Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, November 15, 2024

• Memorial in Honor of Henry McKean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Nov. 15, 2024, 11AM

Thursday, November 14, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Hierarchical matrix approximation from matrix-vector products

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 14, 2024, 11AM
  Tyler Chen, New York University

Friday, November 8, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC CONTROL OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS VIA SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor open Space
  Nov. 08, 2024, 2PM
  Tim O'Donnell

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Learning-enhanced structure preserving particle methods for nonlinear PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2024, 10AM
  Li Wang, University of Minnesota

Thursday, November 7, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Generative diffusion models: optimization, generalization and fine-tuning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 07, 2024, 2PM
  Renyuan Xu, NYU

• Theory Seminar

  Byzantine agreement on external data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 07, 2024, 11AM
  Valerie King, University of Victoria

Friday, November 1, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  Minds, Brains, Machines and Center for Data Science Event on Interpretability

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 01, 2024, 2PM
  David Bau, Grace Lindsay

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Correctly Rounded Math Libraries in the Age of AI

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2024, 10AM
  Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University

Thursday, October 31, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Differentially Private Multiway and k -Cut

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 31, 2024, 11AM
  Zongrui Zou, Nanjing University

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

• CS Colloquium

  Integrative Learning, Modeling, Perception, and Planning Solutions for Modern Robotics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 30, 2024, 2PM
  Kostas Bekris, Rutgers University

Friday, October 25, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  AI + Medicine

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room TBA,
  Oct. 25, 2024, 2PM
  Eric Oermann, Krzysztof Geras, Narges Razavian

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Deep redatuming for computational physics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2024, 10AM
  Laurent Demanet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, October 24, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Hypergraph embeddings and decompositions: robustness via spreadness

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 24, 2024, 11AM
  Tom Kelly, GA Tech

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

• CS Colloquium

  Machine Learning in Production Database Systems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 23, 2024, 2PM
  Vikram Nathan

Friday, October 18, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  Propositional Interpretability as a Research Program in AI

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 18, 2024, 2PM
  David Chalmers, NYU

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Ensemble Kalman Methods and Structured Operator Estimation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2024, 10AM
  Daniel Sanz-Alonso, University of Chicago

Thursday, October 17, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Fully Dynamic Matching, Matching Sparsifiers, and (Ordered) Ruzsa-Szemerédi Graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 17, 2024, 11AM
  Sanjeev Khanna, University of Pennsylvania

Friday, October 11, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  Recent Advances in AI+Climate: Predicting human mobility patterns during climate disasters using behavior data and AI

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor open space
  Oct. 11, 2024, 2PM
  Takahiro Yabe, Grace Lindsay, Laure Zanna

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  New geometric integration methods for gravitational dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 11, 2024, 10AM
  David M. Hernandez, Yale

Thursday, October 10, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Mean and covariance estimation of anisotropic distributions in the presence of adversarial outliers

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 10, 2024, 2PM
  Nikita Zhivotovskiy, UC Berkeley

• Theory Seminar

  Quasi-Linear Size PCPs with Small Soundness from High-Dimensional Expanders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 10, 2024, 11AM
  Mitali Bafna, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, October 4, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  High-dimensional optimization for multi-spiked tensor PCA and Leveraging foundation models to extract local administrative data

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room TBA,
  Oct. 04, 2024, 2PM
  Cédric Gerbelot-Barrillon and Jonathan Colner

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  The Other Side of Entropy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 04, 2024, 10AM
  Stefano Martiniani, New York University

Thursday, October 3, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Data-Driven Solution Portfolios

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 03, 2024, 11AM
  Andreas Maggiori, Columbia

Friday, September 27, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  CDS Fellow Spotlight

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor open space
  Sept. 27, 2024, 2PM
  Byung-Doh Oh, Aahlad Puli, Yuzhou Gu

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  A data-driven exterior calculus for structure preserving digital twins

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 27, 2024, 10AM
  Nathaniel Trask, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, September 26, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Fair Exploration via Axiomatic Bargaining

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 26, 2024, 11AM
  Jackie Baek, NYU Stern

Friday, September 20, 2024

• CDS Seminar Series

  Oral History of Machine Learning – “Why We Call It “Attention”

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 20, 2024, 2PM
  Nick Seaver, Kyunghyun Cho, Grace Lindsay (moderator: Leif Weatherby)

• Theory Seminar

  Fast and Simple Sorting Using Partial Information

  4 Washington Square North, Room 825
  Sept. 20, 2024, 11AM
  John Iacono, Universite libre de Bruxelles

• CS Colloquium

  Learning Humanoid Robots

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 20, 2024, 11AM
  Xiaolong Wang

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Crystal Math: Rapid prediction of molecular crystal structures using simple topological and physical descriptors

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 20, 2024, 10AM
  Mark E Tuckerman, New York University

Thursday, September 19, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Stability of optimal transport: old and new

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 19, 2024, 2PM
  Cyril Letrouit, Orsay

• Theory Seminar

  Beating Bellman-Ford: Faster Single-Source Shortest Paths with Negative Real Weights

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 19, 2024, 11AM
  Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown

Thursday, September 12, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Randomly Pivoted Cholesky

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 12, 2024, 2PM
  Joel Tropp, Caltech

Friday, September 6, 2024

• CS Colloquium

  Is Data All You Need? Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 06, 2024, 11AM
  Ken Goldberg

Thursday, June 20, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  June 20, 2024, 11AM
  Nishant Mehta, University of Victoria

Thursday, May 30, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Learning hierarchical representations to compose new data

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor open space
  May 30, 2024, 2:30PM
  Matthieu Wyart, EPFL

Thursday, May 23, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Deterministic k-Vertex Connectivity in k Max-flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  May 23, 2024, 11AM
  Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Monday, May 13, 2024

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 650
  May 13, 2024, 5:30PM
  Cory McCartan, NYU CDS

Thursday, May 9, 2024

• Courant Lecture with Michel Talagrand

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  May 09, 2024, 2PM

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  On The Fourier Coefficients of High-Dimensional Random Geometric Graphs

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 09, 2024, 11AM
  Guy Bresler, MIT

Monday, May 6, 2024

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Topological Data Analysis of Voting-Site Coverage

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor open space
  May 06, 2024, 5:30PM
  Abigail Hickok, Columbia and Mason Porter, UCLA

Friday, May 3, 2024

• Symposium in Honor of John Rinzel

  Location TBA
  May 03, 2024, 2PM

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Continuum Models for Twisted 2D Moiré Materials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 03, 2024, 10AM
  Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota

Thursday, May 2, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Training Dynamics of Multi-Head Softmax Attention for In-Context Learning: Emergence, Convergence, and Optimality

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 02, 2024, 2PM
  Zhuoran Yang, Yale

• Theory Seminar

  Computationally Sound Proofs of Network Properties

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  May 02, 2024, 11AM
  Rotem Oshman, Tel-Aviv University, Princeton

Friday, April 26, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Advances in optimization for stellarator design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 26, 2024, 10AM
  Elizabeth Paul, Columbia University

Thursday, April 25, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Feature learning and margin maximization via mirror descent

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 25, 2024, 2PM
  Matus Telgarsky, NYU

• Theory Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 25, 2024, 11AM
  Van Vu, Yale University

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Which Data Are Learnable?

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor open space
  April 25, 2024, 9:30AM
  Matthieu Wyart, EPFL

Friday, April 19, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Treating inhomogeneous initial conditions in balancing-based model reduction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 19, 2024, 10AM
  Matthias Voigt, UniDistance Suisse

Thursday, April 18, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Singularities in fluid: Self-similar analysis, computer assisted proofs and neural networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 18, 2024, 2PM
  Tristan Buckmaster, NYU

• Theory Seminar

  Locally consistent decomposition of strings with applications to edit distance sketching

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 18, 2024, 11AM
  Michal Koucký, Charles University

• Mathematical Modeling in Finance: Remembering Marco Avellaneda

  Wasserman Center, 133 East 13th Street, Room 2nd Floor
  April 18, 2024, 8:30AM

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis under ETH

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  April 16, 2024, 2PM
  Venkatesan Guruswami, UC Berkeley/Simons Institute

Friday, April 12, 2024

• Aleks Donev Memorial Event

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 12, 2024, 1PM

Thursday, April 11, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Conservation Laws for Gradient Flows

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 11, 2024, 2PM
  Gabriel Peyré, CNRS/ ENS Paris

• Theory Seminar

  Nearly all k-SAT functions are unate

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 11, 2024, 11AM
  Dingding Dong, Harvard University

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

• Special Seminar: The open problem of quasi-local mass in general relativity

  Online,
  April 10, 2024, 1PM
  Aghil Alaee, Clark University

Friday, April 5, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  The AAA algorithm for rational approximation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 05, 2024, 10AM
  Nick Trefethen, Harvard University

Thursday, April 4, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Recent progress in the study of tensor ranks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 04, 2024, 11AM
  Guy Moshkovitz, City University of New York

Friday, March 29, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Numerical Solution of Double Saddle-Point Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 29, 2024, 10AM
  Chen Greif, University of British Columbia

Thursday, March 28, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Data-driven Subgroup Identification

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 28, 2024, 2PM
  Zach Izzo, NEC Labs

• Theory Seminar

  Von Neumann-Morgenstern Stability and Internal Closedness in Matching Theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 28, 2024, 11AM
  Yuri Faenza, Columbia University

Friday, March 15, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Digital Twins, Optimization, and Reduced Order Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  March 15, 2024, 10AM
  Harbir Antil, George Mason University

Thursday, March 14, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Eliminating intersections of polygons by infinitesimal moves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 14, 2024, 11AM
  Radoslav Fulek, New York University

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

• CS Colloquium

  Mathematical Foundations for Physical Agents

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 12, 2024, 2PM
  Max Simchowitz, MIT

Friday, March 8, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  An exact and efficient algorithm for Basis Pursuit Denoising via differential inclusions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 08, 2024, 10AM
  Gabriel P. Langlois, Courant, NYU

Thursday, March 7, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  A new lower bound for sphere packing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 07, 2024, 11AM
  Matthew Jenssen, Kings College London

Thursday, February 29, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Matrix Perturbation: Davis-Kahan in the Infinity Norm

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 29, 2024, 11AM
  Abhinav Bhardwaj, Yale

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

• CS Colloquium

  Modernizing Memory Management for Datacenter Applications

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 27, 2024, 5:40PM
  Amanda Raybuck, UT Austin

Monday, February 26, 2024

• CS Colloquium

  Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 26, 2024, 2PM
  Sewon Min, University of Washington

Friday, February 23, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Optimization methods for tensor decomposition

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 23, 2024, 10AM
  Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, February 22, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Adaptive Inference in Sequential Experiments

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 22, 2024, 2PM
  Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers

• Theory Seminar

  Learning quantum Hamiltonians at any temperature in polynomial time

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 22, 2024, 11AM
  Ainesh Bakshi, MIT

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

• CS Colloquium

  Secure Systems from Insecure Components

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  Feb. 20, 2024, 2PM
  Emma Dauterman, UC Berkeley

Friday, February 16, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Unraveling Space Weather: Explosive Events and the Genesis of Energetic Particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 16, 2024, 10AM
  Luca Comisso, Columbia

Thursday, February 15, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Taming “data-hungry” reinforcement learning? Stability in continuous state-action spaces

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 15, 2024, 2PM
  Yaqi duan, NYU

• Theory Seminar

  Prophet Inequalities: Samples, Semi-Online, and Trading

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 15, 2024, 11AM
  Kevin Schewior, University of Southern Denmark

Friday, February 9, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Randomized matrix decompositions for faster scientific computing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 09, 2024, 10AM
  Robert Webber, California Institute of Technology

Thursday, February 8, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Quantum for Science: Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 08, 2024, 2PM
  Jin-Peng Liu, MIT

• Theory Seminar

  Sharp thresholds imply circuit lower bounds: From random 2-SAT to planted clique

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 08, 2024, 11AM
  Ilias Zadik, Yale University

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 07, 2024, 2PM
  Yaqi duan, NYU

Friday, February 2, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Operator Learning: From Theory to Practice

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 02, 2024, 10AM
  Nikola Kovachki, NVIDIA and California Institute of Technology

Thursday, February 1, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  Sparsifying generalized linear models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 01, 2024, 11AM
  Yang P. Liu, Institute for Advanced Study

Monday, January 29, 2024

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  High-order methods for variable-coefficient scattering problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 29, 2024, 9:45AM
  Abinand Gopal, Yale University

Friday, January 26, 2024

• Special Event In Memory of Martin Davis

  Memories of Martin and Virginia Davis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Jan. 26, 2024, 2:45PM
  Harold and Nathan Davis and others who would like to make brief remarks

• Special Event In Memory of Martin Davis

  Computability and Unsolvability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Jan. 26, 2024, 2PM
  Wilfried Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University

• Special Event In Memory of Martin Davis

  Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Jan. 26, 2024, 1:30PM
  Eugenio G. Omodeo, University of Trieste

• Special Event In Memory of Martin Davis

  "A Lifelong Obsession": Martin Davis and Hilbert's Tenth Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Jan. 26, 2024, 1PM
  Allyn Jackson, Freelance Writer

Thursday, January 25, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  On the promise of quantum advantage for classical optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Jan. 25, 2024, 11AM
  Kunal Marwaha, University of Chicago

Thursday, December 14, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Robust sublinear expanders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 14, 2023, 11AM
  Matija Bucic, Princeton University

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Dimensionality reduction reveals dependence of voter polarization on political context

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor Open Space and online
  Dec. 13, 2023, 5:30PM
  Sam Wang, Princeton University and Electoral Innovation Lab

• Lecture on Stability of Ecology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Dec. 13, 2023, 4PM
  Prof. Lev Ginzburg, Stony Brook

Friday, December 8, 2023

• Courant Holiday Lecture 2023

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 08, 2023, 1:30PM

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  AOS/CMSC: Bayesian Learning of Biogeochemical Models and Generalized Neural Closure Models with Interpretability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 08, 2023, 10AM
  Pierre Lermusiaux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, December 7, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Cap sets, corners, and fast matrix multiplication

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 07, 2023, 11AM
  Kevin Pratt, New York University

Friday, December 1, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Rare-Event Simulation for Machine Learning Models: Challenges and Remedies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 01, 2023, 10AM
  Henry Lam, Columbia University

Thursday, November 30, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Sampling, spectral gaps and stochastic localization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 30, 2023, 2PM
  Ahmed el Alaoui, Cornell

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