Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, November 17, 2017

• Bitcoin, Payment Privacy and Beyond: Blockchains as Limited Trusted Third Parties

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 17, 2017, 11AM
  Ian Miers, Johns Hopkins University

• Scalable Integral Equation Methods for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 17, 2017, 10AM
  Dhairya Malhotra, CIMS

Thursday, November 16, 2017

• Metastable states for weakly damped hamiltonian systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 16, 2017, 3:30PM
  Jean-Pierre Eckmann, U of Geneva

• Graph powering: mixing Bayesian and spectral methods

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Nov. 16, 2017, 2PM
  Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton

• Steady rotational water waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 16, 2017, 11AM
  Walter Strauss, Brown University

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

• Large-Scale Tropospheric Transport: Constraints from Models and Observations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2017, 3:30PM
  Clara Orbe, NASA

• Ricci flow, diffeomorphism groups, and the Generalized Smale Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 15, 2017, 11AM
  Bruce Kleiner, CIMS

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

• Equivariant motives and Sheaves on moment graphs.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 14, 2017, 3:30PM
  Kirill Zaynullin, University of Ottawa

• Second of Two COB Talks for 11/14:Mechanistic Basis of Spindle Size Control and Scaling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 14, 2017, 12:30PM
  Reza Farhadifar, Flatiron Institute, NY and Harvard University

• First of Two COB Talks for 11/14: Can Differential Geometry of Fitness Landscapes Solve the Genotype-Phenotype Problem? Hints from Bacteria, Cancer and Autism

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 14, 2017, 11:15AM
  Olivier Lichtarge, Cullen Chair Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

• Bilinear inverse problems: theory, algorithms, and applications in imaging science and signal processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 14, 2017, 11AM
  Shuyang Ling, Courant

Friday, November 10, 2017

• Data-driven discovery of governing equations and physical laws

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 10, 2017, 2:30PM
  Nathan Kutz, University of Washington

• Untangling the annual cycle of the tropical tropopause layer with an idealized moist model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 10, 2017, 1PM
  Edwin Gerber, CIMS

• \tOn unitarily invariant ensembles of infinite Hermitian matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 10, 2017, 11:15AM
  Joseph Najnudel, Univ. Cincinnati

• Stein kernels, optimal transport and the CLT

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 10, 2017, 10:15AM
  Max Fathi, Inst. Mathématique de Toulouse

• An Optimal Control Framework for Efficient Training of Deep Neural Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 10, 2017, 10AM
  Lars Ruthotto, Emory University

Thursday, November 9, 2017

• Multiscale Methods for Dictionary Learning, Regression, Measure Estimation and Optimal Transport for data near low-dimensional sets

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Nov. 09, 2017, 2PM
  Mauro Maggioni, John Hopkins

• Strichartz estimates on irrational tori, and applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 09, 2017, 11AM
  Yu Deng, CIMS

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

• Inference Dimension

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 07, 2017, 6PM
  John Iacono, New York University and Université Libre de Bruxelles

• Arithmetic restrictions on geometric monodromy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 07, 2017, 3:30PM
  Daniel Litt, Columbia University

• Computational Neurology – Translational Multiscale Modeling of Brain Disorders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 07, 2017, 12:30PM
  Pedro Doria Maia, Department of Radiology & Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine

Monday, November 6, 2017

• Nonuniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2017, 3:45PM
  Vlad Vicol, Princeton University

Sunday, November 5, 2017

• @ NYU Tandon

  Location TBA
  Nov. 05, 2017, 8AM

Saturday, November 4, 2017

• @ NYU Courant

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Nov. 04, 2017, 8AM

Friday, November 3, 2017

• Dynamical fluctuations and large deviations in systems with and without detailed balance

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2017, 2:30PM
  Robert Jack, University of Cambridge

• @ Columbia

  Location TBA
  Nov. 03, 2017, 12PM

• Accelerated conditional gradient methods for continuous sparse optimization problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2017, 10AM
  Konstantin Pieper, Florida State University

Thursday, November 2, 2017

• ON RESIDUES OF EISENSTEIN SERIES - THROUGH A COHOMOLOGICAL LENS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 02, 2017, 5:30PM
  Joachim Schwermer, Universität Wien

• Approximation by Cahn-Hoffman facets and the crystalline mean curvature flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 02, 2017, 3:30PM
  Yoshikazu Giga, Tokyo University

• On singularity formation in a Hele-Shaw model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 02, 2017, 11AM
  Hyu Nguyen, Princeton University

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

• Extreme events, tail statistics, and large deviation theory in geophysical flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2017, 3:30PM
  Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS

• Spaces and moduli spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 01, 2017, 11AM
  Bernhard Hanke, Augsburg

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

• Affine vs. Euclidean Sobolev inequalities.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 31, 2017, 6PM
  Franz Schuster, TU Vienna

• Alternative Data in Finance – Interworking of a Buy-Side R&D Team

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2017, 5:30PM
  Gene Ekster, Alternative Data Group

• Semi-stability and iterated logarithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 31, 2017, 3:30PM
  Fabian Haiden, Harvard University

• Next generation neural mass modelling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 31, 2017, 12:30PM
  Áine Byrne, Center for Neural Science, New York University

Friday, October 27, 2017

• Modeling and large-scale simulation of thin film flows of nematic liquid crystal

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 27, 2017, 2:30PM
  Linda J. Cumming, New Jersey Institute of Technology

• Quantifying simple connectivity: an introduction to the Dehn function

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 27, 2017, 1PM
  Robert Young, CIMS

• The Path to Exascale Computing

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 27, 2017, 11AM
  Alessandro Morari and Abdullah Kay, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Convexification Techniques for Global Optimization of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 27, 2017, 10AM
  Aida Khajavirad

Thursday, October 26, 2017

• Homogenization results for Schrodinger operators with wildly varying potentials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 26, 2017, 11AM
  Alexis Drouot, Columbia U.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

• When is a sphere quotient a sphere?.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 24, 2017, 6PM
  Ben Blum-Smith

• Machine Learning Applied to Portfolio Construction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2017, 5:30PM
  Gontran de Quillacq, Clinton Group

• On the dependence of the Brauer-Manin obstruction on the degree of a variety

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 24, 2017, 3:30PM
  Bianca Viray, University of Washington

Monday, October 23, 2017

• Propagation of chaos and irreversibility in gas dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 23, 2017, 3:45PM
  Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon

• A universal thin film model for Ginzburg-Landau energy with dipolar interaction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 23, 2017, 11AM
  Cyrill Muratov, NJIT

Friday, October 20, 2017

• Approximation of Functions Over Manifolds by Moving Least Squares

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  Oct. 20, 2017, 11AM
  Barak Sober, Tel Aviv University

Thursday, October 19, 2017

• Rotation theory for higher dimensional torus mappings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 19, 2017, 3:45PM
  Tianqi Wu, Courant

• Bridging the Gap between Constant Step Size Stochastic Gradient Descent and Markov Chains

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Oct. 19, 2017, 2PM
  Francis Bach, INRIA, ENS

• On multi-dimensional compact solitary patterns

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 19, 2017, 11AM
  Philip Rosenau, Tel Aviv University

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

• Low-Dimensional Reduced-Order Models for Statistical Response and Uncertainty Quantification in Turbulent Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2017, 3:30PM
  Andrew J. Majda, Courant

• SPECIAL WEDNESDAY SEMINAR: The Threshold Theorem for Yang-Mills

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Oct. 18, 2017, 3:30PM
  Daniel Tataru, U. C. Berkeley

• A cocompactness theorem for convergence groups

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 18, 2017, 11AM
  Misha Kapovich, UC Davis

• Self-Avoiding Walks on the Honeycomb Lattice

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 18, 2017, 10AM
  Guillaume Dubach

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

• Routing in Geometric Graphs.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 17, 2017, 6PM
  Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University

• The local-global dimension spectrum of quadratic forms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 17, 2017, 3:30PM
  Asher Auel, Yale

• Reentrainment of the circadian pacemaker during jet lag: east-west asymmetry and the effects of north-south travel

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 17, 2017, 12:30PM
  Amitabha Bose, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

• The mimetic finite difference method and the mass-lumped finite element method for the Landau-Lifshitz equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 17, 2017, 11AM
  Eugenia Kim, University of California, Berkeley

Monday, October 16, 2017

• Elastic failures and stochastic successes on the top of the world

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 16, 2017, 3:45PM
  John Wettlaufer, Yale

• Rigidity of branching microstructures in shape-memory alloys

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 16, 2017, 11AM
  Thilo Simon, NJIT

Friday, October 13, 2017

• Markov chain Monte Carlo and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics in drug discovery

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 13, 2017, 2:30PM
  John Chodera

• Covariate-corrected biclustering methods for gene-expression and GWAS data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 13, 2017, 1PM
  Aaditya Rangan, CIMS

• TBA

  Online, 60 Washington Square South
  Oct. 13, 2017, 10AM

• Isogeometric Analysis and Domain Decomposition

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 13, 2017, 10AM
  Olof Widlund, CIMS

Thursday, October 12, 2017

• NON-ARCHIMEDEAN AX-LINDEMANN THEOREM

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 12, 2017, 5:30PM
  Francois Loeser, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, Paris

• (un)conventional regularization for efficient large scale machine learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Oct. 12, 2017, 2PM
  Lorenzo Rosasco, MIT

• The Shock Development Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 12, 2017, 11AM
  Demetri Christodoulou, ETH Zurich

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

• Interactions between near-inertial waves and mesoscale mean flow in the ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 11, 2017, 3:30PM
  Jin-Han Xie, CIMS

• Under the Covers: The networks of a cloud provider

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  Oct. 11, 2017, 12:30PM
  Jeff Mogul, Google

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

• Constructing finite projective planes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 10, 2017, 6PM
  J. B. Nation, University of Hawaii

• Intersections of two Grassmannians in P^9

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 10, 2017, 3:30PM
  Alexander Perry, Columbia University

• ODEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 10, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• Tiny Functions for Codecs, Compilation, and (Maybe) Soon Everything

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  Oct. 10, 2017, 11AM
  Keith Winstein, Stanford University

• Does a photon have a linear polarizability and why does it matter?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 10, 2017, 11AM
  Ilya Dodin, PPPL and Princeton University

Monday, October 9, 2017

• Gauge-string duality in lattice gauge theories

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 09, 2017, 3:45PM
  Sourvav Chatterjee, Stanford
  (The Tea Service will NOT be provided at this event)

Friday, October 6, 2017

• Programming the dynamics of active colloids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 06, 2017, 2:30PM
  Kyle Bishop, Columbia University

• Observations of sub-mesoscale shallow, salinity fronts in the Bay of Bengal during winter monsoon

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 06, 2017, 11AM
  Amit Tandon, U Mass, Dartmouth

• Homogenization of a class of 1-D nonconvex viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in random media

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 06, 2017, 11AM
  \tAtilla Yılmaz, Koç University

• Untangling the nonlinearity in inverse scattering using data-driven reduced order models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 06, 2017, 10AM
  Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan

Thursday, October 5, 2017

• A semidefinite relaxation of k-means clustering

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Oct. 05, 2017, 2PM
  Dustin Mixon, Ohio State

• Geometric Topology meets Computational Complexity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 05, 2017, 12:15PM
  Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis

• Finite-time singularity formation in incompressible fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 05, 2017, 11AM
  Tarek Elgindi, UCSD

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

• A rectifiability theorem for anisotropic energies and Plateau problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 04, 2017, 11AM
  Antonio De Rosa, CIMS

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

• Optimal Execution, Order-Placement Tactics, and Hamiltonian Dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 03, 2017, 5:30PM
  Jerome Benveniste (joint work with Gordon Ritter), NYU Courant, M.S. Mathematics in Finance

• Almost all plane curves are simply connected

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 03, 2017, 3:30PM
  Michael McQuillan, IHES

• Quadrature

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 03, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• Online Blind Deconvolution for Sequential Through-the-Wall-Radar-Imaging

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 03, 2017, 11AM
  Hassan Mansour, MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

• Metriplectic dynamics -- a framework for plasma kinetic theory and numerics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 03, 2017, 11AM
  Eero Hirvijoki, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Monday, October 2, 2017

• Surface Diffusion and Related Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 02, 2017, 11AM
  Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion

Friday, September 29, 2017

• On random walks, local limits, and random interlacements in dimension 2

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 29, 2017, 11AM
  Pierre-Francois Rodriguez, UCLA

• On the solution of elliptic partial differential equations on regions with corners

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 29, 2017, 10AM
  Kirill Serkh, CIMS

Thursday, September 28, 2017

• Extrapolation from sparsity

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Sept. 28, 2017, 2PM
  Laurent Demanet, MIT

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

• The dynamics of Atlantic sea level change

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 27, 2017, 3:30PM
  Laure Zanna

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

• Dynamic Orthogonal Range Searching on the RAM, Revisited.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Sept. 26, 2017, 6PM
  Konstantinos Tsakalidis, NYU/Tandon

• The gonality of complete intersection curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 26, 2017, 3:30PM
  Brooke Ullery, Harvard University

• Rational Functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 26, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• Pseudo spectral collocation with Maxwell polynomials for kinetic equations with energy diffusion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Sept. 26, 2017, 11AM
  Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet, CIMS

Monday, September 25, 2017

• Signal Fragmentation for Low Frequency Radio Transmission

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 25, 2017, 3:45PM
  Russ Caflisch, NYU, CIMS

Friday, September 22, 2017

• Dense suspensions: Frictional effects in shear thickening and related phenomena

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 22, 2017, 2:30PM
  Jeffrey Morris, The City College of New York (Levich Institute)

• Berry-Esseen Theorem for the Random Conductance Model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 22, 2017, 11AM
  \tSebastian Andres, Cambridge Univ

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