New York University Faculty of Arts and Science College of Arts and Science Graduate School of Arts and Science

Previous Weekly Bulletins

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
The Van Der Waerden Conjecture for the Mixed Volume, Its Proof and Algorithmic Applications
Leonid Gurvits, Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Scientific Computing in Molecular Biology
Frank Noe, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
A Characterization of Simplicial Polytopes with g2 = 1
Eran Nevo, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:10 A.M., WWH 412
Two Critical Behaviour of Random Planar Graphs
Mihyun Kang, Technische Universität Berlin
Please note the slight change in the start time of this seminar.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Pinning of Interfaces in Random Media
Patrick Dondl, Bonn University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COB WELCOME RECEPTION:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
All COB Students and Faculty are Welcome!

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Viral Latency Explained by a Model of DI-Particle-Viral-Host Interations
Avi Ma'ayan, Dept. of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Tutorial on Groth-Sahai: Efficient Non-Interative Proof Systems for Bilinear Groups
Victor Shoup, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
A Total Variation-based Graph Clustering Algorithm for Cheeger Ratio Cuts
Arthur D. Szlam

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 317
Geometric Crystals and Lie Groups
David Kazhdan, Hebrew University
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Cloaking for the Helmholtz Equation in the Whole Spaces
Hoai Minh Nguyen, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Biologically-Generated Flows by Plankton
Jeannette Yen, Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anup Rao
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

COMPUTER SCIENCE FACULTY RESEARCH ORIENTATION:
10:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Refreshments will be served n the 13th floor commons.
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Academic/Graduate/rorientation

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon, WWH 517
Random Matrices on Compact Groups and Independence
Paul Bourgade, Télécom-Paris Tech
NOTE the usual time and place!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No AMS (Incoming Ph.D. reception)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

CIMS RECEPTION:
3:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons
Welcoming new Ph.D. students in Computer Science and Mathematics
All Ph.D. students, faculty and staff are invited.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Taxonomy of Life Forms
Lawrence Sirovich, Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Space-Efficient Identity Based Encryption Without Pairings by D. Boneh, C. Gentry, and M. Hamburg
Adriana Lopez, NYU
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/abstracts/bgh.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

SPECIAL MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 512
Reaction Motifs and Functional Modules in Protein Regulatory Networks
John Tyson, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
PLEASE NOTE: Unusual DAY and ROOM
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Going Up? Meltwater Flow under Antarctic Ice Shelves
Andrew Wells, Yale University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COB THESIS DEFENSE:
4:30 P.M., WWH 201
Prostate Cancer Health Disparity in African American and Caucasian American Men Characterized through the Landscape of Genomic Instability
COB student, Alexander Pearlman, is defending his thesis.
Open to COB Community.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Navier-Stokes Flow with Non-decaying Initial Velocity, and Its Applications
Yoshi Giga, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:30 P.M., WWH 512
Modeling ITER Operation Scenario
Vassili Parail, Head, JET Theory Division, UKAEA, Culham
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sedimentation of a Rigid Sphere in a Bubbly Fluid
Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State University, Math
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Monotonicity in Bargaining Networks
Yuval Rabani
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Path-Dependence of Leveraged ETF Returns
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 102
Bijective Approach to Tree-Rooted Maps
Olivier Bernardi, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 202
Learning from Multiple Measurements
Sam Roweis
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

COURANT INSTRUCTORS DAY:
1:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302

  • 1:30 - 1:45 P.M.: Alexander Fribergh
    Random Walks in Random Environments
  • 1:45 - 2:00 P.M.: Kay Kirkpatrick
    Extreme-Temperature Phenomena in Statistical Mechanics: Super-Hot Plasmas and Super-Cool Quantum Gases
  • 2:00 - 2:15 P.M.: Jianfeng Lu
    Density Functional Theory: Challenges from a Numerical Point of View
  • 2:15 - 2:30 P.M.: Nawaf Bou-Rabee
    On Numerically Solving SDEs Arising in Molecular Dynamics
  • 2:30 - 2:45 P.M.: Jeremy Brandman
    Numerical Methods for Eigenvlue Problems on Surfaces
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  • 3:15 - 3:30 P.M.: Rachel Ward
    Quiet Sigma Delta Quantization: Removing Audible Periodicities in Analog-to-Digital Conversion
  • 3:30 - 3:45 P.M.: Hoai-Minh Nguyen
    Some Estimates for the Topological Degree of Maps from Sphere into Itself
  • 3:45 - 4:00 P.M.: Hwakil Kim
    Hamiltonian Systems and Calculus of Differential Forms on the Wasserstein Space
  • 4:00 - 4:15 P.M.: Sonal Jain
    Statistics of p-Adic L-Functions

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

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th & 35th Streets)
Corroborate and Learn Facts from the Web
Shubin Zhao, Google
hj294@nyu.edu
If there is any problem at signing in the building, please call Heng Ji at (212) 817-8196 or (646) 662-5355.
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Expedition in Systems Biology
Bud Mishra, NYU, Biology
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Neurochemistry of Sleep and Wake: Modeling the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle
Lisa Rogers, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, RPI
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Chapter 1: Prediction, Learning, and Games
Vasilis Gkatzelis, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Crystalline Flow Starting from Non-Admissible Data
Mi-Ho Giga, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
On the Necessary and Sufficient Assumptions for UC Computation
Claudio Orlandi, University of Aarhus, Denmark
http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/247

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Around the Hirsch Conjecture
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
3:00* P.M., WWH 317
L2 Methods, Knot Concordance, Localization and Amenable Groups
Kent Orr, University of Indiana
* Note the new time and room number.
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Gravity Waves from Jets and Vortex Dipoles
Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
A Pair Correlation Bound Implies the Central Limit Theorem for Sinai Billiards
Mikko Stenlund, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Coagulation-Fragmentation Transport and Vanishing Diffusion Limit
Pavel B. Dubovski, Stevens Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Analysis and Probability of Boolean Functions: Results and Problems
Gil Kalai
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Superconcentration
Sourav Chatterjee, NYU and UC Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Analysis of Direct Searches for Non-Lipschitzian Functions
Luis Nunes Vicente, University of Coimbra
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Correlation Clustering with Noisy Input
Claire Mathieu, Brown University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
*12:45 - 1:45 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Introduction to Cross-Document Coreference
Amit Bagga, Comcast
*Please note an earlier time slot.

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Symmetry and Locomotion
Stephen Childress, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Climate Change and the Mathematics of Transport in Sea Ice
Kenneth M. Golden, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Utah
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Step Evolution for Crystals of Finite Size
Hala Al Hajj Shehadeh
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Towards a Calculus for Nonlinear Spectral Gaps
Assaf Naor, CIMS
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Vaccine-Induced Pathogen Strain Replacement
Maia Martcheva, CIMS and Dept. of Mathematics, University of Florida
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Visualizing RN and Some New Dualities
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
11:00 - 12:30 P.M., WWH 512
Renormalization of Henon Map, I
Mikhail Lyubich, Stony Brook University
Part II follows at 4:00 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Renormalization of Henon Map, II
Marco Martens, Stony Brook University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Existence of Smooth Solutions of a 3-D Loglog Energy-Supercritical Wave Equation
Tristan Roy, UCLA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Synchrony in Stochastic Pulse-Coupled Neuronal Network Models
Katie Newhall, Dept. of Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Privacy-Preserving Data Release: Efficient Algorithms and Hardness Results
Guy Rothblum
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
No-Expected-Profit and the Decay of Market Impact
Jim Gathereal, Merrill Lynch & Co.
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 317
Global Divisibility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers
Dimitar Jetchev, Hudson River Trading LLC
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Probabilistic Representation of a Generalized Porous Media Type Equation and Related Fields
Francesco Russo, INRIA Rocquencourt, Projet MATHFI and Univeresité Paris 13
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Domain Decomposition Methods for Almost Incompressible Elasticity
Olof Widlund, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Visualizing RN and Some New Dualities
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Arbitrage in U.S. Equity Markets
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Unsupervised Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation
Sam Brody, Columbia University

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Non-Intrusive and Structure Preserving Multiscale Integration of ODEs, SDEs, Hamiltonian Systems and langevin Equations with Hidden Slow Dynamics via Flow Averaging
Houman Owhadi, Caltech
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
No Meeting
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Quantum Unique Ergodicity and Number Theory
Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Application of Load-Dependent Chemical Reactions: Biological Friction and Cell Mechanosensation
S. Walcott, Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Learning Latent Variable Grammars for Natural Language Parsing
Slay Petrov, Google
NOTE: This talk will be at Google. If you have not done so for a previous talk, please contact Afshin Rostamizadeh at rostami@cs.nyu.edu by 12:00 Noon on Monday, October 12th to register as a visitor.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Message Authentication Codes from Unpredictable Block Ciphers
Yevgeniy Dodis, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Lattice Packing of Convex Bodies
Peter Gruber, Technical University, Vienna
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Unstable Periodic Orbits in the Models of the Low Frequency Atmospheric Variability
Andrey Gritsun, Russian Academy of Sciences
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Spatial Chaos of Traveling Waves as a Unique Velocity
Bastien Fernandez, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Hamilton System on the Wasserstein Space Using Optimal Transport Theory as a Main Tool
Hwa Kil, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Weak Compressibility of Surface Wave Turbulence
Marija Vucelja, Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Hardness of Nearest Neighbor under L-infinity
Mihai Patrascu
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
SO(2,2) Periods of Non-Tempered SO(3,2) Representations
Yannan Qiu, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Real-Time Embedded Convex Optimization
Stephen Boyd, Stanford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Near-Critical Random Graph: Its Structure, Diameter and Mixing Time
Jian Ding, University of California, Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Refactoring for Reentrancy
Manu Sridharan, IBM
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

PMPS INFORMAL LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:10 - 1:10 P.M., Room 1314
Concentration of Polynomials in Random Matrices
Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
Bring your lunch!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

S.U.R.E. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
The date for this event has been changed to FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th
RSVP: By Monday, November 2nd to Jillian Kerlin at jillian@math.nyu.edu

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Toeplitz Operators on Bergman Spaces
Jani Virtanen, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
From Electronic Structure to Elasticity
Jianfeng Lu, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

GRAPHICS SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
GelSight: Retrographic Sensing for Touch, Texture and Shape
Ted Adelson, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
GelSight ( http://www.mit.edu/~kimo/gelsight/ ) is an exciting breakthrough of broader than usual interest, and all are very welcome to attend.

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Data Mining in Systems Biology
Avi Ma'ayan, MSSM
Please note the change in day.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
A Microscopic Time Scale Approximation to the Behavior of the Local Slope of a Faceted Surface under a Nonuniform Driving Force
Yoshikazu Giga, University of Tokyo
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Intraflagellar Transport and Flagellar Length Control
Thomas Fai, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 312
Shocks and Instabilities in Hall-MHD Fluids, where Rankine-Hugoniot Conditions Do Not Apply
Eliezer Hameiri, CIMS
Please note the unusual day and room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

GRAPHICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
Spectral Methods for Non-Rigid Shape Analysis
Martin Reuter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Object Matching Under Invariances and the Gromov-Hausdorff Distance
Facundo Memoli, Stanford University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Scale-Dependent Relative Dispersion Statistics in a Hierarchy of Ocean Models
Andrew Poje, CUNY College of Staten Island
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ricci Flow and the Determinant of the Laplacian on Non-Compact Surfaces
Pierre Albin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 317*
Interpolation of Functions
Charles Fefferman
* Please note the different room number than usual.
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 412
Basic Attractors of Nonlinear PDEs and Their Bifurcations
Björn Birnir, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 517*
Improving Privacy and Security in Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption
Sherman Chow, NYU
*Please note the venue change (Room 517) for this time.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

VISITING MEMBERS RECEPTION:
4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor Commons

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Recovering Correlation from Index Options
Rama Cont, Columbia University
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
BGG Correspondence and the Cohomology of Compact Kaehler Manifolds
Mihnea Popa, Chicago Circle
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Biased Random Walks on a Percolation Cluster
Alexander Fribergh, NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Essential Immersed Surfaces in Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Jeremy Kahn
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Latent Force Models
Neil Lawrence, University of Manchester
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
12:45 - 1:45 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Expectation Maximization Tutorial
Andrew Rosenberg, CUNY
Another talk follows at 2:00 P.M.

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Fluid Dynamics of Quantum Vortices
Oliver Buhler, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Confidence Measure for Word Alignment
Fei Huang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Changes in Migration Patterns of the Capelin as an Indicator of Temperature Changes in the Arctic Ocean
Bjorn Birnir, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

GAMES SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M.,* 721 Broadway, 9th Floor
Preparing for Life in the Creative Society
Mitch Resnick, Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab
Professor Resnick's talk is presented jointly by the Games for Learning Institute and the NYU Game Center.
*The time for this talk is 3:00 P.M. (not 6:00 P.M. as shown on the website):
http://g4li.org/archives/437

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102

http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

WOMEN IN COMPUTING (WinC):
4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
Google Wave
A Tech Talk by Google
Join us to find out how Google work, play, and change the world, and how you can be part of this adventure.
Googlers will be present, and job opportunities (at Fortune Magazine's "Best Company To Work For" two years running) will be discussed post-talk.
Open to everyone
Refreshments will be served! Also, Google goodies and raffle will be included.
For more information, please visit our website at:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb/
Or via email: wincinfo@cs.nyu.edu

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Folding Patterns Seen in a Compressed Elastic Thin Films Bonded to a Stiff Substrate
Jeremy Brandman, University of Tokyo
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Kinetic Model Identification of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Signaling in Cancer
Andrew Matteson, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Total Energy Decay for Super-Critical Wave Equations with Damping around Infinity
Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Tba
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, IBM
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Tropicalisation of Rational Varieties
Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On the Position of the Mid-Latitude Storm Track and Westerly Winds in an Idealized Moist Model
Jian Lu, COLA
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Co-Compact Imbeddings and Critical Nonlinearity Revisited
Kyril Tintarev, University of Uppsala
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms
Eric Lauga, UC San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees
Ofer Neiman
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 317
Lattice Points on Circles and Spheres and Nodal Sets of Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian
Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv University & IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
High-Dimensional Homomorphism Height Functions Are Flat
Ron Peled, NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Compactness and Blow-Up Phenomena for Constant Scalar Curvature Metrics in High Dimensions
Rick Schoen
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Web-Scale Multi-Lingual Opinion Mining: "Just What the Doctor Ordered" or "Run of the Mill"?
Ryan McDonald, Google
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Sts.)
Extracting Events and Active Learning of Event Detection Patterns
Ralph Grishman, NYU
If you want to meet Prof. Grishman individually after the talk, please email Heng Ji at
hj294@nyu.edu

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Macroscopic Type of Wave-Particle Duality: The Role of `Path Memory'' in the Motion of Bouncing Droplets
Yves Couder, Matière et Systèmes Complexes Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Mapping the Network of Pathways of CO Diffusion in Myoglobin
Luca Maragliano, University of Chicago
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
An Introduction to Some Mathematical Models of Fracture
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Fair Allocations to Random Points
Ron Peled, CIMS
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Slope-Based Stochastic Resonance: How Noise Enables Phasic Neuron Models to Encode Slow Signals
Yan Gai, NYU Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 312
Dual System Encryption: Realizing Fully Secure IBE and HIBE under Simple Assumptions
Kris Haralambiev
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Global Rigidity
Robert Connelly, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Convection at Oceanic Fronts
John Taylor, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Homogenization of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sailing on Diffusion
Thomas Peacock, MIT, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 317
Double or Nothing: The Blinking Brain
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Simple Affine Extractors using Dimension Expansion
Ariel Gabizon
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Creating Competition Out of Thin Air: An Experimental Study of Right-to-Choose Auctions
Andrew Schotter, NYU
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
p-Adic Calabi Theorem and Algebraic Dynamical Systems
Xinyi Yuan, Harvard University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517

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

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Large Scale Geometry of Negatively Curved Homogeneous Spaces
Xiangdong Xie
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 101
Oblivious Transfer with Access Control
Maria Dubovitskaya, IBM Moscow Lab
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Situated Visualization
Sean White, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation
Robert Kohn, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
No seminar this week.
Instead we invite you to attend the New York Academy of Sciences 4th Annual Machine Learning Symposium
held from 10:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
For more information, see:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Machine Learning Approaches to Text and Multimedia Mining
Joe Iria, University of Sheffield

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Quasicrystal Conductivity Conundrum: Spectral Theory and Optical Experiments
Mikael Rechtsman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Moving Contact Lines and the Thin-Film Approximation
Weiqing Ren, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Chapter 2: Prediction, Learning, and Games
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Marianna Csornyei, University College London
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Renewal-Reward Processes and Single-Molecule Experiments on Motor Proteins
Arjun Krishnan, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 312
Public Key Encryption Schemes with Auxiliary Input
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, IBM
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Planar Graphs and Planar Posets
William T. Trotter, Georgia Institute of Technology
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 517*
On Some Nonlocal Functionals in Digital Image Restoration
Simon Masnou, University of Lyon 1
*Please note special day and time.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
11:00 A.M., WWH 412
Solving Quantified First Order Formulas in Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Candidate: Yeting Ge
Advisor: Clark Barrett
Committee:
Prof. Clark Barrett (NYU Advisor, Reader)
Dr. Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, Reader)
Prof. Morgan Deters (NYU, Reader)
Prof. Benjamin Goldberg (NYU, Auditor)
Prof. Ernest Davis (NYU, Auditor)

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., Columbia University, Open Meeting Area (in the back of the Computer Science Building)
Transition from Sentence to Discourse
Aravind K. Joshi, Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania
Directions:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/resources/directions

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Poleward Migrations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in Simple Analytical and Cloud Resolving Models
Williams Boos, Harvard University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Uniform Bounds and Lubrication Approximation for Spreading Droplets
Hans Knuepfer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 102
Computers and Safety
Nancy Leveson, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 12:15 P.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 412
BOUT++ Simulations of ELMs and RMPs
Ben Dudson, Dept. of Physics, University of York
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Boaz Barak
This talk is tentative.
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Heights, Equidistribution, Analytic Spaces, and a formula of Mahler
Antoine Chambert-Loir, Rennes and IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Center for Financial Engineering, Columbia University, Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
Capital Requirements, Acceptable Risks and Profits
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF RISK MANAGEMENT:
Starting at 8:30 A.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
For program highlights, registration, and more about the Conference, please see more at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~mathfcon/index.php/upcoming-events/nov13-2009
For any other questions or inquiries, send e-mail to: mathfcon@cims.nyu.edu

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tractable Performance Bounds for Compressed Sensing
Alexandre d'Aspremont, Princeton University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
The Branching Diffusion on Hyperbolic Space
Mark Kelbert, Swansea University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

S.U.R.E. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 101
Come and listen to brief research presentations from NYU mathematics undergraduate students who participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (S.U.R.E.) over the summer!
Refreshments will be served.

Undergraduate Student Participants:

Aukosh Jagannath:
Further extensions of adiabatic invariant theory for charged particle motion
Research Mentor: Professor Harold Weitzner

Shunxin Jiang:
Random walks with correlated steps
Research Mentor: Dr. Maria Cameron

Stephanie Lewkiewicz:
Winner-take-all neural networks and visual search tasks
Research Mentor: Professor John Rinzel and Dr. Daniel Marti

Rachel Marano:
Mathematical modeling and biological systems: What are the effects of smoking on fetal and maternal circulation?
Research Mentor: Professor Charles Peskin

Trang Nguyen:
Auction theory: Risk-return analysis for risk-averse seller
Research Mentor: Professor Robert Kohn

Kelly Sielert:
The impact of resolution on general circulation models
Research Mentor: Professor Edwin Gerber

Dominick Villano:
The effects of action potential backpropagation on precision coincidence detection in MSO neurons
Research Mentor: Professor John Rinzel

Scott Yang:
A numerical approach to two and three dimensional invasion percolation
Research Mentor: Professor Charles Newman

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., 7th floor conference room, 715 Broadway
Statement Map Generation: Assisting Information Credibility Analysis by Visualizing Arguments
Koji Murakami, NAIST, Japan
Everybody welcome. But please email Satoshi Sekine if you are not an NYU member and will attend (for space concern) at:
sekine@cs.nyu.edu
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape Optimization of Peristaltic Pumping
Shawn Walker, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COURANT INSTITUTE ALUMNI EVENING:
5:30 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
2:00 P.M., WWH 201
From Game Theory to Game Engineering
David Wolpert, Stanford University and NASA
Refreshments will be served at 1:45 P.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Aerodynamic Separation and Invariant Manifolds: Recent Progress on a Century-old Problem
George Haller, McGill University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Chronic Adaptation of Blood Vessel Trees
Dan Hu, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Chapter 2: Prediction, Learning, and Games
This week we have a reading group meeting. Attendees should have read the chapter and come prepared to discuss. Please see the link for electronic access to the book.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rostami/ml/2009/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Lower Bounds for Two-Scale Energies and the Derivation of a Variational Problem for Abrikosov Lattices
Sylvia Serfaty, University of Paris VI and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Trapdoor DL Groups and Their Applications
Jung Hee Cheon, Seoul National University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
On Two Helly-type Theorems
Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

WORKSHOP ON CAUSALITY ACROSS DISCIPLINES:
1:00 - 5:00 P.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor (main meeting area)
Talks by researchers in computer science, philosophy, psychology, and electrical engineering about research related to the representation, inference, and understanding of causality.
For the full schedule and more information, see:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~samantha/events/Nov1809.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Vertical Structures of Tropical Diabatic Heating: Ubiquity of the Leading Modes and Its Dynamical Implications
Chidong Zhang, University of Miami
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 317*
Inverse Problems in Medical Imaging and Integrability in 3+1
Thanasis Fokas, Cambridge University
*Please note special day and time.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 517
Open Challenges in Field-Based Microelectronics Design and Verification
Vikram Jandhyala, Associate Professor and Director, Applied Computational Engineering Lab, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington (Seattle) and Founder and Chairman, Physware Inc.
Joint seminar with the Harmonic Analysis and Signal Processing Seminar.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
No seminar this week.
Instead we invite you to attend the Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS)
Thursday, Nov. 19 and Friday, Nov. 20
beginning at 9:30 A.M., C.P. Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, Columbia University
For more details, see:
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, Room 1221, 719 Broadway (12th Floor)
Towards an Applied Semantic Engine via the Textual Entailment Route
Ido Dagan and Shachar Mirkin, Bar-Ilan University
If you are not a Proteus group member, please email Satoshi Sekine before Tuesday, Nov. 17th to be sure of seating availability:
sekine@cs.nyu.edu
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Well-Posedness for the Motion of the Free Surface of a Fluid
Hans Lindblad, University of California, San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Predictability and Chaos in Networks of Integrate-and-Fire Neurons
Douglas Zhou, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Alex Andoni
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 317
Patching and a Local-Global Principle
David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 312.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Option Pricing on Cash Mergers
Ioanid Rosu, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
No seminar this week.
Instead we invite you to attend the Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar (NEPS)
Thursday, Nov. 19 and Friday, Nov. 20
beginning at 9:30 A.M., C.P. Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, Columbia University
For more details, see:
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The MaxFlux Functional: Derivation, Numerics, and Application to LJ-38
Maria Cameron
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Bird Flocking and Natural Algorithms
Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Martin Boundary
Srinivasa Varadhan, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis: State-of-the-Art and Challenges
Raul Fernandez, IBM
If you would like to meet with the speaker after the talk, please email Andrew Rosenberg beforehand at:
andrewmaxr@gmail.com
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Error Analysis of Tau-Leap Simulation Methods
David F. Anderson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Models in Cardiac Cellular Physiology: Molecular Details versus Simplicity
Eric Sobie, MSSM
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
A Variational Theory for Point Defects in Patterns
Sylvia Serfaty, University of Paris VI and Courant
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 201
Reflector Maps and Earth Parameter Estimation from Seismic Data: From Ruler and Compass Construction to Gaussian Beam Propagators
Norman Bleistein, University Emeritus Professor, Center for Wave Phenomena, Dept. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 512
Free Boundary Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria with Flow
Ron Schmitt, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 705
Construction of Smooth Solutions to the 1-D Compressible Euler Equations with Physical Vacuum Boundary
Steve Shkoller, University of California, Davis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Recent Work on the Immersed Boundary Method: Adaptivity and Finite Element Elasticity
Boyce Griffith, NYU School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Chapter 2: Prediction, Learning, and Games
This week we have a reading group meeting. Attendees should have read the chapter and come prepared to discuss. Please see the link for electronic access to the book.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rostami/ml/2009/index.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
2:00 P.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Learning Models for Scalable Content-Based Image Search
Lorenzo Torresani, Dartmouth College
Refreshments will be served at 1:45 P.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Key Dependent Message (KDM)-Secure Encryption
Aris Tentes, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 109
The Geometrical Theorems of Pascal and Penrose
John Conway, Princeton University
Please note the change in room number.
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27

MATHEMATISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT OBERWOLFACH SEMINAR:
Oberwolfach, Germany
New Trends in Algorithms for Real Algebraic Geometry
For more information on the scientific program, go to:
http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/marie-francoise.roy/oberwolfachseminar.html
The Oberwolfach Seminars are organised by leading experts in the field, and address Ph.D. students and postdocs from all over the world. The aim is to introduce the participants to a particular hot development. The seminars take place at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Gemany.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Questions and discussion concerning Sylvia Serfaty's 11/17 seminar on the derivation of a variational problem for Abrikosov lattices
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Leadership and Percolation in 2-D Networks of Living Neurons
J-P Eckmann, Section de Mathematiques, Dept. de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Privacy of Dynamic Data: Continual Observation and Pan Privacy
Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute, visiting Princeton
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Chapter 2: Prediction, Learning, and Games
This week we have a reading group meeting. Attendees should have read the chapter and come prepared to discuss. Please see the link for electronic access to the book.
Note the special date and time.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rostami/ml/2009/index.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Equatorial Waves in Vertical and Meridional Shear Backgrounds
Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Convergence of Equilibria of Thin Elastic Plates Under Physical Growth Conditions
Maria Giovanna Mora, SISSA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Collective Motion in Bacterial Colonies
Hepeng Zhang, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Dept. of Physics, Unviersity of Texas at Austin, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 512
A Model of Heat Conduction
Jean-Pierre Eckmann (Geneva)
(Work with Pierre Collet and Carlos Mejia-Monasterio)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
5:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 512
Large Deviations of the Energy Current in Local Collisional Dynamics
Raphael Lefevere (Jussieu)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
An Effective Schmidt's Subspace Theorem for Projective Varieties over Function Fields
Min Ru, University of Houston
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4

A Day to Celebrate the Lives and Work of Eugene Isaacson and Herbert Keller:
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
Details on the program are available at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/conferences/Keller_Isaacson_Memorial

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No AMS (Keller/Isaacson Memorial Conference on Numerical Analysis)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 517
This week we will have two speakers. Lorenzo Zambotti will speak at the usual seminar time and Fredrik Johansson will speak at 2:00 P.M., WWH 512
An Entropic Functional on Families of Random Variables from Theoretical Biology
Lorenzo Zambotti, Université Paris VI
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Modeling the Sense of Smell with Biological Receptor Arrays
Alex Morozov, Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 512
Behavior of the SLE Path at the Tip
Fredrik Johansson, KTH
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
A Motion-Capture Corpus of American Sign Language for Generation Research
Matt Huenerfauth, CUNY
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://latlab.cs.qc.cuny.edu/nlpatcuny/
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Satellite Altimetry Tracked Eddies
Jeffrey Early
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5

"COB DAY 2009":
9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M., WWH 109 Lobby Level
Come join us for a day of exploring various aspects of Computational Biology. This is a day COB students and faculty won't want to miss. We will have featured lectures as well as presentations of student posters.
This event is open to the ENTIRE CIMS and COB Community as well as Prospective COB Students.
Please check website for speaker listing.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.cobday

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Universality of Random Matrices and Dyson Brownian Motion
Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
A Firing Rate Network Model for Sequentially Propagated Waves in Newborn Rat Spinal Cord
Melanie Falgairolle, NYU Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Public-Key Encryption in the Bounded-Retrieval Model
Daniel Wichs, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9

SPECIAL SEMINAR:
2:10 - 3:10 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Current State of the Almost Periodic Factorization Problem: A Survey
Ilya M. Spitkovsky, Dept. of Mathematics, College of William & Mary

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Diophantine Properties of Dynamical Systems and Interval Exchange Transformations
Michael Boshernitzan, Rice University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamically Consistent State Estimates of the Coupled Ocean/Sea-Ice System: The ECCO Project
Patrick Heimbach, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Eigenvalues and Maximum Principal for Fully-Nonlinear Elliptic Equations
Isabeau Birindelli, University of Rome 1
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Complexity of Circuit Satisfiability
Ramamohan Paturi, University of California, San Diego
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Thermostats Equivalence in the Thermodynamic Limit for Particles Systems
Giovanni Gallavotti (Rome 1)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415

TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Center for Financial Engineering, Columbia University, Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
From Algorithmic Trading to Stochastic Algorithms
Charles-Albert LeHalle, Credit Agricole Cheuvreux
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11

HIGH-FREQUENCY FINANCE AND QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES WORKSHOP:
A Two-Day Workshop, Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12
Starting at 8:30 A.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
For program highlights, registration, and more about the Workshop, please see more at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~mathfcon/index.php/upcoming-events/december-11-12-2009
For any other questions or inquiries, send e-mail to: mathfcon@cims.nyu.edu

IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY AT CUNY:
Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th & 35th Streets), CUNY Graduate Center

For directions, please see:
http://www.cs.gc.cuny.edu/dept/location

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Impossibility of Approximating Analytic Functions from Equispaced Samples
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 101
Sharpness of Percolation Transitions in Some Dependent Two-Dimensional Models
Note the change in room number!
Rob van den Berg, Vrije Universiteit and CWI
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M - 12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Upstart Puzzles Dennis Shasha, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 11:15 A.M.
Please note the special time for this seminar.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Research Talk
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Understanding Regulation of a Special Stem Cell
Ruth Lehmann, Skirball
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12

HIGH-FREQUENCY FINANCE AND QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES WORKSHOP:
A Two-Day Workshop, Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12
Starting at 8:30 A.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
For program highlights, registration, and more about the Workshop, please see more at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~mathfcon/index.php/upcoming-events/december-11-12-2009
For any other questions or inquiries, send e-mail to: mathfcon@cims.nyu.edu

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Generalized Ham-Sandwich Cuts
William L. Steiger, Rutgers University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16

COURANT HOLIDAY LECTURE:
3:00 P.M., WWH 109
It Works on Paper...Geometry and Mechanics in Dimension 2.5
Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge

CIMS HOLIDAY PARTY!
4:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2009 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 9:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, 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. There will be two sessions: 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. and 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Light refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18