Message from the Director
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News & Announcements
Luis Caffarelli, Robert Kohn, and Louis Nirenberg Receive 2014 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Please visit the AMS website for more information.
[more]IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award
The IEEE Computer Society has awarded the Harlan D. Mills 2014 Award to Patrick Cousot and Radhia Cousot for the… [more]
North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean Bringing Climate Change to Antarctica, NYU Researchers Find
Please see the NYU webpage for more information.
[more]ACM Fellow
Dennis Shasha has been named a Fellow of the ACM. Congratulations! Please visit the ACM website for more information.
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Seminars and Events
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Global well-posedness of incompressible elastodynamics in 2D
Zhen Lei, Fudan
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 302
Title: Valuations on lattice polytopes
Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Technology
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
5:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 302
Title: Hydrostatic properties of convex bodies
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
Friday, April 25, 2014
New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM,
Other Havemeyer Hall, Room 309
Title: Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia External Sponsorship by: Google
Various,
Program
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and bagels
10:00 - 10:55 Dr; Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Ad Allocation: Online Problems and Mechanism Design
10:55 - 11:05 Short break
11:05 - 12:00 Dr. Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research)
The Power of Locality for Network Algorithms
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 - 2:55 Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami (CMU)
Polar codes: Reliable communication with
complexity scaling polynomially in the gap to Shannon capacity
2:55 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 4:10 Prof. Adam Smith (Penn State)
Private Analysis of Graphs
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and bagels
10:00 - 10:55 Dr; Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Ad Allocation: Online Problems and Mechanism Design
10:55 - 11:05 Short break
11:05 - 12:00 Dr. Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research)
The Power of Locality for Network Algorithms
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 - 2:55 Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami (CMU)
Polar codes: Reliable communication with
complexity scaling polynomially in the gap to Shannon capacity
2:55 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 4:10 Prof. Adam Smith (Penn State)
Private Analysis of Graphs
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Calculating Electrical and Thermal Conductivities in a Hydrogen Plasma with Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics
Christian Scullard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Fragmentation-dilation processes and their limits
Jean Bertoin, Universität Zürich
Special Events
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Courant Lectures Part I
Speaker: Simon Donaldson, Imperial College London(General Audience Lecture)
"Kahler metrics and projective embedding I: approximation and asymptotics."
Apr 24, 2014, 3:00PM, WW109After the lecture, a reception is to follow in the 13th floor lounge. -
Courant Lectures Part II
Speaker: Simon Donaldson, Imperial College London"Kahler metrics and projective embeddings II: Gromov-Hausdorff limits."
Apr 25, 2014, 10:00AM, WW109