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Previous Weekly Bulletins

12-09-06
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: On the Loss of Regularity for the Three-Dimensional Euler Equations
Edriss S. Titi, University of California - Irvine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
12-09-07
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: An insect-inspired micropumping paradigm: theory and Stokeskets-meshfree computations
Yasser Aboelkassem, Virginia Tech
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
 12-09-13

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Dynamics of soft elastic particles in viscous fluids
Tong Gao, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012


PROBABILITY and MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: Ferromagnetic Ising measures on large locally tree-like graphs
Anirban Basak, Stanford University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: The Renaissance of Wireless Communications in the Massively Broadband® ERA
Ted Rappaport, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
12-09-15

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 & 16, 2012


Random Structures and Limit Objects: A conference to celebrate the 60th birthday of David Aldous
see http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/Aldous-2012/ for more information.
Warren Weaver Hall Room 109 at 9:00 am.
12-09-18

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012


COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Evolutionary dynamics of restriction site avoidance
Long Qian, Center for Geomics and System Biology, NYU
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
12-09-19

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012


ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Scaling & Near-Geostrophic Approximations of the Spherical Shallow-Water Equations
Jeffrey Early, NWRA
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium


SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: **Please note change in time and day of week
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Title: The role of noise in ensembles of nanomagnetic particles
Misha Neklyudov, University of Tubingen
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/


12-09-20

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Finite energy method for compressible fluids
Philippe LeFloch, University of Paris 6
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Polymer networks: modeling and emerging applications
Hassan Masoud, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
12-09-21

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 517
Title: Microlocal analysis over the Maslov cycle
Alan Weinstein, Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks
Joel Spencer, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Better Pseudorandom Generators from Milder Pseudorandom Restrictions
Raghu Meka, IAS
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Controlled Active Vision / Image Processing with APplications to Medical Image Computing
Allen Tannenbaum, ECE, UAB
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/



12-09-25

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: TBA
Marcelo Magnasco, Mathematical Physics Lab, The Rockefeller University
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00  P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Order-types, Erdos-Szekeres theorems, and realization spaces for convex sets
Andreas Holmsen, KAIST, Republic of Korea
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-09-26

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012


ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: What can natural variability tell us about the Antarctic's response to climate change?
Karen Smith, LDEO
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012


ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Linear instability of solitary waves in nonlinear Dirac equation
Andrew Comech, Texas A&M University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
12-09-28

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012


NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00  A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Lagrange Newton Interpolation, Divided Differences, Splines and Sobolev Spaces
Bogdan Bojarski, Polish Academy of Sciences
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY:
11:30am to 3:45pm, WWH 1302

11:30-11:45  Tej-eddine Ghoul
             Stability of sign changing blow up solution

11:45-12:00  Ray Yang
             Some Problems concerning the Fractional Laplacian

12:00-12:15  Arie Israel
             The Whitney extension problem in Sobolev spaces

12:15-12:30  Auel Asher
             Quadratic forms and Clifford algebras over algebraic varieties

Lunch Break

2:00-2:15    Robert Haslhofer
             Singularities in the Ricci flow

2:15-2:30    Antti Knowles
             Random band matrices and the extended states conjecture

2:30-2:45    Yao Li
             Small Random Perturbation of Dynamical Systems, Theory
                 and Application

Break

3:00-3:15    Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
             Self-assembly: how to make things without trying

3:15-3:30    Molei Tao
             Multiscale Geometric Integration and Analysis

3:30-3:45    Michael Oneil
             Toward integral equation-based design and engineering tools

12-10-02

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012

COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Macromolecule Dynamics - from a Coarse Grained Approach to Continuum Modeling
Marco Bacci, Doctoral Candidate Engineering Division, University of Florence, Italy
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: TBA
Jordan Thomas
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00  P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Visibility Coverage Tours
Joe Mitchell, SUNY, Stony Brook
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-10-03

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012


MATERIALS SCIENCE WORKING GROUP:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The Gamma-limit of the Ohta-Kawasaki energy: the droplet density and derivation of a renormalized energy
Dorian Goldman, CIMS

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: A Multiple scales asymptotic framework for analysis and simulation of spatially-extended ocean surface boundary-layer dynamics
Greg Chini, UNH
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium
12-10-04

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Tej-eddin Ghoul, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 1314 WWH
Title: Planetary convection: heat transfer by rotating flows
Eric King, Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
12-10-05

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POST DOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Partial difference equations over compact Abelian groups
Speaker: Professor Tim Austin

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Multiscale Geometric Integration of Deterministic and Stochastic Systems
Molei Tao, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Motivic Hirzebruch class and its zeta function
Shoji Yokura, Kagoshima University
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Porting the computer Science toolbox to Game Theory and Economics
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
12-10-08

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012


MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Conformal metrics of prescribed Gauss curvature
Michael Struwe, ETH Zurich
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

12-10-09


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012

COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: TBA
Joao Xavier, Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium


GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Delunay (and other) triangulations of moving points: What's going on?
Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-10-10


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012

MATERIALS SCIENCE WORKING GROUP:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Grain growth with surface effects: coupled mean curvature motion and surface diffusion
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Predictability of the Ocean State on Multi-year Time Scales
Grant Branstator, NCAR
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

12-10-11


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012


ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Whitney Extension Problem in Sobolev Spaces
Arie Israel, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Analysis of Boolean functions, influence and noise
Gil Kalai, Yale University & Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
12-10-12

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012


NUMERICAL ANALYSIS and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00  A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds for Solving Rank-structured Matrix and Tensor Problems
Bart Vandereycken, Princeton University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Lattice-Based Cryptography
Oded Regev, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: TBA
Mikkel Thorup, AT&T / University of Copenhagen

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Singularities and Instantons
Rainer Grauer, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universiaet Bochum
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/


12-10-15

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012


MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Integrable Probability
Ivan Corwin, Microsoft Research New England / MIT
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

12-10-16


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 705
Title: Asymptotic effects of small random perturbations and applications
Yao Li, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The weakness of Strong Ties in Social Networks: Revisited
Jie Gao, Stony Brook University
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012 12-10-17


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012


ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Constraints on ice-ocean interactions from solid Earth geophysics: Glacial earthquakes and glacier dynamics in Greenland
Meredith Nettles, LDEO
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 202
Title: Cycles on K3 Surfaces
Daniel Huybrechts, Universität Bonn
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem3.html

12-10-18

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012


ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Large time behavior for the two-dimensional motion of a disc in a viscous fluid
Christophe Lacave, Paris 6
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 1314 WWH
Title: Variational multiscale modeling of biomolecules
Guo-wei Wei, Michigan State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 705
Title: Persistence of Activity in Threshold Contact Process, an "annealed Approximation" of Random Boolean Networks
Shirshendu Chatterjee, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Shadow systems of asymmetric Lp zonotopes
Manuel Weberndorfer, Vienna University of Technology
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
12-10-12

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012


NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: A Convex Perspective on Spectral Methods in Signal Processing
Ben Recht, University of Wisconsin - Madison
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars

PROBABLITLY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: An Invariance Principle for Polytopes
Raghu Meka, IAS, Princeton
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

PROBABLITLY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: A shape theorem for an epidemic model in dimension larger than 3.
Ellen Saada, Universite Paris Descartes
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: The Theory of Crowdsourcing Contests
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Testing and Reconstruction of Lipschitz Functions with Applications to Data Privacy
Madhav Jha, Penn State University
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Kinetics of particles with short-ranged interactions
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon,  CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
12-10-22


MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012


MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Schroedinger maps
Daniel Tataru, University of California Berkeley
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html
12-10-23

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012


COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M.,  WWH101
Title: Parameter-free statistical model invalidation for biochemical reaction networks
Kenneth Ho, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012


APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 317 WWH
Title: Oscillating contact lines
William Schultz, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: New Propagation of ocean waves on planetary scales: where the swell begins
William Young, Scripps
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

12-10-25

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012


ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Well-posedness of the nematic liquid crystal flow in  $L3_{uloc}(R3)$
Wang Changyou, University of Kentucky
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Modeling the interaction between fluid and an elastic filament: Two examples in biology
Yuan-nan Young, New Jersey Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html

NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Fine asymptotic geometry of groups
Moon Duchin, Tufts University
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
12-10-26



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: A Randomized Approximate Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
Andrei Osipov, Yale University
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars

PROBABLITLY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., 512 WWH
Title: Strict Local Martingales and Financial Bubbles
Philip Protter, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (S.U.R.E) PRESENTATIONS :
2:00 P.M., WWH TBA
http://math.nyu.edu/degree/undergrad/ug_research.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The incompressable Euler equations in Lagrarian coordinates, with applications to analyticity of fluid particle trajectories and to numerical simulations
 Uriel Frisch, CNRS, Lab. Cassiopée, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
12-10-30

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012


GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: On the f-vectors of families of boxes in R^d and minimum numbers of cliques in graphs
Juergen Eckhoff, Technische University Dortmund
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-09-26

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012


ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Challenges in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice projection and prediction
John Fyfe, CCCma
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

12-11-01

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012


ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Bounded L2 curvature conjecture
Jeremie Szeftel, ENS, France
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: TBA
Fanghua Lin, CIMS
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
12-11-05

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012


MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Dmitry Panchenko, Texas A&M University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

12-11-06

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012


GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Exact Geometric Computing - From Numerical Analysis to Algebraic Geometry
Michael Sagraloff, Max-Planck-Institut for Informatik
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: Rational cubic fourfolds containing a plane with nontrivial Clifford invariant
Marcello Bernardara, University of Toulouse
http://cims.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html
12-09-26

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012

UNDERGRAD MATHEMATICS LECTURE:
12:00 P.M., WWH 512
Title: Solutions to x3 + y3 + z3 + w3 = (x + y + z + w)3: cubic surfaces, 27 lines, and the icosahedron
Marcello Bernardara, University of Toulouse


ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: A dynamic, embedded Lagrangian model for ocean climate models
Michael Bates, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

12-11-08

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012


ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Elasto-plasticity: heterogenity and homogenization
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., 317 WWH
Title: TBA
Edward Spiegel, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 412
Title: Learning Poisson Binomial Distributions
Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh

NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Computer Vision, Convolutions, Complexity and Algebraic Geometry
Gregory Chudnovsky & David Chudnovsky, NYU-POLY
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 805
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-11-09

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012


GRADUATE STUDENT and POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Quantum One-Way Communication can be Exponentially Stronger Than Classical Communication
Oded Regev, CIMS

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Communication-Avoiding Algorithms for Linear Algebra and Beyond
James Demmel, University of California Berkeley
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Surface Instabilities and Topological Phase Transitions in Soft Sides
Evan Hohlfeld, UMass Amherst
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 805
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-11-12


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012


ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 605
Title: TBA
Emmanuel Ullmo, Universite Paris-Sud
http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: On Dettmann's 'Horizon' conjectures
Domokos Szasz, Budapest University of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html
Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor)

 GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:20 P.M., WWH 805
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-11-13

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012


COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Structural characterization of the Red Blood Cell skeleton by Cryoelectron Tomography
Alejandra Leo-Macias, NYU School of Medicine
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 317
Title: The field of periods for doubly cyclic cubic threefolds
James Carson, University of Utah
http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem_main.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The Guth-Katz solution of the Erdos distance problem
Filip Moric, EPFL Lausanne
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-09-26

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012


ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic multicloud models for organized tropical convection
Boualem Khouider, U. Victoria, Canada
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

12-11-15

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Large vorticity local minimizers to the Ginzburg-Landau functional
Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Covering CSPs
Gillat Kol, Weizmann Institute

NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: Some analytic aspects of conformally invariant fully nonlinear equations
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
12-11-16

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: The Search for an Efficient and Robust Solver for Large-scale Nonlinear Optimization
Daniel Robinson, Johns Hopkins University
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: From Data To the People: Solving the Scalability, Flexibility and Usability Challenges of Database Systems
Azza Abouzied, Yale University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
GRADUATE STUDENT and POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: How long does it take to compute the eigenvalues of a random symmetric matrix?
Percy Deift, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Collective dynamics in suspensionsof micro-swimmers
Enkeleida Lushi, Imperial College, London
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
12-11-20


TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012

COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M.,  WWH101
Title: A discrete model of the red blood cell cytoskeleton and its use in Immersed Boundary method simulations
Thomas Fai, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Computing the DIstance between Piecewise-Linear Bivariate Functions
Boris Arnov, NYU Poly
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-11-19

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012


MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Surface Subgroup Theorem and the Ehrenpreis conjecture
Jeremy Kahn, Brown University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

12-11-27

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012


GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: Insights into Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience
Ein-Ya gura, Hebrew University
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012
12-11-29

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Classification of large energy equivalent wave maps
Andrew Lawrie, Univesity of Chicago
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:55 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Boltzmann equation, Besov spaces, and optimal decay rates in R^n
Vedran Sohinger, University of Pennsylvania
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:20 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: The Geometry of Differential Privacy: the Approximate and Sparse Cases
Aleksander Nikolov, RUtgers University

NYU-POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:35 P.M., Rogers Hall 302
Title: TBA
Mina Teicher,  Bar-Ilan University
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml 12-11-30

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012

WORKSHOP ON UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION AND INVERSE PROBLEMS:
9:00 A.M.- 5:30 P.M., 317 WWH

8:30 – 9:00am              Welcome Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00am           Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University

                                    “Phase field models for two phase flows in karstic geometry”

10:00 – 10:15am        Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:15am        Michal Branicki, CIMS

                      "Quantifying Uncertainty and Improving Statistical Predictions for
                                      Turbulent Dynamical Systems via Information Theory"

11:15 – 12:15pm        Jin Cheng, Fudan University

                                    “Tikhonov Regularization and Inverse Problems for PDE”

12:15 – 2:00pm          Lunch

2:00 – 3:00pm            John Harlim, North Carolina State University

                                    “Filtering ‘processed’ data in the presence of model errors”

3:00 – 3:15pm            Coffee Break

3:15 – 4:15pm            Themis Sapsis, CIMS

“Blended Reduced Subspace Methods for Uncertainty Quantification of Unstable Stochastic Systems” 

4:15 – 5:15                  Shuai Lu, Fudan University

“On the Inverse Problems for the Coupled Continuum Pipe Flow model for flows in karst aquifers”


30th Anniversary of New York Area Theory Day IBM/NYU/Columbia
9:00 A.M., Davis auditorium, 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) building
Columbia University, New York, NY

External sponsorship by: Google

Please join us on Nov 30 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the New York Area Theory Day, featuring talks by Sanjeev Khanna, Vijay Vazirani,  and two new MacArthur Fellows Maria Chudnovsky and Daniel Spielman.

The New York Area Theory Day is a semi-annual conference, aimed to  bring together people in the New York Metropolitan area for one day of  interaction and discussion. The meeting is free and open to everyone; in particular, students are encouraged to attend.

For directions, please go to:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/directions.html

Lunch will be provided; 
to get it you must RSVP by sending an 
email to theorydayny@gmail.com.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:
10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: A Composite Spectral Method for Variable Coefficient Elliptic PDEs with its Own Fast Direct Solver
Adrianna Gillman, Dartmouth College
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2012/nasc_seminars

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POST DOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Capturing intermittent and low-frequency spatiotemporal patterns in high-dimensional data
Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/
11-12-01


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2012

WORKSHOP ON UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION AND INVERSE PROBLEMS:
10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.,  317 WWH

10:00 – 10:15am        Welcome Breakfast

10:15 – 11:15am        Wenbin Chen, Fudan University

                                    “Some algorithms and results for the Darcy-Stokes problem”

11:15 – 12:15pm     Yu Jiang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
                                    “Data Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Elastography”

12-12-03


MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Yang-Mills Fields in super-critical Dimensions
Tristan Riviere, ETH Zurich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html
Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor)

PING SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., 715 Broadway, Room 1003
Title:  Information, communication, and interaction via categories
David Spivak, MIT Mathematics
12-12-04


TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: **Please note special day/location
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Title: Transport of BMO-type spaces by a measure=preserving map and applications to 2D Euler equation
Frederic Bernicot, University of Nantes
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Molecular Machines
Ron Elber, University of Texas
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
12-12-06


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Impulsive Gravitational Waves
Jonathan Luk, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Stable blow-up dynamics for the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis
Remi Schweyer, Toulouse
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 317
Title: The diurnal cycle and the meridional extent of the tropics
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html
12-09-26

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2012


COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: A Simple, Combinatorial Algorithm for Solving Laplacian Systems in Nearly-Linear Time Without Recursive Preconditioning
Jonathan Kelner, MIT
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
12-09-26


GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Undercompressive shocks and surface pattern formation
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

12-12-10

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012


MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Gaussian Elimination As An Iterative Algorithm
Lloyd N. Trefethan, Oxford University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

12-12-11


TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2012

COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Frequency Shift Detector Model for Shepard Tone Comparison
Chengcheng Huang, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
12-12-11
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The Mathematics of Black Holes
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton U
12-12-11



12-09-26

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: The age of stratopheric air and its relationship to the stratospheric circulation
Alan Plumb, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

12-12-12 NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2012 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., 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.

12-12-13

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012

APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 317
Title: Viscoelastic effects in glass fiber spinning
William Schultz, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~takagi/AMLindex.html

12-12-14
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
10:00 A.M., WWH 109
Title: Mime-matics
Professor Tim Chartier, Davidson College

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Title: Material Appearance Modeling
Holly Rushmeier, Yale University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

HOLIDAY LECTURE AND PARTY
2:00 P.M., WWH 109
Robots with Learning (Dis)abilities, Yann LeCun
The Holiday Party will immediately follow in the 13th floor Commons 12-12-18

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012


GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Title: An elementary recursive bound for Hilbert 17th problem
Marie-Francoise Roy, University of Rennes, France
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/pollack/seminar/index.html#Fall2012