Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, January 29, 2015

• Quantum cohomology, intersection cohomology and integrable systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Jan. 29, 2015, 3:30PM
  Michael McBreen, EPFL Lausanne

• Positional Fluctuations of Interphase Chromatin

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 29, 2015, 12:30PM
  Alexandra Zidovska, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University

• Rigorous asymptotic derivation of the Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic system from Navier-Stokes-Maxwell

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 29, 2015, 11AM
  Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria

Monday, January 26, 2015

• Some aspects of realization spaces of polytopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 26, 2015, 3:45PM
  Karim Adiprasito, IHES and Hebrew U. of Jerusalem

Thursday, January 22, 2015

• Shock Development in Spherical Symmetry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 22, 2015, 11AM
  André Lisibach, ETH Zurich

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 20, 2015, 2:30PM
  Amneet Bhalla, UNC

• Well-posedness and regularity for a class of thin-film free boundary problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 20, 2015, 11AM
  Manuel Victor Gnann, University of Michigan

Thursday, December 18, 2014

• Existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions for the thin-film equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 18, 2014, 11AM
  Mohamed Majdoub, Faculte de Sciences de Tunis

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2014 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Dec. 17, 2014, 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.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

• Two modes of urine formation in neonatal rat kidney by means of optimization problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 16, 2014, 12:30PM
  Mariano Marcano, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

Friday, December 12, 2014

• The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences: A Historical Perspective, 1934-1972

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 12, 2014, 2PM
  Brittany Shields, CIMS

• Violation of the area law in quantum spin chains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 12, 2014, 11AM
  Ramis Movassagh, Northeastern, MIT

Thursday, December 11, 2014

• Randomness and genericity in (some of) mathematics

  Location TBA
  Dec. 11, 2014, 4:35PM
  Igor Rivin, Temple University
  Six Metrotech Center \nBrooklyn, New York 11201

• A non-local variational problem arising from studies of nonlinear charge screening in graphene monolayers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 11, 2014, 11AM
  Cyrill Muratov, NJIT

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

• Computational Geometry in Air Traffic Management

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 09, 2014, 6PM
  Joseph Mitchell, Stony Brook University

• Modeling the zebrafish animal model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 09, 2014, 12:30PM
  Maurizio Porfiri, Polytechnic School of Engineering, NYU

Monday, December 8, 2014

• A new potential-theoretic formulation for Maxwell's equations: geometry and analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 08, 2014, 3:45PM
  Felipe Vico, Polytechnic University of Valencia

Friday, December 5, 2014

• Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2014, 2:30PM
  Lucy Colwell, Cambridge University

• The total surgery obstruction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  Dec. 05, 2014, 1PM
  Andrew Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
  *** Please note the time and location have changed for this seminar

• Noisy heteroclinic networks and sequential decision making

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2014, 1PM
  Yuri Bakhtin

• Statistical Mechanics arising from Random Matrix theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 05, 2014, 11AM
  Thomas Spencer, IAS

• An immersed-boundary method for suspensions of rigid bodies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2014, 10AM
  Aleksandar Donev, Courant Institue

Thursday, December 4, 2014

• evisiting Contact and Conformal Geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 04, 2014, 11AM
  Abbas Bahri, Rutgers Univ.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

• Big science with little data: a new wave-vortex decomposition method for one-dimensional spectra in the atmosphere and ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 03, 2014, 3:30PM
  Oliver BUHLER, CIMS

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

• Arithmetic quotients of the mapping class group

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Dec. 02, 2014, 3:30PM
  Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Force scaling behavior of actomyosin stress fibers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 02, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ben Fogelson, NYU Courant Institute

Monday, December 1, 2014

• Singular Eigenvalue Perturbation Theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 01, 2014, 3:45PM
  Barry Simon, Caltech

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

• Motility at microscopic scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 26, 2014, 10AM
  Antonio De Simone, SISSA

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

• Measuring Distances Between Road Networks.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 25, 2014, 6PM
  Brittany Therese Fasy, Department of Computer Science, Tulane University

• Force generation and propagation, and contraction of random actomyosin ring

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 25, 2014, 12:30PM
  Dietmar Oelz

Monday, November 24, 2014

• The Riemann-Hilbert Method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 24, 2014, 3:45PM
  Alexander Its, IUPUI

Friday, November 21, 2014

• Stochastic variational inequalities and their applications in engineering

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2014, 2:30PM
  Laurent Mertz, CIMS

• The Erdos-­Hajnal Conjecture and Combinatorial Clustering with Forbidden Patterns

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2014, 11:30AM
  Krzysztof Choromanski, Google Research New York
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• \tTime Reversal for the Inverse problem of locating sources and obstacles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2014, 10AM
  Eli Turkel, Tel Aviv University

Thursday, November 20, 2014

• Enumeration of graphs, Random matrices and applications in Computational Biology

  Location TBA
  Nov. 20, 2014, 4:35PM
  Nikita Alexeev, Steklov Institute at St.Petersburg
  ** 6 MetroTech Roadway, Brooklyn

• Renormalization of critical circle maps and rotational attractors of two-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 20, 2014, 4PM
  Michael Yampolsky, University of Toronto

• Moduli of curves and differentials with real periods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 20, 2014, 3:30PM
  Chaya Norton, University of Montreal

• PDE Models for Ferrofluids and Their Numerical Analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 20, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ignacio Tomas, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

• Coastal-open ocean exchange of carbon: Mechanisms and ecological implications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 19, 2014, 3:30PM
  Zouhair LACHKAR, NYUAD

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

• Extensions of Golomb’s Tromino Theorem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 18, 2014, 6PM
  Jonathan Lenchner, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center.

• How cells tell left from right: Active Chiral Processes in Soft Biological Matter

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 18, 2014, 12:30PM
  Sebastian Fürthauer, NYU Courant Institute and Harvard Center for System Biology

• Scattering of radio frequency waves by plasma blobs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 18, 2014, 11AM
  Abhay Ram, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Monday, November 17, 2014

• Search games and Optimal Kakeya Sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 17, 2014, 3:45PM
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research

Friday, November 14, 2014

• Grain Growth and Grain Growth Stagnation in Metallic Films: The Curious Tail of a Tale and an Ear

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 2:30PM
  Katayun Barmak, Columbia University

• Cell movement as a free boundary problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 1PM
  Alex Mogilner, CIMS

• Activities in Considerate Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 11:30AM
  Ted Selker, University of California-Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• Markov type for planar graphs and applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 14, 2014, 11AM
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft

• Poisson and compound Poisson asymptotics for statistics of multiple recurrencies to shrinking sets.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 14, 2014, 10AM
  Yuri Kifer, Jerusalem

• \tMultigrid Methods for Saddle Point Problems.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 10AM
  Duk-Soon Oh, Rutgers

Thursday, November 13, 2014

• Random methods in geometry

  Location TBA
  Nov. 13, 2014, 5:30PM
  Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University, visiting NYU
  event location: 6 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn

• Infinite Groups --- from the very beginning (1900 + ?) to our time

  Location TBA
  Nov. 13, 2014, 4:35PM
  Efim Zelmanov, University of California - SD
  event location: 6 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn

• A predictive Model for Yeast Cell Polarization in Pheromone Gradients

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 13, 2014, 12:30PM
  Nicolas Meunier, MAP5, Universite Paris Descartes, France

• Weakly regular Einstein spacetimes with symmetry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 13, 2014, 11AM
  Philippe Le Floch, Univ. Paris 6

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

• Multiple regimes and thermohaline variability in the quasi-adiabatic pole-to-pole circulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 12, 2014, 3:30PM
  Christopher WOLFE

• Infinite Dimensional Superalgebras

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 12, 2014, 11:30AM
  Efim Zelmanov, University of California, San Diego
  ** Please note the change of time for this event

• Regularity results for general nonlocal equations of quasilinear type

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 805
  Nov. 12, 2014, 11AM
  Yannick Sire, Aix-Marseille University

• Matching, choice and entropy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 12, 2014, 10AM
  Alfred Galichon, Sciences Po

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

• Repairing tropical curves by means of linear tropical modifications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 11, 2014, 3:30PM
  Maria Angelica Cueto, Columbia University

• Multiscale Modelling in Physiology: Lungs and Saliva

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 11, 2014, 12:30PM
  James Sneyd

• Numerical algorithms applied to RadioFrequency problems in fusion.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 11, 2014, 11AM
  John Wright, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Monday, November 10, 2014

• The Dynamics of Calcium: Oscillations and Waves, Experiments and Theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 10, 2014, 3:45PM
  James Sneyd, University of Auckland

Sunday, November 9, 2014

• The Goodman-Pollack Fest/Feast.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor Commons
  Nov. 09, 2014, 9AM
  Various Speakers

Saturday, November 8, 2014

• The Goodman-Pollack Fest/Feast.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th Floor Commons
  Nov. 08, 2014, 9AM
  Various Speakers

Friday, November 7, 2014

• Phase behaviors of non-Brownian suspensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 2:30PM
  Kyongmin Yeo, IBM Watson Research Center

• Inverse problems governed by large-scale PDE models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 1PM
  Georg Stadler, CIMS

• Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 11:30AM
  David Johnson, Columbia University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• \tScalable finite element viscous flow solvers on octree meshes, with application to ice sheet dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 10AM
  Tobin Isaac, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, November 6, 2014

• Markov partitions and 1-dimensional tilings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 06, 2014, 4PM
  Maciej Wojtkowski

• The lifespan of small data solutions to the KP-I

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2014, 2PM
  Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths, Univ. of California - Berkeley

• Brownian Interactions in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 06, 2014, 12:30PM
  Mehdi Karzar-Jeddi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

• The Yang-Mills Plateau problem in supercritical dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2014, 11AM
  Mircea Petrache, ETH/Zurich

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

• The Northern Hemisphere summertime circulation: Mechanisms and future changes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 05, 2014, 3:30PM
  Tiffany SHAW, Columbia

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

• Stable pairs and knot invariants

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 04, 2014, 3:30PM
  Davesh Maulik, Columbia University

• The fluid dynamics of jellyfish swimming and feeding

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 04, 2014, 12:30PM
  Laura Miller, University of North Carolina

Monday, November 3, 2014

• The Surface Subgroup Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2014, 3:45PM
  Vladimir Markovic, Caltech

Friday, October 31, 2014

• Fast-slow systems with chaotic noise

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2014, 2:30PM
  David Kelly, CIMS

• Set-Indexed processes and regularity.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 31, 2014, 11AM
  Ely Merzbach, Bar-Ilan

• 4-dimensional arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds and quantum error correcting codes.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 31, 2014, 11AM
  Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University/NYU

• \tUpwind methods for second order wave equations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2014, 10AM
  Thomas Hagstrom, Southern Methodist University

Thursday, October 30, 2014

• Diffusion through non-transversal transition chains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 30, 2014, 4PM
  Adrià Simon, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech

• Bacterial Swimming in Polymer Solutions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 30, 2014, 12:30PM
  Wilson Poon, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 30, 2014, 11AM
  Mark Wilkinson, CIMS

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

• Stochastic Models and Statistics for Extreme Precipitation Events

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 29, 2014, 3:30PM
  Sam STECHMANN

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

• "Positivity and singularities in characteristic p

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Oct. 28, 2014, 3:30PM
  Mircea Mustaţă, University of Michigan

• Local Analysis of Wave Fields produced from Hindcasted Rogue Wave Sea States

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 28, 2014, 2PM
  Frederic Dias, University College, Dublin

• A Novel Characterization of Amalgamated Networks in Natural Systems Using Sparse and Low-Rank Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 28, 2014, 12:30PM
  Victor Barranca, Courant Institute and NYUAD Institute, New York University

Monday, October 27, 2014

• The mysterious role of stability in solids with defects

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 27, 2014, 3:45PM
  Gilles Francfort, Universite Paris 13 and Institut Universitaire de France
  \n**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. \nin the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, October 24, 2014

• NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF TURBULENCE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2014, 2:30PM
  David Ruelle, IHES

• Fast algorithms for Gaussian processes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2014, 1PM
  Michael O'Neil

• Satellite operators and piecewise-linear concordance

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 24, 2014, 1PM
  Adam Levine, Princeton

• Random tilings and Hurwitz numbers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 24, 2014, 11AM
  Jonathan Novak, MIT

• Various presenters

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Oct. 24, 2014, 10AM

Thursday, October 23, 2014

• The Set-Indexed Levy Process: Stationarity and Local regularity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Oct. 23, 2014, 4:35PM
  Ely Merzbach, Bar-Ilan University

• Analytic quasiperiodic matrix cocycles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 23, 2014, 4PM
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine

• Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Microtubule/Motor Protein Assemblies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 23, 2014, 12:30PM
  Tong (Tony) Gao, CIMS

• Information Theory: Old and New--A Personal View

  Location TBA
  Oct. 23, 2014, 11AM
  Shlomo Shamai, Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

• On-Site and Off-Site Solitary Waves of the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Multiple Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 23, 2014, 11AM
  Michael Jenkinson, Columbia

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

• Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability as a Thermally Coupled Mode Enhanced by Cloud Feedback

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 22, 2014, 3:30PM
  Amy CLEMENT, University of Miami

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

• Analytic Root Isolation: A complete unconditional Clustering Algorithm

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 21, 2014, 6PM
  Chee Yap, Courant Institute, New York University, New York

• A novel method for decoding neural activity in sensory and frontal cortices during perceptual decision-making in rodents

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 21, 2014, 12:30PM
  Michele Insanally, New York University

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