Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, March 7, 2014

• A multi-scale refinement of the 2nd moment method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 07, 2014, 11AM
  Nicola Kistler, College of Staten Island, CUNY

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 07, 2014, 11AM
  Enrico Le Donne, University of Jyväskyä

Thursday, March 6, 2014

• Optimizing snake locomotion in the plane

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 06, 2014, 12:30PM
  Silas Alban, University of Michigan

• Stability of infinite time aggregation for Keller-Seguel equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 06, 2014, 11AM
  Tej-eddin Ghoul, CIMS

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

• Extreme events and turbulence

  Location TBA
  March 05, 2014, 4:30PM
  President and Dean Sreenivasan, NYU Polytechinic School of Engineering

• Changes in the distribution of rain in response to warming

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 05, 2014, 3:30PM
  Angie Pendergrass, U Washington

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

• Toward GIT stability of syzygies of canonical curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 04, 2014, 3:30PM
  Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College

• Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Schemes for Cahn-Hilliard Type Models and Hybrid Discrete Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2014, 3:30PM
  Andreas Aristotelous

• Novel Causal Score for Learning Conjunctive Bayesian Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  March 04, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ilya Korsunsky, New York University

• Landau damping in Sobolev spaces for the Vlasov-HMF model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2014, 11AM
  Erwan Faou, INRIA Rennes and ENS Paris

• Helicity-Flux-Driven Alpha Effect in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 04, 2014, 11AM
  Fatima Ebrahimi, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University and PPPL

Friday, February 28, 2014

• Arnold Diffusion Problem and Applications to Celestial Mechanics, Part I

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Feb. 28, 2014, 4PM
  Marian Gidea, Yeshiva University

• Shimura curves contained in the Jacobian locus

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 28, 2014, 12PM
  Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University

• Vector fields on metric measure spaces, and 1-rectifiable structure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 28, 2014, 11AM
  Andrea Schioppa, NYU

• Graph Expansion and Communication Complexity of Algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 28, 2014, 10AM
  Olga Holtz, UC Berkeley

Thursday, February 27, 2014

• Mathematical Superpowers: The Politics of Universality in a Divided World

  Online, NYU Jordan Center, 2nd Floor at 19 University Place
  Feb. 27, 2014, 1PM

• A particle walks into an interface...

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 27, 2014, 12:30PM
  Vinothan Manoharan, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University

• KdV limit for geometric Schrodinger equations with potential

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 27, 2014, 11AM
  Pierre Germain, CIMS

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

• Counting plane graphs: Perfect matchings, spanning cycles, and Kasteleyn's technique

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 25, 2014, 6PM
  Adam Sheffer, Tel Aviv University

• Lifting Galois covers to characteristic zero with non-Archimedean analytic geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 25, 2014, 3PM
  Daniele Turchetti, Institut de mathemathiques de Jussieu

• Tightness of convex relaxations for certain inverse problems on graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Feb. 25, 2014, 2:30PM
  Afonso Bandeira, Princeton University

• A convex optimization approach to generalized moment problems in multivariate spectral estimation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 25, 2014, 2PM
  Michele Pavon, University of Padova

Monday, February 24, 2014

• On the Computational and Statistical Interface & 'Big Data'

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room Cantor Film Center (36 E. 8th Street), Room 101
  Feb. 24, 2014, 5:10PM
  Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, February 21, 2014

• Localized representation of eigenspaces via convex optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 21, 2014, 2:30PM
  Jianfeng Lu, Duke University

• Biased random walk on supercritical percolation clusters

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 21, 2014, 11AM
  Alexander Fribergh, Université de Toulouse

• Efficient Simulation of Gas Flow in a Pipe Network (Techniques and Theory in Model Order Reduction)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 21, 2014, 10AM
  Sara Grundel, Max Planck Institute

Thursday, February 20, 2014

• Almost sure well-posedness for the periodic 3D quintic NLS below the energy space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 20, 2014, 2:30PM
  Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• A weak Dirichlet problem for the cold plasma model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2014, 11AM
  Thomas Otway, Yeshiva University
  Please note special time: Joint with Analysis Seminar

• A weak Dirichlet problem for the cold plasma model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2014, 11AM
  Thomas H. Otway, Yeshiva University

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

• Robust Analytics on Data Streams

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 19, 2014, 11:30AM
  Flip Korn, AT&T Labs
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

• Birational isotriviality of fiber spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 18, 2014, 3:30PM
  Christian Böhning, Universität Hamburg

• Memorial for Samuel L. Marateck

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Feb. 18, 2014, 12:30PM

Friday, February 14, 2014

• Phyllotaxis, pushed pattern fronts and optimal packing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 14, 2014, 2:30PM
  Alan Newell, Univ. of Arizona

• Investigation of Crouzeix's Conjecture via Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 14, 2014, 1PM
  Michael Overton, CIMS

• Structure of measures in Lipschitz differentiability spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 14, 2014, 11AM
  David Bate, University of Chicago

• The noisy Burgers equation and interacting diffusions.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 14, 2014, 11AM
  Herbert Spohn, IAS Princeton and TUM Munich

Thursday, February 13, 2014

• Large-scale structures in (moist) convection

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 13, 2014, 12:30PM
  Alexandre Pieri, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council

• Models for “mixtures”, multifluid flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 13, 2014, 11AM
  Thierry Goudon, Inria, France

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

• From two-dimensional to rotating turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 12, 2014, 3:30PM
  Basile Gallet, U d'Orsay

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

• Bounding the equivariant Betti numbers and computing the generalized Euler-Poincaré characteristic of symmetric semi-algebraic sets.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 11, 2014, 6PM
  Saugate Basu, Purdue University

• Evolution is Pleased with Simplicity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Feb. 11, 2014, 12:30PM
  Aviv Bergman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• On the regularity of varifold mean curvature flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 11, 2014, 11AM
  Yoshihiro Tonegawa, Hokkaido University

Monday, February 10, 2014

• Minerva: A Scalable and Highly Efficient Training Platform for Deep Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 10, 2014, 11:30AM
  Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Friday, February 7, 2014

• Cognitive load theory

  Location TBA
  Feb. 07, 2014, 3:30PM

• The Simplest Complex Fluid? The Remarkable Rheology of Hard-sphere Suspensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 07, 2014, 2:20PM
  Jeff Morris, City College

• Physics-based Animation Sound: Progress and Challenges

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 07, 2014, 11:30AM
  Doug James, Cornell University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Translation invariant Gibbs measures on tilings by Nx1 Rectangles.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 07, 2014, 11AM
  Martin Tassy, Brown University

Thursday, February 6, 2014

• Various topics will be presented

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 06, 2014, 12:30PM
  Kazem Edmond, Physics, Center for Soft Matter Research
  Also speaking during this session: Alexander Shtukenberg, Chemistry, Molecular Design Institute

• A quantitative Brunn-Minkowski inequality and estimates on the the remainder in the Riesz rearrangement inequality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 06, 2014, 11AM
  Eric Carlen, Rutgers University

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

• Time series analysis and data-driven model discrimination beyond usual assumptions: mathematical ideas, algorithmic methods, HPC and application examples

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 05, 2014, 3:30PM
  Illia Horenko, ICS Lugano

• Seminar Series: Jan 29 to March 12

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 05, 2014, 2PM
  Charles Newman, CIMS

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

• Crossing Numbers and Combinatorial Characterization of Monotone Drawings of Kn

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 04, 2014, 6PM
  Radoslav Fulek, Columbia University

• Numerical simulations of Alfvenic turbulence in the solar wind

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 04, 2014, 1:30PM
  Jean Carlos Perez, University of New Hampshire

• A model of the medial superior olive explains spatio-temporal features of local field potentials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Feb. 04, 2014, 12:30PM
  Joshua Goldwyn, Center for Neural Science, New York University

• On the well-posedness of an interface damped free boundary fluid-structure model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 04, 2014, 11AM
  Igor Kukavica, USC

Monday, February 3, 2014

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 03, 2014, 12:30PM
  Keiichi Itatani

Friday, January 31, 2014

• Learning and Fast Simulation of Intrinsically Low-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical Systems in High Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 31, 2014, 1PM
  Miles Crosskey, Duke University

• A sublinear bound for the variance of solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Jan. 31, 2014, 11AM
  Ivan Matic, Baruch College City University of New York

Thursday, January 30, 2014

• Are Black Holes Real ?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 30, 2014, 11AM
  Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

• Multiscale Geometry of High-Dimensional Data, with applications to Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 29, 2014, 3:30PM
  Mauro Maggioni, Duke

• Seminar Series: Jan 29 to March 12

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 29, 2014, 2PM
  Charles Newman, CIMS

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

• The Babel Fish: Active Signal Detection in the Ear

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Jan. 28, 2014, 12:30PM
  Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, The Rockefeller University

Monday, January 27, 2014

• On Bitcoin and Red Balloons

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 27, 2014, 11:30AM
  Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

Thursday, January 23, 2014

• Living Liquid Crystals

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 23, 2014, 12:30PM
  Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory

Thursday, January 16, 2014

• The nonlinear heat equation with high order mixed derivatives of the Dirac delta as initial values and Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 16, 2014, 11AM
  Slim Tayachi, University Tunis El Manar

Thursday, December 19, 2013

• The innate immune system: some theory, some experiments and some medical implications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 19, 2013, 12:30PM
  Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

• Divide and Conquer Roadmaps for Algebraic Sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 17, 2013, 6PM
  Marie-Francoise Roy, University of Rennes, France

• Diffuse Decompositions of Polynomials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 17, 2013, 12:15PM
  Daniel Kane, Stanford University

Monday, December 16, 2013

• Introduction to incidence geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 16, 2013, 3:45PM
  Larry Guth, MIT
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, December 13, 2013

• Fall 2013 Showcase

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Dec. 13, 2013, 5PM

• Riemann-Hilbert problems, orthogonal polynomials and computation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 13, 2013, 1PM
  Tom Trogdon, CIMS

• Recent Progress on the Search of 3D Euler Singularities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 13, 2013, 10AM
  Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology

Thursday, December 12, 2013

• Settling and Rising in Stratified Fluids: fluid-structure interactions and multiphase flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 12, 2013, 12:30PM
  Shilpa Khatri, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• On the different rates of blow-up for the 1-corotational harmonic heat flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 12, 2013, 11AM
  Remi Schweyer

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

• The geometry of the Frey-Mazur conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 10, 2013, 3:30PM
  Benjamin Bakker, Courant Institute

• Making sense --- or not --- of deep DNA sequencing data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 10, 2013, 12:30PM
  Daniel Fisher, Stanford University

Monday, December 9, 2013

• Waves in honeycomb structures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 09, 2013, 3:45PM
  Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• Modeling, simulation and inference for non-Newtonian fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 09, 2013, 11AM
  Georg Stadler, University of Texas Austin

Friday, December 6, 2013

• Sampling and noise

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2013, 2:30PM
  Alexandre Chorin, UC Berkeley

• Dynamical rigidity of Ginibre interacting Brownian motions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Dec. 06, 2013, 11AM
  Hirofumi Osada, Kyushu University

• A Multifrequency Method for the Shape Reconstruction of 2D Scatterers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2013, 10AM
  Carlos Borges, CIMS

• Stochastic calculus via regularization in Banach spaces: path dependent calculus and stochastic evolution equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 06, 2013, 10AM
  Francesco Russo, ENSTA ParisTech

Thursday, December 5, 2013

• Computational Art History: Three Emerging Projects

  Location TBA
  Dec. 05, 2013, 4:35PM
  C.Richard Johnson,Jr, Cornell University

• Transport of particles, drops, and small organisms in density stratified fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 05, 2013, 12:30PM
  Arezoo Ardekani, University of Notre Dame

• Asymptotic behavior for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with partially periodic data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2013, 11AM
  Benoit Pausader, Princeton University

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

• The mesoscale dynamics of cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 04, 2013, 3:30PM
  Tra Dinh, Princeton

• Strong solutions of infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 04, 2013, 11AM
  Hirofumi Osada, Kyushu University

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

• Connecting High-throughput Data to Build Better Models of the Immune System in Health and Disease

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 03, 2013, 12:30PM
  Brian Kidd, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Monday, December 2, 2013

• Estimates of normal curvatures of space-like hypersurfaces in de Sitter space and convexity

  Location TBA
  Dec. 02, 2013, 4:35PM
  Vladimir Oliker, Emory University

• Hamiltonian Evolution Equations - Where They Come From, What They Are Good For

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 02, 2013, 3:45PM
  Juerg Froehlich, ETH Zurich (& IAS)
  *** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor)

• Mathematical biology of the lamellipodial treadmill

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 02, 2013, 11AM
  Alex Mogilner, UC Davis

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

• Metric Geometry and the Diameter of Polytopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 26, 2013, 6PM
  Bruno Benedetti, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Nov. 26, 2013, 2PM
  Costante Bellettini, Princeton

• An integral equation for Taylor states

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 26, 2013, 1:30PM
  Mike O'Neil, CIMS

• Encoding evidence of independence into Bayesian network structure learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 26, 2013, 12:30PM
  Rachel Hodos, CIMS

Friday, November 22, 2013

• Spectral Analysis of Continuum Kinetic Velocity Diffusion Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2013, 2:30PM
  Jon Wilkening, UC Berkeley

• Nonlinear phase mixing in fluid mechanics and kinetic theory: "irreversible" stability in reversible systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2013, 1PM
  Jacob Bedrossian, CIMS

• On the connection between the spectral gap of convex bodies and the variance conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Nov. 22, 2013, 12:30PM
  Ronan Eldan, Microsoft Research

• Crouzeix's Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2013, 10AM
  Anne Greenbaum, University of Washington

Thursday, November 21, 2013

• Matching on-the-fly: Sequential Allocation with Higher Power and Efficiency

  Location TBA
  Nov. 21, 2013, 4:35PM
  Adam Kapelner, UPenn

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