim Cronin, MIT

Friday, February 01, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Primal-Dual Interior Methods for Nonlinear Optimization
Philip Gill, UCSD
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Sticky Brownian motion and its applications
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: A touch of non-linearity in fluid fields: where spheres "think" collectively and swim together
Daphne Klotsa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Monday, February 04, 2019

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

Tuesday, February 05, 2019

AMS / AML Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: The Grassmann manifold, gauge, and quantum chemistry
Lin Lin , UC Berkeley

Thursday, February 07, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Solutions to two conjectures in branched transport: stability and regularity of optimal paths
Antonio De Rosa, CIMS
CUNY-NYU Symbolic-Numeric Computing Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Isolating Simple Zeros of Systems of Equations, with Complexity Analysis
Chee Yap, NYU

Friday, February 08, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Dimension-Robust MCMC Methods for Bayesian Inversion
Matt Dunlop, CIMS
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Simple ensemble strategies for preconditioning Markov chain Monte Carlo
Jonathan Weare, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Starbursts and flowers: when spreading droplets break bad
Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University

Monday, February 11, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Precise Program Reasoning using Probabilistic Methods
Mukund Raghothaman, University of Pennsylvania
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

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: A Multiscale, Conservative, Adaptive Implicit Algorithm for the Multispecies Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation
Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mathematics, Information, and Computation Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 705
Title: Complexity of Linear Regions in Deep Networks
Boris Hanin, Texas A&M
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Classical trigonometry of non-Euclidean tetrahedra
Daniil Rudenko,
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Tverberg's theorem and weak epsilon-nets for convex sets.
Pablo Soberon, Baruch College/CUNY.

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Recent progress in the energetics framework linking extratropical forcing and tropical rainfall distribution
Sarah Kang, UNIST, South Korea

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The stability of contact lines in fluids
Ian TICE, Carnegie-Mellon University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Contraction loci on hyperkahler manifolds
Misha Verbitsky,

Friday, February 15, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Dimensionality Reduction of Nonlinear Waves Using Transport and Radon Transform
Donsub Rim, Columbia
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: On the spectrum of the hierarchical Schrödinger – type operators.
Stanislav Molchanov , UNC Charlotte and HSE Moscow
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Multifidelity Monte Carlo methods for uncertainty quantification
Ben Peherstorfer, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Traffic Waves, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Traffic Modeling
Benni Seibold, Temple University

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Multiplicity-free products of Schubert divisors and an application to canonical dimension.
Rostislav Devyatov,

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Long-range Rossby wave radiation from an unstable ocean current
Tom Farrar, WHOI

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Minmax Minimal Surfaces in arbitrary codimensions
Tristan Riviere, ETU-Zurich
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Sequences of measures in Bayesian inversion and their approximation
Jonas Latz, TU Munich
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of Signal Propagation in Deep Neural Networks
Jeffrey Pennington, Google
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of Signal Propagation in Deep Neural Networks
Jeffrey Pennington , Google
Number Theory Seminar
4:00PM, WWH 805
Title: RAMIFICATION THEORY FOR ARBITRARY VALUATION RINGS IN POSITIVE CHARACTERISTIC
Vaidehee Thatte, SUNY, Binghamton

Friday, February 22, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Reduced Order Methods for PDEs: state of the art and perspectives with applications in Industry, Medicine and Environmental Sciences
Gianluigi Rozza, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Why do neural networks learn?
Behnam Neyshabur, New York University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: New coupling techniques for exponential ergodicity of SPDEs in the hypoelliptic and effectively elliptic settings.
Oleg Butkovsky, TU Berlin
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Convex integration on thin sets
Vlad Vicol, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture and Healing in Elastomers: A Phase-Transition Theory and Numerical Implementation
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Monday, February 25, 2019

Student Probability Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Large cliques in random graphs: geometry and computation
Tim Kunisky, CIMS

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Random Knots are Knotted
Chaim Even Zohar, UC Davis

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Rethinking the relationship between data and robotics
Lerrel Pinto, Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Weak solutions to the Navier--Stokes inequality with arbitrary energy profiles
Wojciech Ożański, Warwick University
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: History of the FFT
Yunan Yang + Zhe Chen,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Efficient Z_q synchronization on the square lattice
Ahmed El Alaoui, Stanford
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Efficient Z_q synchronization on the square lattice
Ahmed El Alaoui , Stanford

Friday, March 01, 2019

Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Stochastic Ricci Flow on surfaces
Julien Dubédat, Columbia University
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: How to make a splash: a multi-scale framework for understanding high speed drop impact
Radu Cimpeanu, University of Oxford

Monday, March 04, 2019

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Rigidity and flexibility of isometric embeddings
Camillo De Lellis, IAS
NYU Biology Seminar
4:00PM, Other 12 Waverly Place Auditorium
Title: Automated synapse - resolution connectomisc in flies, birds and humans
Viren Jain , Google

Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: An energy-conserving and asymptotic-preserving time integrator for implicit PIC simulation of magnetized plasmas
Lee Ricketson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Isolation as a means of epidemic control and consequences of flawed implementation
Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: o-minimal GAGA and applications to Hodge theory
Ben Bakker,
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Repo Haircut and Pricing
Wujiang Lou, HSBC

Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 202
Title: A few conjectures on intrinsic volumes on Riemannian manifolds and Alexandrov spaces
Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Verification and Synthesis Algorithms for Safe Autonomy
Chuchu Fan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Parameterizing Convective Overshoot using Dedalus
Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton

Thursday, March 07, 2019

Special Analysis Seminar
9:45AM, WWH 1314
Title: Linear inviscid damping and enhanced viscous dissipation of shear flows by the conjugate operator method
Frederic ROUSSET, Universite Paris-Orsay
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Degenerate dispersive equations
Jeremy MARZUOLA, UNC Chapel Hill
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Maxwell (1861)
Charlie Peskin, CIMS
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Passed & Spurious: Descent algorithms and local minima in a spiked matrix-tensor model
Florent Krzakala, ENS Paris
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Passed & Spurious: Descent algorithms and local minima in a spiked matrix-tensor model
Florent Krzakala, ENS

Friday, March 08, 2019

Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: TBA
Jonathan Mattingly , Duke University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Minkowski Problems, Singular Monge-Ampere PDEs, and Measure Concentration
Deane Yang, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Fast randomized iterative numerical linear algebra for quantum chemistry and other applications
Jonathan Weare, CIMS

Monday, March 11, 2019

Student Probability Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Laplace's Method and Exit Problems
Hong-Bin Chen, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: From Scripting to Proving: Gradual Verification for Expressive Programming Languages
David Van Horn, University of Maryland
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Quantifying Gerrymandering: A mathematician goes to court
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Available energy of magnetically confined plasmas
Per Helander, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Homologous recombination rates of bacteria
Edo Kussell, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
Oriol Vinyals, Google DeepMind
***no refreshments will be provided
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Reducing the distinct distances problem in Rd to an incidence problem.
Sam Bardwell-Evans, Boston University

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Special Analysis Semianr
9:45AM, WWH 1314
Title: An old problem from a new angle: wave turbulence approach to the FPU and anharmonic chains
Miguel Onorato, U. Torino
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1320
Title: Topological and Dynamic Phase Transitions in Statistical Physics
Shouhong Wang,
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Codimension two cycles in Iwasawa theory
Bharathwaj Palvannan , University of Pennsylvania

Friday, March 15, 2019

A Conference to Celebrate the 70th Birthday of Andrew Majda
9:00AM, WWH 109
Title: Nonlinear Dynamics and Data: Prediction, State Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Systems
Various Speakers, For more information:
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Fractional PDEs: Optimal Control and Applications
Harbir Antil, George Mason University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Designing New Abstractions for High-Performance Network Functions
Guyue (Grace) Liu, George Washington University
** Refreshments available at 10:45am

Saturday, March 16, 2019

A Conference to Celebrate the 70th Birthday of Andrew Majda
9:00AM, WWH 109
Title: Nonlinear Dynamics and Data: Prediction, State Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Systems
Various speakers , For more information:

Sunday, March 17, 2019

A Conference to Celebrate the 70th Birthday of Andrew Majda
9:00AM, WWH 109
Title: Nonlinear Dynamics and Data: Prediction, State Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Systems
Various speakers , For more information:

Monday, March 25, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Rethinking the Role of Optimization in Learning
Suriya Gunasekar, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
***Cancelled Mathematics Colloquium ****Cancelled
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Performance Bounds and Optimization of Stochastic Systems under Model Uncertainty
Paul Dupuis, Brown University
***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Extreme single-file diffusion and its application to Mg^2+ block of the NMDA receptor
JinHyun Kim, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: AI for Imperfect-Information Game Settings
Noam Brown, Carnegie Mellon University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic jet stream
Isla Simpson, NCAR

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Non-uniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations
Tristan Buckmaster, Princeton University
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Taylor (1953)
Charles Puelz + Ondrej Maxian,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: TBA
Victor Preciado , UPenn

Friday, March 29, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Scalable Optimization Algorithms for Large-scale Subspace Clustering
Daniel Robinson, Johns Hopkins
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Better understanding of algorithmic and statistical matters in generative models
Andrej Risteski, MIT
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Free probability for random band matrices
Benson Au, UC San Diego
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: Integral equation-based fast solvers for simulation and design
Mike O'Neil, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Shahriar Afkami , New Jersey Institute of Technology

Monday, April 01, 2019

Student Probability Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 512
Title: Local and global spectral expansion of graphs
Yuval Peled, https://math.nyu.edu/dynamic/calendars/seminars/student-probability-seminar/
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Visual Question Answering and Beyond
Aishwarya Agrawal, Georgia Tech
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: An improvement of Liouville’s theorem for discrete harmonic functions
Eugenia Malinnikova, IAS

Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: Integrating guiding center motion in loop space
Joshua Burby, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Computer simulations of a nanoparticle translocating through a nanopore
Maria Gracheva, Department of Physics, Clarkson University
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The Adaptive Curve Evolution Model for Interest Rates
Matthias Heymann, Goldman Sacks, Model Risk Management
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Theorems of Caratheodory, Helly, and Tverberg without dimension
Imre Bárány, Rényi Institute, Budapest and University College London.

Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: End-to-end Optimization of Discrete Latent Structures
Mohammad Norouzi, Google
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Theory of third-order structure functions for turbulence with an application to bidirectional atmospheric energy transfer
Jin-Han Xie, Courant

Thursday, April 04, 2019

Special Analysis Seminar
9:45AM, WWH 1314
Title: Homogenization of Parabolic Equations with Non-self-similar Scales
Zhongwei Shen,
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Alignment in Cucker-Smale systems with degenerate communication
Roman SHVYDKOY, University of Illinois at Chicago
Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting ****CANCELLED***
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Physics and Mathematics of Photoacoustic Imaging
Sebastian Acosta , Baylor College of Medicine

Friday, April 05, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: AlphaGo and the Computational Challenges of Machine Learning
Christopher Maddison, University of Oxford
Probability Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 512
Title: Some free boundary problems arising from branching Brownian motion with selection
Jim Nolen, Duke University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
11:10AM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Jeff Cheeger, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Photoacoustic imaging and Thermodynamic Attenuation
Sebastian Acosta, Baylor
Computer Science Colloquium
3:00PM, 60FifthAve 527
Title: AI SOLUTIONS FOR THE UNDERSERVED BILLIONS
P. ANANDAN, Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Monday, April 08, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Perceiving Humans in the 3D World
Angjoo Kanazawa, University of California, Berkeley
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Collapsing of the Kahler-Ricci flow and of hyperkahler manifolds
Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern
*** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Universal statistics of incubation times and other applications of simple diffusion models
Yuri Bakhtin, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Opportunities and Challenges of Side-Channel Security in the Era of Confidential Computing
Yinqian Zhang, Ohio State University
***Refreshments available at 1:45pm
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: From Hall’s Marriage Theorem to Boolean Satisfiability and Back
Jonathan Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Computer Science Colloquium
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Formal Reasoning and Amazon Web Services
Byron Cook, University College London/Amazon Web Services
** Refreshments available at 1:45pm
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Creation of coherent zonal structures from selective decay and secondary instability
Di Qi, Courant

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Special Analysis Seminar
9:45AM, WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Joackim BERNIER, ENS Rennes
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve C15
Title: Agency in the Era of Learning Systems
Jakob Foerster, University of Oxford
Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Keller (1998), Vella & Mahadevan (2005), Kolmogorov (1941)x2
Guanhua Sun + Jin-han Xie,

Friday, April 12, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Four “better” ways to solve the Navier-Stokes equations: simulation of Richardson pair dispersion, ensemble discretization methods, an auxiliary equation approach for UQ, and filtered regularizations
Max Gunzburger , Florida State
Probability Seminar
10:30AM, WWH 512
Title: Eigenvectors of non-hermitian random matrices
Guillaume Dubach , Courant
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: Machine Learning for Medical Decision Support
Pengtao Xie, Petuum Inc.
**Refreshments available at 10:45am
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Active Assembly of Colloids with Broken Symmetries Under AC Electric Fields
Ning Wu, Colorado School of Mines
Probability Seminar
11:30PM, WWH 512
Title: On microscopic derivation of a mean-curvature flow
Sunder Sethuraman , University of Arizona

Monday, April 15, 2019

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Trainability and accuracy of artificial neural networks
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Towards Simulating Eukaryotic Cells from the Fundamental Molecular Principles
Garegin A. Papoian, University of Maryland

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: The Ice-Ocean Governor: ice-ocean stress feedback limits Beaufort Gyre spin up
Gianluca Meneghello, MIT

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Special Analysis Semianr
9:45AM, WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Clement Mouhot, Univ of Cambridge
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Sameer IYER, Princeton University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: A journey in Artificial Intelligence, Information and Computer Science
Philippe Jacquet, Nokia Bell Labs
***refreshments available at 10:45am
Modeling and Simulation Group
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: High-speed jet noise reduction via downstream fluidic injection
Pankaj Rajput, Tandon
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve 150
Title: A theory for representation learning via contrastive objectives
Sanjeev Arora, Princeton and IAS

Friday, April 19, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Optimization of phase-field damage evolution
Winni Wollner, Darmstadt
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 109
Title: Dynamics of Colloids Above a Bottom Wall Driven by Active Torques and Forces
Aleksandar Donev, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Monday, April 22, 2019

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Stabilization of Coupled Hyperbolic PDE: Calming “Stop-and-Go” Traffic with Backstepping
Miroslav Krstic, UCSD

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1314
Title: Water Waves with Time-Dependent and Deformable Angled Crests (or Corners)
Steve Shkoller, UC Davis
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Ultra coarse grained modeling of neurotransmitter release
Ben O’Shaughnessy, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: On the Structure of Hermitian Manifolds with Semipositive Griffiths Curvature
Yury Ustinovskiy,
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Deep (Supervised or Otherwise) Learning
Dhruv Madeka, Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Affine Quermassintegrals and Minkowski Valuations.
Franz Schuster, Vienna University of Technology.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 202
Title: A dichotomy for minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds thick at infinity
Antoine Song, Princeton University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Jupiter’s deep atmospheric dynamics revealed by Juno
Yohai Kaspi, Weizmann Inst.

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Super-resolution, subspace methods, and minimum singular value of non-harmonic Fourier matrices
Weilin LI, CIMS

Friday, April 26, 2019

Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Model uncertainty issues in nonlinear inverse problems
Kui Ren, Columbia
Probability Seminar
10:30AM, WWH 512
Title: TBA
Alex Hening, Tufts University
Probability Seminar
11:30AM, WWH 512
Title: A Scaling limit for the Cover Time of the Binary Tree
Oren Louidor, Technion
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM, WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Active fluids of Quincke microrotors
Petia Vlahovska, Northwestern
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 109
Title: Machine Learning for Trading
Gordon Ritter, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Monday, April 29, 2019

Student Probability Seminar
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Guillaume Dubach, CIMS
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Euclidean distance degree and the multiview conjecture
Laurentiu Maxim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
***Colloquium Tea at 3:15
Special Physics Talk
5:00PM, Other 726 Broadway, Room 904
Title: Knitogami
Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Agent-Based Computational Modeling and Generative Social Science
Joshua M. Epstein, Department of Epidemiology, New York University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Torsors over moduli of genus one curves and splitting Brauer classes
Asher Auel,
Probability Seminar
3:45PM, WWH 312
Title: On the spectrum of random graphs
Pierre Youssef, Université Paris-Diderot
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Reduced Order Representation of Implied Volatility Surfaces
Andrew Papanicolaou, NYU Tandon
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM, WWH 1314
Title: Splitting Loops and Necklaces: Variants of the Square Peg Problem
Florian Frick, CMU

Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Eddy-mean flow interaction in a multiple-scale ocean model
Bruno Deremble, LMD, Ecole Normale

Thursday, May 02, 2019

Modeling & Simulation Group Meeting
12:30PM, WWH TBA
Title: Forsythe & Leibler (1950)
Robert Webber + Tristan Goodwill,
Math and Data Seminar
2:00PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: New and Improved Binary Embeddings of Data
Rayan Saab, UC San Diego

Friday, May 03, 2019

Probability Seminar
9:30AM, WWH 508
Title: Columbia/Courant joint seminar
Various Speakers,
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: The generalized null space decomposition and its implications for computing the Jordan form
Michael Overton, NYU Courant

Monday, May 06, 2019

Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: Numerical Differential Geometry
Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago

Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 905
Title: A moment-based model for edge plasma dynamics at arbitrary collisionality
Rogerio Jorge, University of Maryland, College Park
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Cell volume control and osmosis-driven cell movement
Yoichiro Mori, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Mathematical Finance Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: An Algorithmic Approach to Taxable Investing
Adam Grealish, Director of Investing @ Betterment

Thursday, May 09, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: Recent progress on the mathematical theory of plasmas
Diogo Arsenio, NYU Abu Dhabi
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM, WWH 317
Title: Reductions of abelian surfaces over global function fields
Yunqing Tang, Princeton

Friday, May 10, 2019

AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Mathematical Justification of Slender Body Theory
Yoichiro Mori, University of Minnesota

Monday, May 13, 2019

Algebraic Geometry Seminar
2:00PM, WWH 317
Title: Rationally connected threefolds and quotients of their groups of birational transformations
Egor Yasinski,
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM, WWH 1302
Title: The topologies of random real algebraic hypersufaces
Peter Sarnak, IAS/Princeton University

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM, WWH 1314
Title: Around some recent results about Reaction-Diffusion systems in Neuroscience context
Benjamin Ambrosio, Le Havre Normandy University

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Special MaD Seminar
2:15PM, 60FifthAve 7th Floor
Title: Estimating Large Noisy Matrices: Random Matrix Theory Meets Cross-Validation
Marc Potters, CFM
NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2019 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.
The Math and Democracy Seminar
5:30PM, 60FifthAve room 150
Title: Counterexamples in Political Redistricting
Justin Solomon, MIT

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Analysis Seminar
11:00AM, WWH 1302
Title: On some inverse boundary value problems: Ill-posedness and remedies
Elena Beretta, Politecnico di Milano

Friday, May 17, 2019

AMS / AML Seminar
2:30PM, WWH 1302
Title: Bacterial Swimming in Newtonian and non-Newtonian Fluids
Kenny Breuer, Brown University