Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, April 26, 2018

• On the Mathematical Theory of Graphene and its artificial analogues

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 26, 2018, 11AM
  Michael Weinstein, Columbia University

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

• The dual Minkowski problem and polytopes.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 24, 2018, 6PM
  Karoly Boroczky, Central European University and Rényi Institute.

• Computational Modeling of Cardiac Electromechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 24, 2018, 12:30PM
  Simone Rossi, Mathematics Department, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monday, April 23, 2018

• Back to the roots: Multivariate polynomial optimization by numerical linear algebra

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 23, 2018, 3:45PM
  Bart De Moor, University of Leuven
  *** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 23, 2018, 11AM
  Steve Shkoller, UC Davis

Friday, April 20, 2018

• Modeling granular materials from fundamentals to applications: Surprising complexity meets surprising simplicity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2018, 2:30PM
  Ken Kamrin, MIT

• Approximate spectral approach to transport properties of waves in heterogeneous media

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 20, 2018, 11:15AM
  Mitia Duerinckx, Université Libre de Bruxelles

• Non-holonomic stability and rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of driving stability and of the falling cat phenomenon go sour

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 20, 2018, 10AM
  Andy Ruina, Cornell

Thursday, April 19, 2018

• Manifold Representation by an Unsupervised Neural Net: Biology, Mathematics and Computation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 150
  April 19, 2018, 2PM
  Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers

• Should we worry about asteroid-generated tsunamis?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 19, 2018, 12:30PM
  Marsha Berger, CIMS

• A nonlocal isoperimetric problem with dipolar repulsion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 19, 2018, 11AM
  Thilo Simon, NJIT

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

• Bounded-angle spanning trees and their applications.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 17, 2018, 6PM
  Matthew (Matya) Katz, Ben-Gurion University.

• (Log-)epiperimetric inequality and regularity at isolated singularities for almost Area-Minimizing currents

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 17, 2018, 11AM
  Luca Spolaor

Monday, April 16, 2018

• Fluid Mechanics at the Scale of the Cell

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 16, 2018, 3:45PM
  Prof. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge

Sunday, April 15, 2018

• Decoding the Weather Machine

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 15, 2018, 12PM

Friday, April 13, 2018

• Neuroscience Showcase

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 13, 2018, 3:30PM

• Modeling thin liquid films: from liquid crystals to liquid metals

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2018, 2:30PM
  Lou Kondic, NJIT, UCLA

• Polynomial approximations of the region of attraction of a polynomial control system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 13, 2018, 10AM
  Didier Henrion, Toulouse

Thursday, April 12, 2018

• Asynchronous Parallel Computing for Optimization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 12, 2018, 2PM
  Wotao Yin, UCLA

• How complicated is Brownian motion in liquids?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 12, 2018, 12:30PM
  Aleksandar Donev, CIMS

• The hidden landscape of localization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 12, 2018, 11AM
  Svitlana Mayboroda, Univ of Minnesota

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 11, 2018, 11AM
  Emmanuel GRENIER

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

• Geometric Energies: Between Combinatorial Geometry and Additive Combinatorics.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 10, 2018, 6PM
  Adam Sheffer, Baruch College, CUNY

• Heights on stacks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 10, 2018, 3:30PM
  Jordan Ellenberg, UW-Madison

• Stochastic Spatial Modeling of Attachment and Detachment Processes in Molecular Motor-Cargo Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 10, 2018, 12:30PM
  Peter Kramer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• High Order Finite Volume Methods on Sparse Grids for Kinetic Plasma Simulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 10, 2018, 11AM
  Lee Ricketson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• High Order FInite Methods on Sparse Grids for Kinetic Plasma Simulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 10, 2018, 11AM
  Lee Ricketson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Monday, April 9, 2018

• The Kolmogorov code of turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 09, 2018, 3:45PM
  Oliver Buhler, CIMS

• On the extrapolation of analytic functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 09, 2018, 10AM
  Narek Hovsepyan, Temple Univ

Friday, April 6, 2018

• Pattern Growth from Interfacial Fluid Instabilities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2018, 2:30PM
  Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT

• Fast, Accurate Tools for Physical and Biophysical Modeling in Complex Geometries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2018, 1PM
  Leslie Greengard, CIMS

• Visual Perception and Navigation in 3D Scenes

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 06, 2018, 11AM
  Saurabh Gupta, University of California, Berkeley

• Continuous analogues of Krylov methods for differential operators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 06, 2018, 10AM
  Alex Townsend, Cornell

Thursday, April 5, 2018

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 05, 2018, 2PM
  Justin Romberg, Georgia Tech

• Modeling the relative diffusion of DNA-coated colloids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 05, 2018, 12:30PM
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS

• Remarks on Onsager's Conjecture and Anomalous Dissipation on domains with and without boundaries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 05, 2018, 11AM
  Theodore Drivas, Princeton University

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

• Progress in Studying Ocean Turbulence from Lagrangian Trajectories

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2018, 3:30PM
  Jonathan Lilly, NWRA

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

• On the number of lines on projective hypersurfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 314
  April 03, 2018, 6PM
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University

• Remarks on degenerations of hyperkähler manifolds and OG10

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 03, 2018, 3:30PM
  Giulia Sacca, MIT

• Compressing turbulence and a bound on its energy behavior

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 03, 2018, 11AM
  Seth Davidovits, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Monday, April 2, 2018

• Programming shape

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  April 02, 2018, 3:45PM
  L. Mahadevan, Harvard

• How Computer Science Informs Modern Auction Design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 02, 2018, 2PM
  Tim Roughgarden

• Data-driven problems in elasticity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 02, 2018, 10AM
  Stefan Mueller, Univ of Bonn

Friday, March 30, 2018

• Delay-coordinate maps and the spectra of Koopman operators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  March 30, 2018, 4PM
  Dimitrios Giannakis, with Suddhasattwa Das, Courant Institute

• Fighting the curse of dimensionality in kinetic simulations of plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2018, 1PM
  Antoine Cerfon, Courant Institute

• Machine Learning for Computational Social Science

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 30, 2018, 11AM
  Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

• \tThe Polaron Measure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 30, 2018, 11AM
  Raghu Varadhan, Courant Institute

• On the Evaluation of Sums of Periodic Gaussians

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 30, 2018, 10AM
  Andrei Osipov, Shaw Research

Thursday, March 29, 2018

• SHIMURA CURVES AND THE ABC CONJECTURE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 29, 2018, 5:30PM
  Hector Pasten, Harvard

• The Immersed Boundary Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 29, 2018, 12:30PM
  Charlie Peskin, CIMS

• An indefinite Laplacian on a rectangle

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 29, 2018, 11AM
  Jussi Behrndt, Technische Universitaet Graz

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

• Ice ages and the latent dynamics of the Indian Ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2018, 3:30PM
  Jessica E. Tierney, University of Arizona

• Stable constant-mean-curvature hypersurfaces: regularity and compactness.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 28, 2018, 11AM
  Costante Bellettini, University College London

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

• The Dispersion Bias

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 27, 2018, 5:30PM
  Lisa Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley and Aperio Group

• Functorial compactification of the moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 27, 2018, 3:30PM
  Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia

• Harmonic mappings valued in the Wasserstein space

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 27, 2018, 1PM
  Hugo Lavenant

Monday, March 26, 2018

• Closing the Loop on Secure System Design

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 26, 2018, 2PM
  Amit Levy, Stanford University

Friday, March 23, 2018

• iPhones and Dysons: using fluid dynamics to tailor technology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2018, 2:30PM
  Ian Griffiths, University of Oxford

• Quantification of Analyticity and Geometric Measure of Nodal Set

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2018, 1PM
  Fanghua Lin, CIMS

• Some recent progress on quantum kinetics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 23, 2018, 11AM
  Minh-Binh Tran, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• \tRadial processes on RCD*(K,N)-spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 23, 2018, 11AM
  \tKazuhiro Kuwae, Fukuoka University

• Delay-coordinate maps and the spectra of Koopman operators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  March 23, 2018, 11AM
  Dimitrios Giannakis, with Suddhasattwa Das, Courant Institute

• A fast direct solution technique for boundary value problems on locally perturbed geometries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 23, 2018, 10AM
  Adrianna Gillman, Rice University

Thursday, March 22, 2018

• [ Learning via Nonconvex Optimization: ReLUs, neural nets and submodular maximization]

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 22, 2018, 2PM
  Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, USC

• How to make nanofibres with a fridge magnet and a hairbrush

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 22, 2018, 12:30PM
  Ian Griffiths, Oxford

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 22, 2018, 11AM
  Minh-Binh Tran, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  ****CANCELLED******

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

• Suppression of Arctic air formation, and enhanced frequency of Sudden Stratospheric Warming events in warm climates

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 21, 2018, 3:30PM
  Eli Tziperman, Harvard

• Local and global obstructions for the random matrix norm regularization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 650
  March 21, 2018, 2:30PM
  Liza Rebrova, http://mad.cds.nyu.edu/micsem/

• Lower bound for the perimeter density at singular points of a minimizing cluster in R^N

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 21, 2018, 11AM
  Jonas Hirsch, SISSA

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

• Riemannian curvature measures.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 20, 2018, 6PM
  Thomas Wannerer, University of Jena

• Stable reduction of foliated surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 20, 2018, 3:30PM
  Federico Buonerba, Courant Institute

• Individualized multiple myeloma adaptive response modeling: mathematics for better treatment decisions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 20, 2018, 12:30PM
  Guanyu Wang, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

• Extended MHD for High Energy Density Plasmas: Methods and Simulation Results

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 20, 2018, 11AM
  Charles E. Seyler, Laboratory of Plasma Studies, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

Monday, March 19, 2018

• Computational Cloaking: Local differential privacy for physical sensor data and sparse recovery

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 19, 2018, 3:45PM
  Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan

Friday, March 16, 2018

• Statistical mechanics of active matter

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 16, 2018, 2:30PM
  Julien Tailleur, Université Paris-Diderot

• On the expressiveness of comparison queries.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  March 16, 2018, 2PM
  Shay Moran, Princeton University

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

• Typical lattice zonotopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 13, 2018, 6PM
  Ben Lund, University of Georgia

• Emergent symmetries in low-beta gyrokinetics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 13, 2018, 11AM
  Ryan White, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Friday, March 9, 2018

• Highly accurate integral equation based methods for surfactant laden drops in two and three dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 09, 2018, 2:30PM
  Anna-Karin Tornberg, KTH

• FPT-Approximation Algorithms for k-Cut and k-Treewidth Deletion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 09, 2018, 2PM
  Euiwoong Lee, NYU

• \tLocal law of addition of random matrices on optimal scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 09, 2018, 11AM
  \tKevin Schnelli, KTH

• Towards Generalizable Imitation in Robotics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 09, 2018, 11AM
  Animesh Garg, Stanford

• Optimal model reduction: An interpolatory framework

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 09, 2018, 10AM
  Serkan Gugercin, Virginia Tech

Thursday, March 8, 2018

• Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 08, 2018, 2PM
  Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton

• How to simulate the dynamics of drops?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 08, 2018, 12:30PM
  Anna-Karin Tornberg, KTH

• Exact relations for polycrystalline composites and rank-one convex, non-quasiconvex functions of high symmetry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 08, 2018, 11AM
  Yury Grabovsky, Temple University

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

• Rate of asymptotic convergence near isolated singularity of a manifold.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 07, 2018, 11AM
  Gao Chen, Princeton

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

• Connectivity of Bichromatic Matchings.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 06, 2018, 6PM
  Greg Alupis, New York University

• Non-Traditional Datasets in Quantitative Investing: Challenges and Solutions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 06, 2018, 5:30PM
  Gene Ekster, Alternative Data Group

• Local-global principles for gerbes and homogeneous spaces over semi-global fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 06, 2018, 3:30PM
  Bastian Haase, Emory University

• Mechanical positioning of multiple myonuclei in muscle cells

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 06, 2018, 12:30PM
  Angelika Manhart, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Monday, March 5, 2018

• Liquid Haskell: Usable Language-Based Program Verification

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 05, 2018, 2PM
  Niki Vazou, University of Maryland

Friday, March 2, 2018

• Efficient sampling using stochastic differential equations, from molecular dynamics to large scale inference

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2018, 2:30PM
  Benedict Leimkuhler, University of Edinburgh

• Pattern formation on the sphere

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2018, 10AM
  Hadrien Montanelli, Columbia

Thursday, March 1, 2018

• Efficient Analytical and Numerical Treatment of High Contrast Composites

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 01, 2018, 3:30PM
  Yuliya Gorb, Univ of Houston
  *** Please note the unusual time and day of the week of this event

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 01, 2018, 2PM
  Thomas Pock, TU Graz

• Adaptive stochastic algorithms for particle systems in and out of equilibrium

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 01, 2018, 12:30PM
  Benedict Leimkuhler

• Discrete harmonic analysis and applications to ergodic theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 01, 2018, 11AM
  Mariusz Mirek, Institute of Advanced Study

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

• Toward Understanding the Multi-Scale Coupling in Global Oceanic Flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 28, 2018, 3:30PM
  Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester

• Transforming Computation and Communication Patterns for High-Performance

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 28, 2018, 2PM
  Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, Rutgers University

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