Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, September 22, 2017

• Pursuing Rapid Convergence for Gradient Sampling-like Methods for Nonsmooth Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 22, 2017, 10AM
  Lucas Simoes, University of Campinas, Brazil

Thursday, September 21, 2017

• Conditional Density Estimation through Optimal Transport

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Sept. 21, 2017, 2PM
  Esteban Tabak, CIMS

• The statistical foundations of learning to control

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Room C15
  Sept. 21, 2017, 11AM
  Ben Recht

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

• Understanding and quantifying the stratospheric circulation using age of air

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 20, 2017, 3:30PM
  Marianna Katherine Linz, MIT

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

• Gonality and the strong uniform boundedness conjecture for periodic points

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 19, 2017, 3:30PM
  Bjorn Poonen, MIT

• Chebyshev Series

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 19, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• A Numerical Study of Human Concept Categorization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 19, 2017, 12:30PM
  Nicole Fider, Mathematics Department, University of California, Irvine

• Landau damping of sound waves in kinetic magnetohydrodynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Sept. 19, 2017, 11AM
  Jesus Ramos, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Monday, September 18, 2017

• The Rough Energy Landscape Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 18, 2017, 3:45PM
  Giulio Biroli, Institute for Theoretical Physics CEA Saclay

Friday, September 15, 2017

• Statistics, Computation and Learning with Graph Neural Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 15, 2017, 2:30PM
  Joan Bruna Estrach, CIMS

• Surface effects in dense random graphs with sharp constraints

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 15, 2017, 11AM
  \tCharles Radin, Universiy of Texas

• Low-rank methods for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 15, 2017, 10AM
  Peter Benner, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg

Thursday, September 14, 2017

• Adaptive Regularization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Sept. 14, 2017, 2PM
  Yoram Singer, Princeton

• The Sphere Covering Inequality and Its Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 14, 2017, 11AM
  Amir Moradifam, UC Riverside

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

• Understanding the Impact of Arctic Amplification on the Midlatitude Circulation Using a Hierarchy of Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 13, 2017, 3:30PM
  Yutian Wu, Lamont

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

• Further Consequences of The Colorful Helly Hypothesis.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 12, 2017, 6PM
  Natan Rubin, Ben-Gurion University

• Algebraic representatives and intermediate Jacobians over perfect fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 12, 2017, 3:30PM
  Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, University of Colorado

• Random Functions and Random Differential Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 12, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

Friday, September 8, 2017

• \tBeurling estimates, heat kernel decay and DLA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 08, 2017, 11AM
  Ariel Yadin, Ben Gurion University

• Some new vector spaces of possible linearizations for matrix polynomials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 08, 2017, 10AM
  Heike Fassbender, University of Braunschweig

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 05, 2017, 3:30PM
  Laure Zanna

• Gaussian Elimination

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 05, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

Friday, June 23, 2017

• Intelligent Question Answering Using the Wisdom of the Crowd

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 110
  June 23, 2017, 11:30AM
  Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

• Language variation in Natural Language Processing

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  June 20, 2017, 11:30AM
  Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Monday, June 19, 2017

• Dynamics, aging and universality in complex systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  June 19, 2017, 8:30AM
  Various Speakers
  Conference dates: \nMonday, June 19, 2017 - Friday, June 23, 2017

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  June 13, 2017, 3:30PM
  Burglind Jorl-Jöricke, Max Planck Institute

Friday, May 26, 2017

• \t The weight, geometry and coalescence of scaled polymers in Brownian last passage percolation.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 26, 2017, 11AM
  Alan Hammond, UC Berkeley

Thursday, May 18, 2017

• Valuations on lattice polytopes: Old and new

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 707
  May 18, 2017, 6:05PM
  Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Technology

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

• The Material Skeleton of Fluid Flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 17, 2017, 3:30PM
  Mattia SERRA, ETH Zurich

• Semidefinite programming relaxations for matrix completion, inverse scattering and blind deconvolution

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 17, 2017, 2PM
  Augustin Cosse, NYU CDS and Courant Institute

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 16, 2017, 1PM
  Afonso Bandeira, CIMS, Amelia Perry (MIT), and Alex Wein (MIT)

Friday, May 12, 2017

• Positive polynomials and numerical approximation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  May 12, 2017, 2:15PM
  Bruno Després, Laboratoire J.-L. Lions, Université Paris 6

• Numerical Aspects of Flow Stabilization by Riccati Feedback

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 12, 2017, 10AM
  Heiko Weichelt, The Mathworks, UK

Thursday, May 11, 2017

• Sharp geometric and functional inequalities and applications to geometry and PDEs

  Location TBA
  May 11, 2017, 6:30PM
  Guozhen Lu, University of Connecticut

• Inverse problems in acoustic scattering and cryo-electron microscopy

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 11, 2017, 4PM
  Leslie Greengard, CIMS

• The interesting dynamics of weakly collisional high-beta plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  May 11, 2017, 11AM
  Jonathan Squire, Caltech

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

• Ensemble Kalman filters in high dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 10, 2017, 3:30PM
  Xin TONG, U of Singapore

Monday, May 8, 2017

• Singularities in geometry, topology and strings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 08, 2017, 3:45PM
  Antonella Grassi, University of Pennsylvania
  ***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Friday, May 5, 2017

• Fast Algorithms for Robust Stability Measures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 05, 2017, 10AM
  Tim Mitchell, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg

Thursday, May 4, 2017

• A Few Fairy Math Tales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 6 Metrotech Center, Rogers Hall 325
  May 04, 2017, 5:05PM
  Dmitri Burago, Penn State University

• Murder, Matrices, and Minima - Adventures in Blind Deconvolution

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 04, 2017, 2:30PM
  Thomas Strohmer, UC Davis

• Level-Set strategy for SCFT

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 04, 2017, 12:30PM
  Gaddiel Ouaknin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University.

• Counterexamples to Sobolev regularity for degenerate Monge-Ampere equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 04, 2017, 11AM
  Connor Mooney, ETH Zurich

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

• Index of A Free Boundary Minimal Surface

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 03, 2017, 11AM
  Hung Tran, UC Irvine

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

• The shape of phylogenetic treespace.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 02, 2017, 6PM
  Katherine St. John, Lehman College (CUNY), New York

• Stochastic Variance Reduction Methods for Policy Evaluation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2017, 3:45PM
  Lihong Li, Microsoft Research

• Tropical Schemes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  May 02, 2017, 3:30PM
  Noah Giansiracusa, Swarthmore College

• Relative equilibria for planar Euler equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  May 02, 2017, 2:30PM
  Zineb Hassainia, CIMS

• Universality and hyperuniformity of Weyl-Heisenberg ensembles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  May 02, 2017, 2PM
  Luis Daniel Abreu, ARI-Vienna

Friday, April 28, 2017

• Elasticity, Geometry and Buckling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2017, 2:30PM
  Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton

• \tBaroclinic turbulence in Earth's oceans

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2017, 1PM
  \tShafer Smith, CIMS

• Central Limit Theorems and Bootstrap in High Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 28, 2017, 11AM
  Victor Chernozhukov

• A Space Decomposition Framework for Nonlinear Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2017, 10AM
  Luis Nunes Vicente, University of Coimbra & Rice University

Thursday, April 27, 2017

• Sketchy Decisions: Low-rank matrix optimization with optimal storage

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 27, 2017, 2:30PM
  Joel Tropp, Caltech

• Ill-posedness for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 27, 2017, 11AM
  Tsukasa Iwabuchi, Tohoku University

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

• The Balanced Radiative Effect of Tropical Anvil Clouds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 26, 2017, 3:30PM
  Dennis HARTMANN, U. Washington, Seattle

• Structured sparse recovery with sparse random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  April 26, 2017, 3:30PM
  Bubacarr Bah, AIMS South Africa

• Optimal transport for particle image velocity and variational methods for fluid flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 26, 2017, 2PM
  Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria

• Two generalizations of the original Volume Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 26, 2017, 11AM
  Qingtao Chen, NYUAD

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

• Representation of convex geometries by convex shapes.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 25, 2017, 6PM
  Kira Adaricheva, Hofstra University

• Combinatorial Inference

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 25, 2017, 3:45PM
  Han Liu, Princeton University

• Local-To-Global Principles for Galois Covers of Curves in Characteristic P

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 25, 2017, 3:30PM
  Renee Bell, MIT

• An Eulerian Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme for the Fully Kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell System

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 25, 2017, 11AM
  James Juno, University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, April 21, 2017

• Should you derive, or let the data drive? A stochastic optimization approach for model mis-specification mitigation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2017, 10AM
  Lior Horesh, IBM TJ Watson

Thursday, April 20, 2017

• The Landscape of some Statistical Learning Problems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 20, 2017, 2:30PM
  Andrea Montanari, Stanford

• Entrapment, escape, and diffusion of active particles in complex environments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 20, 2017, 12:30PM
  Saverio Spagnolie, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Dirichlet problems for mixed type equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2017, 11AM
  Kevin Payne, University of Milano

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

• Summer heat overwinters in the Arctic Ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 19, 2017, 3:30PM
  Mary-Louise TIMMERMANS, Yale U.

• Hyperbolic rank rigidity for strict quarter-pinching negatively curved manifold.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 11:00am
  April 19, 2017, 11AM
  Thang Nguyen, NYU

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

• Geometric transversality.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 18, 2017, 6PM
  Florian Frick, Cornell University

• \t Local-global principles over arithmetic function fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 18, 2017, 3:30PM
  David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania

• Colleagues and friends will discuss Joe's work and impact

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 18, 2017, 12:30PM

• Traveling waves in a free boundary problem modeling cell motility

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 18, 2017, 12:30PM
  Jan Fuhrmann, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Monday, April 17, 2017

• Phase transitions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2017, 3:45PM
  Allan Sly, Princeton University

Friday, April 14, 2017

• Design at the Nanoscale: Reaching the Limits of Light-Matter Interactions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2017, 2:30PM
  Owen Miller, Yale

• \t1d/2d log-gases: searching for transitions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2017, 1PM
  Thomas Leblé

• Lyapunov exponents of products of non-identically distributed independent matrices and transformations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 14, 2017, 11:15AM
  Ilya Goldsheid, Queen Mary University

• The SK model is FRSB at zero temperature.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 14, 2017, 10:15AM
  Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern Univ.

• Approximate Versions of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2017, 10AM
  Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers

Thursday, April 13, 2017

• Macroscopic fluctuations of discrete particle systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2017, 3:20PM
  Vadim Gorin, MIT

• Collaborative Dictionary Learning from Big, Distributed Data

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Room 150
  April 13, 2017, 2:30PM
  Waheed Bajwa, Rutgers

• Shape up to run - how bacterial motilities impact selective cellular morphologies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 13, 2017, 12:30PM
  Bin Liu, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced

• Models for boundary layer separation: the Prandtl equation and beyond?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2017, 11AM
  Anne-Laure Dalibard, UPMC Paris 6

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

• Birational geometry of moduli spaces of parabolic bundles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 11, 2017, 3:30PM
  Han-Bom Moon, Fordham University

• Building a model of visual cortex

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 11, 2017, 12:30PM
  Lai-Sang Young, CIMS, New York University

Friday, April 7, 2017

• Sphere packings, singularities, and statistical mechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2017, 2:30PM
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS

• Enabling Data-Driven Optimization of Quality of Experience for Internet Applications

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 07, 2017, 2PM
  Junchen Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am \n

• Exponential number of equilibria and depinning threshold for directed polymers in a random potential

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 07, 2017, 11AM
  \tYan Fyodorov, King's College London

• Sketchy Decisions: Convex Low-Rank Matrix Optimization with Optimal Storage

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2017, 10AM
  Madeleine Udell, Cornell

Thursday, April 6, 2017

• The Lp-Minkowski problem for negative p after Chou-Wang

  Location TBA
  April 06, 2017, 6:30PM
  Károly Böröczky, Central European University and Renyi Institute

• THE SPHERE PACKING PROBLEM IN DIMENSIONS 8 AND 24

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 06, 2017, 5:30PM
  Maryna Viazovska, Berlin Mathematical School

• New conjectures on intrinsic volumes on Riemannian and Alexandrov spaces

  Location TBA
  April 06, 2017, 5:05PM
  Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv University

• Self-organization of confined microbial suspensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 06, 2017, 12:30PM
  Enkeleida Lushi, Courant Institute, NYU.

• Instability, index theorems, and exponential dichotomy of Hamiltonian PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2017, 12PM
  Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Tech

• An Algorithm for Advancing Slow Features in Fast-Slow Systems without Scale Separation - A Young Measure Approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2017, 11AM
  Edriss Titi, Texas A&M

• Optimization Challenges in Deep Learning

  Online, 12 Waverly pl, L120
  April 06, 2017, 11AM
  Ben Recht, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

• New perspectives on El Nino dynamics and East Asian Monsoon variability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 05, 2017, 3:30PM
  Malte STUECKER, U. Washington, Seattle

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

• Valuations on lattice polytopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 04, 2017, 6PM
  Karoly Boroczky, Central European University and Rényi Institute

• Deformations of symplectic singularities and the orbit method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 04, 2017, 3:30PM
  Ivan Losev, Northeastern University

• Constrained Counting and Sampling: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 04, 2017, 1PM
  Kuldeep Meel, Rice University

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