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Previous Weekly Bulletins

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
1:00 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Tracer Tubes: A New Inverse Technique for Estimating Subduction and Diffusivities
Jan Zika, CSIRO - Tasmania
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Rossby Waves in the Ocean: A New Theory and Recent Observations
Nathan Paldor, Hebrew University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On Work of Entov and Polterovich: I
Peter Albers, NYU
courant_symplectic_seminar

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Generalization of Magic Squares with Applications to Digital Halftoning
Boris Aronov, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Experiments Employing Statistical Physics to Protein Folding at the Single Molecule Level
Jasna Brujic, NYU Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On Work of Entov and Polterovich: II
Umberto Hryniewicz, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Modelling Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Nicholas Hill, CIMS and University of Glasgow
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Points Surrounding the Origin
Andreas Holmsen, University of Bergen, Norway
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Global Modelling of Ocean Tides
Stephen Griffiths, University of Toronto
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On Work of Entov and Polterovich: III
Al Momin, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Instabilities and Dynamics in Active Suspensions: Direct Numerical Simulations and Kinetic Theory
David Saintillan, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Pricing American-Style Options by Monte Carlo Simulation: Alternatives to Ordinary Least Squares
Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
Brownian Motions Interacting through Ranks and a Phase Transition Phenomenon
Soumik Pal, Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
StrangerDB: Safe Data Management with Untrusted Servers
Dennis Shasha, Computer Science, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 101
On Formal Models for Secure Key Exchange
Joel Alwin
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fast Multipole Method
Eric Darve, Stanford University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

CIMS Ph.D. Welcome Reception: 3:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons
All Ph.D. students, faculty and staff are invited.

ECONOMETRICS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Testing Conditional Independence via Rosenblatt Transforms
Kevin Song, UPenn
http://www.nyu.edu/econ/cvstarr/schedule.html

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Hierarchy of Rigid Subsets in Symplectic Manifolds - I
Leonid Polterovich, Tel Aviv
Leonid Polterovich is visiting Sept. 17 - 28, 2007
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Cascade Structure of Linear Stability in Collapsible Channel Flows
Xiaoyu Luo, CIMS and University of Glasgow
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Bouyancy-Vorticity Wave Interaction Approach to Stratified Shear Flow
Nili Harnik, Tel Aviv University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Hierarchy of Rigid Subsets in Symplectic Manifolds - II
Leonid Polterovich, Tel Aviv
Leonid Polterovich is visiting Sept. 17 - 28, 2007
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Evolution and Repeated Games
Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Studies
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Non-trivial Solutions to a Symmetric Linear Equation in Integers
Boris Bukh, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Classical Solutions for a Tin-Film Equation
Hans Knuepfer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling Ferrofluids for Fun and Profit
Philip Yecko, Montclair State University, Mathematics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

NEW YORK AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
WWH 613

Please note: WWH 613 is NOT the usual room!
Urs Frauenfelder, Munich is visiting Sept. 17 - 29, 2007
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

GOOGLE TECHNICAL TALK:
7:00 P.M., WWH 109
Online Ad Auction Mechanisms and Bidding Strategies
Muthu Muthukrishnan
Muthukrishnan graduated from the Courant Institute, NYU and has research interests in algorithms, databases and networking. He has worked on algorithms, systems and applications for analyzing massive data ``streams'' and is the author of the book Data Streams: Algorithms and Applications. He is currently a Research Scientist at Google, working on Bidding/Pricing and Auction algorithms.
This event is sponsored by NYU's Women in Computing (WinC)
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb/
Email: wincweb@cs.nyu.edu .
PLEASE SIGN UP TO ATTEND THE GOOGLE/NYU TECH TALK AT:
http://services.google.com/events/campus_events2007?id=17

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
Fluctuation Results for Some Models of Random Environments and Interaction
Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Networked Systems in the Developing World: Challenges and Opportunities
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Computer Science, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 101
Encrypted Key Exchange: Password-Based Protocols Secure Against Dictionary Attacks
Antonio Nicolosi
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fast Solver for the Heat Equation in Unbounded Domains
Jing-Rebecca Li, INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt, France
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102

http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

AIM Workshop ``Towards Relative Symplectic Field Theory''
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
September 24 - 28, 2007
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Coupled Atomistic-Continuum Methods for Fluids
Weiqing Ren
Note: This is the first meeting of a new Materials Working Group . To be put on its mailing list, send a request to kohn@cims.nyu.edu . Only the first few meetings will be announced in the weekly bulletin.

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Theory of Stellarators and Tokamaks in Three Dimensions
Paul Garabedian, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/imre/mfdd.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

AIM Workshop ``Towards Relative Symplectic Field Theory''
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
September 24 - 28, 2007
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Optimal Control of Neurons and Networks: Two Case Studies
Eric Shea-Brown, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
McDiarmid's Inequality and Its Applications
Ashish Rastogi
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Modeling of Cloud Microphysics: From Simple Concepts to Sophisticated Parameterizations
Wojtek Grabowski, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Boulder, Colorado
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND PLACE
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
5:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Time Delay Dynamics in Population Biology
Frank Hoppensteadt, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tropical Oriented Matroids
Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics and Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

AIM Workshop ``Towards Relative Symplectic Field Theory''
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
September 24 - 28, 2007
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Optical Properties of Shallow Convective Clouds: Observations and Modeling
Wojtek Grabowski, NCAR
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Tba
Larry Blume, Cornell University, visiting NYU
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

AIM Workshop ``Towards Relative Symplectic Field Theory''
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
September 24 - 28, 2007
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Dynamics of Gaseous Stars
Juhi Jang, IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Bipedal Locomotion: People and Robots
Andy Ruíina, Cornell, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock, Park Avenue Plaza at East 52nd Street
Asset Price Bubbles in Incomplete Markets
Robert Jarrow, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Gross-Schoen Cycles, Relative Dualising Sheaves, and Triple Product L-Series
Shou-Wu Zhang, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

AIM Workshop ``Towards Relative Symplectic Field Theory''
CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
September 24 - 28, 2007
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY:
WWH 1302

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No Seminar (Courant Instructor Day)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 102
Reconstructing Biological Circuits and Modules from Systems-Biology Data: A Biology-Jargon Free Introduction to Current Status and Remaining Challenges
Richard Bonneau, NYU
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN ROOM NUMBER AND TITLE OF TALK!
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 101
The Twin Diffie-Hellman Problem and Applications
Victor Shoup, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

COB DAY (COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY) AT NYU:
9:A.M. - 4:00 P.M., WWH 109 - Lobby Level
  • 9:00 - 9:40 A.M.: Morning coffee and bagels
  • 9:40 A.M.: Welcome message from Mike Shelley
  • 9:45 - 10:35 A.M.:
    Jeff Saltzman (Merck), Senior Director of Applied Computer Sciences and Mathematics
    Applied Mathematics in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • 10:30 - 10:45 A.M.: Question period
  • 10:45 - 11:00A.M.: Break
  • 11:00 - 11:50 A.M.:
    Eric Jakobsson (UIUC), Director, National Center for Biomimetic Nanoconductors, and Senior Research Scientist, NCSA
    Messy Mathematics: Taking the Measure of Biology
  • 11:50 - 12:00 Noon: Question period
  • 12:00 - 1:30 P.M.: Lunch and Student Poster Session in the 13th Floor Lounge
Student Poster Presenters:
Kim Namhee (NYU Chem)
Dario Ghersi (MSSM)
Claudia Calcagno (MSSM)
Alpna Agarwal (Sackler)
  • 1:30 - 2:20 P.M.:
    Fabio Piano (NYU Biology), Associate Professor, Biology
    Regulatory Networks in Development
  • 2:20 - 2:30: Question period
  • 2:30 - 2:45: Break
  • 2:45 - 3:35 P.M.:
    Ajay Royyuru (Watson Research Center, IBM), Senior Manager, Computational Biology Center
    Deep Computing in Biology: Challenges and Progress
  • 3:35 - 3:45 P.M.: Question period
Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
For more information, click on COB DAY at the link:
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
A Variational Approach to Brittle Fracture
Gilles Francfort, Paris-Nord
Note: This is the second meeting of a new Materials Working Group . To be put on its mailing list, send a request to kohn@cims.nyu.edu . Only the first few meetings will be announced in the weekly bulletin.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Computational Models of Muscle Tissue for Vibrational Medicine
Bernd Simeon, Center of the Mathematical Sciences, TU Munich, Germany
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COURANT FACULTY DISCUSSION ABOUT POLY:
12:30 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Searched-Based Structured Prediction
Eugene Weinstein
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dissipative Homoclinic Loops and Rank One Chaos
William Ott, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Yale University, New Haven
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Large-Scale Oceanic Turbulence Explored with Satellite Observations and Idealized Numerical Models
Rob Scott, U Texas - Austin
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Intersections in Low-Dimensional Contact Homology
Al Momin, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Tba
David McAdams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Searching a Target in a Grid Graph
Peter Brass, City College, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Relaxation Towards Statistical Equilibria of the 2D Euler Equation
F. Rousset, University of Nice
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Pulsed-Jet Propulsion at Large and Small Scales
Paul Krueger, SMU, Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Optimal Quickest Detectionof Two-Sided Alternatives and Connections to Drawdown and Rally Processes
Olympia Hadlidjiadis, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Existence of Rational Points on Smooth Projective Varieties
Bjorn Poonen, University of California, Berkeley
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Fluid Dynamics
Steven Orszag, Yale University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:

http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
Recurrence of Weak Graph Limits
Omer Angel, University of Toronto
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Approximate Nearest Subspace Search with Applications to Pattern Recognition
Ronen Basri, Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science and Visiting Professor Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 101
Authenticated Key Exchange Secure Against Dictionary Attacks
Sherman Chow, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Efficient Monte Carlo Sampling by Parallel Marginalization
Jonathan Weare, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 101

http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
No Seminar: Columbus Day
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Alterations in Gene Regulation and Cancer Progression: Finding the Faulty Switch
Charles DeLisi, Boston University
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Persistent Images in Arrays of Model Neurons
Frank Hoppensteadt, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Learning the Kernel Matrix with Semidefinite Programming
Afshin Rostamizadeh
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dissipative Homoclinic Loops and Rank One Chaos (Part 2)
William Ott, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Fixed Prameter Tractability in Geometry and Graph Drawing
Sue Whitesides, McGill University, Montreal
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Characterizing the Equatorial QBO and Its Effects on the Winter Circulation in the Northern Hemisphere: Implications for Seasonal Forecasting
Kevin Hamilton, U Hawaii - Manoa
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Area-Preserving Disk Maps and Pseudo-Holomorphic Foliations -- Part I
Barney Bramham, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Tba
Paolo Siconolfi, Columbia University
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Even Pairs in Berge Graphs
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Regularity Result on Conformal Compact Einstein Metrics
S.-Y. Alice Chang, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Linear Equations Modulo 2 and the L1 Diameter of Convex Bodies
Assaf Naor

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Pretentiousness in Analytic Number Theory
Andrew Granville, Départment de mathématiques, Université de Montréal
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12

NYUs WOMEN IN COMPUTING (WinC)
WWH 109
WinC invites you to a Workshop by The IBM Research and Software Group (co-sponsored by ACM)

To register and view details for this event, visit:
(username: wincmember ; Password: GraceHopper ):
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb/members_only/index.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Relevance of New Data Structures for Dense Linear Algebra in the New Multi-Core/Many Core Environments
Fred Gustavson, IBM Watson
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
Freezing Transitions in Non-Fellerian Particle Systems
Ellen Saada, Université de Rouen
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Wilson Hsieh, Senior Staff Engineer, Google, Inc.
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
POSTPONED TO October 19th
Why Do Some Nonlinear Dispersive Equations have Global Solutions?
Jalal Shatah, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 101
Provably Secure Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Diffie-Hellman
Daniel Wichs, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inverse Problem in Seismic Imaging: Seismic Velocity Estimation from Time Migration
Maria Cameron, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
The Cahn-Hilliard Equation with Degenerate Mobility
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 22nd
On the Concept and Properties of Mass in General Relativity
S.-T. Yau, Harvard University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq06.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Spectral Numbers in Floer Theories
Michael Usher, Princeton University
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Delayed Connectivity May Explain Sequence Recall in Hippocampus
Paul Hand, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Cyril Allauzen
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Parabolic Fixed Points, Fatou Coordinates, and Renormalization
Oscar Lanford, ETH-Zurich

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Totally Frustrated States: A Physics-like Generalization of Graph Coloring
Tom Zaslavsky, Binghamton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling: The Importance of Stationary Planetary Waves
Ed Gerber, Columbia University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Area-Preserving Disk Maps and Pseudo-Holomorphic Foliations -- Part II
Barney Bramham, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Moral Hazard in General Equilibrium with Anonymous Trading
Daron Acemoglu, M.I.T.
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Multidimensional Visualizaiton and Its Applications
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Variational Identities and Hamiltonian Structures Associated with Semi-Direct Sums of Lie Algebras
Wen-Xiu Ma, University of South Florida
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Problems in Interfacial Electro-Hydrodynamics
Demetrius Papageorgiou, NJIT, Mathematics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 513
Dimension Reduction Using Rademacheer Series on Dual Error Correcting Codes
Nir Ailon
This talk will be in Room 513 instead of 1314

VISITING MEMBERS RECEPTION:
4:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons, WWH
All are welcome!

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Coherent Acceptability Indices and Their Applications
Alexander Cherny, Moscow State University and Bloomberg LP
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 613
Applications of the Relative Trace Formula to Central L-Values
David Whitehouse, MIT
Please note the ROOM CHANGE (this week only)!
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Room 613.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC LECTURE:
6:20 - 7:30 P.M., Room 121, Meyer Hall of Physics, 4 Washington Place
Galileo Galilei: Astronomer and Astrologer
E.L. Schucking, NYU Dept. of Physics

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
REM Universality for Energy Levels of Random Hamiltonians
Alexey Kuptsov, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Large-Scale Internet Search at ASK.COM
Tao Yang, Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara and Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President, Ask.com
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Global Low Regular Solutions to Quasi-Linear Wave Equations with Symmetrical Initial Data
Zhen Lei, Northeast Normal University and CalTech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Why Do Some Nonlinear Dispersive Equations have Global Solutions?
Jalal Shatah, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
POSTPONED TO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
Efficient Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Human-Memorizable Passwords
Kristiyan Haralambiev, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mapping Free Energy Landscapes with Radial Basis Functions
Luca Maragliano, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
WWH 109

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/ag07.html

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamic Characterizationo f the V3 Crown
David Almond, Sackler
and
cMonkey: Adventures in Bi-Clustering and Other Assorted Tales
Peter Waltman, NYU Computer Science
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Introductory talk on PDE Models for the Relaxation of Crystalline Surfaces
Bob Kohn, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom...And Plenty of Problems Seeing What's There!
Andrew Sundstrom
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
On the Concept and Properties of Mass in General Relativity
S.-T. Yau, Harvard University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq06.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Motor Protein Kinetics: How Rate Constants Depend on Load
Sam Walcott, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

RANDOM MATRICES AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS WORKING SEMINAR:
3:45 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 813
On Beta Random Matrix Ensembles: Construction and Asymptotics: Part I
Irina Nenciu, CIMS

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Parabolic Fixed Points, Fatou Coordinates, and Renormalization (Part 2)
Oscar Lanford, ETH-Zurich
Please note the change in title and speaker.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Global View of non-Gaussian SST Variability and Related Air-Sea Thermal Coupling
Philip Sura, CIRES-Boulder
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Efficiency in a Repeated Prisoners Dilemma with Imperfect Private Monitoring
Olivier Gossner, Paris School of Economics
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Circumscribed Polygons of Small Area
Dan Ismailescu, Hofstra University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Problem of Optimal Design of Composites
Luis Silvestre, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Multi Objective Optimization Problem
Giuseppe Narzisi
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Knowledge of Our Gaps in Photonic Crystals
Ross McPhedran, U. of Sidney, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 513
Model Equations for Atmospheric Motions on Planetary Scales
Stamen Dolaptchiev, Potsdam - PIK
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Local Global Tradeoffs in Metric Embeddings
Yuri Makarychev

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE LECTURE:
5:00 P.M., WWH 109
Compilers and Multi-Core Computing Systems
Turing Award Lecture by Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita and 2006 Turning Award Winner
A reception at 6:10 P.M. follows, 13th Floor Common, WWH
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1278972.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock, Park Avenue Plaza at 52nd St.
Fire the Brainiacs!
James Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer
This seminar is a joint effort with the Math Finance Seminar and with Columbia University's Center for Financial Engineering
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
or see the Quantitative Finance Seminar website at:
http://cfe.columbia.edu/seminars/NY_Quantitative_Finance/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
From Diamond-Serre Weights to GL(2,F)
Christophe Breuil, Columbia University, IHES and CNRS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methos for Conseervation Laws
Per-Olof Persson, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
Limits of Free Multiplicative Convolutions
Vladislav Kargin, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Introns Participate in Conserved Functional Links in the Absence of Sequence Conservation
Isidore Rigoutsos, Manager, Bioinformatics and Pattern Group, Computational Biology Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
(S.U.R.E.) PRESENTATIONS:
12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Come and listen to brief research presentations from NYU mathematics undergraduates who participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience over the summer:
  • Charles Hankin:
    A One-Dimensional Dither Mask and Its Discrete Fourier Transform
  • Jessica Lin:
    A Theory of Induced Dynamics for Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems
  • Richard Nelson and Priyam Patel:
    The World in a Tank: Simulating the Circulation of the Atmosphere and Oceans in a Laboratory Setting
  • Jasmine A. Nirody:
    The Science of Slithering: Analysis and Limitations of Rectilinear Progression
  • Michael Ontiveros:
    Recursive Constructions of Sequences Not Containing Arithmetic Progressions
  • Sinziana M. Picu:
    PISM and Ice Dynamics
  • Robert L. Simione:
    An Alternative to Least-Squares

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 101
Efficient Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Human-Memorizable Passwords
Kristiyan Haralambiev, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Sub-Linear Scaling Algorithms for the Study of the Electronic Structure of Materials
Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera, University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Numerical Analysis of a Nonsmooth Steepest-Descent Model for the Relaxation of a Crystalline Surface
Henrique Versieux
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Error Correcting Codes
Carl Bosley
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Single and Multi-Transition Solutions for a Class of PDE's
Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq06.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Singularly Perturbed Monotone Systems and Applications in Biology
Liming Wang, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Unsupervised Regression for Image Denoising
Martin Raphan, CIMS and Laboratory for Computational Vision, Center for Neural Science, NYU
Please note the change in time and room.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/%7Egunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Nystrom Method for Approximating a Gram Matrix for Improved Kernel-Based Learning
Ameet Talwalkar
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Hyperbolic Properties of Coupled Expanding Maps
Jose Koiller, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Some Geometry of Random 0-1 Polytopes
Alain Pajor, Université de Marne-la-Vallee
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
DIII-D Edge Transport During ELM Control by Resonance Magnetic Perturbations
Ilon Joseph, UCSD/GA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/imre/mfdd.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Towards a Theory of How Much It Rains: Understanding the Effect of Climate Change on the Hydrological Cycle
Paul O'Gorman, Cal Tech
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Monodromy in Hamiltonian Floer Theory
Dusa McDuff, Columbia and Stony Brook
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Trends in Fertility and the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution in Dynastic Models
Larry Jones, University of Minnesota
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Avoiding Small Subgraphs in Achlioptas Processes
Po-Shen Loh, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Existence and Blow Up for Sign-Changing Solutions of the Nonlinear Heat Equation
Thierry Cazenave, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Absorption Probabilities and Mean Time to Fixation
Antonina Mitrofanova
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling, Analysis, and Computations of the Breakup of Bubbles and Drops in a Viscous Fluid
Mike Siegel, NJIT, Mathematics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A priori Bounds for Stable Solutions of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations in Low Dimensions
Xavier Cabre, ICREA and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tight Integrality Gaps for Lovasz-Schrijver LP Relaxations of Vertex Cover and Max Cut
Madhur Tulsiani
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On the Relations between Implied and Spot Volatilities
Valdo Durrleman, Ecole Polytechnique
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Another n-Point abc Conjecture
Rob Benedetto, Amherst College
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2

COLUMBIA'S CCLS COLLOQUIUM SERIES:
11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., Columbia University, Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (CEPSR) Building, Room 750 Interschool Lab
Learning for Semantic Parsing of Natural Language
Raymond J. Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Directions at:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/resources/directions
To see the speaker's website, please go to:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mooney

IBM RESEARCH CRYPTO GROUP:
11:00 A.M. - 12:45 P.M., WWH 101
Split-Ballot Voting: Everelasting Privacy With Distributed Trust
Tal Moran, Weizmann Institute
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
Trap Models in Dimension 1
Roman Royfman
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Toward Millisecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins
David E. Shaw, Chief Scientist, D.E. Shaw Research, LLC and Senior Research Fellow Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 101
Lossy Trapdoor Functions and Their Applications
Brent Waters, SRI International
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Mechanics and Mathematics of Biological Growth
Alain Goriely, Mathematics Department, Program in Applied Mathematics, and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
Fundamentals and Applications of Protein Structure Prediction
Jeffrey J. Gray, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
A Continuum Model for the Long-Ranged Elastic Interactions on Stepped Epitaxial Surfaces
Yang Xiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Foliations of Convex Sets in R4
Umberto Hryniewicz, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

ONE-DAY COMBINATORIAL GEOMETRY CONFERENCE:

  • AFTERNOON SESSION, WWH 402
  • 3:45 - 4:15 P.M.: Padmini Mukkamala
    Drawing Connected Cubic Graphs with Four Slopes
  • 4:15 - 4:45 P.M.: Ricky Pollack
    Double Permutation Sequences
  • 5:00 - 5:30 P.M.: Andreas Holmsen
    Intersecting Convex Sets by Rays
  • EVENING SESSION, WWH 613
  • 6:00 - 7:00 P.M.: Rom Pinchasi
    Topological Hypergraphs

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Journal Club Meeting
Alex Perlman
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamic Simulation of Mitral Valve using the Immersed Boundary Method
Xiaoyu Luo, CIMS and University of Glasgow
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Reinforcement Learning
Yishay Mansour
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Bilinear Virial Identities
Fabrice Planchon, University of Paris 13
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Social Image and the 50-50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects
Douglas Bernheim, Stanford University, visiting Princeton
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
The Erdos-Renyi Phase Transition
Joel Spencer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
No-Slip Navier-Stokes Solvers Built from Laplace-Leray Commutators
Bob Pego, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Direct and Inverse Modeling for Stochastic Passive Microbead Rheology
Christel Hohenegger, UNC, Mathematics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On Almost Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Alp Eden, Bogazici University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Coloring, Independent Sets and SDP Hierarchies
Eden Chlamtec, Princeton University
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Generalized Deviations are Counterparts to Risk Measures
Stanislav Uryasev, University of Florida
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 13th Floor
How Many Points Can a Genus 2 Curve Have?
Noam Elkies, Harvard University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS9.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Lagrangian Simulations of Fluids and Plasmas
Robert Krasny, University of Michigan
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
New Improvements on the Clan of Ancestor Perfect Simulation Scheme for One-Dimensional Loss Networks
Nancy Garcia, Unicamp
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Maximum Entropy and Species Distribution Modeling
Robert Schapire, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Existence and Multiplicity of Solutions for the Stationary Schrödinger-Poisson-Slater System
David Ruiz, University of Granada
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Individual Versus Collective Effects in Probability
Gerard Ben Arous, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 101
Password Mistyping in Two-Factor-Authenticated Key Exchange
Vladimir Kolesnikov, Bell Laboratories
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Two-Dimensional Stability of the Neel Wall
Hans Knuepfer
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Assembly for Double-Ended Short-Read Sequencing Technologies
Steve Skiena
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

JOINT ECONOMICS-MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Learning and Convergence of Beliefs in Social Networks
Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq06.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Legendrian Knots in Overtwisted Contact 3-Manifolds
Yasha Eliashberg, Columbia/Stanford
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Immersed Boundary Method for Stokes Flow
Tom Bringley, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Reinforcement Learning, Part 2
Yishay Mansour
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Homoclinic Splitting in the Quasiperiodically Forced Pendulum
Mikko Stenlund, CIMS/Rutgers University

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Some Combinatorial and Algorithmic Applications of the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem
Bill Steiger, Rutgers University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Andes and the Mean Topical Pacific Rainfall Distribution in Idealized Model Experiments
Ken Takahashi, GFDL
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Implementation with Evidence Disclosure
Elchanan Ben Porat, Tel Aviv University, visiting Northwestern
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, (Room 815, Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Dynamic Information in Ensemble Taste Codes
Don Katz, Brandeis University
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/index.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Stability Problem for Black Hole Spacetime in General Relativity
Mihalis Dafermos
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Walking and Running
Manoj Srinivasan, Princeton, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Boolean Functions with Small Algebra Norm
Tom Sanders
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Pricing American Options under Stochastic Volatility and Stochastic Interest Rates
Alexei Medvedev, University of Geneva
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Hodge Correlators and a Generalization of Rankin-Selberg Integrals
Alexander Goncharov, Brown University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS9.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A New Real-Space Finite Element Method to Solve the Kohn-Sham Equations of Density Functional Theory
N. Sukumar, UC Davis (visiting Cornell)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
An Electronic Field Guide: Plant Exploration in the 21st Century
Peter Belhumeur, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Holomorphic Curves in Symplectic Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics
Helmut Hofer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Free Energies and Kinetics of Molecular Systems from Coarse Master Equations
Gerhard Hummer, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M. and 3:45 - 4:45 P.M. (2-hour lecture), WWH 613
Computability and Computational Complexity of Julia Sets
Michael Yampolsky, University of Toronto
Joint work with M. Braverman

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
Structure-Based Prediction of Clinical Phenotypes in Genetic Metabolic Diseases
Roberto Sanchez, Mt. Sinai
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
9:30 - 10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
A Gamma-Convergence Approach to the Cahn-Hilliard Equation
Nam Le
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Cell Groups Reveal Structure of Stimulus Space
Carina Curto, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Sampling Algorithms for Lp Regression and an Application to Feature Selection
Boulos Harb
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

RANDOM MATRICES AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 813
Scattering Theory for Jacobi Operators with Quasi-Periodic Background: Part II
Johanna Michor, Imperial College London, visiting CIMS

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Structure and f-Dependence of the A.C.I.M. for a Unimodal Map f of Misiurewicz Type
David Ruelle, IHES and Rutgers University

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
A.D. Alexandrov's Conjecture and Hyperbolic Virtual Polytopes
Gaiane Panina, St. Petersburg, Russia
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 317
Edge Plasma Observations in NSTX Experiment and Opportunities for Computational Studies
Rajesh Maingi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Please note the special day and room number 317!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/imre/mfdd.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Circular Law
Van Vu, Rutgers University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq07.html

2007 MARGARET AND HERMAN SOKOL FACULTY AWARD IN THE SCIENCES:
5:00 P.M., Jurow Lecture Hall, 1st Floor of the Silver Center
The 2007 Sokol Award recipient Nicholas Geacintov will be giving a lecture entitled,
Unraveling the Secrets of DNA Repair
The evening will include a reception following the lecture.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Study of Telomere Length Regulation
Ignacio Rodriguez, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Principal Eigenvalue of Elliptic Operator with Large Advection and Its Applications to Evolution of Dispersal
Yuan Lou, Ohio State
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

RANDOM MATRICES AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 813
Tba
Speaker Tba

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28

SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Long-Time Behaviour of the 2D Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equation
Martin Hairer, Warwick University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
4:00 P.M., C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Room 517, 19 West 4th St.
Herd Behavior in Financial Markets: A Field Experiment with Financial Market Professional
Marco Cipriani, George Washington University
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of Dirac-Klein-Gordon and Wave Map Equations in One Spatial Dimension
Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Probabilistic Causality
Samantha Kleinberg
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
Peko Hosoi, MIT, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Planning for Fast Connectivity Updates
Mikkel Thorup
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Slow Energy Dissipation in Anharmonic Chains
Martin Hairer, University of Warwick, U.K.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock, Park Avenue Plaza at 52nd St.
Quantitative Aspects of Algorithmic Equity Trading
Robert Almgren, Bank of America Securities
This seminar is a joint effort with the Math Finance Seminar and with Columbia University's Center for Financial Engineering
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
or see the Quantitative Finance Seminar website at:
http://cfe.columbia.edu/seminars/NY_Quantitative_Finance/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
The Transfinite Diameter
Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois at Chicago
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS9.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30

SPECIAL ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
10:00 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 101
The Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Program in Amazonia: Recent Findings on the Role of Moist Convection
Pedro da Silva Dias, Natonal Laboratory of Scientific Computing - Brazil
Please note the special time and room number!
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On Strong Stability Preserving Runge-Kutta and Multistep Time Discretizations
Sigal Gottlieb, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

NEURO-FRIDAY AT COURANT:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Effect of Synaptic Bombardment on the Visual Responses of Single Cells in Primary Visual Cortex in Vivo
Diego Contreras, University of Pennsylvania
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Decentralizing Trust in Open Distributed Systems
Jinyang Li, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

SPECIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
A New Proof of Gromov's Theorem on Groups of Polynomial Growth
Bruce Kleiner, Yale University
To view the abstract for this talk, click on:
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fast Computation of Volume Potentials on Structured Grids
Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COLUMBIA-COURANT-PRINCETON ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
Princeton University, Fine Hall

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/ag07.html

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamic Models of Membrane Protein Structure and Function
Marta Filizola, Mt. Sinai
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Population-Based Algorithms for Robust Analog Circuit Design Using Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization
Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Soap Bubble Evolution and Grain Growth in All Dimensions: Beyond von Neumann-Mullins
David Srolovitz, Yeshiva University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq07.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Sampling Algorithms for Lp Regression and an Application to Feature Selection
Boulos Harb
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

RANDOM MATRICES AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 813
Stability of Relativistic Matter and Lieb-Thirrring Inequalities in the Magnetic Case
Rupert Frank, Princeton University

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 101
Creativity Support Tools: Accelerating Discovery and Innovation
Ben Shneiderman, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy and Momentum Consistency in Subgridscale Parameterization
Tiffany Shaw, University of Toronto
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Compactness for the Landau State in Thin Film Micromagnetics
Radu Ignat, University of Paris, Orsay
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Symplectic Embeddings of Polydisks
Larry Guth, Stanford University
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MICROECONOMIC THEORY WORKSHOP:
CANCELLED
Ennio Stacchetti, New York University
http://www.econ.nyu.edu/cvstarr/seminars/micro.html

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, (Room 815, Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Dynamic Encoding of Stimulus-Reward Associations by Network Activity in the Striatum
Mark Laubach, Yale University
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/index.html

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Lydia Bieri, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Comparing Flight Strategies in Species of Fruit Flies
Itai Cohen, Cornell University, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Drawdown Distributions and Volatility Persistence
Kathryn Wilkens, Chartered Alternatie Investment Analyst Association
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Non-Vanishing Theorems for L-Functions and Cohomology
Nicolas Bergeron, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS9.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7

NEW YORK AREA THEORY DAY:
Courant Institue, Auditorium WWH 109

To see the Program, please click on the link:
http://scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/newAbstracts/theory_day_12_07_07.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast, Expressive Vector Programming
Arthur Whitney, CEO, Kx
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Scattering Theory
Peter Lax, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mathematical Strategies for Filtering Turbulent Signals in Complex Systems
Andy Majda, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

NEW YORK AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
Columbia University, Math 507

http://math.columbia.edu/%7Elipshitz/SGGT/SymplecticFall07.html

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto
David Keyes, Columbia University
Note special date and time (1 pm). Part of the RTG series.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dbindel/nasem/

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Quantum Characteristic Classes
Yasha Savelyev, Stony Brook
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Look-Ahead Model for the Elongation Dynamics of Transcription
Richard Yamada, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Note: This seminar will meet as usual today, even though NYU classes are running on a Thursday schedule.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Sampling Algorithms for Lp Regression and an Application to Feature Selection
Boulos Harb
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2007/index.html

RANDOM MATRICES AND INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 813
Random Permutations in Number Theory
Akshay Venkatesh, CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2007 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Light refreshments will be served.
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Mode Control Theory and Experimental Results in RFX-MOD
Roberto Paccagnella, Instituto di Gas Ionizzati del C.N.R., Padua, Italy
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Symplectic Aspects of the Eigenvalue Problem
Percy Deift, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 101
The Dirichlet Problem for Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic Equations
Kevin R. Payne, Universita di Milano
Please note the change in room number!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Swarming Bacteria: A Self-Propelled 2D Gas
Nicholas Darnton, Amherst, Physics
Note special location: Room 101
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

CIMS HOLIDAY LECTURE:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Getting the Picture: The Engineering, Physics and Mathematics of High-Field MRI in a Thousand Words (or more)
Daniel Sodickson, Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging, NYU Medical Center
Please note the slight change in time for this lecture!
followed by the:
CIMS HOLIDAY PARTY:
13th Floor Common

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES AT COLUMBIA:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Geometry and Representations of Reductive Groups
David Vogan, MIT
This talk is repeated on Friday, December 14th
TEA: 3:15 - 4:00 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS9.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Computational Aspects of Coefficients of Modular Forms
Sebastiaan Johan Edixhoven, Mathematisches Instituut Universiteit Leiden Nederland
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS9.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14

SPECIAL MATH/COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
1:00 P.M., WWH 109
Packing, Energy Minimization, and Exceptional Structures
Henry Cohn, Head of the Cryptography Group at Microsoft Research

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 101
Faster and Shorter Password-Authenticated Key Exchange
Rosario Gennaro
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Physical Structure, Graph Structure and Uncertainty in Complex Systems
Igor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., WWH 102
An Introduction to Schramm-Loewner Evolution
Tom Alberts, CIMS
Please note the change in time and location.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
Bacterial Speciation by Ecological Specialization
Martin Polz, MIT
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

JOSEPH FELS RITT LECTURES AT COLUMBIA:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Geometry and Representations of Reductive Groups
David Vogan, MIT
TEA: 3:15 - 4:00 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS9.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
On Distinct Distances Among Points
Adrian Dumitrescu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Self-Assembly and Dynamics in Polymer Nanocomposites
Sanat Kumar, Columbia University, Chemical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html