Past Events

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Past Math Events

Monday, November 22, 2021

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Fair-division approaches to redistricting

  Online,
  Nov. 22, 2021, 4:30PM
  Ben Blum-Smith, NYU Center for Data Science

Thursday, November 11, 2021

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Slice-Driven Continuous Monitoring of Statistical Models: Detection, Localization, and Retraining

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 11, 2021, 2PM
  Alnur Ali, Stanford

Thursday, November 4, 2021

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  On the tight statistical analysis of a maximum likelihood estimator based on profiles

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 04, 2021, 2PM
  Yanjun Han, Simons Institute, Berkeley

Monday, November 1, 2021

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Colorado in Context: A case study in mathematics and fair redistricting in Colorado

  Online,
  Nov. 01, 2021, 5:30PM
  Jeanne Clelland, University of Colorado Boulder & Beth Malmskog​, Colorado College

Thursday, October 28, 2021

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Identifiable Variational Autoencoders via Sparse Decoding

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 28, 2021, 2PM
  Gemma Moran, Columbia University

Thursday, October 21, 2021

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Smoothed Analysis of Online Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 21, 2021, 10:30PM
  Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 19, 2021, 6:50PM
  Yanjun Han, Simons Institute

Monday, October 4, 2021

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  The topology of redistricting

  Location TBA
  Oct. 04, 2021, 5:30PM
  Thomas Weighill, UNC Greensborough

Thursday, July 1, 2021

• Topological states in collective dynamics

  Online, video conference
  July 01, 2021, 11AM
  Pierre DEGOND , CNRS, Toulouse, France and Imperial College, London, UK

• TBA

  Online, video conference
  July 01, 2021, 10AM
  Diego VIDAURRE , Oxford, UK and Aarhus University, Denmark

Thursday, June 24, 2021

• TBA

  Online, video conference
  June 24, 2021, 11AM
  Zhuo-Cheng XIAO , New York University, USA

• TBA

  Online, video conference
  June 24, 2021, 10AM
  Andrea AGAZZI , Duke University, USA

Thursday, June 17, 2021

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs — Part III

  Online, zoom
  June 17, 2021, 2PM
  Hosted by Professor Nader Masmoudi, and Professor Tej-Eddine Ghoul
  Event begins at 2:00pm GST \n

• A dynamical model of primate visual cortex

  Online, video conference
  June 17, 2021, 10AM
  Lai-Sang YOUNG , New York University, USA

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs — Part III

  Online, zoom
  June 16, 2021, 1PM
  Hosted by Professor Nader Masmoudi, and Professor Tej-Eddine Ghoul
  Event begins at 1:00pm GST \nTIMES: each day will be generally at 1.00 pm, 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm \nGulf Standard Time.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs — Part III

  Online, zoom
  June 15, 2021, 1PM
  Hosted by Professor Nader Masmoudi, and Professor Tej-Eddine Ghoul
  Event begins at 1:00pm GST \nTIMES: each day will be generally at 1.00 pm, 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm \nGulf Standard Time.

Monday, June 14, 2021

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs — Part III

  Online, zoom
  June 14, 2021, 1PM
  Hosted by Professor Nader Masmoudi, Professor Tej-Eddine Ghoul
  Event begins at 1:00pm GST \nTIMES: each day will be generally at 1.00 pm, 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm \nGulf Standard Time.

Sunday, June 13, 2021

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs: Part III

  Online, zoom
  June 13, 2021, 4:30PM
  Hosted by Professor Nader Masmoudi, and Professor Tej-Eddine Ghoul
  Event is GST TIME: 4.30 pm

Thursday, June 10, 2021

• From mathematical modelling of cancer cell plasticity to philosophy of cancer

  Online, video conference
  June 10, 2021, 11AM
  Jean CLAIRAMBAULT , INRIA and Sorbonne University, France

• Modeling self-organization in the mitotic spindle

  Online, video conference
  June 10, 2021, 10AM
  Chris Miles, New York University, USA

Thursday, June 3, 2021

• Qualitative analysis on a PDE model of neural network

  Online, video conference
  June 03, 2021, 11AM
  Delphine SALORT , Sorbonne University, France

• Floral patterns in multi-strain bacterial biofilms

  Online, video conference
  June 03, 2021, 10AM
  Lev TSIMRING , University of California, San Diego, USA

Thursday, May 27, 2021

• Reaction-diffusion equations in biomedical applications

  Online, video conference
  May 27, 2021, 10AM
  Vitaly VOLPERT , CNRS, Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon, France

Friday, May 14, 2021

• Deep (Convolution) Networks from First Principles

  Online, zoom
  May 14, 2021, 11AM
  Yi Ma , UC Berkeley

Thursday, May 13, 2021

• Research Talk

  Online, zoom
  May 13, 2021, 12:30PM
  Yunan Yang

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

• Complexity and Machine Learning with Applications to Markets

  Online, zoom
  May 11, 2021, 5:30PM
  Nino Antulov-Fantulin, senior researcher at ETH Zurich

• Fibered cone, sphere complexes and geometry of metric graphs

  Online, zoom
  May 11, 2021, 2PM
  Chenxi Wu, UW Madison

Monday, May 10, 2021

• The Voting Power Gap: Identifying Racial Gerrymandering with a Discrete Voter Model

  Online, zoom
  May 10, 2021, 5:30PM
  Hakeem Angulu, Google / MGGG Redistricting Lab @ Tufts

Friday, May 7, 2021

• Self-propelled Topological Defects

  Online, zoom
  May 07, 2021, 2:30PM
  Julia Yeomans, Oxford

Thursday, May 6, 2021

• Projection methods for quasi-static hypo-elastoplasticity

  Online, zoom
  May 06, 2021, 12PM
  Nick Boffi, CIMS

• The Vlasov--Poisson--Landau system in the weakly collisional regime

  Online, zoom
  May 06, 2021, 11AM
  Sanchit Chaturvedi, Stanford University

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

• What to expect when you're graduating?

  Online, zoom
  May 05, 2021, 3:30PM
  Naftali Cohen, JP Morgan & Tandon

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

• Market Impact, Slppage Costs, and Optimal Execution of Large Trades

  Online, zoom
  May 04, 2021, 5:30PM
  Fabrizio Lillo, Università di Bologna, Scuola Normale Superiore

Monday, May 3, 2021

• An average John theorem

  Online, zoom
  May 03, 2021, 3:45PM
  Assaf Naor, Princeton University

Friday, April 30, 2021

• Landscape and training regimes in deep learning

  Online, zoom
  April 30, 2021, 2:30PM
  Matthieu Wyart, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

• A posteriori error estimation in time stepping methods

  Online, zoom
  April 30, 2021, 10AM
  Emil M. Constantinescu, Argonne National Laboratory

Thursday, April 29, 2021

• Reduce Spiking Network Dynamics to Manifolds

  Online, zoom
  April 29, 2021, 12:30PM
  Zhuo-Cheng Xiao, CIMS

• Simultaneous development of shocks and cusps for 2D compressible Euler from smooth initial data

  Online, zoom
  April 29, 2021, 11AM
  Steve Shkoller, UC Davis

• Chimera states through invariant manifold theory

  Online, zoom
  April 29, 2021, 10AM
  Edmilson Roque, University of Sao Paulo

• Chimera states in modular networks

  Online, zoom
  April 29, 2021, 9AM
  Erik Martens, Lund University and Copenhagen University

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

• What causes atmospheric blocks? - A new perspective using the finite amplitude wave activity theory

  Online, zoom
  April 28, 2021, 3:30PM
  Pragallva Barpanda, CIRES/ NOAA PSL, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

• Determining Prices and Trading Strategies in FBSDE Models in Quantitative Finance with Deep Learning

  Online, zoom
  April 27, 2021, 5:30PM
  Bernhard Hientzsch, Corporate Model Risk, Wells Fargo

• On combinatorial algebras of multi-complexes.

  Online, zoom
  April 27, 2021, 2PM
  Miodrag Iovanov, University of Iowa

Monday, April 26, 2021

• Voting and Linear Algebra: Connections and Questions

  Online, zoom
  April 26, 2021, 5:30PM
  Michael Orrison, Harvey Mudd College

• Online hyperparameter optimization by real-time recurrent learning

  Online, zoom
  April 26, 2021, 3:45PM
  Kyunghyun Cho, CIMS

Friday, April 23, 2021

• Mathematics and Physics at the Moiré Scale

  Online, zoom
  April 23, 2021, 2:30PM
  Mitchell Luskin, U. Minnesota

• Applying GMRES to the Helmholtz equation with strong trapping: how does the number of iterations depend on the frequency?

  Online, zoom
  April 23, 2021, 10AM
  Euan Spence, University of Bath

Thursday, April 22, 2021

• Predicting phase transitions in nonequilibrium systems

  Online, zoom
  April 22, 2021, 12:30PM
  Ruben Zakine, CIMS

• Excitable Networks for Finite State Computation with Continuous Time Recurrent Neural Networks

  Online, zoom
  April 22, 2021, 10AM
  Peter Ashwin, University of Exeter

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

• Ocean-atmosphere dynamics of decadal climate variability

  Online, zoom
  April 21, 2021, 3:30PM
  Robert Jnglin Wills, University of Washington

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

• Algorithmic Auditing

  Online, zoom
  April 20, 2021, 5:30PM
  Srikanth Krishnamurthy

Thursday, April 15, 2021

• Open Problems in Applied Math

  Online, zoom
  April 15, 2021, 12:30PM
  Alex Mogilner, Sophie Marbach, Rob Webber

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

• A continuum viscous-elastic-brittle, FEM/DG model for the fracture and drift of sea ice

  Online, zoom
  April 14, 2021, 3:30PM
  Veronique Dansereau

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

• Deep Reinforcement Learning for Asset Allocation in U.S. Equities

  Online, zoom
  April 13, 2021, 5:30PM
  Miquel Noguer i Alonso, Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute, NYU Courant

• Rigidity, circuits and combinatorial resultants.

  Online, zoom
  April 13, 2021, 2PM
  Ileana Streinu, Smith College

Friday, April 9, 2021

• Random walks and PDEs in graph-based learning

  Online, zoom
  April 09, 2021, 2:30PM
  Jeff Calder, U. Minnesota

Thursday, April 8, 2021

• BANACH BUNDLES

  Online, zoom
  April 08, 2021, 5PM
  Kiran Kedlaya, UC San Diego

• A Festival of Machine Learning in Science at NYU (Part 2)

  Online, zoom
  April 08, 2021, 12:30PM
  Ben Peherstorfer, Eric Vanden-Eijnden, and Laure Zanna

• Towards Safe and Efficient Learning and Control for Physical Human Robot Interaction

  Online, zoom
  April 08, 2021, 11AM
  Nadia Figueroa, MIT

Monday, April 5, 2021

• The Power Of Lattice-Based Cryptography: Advanced Functionality and Post-Quantum Security

  Online, zoom
  April 05, 2021, 12PM
  Rishab Goyal, MIT

Thursday, April 1, 2021

• A Festival of Machine Learning in Science at NYU (Part 1)

  Online, zoom
  April 01, 2021, 12:30PM
  Mark Tuckerman, David Grier, Glen Hocky and Michael Lindsey

• Linear response in high-dimensional globally coupled chaotic dynamics

  Online, zoom
  April 01, 2021, 10AM
  Caroline Wormell , Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation, Sorbonne Université

• Probabilistic proofs: theory, hardware, and everything in between

  Online, zoom
  April 01, 2021, 10AM
  Riad S. Wahby, Stanford University

• Conditioning problems for invariant sets of expanding piecewise affine mappings: Application to loss of ergodicity in globally coupled

  Online, zoom
  April 01, 2021, 9AM
  Bastien Fernandez, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation, Sorbonne Université

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

• Hidden Physics Models

  Online, zoom
  March 31, 2021, 3:45PM
  Maziar Raissi, University of Colorado

• Learning & Decision-Making in Societal Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and Design

  Online, zoom
  March 31, 2021, 12PM
  Eric Mazumdar, University of California, Berkeley

• More is different, Anomalous is normal?

  Online, zoom
  March 31, 2021, 10AM
  Evdokiya Kostadinova, Baylor University

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

• Modeling the Oil Squeeze: Storage and Trading Opportunities in Oil Derivatives

  Online, zoom
  March 30, 2021, 5:30PM
  Ilia Bouchouev, Pentathlon Investments LLC

• Algorithms and Barriers for Fast Matrix Multiplication

  Online, zoom
  March 30, 2021, 11:30AM
  Josh Alman, Harvard University

Monday, March 29, 2021

• What can Complexity Science do for Democracy?

  Online, zoom
  March 29, 2021, 5:30PM
  Tina Eliassi-Rad, Northeastern University

• Eliminating bugs in real systems

  Online, zoom
  March 29, 2021, 9AM
  Fraser Brown, Stanford University

Friday, March 26, 2021

• Interactions of Passive and Active Capillary Disks

  Online, zoom
  March 26, 2021, 2:30PM
  Daniel Harris, Brown University

• Provably entropy stable subcell finite volume shock capturing for high order spectral element discontinuous Galerkin methods

  Online, zoom
  March 26, 2021, 10AM
  Gregor Gassner, University of Cologne

• Integrating machine learning into algorithm design

  Online, zoom
  March 26, 2021, 9AM
  Ellen Vitercik, Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday, March 25, 2021

• Undergrad Research

  Online, Zoom
  March 25, 2021, 12:30PM
  Mengjian Hua and Bob Junyi Zou

• How to Do Cryptography Even When Cryptography Doesn't Exist

  Online, zoom
  March 25, 2021, 10AM
  Marshall Ball, University of Washington

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

• Learning and Control for Interactions in Mixed Human-Robot Environments

  Online, zoom
  March 24, 2021, 11AM
  Wilko Schwarting, MIT

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

• Feature Selection in Jump Models

  Online, zoom
  March 23, 2021, 5:30PM
  Peter Nystrup, InCommodities A/S

• Structural Foundations of Efficient Reinforcement Learning

  Online, zoom
  March 23, 2021, 9AM
  Alekh Agarwal, Microsoft Research Redmond

Monday, March 22, 2021

• Learning General Language Processing Agents

  Online, zoom
  March 22, 2021, 11AM
  Dani Yogatama, DeepMind

Thursday, March 18, 2021

• Chaos for motion of passive tracers in an incompressible fluid

  Online, zoom
  March 18, 2021, 4PM
  Alex Blumenthal , Georgia Tech

• Brief talks on Math History

  Online, zoom
  March 18, 2021, 12:30PM
  Alex Mogilner, Tristan Goodwill, Brennan Sprinkle, CIMS

• Learning through Interaction in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems

  Online, zoom
  March 18, 2021, 11AM
  Kalesha Bullard, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

• Data Structures and Algorithms in Sublinear Computation

  Online, zoom
  March 16, 2021, 11:30PM
  Huacheng Yu, Princeton University

Monday, March 15, 2021

• Two short analytical stories: (1) Thin films, an edge, and a novel similarity solution and (2) A new look at ODEs and resonance

  Online, zoom
  March 15, 2021, 3:45PM
  Howard Stone, Princeton University

• Fusion for Robot Perception and Controls

  Online, zoom
  March 15, 2021, 12PM
  Michelle Lee, Stanford University

Friday, March 12, 2021

• Streaming k-PCA and concentration for random matrix products

  Online, zoom
  March 12, 2021, 2:30PM
  Jonathan Niles-Weed,, CIMS

• Computing disconnected bifurcation diagrams of partial differential equations

  Online, zoom
  March 12, 2021, 10AM
  Patrick Farrell, University of Oxford

Thursday, March 11, 2021

• Open sets of partially hyperbolic systems having a unique SRB measure

  Online, zoom
  March 11, 2021, 4PM
  Davi Obata, University of Chicago

• The Societal Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Making

  Online, zoom
  March 11, 2021, 12:30PM
  Manish Raghavan, Cornell University

• Projects from undergraduate modeling and simulation

  Online, zoom
  March 11, 2021, 12:30PM
  Students of Charles Peskin

• Singular solutions of the binormal flow

  Online, zoom
  March 11, 2021, 11AM
  Valeria Banica, LJLL - Sorbonne Université

• Algorithms for Markets: Matching Under Uncertainty

  Online, zoom
  March 11, 2021, 10AM
  Mahsa Derakhshan, University of Maryland

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

• The Generalizability and Interpretability of Neural Language Models

  Online, zoom
  March 10, 2021, 11AM
  Urvashi Khandelwal, Stanford University

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

• Machine Learning for Quantitative Investment and Wealth Management: Opportunities and Challenges

  Online, zoom
  March 09, 2021, 5:30PM
  Cristian Homescu, Investment & Portfolio Analytics, Chief Investment Office, Global Wealth and Investment Management, Bank of America

• Probing chromatin organization at the sub-kilobase scale with sequencing-based and computational tools

  Online, zoom
  March 09, 2021, 12:15PM
  Vivana Risca, The Rockefeller University

• Sublinear Algorithms for Massive Datasets

  Online, zoom
  March 09, 2021, 12PM
  Erik Waingarten, Stanford University

Monday, March 8, 2021

• Online Misinformation during Crisis Events: The “Perfect Storm” of Covid-19 and Election2020

  Online, zoom
  March 08, 2021, 5:30PM
  Kate Starbird, University of Washington

• Emerging symmetries in 2D percolation

  Online, zoom
  March 08, 2021, 3:45PM
  Hugo Duminil-Copin, Université de Genève and IHES

• Understanding Human-Centric Sides of Deep AI Models

  Online, zoom
  March 08, 2021, 11AM
  Sarah Dean, University of California, Berkeley

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