Past Events

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Past Math Events

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

• Galois Groups for Systems of Equations

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

• 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

• 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

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

• Schilder's theorem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 07, 2018, 12PM
  Jeanne Boursier

• Schilder's theorem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 07, 2018, 12PM
  Jeanne Boursier

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

• “Affine” isoperimetric inequalities in real space forms.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 06, 2018, 6PM
  Franz Schuster, TU Wien.

• Time Scales in Finance & Event-Driven Modeling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2018, 5:30PM
  Mike Lipkin

• Low degree points on curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 06, 2018, 3:30PM
  Isabel Vogt, MIT

• Stochastic modeling of blood vessel growth

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 06, 2018, 12:30PM
  Luis L. Bonilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Monday, November 5, 2018

• From biomedical imaging to online blogs: Graph signal processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 05, 2018, 3:45PM
  Jelena Kovacevic, NYU, Dean of Tandon

Friday, November 2, 2018

• Frequency synchronization conditions for coupled oscillators on lattices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 02, 2018, 4PM
  Tianqi Wu, Courant

• Nonlinear instabilities in viscous multilayer flows.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 02, 2018, 2:30PM
  Demetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College

• Structured Tensors and the Geometry of Data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Nov. 02, 2018, 1:30PM
  Anna Seigal, Berkeley

• Sparse Recovery Beyond Compressed Sensing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 02, 2018, 1PM
  Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS

• The algorithmic hardness threshold for continuous random energy models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 02, 2018, 11AM
  Pascal Maillard, CRM (Montréal) and Université Paris-Sud

• High Order Accurate Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Wave Equation in General Shaped Domains using Simple Meshes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 02, 2018, 10AM
  Eli Turkel, Tel Aviv University

Thursday, November 1, 2018

• TOWARDS A DELIGNE-LUSTIG THEORY FOR p-ADIC GROUPS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 01, 2018, 5:30PM
  Charlotte Chan, Princeton University

• Innovation in teaching mathematics: objectives, methods, and outcomes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 01, 2018, 3:30PM
  Annoesjka Cabo, Delft University of Technology

• Lagrangian chaos and scalar advection in stochastic fluid mechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2018, 11AM
  Jacob Bedrossian, Univ. of Maryland

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

• Stable singularity detection from low-resolution data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2018, 11AM
  Dmitry Batenkov, MIT

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

• Compactifying moduli of curves with a differential

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 30, 2018, 3:30PM
  Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University

• Modeling biofilms in medical environments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 30, 2018, 12:30PM
  Ana Carpio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Monday, October 29, 2018

• Interpolative decomposition and its applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 29, 2018, 3:45PM
  Lexing Ying, Stanford
  **** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, October 26, 2018

• Hybrid Monte Carlo methods for sampling probability measures on submanifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 26, 2018, 2:30PM
  Gabriel Stoltz, CERMICS

• Resonances, quasi-resonances, and Wave Turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 26, 2018, 1PM
  Jalal Shatah, Courant

• Distributional approximation of the characteristic polynomial of a Gaussian beta-ensemble

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 26, 2018, 11AM
  Elliot Paquette, Ohio State

• Dynamic coupling of full and reduced models via randomized online basis updates

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 26, 2018, 10AM
  Benjamin Peherstorfer, Courant

Thursday, October 25, 2018

• Talk 1: Towards an accurate long-time equation for motion of DNA coated colloids. Talk 2: Asymmetry Helps: Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Analyses under Asymmetric Random Matrix Perturbation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Oct. 25, 2018, 12:30PM
  Tristan Goodwill & Chen Cheng

• Complex Poles, Branch Cuts and Integrability of 2D Surface Dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2018, 11AM
  Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

• Iceberg dynamics in modern and glacial oceans

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2018, 3:30PM
  Ian Eisenman, UCSD

• Displacement convexity, and an application to uniqueness of minimisers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 24, 2018, 12PM
  Thomas Leblé, Thomas Leblé

• A Bound on the Cohomology of Quasiregularly Elliptic Manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 24, 2018, 11AM
  Eden Prywes, UCLA

• The Tale of Two Tails

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 24, 2018, 11AM
  Philip ROSENAU, Tel-Aviv University

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

• Solving nonlinear PDEs with the Lasserre hierarchy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Oct. 23, 2018, 6PM
  Didier Henrion, CNRS

• In-depth Dive into Short-term Alpha Profiling of Portfolio Managers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 23, 2018, 5:30PM
  Vlad Rashkovich, Bloomberg LP

• Local-to-Global Extensions for Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 23, 2018, 3:30PM
  Renee Bell, University of Pennsylvania

• The Fermat distance, percolation theory and applications in machine learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 23, 2018, 2PM
  Facundo Sapienza, University of Buenos Aires

• Global Identifiability of Differential Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 23, 2018, 12:30PM
  Gleb Pogudin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Monday, October 22, 2018

• Nonlinear PDEs, random walk, Gaussian processes, random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 22, 2018, 3:45PM
  Ofer Zeitouni, NYU and Weizmann Institute

Friday, October 19, 2018

• The broken arrow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 19, 2018, 3:30PM
  James McKernan, UCSD
  ***SPECIAL SEMINAR***

• From microchannels to blood vessels: A mathematical modeling perspective on flow in soft conduits

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 19, 2018, 2:30PM
  Ivan Christov, Purdue

• Rigorous statistical bounds in uncertainty quantification for turbulent geophysical flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 19, 2018, 1PM
  Di Qi, Courant

• Blockchains and Trusted Execution Environments: Towards a New Security Paradigm

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room room 150
  Oct. 19, 2018, 11AM
  Fan Zhang, Cornell University

• Sharp transition of invertibility of sparse random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 19, 2018, 11AM
  Anirban Basak, ICTS-TIFR

• Moment limiters for the discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured meshes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 19, 2018, 10AM
  Andrew Giuliani, Courant

Thursday, October 18, 2018

• A Combinatorial/Algebraic Topological Approach to Nonlinear Dynamics

  Location TBA
  Oct. 18, 2018, 3:30PM
  Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University

• Big data, inequality, and democracy: what can mathematics offer?

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Oct. 18, 2018, 2PM
  Cathy O’Neil

• Rare Event Sampling of Extreme Weather

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Oct. 18, 2018, 12:30PM
  Rob Webber, partner: Leif Ristroph

• The cost of crushing: curvature-driven wrinkling of thin elastic shells

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2018, 11AM
  Ian Tobasco, Univ of Michigan

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

• Storm Track Impacts and Predictability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 17, 2018, 3:30PM
  Edmund Kar-Man Chang, Stony Brook University

• Swarming by Nature and by Design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  Oct. 17, 2018, 11:15AM
  Andrea L. Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

• Convex 3-polytopes whose faces are equilateral or isosceles triangles.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 16, 2018, 6PM
  Joseph Malkevitch, York College/CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center (Emeritus).

• Patching field arithmetic

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 16, 2018, 3:30PM
  Danny Krashen, Rutgers University

• Spatial population dynamics with adaptation to a heterogeneous environment

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 16, 2018, 12:30PM
  Judith Miller, Georgetown University

Monday, October 15, 2018

• The Mathematics of Crime

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Oct. 15, 2018, 3:45PM
  Andrea L. Bertozzi, UCLA

• \\(C^{1,\\alpha}\\) Reifenberg Theorems for Sets and Measures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 15, 2018, 11AM
  Silvia Ghinassi, Stony Brook University

Friday, October 12, 2018

• Various

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 12, 2018, 10:30AM
  Various

• Estimating graph parameters via multiple random walks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 12, 2018, 10:15AM
  Roberto Oliveira, Weizmann Institute

Thursday, October 11, 2018

• Learning Regularizers from Data

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Oct. 11, 2018, 2PM
  Venkat Chandrasekaran, Caltech

• Adaptive mesh refinement for applications in gas dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 11, 2018, 12:30PM
  Andrew Giuliani, partner: Quynh Nguyen

• Regularity of optimal transport between planar convex domains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 11, 2018, 11AM
  Hui Yu, Columbia University

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

• Local flexibility of open partial differential relations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 10, 2018, 11AM
  Bernhard Hanke, Augsburg

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

• Automorphisms of hyperkähler manifolds and groups acting on CAT(0) spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 09, 2018, 3:30PM
  Nikon Kurnosov, University of Georgia, Athens

• Polynomials and multivariate polynomials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 09, 2018, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

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