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Past Events


Past Math Events

Thursday, May 8, 2025

  • Theory Seminar

    How to Appease a Voter Majority

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    May 08, 2025, 11AM
    Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Stanford

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

  • Dynamical Systems Seminar

    Special Joint Seminar Analysis and Dynamical Systems Seminar: On some Impact-like Hamiltonian systems

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    May 07, 2025, 1:30PM
    Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Friday, May 2, 2025

  • Prizes & Fellowships Ceremony

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    May 02, 2025, 1:30PM
  • Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

    A modern take on adaptive learning rates

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    May 02, 2025, 10AM
    Aaron Defazio, Meta

    I will dive into the theory of adaptive learning rates for non-smooth convex optimization, decomposing the problem into two parts: a) estimation of the key problem unknown parameters b) Understanding when and why learning rates should be decreased. Recent developments in (a) have led to new methods that estimate the distance-to-solution, having both excellent theoretical and practical properties. For (b) we view decreasing rates through the lens of last-iterate convergence, a viewpoint that explains many practical observations that were not previously well explained, and leds to new any-time optimization methods.

Thursday, May 1, 2025

  • Theory Seminar

    A new information complexity measure for streaming algorithms

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    May 01, 2025, 11AM
    Sumegha Garg, Rutgers

Friday, April 25, 2025

  • Retirement Celebration in Honor of S.R. Srinivasa 'Raghu' Varadhan

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    April 25, 2025, 2:30PM
    George Papanicolaou and Gerard Ben Arous

    The Courant Institute will hold a special celebration in honor of S.R. Srinvasa Varadhan, Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science & Mathematics, who will retire at the end of this academic year. 

Thursday, April 24, 2025

  • Theory Seminar

    Randomness extractors for a few hidden sources

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    April 24, 2025, 11AM
    Jesse Goodman, UT Austin

Friday, April 18, 2025

  • Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

    Liquid Crystals - From Simple Self-Assembled Constructs, to Functional and Autonomous Materials

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    April 18, 2025, 10AM
    Juan de Pablo, New York University

Thursday, April 17, 2025

  • Theory Seminar

    TBA

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    April 17, 2025, 11AM
    Akbar Rafiey, New York University

Friday, April 11, 2025

  • Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

    The No-Underrun Sampler (NURS): A Gradient-Free, Locally-Adaptive MCMC Method

    Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
    April 11, 2025, 10AM
    Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Rutgers
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