Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, March 1, 2019

• Stochastic Ricci Flow on surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 01, 2019, 11AM
  Julien Dubédat, Columbia University

Thursday, February 28, 2019

• Efficient Z_q synchronization on the square lattice

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room room 150
  Feb. 28, 2019, 2PM
  Ahmed El Alaoui, Stanford

• Efficient Z_q synchronization on the square lattice

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 28, 2019, 2PM
  Ahmed El Alaoui , Stanford

• History of the FFT

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Feb. 28, 2019, 12:30PM
  Yunan Yang + Zhe Chen

• Weak solutions to the Navier--Stokes inequality with arbitrary energy profiles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 28, 2019, 11AM
  Wojciech Ożański, Warwick University

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

• Rethinking the relationship between data and robotics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 27, 2019, 2PM
  Lerrel Pinto, Carnegie Mellon University

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

• Random Knots are Knotted

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 26, 2019, 6PM
  Chaim Even Zohar, UC Davis

Monday, February 25, 2019

• Large cliques in random graphs: geometry and computation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 25, 2019, 12:30PM
  Tim Kunisky, CIMS

Friday, February 22, 2019

• Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture and Healing in Elastomers: A Phase-Transition Theory and Numerical Implementation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 22, 2019, 2:30PM
  Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Convex integration on thin sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 22, 2019, 1PM
  Vlad Vicol, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Why do neural networks learn?

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room room 150
  Feb. 22, 2019, 11AM
  Behnam Neyshabur, New York University

• New coupling techniques for exponential ergodicity of SPDEs in the hypoelliptic and effectively elliptic settings.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 22, 2019, 11AM
  Oleg Butkovsky, TU Berlin

• Reduced Order Methods for PDEs: state of the art and perspectives with applications in Industry, Medicine and Environmental Sciences

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 22, 2019, 10AM
  Gianluigi Rozza, SISSA, Trieste, Italy

Thursday, February 21, 2019

• RAMIFICATION THEORY FOR ARBITRARY VALUATION RINGS IN POSITIVE CHARACTERISTIC

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 805
  Feb. 21, 2019, 4PM
  Vaidehee Thatte, SUNY, Binghamton

• Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of Signal Propagation in Deep Neural Networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 21, 2019, 2PM
  Jeffrey Pennington, Google

• Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of Signal Propagation in Deep Neural Networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 21, 2019, 2PM
  Jeffrey Pennington , Google

• Sequences of measures in Bayesian inversion and their approximation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Feb. 21, 2019, 12:30PM
  Jonas Latz, TU Munich

• Minmax Minimal Surfaces in arbitrary codimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 21, 2019, 11AM
  Tristan Riviere, ETU-Zurich

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

• Long-range Rossby wave radiation from an unstable ocean current

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2019, 3:30PM
  Tom Farrar, WHOI

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

• Multiplicity-free products of Schubert divisors and an application to canonical dimension.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 19, 2019, 3:30PM
  Rostislav Devyatov

Friday, February 15, 2019

• Traffic Waves, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Traffic Modeling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 15, 2019, 2:30PM
  Benni Seibold, Temple University

• Multifidelity Monte Carlo methods for uncertainty quantification

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 15, 2019, 1PM
  Ben Peherstorfer, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• On the spectrum of the hierarchical Schrödinger – type operators.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 15, 2019, 11AM
  Stanislav Molchanov , UNC Charlotte and HSE Moscow

• Dimensionality Reduction of Nonlinear Waves Using Transport and Radon Transform

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 15, 2019, 10AM
  Donsub Rim, Columbia

Thursday, February 14, 2019

• Contraction loci on hyperkahler manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 14, 2019, 3:30PM
  Misha Verbitsky

• The stability of contact lines in fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 14, 2019, 11AM
  Ian TICE, Carnegie-Mellon University

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

• Recent progress in the energetics framework linking extratropical forcing and tropical rainfall distribution

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 13, 2019, 3:30PM
  Sarah Kang, UNIST, South Korea

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

• Tverberg's theorem and weak epsilon-nets for convex sets.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 12, 2019, 6PM
  Pablo Soberon, Baruch College/CUNY.

• Classical trigonometry of non-Euclidean tetrahedra

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 12, 2019, 3:30PM
  Daniil Rudenko

• Complexity of Linear Regions in Deep Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Feb. 12, 2019, 1PM
  Boris Hanin, Texas A&M

• A Multiscale, Conservative, Adaptive Implicit Algorithm for the Multispecies Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Landau Equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 12, 2019, 11AM
  Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, February 11, 2019

• Implicit, manifold-preserving numerical representations and solvers for multiscale kinetic simulations of plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 11, 2019, 3:45PM
  Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Lab

• Precise Program Reasoning using Probabilistic Methods

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 11, 2019, 2PM
  Mukund Raghothaman, University of Pennsylvania

Friday, February 8, 2019

• Starbursts and flowers: when spreading droplets break bad

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 08, 2019, 2:30PM
  Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University

• Simple ensemble strategies for preconditioning Markov chain Monte Carlo

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 08, 2019, 1PM
  Jonathan Weare, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

• Dimension-Robust MCMC Methods for Bayesian Inversion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 08, 2019, 10AM
  Matt Dunlop, CIMS

Thursday, February 7, 2019

• Isolating Simple Zeros of Systems of Equations, with Complexity Analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 07, 2019, 3:30PM
  Chee Yap, NYU

• Solutions to two conjectures in branched transport: stability and regularity of optimal paths

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 07, 2019, 11AM
  Antonio De Rosa, CIMS

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

• The Grassmann manifold, gauge, and quantum chemistry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 05, 2019, 10AM
  Lin Lin , UC Berkeley

Monday, February 4, 2019

• Cardy embedding of random planar maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 04, 2019, 3:45PM
  Nina Holden, ETH Zurich
  ***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Friday, February 1, 2019

• A touch of non-linearity in fluid fields: where spheres "think" collectively and swim together

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 01, 2019, 2:30PM
  Daphne Klotsa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Sticky Brownian motion and its applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 01, 2019, 1PM
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Primal-Dual Interior Methods for Nonlinear Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 01, 2019, 10AM
  Philip Gill, UCSD

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 30, 2019, 3:30PM
  Tim Cronin, MIT

• Covariant and compositional neural network architectures for learning from graphs, images and physical systems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Jan. 30, 2019, 2PM
  Risi Kondor, University of Chicago

Monday, December 17, 2018

• CS Fall Showcase

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Dec. 17, 2018, 6PM
  Various
  Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.

Friday, December 14, 2018

• The Antikythera Mechanism: Mathematical Astronomy through Ancient Gears

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 14, 2018, 2PM
  Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

• An L-1 Augmented Lagrangian algorithm and why, at least sometimes, it is a very good idea

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 14, 2018, 10AM
  Andrew Conn, IBM Watson Research Center

Thursday, December 13, 2018

• Model Recovery Below the Reflector Using Pure Reflections

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Dec. 13, 2018, 12:30PM
  Yunan Yang, partner: Terrence Alsup

• The Maslov index and the spectrum of differential operators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 13, 2018, 11AM
  Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

• Random Matrices and Group Representations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 12, 2018, 12PM
  Guillaume Dubach, CIMS

• Some Applications of the Multiplicative Weights Update Method in (Semi) Infinite Discrete Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 12, 2018, 10:30AM
  Khaled Elbassioni, Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Monday, December 10, 2018

• Surface hopping algorithms for non-adiabatic quantum systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 10, 2018, 3:45PM
  Jianfeng Lu, Duke University

Friday, December 7, 2018

• Programming colloidal architectures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 07, 2018, 2:30PM
  Jasna Brujic, NYU Physics

• Crouzeix's Conjecture and Nonsmooth Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 07, 2018, 1PM
  Michael Overton, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Syntax-Guided Program Synthesis

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room room 150
  Dec. 07, 2018, 11AM
  Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania

• Fast, high-fidelity methods for simulation of particulate flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 07, 2018, 10AM
  Shravan Veerapaneni, University of Michigan

• IBM/NYU/Columbia

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 07, 2018, 9:30AM

Thursday, December 6, 2018

• Orbit retrieval, with applications to cryo-electron microscopy

  Location TBA
  Dec. 06, 2018, 3:30PM
  Joe Kileel, Princeton University

• Cut cell finite-volume methods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 06, 2018, 12:30PM
  Sandra May, TU Dortmund, Germany

• On singularities of the unsteady Prandtl’s equations and related problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2018, 11AM
  Charles COLLOT, Courant

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

• Probing the drivers of the Northern Hemispheric response to Arctic sea ice loss

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2018, 3:30PM
  Paul Kushner, University of Toronto

• Relative volume comparison along Ricci flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Dec. 05, 2018, 11AM
  Gang Tian, Beijing University

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

• Erdős distinct distance problem in finite fields.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 04, 2018, 6PM
  Ben Lund, Princeton University.

• Collateralized Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 04, 2018, 5:30PM
  Samim Ghamimi, Goldman Sachs

Monday, December 3, 2018

• Singular Sphere Covering Inequality and Liouville-type problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 03, 2018, 12:50PM
  Changfeng Gui, University of Texas at San Antonio

Friday, November 30, 2018

• Fall 2018

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 30, 2018, 9:30PM
  Various

• Self-organization in biological transport networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 30, 2018, 2:30PM
  Eleni Katifori, UPenn

• Sculpting with flow: Mudballs, meteorites, bubbles & lollipops

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 30, 2018, 1PM
  Leif Ristroph, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Numerical solution of two-phase flow in porous media at the pore scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 30, 2018, 10AM
  Beatrice Riviere, Rice University

Thursday, November 29, 2018

• Distribution of orders in number fields and related problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 29, 2018, 5:30PM
  Ramin Takloo-Bighash, UIC

• Stratification (or discretization) of Markov chain Monte Carlo

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Nov. 29, 2018, 2PM
  Jonathan Weare, Chicago

• An introduction to biological flow networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 29, 2018, 12:30PM
  Eleni Katifori, UPenn

• Falconer's distance set problem and weighted restriction estimates

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 29, 2018, 11AM
  Yumeng OU, CUNY Baruch College

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

• Local properties of an invariant ring are determined by inertia groups (plus an application)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 27, 2018, 3:30PM
  Ben Blum-Smith

• Lipschitz estimates for every taste

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 27, 2018, 2:30PM
  Giuseppe Mingione, University of Parma

• Roles of fluid mechanics in cell motility and polarization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 27, 2018, 12:30PM
  Alex Mogilner, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Monday, November 26, 2018

• Local minimality of strictly stable extremal submanifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 26, 2018, 11AM
  Andrea Marchese, University of Pavia

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

• Variants of the Strong Hanani–Tutte Theorem on Surfaces.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 20, 2018, 6PM
  Radoslav Fulek, IST, Austria.

• Segregated configurations involving the square root of the Laplacian and their free boundaries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 314
  Nov. 20, 2018, 2PM
  Susanna Terrancini

Monday, November 19, 2018

• Uncovering Multiscale Order in the Prime Numbers via Scattering

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 19, 2018, 3:45PM
  Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University

Friday, November 16, 2018

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 16, 2018, 2:30PM
  Anand Oza, NJIT

• Geometric flows and topology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 16, 2018, 1PM
  Bruce Kleiner, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Various

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Nov. 16, 2018, 9AM
  Various

Thursday, November 15, 2018

• Optimal Spectral Estimation via Atomic Norm Minimization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Nov. 15, 2018, 2PM
  Gongguo Tang, Colorado School of Mines

• Some recent and ongoing gluing constructions in Geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2018, 11AM
  Nicolaos Kapouleas, Brown Univ.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

• Characterizing and predicting climate variability through the spectral theory of dynamical systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2018, 3:30PM
  Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

• On totally separable translative packings.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 13, 2018, 6PM
  Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary.

• The Impact of Disputes on Financial Markets – Two Recent Case Studies: Disputes between Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Global Banks, and Disputes Arising from “Engineered” Credit Events under Credit Default Swap

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 13, 2018, 5:30PM
  Rick Grove and Bob Selvaggio, Rutter Associates

• Very functorial, very quick, and very easy resolution of singularities.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 13, 2018, 3:30PM
  Michael McQuillan, University of Roma Tor Vergata

• Diffusivity and cooperativity in intracellular transport by nonprocessive motors

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 13, 2018, 12:30PM
  Chris Miles, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• Progress toward efficient direct solution of the nonlinear inelastic Boltzmann equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 13, 2018, 11AM
  George Wilkie, Chalmers University of Technology

Monday, November 12, 2018

• Some topological isoperimetric problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 12, 2018, 11AM
  Fedor Manin, Ohio State University

Friday, November 9, 2018

• The Archimedean limit of random sorting networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 09, 2018, 11AM
  Duncan Dauvergne, U. Toronto

• Optimal transport for seismic inversion: tackling the nonlinearity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 09, 2018, 10AM
  Yunan Yang, Courant

Thursday, November 8, 2018

• Reversibility, Irreversibility, Friction and Nonequilibrium Ensembles in N-S Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 08, 2018, 3:30PM
  Giovanni Gallavotti, Rome 1, visiting Courant

• Galois Groups for Systems of Equations

  Location TBA
  Nov. 08, 2018, 3:30PM
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University

• Random initialization and implicit regularization in nonconvex statistical estimation

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Nov. 08, 2018, 2PM
  Yuxin Chen, Princeton

• Transparent Boundary Conditions for the Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Nov. 08, 2018, 12:30PM
  Jason Kaye, partner: Brennan Sprinkle

• Kinetic theory, stochastic averaging, and large deviations for the two-dimensional stochastic Navier-Stokes and barotropic quasi-geostrophic equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2018, 11AM
  Freddy Bouchet, ENS- Lyon

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