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MONDAY, JANUARY 10

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Connecting L-H Power Threshold Studies on NSTX to the X-Transport Model
Devon Battaglia, ORNL
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, 719 Broadway, 7th Floor Conference Room
Global Learning of Entailment Graphs
Jonathan Berant (Ph.D. candidate: The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, working in Bar-Ilan University's NLP Lab)
Lunch with the speaker follows

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
A Counter-Example to the Hirsch Conjecture
Paco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Continuous Dependence Property via Linearization for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems
Phillippe G. LeFloch, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 P.M., WWH 102
Coupling Regularizes Individual Units in Noisy Populations
Cheng Ly, University of Pittsburgh
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Title Tba
David Blei, Princeton University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/sem/schedule/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Inverse Problem for Lattice Points
Zeljka Ljujic, CUNY Graduate Center
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Existence for the Energy Critical Schrodinger Equation in Different Spaces
Benoit Pausader, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Beltrami-Trkal Flows and Organized Structures in Fluid Turbulence: Theory, Experiment and Atmospheric Observations
Eugene Levich, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 512
Generic Local L^∞ Bounds for Conformal Families of Laplace Operators
John Toth, McGill University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 28

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Long-Range Percolation on the Hierarchical Lattice
Pieter Trapman, Stockholm University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Diffraction Gratings and Photonic Crystals: New Integral Representations for Periodic Scattering and Eigenvalue Problems
Alex Barnett, Dartmouth College
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:15 A.M., WWH 317
Orthogonality Conditions and Stability for the Stefan Problem with Surface Tension
Mahir Hadzic
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Analysis of Data through Probabilistic Models
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Finding a Job and the Two Body Problem
Avinathan Hassidim
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MONDAY, JANUARY 31

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Diffusion Generated Motion for Grain Growth and Recrystallization
Matthew Elsey, University of Michigan
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
New Curvature Flows
Gang Tian, Princeton Unviersity
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Get Another Label? Improving Data Quality and Machine Learning using Multiple, Noisy Labelers
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Stern School of Business, NYU
http://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/sem/schedule/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Improved Bounds on the (1-k)-Separation Problem
Mordechai Novick, Hebrew University, Israel
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Small BGK Waves and Landau Damping
Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Tech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Molecular Printing: Solving the sub-100 nm Soft Matter Conundrum
Adam Braunschweig, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Reductions between Expansion Problems
Madhur Tulsiani
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

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

Gautam Chinta, CUNY Graduate Center
Title TBA
Peter Sarnak, IAS & Princeton University
Zeros and Nodal Lines of homomorphic and Maass Forms

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

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Large Deviations for Dense Random Graphs
S.R.S. Varadhan, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Triangle Based Fast Multipole Method for Elastostatic Interactions in a Half Space
Zydrunas Gimbutas, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Max-Throughput for Sequential Testing
Lisa Hellerstein, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4102, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Research at Rakuten Institute of Technology, New York (RIT-NY)
Satoshi Sekine and Zofia Stankiewicz
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 512^*
Asymetric Auctions
Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University
^*Please note this seminar will be held in WWH 512
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

BIOMATH/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM (COB DAY):

1:00 - 6:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall Room 109 Ground Floor, Courant Institute, 251 Mercer St.
Come join us for a day of exploring various aspects of Computational Biology. This is a day the CIMS and COB Community won't want to miss! COB Ph.D. Applicants are also invited to attend. The day will include invited lectures and a student poster session during the refreshment break.

Featured Speakers Include:

1:00 P.M.: David Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University
Methods for High-Throughput Screening and Selection Assays for Biology and Its Applications to Directed Evolution
2:00 P.M.: Carol Rohl, Director, Informatics, Mervck Research Labs, Merck & Co.
Practical Challenges of Next-Genreration Sequencing: Applications to Genome, Exome and Transc-riptome Sequencing
3:00 P.M.: Student Poster Session and Refreshment Break in 13th Floor Lounge
4:00 P.M.: Arjun Raj, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
FISHing for Worm Guts: A Single Molecule View of Cell Fate
5:00 P.M.: Edo Kussell, Assistant Professor of Biologyand Physics, NYU
Dynamics of Bacterial Sequence Evolution

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Blow-Up Global Existence for Dispersive Critical Problems
Frank Merle, Unviersite Cergy-Pontoise & IHES
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 P.M., WWH 109
The Coupling of Chemotaxis and Hydrodynamics in Suspensions of Micro-Swimmers
Enkeleida Lushi, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
This seminar is cancelled. To be rescheduled.
Inequalities Between the Number of Points, Lines, Planes, etc. Spanned by n Points
George Purdy, University of Cincinnati
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Characterizations of Sobolev Spaces and Related Inequalities
Hoai-Minh Nguyen, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title TBA
Eric Keaveny, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Metric Extension Operators, Vertex Sparsifiers and Lipschitz Extendability
Yury Makarychev
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Expander Graphs, Gonality, and Galois Representations
Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Fast Algorithm for Sparse Matrix Computations Related to Inversion
Song Li, Stanford University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Stable Diffusions Interacting through Their Ranks, as Models for Large Equity Markets
Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Surface Comparison using Conformal Geometry
Yaron Lipman, Princeton University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title TBA
Alexandra Tzella, Cambridge University
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 512
Efficient Classification for Metric Data
Aryeh Kontorovich, Ben Gurion University
No time indicated at the seminar website. Please check back. Also note the change in room number for ths seminar.
http://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/sem/schedule/

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 705
New Advances in the Langlands Correspondence
David Kazhdan, Hebrew University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Undulatory Swimming in Viscoelastic Fluids
Paulo Arratia, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
The Contribution of Nonequilibrium Thermal Fluctuations to Diffusive Mass Transfer
Aleks Donev
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Valuations on Sobolev Spaces
Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Technology
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
5:30 - 6:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
The Space of Area Functions on Minkowski Spaces
A.C. Thompson, Dalhousie University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 P.M., WWH 102
Compulsory Pooling of Crowded Objects: A Mixture Model
Denis Pelli (Professor of Psychology and Neural Science) and Jeremy Freeman (grad student, CNS NYU)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Mandelbrot Set + Symmetry Groups * Higher Dimensions = ?
Elizabeth Chen, University of Michigan
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Ozone Hole, the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Sea Ice Trends
Michael Sigmond, University of Toronto
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

PRINCETON MATH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., Fine Hall 314, Washington Road, Princeton University
Modular Representations of p-Adic Groups
Florian Herzig, Institute for Advance Study
http://www.math.princeton.edu/seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Aronsson Type Approach to Extremal Quasiconformal Mappings
Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title TBA
Anke Lindner, PMMH-ESPCI
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Poly-Logarithmic Independence Fools Bounded Depth Circuits
Mark Braverman
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102
Selmer Groups of Non-Ordinary Motives
Jonathan Pottharst, Boston University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in in WWH 102.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 102
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Recent Discontinuous Galerkin Developments at ONERA
Juliet Ryan, ONERA & Paris 13 University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
CLE(4) and the Gaussian Free Field
Jason Miller, Microsoft Research
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Average-case Solutions to Hard Problems
Mark Braverman, University of Toronto
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:30 P.M., Room 4102, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Learning Semantics and Pragmatics from Dialogue History
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Boundary Conditions for the Moving Contact Line Problem
Weiqing Ren, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title TBA
Takafumi Akahori, Ehime University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
Mathematical Models of Malaria: A Nonlinear Systems Analysis of Complex Disease
Frank Hoppensteadt (NYU)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:35 P.M., WWH 412
Vortex/Magnetic Field: The Cosmological Origin
Zensho Yoshida, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title TBA
Hideyuki Miura, Univrsity of Osaka
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Two Generalizations of the Ham Sandwich Theorem
Steven Simon, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Deep Stratification and Overturning Circulation in the Ocean
Maxim Nikurashin, Princeton University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

PRINCETON MATH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., Fine Hall 314, Washington Road, Princeton University
Higher Teichmueller Spaces: From SL(2,R) to Other Lie Groups
Anna Wienhard, Princeton University
http://www.math.princeton.edu/seminars/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Structure Formula for Wave Operators
Marius Beceanu, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Analytic Geometry Over F₁
Vladimir Berkovich, Weizmann Institute, Israel
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Semidefinite Programming Applied to Ordering Problems
Franz Rendl, University of Klagenfurt
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
The Bohman-Frieze Process
Will Perkins, CIMS
Please note the change in speaker and title.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fractal Organization of DNA in the Cell Nucleus: Theoretical Prediction, Experimental Confirmation, Computer Simulation...and still many open questions
Alexander Grosberg, NYU Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Sharp Constants for the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Inequality on Rⁿ and the Folland-Stein and Jeerison-Lee Inequalities on the Heisenberg Group
Elliott Lieb, Princeton University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Ill-Posed Problems
Charles Epstein, Unviersity of Pennsylvania
This lecture is part of the Fritz John Lecture Series in celebration of the 100th birthday of Fritz John
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 1

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 412
Bounds on Transport in Surface Stress Driven Turbulent Flows
George Hagstrom, University of Texas
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
Computational Biology of Antigenic Variation
Timothy Cardozo (Sackler)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
An Inverse Function Theorem in Frechet Spaces
Ivar Ekeland, University of British Columbia
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tracking Climate Models: Advances in Climate Informatics
Claire Monteleoni, Columbia University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 705
The Law of Series
Yves Lacroix (Toulon, France)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Convergence of Discounted Solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation
Albert Fathi, ENS Lyon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Some Relative Cases of Manin-Mumford for Abelian Surfaces
Umberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superior, Pisa
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Two Talks, WWH 317

10:00 A.M.: Cover Times, Blanket Times, and the Gaussian Free Field
Jian Ding, UC Berkeley
11:15 A.M.: Probability Distribution of the Free Energy of the Continuum Directed Random Polymer in 1+1 Dimensions
Ivan Corwin, CIMS

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

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room TBA
Telescopic Actions
Anton Petrunin, Penn State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Training a Computer to See People
Deva Ramanan, University of California at Irvine
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title TBA
Steven Simon, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cardiac Mechanics and Electrophysiology in a Unified Mathematical and Computational Framework
Charles Peskin, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, MARCH 7

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Unusual Ground States of Matter
Sal Torquato, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Reformulation of the Covering and Quantizer Problems as Ground States of Interacting Particles
Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Title TBA
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

TUESDAY, MARCH 8

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
Behavior of Spiking Neurons: Analyzes and Speculations
Larry Sirovich (MSSM/Rockefeller)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Measures and Models of Mixing in Mesoscale Ocean Turbulence
Shane Keating, CIMS
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Smoothing Lyapunov Functions
Albert Fathi (ENS Lyon)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 201
Endoscopic Transfer of the Bernstein Center
Thomas Haines, University of Maryland (visiting IAS)
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in in WWH 201.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 201
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 11

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
The Phase Transition in Percolation on the Hamming Cube
Asaf Nachmias, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Parallel Multigrid Algorithms for Inverse Problems
George Biros, Georgia Tech
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Control with Budget Constraints and Resets
Alexander Vladimirsky, Cornell University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

THURSDAY, MARCH 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Dynamics Above the Ground State Energy for the Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation
Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 18

MONDAY, MARCH 21

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
10:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Singular Perturbation Models in Phase Transitions for Second Order Materials
Milena Chermisi, NJIT

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Commuting Hamiltonians and symplectic topology
Claude Viterbo
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Title TBA
Igor Rivin, Temple University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

TUESDAY, MARCH 22

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
Applications of Long-Timescale Molecular Dynamics Simulation to Function and Folding
Abba Leffler (D.E. Shaw Research)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 412
Equilibrium and Time-Dependent Simulations of Two-Dimensional Magneto-Hydrodynamic Tokamak Plasmas with Flow
Luca Guazzotto, University of Rochester
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Geometry: Paradigms for Bridging Disciplines
Godfried Toussaint, Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection
Anthony Del Genio, NASA GISS
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stability theory of polytropic gaseous stars
Juhi Jang, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Affine Sieve and Expanders
Alireza Golsfidy, Princeton University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Eficient Inexact Rayleigh Quotient Iteration and it's Connections the the Jacobi-Davidson Method
Fei Xu, Temple University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Title TBA
Antonio Auffinger, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Regaining Control Over Mobile and Cloud Data
Roxana Geambasu, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
New and improved Johnson-Lindenstrauss embeddings via the
Restricted Isometry Property
Felix Krahmer, University of Bonn
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:30 P.M., Room 4102, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
GLARF and the 2nd Stage of Parsing: Combining Parsing, SRL, NE Tagging, Temporal Tagging...
Adam Meyers, NYU
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Model of DI particle virus-host dynamics to explain viral latency
Neil Clark, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

SATURDAY, MARCH 26

COURANT cSplash:
Courant cSplash is a one-day festival of classes in the mathematical and computer sciences, designed and taught by enthusiastic graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and others associated with the Courant Institute. cSplash is an opportunity to get your feet wet in subjects completely new to you. During the program, you can attend as many talks as you want on topics in pure math, applied math, computer science, and related fields. The program is free and is open to all students in grades 9-12 (or with equivalent mathematical background) with an interest in mathematical and computer sciences. Spaces are limited and are allocated on a first-come, first serve basis so please register early to guarantee a spot.
For more information on this event, including signing up and the program, please click on the link:
http://cims.nyu.edu/~csplash/index.php

MONDAY, MARCH 28

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Sieving in Orbits
Alex Kontorovitch, Stony Brook
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 29

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR
11:30 AM, Room 1003, 715 Broadway
Theory of spike timing-based neural classifiers
Remi Monasson, IAS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Geometry at the Museum of Mathmatics
George W. Hart, Museum of Mathematics
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Imaging Turbulent Convection and Dynamo Action in the Sun
Shravan Hanasoge, Princeton University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

PRINCETON MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., Princeton University, Fine Hall 314
Rational points on algebraic varieties
Yuri Tschinkel, NYU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 31

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On formation of singularities in Schrodinger Maps
Igor Rodnianski
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title TBA
Eva Kanso, Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Title TBA
Bjorn Poonen, MIT
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 1

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Aggregation of Microglia in 2D with a Gradient Weighted Moving Finite Element Method
Abigail Wacher, Durham University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Improving Internet Performance and Availability with Reverse Traceroute
Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
What Controls the Overturning Circulation of the Stratosphere? ... and the Specter of Abrupt Climate Change!
Ed Gerber, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fast computation of three-dimensional fusion plasma equilibria
Antoine Cerfon, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

CIMS STUDENT PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
4:30 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 202
Fluctuations in First-Passage Percolation
Tom LaGatta, CIMS

MONDAY, APRIL 4

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Opportunistic Wireless Network Architectures
Rohan Murty, Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Title TBA
Marianna Csornyei, University College London and Yale University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
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TUESDAY, APRIL 5

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamical Allosterism in a DNA Mismatch Repair Protein, MutS
David Beveridge (Wesleyan)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Topological Designs
Igor Rivin, Temple University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

2011-4-6

WEDNEDSAY, APRIL 6

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Novel Methods in Data Summarization, Anonymization, and Indexing
Pangiotis Karras, National University of Singapore
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Scattering of rough solutions of 3D NLKG
Tristan Roy, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COURANT LECTURE:
3:30 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
The Search for Randomness
Persi Diaconis, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford
Followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Commons
General audience lecture. Please RSVP at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/webapps/conferences/5/registrations/new
Details of the lectures commemorating the Courant Institute's 75th Anniversary are given at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/75_Years

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 201
Modeling Lambda-Invariants by p-Adic Random Matrices
Sonal Jain, MSRI
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in in WWH 201.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 201
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Matrix Factorizations for COmputer Network Tomography
David Bindel, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Phase transitions and the complexity of counting
Allan Sly, Microsoft Research
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COURANT LECTURE:
11:30 A.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
Mathematical Analysis of `Hit and Run' Algorithms
Persi Diaconis, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford
Please RSVP at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/webapps/conferences/5/registrations/new
Details of the lectures commemorating the Courant Institute's 75th Anniversary are given at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/75_Years

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Logical Abstractions of Graphs
Thomas Wies, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Elasticity, transport and flow near the random close packing
Matthieu Wyart, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, APRIL 11

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Deep Semantics from Shallow Supervision
Percy Liang, University of California at Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Fermion Monte Carlo
Malvin Kalos, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
"Bounded" and "Unbounded" Groups
Dmitry Burago, Penn State University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
Systems -guided development of bispecific antibody against the ErbB receptor network
Brian Harms (Merrimack Pharmaceuticals)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Instabilities in first-order quasi-linear systems
Benjamin Texier, Universite Paris 7
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Inequalities Between the Number of Points, Lines, Planes, etc Spanned by n Points
George Purdy, University of Cincinnati
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Long-Range Forecasting using Data-Clustering and Information Theory: Demonstration in a Simple Ocean Model
Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MATHMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., Fine Hall 341
Eigenfunctions and nodal sets
Steve Zelditch, Northwestern
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~seminar/seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00-6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Microscopic vs. macroscopic clustering in populations of coupled genetic oscillators
Bastien Fernandez, Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS Marseille
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

FACULTY EXCHANGE CAFE AT THE SCIENTIFIC INTERFACE:
5:00 P.M., Meyer - 6th Flr Conference Room (Phyisics Dept)
Storing Clocked Programs Inside DNA: A Simplifying Framework for Nanocomputing
Dennis Shasha, CIMS

THURSDAY, APRIL 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Almost Sure Global Existence for the NLS
Laurent Thomann, University of Nantes
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Bouncing Droplets (and the nature of reality)
John Bush, Dept. of Mathematics, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Counting Cusp Forms
Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY:
Robertson Hall, Room 001, on the Princeton University campus

Schedule (tentative):

9:00 - 10:00 A.M.: Registration and continental breakfast
10:00 - 11:00: Alexei Borodin
11:00 - 12:00 Noon: Shige Peng
12:00 - 1:30 P.M.: Lunch
1:30 - 2:30: Yakov Sinai
2:30 - 3:00: Horng-Tzer Yau
3:30 - 4:00: Coffee break
4:00 - 4:25: Antonio Auffinger
4:25 - 4:50: Ilya Vinogradov
4:50 - 5:15: Hana Kogan

Please fill out the registration form at the link:
http://orfe.princeton.edu/conferences/cp11/

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Algebraic Optimizable Schwarz Methods for the Solution of Banded Linear Systems and PDEs on Irregular Domains
Daniel Szyld, Temple University
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 307
On the lack of compactness in Sobolev embedding in Orlicz space
Hajer Bahouri, CNRS, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Network formation and curvature driven flow of structured interfaces
Keith Promislow, Michigan State University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Length estimates for curve shortening flow and low regularity initial data
Joe Lauer (Yale)

MONDAY, APRIL 18

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
9:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Uniform Lipschitz Estimates for Elliptic Homogenization Problems with Neumann Boundary Conditions
Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The turn of the Screw: The History and Optimal Besign of an Archimedes Screw
Chris Rorres, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
The method of moving planes in analysis and geometry
Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
5:30 - 6:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Class Reduction and the Symmetry of Bivaluations
Franz Schuster, Technical University of Vienna
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
Experimental tests of the Bicoid morphogen hypothesis
Stephen Small, NYU Biology
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A challenge to understand atmospheric water and vapor distributions
Stephan Fueglistaler, Princeton University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00-6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the geometry of Penrose tilings: projection and substitution
Jeroen Lamb, Imperial College, London
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Electrodynamics of Droplets and Vesicles
Petia Vlahovska, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Brown University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
10:00-11:00 A.M., WWH 317
Scaling Limits of additive functionals of exclusion process.
Patricia Goncalves, University of Minho
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
1:00-2:30 P.M., WWH 512
Limit theorems for translation flows
Alexander I. Bufetov, Steklov Institute of Mathematics and Rice University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

CIMS GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy-driven pattern formation: a new frontier for the calculus of variations
Robert V. Kohn, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/current_talks/spring11.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Complete Integrability of Shock Clustering and Burgers Turbulence
Govind Menon, Brown University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, APRIL 25

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Theory of Valuations and Integral Geometry
Semyon Alesker, Tel -Aviv University
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

TUESDAY, APRIL 26

BIOMATHEMATICS/COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 - 1:25 P.M., WWH 102
How does DNA know what time it is?
Arjun Raj (University of Pennsylvania)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Representation of Microphysics in Atmospheric Models (and why it matters...)
Hugh Morrison, N CAR
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00-6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Properties of synchronization graphs in discontinuous forced systems
Bastien Fernandez, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

11-4-28 THURSDAY, APRIL 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Electromagnetic Christodoulou Memory Effect of Gravitational

Waves in General Relativity
Lydia Bieri, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Continuum Modeling and Computational Aspects of Flowing Granular Media
Ken Kamrin, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~trush/AMLindex.html

COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Pareto Optimal Solutions for Smoothed Analysts
Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar/

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Vacant set of random walk on (random) graphs
Jiri Černý, ETH, Zurich
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Attribute Flow for Discriminative Image Warping
Jianbo Shi, University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CIMS GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Special Screening of: Reflections on a life in mathematics: Richard Courant
An event part of the celebrations for Courant Institute's 75th anniversary.
Carol Hutchins, CIMS Head Librarian
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/current_talks/spring11.html

STUDENT PRIZES CEREMONY
2 p.m. WWH 109
Reception to follow in the 13th floor commons

MONDAY, MAY 2

SPECIAL PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Affine Processes on Positive Semi-Definite Matrices
Josef Teichmann, ETH, Zurich
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

FRITZ JOHN LECTURE SERIES:
3:45 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer St.), Room 1302
Title TBA
Gilles Pisier, Texas A&M
The fifth of five lectures in celebration of the 100th birthday of Fritz John
http://cims.nyu.edu/webapps/content/special/Fritz_John_lecture_100th

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 - 5:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
An Almost obvious covering theorem waiting for a proof
Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

NYU POLY MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
5:30 - 6:15 P.M., Room 302, Rogers Hall, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn
Constant width and dimetrically complete sets
Rolf Schneider, University of Freiburg
For a listing of more NYU Poly Math Colloquia, please click on:
http://www.math.poly.edu/news/seminars.phtml
For directions to NYU Poly, please click on the `Home'' tab.

TUESDAY, MAY 3

COB STUDENT PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS:
12:25 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 102
Exploring the association between genetic variations in Immune-Related Genes and Susceptibility to HNSCC
Chaya Levovitz
Enhancing protien binding with non-canonical amino acid: Building an HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein binding molecule
Leif Halvorsen
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Typical polytopes in random mosaics
Rolf Schneider, University of Freiburg, Germany
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mixing, Eddies, and all that: Ocean Parameterization Developments from 4m to 400km
Baylor Fox-Kemper, University of Colorado
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

11-05-05 THURSDAY, MAY 5

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Particle Fractionalization and Pleats! Point defects and Topological defects on Wigner Crystals on Curved Surfaces
Paul Chaikin, NYU Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
The Power of Simple Tabulation-Based Hashing
Mikkel Thorup, AT&T
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 201
Distribution of Integral Points on Toric Varieties
Antoine Chambert-Loir, Rennes
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in in WWH 201.
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MAY 6

CIMS 75th ANNIVERSARY:
Celebration (Plenary Talks)
Followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Commons.
Please RSVP at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/webapps/conferences/5/registrations/new
Details of the lectures commemorating the Courant Institute's 75th Anniversary are given at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/75_Years

SATURDAY, MAY 7

CIMS 75th ANNIVERSARY:
Celebration (Panel Sessions)
Please RSVP at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/webapps/conferences/5/registrations/new
Details of the lectures commemorating the Courant Institute's 75th Anniversary are given at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/75_Years

TUESDAY, MAY 10

BIOMATH/COB COLLOQUIUM: COB Student Presentations
12:25 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 102
Reduction and Fragility in Biological Networks
Irina Nudelman, COB Student Presenter

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2011 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 9:00 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. There will be two sessions: 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. and 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department. Light refreshments will be served.

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
On the Computing TIme of the Continued Fractions Method
Werner Krandick, Drexel University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

11-05-11

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Möbius function and Statistical Mechanics
Francesco Cellarosi , Princeton
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

PRINCETON MATH DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., Fine Hall 314, Washington Road, Princeton University
Higher Order Fourier Analysis
Balazs Szegedy, University of Toronto
http://www.math.princeton.edu/seminars/ 11-05-13

FRIDAY, MAY 13

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 512
Geometric identities with applications to computational KAM theory
Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/ 11-05-17 TUESDAY, MAY 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
10:30, WWH 1302
Software Synthesis using Automated Reasoning
Ruzica Piskac, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lusanne
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia
11-05-23

MONDAY, MAY 23

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast, Scalable Algorithms for Simulating Complex Biofluids
Shravan Veerapaneni, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 11:30 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/summer2011/colloquia 11-06-06

MONDAY, JUNE 6 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8

New Trends in Astrodynamics and Applications VI: An International Conference
location: WWH
webpage: http://www.spaceroutes.com/astrocon/

MONDAY, JUNE 13 - FRIDAY, JUNE 17

4th LA PIETRA WEEK IN PROBABILITY AT FINALY:
Location:
Villa Finaly
Via Bolognese, 134 R
50139 Firenze, Italy
http://www.villafinaly.sorbonne.fr/infopratiques.html?lang=en_GB&partie=1

Mini Courses:

Preliminary Title: Percolation
Vincent Beffara (CNRS, UMPA-ENS Lyons) and Hugo Duminil-Copin (University of Geneva)
Title: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and Universality Class
Ivan Corwin (NYU-Courant Institute)
Title: Cut-off for the Ising Model on Lattices
Eyal Lubetsky (Microsoft Res, Redmond)

Preliminary List of Other Participants:

Gerard Ben Arous (NYU-Courant Institute, New York)
Jacob van den Berg (CWI, Amsterdam)
Amir Dembo (Stanford University, Stanford CT)
Remco van der Hofstad (EUT, Eindhoven) To be confirmed
Alberto Gandolfi (Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy)
Fabio Martinelli (Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Roma)
Charles Newman (NYU-Courant Institute, NY)
Vladas Sidoravicius (CWI, Amsterdam)

Some limited funds are available to support young participants to the school-conference. Support includes lodging (in shared room) and part of meals and does not include travel and remaining meals.

Applications for support by March 31st, 2011 can be submitted to organizers at LaPietraMeeting@gmail.com

Awarding of Support: April 15th, 2011.

Registration: By April 30th, 2011 at
LaPietraMeeting@gmail.com

Scientific Committee:
Alberto Gandolfi
Fabio Martinelli
Charles Newman
Vladas Sidoravicius

Sponsored by:

Gruppo Nazionale per l'Analisi Matematica, la Probabilitá e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA)
Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (IndAM)
The NSF-funded Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program at the Courant Intitute, NYU
Other sponsors expected

To view the 4th La Pietra Week in Probability at Finaly website:
http://php.math.unifi.it/users/paf/LaPietra2011

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