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Previous Weekly Bulletins

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Two-Factor Asset Pricing Model and Zipf's Law of Firm Sizes
Didier Sornette, ETH
Special Wednesday session
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Moment Bounds and Mass-conservation in PDE Modelling Coalescence
Alan Michael Hammond, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sedimentation of Small Particles
Elisabeth Guazzelli, Institut Universitaire des systems thermiques idustriel, Polytech' Marseille
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Dahesh Museum Auditorium, 580 Madison Avenue (corner of 56th St.)
Efficient and Robust Simulation of Stochastic Volatility Models
Leif Andersen, Bank of America Securities
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19

JOINT CS COLLOQUIUM AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
An Inner Technical Look at Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P for Parallel Computing with MATHLAB(r)
Alan Edelman, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
This is a joint seminar with the Computer Science Colloquium
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/spring07.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Models for the Tropics: A Systematic Route for Improving Theory, Computational, and Predictive Strategies
Andy Majda, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

FREE CULTURE @ NYU: 5:00 P.M., WWH 109
State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet
Cory Doctorow
Cory co-edits BoingBoing.net (the internet's second most popular blog according to technorati.com), writes sci-fi novels
http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=5
that are released under Creative Commons licenses, and serves on the board of numerous organizations. Read his bio
http://craphound.com/bio.php or his Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki, Zehnder)
Peter Albers, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Singularities and Transport in Visco-elastic Flows
Becca Thomases, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Complex Fluids in Microfluidic Devices: Elastic Instabilities and Drop Breakup
Paulo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
A Tutorial on the Universal Composability (UC) Framework: Definitional and Feasibility Results in the Common Reference String Model
Shabsi Walfish
A good place to look for reference is a recent tutorial by Ran Canetti:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/465
Today's seminar is the first in several installments of the UC papers.
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
On the Pfaffian
Percy Deift, CIMS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 26

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Ruelle's Probability Cascades and Spin Glass Systems
Louis-Pierre Arguin, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Embedding Optimization in Business: Five Critical Issues
William R. Pulleyblank, IBM Center for Business Optimization
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Evolution of a Crystal Surface Below the Roughening Temperature
Bob Kohn, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Viewing of An Inconvenient Truth
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 P.M., WWH 101
Finding the Line Motion Illusion in a Neuronal Network Model
Adi Rangan, CIMS
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/
Click on COB Events

MONDAY, JANUARY 29

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki, Zehnder) continued
Joe Johns, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Population Density Method Approach to Neural Network Modeling: A Fast Solver via Eigenfunction Expansion and Firing Rate Dynamics
Cheng Ly, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31

NYU'S FREE CULTURE SERIES:
3:30 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 109
Free Culture, Transparency, and Search
Jimmy Wales, Owner, Wikia, Inc.; Founder, Wikipedia; President, Wikimedia Foundation
Free and open to the public!
You can read more about Jimmy Wales on his Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales
This talk is part of Evan Korth's Computers and Society course and is co-hosted by NYU's Free Culture series, ACM and Women in Computing chapters.
If you would like to be notified of future Computers and Society events, you can subscribe to the new announcements list by entering your email address in the form on this page:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/computers_and_society_announcements

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki, Zehnder) continued
Al Momin, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Contractive Propability Metrics for Dissipative Boltzmann Equations
Jose A. Carrillo, U. Autonoma de Barcelona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Evolution of the Probability Measure for the Majda Model: New Invariant Measures and Breathing PDFs
Zhi Lin, Mathematics, UNC Chapel Hill
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513: NO SEMINAR

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Building a Risk Model for the 21st Century
Jennifer Bender, MSCI Barra
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
Integral Models of Some Shimura Varieties
Mark Kisin, University of Chicago
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Low Mach Number Modeling of Type la Supernovae
John Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Singular Perturbation Solution of the Becker-Doring Equation, and Nucleation in the Ising Ferromagnet
Vitaly Shneidman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Document Mining using Things and Strings
Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania (on leave at google)
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Populations, Information, and Entropy
Edo Kussell, Biology, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Fred Laliberte
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Local Gromov Compactness Theorem for Unparameterized Pseudo-holomorphic Curves
Joel Fish, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Voltage Controlled Oscillations in Neurons: A Pendulum-Rayleigh System and Trigger Waves
Frank Hoppensteadt, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea Level Rise: How much can we really expect this century?
Shawn Marshall, University of Calgary
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 513
Complete Numerical Isolation of Real Zeros in General Triangular Systems
Chee K. Yap, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Floer Homology for Negative Line Bundles with Applications to Hamiltonian Chords
Peter Albers, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Hypoelliptic Laplacian in de Rham Theory and Its Applications
Jean-Michel Bismut, Universite Paris-Sud XI, Orsay
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 8
Optical Tomography
John C. Schotland, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

LECTURES ON COMPRESSED SENSING:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
Ron DeVore's series of four lectures as an introduction and follow-up to the colloquium talk given in the Fall on the subject.
1st lecture of 4.

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
A Road Less Travelled
Rowan Killip, UCLA
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Accounting for Risk Aversion, Vesting, Job Termination Risk and Multiple Exercises in Valuation of Employee Stock Options
Ronnie Sircar, 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., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Distribution of Rational Points on Group Compactifications
Ramin, Takloo-Bighash, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Optimization, Equilibrium and Games
Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Scaling Limits of Trap Models
Luiz Renato Fontes, Universidade de Sao Paulo
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Toward Multi-Sensory Physical Simulation
Doug James, Cornell
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
On Maslov Classes of Bohr-Sommerfeld Lagrangian Embeddings to Pseudo-Einstein Manifolds
Nikolai Tyurin
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Entropy, Large Deviations and Small Probabilities
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Critical Mass in a Keller-Segel Model
Nader Masmoudi, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 P.M., WWH 101
Folding Proteins and Learning Networks
Rich Bonneau, Biology/Computer Science
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/
Click on COB Events

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12

LECTURES ON COMPRESSED SENSING:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 813
Ron DeVore's series of four lectures as an introduction and follow-up to the colloquium talk given in the Fall on the subject.
2nd lecture of 4.

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki, Zehnder) continued
Barney Bramham, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
DNA-based Assembly of Molecular Electronic Devices
Richard Kiehl, University of Minnesota and NYU Chemistry Department

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 613
Hodge Genera of Complex Algebraic Varieties
Laurentiu Maxim, University of Illinois at Chicago
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Translational Motion Planning in 3-space
Esther Ezra, Tel Aviv University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki, Zehnder) continued
Umberto Hryniewicz, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
A New Proof of the Theorem of Csima and Sawyer Concerning Ordinary Points in Line Arrangements
Jonathan Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Cell-level Modeling of Biological Development using the GGH Model and CompuCell3D: Applications, Technology and Open Problems
James Glazier, Indiana University, Dept. of Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
The Semi-classical Modified Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Facts and Artifacts
Peter Miller, U. Michigan
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
Hodge Genera of Complex Algebraic Varieties
Laurentiu Maxim, University of Illinois at Chicago
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Percolation on the 2D Hamming Graph: The Supercritical Phase
Malwina Luczak
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Mind of the Market: From Entropy and Stationarity to Feedback and Evolution
Dominick Samperi, Citigroup
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
Relating of Maass Forms and Holomorphic Forms
Jay Jorgenson, City College, GC CUNY
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, FEBRUARY 16

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Extending the Theory for Domain Decomposition Algorithms to Problems with Less Regular Subdomains
Olof Widlund, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
The k-Core Problem: Law of Large Numbers and Asymptotic Normality
Malwina Luczak, London School of Economics
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamic Stability and Global Regularity of the 3D Incompressible Flow
Tom Hou, Caltech
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19

LECTURES ON COMPRESSED SENSING:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ron DeVore's series of four lectures as an introduction and follow-up to the colloquium talk given in the Fall on the subject.
3rd lecture of 4.
Today is observed for President's Day . However the participants have agreed with the date, so that today's seminar will be held.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
An 'All Possible Steps' Approach to the Accelerated Use of Gillespie's Algorithm
Azi Lipshtat, Dept. of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Measurable Chromatic Number and Sets with Excluded Distances
Boris Bukh, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Influence of the MJO on the Vertical and Horizontal Structures of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves
Paul Roundy, University of Albany
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 513
Tba
Long Lin
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki, Zehnder) continued
Umberto Hryniewicz, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Approximation and Interpolation with Power Series with +/-1 Coefficients
Sinan Gunturk, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

LECTURES ON COMPRESSED SENSING:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ron DeVore's series of four lectures as an introduction and follow-up to the colloquium talk given in the Fall on the subject.
4th lecture of 4.

THEORY SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Raghavan Dhandapani
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 613
Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for Non-uniformly Expanding Maps
Huyi Hu, Michigan State

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 513
Eigenvalue Statistics for CMV Matrices
Rowan Killip, UCLA
NOTE: Special Time 4:00 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Dahesh Museum Auditorium, 580 Madison Avenue (corner of 56th St.)
On the Relation between the Credit Spread Puzzle and the Equity Premium Puzzle
Pierre Colin-Dufresne, Goldman Sachs
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
Vanishing of L-Functions and Ranks of Selmer Groups
Chris Skinner, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS8.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
The Hypoelliptic Dirac Operator
Jean-Michel Bismut, Paris-Sud and NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Scaling Limits of Random Matrices
Bálint Virág University of Toronto
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 109
The Maximum Principle, the Hopf Lemma, and a Geometric Problem
Louis Nirenberg, CIMS
Please note the change in room number!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Locomotion and Pumping in Visco-Elastic Fluids
Joseph Teran, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
2:30 P.M., WWH 109
Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation
Qun Liu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science
Please note the different room number.
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
CANCELLED
Tba
Francesca Chiaromonte, Math/Biology
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/
Click on COB Events

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Uncertainty Principle
Alan Hammond, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

NYU GATEWAY MATH EDUCATION PROGRAM:
5:00 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Kimball Hall Lounge, 246 Greene Street
Why Is Measurement a Good Context for Learning Fractions? Two International Perspectives
Panel / Discussion / Refreshments
For more information and to sign up for for this event, visit
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/gateway/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Numerical Methods for Solving Kinetic Equations Associated with Integrate and Fire Neurons
Adi Rangan, CIMS

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 513
Tba
Abhijit Guria
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Hypoelliptic Dirac Operator -- Part II
Jean-Michel Bismut, Paris-Sud and NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Weak Epsilon-nets in Convex Position: (inverse) Ackermann strikes again
Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University and NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Understanding Atmospheric Convection: Old Shortcomings and New Imperatives
Steven Sherwood, Yale University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MARCH 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Anisotropic Smoothness Spaces via Level Sets
Ron DeVore, University of South Carolina, visiting CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Frontiers in Device Engineering: Synthesis for Non-Intuitive Design
Tony Levi, Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Southern California
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
Impossibility Results for Various Signature and Encryption Schemes in the Standard Model via Meta-Reductions
Prashant Puniya, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
How Large Random Matrices Help Macroeconomists
Alexei Onatski, Columbia University, Economics Dept.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

NYU GATEWAY MATH EDUCATION PROGRAM:
5:00 - 7:00 P.M., NYU Kimball Hall Lounge, 246 Greene Street
What Are 'Best Practices' for Teaching Rational Number? How two middle schools are developing 'Math Education Labs' to find out
Panel / Discussion / Refreshments
For more information and to sign up for for this event, visit
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/gateway/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Risk Model Uncertainty and Robust Optimization
Sebastian Ceria, Axioma
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
On Some Recent Work of Gabber in Etale Cohomology
Luc Illusie, IAS andrinceton Université Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS8.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

A 3-DAY FRG WORKSHOP:
RATIONALLY CONNECTED VARIETIES, NEW YORK, MARCH 2 - 4, 2007
Friday, March 2 at Columbia University

  • 11:00 A.M.: A. de Jong (Columbia University)
    Uniruledness of Moduli of Minimal Pointed Curves
  • 1:30 P.M.: B. Hassett (Rice University)
    Tba
  • 3:30 P.M.: W. Fulton (Columbia University)
    Equivariant Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/FRG07.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A New FFT-like Algorithm for Eigenvalues of Random Matrices
Plamen Koev, MIT
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, Conference Room at 715 Broadway, 7th Floor
Discriminative Sentence Compression with Conditional Random Fields
Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

NEURO FRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Threshold, Inhibition and Stimulus Selectivity in Cat Visual Cortex
David Ferster, Northwestern

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Removing Camera Shake from a Single Potograph
Rob Fergus, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Free Probability Theory
Slava Kargin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamics of Perceptual Bistability
John Rinzel, CIMS and Center for Neural Science, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 P.M., WWH 101
Exploring the Relationship between Evolutionary Sequence Constraint and Genome Function
Elliott H. Margulies, NIH
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/
Click on COB Events

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

A 3-DAY FRG WORKSHOP:
RATIONALLY CONNECTED VARIETIES, NEW YORK, MARCH 2 - 4, 2007
CIMS-NYU, WWH 102

  • 10:00 A.M.: A. Knecht (Rice University)
    Weak Approximation for Degree Two del Pezzo Surfaces
  • 11:30 A.M.: O. Wittenberg (Rice University)
    Hasse Principle for del Pezzo Surfaces of Degree 4
  • 2:30 P.M.: Ch. Xu (Princeton University)
    Degenerations of Rationally Connected Varieties
  • 4:00 P.M.: I. Coskun (MIT)
    The Divisor Theory of the Kontsevich Moduli Space of Curves
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/FRG07.html

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

A 3-DAY FRG WORKSHOP:
RATIONALLY CONNECTED VARIETIES, NEW YORK, MARCH 2 - 4, 2007
CIMS-NYU, WWH 102

  • 10:00 A.M.: M. DeLand (Columbia University)
    Rational Curves on Fermat Hypersurfaces
  • 10:30 A.M.: S. Turkelli (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
    Counting Field Extensions: Malle's Conjecture
  • 11:30 A.M.: A. Venkatsch (CIMS)
    Cohomology of Moduli Spaces of Curves via Asymptotics of Points of Bounded Heights
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/FRG07.html

MONDAY, MARCH 5

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Integrated Models of Scenes and Objects
Antonio Torralba, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

MATH COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Random Motions in Random Media
Alain-Sol Sznitman, ETH Zurich

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Symplectic Capacities and Volume Radius
Yaron Ostrover, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 6

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Stochastic Synchronization in Finite Size Spiking Networks
Brent Doiron, Center for Neural Science

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Additively Weighted Voronoi Diagrams in 2D
Dave Millman
Click "Talks" at http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/
or visit http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Hypoelliptic Dirac Operator -- Part III
Jean-Michel Bismut, Paris-Sud and NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
L1 Embeddings of the Transportation Cost Metric on Planar Grids
Assaf Naor, NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 613
Planning of DOE SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing) Fusion Simulation Projects
Arnold Kritz, Lehigh University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/imre/mfdd.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Internal Wave Generation, Conversion, and Dissipation in the South China Sea
Louis St. Laurent, Florida State University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) continued
Joe Johns, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Adaptive Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
Daniel Stefankovic, University of Rochester
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Logarithmic Hardy Littlewood Sobolev Inequality on the Torus and Spectral Zeta Functions
Kate Okikiolu, University of California at San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optical Tomography
John C. Schotland, Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
Secure Linear Algebra Using Linearly Recurrent Sequences
Joel Alwen, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
Asymptotics of the Tracy-Widom Distribution Functions
Robert Buckingham, University of Michigan
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Schemes of Lattices in Vector Spaces over the Local Hilbert Class Field
William Haboush, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS8.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 9

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization
Frank Curtis, Northwestern University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Giant Component and Vacant Set for Random Walk on a Discrete Torus
Alain-Sol Sznitman, ETH Zurich
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fast Sweeping Method for Static Convex Hamilton-Jacobi Equation
Hongkai Zhao, University of California at Irvine
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, MARCH 12 - FRIDAY, MARCH 16

SPRING BREAK

MONDAY, MARCH 12 - FRIDAY, MARCH 16

SPRING BREAK

MONDAY, MARCH 12 - FRIDAY, MARCH 16

SPRING BREAK

MONDAY, MARCH 19

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Storytelling Alice: Presenting Programming as a Means to the End of Storytelling
Caitlin Kelleher, Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Work of Niederkrüger and Presas
Peter Albers, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 20

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Synchrony and Asynchrony in a Stochastic Neural Network
Lee DeVille, CIMS

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Thomas-Fermi Theory and the Stability of Matter
Alan Hammond, NYU
(Note: This talk does not rely on previous talks!)
Note special date and time.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
The Uncertainty Principle -- Part 3
Alan Hammond, NYU
Note special date and time.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
The Expressivity of Quantifying over Regions
Ernest Davis
Click "Talks" at http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/
or visit http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
The Complete Fewnomial Conjecture
J. Maurice Rojas, Texas A&M University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Thermodynamic Constrains on the Intensity of Storms
Olivier Pauluis, CIMS/CAOS
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY SERIES:
3:30 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 109
Free Software in Ethics and in Practice
Richard Stallman
The goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux, is now used by tens of millions of users worldwide.
This talk is part of Evan Korth's Computers and Society course series. The talk will be accessible to all audiences and the public is encouraged to attend.

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Polyfolds: The Morse Theory Example -- Part 2
Joe Johns, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Lower Bound on the Blow-Up Rate of the Axisymmetric Navier-Stokes Equations
Robert Strain, Harvard University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Brian Chan, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
From Weak to Strong Watermarking
Daniel Wichs, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Stochastic Webs and Three-Dimensional Tiling with Pentagonal Symmetry
George Zaslavsky, CIMS

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Trilinear Forms and the Central Values of Triple Product L-Functions
Atsushi Ichino, Osaka City University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Dahesh Museum Auditorium, 580 Madison Ave. (corner of 56th St.)
Pricing Credit Derivatives and Measuring Credit Risk in Multifactor Models
Paul Glasserman, Columbia University
This seminar is a joint effort of the Math Finance Seminar and 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://www.cfe.columbia.edu/seminars/NY_Quantitative_Finance/index.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 23

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Gradient-based Approach for Computing Nash Equilibria of Large Sequential Games
Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1013
A New Approach to Universality Limits on the Bulk and Edge of the Spectrum
Doron Lubinsky, Georgia Tech
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Large Time Fluctuations of the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process
Alexei Borodin, Caltech
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Tba
Ludmil Katzarkov, Miami and IAS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
New Approaches to Modeling and Control of Complex Dynamics
Adrien Treuille, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Sieves in Number Theory
Akshay Venkatesh
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Free Boundary Problems of the Euler Equation: Hydrodynamical Instabilities and Energy Estimates
Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Tech
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

2007 COURANT LECTURES BY BISMUT:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Traces, Determinants, and Probability Theory
Jean-Michel Bismut, Orsay
A reception will take place following this lecture, and is planned to begin in the 13th floor common of Warren Weaver Hall at 4:45 P.M.
The 2nd lecture will be March 26th.

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Kris Gunsalus, Biology
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/
Click on COB Events

NEW YORK AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., Columbia University
A Symplectic Category featuring Lagrangian Correspondences and Holomorphic Quilts
Katrin Wehrheim, MIT
Please email Peter Albers at albers@cims.nyu.edu for location at Columbia University, or phone him at (212) 998-3276.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html
and
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ecm/gauge.html

NEW YORK AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 P.M., Columbia University
The Space of Plane Fields on a 3-Manifold
John Etnyre, Georgia Tech
Please email Peter Albers at albers@cims.nyu.edu for location at Columbia University, or phone him at (212) 998-3276.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html
and
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ecm/gauge.html

MONDAY, MARCH 26

2007 COURANT LECTURES BY BISMUT:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Quillen Metrics, the Hypoelliptic Laplacian: The Role of the Functional Integral
Jean-Michel Bismut, Orsay
http://math.nyu.edu/research/colloq06.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Symmetry Breaking for S1-invariant Morse Functions
Urs Frauenfelder, Munich
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Translation and Interpretation of Morphogen Gradients
Marcos Nahmad, California Institute of Technology

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dependence of the Statistical Properties of a Dynamical Systems from a Parameter
Carlangelo Liverani (Rome)

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Discrete Surface Ricci Flow
David Gu, SUNYSB
Click "Talks" at http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/
or visit http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Improved Approximation Algorithms for TSP with Neighborhoods
Joe Mitchell, Stony Brook University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Connecting Climates and Air Quality: The Contribution of Methane to Hemispheric Ozone Pollution
Arlene Fiore, GFDL
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 813
Weak Ergodicity Breaking: From Deterministic Diffusion in Quantum Dots
Eli Barkai, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv
This is a joint seminar with NYU Physics

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Symmetries Arising in the Arnold-Givental Conjecture
Urs Frauenfelder, Munich
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Embedding Trees in Pseudorandom Graphs
Jan Vondrak, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Rayleigh-Benard Convection at High Prandtl Number
Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Techniques in Virtual Surgery
Joey Terran, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
Full-Domain Subgroup Hiding and Constant-Size Group Signatures
Sherman S.M. Chow, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
Asymptotics for the Camassa-Holm Equation
Dmitry Shepeksky, Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Ukraine
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., Room 122, Meyer Hall (4 Washington Place)
The Errors and Animadversions of Sir Isaac Newton
Shelly Glashow (1979 Nobel Laureate)

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
On the Role of Local Root Numbers in Harmonic Analysis
Dipendra Prasad, IAS, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Basket Implied Volatility from Geodesics
Matthew Anderson and Jung-Han Kimn, Louisiana State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 30

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY:
Computer Science Building (Auditorium) on Olden Street, Princeton University

There will be a reception following in the `Banana Room'' of the Computer Science Building
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
or see the Columbia-Princeton Probability Day website at:
http://math.columbia.edu/&7Epbank/ProbabilitySeminar/ProbabilityDay3.htm

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Mirror Symmetry from Mathematical Point of View
Dmitry Orlov, Steklov and IAS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
On Fluid-Solute-Structure Interaction
Pilwah Lee
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Random Walks and Complex Fluids
Mike Shelley, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, APRIL 2

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Hamilton S1-manifolds are Uniruled
Dusa McDuff, Stony Brook
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Mechanisms Underlying Functional Reentry and Atrial Fibrillation Unveiled by Modeling and Computation Study
Yunfan Gong, Division of Cardiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
Jihun Yu
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Object and Scene Recognition with Bags of Features and Spatial Pyramids
Svetlana Lazebnik, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, (Room 815, Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Temporal Precision and the Visual Code: The Tip of the Iceberg
Daniel A. Butts, Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Structure of Rational and Ruled Symplectic 4-manifolds
Umberto Hryniewicz, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, APRIL 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Well-posedness for the Critical Wave Equation on Domains
Fabrice Planchon, Universite Paris 13
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Two talks by AML post-docs: The Wake of a Cylinder Performing Rotary Oscillations
and
Information Filtering
Lionel Moret and Benjamin Thiria
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms for Graphs Clustering and Partitioning, with Applications to Preconditioning
Dan Spielman, Yale University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Morse Theory on Manifolds with Boundary and Convexity
Gabriel Katz, William Peterson University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Versions of Diffusion Limited Aggregation
Itai Benjamini, Weizmann Institute
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Practical Analysis Tools for Large-Scale Software Development
Manu Sridharan, University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Effective Analytic Continuation of Eisenstein Series
Yakov Kerzhner
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Shear-Induced Chaos
Lai-Sang Young, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence and the Cut-off Covering Spectrum
Christina Sormani, CUNY
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

MONDAY, APRIL 9

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Abstract Interpretation with Applications to Semantics and Static Analysis
Patrick Cousot, École Normale Supérieure
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

TUESDAY, APRIL 10

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Additively Weighted Voronoi Diagrams in 2D
Dave Millman
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., Room 122, Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus
Conductance of Single Molecule Junctions Using Amine-Gold Linkages
Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 613
National Spherical Torus Experiment at Princeton University
Jonathan Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/imre/mfdd.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Strange Eigenmodes of Advection-diffusion Operators
Ray Pierrehumbert, Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND DAY
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inertia-Gravity Waves Generated within a Dipole Vortex
Chris Snyder, NCAR
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM:
Silver Center, Silverstein Lounge
The Changing Nature of Innovation
Paul Horn, Watson/IBM

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Linking Subsets Producing Critical Points
Federica Pasquotto, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Paths with No Small Angle
Imre Barany, Renyi Institute, Budapest and University College London
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, APRIL 12

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Single Molecule Studies in Polymer Physics and Biology
Charles Schroreder, Harvard University, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
Tableaux Combinatorics for the Asymmetric Exclusion Process
Lauren Williams, Harvard University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
An Introduction to Chemical Reaction Network Theory
Martin Feinberg, Ohio State University

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
4:15 P.M., Room 9204/9205, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
The Story of the Sparsest Cut Problem
Assaf Naor, CIMS
Note special time and place!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Baker Theory on Group Varieties
Sinnou David, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
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, APRIL 13

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Open Source Package for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming
Andreas Waechter, IBM Yorktown Heights
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Dynamical Queueing Systems
William Massey, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NEURO FRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Neurophysiological Experiments on Figure-Ground Organization and Selective Visual Attention
Rudiger von der Heydt, Kreiger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Combinatorial Heegaard-Floer Invariants for Four-dimensional Cobordisms
Ciprian Manolescu, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Real-time Deformable Objects: Graphics, Haptics, Sound
Jernej Barbic, Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
From Soap Bubbles to Rotating Crystals
Jean Taylor
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stability and Instability in Complex Chemical Reaction Networks: The Big Picture
Martin Feinberg, OSU
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

2007 CIMS STUDENT PRIZES:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109

A reception follows in the 13th floor common.

JOINT NY SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
Courant Institute, WWH 101

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html
and
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ecm/gauge.html

MONDAY, APRIL 16

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Compact Symplectic Four-manifold Admits Only Finitely Many Toric Actions: Soft and Hard Proofs
Liat Kessler, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Analyzing Properties of Systems
Aaron Bradley, Stanford University
Refreshments iwll be sered at 11:30 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Contrast-dependent Spatial Summation Area in Visual Cortex: Optimal Filtering and Modeling of Neural Mechanisms
Martin Raphan, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Chain-level String Topology with a View towards SFT
Janko Latschev, Munich
Note Special Day and Time
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Skeleta of Convex Bodies
David Larman, University College London
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18

BIOLOGICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
An Efficient Way to Learn Deep Generative Models
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto
NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION!
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/seminars.html

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, (Room 815, Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Time, Anticipation and Associative Learning
Peter D. Balsam, Barnard College and Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd.
Peter Albers, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Contact Homology via Dual Legendrian Curves: Definition and First Steps for Computation
Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Fluctuations and the Cell Cycle in Yeast
Eric Siggia, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
A Cryptographic Study of Secure Internet Mreasurement
Sharon Goldberg, Princeton University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND RANDOM MATRICES WORKING SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 513
The Spectral Radius of Large Real Symmetric Random Matrices with Non-symmetrically Distributed Entries
Sandrine Peche, UC Davis
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~baik/RMT_seminar.htm

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Dahesh Museum Auditorium, 580 Madison Ave. (corner of 56th St.)
An Empirical Analysis of the Pricing of CDOs
Francis Longstaff, UCLA
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://www.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
Special Cycles on Shimura Varieties
Wei Zhang, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

NEW YORK AREA THEORY DAY:
Room 303, Mudd Hall, Columbia University
Please note: This is a changed location!

For directions, please see
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/directions.html
Organized by: Columbia, IBM Research, and NYU. External sponsorship by: Google

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sparse Solutions to Underdetermined Linear Systems
Joel Tropp, University of Michigan
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Stein's Method and Continuous Symmetries
Elizabeth Meckes, AIM and Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Geometric Manipulation using Differential Representations
Olga Sorkine, Technical University of Berlin
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Analytical and Numerical Study of Coupled Atomistic-Continuum Methods for Fluids
Weiqing Ren, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

SPECIAL APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Dominant Systems for Asymptotic Analysis of Reaction Networks
Alexander Gorban, University of Leicester, UK

MONDAY, APRIL 23

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Semi-Level Verification of Register Transfer Level Designs
Panagiotis Manolios, Georgia Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Two-dimensional Polymers (self-avoiding walks) and Their Continuum Limit
Greg Lawler, University of Chicago
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq06.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd.
Umberto Hryniewicz, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Vortex Dynamics in Reaction-Diffusion Equations with Applications to Electrophysiology
A.V. Panfilov, Dept. of Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Filling Inequalities for Nilpotent Groups
Robert Young, University of Chicago
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Tba
Denis Zorin, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
A Point Set Puzzle Revisited
Marjorie Senechal, Smith College, Northampton
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25

EVAN KORTH'S COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY:
3:30 P.M., WWH 109
Travel and Human Rights Issues Posed by Computerized Travel Records
Edward Hasbrouck
Join Evan Korth's Computers and Society class for a special talk: Edward Hasbrouck is the author of the Practical Nomad series, a travel expert, award winning investigative journalist, and one of the world's leading advocates for the rights of travelers. Hasbrouck has more than 15 years experience as a travel industry insider and technology consultant, specializing in international airfares and reservations technology.
He will discuss travel, especially air travel, and the current debates about ``homeland security'' technologies and practices since September 11th, 2001. Are the differences between travel records and other types of personal data (medical, financial, criminal) technological? Political? Both? Is the issue a ``balance'' between security and civil liberties, privacy and safety? Or is there some other agenda and set of interests at stake?
Sponsors: Free Culture @NYU, NYU ACM, WinC, and InfoLaw/NYU

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Destruction of Potential Vorticity in the Ocean by Winds
Leif Thomas, WHOI
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, (Room 815, Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Neural Coding of Multiple Stimulus Features in Auditory Cortex
Jonathan Z. Simon, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering / Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd.
Peter Albers, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Conflict-Free Coloring of Geometric Hypergraphs
Panagiotis Cheilaris, CUNY Graduate Center
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, APRIL 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Free Boundary Problem of 3-D Incompressible Euler Equations
Ping Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, visiting CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Large-scale Circulation in Rayleigh-Bé Convection: A Dynamical System Subjected to the Fury of Turbulence
Guenter Ahlers, Dept. of Physics and iQCD, UCSB
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
Robust Fuzzy Extractors and Authenticated Key Agreement from Close Secrets
Yevginiy Dodis, NYU
The paper is available at
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~yevgen/ps/ake-close.ps
See the Crypto website at:
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
An Exact and Explicit Solution for the Valuation of American Put Options
Song-Ping Zhu, University of Wollongong
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
Double Header, NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 1302

TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Design of Control Systems with Inputs and Outputs Satisfying Certain Norm Bounding Conditions with a Case Study of Control of Building Subject to Seismic Disturbance
Suchin Arunsawatwong, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
The Thermodynamic Closure Approximation of Kinetic Theories for Complex Fluids
Pingwen Zhang, Peking University
Please note the special time and location.
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, MAY 1
Counting Curves in Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Richard Thomas, Imperial and Columbia Universities
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Gravitational Allocation to Poisson Points
Dan Romik, Bell Labs
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Democratizing Content Distribution
Michael J. Freedman, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Advice on How to Get a Job and Graduate
Paul Wright
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Accurate A/D Conversion with Inaccurate Devices
Sinan Gunturk, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (COB COLLOQUIUM):
4:00 -5:00 P.M., WWH 101
Energy-Based Learning: Applications to Sequence Labeling and to Neural Models of Vision
Yann LeCun
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/compbio/

MONDAY, APRIL 30

MINI WORKSHOP ON SPARSITY AND APPROXIMATION:
WWH 1314

Abstracts can be found at
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Deputy: Dependent Types for Safe Systems Software
Jeremy Condit, University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MAY 1

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Counting Curves in Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Richard Thomas, Imperial and Columbia Universities
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Pulsed Digital Oscillators
Manuel Dominguez, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Tba
Marsha Berger, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~exact/ctag_seminar.html

RECEPTION CELEBRATING RAGHU VARADHAN, 2007 Abel Prize Laureate
4:30 P.M., 13th Floor Commons, WWH
The reception begins at 4:30, with Remarks to begin at 4:50 P.M. or so.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
The Technological Legacy of Virtual Human Simulation
Eftychios Sifakis, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp07

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, (Room 815, Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Auditory Cortex Spike Patterns Support Sequential Processing, Not Optimal Coding
Kenneth D. Harris, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Pseudholomorphic Foliations and Area Preserving Disc Maps: Part 2
Barney Bramham, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Erdos-Hajnal Type Problems
Jacob Fox, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MAY 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nodal Lines of Laplace Eigenfunctions, Ergodic Theory and Complex Numbers
Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Foam Drainage Rheology
Stephan Koehler, Physics, Emory University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 102
Pseudorandomness: New Results and Applications
Emmanuele Viola, Institute of Advanced Study
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Correlation Trading and Copula Pricing Methods: Recent Results
Umberto Cherubini, University of Bologna
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
Non-Abelian and Partly Abelian Cohomology
Lawrence Breen, Universite Paris 13
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, MAY 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations: Semi-classics and Blow-up: Numerical Studies
Norbert Mauser, University of Vienna
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Convergence of Kac's Random Walk
Sergiy Sidenko, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Lower Dimensional Obstacles and Related Problems
Luis Silvestre
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Microrheology of Active Systems
Andy Lau, Florida Atlantic University
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/

NEW YORK AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
Stony Brook, Room P-131

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html
and
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ecm/gauge.html

MONDAY, MAY 7

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd.
Various Speakers
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Fuchsian Groups and the Spectral Theory of Finite Gap Jacobi Matrices or Peherstorfer-Sodin-Yuditskii meet Killip-Simon
Barry Simon, Caltech

TUESDAY, MAY 8

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
A General Fredholm Theory (after Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder) - ctd.
Various Speakers
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Convergence Proof of a Stokes Flow Immersed Boundary Method
Yoichiro Mori, University of British Columbia
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Periodic Unfolding Method: Some Old and New Results
Alain Damlamian, University of Paris 12

FOUNDATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING:
5:00 - 7:00 P.M., 13th Floor, WWH
Class poster presentations

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Bit-thrifty Evaluation of Geometric Predicates
David Kirkpatrick, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Squares!
Ferran Hurtado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MAY 10

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
More About the Plastikstufe
Peter Albers, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Dahesh Museum Auditorium, 580 Madison Ave. (corner of 56th St.)
A Practical Quantitative Approach to CB/ Vol arb
Paul Besson, ADI Gestion
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://www.cfe.columbia.edu/seminars/NY_Quantitative_Finance/index.html

FRIDAY, MAY 11

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 102
Interactive PCP
Yael Tauman
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

FRIDAY, MAY 11 AND SATURDAY, MAY 12

TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM TO HONOR MALVIN KALOS:
Courant Institute-NYU, WWH 109
The symposium is celebrating Malvin's more than 40 years of contributions to condensed matter physics, Monte Carlo methodology and computational science

Friday, May 11

  • 9:00 - 9:30 A.M.: Registration
  • 9:30 - 10:00: Leslie Greengard: Introduction
  • 10:00 - 12:00: Contributed Talks
  • 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch at the Courant Institute
  • 1:30 - 5:00: Contributed Talks
  • 6:00 P.M.: Dinner at Grotta Azzurra Restaurant

Saturday, May 12

  • 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon: Contributed Talks
  • 12:00: Farewell

For more information about the symposium, registration, and hotel information, please see:
http://www.shodor.org/gfmc40/about
or note the ``Special Events'' section of the CIMS home page at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/

FRIDAY, MAY 18

MUSIC AT CIMS:
5:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Lounge
Piano quartets by Mozart and Brahms
Urs Rutishauser, violin
Lori Berkowitz-Lax, viola
Steve Flanders, cello
Ed Schonberg, piano

FRIDAY, MAY 18 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF THE 60th BIRTHDAY OF DORIAN GOLDFELD:
Columbia University, Mathematics Building (Morningside Campus)
For Program Schedule, abstracts, and all local information, please see:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ecope/GoldfeldConference.htm
For Conference Registration, email autform@math.columbia.edu
For Banquet Sign-Up, email banquet@math.columbia.edu

THURSDAY, MAY 31

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., Room 611, Meyer/Physics Building, 4 Washington Place
Experimental Evidence for Anderson-Localization of Light
Georg Maret, Universität Konstanz, Germany

MONDAY, JUNE 4

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Regression Splines as a Computational Framework for Mammalian Systems Biology
Debopriya Das, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

MONDAY, JUNE 18

RNA DESIGN SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 405 Silver
Folding, Assembly and Design Principles of RNA as a Proto-Language
Luc Jaeger, University of California at Santa Barbara