Past Events

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Past Math Events

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

• One-Day Meeting on Ergodic Theory for Complex Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 24, 2023, 11:30AM

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Thursday, May 11, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Learning from Tuples

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  May 11, 2023, 11AM
  Grigory Yaroslavtsev, George Mason University

Friday, May 5, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2023, 4PM
  Aurora Basinski, CAOS

• 2023 Prizes and Fellowships Award Ceremony

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  May 05, 2023, 1:30PM

Thursday, May 4, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Learning-Augmented Mechanism Design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  May 04, 2023, 11AM
  Eric Balkanski, Columbia University

Friday, April 28, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 28, 2023, 4PM
  David Connelly, CAOS

Thursday, April 27, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Beyond the Computer Vision Comfort Zone

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 27, 2023, 2PM
  Jean Ponce, Inria/NYU

Monday, April 24, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Scan, Shuffle, Rescan: Two-Prover Election Audits With Untrusted Scanners

  Online,
  April 24, 2023, 5:30PM
  Sunoo Park, Columbia University

Friday, April 21, 2023

• Reception Celebrating Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room - Lounge
  April 21, 2023, 4:30PM

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2023, 4PM
  Cai Maitland-Davies, CAOS

• Special Lecture in Celebration of Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  K-Spectral Sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2023, 3:30PM
  Anne Greenbaum, University of Washington

• Special Lecture in Celebration of Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  Forty Years of Adaptive Mesh Refinement

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2023, 2:45PM
  Donna Calhoun, Boise State University

• Special Lecture in Celebration of Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  Generalized Tensor Decomposition: Utility for Data Analysis and Mathematical Challenges

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2023, 2PM
  Tamara Kolda, MathSci.ai

Thursday, April 20, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Convergence Analysis of Langevin Algorithms for Sampling in Continuous and Discrete Times

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 20, 2023, 2PM
  Andre Wibisono, Yale

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Maintaining Privacy of the Minority without Ignoring It: Differentially Private Oversampling for Imbalanced Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 19, 2023, 3PM
  Rachel Cummings, Columbia

Friday, April 14, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 14, 2023, 4PM
  Hassan Mason, CAOS

Thursday, April 13, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  New Directions in Algorithms with Predictions: Learning and Privacy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 13, 2023, 11AM
  Misha Khodak, Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, April 10, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Quantifying Communities of Interest in Electoral Redistricting

  Online,
  April 10, 2023, 5:30PM
  Ranthony Edmonds, Ohio State University and Parker Edwards, University of Notre Dame

Friday, April 7, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 07, 2023, 4PM
  Andrew Brettin, CAOS

Thursday, April 6, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Thinking Fast with Transformers: Algorithmic Reasoning via Shortcuts

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 06, 2023, 2PM
  Surbhi Goel, UPenn

• Theory Seminar

  Random walks on rotating expanders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 06, 2023, 11AM
  Gil Cohen, Tel Aviv Univeristy

Friday, March 31, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 31, 2023, 4PM
  Ryan Shìjié Dù, CAOS

• CS Colloquium

  Flexible Physical Problem-Solving in Minds and Machines

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 31, 2023, 11AM
  Kelsey Allen, DeepMind

Thursday, March 30, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Feature Learning with SGD

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 30, 2023, 2PM
  Jason Lee, Princeton

• CS Colloquium

  Embodied Intelligence Through World Models

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 30, 2023, 2PM
  Danijar Hafner, University of Toronto

• Theory Seminar

  Algorithmic Applications of Hypergraph and Partition Containers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 30, 2023, 11AM
  Or Zamir, Institute for Advanced Study

• Courant Lectures with Andrew Stuart

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  March 30, 2023, 11AM

Friday, March 24, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Accelerating Biomedical Discovery and Therapeutic Biologic Design with Machine Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 24, 2023, 11AM
  Ge Liu, MIT

Thursday, March 23, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  A Unified View of Distributional Robust Decision Making

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 23, 2023, 2PM
  Jose Blanchet

• CS Colloquium

  Towards the Statistically Principled Design of ML Algorithms

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 23, 2023, 2PM
  Frederic Koehler

• Theory Seminar

  (In)-Approximability of Steiner Tree in Lp metrics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 23, 2023, 11AM
  Karthik C.S., Rutgers University

Monday, March 20, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Machine Learning-Guided Treatment Discovery and Planning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 20, 2023, 2PM
  Charlotte Bunne

Thursday, March 16, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Variational Principles for Mirror Descent and Mirror Langevin Dynamics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 16, 2023, 2PM
  Maxim Raginski

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Designing and Evaluating Language Models for Human Interaction

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 14, 2023, 2PM
  Mina Lee

Friday, March 10, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  Prospective student visiting day

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 10, 2023, 4PM

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Aligning Robot and Human Representations

  4 Washington Square North, Room 825
  March 08, 2023, 11AM
  Andreea Bobu

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Computational Imaging for Scientific Discovery: From Cloud Physics to Black Hole Dynamics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 07, 2023, 2PM
  Aviad Levis

Monday, March 6, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  The Geometry and Election Outcome (GEO) Metric

  Online,
  March 06, 2023, 5:30PM
  Marion Campisi, San José State University

Friday, March 3, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  A 3rd/2nd order MOOD limited well-balanced scheme for the shallow water equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 03, 2023, 4PM
  Sophie Hörnschemeyer, Achen University, Germany

Thursday, March 2, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Searching for the Implicit Bias of Deep Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th Floor
  March 02, 2023, 3:30PM
  Matus Telgarsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 02, 2023, 2PM
  Andre Wibisono

• CS Colloquium

  Enabling Self-sufficient Robot Learning

  4 Washington Square North, Room 825
  March 02, 2023, 2PM
  Rika Antonova

• Theory Seminar

  Optimization-friendly generic mechanisms without money

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 02, 2023, 11AM
  Mark Braverman, Princeton University

Friday, February 24, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  Talks on non-math topics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 24, 2023, 4PM
  All volunteered, CAOS

• Postdoc Day

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 24, 2023, 1:30PM

• CS Colloquium

  Colloquium: Convex Integer Optimization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 24, 2023, 11AM
  Haotian Jiang

Thursday, February 23, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Opening the neural network black box

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 23, 2023, 2PM
  Brice Ménard

• CS Colloquium

  Colloquium: Online Algorithms: Worst-case and Beyond

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 23, 2023, 2PM
  Anupam Gupta

• Theory Seminar

  Revisiting Time-Space Tradeoffs for Function Inversion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 23, 2023, 11AM
  Spencer Peters, Cornell University

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Colloquium: Optimization for statistical learning with low dimensional structure: regularity and conditioning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 22, 2023, 2PM
  Lijun Ding

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Colloquium: A new approach for simulating randomness in computation, and resulting directions of research

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 21, 2023, 2PM
  Roei Tell

Friday, February 17, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 17, 2023, 4PM
  Norman Cao, CAOS

Thursday, February 16, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Participation Dynamics in Learning Systems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 16, 2023, 2PM
  Sarah Dean, Cornell

• Theory Seminar

  Adversarially Robust Coloring for Graph Streams

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 16, 2023, 11AM
  Prantar Ghosh, Rutgers University

Friday, February 10, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 10, 2023, 4PM
  Nolan Reilly, CAOS

• CS Colloquium

  HOW TO BE AN ETHICAL COMPUTER SCIENTIST

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 10, 2023, 11AM
  Moshe Vardi, Rice University

Thursday, February 9, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Exact Asymptotics with Approximate Message Passing and a Study of the Type 1-Type 2 Error Trade-off for SLOPE

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 09, 2023, 2PM
  Cynthia Rush

• Theory Seminar

  Geodesic Geometry on Graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 09, 2023, 11AM
  Nati Linial, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Friday, February 3, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 03, 2023, 4PM
  Claire Valva, CAOS

• CS Colloquium

  On the Connection between Deep Neural Networks and Kernel Methods

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 03, 2023, 11AM
  Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute of Science

Thursday, February 2, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Online Covering: Secretaries, Prophets and Universal Maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 02, 2023, 11AM
  Roie Levin, Tel Aviv University

Thursday, January 19, 2023

• Memorial in Honor of Louis Nirenberg

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Jan. 19, 2023, 1:30PM

Thursday, December 15, 2022

• Theory Seminar

  Efficiently Minimizing the Maximum Loss

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Dec. 15, 2022, 11AM
  Aaron Sidford, Stanford

Friday, December 9, 2022

• Courant Holiday Lecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 09, 2022, 1:30PM

Thursday, December 8, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Reconstructing Training Data from Model Gradient, Provably

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Dec. 08, 2022, 2PM
  Qi Lei, NYU

• Theory Seminar

  Property testing in Group theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Dec. 08, 2022, 11AM
  Michael Chapman, NYU

Monday, December 5, 2022

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  CANCELLED - Scan, Shuffle, Rescan: Two-Prover Election Audits With Untrusted Scanners

  Online,
  Dec. 05, 2022, 5:30PM
  Sunoo Park, Columbia University

Thursday, December 1, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Random graph models and graph neural networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Dec. 01, 2022, 2PM
  Soledad Villar, JHU

• Theory Seminar

  A lunch that looks free: Eliminating randomness from proof systems with no time overhead

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Dec. 01, 2022, 11AM
  Roei Tell, Institute for Advanced Study/DIMACS

Monday, November 28, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Towards understanding sharpness-aware minimization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 28, 2022, 2PM
  Nicolas Flammarion, EPFL

Monday, November 21, 2022

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Distrust in Noisy Numbers: Epistemic Disconnects Surrounding the Use of Differential Privacy in the 2020 U.S. Census

  Online,
  Nov. 21, 2022, 4:30PM
  Jayshree Sarathy, Harvard University

Thursday, November 17, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Regularized Stein Variational Gradient Flow

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 17, 2022, 2PM
  Bharath Sriperumbudur, Penn State

• Theory Seminar

  Smoothed analysis of the simplex method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Nov. 17, 2022, 11AM
  Sophie Huiberts, Columbia University

Friday, November 11, 2022

• Postdoc Seminar Day

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 11, 2022, 1PM

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Learning sparse functions with SGD on neural networks in high-dimension

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 11, 2022, 11AM
  Theodor Misiakiewicz

Thursday, November 10, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Implicit Bias of Large Depth Networks: the Bottleneck Rank

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 10, 2022, 2PM
  Arthur Jacot, NYU

• Theory Seminar

  Strong XOR Lemma for Communication with Bounded Rounds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Nov. 10, 2022, 11AM
  Huacheng Yu, Princeton University

Friday, November 4, 2022

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 04, 2022, 4PM
  David Connelly, CAOS

Thursday, November 3, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Metric representations: Algorithms and Geometry

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 03, 2022, 2PM
  Anna Gilbert, Yale

• Theory Seminar

  Atomic Power in Forks: A Super-Logarithmic Lower Bound for Implementing Butterfly Networks in the Nonatomic Binary Fork-Join Model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 03, 2022, 11AM
  Riko Jacob, IT University of Copenhagen

Friday, October 28, 2022

• CS Colloquium

  Shedding Light on 3D Cameras

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 28, 2022, 11AM
  Mohit Gupta, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday, October 27, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  DeepParticle: learning multiscale PDEs by minimizing Wasserstein distance on data generated from interacting particle methods

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 27, 2022, 2PM
  Jack Xin, UCI

• Theory Seminar

  Reproducibility in Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Oct. 27, 2022, 11AM
  Jessica Sorell, University of PA

Thursday, October 20, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Dynamic Pricing and Learning under the Bass Model

  Location TBA
  Oct. 20, 2022, 2PM
  Shipra Agrawal, Columbia

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

• Theory Seminar

  New Results in Online Computing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Oct. 18, 2022, 11AM
  Yuval Rabani, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Thursday, October 13, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Perturbed optimizers and an Accelerated Frank-Wolfe Algorithm

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 13, 2022, 2PM
  Quentin Berthet, Google

• Theory Seminar

  LZ-End Parsing: Upper Bounds and Algorithmic Techniques

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Oct. 13, 2022, 11AM
  Dominik Kempa, Stony Brook

Thursday, October 6, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Exact Solutions to Bayesian Interpolation with Deep Linear Networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 06, 2022, 2PM
  Boris Hanin, Princeton University

• Theory Seminar

  Hardness Results for Weaver's Discrepancy Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Oct. 06, 2022, 11AM
  Peng Zhang, Rutgers

Thursday, September 29, 2022

• Theory Seminar

  Deterministic Graph Coloring in the Streaming Model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Sept. 29, 2022, 11AM
  Sepehr Assadi, Rutgers

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Learning by Overfitting: A Statistical Learning View on Benign Overfitting

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 28, 2022, 2PM
  Nati Srebro, TTIC

Thursday, September 22, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Optimal Gradient-based Algorithms for Non-concave Bandit Optimization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 22, 2022, 2PM
  Qi Lei, NYU

Thursday, September 15, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Privacy of Noisy SGD

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 15, 2022, 2PM
  Jason Altschuler, CIMS

Thursday, May 5, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  On the Ising perceptron

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 05, 2022, 2PM
  Nike Sun, MIT

Thursday, April 21, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Conformal prediction beyond exchangeability

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 21, 2022, 2PM
  Rina Foygel Barber, U Chicago

Thursday, April 14, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Shortest Path Without a Map, but with an Entropic Regularization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 14, 2022, 2PM
  Sébastien Bubeck, MSR

Thursday, March 31, 2022

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 31, 2022, 2PM
  Ronen Eldan, Weizmann Institute

Monday, March 28, 2022

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Diversity and inequality in social networks

  Online,
  March 28, 2022, 4:30PM
  Ana-Andreea Stoica, Columbia University

Monday, March 7, 2022

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Partisan Dislocation, Competitivenes, and Designing Ensembles for Redistricting Analysis

  Online,
  March 07, 2022, 5:30PM
  Daryl DeFord, Washington State University

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