Previous Weekly Bulletins

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Effects of Mesoscale Eddies on the Thermocline
Cara Henning, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Liouville Type Equations in Gauge Field Theory
Gabriella Tarantello, Universita di Roma ''Tor Vergata''
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Opening Session
Everyone
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Protein State of a Cell as a Hypothetical Program State
Jack Schwartz, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Climate Forcing, Climate Change and Climate Modelling
Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Analysis of Boundary Vortices in Ferromagnetic Thin Films
Roger Moser, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 3:45 - 4:45:
  Legendrian Contact Homology in Jet Spaces
  John Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania
• 5:00 - 6:00:
  Punctured Holomorphic Curves and Lagrangian Embeddings
  Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Olivier Pauluis, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://mathnyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

MINI-COURSE: ``SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY OF STEIN MANIFOLDS'': 4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Tba
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MINI-COURSE: ``SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY OF STEIN MANIFOLDS'': 4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

NATASCHA ARTIN BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Refreshments will be served at about 4:30 P.M.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Stability of the Relativistic Maxwellian in a Collisional Plasma
Yan Guo, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Climate Forcing, Climate Change and Climate Modelling
Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL JOINT MATH/CS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 613
Asymptotically Fast Group Operations on Jacobians of General Curves
Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Center for Advanced Mathemtical Sciences, American University of Beirut
Host: Peter Sarnak

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Analysis of Boundary Vortices in Ferromagnetic Thin Films
Roger Moser, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

NYC NLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Considerations of Methodology and Human Factors in Rating a Suite of Translated Sentences
Leslie Barrett, Transclick, Inc.
Evaluation of Machine Translation and Its Evaluation
Joseph Turian and I. Don Melamed, Computer Science Dept., NYU
See http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/ for directions and additional information.

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101

• 3:45 - 4:45:
  Legendrian Contact Homology in Jet Spaces
  John Etnyre, University of Pennsylvania
• 5:00 - 6:00:
  Punctured Holomorphic Curves and Lagrangian Embeddings
  Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Boundary Layer Dynamics and Cross-Equatorial Hadley Circulation
Olivier Pauluis, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

MINI-COURSE: ``SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY OF STEIN MANIFOLDS'':
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Nonlinear Instability for Periodic Waves in One-Dimensional Vlasov-Poisson
Zhiwu Lin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 613
Introduction to Nonautonomous Inertial Manifolds
Stefan Siegmund (Frankfurt)

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Options on Averages and Extremes
Farid Aitsahalia, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
Periods and Epsilon Factors for Differential Equations
Spencer Bloch, University of Chicago
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
This year the Number Theory Seminar will be a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Cell Talk
Bud Mishra, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

SPECIAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistical Properties of One-Dimensional Falling Bodies
C. Tutschka, Departamento di Matematicas, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Welcoming Reception for the Computer Science and Math Incoming Ph.D. Students
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MINI-COURSE: ``SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY OF STEIN MANIFOLDS'':
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

NATASCHA ARTIN BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Refreshments will be served at about 4:30 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS/PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Some Recent Advances in Averaging
Yuri Kifer (Jerusalem)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Stability of the Relativistic Maxwellian in a Collisional Plasma
Yan Guo, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Meta-Model for Smile Models: The Answer Lies in Incomplete Markets
Elie Ayache, ITO 33, Paris
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Invariant Measures and the Set of Exceptions to the Littlewood Conjecture
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Arctic
Helga Schaffrin
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Practical Speculation
Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner, Niederhoffer Investments
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Boundary Layer Dynamics and Cross-Equatorial Hadley Circulation
Olivier Pauluis, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

MINI-COURSE: ``SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY OF STEIN MANIFOLDS'':
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Nonlinear Instability for Periodic Waves in One-Dimensional Vlasov-Poisson
Zhiwu Lin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Introduction to Nonautonomous Inertial Manifolds
Stefan Siegmund (Frankfurt)

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Options on Averages and Extremes
Farid Aitsahalia, Stanford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
Periods and Epsilon Factors for Differential Equations
Spencer Bloch, University of Chicago
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
This year the Number Theory Seminar will be a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Cell Talk
Bud Mishra, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

SPECIAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Statistical Properties of One-Dimensional Falling Bodies
C. Tutschka, Departamento di Matematicas, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Kinetic Theory of Neuronal Networks: Mean-Driven vs. Fluctuation-Driven Dynamics
David Cai, CIMS
Note the new starting time for the seminar!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Welcoming Reception for the Computer Science and Math Incoming Ph.D. Students
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MINI-COURSE: ``SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY OF STEIN MANIFOLDS'':
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Kai Cieliebak, University of Munich

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

NATASCHA ARTIN BRUNSWICK MEMORIAL: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Refreshments will be served at about 4:30 P.M.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
From Immersed Boundary Method to Immersed Continuum Method: With Applications to Hemodynamics
Xiaodong Wang, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY
NOTE EARLIER TIME

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Transportation and Geometrical PDEs
Series of three lectures by Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
2nd lecture on Sept. 30th; 3rd lecture on Oct. 2nd

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mount Logan Ice Core Evidence for Secular Changes in the Climate of the North Pacific Following the End of the Little Ice Age
Ken Moore, University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

JOINT PROBABILITY/DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Some Recent Advances in Averaging
Yuri Kifer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Stability of the Relativistic Maxwellian in a Collisional Plasma
Yan Guo, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Efficient Modelling of Atmospheric Flow
Daan Crommelin, CIMS

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Meta-Model for Smile Models: The Answer Lies in Incomplete Markets
Elie Ayache, ITO 33, Paris
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Invariant Measures and the Set of Exceptions to the Littlewood Conjecture
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

JOINT PROBABILITY/DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Aging and the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem for Gradient Interface Models
Jean-Dominique Deuschel, TU-Berlin

GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Topology of 4-Manifolds and Link Homotopy
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Arctic
Helga Schaffrin
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A 3-D Model of Cellular Electrical Activity
Yoichiro Mori, CIMS

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Transportation and Geometrical PDEs
Series of three lectures by Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
3rd lecture on Oct. 2nd

SPECIAL PRESENTATION:
WNET, Channel 13, NOVA: Infinite Secrets: 8:00 P.M.
At Christie's, New York in 1998, in a blaze of publicity, an extraordinary item was put up for sale. To the untrained eye, it was nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold for over $2 million. In this program, scientists attempt to unlock the secrets hidden in this ancient prayer book containing long-lost works by the ancient Greek Scholar Archimedes.
Chris Rorres, Courant Alumni and creator of an Archimedes website will be interviewed.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Milankovitch Hypothesis of Orbital Climate Control and the Observed Record
Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Deformations of Tiling Spaces or Can You Hear the Shape of a Tile?
Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
An Analysis of fMRI Data
Cliona Golden, CIMS

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Optimal Transportation and Geometrical PDEs
Last of the three lectures by Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:30 P.M., Room 914, Kimmel Hall (60 Washington Square South)
Impostors in the Market
Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner, Niederhoffer Investments
NOTE the change in building and time.
A reception sponsored by Instinet-Island ECN will follow in Room 912.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 520, Columbia University
Tba
Eric Urban, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Slab Percolation for the Ising Model
Thierry Bodineau (Paris 7)

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Collaborative Tele-Experience and the Co-Opticon
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M., WWH 1013
Informal Talk on ``2D Scaling Limits in Percolation''
Charles Newman, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Studies of Conformational Transitions of Parts of the ATP Synthase
Paul Maragakis, Harvard University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Physics of General Vertical Coordinates in Ocean Models
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
On the Equilibrium Problem in Economics and Finance
Shmuel Kaniel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

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THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mount Logan Ice Core Evidence for Secular Changes in the Climate of the North Pacific Following the End of the Little Ice Age
Ken Moore, University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

JOINT PROBABILITY/DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Some Recent Advances in Averaging
Yuri Kifer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Stability of the Relativistic Maxwellian in a Collisional Plasma
Yan Guo, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Efficient Modelling of Atmospheric Flow
Daan Crommelin, CIMS

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Meta-Model for Smile Models: The Answer Lies in Incomplete Markets
Elie Ayache, ITO 33, Paris
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Invariant Measures and the Set of Exceptions to the Littlewood Conjecture
Elon Lindenstrauss, CIMS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

NO APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR TODAY
Replaced by the Courant Instructor Day

JOINT PROBABILITY/DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Aging and the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem for Gradient Interface Models
Jean-Dominique Deuschel, TU-Berlin

GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 813
Topology of 4-Manifolds and Link Homotopy
Slava Krushkal, University of Virginia

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Genome Assemblies and Interval Graphs
Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 12:15 P.M., WWH 1013
Isotropy of Quadratic Forms over Function Fields of p-adic Curves
Parimala, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

COURANT INSTRUCTORS' DAY: WWH 1302

• 2:00 - 2:15 P.M.
  Spines in Symplectic Geometry
  Joseph Coffee
• 2:15 - 2:30
  Determinants, Traces, and Geometry
  Jean Steiner
• 2:30 - 2:45
  Hyperbolic Dynamics and Resonances
  Kevin Lin
• 2:45 - 3:00
  A Randomly Forced Burgers Equation on the Line
  Toufic Suidan
• 3:00 - 3:15
  An Analysis of fMRI Data
  Gliona Golden
• 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. -- Break
• 3:45 - 4:00
  Corner Singularities for Elliptic Systems
  Jon Wilkening
• 4:00 - 4:15
  Thin-Film Micromagnetics and Boundary Vortices
  Roger Moser
• 4:15 - 4:30
  The Incompressible Limit in Nonlinear Elastodynamics
  Becca Thomases
• 4:30 - 4:45
  Instability of Ideal Plane Flows
  Zhiwu Lin

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Arctic
Helga Schaffrin
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

MAGNETICS WORKING GROUP: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
This informal working seminar will address the physics and mathematics of magnetic materials. Roger Moser will give the first talk on PDE aspects of dynamic micromagnetics and related problems -- especially existence, regularity, and partial regularity. Future meetings will NOT be announced in the weekly bulletin. If you would like to be on the mailing list, contact Bob Kohn (kohn@cims.nyu.edu )

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A 3-D Model of Cellular Electrical Activity
Yoichiro Mori, CIMS

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Transportation and Geometrical PDEs
Series of three lectures by Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
3rd lecture on Oct. 2nd

SPECIAL PRESENTATION:
WNET, Channel 13, NOVA: Infinite Secrets: 8:00 P.M.
At Christie's, New York in 1998, in a blaze of publicity, an extraordinary item was put up for sale. To the untrained eye, it was nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold for over $2 million. In this program, scientists attempt to unlock the secrets hidden in this ancient prayer book containing long-lost works by the ancient Greek Scholar Archimedes.
Chris Rorres, Courant Alumni and creator of an Archimedes website will be interviewed.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Milankovitch Hypothesis of Orbital Climate Control and the Observed Record
Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 4:0O0 P.M., WWH 1314
Counting Manifolds
Tsachik Gelander, Yale University

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Deformations of Tiling Spaces or Can You Hear the Shape of a Tile?
Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
An Analysis of fMRI Data
Cliona Golden, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:30 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Transportation and Geometrical PDEs
NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME AND ROOM NUMBER!
Last of the three lectures by Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

LECTURE SERIES: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Topics in Dynamical Systems with a Number Theoretic and Geometric Flavor
Elon Lindenstrauss
First meeting

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:30 P.M., Room 914, Kimmel Hall (60 Washington Square South)
Impostors in the Market
Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner, Niederhoffer Investments
NOTE the change in building and time.
A reception sponsored by Instinet-Island ECN will follow in Room 912.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 520, Columbia University
On the Main Iwasawa Conjecture for GL(2)
Eric Urban, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Slab Percolation for the Ising Model
Thierry Bodineau (Paris 7)

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Collaborative Tele-Experience and the Co-Opticon
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M., WWH 1013
Informal Talk on ``2D Scaling Limits in Percolation''
Charles Newman, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Studies of Conformational Transitions of Parts of the ATP Synthase
Paul Maragakis, Harvard University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Physics of General Vertical Coordinates in Ocean Models
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Aerodynamics Transitions in the Flight of the Smallest Insects
Laura Miller, CIMS

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Improved Kato Inequalities
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, IHES
The colloquium is preceded by tea in the 13th floor lounge at 2:45 P.M.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Fourth Order PDEs of Critical Growth
Emmanuel Hebey, Universite Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of the Ancient Carbon Cycle
Daniel Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Analysis of the Statistical Distribution of the Stock Market via Particle Filtering under Gaussian and Non-Gaussianl Stochastic Volatility Models
Alireza Javaheri, RBC Capital Markets
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
Tba
Johan de Jong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
On the Equilibrium Problem in Economics and Finance
Shmuel Kaniel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

NYC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Rational Kernels: A General Machine Learning Framework for the Analysis of Natural Language and Biological Sequences
Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs-Research (joint work with Corinna Cortes and Patrick Haffner)
Note the unusual time and place!
See http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/ for directions and additional information.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dense Granular Flow
Thomas C. Halsey, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Note the new starting time for the seminar!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Effect of Boundary Layer Friction on Equatorial Waves
Joseph Biello
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building, Room P 131

• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.:
  Making Lagrangian Intersection Perturbative: Applications to 3-Manifold Invariants
  Sylvain Cappell, CIMS
• 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.:
  Lefschetz Fibrations in Homological Mirror Symmetry
  Denis Auroux, MIT

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Deformation of Elastic Cell Membranes
Chun Liu, Penn State

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Becca Thomases, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

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THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Milankovitch Hypothesis of Orbital Climate Control and the Observed Record
Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 4:0O0 P.M., WWH 1314
Counting Manifolds
Tsachik Gelander, Yale University

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Deformations of Tiling Spaces or Can You Hear the Shape of a Tile?
Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
An Analysis of fMRI Data
Cliona Golden, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:30 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Transportation and Geometrical PDEs
NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME AND ROOM NUMBER!
Last of the three lectures by Yann Brenier, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

LECTURE SERIES: 2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Topics in Dynamical Systems with a Number Theoretic and Geometric Flavor
Elon Lindenstrauss
First meeting

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:30 P.M., Room 914, Kimmel Hall (60 Washington Square South)
Impostors in the Market
Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner, Niederhoffer Investments
NOTE the change in building and time.
A reception sponsored by Instinet-Island ECN will follow in Room 912.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 520, Columbia University
On the Main Iwasawa Conjecture for GL(2)
Eric Urban, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Slab Percolation for the Ising Model
Thierry Bodineau (Paris 7)

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Collaborative Tele-Experience and the Co-Opticon
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M., WWH 1013
Informal Talk on ``2D Scaling Limits in Percolation''
Charles Newman, CIMS

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Rough Path Theory and Applications to Stochastic Analysis
Peter Friz, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Studies of Conformational Transitions of Parts of the ATP Synthase
Paul Maragakis, Harvard University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Physics of General Vertical Coordinates in Ocean Models
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Aerodynamics Transitions in the Flight of the Smallest Insects
Laura Miller, CIMS

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Improved Kato Inequalities
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, IHES
The colloquium is preceded by tea in the 13th floor lounge at 2:45 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Phenomena in Large Dimension
V. Milman, Tel Aviv

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Fourth Order PDEs of Critical Growth
Emmanuel Hebey, Universite Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of the Ancient Carbon Cycle
Daniel Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Analysis of the Statistical Distribution of the Stock Market via Particle Filtering under Gaussian and Non-Gaussianl Stochastic Volatility Models
Alireza Javaheri, RBC Capital Markets
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
Tba
Johan de Jong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
On the Equilibrium Problem in Economics and Finance
Shmuel Kaniel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

NYC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Rational Kernels: A General Machine Learning Framework for the Analysis of Natural Language and Biological Sequences
Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs-Research (joint work with Corinna Cortes and Patrick Haffner)
Note the unusual time and place!
See http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/ for directions and additional information.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dense Granular Flow
Thomas C. Halsey, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Note the new starting time for the seminar!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Effect of Boundary Layer Friction on Equatorial Waves
Joseph Biello
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building, Room P 131

• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.:
  Making Lagrangian Intersection Perturbative: Applications to 3-Manifold Invariants
  Sylvain Cappell, CIMS
• 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.:
  Lefschetz Fibrations in Homological Mirror Symmetry
  Denis Auroux, MIT

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Deformation of Elastic Cell Membranes
Chun Liu, Penn State

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Eddy-Driven Thermocline
Paola Cessi, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Tba
Becca Thomases, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1013
On the Motion of Domain Walls in Hard Ferromagnets
Giuseppe Tomassetti, University of Rome 2

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Theory of Non-Gaussian Option Pricing: Capturing the Smile and the Skew
Lisa Borland, Evnine-Vaughan Associates
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, WWH
Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity on Locally Symmetric Spaces
Akshay Venkatesh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
LEO-DB2's Learning Optimizer
Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Miguel Maqueda
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Using a Complex Systems Approach to Understand Vulnerability and Resilience to Arousal in Normal and Diseased States
Lilianne Rivka Mujica-Parodi, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry, SUNY at Stony Brook

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MATHEMATICS DOCTORAL STUDENTS planning to take the Fall 2003 foreign language examination should note that the application deadline is MONDAY, OCTOBER 13. The examination will take place on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:00 - 2:00 P.M.

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENTS who are planning to take the oral preliminary examinations in February 2004 should note that the application deadline is Monday, October 20. Applications are available in Tamar's office, Room 723.

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Phenomena in Large Dimension
V. Milman, Tel Aviv
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Fourth Order PDEs of Critical Growth
Emmanuel Hebey, Universite Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Symmetry Breaking Leads to Forward Flapping Flight
Nicolas Vandenberghe, CIMS
Note change in speaker and title
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
Open Issues in Reversible Systems, with Impact on Some PDE's
Charles Tresser, IBM

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Analysis of the Statistical Distribution of the Stock Market via Particle Filtering under Gaussian and Non-Gaussianl Stochastic Volatility Models
Alireza Javaheri, RBC Capital Markets
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
Families of Rationally Connected Varieties and Brauer Groups
Johan de Jong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Optimal Evolution of the Free Energy of Interacting Gases and Its Applications to Geometric Inequalities
Nassif Ghoussoub, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
On the Equilibrium Problem in Economics and Finance
Shmuel Kaniel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

NYC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Rational Kernels: A General Machine Learning Framework for the Analysis of Natural Language and Biological Sequences
Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs-Research (joint work with Corinna Cortes and Patrick Haffner)
Note the unusual time and place!
See http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/ for directions and additional information.

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Fluid Dynamics Research at Courant
Stephen Childress, Anna-Karin Tornberg, and Michael Shelley, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dense Granular Flow
Thomas C. Halsey, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Note the new starting time for the seminar!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Arctic
Helga Schaffrin
Note the change in speaker and title
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building, Room P 131

• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.:
  Making Lagrangian Intersection Perturbative: Applications to 3-Manifold Invariants
  Sylvain Cappell, CIMS
• 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.:
  Lefschetz Fibrations in Homological Mirror Symmetry
  Denis Auroux, MIT

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Deformation of Elastic Cell Membranes
Chun Liu, Penn State

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Eddy-Driven Thermocline
Paola Cessi, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Existence for 3D Nonlinear Incompressible Elastodynamics as a Limit of Slightly Compressible Material
Becca Thomases, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Claude Desplan, NYU Biology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Plankton Patchiness and Brownian Bugs
Bill Young, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1013
On the Motion of Domain Walls in Hard Ferromagnets
Giuseppe Tomassetti, University of Rome 2
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Theory of Non-Gaussian Option Pricing: Capturing the Smile and the Skew
Lisa Borland, Evnine-Vaughan Associates
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, WWH
Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity on Locally Symmetric Spaces
Akshay Venkatesh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
LEO-DB2's Learning Optimizer
Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/oct17.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Research in Probability and Dynamical Systems at Courant
Lai-Sang Young, Charles Newman, and S.R.S. Varadhan, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Effect of Boundary Layer Friction on Equatorial Waves
Joseph Biello
Note the change in speaker and title
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:30 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Weak KAM Theorem in Lagrangian Dynamics (Part 1)
Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Using a Complex Systems Approach to Understand Vulnerability and Resilience to Arousal in Normal and Diseased States
Lilianne Rivka Mujica-Parodi, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry, SUNY at Stony Brook

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Wiener-Hopf Determinants with Fisher-Hartwig Symbols
Estelle Basor, California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Mechanics of Cumulus Convection
George Craig, DLR-Institut fur Physik der Atmosphaere
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Weak KAM Theorem in Lagrangian Dynamics
Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 520, Columbia University
Hida Families and Rational Points on Elliptic Curves
Henri Darmon, McGill University and Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Island Goes Dark: Transparency, Fragmentation, and Liquidity Externalities
Terry Hendershott, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Effect of Mean Shear and Boundary Layer Dissipation on the Nonlinear Interaction of Equatorial Baroclinic and Baratropic Rossby Waves
Joseph Biello, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Free-Surface Quasigeostrophy: Bridging the Gap Between Surface
Quasigeostrophy and the Shallow-Water Equations Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Incorporating Diffusion in Complex Geometries into Stochastic Chemical Kinetics Simulations
Samueln Isaacson, CIMS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
IBM Research and Distributed Systems
Alfred Z. Spector, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/oct31.html

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MATHEMATICS DOCTORAL STUDENTS planning to take the Fall 2003 foreign language examination should note that the application deadline is MONDAY, OCTOBER 13. The examination will take place on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:00 - 2:00 P.M.

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENTS who are planning to take the oral preliminary examinations in February 2004 should note that the application deadline is Monday, October 20. Applications are available in Tamar's office, Room 723.

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS

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A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Eddy-Driven Thermocline
Paola Cessi, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Existence for 3D Nonlinear Incompressible Elastodynamics as a Limit of Slightly Compressible Material
Becca Thomases, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Patterning the Fly Retina for Color Vision
Claude Desplan, NYU Biology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Plankton Patchiness and Brownian Bugs
Bill Young, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1013
On the Motion of Domain Walls in Hard Ferromagnets
Giuseppe Tomassetti, University of Rome 2
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Theory of Non-Gaussian Option Pricing: Capturing the Smile and the Skew
Lisa Borland, Evnine-Vaughan Associates
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, WWH
Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity on Locally Symmetric Spaces
Akshay Venkatesh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
LEO-DB2's Learning Optimizer
Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/oct17.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Research in Probability and Dynamical Systems at Courant
Lai-Sang Young, Charles Newman, and S.R.S. Varadhan, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Effect of Boundary Layer Friction on Equatorial Waves
Joseph Biello
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 4:30 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Weak KAM Theorem in Lagrangian Dynamics (Part 1)
Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Using a Complex Systems Approach to Understand Vulnerability and Resilience to Arousal in Normal and Diseased States
Lilianne Rivka Mujica-Parodi, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry, SUNY at Stony Brook

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Wiener-Hopf Determinants with Fisher-Hartwig Symbols
Estelle Basor, California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Mechanics of Cumulus Convection
George Craig, DLR-Institut fur Physik der Atmosphaere
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Weak KAM Theorem in Lagrangian Dynamics
Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Nina Shapley, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 520, Columbia University
Hida Families and Rational Points on Elliptic Curves
Henri Darmon, McGill University and Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Island Goes Dark: Transparency, Fragmentation, and Liquidity Externalities
Terry Hendershott, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Research in Atmosphere-Ocean Science
David Holland, Richard Kleeman, and Andrew Majda, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Effect of Mean Shear and Boundary Layer Dissipation on the Nonlinear Interaction of Equatorial Baroclinic and Baratropic Rossby Waves
Joseph Biello, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Free-Surface Quasigeostrophy: Bridging the Gap Between Surface Quasigeostrophy and the Shallow-Water Equations
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Incorporating Diffusion in Complex Geometries into Stochastic Chemical Kinetics Simulations
Samueln Isaacson, CIMS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Green's Functions and a Positive Mass Theorem on Spheres
Jean Steiner, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Bruce Shaw, Columbia, L. Doherty Earth Observatory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 5417, CUNY Graduate Center
Equidistribution of Small Points and Potential Theory
Matt Baker, University of Georgia
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
IBM Research and Distributed Systems
Alfred Z. Spector, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/oct31.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Cyrill Muratov, NJIT
Note the new starting time for the seminar!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Two-Column Model of the Tropical Atmosphere Using the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation
Dan Shaevitz
Note starting time has been moved back by 15 minutes
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

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Special Announcements

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MATHEMATICS DOCTORAL STUDENTS planning to take the Fall 2003 foreign language examination should note that the application deadline is MONDAY, OCTOBER 13. The examination will take place on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:00 - 2:00 P.M.

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENTS who are planning to take the oral preliminary examinations in February 2004 should note that the application deadline is Monday, October 20. Applications are available in Tamar's office, Room 723.

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS

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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Mechanics of Cumulus Convection
George Craig, DLR-Institut fur Physik der Atmosphaere
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Weak KAM Theorem in Lagrangian Dynamics
Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Complex Flow and Mixing of Concentrated Emulsions
Nina Shapley, Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 520, Columbia University
Hida Families and Rational Points on Elliptic Curves
Henri Darmon, McGill University and Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Island Goes Dark: Transparency, Fragmentation, and Liquidity Externalities
Terry Hendershott, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video
Irfan Essa, GVU Center / College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/oct24.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmosphere-Ocean Group I
David Holland, Richard Kleeman, and Andrew Majda, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Effect of Mean Shear and Boundary Layer Dissipation on the Nonlinear Interaction of Equatorial Baroclinic and Baratropic Rossby Waves
Joseph Biello, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Free-Surface Quasigeostrophy: Bridging the Gap Between Surface Quasigeostrophy and the Shallow-Water Equations
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Incorporating Diffusion in Complex Geometries into Stochastic Chemical Kinetics Simulations
Samuel Isaacson, CIMS

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Schroedinger Operators with Strong Magnetic Field of Compact Support
Rainer Hempel, TU Braunschweig
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Green's Functions and a Positive Mass Theorem on Spheres
Jean Steiner, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Bruce Shaw, Columbia, L. Doherty Earth Observatory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 5417, CUNY Graduate Center
Equidistribution of Small Points and Potential Theory
Matt Baker, University of Georgia
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
IBM Research and Distributed Systems
Alfred Z. Spector, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/oct31.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Algebraic Curves and Algebraic Numbers
Fedor Bogomolov, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Cyrill Muratov, NJIT
Note the new starting time for the seminar!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Two-Column Model of the Tropical Atmosphere Using the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation
Dan Shaevitz
Note starting time has been moved back by 15 minutes
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Ergodic Geometry and Non-Conventional Ergodic Averages
Hillel Furstenberg, Yale University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Colloquium preceded by tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

SPECIAL ANALYSIS/GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Estimates for Analytic Invariants Associated to Canonical and Arakelov Metrics
J. Jorgeson, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Gamma-Convergence of Gradient Flows and Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Dynamics
Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
In vitro Genetic Circuits Assembly
Vincent Noireaux, Rockefeller University, Libchaber Lab
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Hedging Methodologies and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts
Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, Courant Institute
Tba
K. Soudararajan, University of Michigan
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Interpolation in Short-Range Spin Glasses
Pierluigi Contucci, University of Bologna
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M. , WWH 1013
The Strange Case of the Mean-Field Spin Glass
Daniel Stein, University of Arizona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Integrating the Nonintegrable
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy Aware Algorithm Design via Management of Thermodynamic Entropy: From Probabilistic Algorithms and Models to Novel (Semiconductor) Devices
Krishna Palem, Georgia Tech
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Energy Partition Between Inertial Waves and Geostrophic Currents
Minoru Katoda
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Courant Institute, WWH 101

• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.:
  The Maslov Gerbe
  Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
• 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.:
  Chain Level Floer Theory and Its Application to the Geometry of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms
  Yong-Geun Oh, University of Madison

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Scaling Limits of Quantum Dynamics
Hong-Tzer Yau, Stanford University and CIMS
Colloquium preceded by tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

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Special Announcements

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MATHEMATICS DOCTORAL STUDENTS planning to take the Fall 2003 foreign language examination should note that the application deadline is MONDAY, OCTOBER 13. The examination will take place on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:00 - 2:00 P.M.

MATHEMATICS GRADUATE STUDENTS who are planning to take the oral preliminary examinations in February 2004 should note that the application deadline is Monday, October 20. Applications are available in Tamar's office, Room 723.

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Green's Functions and a Positive Mass Theorem on Spheres
Jean Steiner, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Physics of Earthquakes: Integrating Theory and Observation
Bruce Shaw, Columbia, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 5417, CUNY Graduate Center
Equidistribution of Small Points and Potential Theory
Matt Baker, University of Georgia
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
IBM Research and Distributed Systems
Alfred Z. Spector, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/oct31.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Algebraic Curves and Algebraic Numbers
Fedor Bogomolov, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Phase Transformation Kinetics in Ginzburg-Landau-type Problems
Cyrill Muratov, NJIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Design and Evaluation of a Metropolitan Area Multitier Wireless Ad Hoc Network Architecture
David B. Johnson, Rice University
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/octob31.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Two-Column Model of the Tropical Atmosphere Using the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation
Dan Shaevitz
Note starting time has been moved back by 15 minutes
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Ergodic Geometry and Non-Conventional Ergodic Averages
Hillel Furstenberg, Yale University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Colloquium preceded by tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

SPECIAL ANALYSIS/GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Estimates for Analytic Invariants Associated to Canonical and Arakelov Metrics
J. Jorgeson, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Gamma-Convergence of Gradient Flows and Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Dynamics
Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
In vitro Genetic Circuits Assembly
Vincent Noireaux, Rockefeller University, Libchaber Lab
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Hedging Methodologies and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts
Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, Courant Institute
Irregularities of Distribution of Arithmetic Sequences
K. Soudararajan, University of Michigan
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Interpolation in Short-Range Spin Glasses
Pierluigi Contucci, University of Bologna
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Metric Space Embeddings and Data Stream Algorithms
Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University and AT&T Reserch
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov7.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M. , WWH 1013
The Strange Case of the Mean-Field Spin Glass
Daniel Stein, University of Arizona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Integrating the Nonintegrable
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Speaker Tba
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy Aware Algorithm Design via Management of Thermodynamic Entropy: From Probabilistic Algorithms and Models to Novel (Semiconductor) Devices
Krishna Palem, Georgia Tech
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Energy Partition Between Inertial Waves and Geostrophic Currents
Minoru Katoda
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Courant Institute, WWH 101

• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.:
  The Maslov Gerbe
  Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
• 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.:
  Chain Level Floer Theory and Its Application to the Geometry of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms
  Yong-Geun Oh, University of Madison

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Scaling Limits of Quantum Dynamics
Hong-Tzer Yau, Stanford University and CIMS
Colloquium preceded by tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy Spectra of the Ocean's Internal Wave Field: Theory and Observations
Yuri Lvov, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Local Rigidity of Groups Actions
David Fisher, CUNY
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~elonl/special031112.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Blow Up Dynamics for the L ² Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Pierre Raphael, University of Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Todd Murphey, Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Theory and Simulation of Deformation Twinning in FCC Metals
Ellad Tadmor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Note special day
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
How Widespread is Late Trading in Mutual Funds?
Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford GSB and Columbia
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 312 Math, Columbia University
Harmonic Analysis on Buildings and the Cohomology of P-Adically Uniformized Varieties
Ehud De-Shalit, Hebrew University and Harvard
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

THE IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: WWH 109

• 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and bagels
• 10:00 - 10:55
  On the Implementation of Huge Random Objects
  Oded Goldreich
• 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
• 11:05 - 12:00 Noon
  Maximum Coverage Problem with Group Budget Constraints and Applications
  Chandra Chekuri
• 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
• 2:00 - 2:55
  Testing Bipartiteness: The Dense, the Spare, and the General
  Dana Ron
• 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
• 3:15 - 4:10 P.M.
  Harndess as a Randomness: A Survey of Universal Derandomization
  Russell Impagliazzo

For further information, please refer to this link:
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov14.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmosphere-Ocean Group II
Esteban Tabak, K. Shafer Smith, and Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Use of Geometry and Entropy in Analyzing Large Networks
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Geneva University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Climate Dynamics Course Presentation
Oleksii Mostovyi
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

The XX1st Annual Courant Lectures Honoring the 80th Birthday of Cathleen Morawetz (on topics related to Cathleen's work)

• 1:30 P.M.
  Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston
  What Studying Quasi-Steady Problems Can Tell Us About Steady Transonic Flow
  WWH 109
• 3:00 P.M.: Coffee and Tea, 13th floor common area
• 4:00 P.M.
  Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
  On the Mathematics of General Relativity and Nonlinear Wave Equations
  WWH 109
• 6:00 P.M.: Reception, 13th floor common area

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Special Announcements

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MATHEMATICS DOCTORAL STUDENTS planning to take the Fall 2003 foreign language examination should note that the application deadline is MONDAY, OCTOBER 13. The examination will take place on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:00 - 2:00 P.M.

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS

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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

SPECIAL ANALYSIS/GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Estimates for Analytic Invariants Associated to Canonical and Arakelov Metrics
J. Jorgeson, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Gamma-Convergence of Gradient Flows and Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Dynamics
Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
In vitro Genetic Circuits Assembly
Vincent Noireaux, Rockefeller University, Libchaber Lab
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Hedging Methodologies and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts
Alexander Melnikov, University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, Courant Institute
Irregularities of Distribution of Arithmetic Sequences
K. Soudararajan, University of Michigan
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. , WWH 1013
Interpolation in Short-Range Spin Glasses
Pierluigi Contucci, University of Bologna
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Metric Space Embeddings and Data Stream Algorithms
Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University and AT&T Reserch
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov7.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:45 A.M. , WWH 1013
The Strange Case of the Mean-Field Spin Glass
Daniel Stein, University of Arizona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Integrating the Nonintegrable
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Research in PDEs
Sylvia Serfaty and Fang-Hua Lin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy Aware Algorithm Design via Management of Thermodynamic Entropy: From Probabilistic Algorithms and Models to Novel (Semiconductor) Devices
Krishna Palem, Georgia Tech
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Energy Partition Between Inertial Waves and Geostrophic Currents
Minoru Katoda
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COURANT/STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Courant Institute, WWH 101

• 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.:
  The Maslov Gerbe
  Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
• 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.:
  Chain Level Floer Theory and Its Application to the Geometry of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms
  Yong-Geun Oh, University of Madison

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Scaling Limits of Quantum Dynamics
Hong-Tzer Yau, Stanford University and CIMS
Colloquium preceded by tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Recent Progress Modelling the Kinesin Motor Protein and the Neck-Linker Zippering Transition
Paul Atzberger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

SPECIAL JOINT MATH / COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 402
On the Universality of Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy Spectra of the Ocean's Internal Wave Field: Theory and Observations
Yuri Lvov, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Local Rigidity of Groups Actions
David Fisher, CUNY
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~elonl/special031112.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Blow Up Dynamics for the L ² Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Pierre Raphael, University of Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Kinematic Reducibility of Multiple Model Robotic Systems
Todd Murphey, The Aerospace Corporation
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Theory and Simulation of Deformation Twinning in FCC Metals
Ellad Tadmor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Note special day
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:30 PM., WWH 613
Aperiodic Lorentz Gas
Marco Lenci, Stevens Institute

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
How Widespread is Late Trading in Mutual Funds?
Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford GSB and Columbia
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 312 Math, Columbia University
Harmonic Analysis on Buildings and the Cohomology of P-Adically Uniformized Varieties
Ehud De-Shalit, Hebrew University and Harvard
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

THE IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: WWH 109

• 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and bagels
• 10:00 - 10:55
  On the Implementation of Huge Random Objects
  Oded Goldreich
• 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
• 11:05 - 12:00 Noon
  Maximum Coverage Problem with Group Budget Constraints and Applications
  Chandra Chekuri
• 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
• 2:00 - 2:55
  Testing Bipartiteness: The Dense, the Spare, and the General
  Dana Ron
• 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
• 3:15 - 4:10 P.M.
  Harndess as a Randomness: A Survey of Universal Derandomization
  Russell Impagliazzo

For further information, please refer to this link:
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov14.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Characterization of Invariant Measures at the Leading Edge for Competing Particle Systems
Anastasia Ruzmiakina, Purdue University

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmosphere-Ocean Group II
Esteban Tabak, K. Shafer Smith, and Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Use of Geometry and Entropy in Analyzing Large Networks
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Geneva University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Climate Dynamics Course Presentation
Oleksii Mostovyi
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Population Density Method in Two Spatial Dimensions: Applications to Neural Networks with Realistic Synaptic Kinetics
Felix Apfalter (Speaker) and Daniel Tranchina, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Dynamics of Atmospheric Regime Transitions
Daan Crommelin, CIMS/CAOS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Decay of Correlation Functions in Hyperbolic Systems
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Geneva

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

FIRST NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 20 - 21, 2003

• 10:30 A.M., Room 9207
  On the Infinite Divisibility of Squared Gaussian Processes
  Nathalie Eisenbaum, Université Paris, VI
• 1:30 P.M., Room 9207
  Asymptotic Analysis via Mellin Transforms for Small Deviations in L2-Norm of Integrated Brownian Sheets
  Jim Fill, Johns Hopkins University

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Cauchy Problem for Quasilinear Schrodinger Equations
Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

The XX1st Annual Courant Lectures Honoring the 80th Birthday of Cathleen Morawetz (on topics related to Cathleen's work)

• 1:30 P.M.
  Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston
  What Studying Quasi-Steady Problems Can Tell Us About Steady Transonic Flow
  WWH 109
• 3:00 P.M.: Coffee and Tea, 13th floor common area
• 4:00 P.M.
  Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
  On the Mathematics of General Relativity and Nonlinear Wave Equations
  WWH 109
• 6:00 P.M.: Reception, 13th floor common area

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Weak-Turbulent Theory of the Wind-Driven Sea
Vladimir Zakharov, Landau Institute and U. Arizona, Math
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Disentangling Volatility from Jumps
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 5417, CUNY Graduate Center
Visualizing Mordell-Weil Groups
William Stein, Harvard University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21

FIRST NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 20 - 21, 2003

• 10:30 A.M., Segal Theater
  Central Limit Theorems for Random Walk in Mixing Random Environment
  Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota and Technion
• 1:30 P.M., Segal Theater
  Potential Theory of Additive Lévy Processes, Capacity and Hausdorff Dimension
  Yimin Xiao, Michigan State University

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Analysis Group
Yu Chen and Olof Widlund, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA/COURANT/PRINCETON GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 102
Differential Geometry
Richard Hamilton, Columbia University

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Large-Scale Diffusion in Models of Two-Dimensional Geostrophic Turbulence
Shafer Smith, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
Billiards and Dynamics of SL(2,R) over Moduli Space
C. McMullen, Harvard University
Hosted by Peter Sarnak

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Antarctic
Ryan Walker
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BELOVED COURANT RETIREE GLORIA LEE: 6:00 P.M., WWH 13th floor Common Area

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Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

SPECIAL JOINT MATH/COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Universality of Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University
Please note room change

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy Spectra of the Ocean's Internal Wave Field: Theory and Observations
Yuri Lvov, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Local Rigidity of Groups Actions
David Fisher, CUNY
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~elonl/special031112.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Blow Up Dynamics for the L ² Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Pierre Raphael, University of Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Kinematic Reducibility of Multiple Model Robotic Systems
Todd Murphey, The Aerospace Corporation
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 402
Theory and Simulation of Deformation Twinning in FCC Metals
Ellad Tadmor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Note special day
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 3:30 PM., WWH 613
Aperiodic Lorentz Gas
Marco Lenci, Stevens Institute

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
How Widespread is Late Trading in Mutual Funds?
Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford GSB and Columbia
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 312 Math, Columbia University
Harmonic Analysis on Buildings and the Cohomology of P-Adically Uniformized Varieties
Ehud De-Shalit, Hebrew University and Harvard
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

THE IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: WWH 109

• 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and bagels
• 10:00 - 10:55
  On the Implementation of Huge Random Objects
  Oded Goldreich
• 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
• 11:05 - 12:00 Noon
  Maximum Coverage Problem with Group Budget Constraints and Applications
  Chandra Chekuri
• 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
• 2:00 - 2:55
  Testing Bipartiteness: The Dense, the Spare, and the General
  Dana Ron
• 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
• 3:15 - 4:10 P.M.
  Harndess as a Randomness: A Survey of Universal Derandomization
  Russell Impagliazzo

For further information, please refer to this link:
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov14.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Characterization of Invariant Measures at the Leading Edge for Competing Particle Systems
Anastasia Ruzmiakina, Purdue University

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Atmosphere-Ocean Group II
Esteban Tabak, K. Shafer Smith, and Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Use of Geometry and Entropy in Analyzing Large Networks
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Geneva University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

AOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Review of "Interannual Variability in a Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Model: Influence of the Basic State, Ocean Geometry and Nonlinearity" (David S. Battisti and Anthony C. Hirst)
Oleksii Mostovyi
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Population Density Method in Two Spatial Dimensions: Applications to Neural Networks with Realistic Synaptic Kinetics
Felix Apfalter (Speaker) and Daniel Tranchina, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Considerations on the Entropy of Quantum Invariant Measures for Chaotic Geodesic Flows
Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Normale Lyons
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Dynamics of Atmospheric Regime Transitions
Daan Crommelin, CIMS/CAOS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Decay of Correlation Functions in Hyperbolic Systems
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Geneva

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

FIRST NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 20 - 21, 2003

• 10:30 A.M., Room 9207
  On the Infinite Divisibility of Squared Gaussian Processes
  Nathalie Eisenbaum, Université Paris, VI
• 1:30 P.M., Room 9207
  Asymptotic Analysis via Mellin Transforms for Small Deviations in L2-Norm of Integrated Brownian Sheets
  Jim Fill, Johns Hopkins University

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Cauchy Problem for Quasilinear Schrodinger Equations
Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

The XX1st Annual Courant Lectures Honoring the 80th Birthday of Cathleen Morawetz (on topics related to Cathleen's work)

• 1:30 P.M.
  Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston
  What Studying Quasi-Steady Problems Can Tell Us About Steady Transonic Flow
  WWH 109
• 3:00 P.M.: Coffee and Tea, 13th floor common area
• 4:00 P.M.
  Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
  On the Mathematics of General Relativity and Nonlinear Wave Equations
  WWH 109
• 6:00 P.M.: Reception, 13th floor common area

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Weak-Turbulent Theory of the Wind-Driven Sea
Vladimir Zakharov, Landau Institute and U. Arizona, Math
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Disentangling Volatility from Jumps
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 5417, CUNY Graduate Center
Visualizing Mordell-Weil Groups
William Stein, Harvard University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21

FIRST NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 20 - 21, 2003

• 10:30 A.M., Segal Theater
  Central Limit Theorems for Random Walk in Mixing Random Environment
  Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota and Technion
• 1:30 P.M., Segal Theater
  Potential Theory of Additive Lévy Processes, Capacity and Hausdorff Dimension
  Yimin Xiao, Michigan State University

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:15 P.M., WWH 102
Billiards and Dynamics of SL(2,R) over Moduli Space
C. McMullen, Harvard University
Hosted by Peter Sarnak
Please note room and time change

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Analysis Group
Yu Chen and Olof Widlund, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA/COURANT/PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 102
Ricci Flow: Part I
Richard Hamilton, Columbia University
Note: Part II will follow at 3:30 after a half-hour break

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Large-Scale Diffusion in Models of Two-Dimensional Geostrophic Turbulence
Shafer Smith, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

JOINT COLUMBIA/COURANT/PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
Ricci Flow: Part II
Richard Hamilton, Columbia University

AOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Antarctic
Ryan Walker
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 PM., WWH 1013
First and Second Order Perturbation Calculations for Smooth Dynamical Systems
David Ruelle, IHES

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BELOVED COURANT RETIREE GLORIA LEE: 6:00 P.M., WWH 13th floor Common Area

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Some Roles of Noise in Cortical Responses
Kenneth D. Miller, Dept. of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Probabilistic Modeling of Pathogen Transmission in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
Marc M. Triola, NYU School of Medicine

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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Considerations on the Entropy of Quantum Invariant Measures for Chaotic Geodesic Flows
Nalini Anantharaman, Ecole Normale Lyons
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Dynamics of Atmospheric Regime Transitions
Daan Crommelin, CIMS/CAOS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND PROBABILITY SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Decay of Correlation Functions in Hyperbolic Systems
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Geneva

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

FIRST NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 20 - 21, 2003

• 10:30 A.M., Room 9207
  On the Infinite Divisibility of Squared Gaussian Processes
  Nathalie Eisenbaum, Université Paris, VI
• 1:30 P.M., Room 9207
  Asymptotic Analysis via Mellin Transforms for Small Deviations in L2-Norm of Integrated Brownian Sheets
  Jim Fill, Johns Hopkins University

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Cauchy Problem for Quasilinear Schrodinger Equations
Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

The XX1st Annual Courant Lectures Honoring the 80th Birthday of Cathleen Morawetz (on topics related to Cathleen's work)

• 1:30 P.M.
  Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston
  What Studying Quasi-Steady Problems Can Tell Us About Steady Transonic Flow
  WWH 109
• 3:00 P.M.: Coffee and Tea, 13th floor common area
• 4:00 P.M.
  Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
  On the Mathematics of General Relativity and Nonlinear Wave Equations
  WWH 109
• 6:00 P.M.: Reception, 13th floor common area

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Weak-Turbulent Theory of the Wind-Driven Sea
Vladimir Zakharov, Landau Institute and U. Arizona, Math
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Disentangling Volatility from Jumps
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University
Note change in room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room 5417, CUNY Graduate Center
Visualizing Mordell-Weil Groups
William Stein, Harvard University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 4th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21

FIRST NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 20 - 21, 2003

• 10:30 A.M., Segal Theater
  Central Limit Theorems for Random Walk in Mixing Random Environment
  Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota and Technion
• 1:30 P.M., Segal Theater
  Potential Theory of Additive Lévy Processes, Capacity and Hausdorff Dimension
  Yimin Xiao, Michigan State University

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Learning System Management Procedures by Demonstration
Dan Oblinger, IBM T.J. Watson Reserch Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov_21_1.html

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 12:15 P.M., WWH 102
Billiards and Dynamics of SL(2,R) over Moduli Space
C. McMullen, Harvard University
Hosted by Peter Sarnak
Please note room and time change

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR: 1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Analysis Group
Yu Chen and Olof Widlund, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/albens/GSPD/GSPD_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA/COURANT/PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 2:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 102
Ricci Flow: Part I
Richard Hamilton, Columbia University
Note: Part II will follow at 3:30 after a half-hour break

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Large-Scale Diffusion in Models of Two-Dimensional Geostrophic Turbulence
Shafer Smith, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

JOINT COLUMBIA/COURANT/PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
Ricci Flow: Part II
Richard Hamilton, Columbia University

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 3:30 P.M., Room 2-60, 44 West Fourth St.
Virtual Cinematography Technology for The Matrix Sequels
George Borshukov, ECS Entertainment
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov21.html

AOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Antarctic
Ryan Walker
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR: 4:00 PM., WWH 1013
First and Second Order Perturbation Calculations for Smooth Dynamical Systems
David Ruelle, IHES

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BELOVED COURANT RETIREE GLORIA LEE: 6:00 P.M., WWH 13th floor Common Area

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Piston Problem and Damping for the Multi-Dimensional Compressible Euler Equations
Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Some Roles of Noise in Cortical Responses
Kenneth D. Miller, Dept. of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Lieb-Thirring Inequalities and Absolutely Continuous Spectrum of Schrodinger Operators
Ari Laptev,, KTH, Stockholm
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Probabilistic Modeling of Pathogen Transmission in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
Marc M. Triola, NYU School of Medicine

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Semiclassical Limit of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations in an Exterior Domain
Ping Zhang, Academia Sinica
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS/NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Exact Unsteady Solutions to the Viscous MHD Equations
Oleg Bogoyavlensky, Queen's University, Canada
Joint with Physics Department

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Petri Fast, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tba
Andy Lau, PSU, Engineering
Note that there will be two seminars
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Index Volatility Surface via Moment-Matching Techniques
Peter Lee, Lehman Brothers
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 312 Math, Columbia University
On the Main Conjecture for Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Adrian Iovita, Concordia University, Montreal
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5

CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON PREDICTABILITY FOR THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN: A Two-Day Workshop Friday (beg. 8:30 A.M.) and Saturday (beg. 9:00 A.M.), December 5 and 6
Registration is required. No fee is required. However, it is recommended that you register early as seating is limited to 50-60 people. In order to register, please e-mail alvaro@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: Your name, affiliated institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. No registration is required for CIMS attendees.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Studies (CAOS), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), and the Morse Chair of FAS
An Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the Workshop itinerary is being included with this week's Bulletin email version.

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Largest Eigenvalue of Sample Covariance Matrix
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Alexander Fisher, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6

CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON PREDICTABILITY FOR THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN: A Two-Day Workshop Friday (beg. 8:30 A.M.) and Saturday (beg. 9:00 A.M.), December 5 and 6
Registration is required. No fee is required. However, it is recommended that you register early as seating is limited to 50-60 people. In order to register, please e-mail alvaro@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: Your name, affiliated institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. No registration is required for CIMS attendees.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Studies (CAOS), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), and the Morse Chair of FAS
An Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the Workshop itinerary is being included with this week's Bulletin email version.

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THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

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Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Probabilistic Modeling of Pathogen Transmission in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
Marc M. Triola, NYU School of Medicine

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Semiclassical Limit of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations in an Exterior Domain
Ping Zhang, Academia Sinica
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS/NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Exact Unsteady Solutions to the Viscous MHD Equations
Oleg Bogoyavlensky, Queen's University, Canada
Joint with Physics Department

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Simulating Intercellular Calcium Signaling in Epithelial Cells Using a 3D Structured Multiblock Method
Petri Fast, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Index Volatility Surface via Moment-Matching Techniques
Peter Lee, Lehman Brothers
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 312 Math, Columbia University
On the Main Conjecture for Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Adrian Iovita, Concordia University, Montreal
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5

CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON PREDICTABILITY FOR THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN: A Two-Day Workshop Friday (beg. 8:30 A.M.) and Saturday (beg. 9:00 A.M.), December 5 and 6
Registration is required. No fee is required. However, it is recommended that you register early as seating is limited to 50-60 people. In order to register, please e-mail alvaro@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: Your name, affiliated institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. No registration is required for CIMS attendees.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Studies (CAOS), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), and the Morse Chair of FAS
An Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the Workshop itinerary is being included with this week's Bulletin email version.

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Largest Eigenvalue of Sample Covariance Matrix
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
The Computational Camera: Redefining the Image
Shree K. Nayar, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov_21_1.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Alexander Fisher, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6

CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON PREDICTABILITY FOR THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN: A Two-Day Workshop Friday (beg. 8:30 A.M.) and Saturday (beg. 9:00 A.M.), December 5 and 6
Registration is required. No fee is required. However, it is recommended that you register early as seating is limited to 50-60 people. In order to register, please e-mail alvaro@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: Your name, affiliated institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. No registration is required for CIMS attendees.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Studies (CAOS), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), and the Morse Chair of FAS
An Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the Workshop itinerary is being included with this week's Bulletin email version.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Calculus of Symmetry
Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
Colloquium preceded by tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Linear Response-Functions Suitable for Atmospheric Climate Problems
Grant Branstator
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Meromorphic Series and Completely Integrable Systems
Francois Treves, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Local and Nonlocal Coarse Graining from Interpolation Theory and Its Applications to the Renormalization Group
David Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara, Dept. of Physics
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

HOLIDAY LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Why is it possible to tie our shoelaces, and related problems in applied mathematics, with reflections on the early Paleolithic
Jacob Schwartz, CIMS

HOLIDAY PARTY: 4:30 P.M., 13th floor common area
You are cordially invited to attend the CIMS annual holiday festivities!

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Hedge Fund Performance and Risk Profile Analysis
Rapahel Douady, Riskdata
Note change in room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Janossy Densities in Determinantal and Pfaffian Ensembles of Random Matrices
Alexander Soshnikov, University of California at Davis

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Ingrid Daubechies
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

AOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Antarctic
Ryan Walker
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Semiclassical Limit of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations in an Exterior Domain
Ping Zhang, Academia Sinica
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS/NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Exact Unsteady Solutions to the Viscous MHD Equations
Oleg Bogoyavlensky, Queen's University, Canada
Joint with Physics Department

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Simulating Intercellular Calcium Signaling in Epithelial Cells Using a 3D Structured Multiblock Method
Petri Fast, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Index Volatility Surface via Moment-Matching Techniques
Peter Lee, Lehman Brothers
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., 312 Math, Columbia University
On the Main Conjecture for Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Adrian Iovita, Concordia University, Montreal
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
The Number Theory Seminar is a joint seminar with CUNY Graduate Center and Columbia University
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5

CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON PREDICTABILITY FOR THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN: A Two-Day Workshop Friday (beg. 8:30 A.M.) and Saturday (beg. 9:00 A.M.), December 5 and 6
Registration is required. No fee is required. However, it is recommended that you register early as seating is limited to 50-60 people. In order to register, please e-mail alvaro@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: Your name, affiliated institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. No registration is required for CIMS attendees.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Studies (CAOS), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), and the Morse Chair of FAS
An Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the Workshop itinerary is being included with this week's Bulletin email version.

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Largest Eigenvalue of Sample Covariance Matrix
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
The Computational Camera: Redefining the Image
Shree K. Nayar, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov_21_1.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Uncoupled Markov Chains in Biomolecular Simulations
Alexander Fischer, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Math Building P131

• 4:00 P.M.: Tom Coates, Harvard University
  A Quantum Lefschetz Hyperplane Theorem
• 5:15 P.M.: Viktor Ginzburg, UC Santa Cruz
  Branching Floer Homology

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6

CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON PREDICTABILITY FOR THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN: A Two-Day Workshop Friday (beg. 8:30 A.M.) and Saturday (beg. 9:00 A.M.), December 5 and 6
Registration is required. No fee is required. However, it is recommended that you register early as seating is limited to 50-60 people. In order to register, please e-mail alvaro@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: Your name, affiliated institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. No registration is required for CIMS attendees.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Studies (CAOS), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS), and the Morse Chair of FAS
An Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the Workshop itinerary is being included with this week's Bulletin email version.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Calculus of Symmetry
Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
Colloquium preceded by tea in the Lounge at 3:15 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10

JOINT SEMINAR ON DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (CIMS) AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS (PHYSICS): 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Measure of Epsilon-Complexity
V. Afraimovich, San Luis Potosi State University, Mexico
Joint with Physics Department

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Linear Response-Functions Suitable for Atmospheric Climate Problems
Grant Branstator
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL SEMINAR: 4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Representations of Groups Over Two Dimensional Fields
D. Kazhdan (Jerusalem)
Hosted by P. Sarnak

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Meromorphic Series and Completely Integrable Systems
Francois Treves, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Local and Nonlocal Coarse Graining from Interpolation Theory and Its Applications to the Renormalization Group
David Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara, Dept. of Physics
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/vandenbe/aml/index.html

HOLIDAY LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Why is it possible to tie our shoelaces, and related problems in applied mathematics, with reflections on the early Paleolithic
Jacob Schwartz, CIMS

HOLIDAY PARTY: 4:30 P.M., 13th floor common area
You are cordially invited to attend the CIMS annual holiday festivities!

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Hedge Fund Performance and Risk Profile Analysis
Rapahel Douady, Riskdata
Note change in room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Janossy Densities in Determinantal and Pfaffian Ensembles of Random Matrices
Alexander Soshnikov, University of California at Davis

SEMINAR: 1:30 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
David Nelson, Director, National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development will speak on the work of the national task force for supercomputing and expected new directions

COLUMBIA/COURANT/PRINCETON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Columbia University, Math Department, 2990 Broadway, Room 520

• 2:00 - 3:00 P.M.: Jeff Cheeger, CIMS
  Collapsing and Non-Collapsing
• 3:30 - 4:30 P.M.: Gang Tian, Princeton University
  Extremal Kahler Metrics and Applications

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Ingrid Daubechies
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

NYCNLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Behavioral Evidence for Enriched Semantic Composition in Human Language Comprehension
Brian McElree, Dept. of Psychology, NYU

AOS STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research in the Antarctic
Ryan Walker
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16

SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., 719 BROADWAY, ROOM 1221
Unsupervised One-Shot Learning of Object Categories
Li Fei-Fei, California Institute of Technology

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
PCP Testers: Towards a Combinatorial Proof of the PCP Theorem
Omer Reingold, AT&T and IAS
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://cs/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall03/nov_21_1.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Zeros of the I.I.D. Gaussian Power Series: A Conformally Invariant Determinantal Process
Yuval Peres, University of California at Berkeley, currently visiting Microsoft Research

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Isoperimetric Inequalities and Applications
Itai Benjamini, Weizmann Institute

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THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/

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Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS

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Reader Information

Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen