Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, September 11, 2015

• Long-time influence of small perturbations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 11, 2015, 11AM
  Mark Freidlin, Maryland

Thursday, September 10, 2015

• Flapping wings propelling in a fluid

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 10, 2015, 12:30PM
  Sophie Ramananarivo, CIMS

• Accelerated Simulation Methods for Plasma Kinetics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 10, 2015, 11AM
  Russel Caflisch, IPAM, UCLA

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

• An Applied Math Perspective on Climate Science, Turbulence, and Other Complex Systems (Lagrange Prize Lecture)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 09, 2015, 3:30PM
  Andrew Majda, Courant

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

• Cone volume measure of convex bodies.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 08, 2015, 6PM
  Gaoyong Zhang, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Friday, September 4, 2015

• \t Raney distribution and random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 04, 2015, 11AM
  Peter Forrester, Melbourne

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

• Asymmetry in regional sea level projections

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 02, 2015, 4PM
  Roderik VAN DE WAL, Utrecht University

Saturday, August 15, 2015

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2016 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Aug. 15, 2015, 4PM
  Various speakers
  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.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

• Cell motility by cytoskeleton dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  June 04, 2015, 11:30AM
  Christian Schmeiser, University of Vienna

Friday, May 29, 2015

• Weakly Supervised Video Understanding

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 29, 2015, 11:30AM
  Jean Ponce, Ecole Normale Superieure
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Thursday, May 21, 2015

• Dynamics near the subcritical transition of the 3D Couette flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 21, 2015, 11AM
  Jacob Bedrossian, Maryland

Friday, May 15, 2015

• Around the complex interplay between organization, heterogeneity and collective dynamics of neuronal networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 15, 2015, 2:30PM
  Jonathan Toubou, College de France- INRIA

• Condensing zero-range processes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 15, 2015, 11AM
  Claudio Landim, IMPA

Thursday, May 14, 2015

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 14, 2015, 12PM
  Holger Knaut \tLangone Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology AND, \tThomas Neubert \tLangone Medical Center, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

• An equation on random variables related to fermionic systems of particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 14, 2015, 11AM
  Anne-Sophie De Suzzoni, Paris 13

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2015 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  May 12, 2015, 5PM
  Various speakers
  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.

Monday, May 11, 2015

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 11, 2015, 3:45PM
  Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield

Sunday, May 10, 2015

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2016 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  May 10, 2015, 4PM
  Various speakers
  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.

Friday, May 8, 2015

• Mathematical structure of hierarchies of reduced MHD models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 08, 2015, 2:30PM
  Bruno Despres, UPMC

• Numerical simulation of endocytosis: Diffuse interface models for membranes with curvature-inducing molecules

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 08, 2015, 1PM
  John Lowengrub, UC-Irvine

• Universal behaviors in geometric heat flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  May 08, 2015, 11AM
  Dan Knopf, University of Texas Austin

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 08, 2015, 11AM
  Kevin Schnelli, IST Vienna

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 08, 2015, 10AM
  Fabio Martinelli, Roma

• Extreme-scale nonlinear Stokes solvers, with application to flow simulations in Earth's mantle

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 08, 2015, 10AM
  Georg Stadler, CIMS

Thursday, May 7, 2015

• Geometric ergodicity for diffusions with random regime switching

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  May 07, 2015, 4PM
  Xin Tong, CIMS

• Longer Service Awards Reception

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor lounge
  May 07, 2015, 3PM

• Interfacial Dynamics of Dissolving Objects in Fluid Flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 07, 2015, 12:30PM
  Chris H. Rycroft, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

• Global Simulations of Atmospheric Rivers: Past, Present & Future

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 06, 2015, 3:30PM
  Jeff Kiehl, NCAR

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

• Some Geometric Partitioning Questions, Answers, Algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2015, 6PM
  William Steiger, Rutgers University

• Introduction to mathematical biology applications in the pharmaceutical industry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2015, 12:30PM
  Karim Azer, Interdisciplinary Pharmacometrics Program at Sanofi

Monday, May 4, 2015

• Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 04, 2015, 3:45PM
  Gunnar Martinsson, UC Boulder
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, May 1, 2015

• Event held May 1 -3

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  May 01, 2015, 2:30PM

• \t The Z-invariant massive Laplacian on isoradial graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 01, 2015, 11AM
  Beatrice de Tiliere, Paris 6

Thursday, April 30, 2015

• Some algebraic related structures in the family of convex sets

  Location TBA
  April 30, 2015, 4:35PM
  Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University

• Entropy, volume growth and SRB measures for Banach space mappings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 30, 2015, 4PM
  Alex Blumenthal, CIMS

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 30, 2015, 12PM
  David Hogg, \tAstronomy \tAND, Michael Blanton, \tAstronomy

• Variational methods for mean field games with degenerate diffusion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 30, 2015, 11AM
  Jameson Graber, University of Texas at Dallas

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

• Subspace Clustering with Ordered Weighted L1 Minimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 29, 2015, 4PM
  Ulas Ayaz, Brown University

• Energy methods and blow-up rate for semilinear wave equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 29, 2015, 12PM
  Hatem Zaag, CNRS and University Paris 13

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

• Some connections between measure partitions and polynomial partitioning.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 28, 2015, 6PM
  Abdul Basit, Rutgers University

• From Quantum Groups to Noncommutative Geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 28, 2015, 3:30PM
  Dimitri Gourevitch, Université de Valenciennes

• Universal Structure in the Modulation of Neuronal Excitability: Synaptic Control of Coding, Resonance, and Network Synchronization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 28, 2015, 12:30PM
  Christoph Kirst, The Rockefeller University

• On Time and Order in Cryptography

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  April 28, 2015, 11AM
  Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute

Monday, April 27, 2015

• The Cryptographic Lens

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 27, 2015, 3:30PM
  Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute

Friday, April 24, 2015

• N/A

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 24, 2015, 2:30PM

• Random walks on the random graph

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 24, 2015, 1PM
  Eyal Lubetzky

• The Medium Amplitude Oscillatory Shear of Colloidal Dispersions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 24, 2015, 12PM
  James W Swan, MIT Chemical Engineering

• Water Waves with vorticity and asymptotic models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 605
  April 24, 2015, 11AM
  David Lannes, University of Bordeaux

• The Kahler Ricci flow on Fano manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 24, 2015, 11AM
  Bing Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Fluctuations of the free energy of spherical spin glass

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 24, 2015, 11AM
  Jinho Baik, Michigan

• \t A class of (2+1)-dimensional growth process with explicit stationary measure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 24, 2015, 10AM
  Fabio Toninelli, CNRS

Thursday, April 23, 2015

• Peter Lax, Mathematician: Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor lounge
  April 23, 2015, 4PM

• Existence and stability of traveling waves in a non-monotone feedforward chain of simple phase oscillators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 23, 2015, 4PM
  Stanislav Mintchev, The Cooper Union

• Analysis of concentration in Banach spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 23, 2015, 2PM
  Cyril Tintarev, Uppsala University

• Lower bounds for nodal sets of Laplacian eigenfunctions using heat flow arguments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 23, 2015, 11AM
  Stefan Steinerberger, Yale University

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

• Line Segment Visibility with Sidedness Constraints.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2015, 6PM
  Jon Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

• Moduli of tropical plane curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 21, 2015, 3:30PM
  Ralph Morrison, UC Berkeley

• Computational Geometry Aspects of Monte Carlo Approaches to PDE Problems in Biology, Chemistry, and Materials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2015, 12:30PM
  Michael Mascagni, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University

• Towards high-quality machine translation for complex language pairs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  April 21, 2015, 11:30AM
  Arianna Bisazza, University of Amsterdam

• Mathematical modeling of cell adhesion forces: from delay to friction, an instantaneous limit

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2015, 11AM
  Vuk Milisic, Universite Paris 13

Monday, April 20, 2015

• Linear methods for large data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2015, 3:45PM
  Dean Foster, University of Pennsylvania
  ***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor)

• Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2015, 11:30AM
  Peter Bailis, University of California, Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Friday, April 17, 2015

• Fermi Pasta Ulam system - new ideas about old problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2015, 2:30PM
  Yuri Lvov, RPI

• High-order Boundary Integral Algorithms for Soft Particles in Stokesian Flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2015, 1PM
  Abtin Rahimian

• Scaling window of Bernoulli percolation on Z^d

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 17, 2015, 11AM
  Hugo Duminil-Copin, Geneve

• \tVariable coefficient and volume integral for Helmholtz equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2015, 10AM
  Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard, CIMS

• IBM/NYU/Columbia

  Location TBA
  April 17, 2015, 9:30AM
  Various
  *** Event is being held at Columbia University

Thursday, April 16, 2015

• The Curious Case of Non-Equilibrium Finance

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 16, 2015, 4PM
  Mike Lipkin

• Boundedness properties for birational automorphisms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 16, 2015, 3:30PM
  Constantin Shramov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

• Collective Dynamics in Active Biological Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 16, 2015, 12:30PM
  Shawn D. Ryan, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

• Supercritical systems of Schroedinger equations in dimension two

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 16, 2015, 11AM
  Daniele Cassani, University of Insubria (Italy)

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

• Correlation and Causation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 15, 2015, 3:30PM
  George Sugihara, Scripps

• Principled and Practical Web Application Security

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 15, 2015, 11:30AM
  Deian Stefan, Stanford University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

• Improved lower bounds for the chromatic number of several small dimensional Euclidean spaces.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 14, 2015, 6PM
  Dan Ismailescu, Hofstra University.

• Modeling the Formation of Ring-Like Oligomers of Synaptotagmin During Synaptic Fusion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 14, 2015, 12:30PM
  Jie Zhu, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University

• Turbulence, stressed horizontal convection and the oceans' overturning circulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2015, 11AM
  Francesco Paparella, Universita del Salento

Monday, April 13, 2015

• Generalized Tangent Vector Fields for Fabrication-Aware Geometry Processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2015, 11:30AM
  Daniele Panozzo, ETH Zurich
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Friday, April 10, 2015

• The trouble with crystal facets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 10, 2015, 2:30PM
  Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland

• On a new continuity path for canonical metrics in Kaehler geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 10, 2015, 11AM
  Xiuxiong Chen, Stony Brook University

• Airy diffusion and N^{1/3} fluctuations in the 2D Ising model.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 10, 2015, 11AM
  Senya Shlosman, Marseille, Moscow

Thursday, April 9, 2015

• Introduction to normal form theory of analytic vector fields near a fixed point and to rigidity problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 09, 2015, 5PM
  Laurent Stolovitch, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

• Regularity of invariant densities for systems with random switching

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 09, 2015, 3:45PM
  Tobias Hurth, University of Toronto

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 09, 2015, 12PM
  Marija Vucelja, Rockefeller University, AND Lucas Champollion, Department of Linguistics

• Quantum complete integrability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 09, 2015, 11AM
  Laurent Stolovitch, University of Nice

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

• Beyond horizontal convection: laboratory and numerical experiments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2015, 3:30PM
  Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, UCSD

• Rigorous OS Design: an Idea Whose Time Has Come

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2015, 11:30AM
  Leonid Ryzhyk, Carnegie Mellon University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15 \n

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

• On the isotypic decomposition of cohomology modules of symmetric semi-algebraic sets: polynomial bounds on multiplicities.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 07, 2015, 6PM
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

• Making Sense of Network Data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2015, 5:15PM
  Patrick Wolfe, University College London

• The cytokinetic actomyosin contractile ring: what does it do and how?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 07, 2015, 12:30PM
  Ben O'Shaughnessy, Columbia University

Monday, April 6, 2015

• Fast reconnection and turbulence induced by the plasmoid instability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 07, 2015, 1AM
  Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University and PPPL

• Enabling small-scale hydraulics through bio-inspired design and active fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2015, 3:45PM
  Anette Hosoi, MIT

• Randomness Vs. Memory: A Treasure(s) Hunt

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2015, 11:30AM
  Omer Reingold, Weizmann and SRA
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15 \n

Friday, April 3, 2015

• Tractor beam by water waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 2:30PM
  Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann

• Group scheme theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 1PM
  Sophie Marques

• \tTransportation Techniques for Geometric Data Processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 11:30AM
  Justin Solomon, Stanford University

• The impossibility of periodic motion in general relativity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 03, 2015, 11AM
  Spyros Alexakis, University of Toronto

• The Abelian sandpile on periodic Euclidean graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 03, 2015, 11AM
  Charles Smart, Cornell

• Numerical Modeling of Vesicle Electrohydrodynamics in Three Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 10AM
  Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz, SUNY Buffalo

Thursday, April 2, 2015

• Ergodic theory, cohomology and the diffraction spectrum of self-similar quasicrystals

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 02, 2015, 4PM
  Rodrigo Trevino, CIMS

• Flexible and deep models for density estimation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 02, 2015, 3:30PM
  Iain Murray, University Edinburgh

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