Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, September 13, 2018

• The P versus NP problem and the Tau conjecture

  Location TBA
  Sept. 13, 2018, 3PM
  Mike Shub

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Sept. 13, 2018, 2PM
  Nate SIlver, FiveThirtyEight

• Tax Guidance Modeling and Simulation: How to Replace the IRS Fixed-Point Iteration?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Sept. 13, 2018, 12:30PM
  Sam Ferguson, (partner: Brennan Sprinkle)

• Probabilistic local well-posedness and scattering for the 4D cubic NLS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 13, 2018, 11AM
  Jonas LUEHRMANN, Johns Hopkins U.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

• Particle Filters and Finite Ensemble Kalman Filters in Large Dimensions: Theory, Applied Practice, and New Phenomena

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 12, 2018, 3:30PM
  Andrew J. Majda, Courant

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

• Genomic prediction of disease through quasi-Mendelian loci

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 11, 2018, 12:30PM
  Lawrence Sirovich, Rockefeller University

Friday, September 7, 2018

• Symbolic Computation and Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables

  Location TBA
  Sept. 07, 2018, 10AM
  Stephen Melczer

Thursday, September 6, 2018

• Onsager's solution of the Ising model could have been guessed

  Location TBA
  Sept. 06, 2018, 3PM
  Manuel Kauers

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

• How to be a successful graduate student: One ex-student's insight on how to get through graduate school and find a job

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 04, 2018, 1PM
  Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Friday, August 31, 2018

• Organizational Meeting

  Location TBA
  Aug. 31, 2018, 2PM
  Various

Thursday, August 30, 2018

• Algebraic methods for point estimation

  Location TBA
  Aug. 30, 2018, 3PM
  Jose Rodriguez

Thursday, August 16, 2018

• Sparse non-negative super-resolution: simplified and stabilised

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Aug. 16, 2018, 2PM
  Jared Tanner, University of Oxford

Monday, August 13, 2018

• CS Summer Showcase

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Aug. 13, 2018, 5:30PM
  Various
  Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.

Friday, July 20, 2018

• Workshop

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  July 20, 2018, 8:30AM
  Various

Monday, July 16, 2018

• What can (and can't) we do with supersparse polynomials?"

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room TBA,
  July 16, 2018, 4PM
  Daniel Roche, US Naval Academy, USA

• GAP4 at twenty-one – algorithms, system design and applications

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room TBA,
  July 16, 2018, 1:30PM
  Steve Linton, University of St Andrews, UK

• Fast algorithms for displacement and low-rank structured matrices

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room TBA,
  July 16, 2018, 10AM
  Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

• Statistical Limits of Graphical Channel Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  July 03, 2018, 10:30AM
  Chiheon Kim, MIT

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

• Origin of CDW Intruding onto the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sea Shelves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  June 26, 2018, 11AM
  Yoshihiro Nakayama, JPL

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

• From number theory to machine learning: a hunt for smooth Boolean functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  June 06, 2018, 10:30AM
  Roman Vershynin, University of California, Irvine

Monday, June 4, 2018

• Swarm robotics as a tool to study collective behaviors in biological systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  June 04, 2018, 11:30AM
  Eliseo Ferrante, Middlesex University Dubai
  *** Refreshments served at 11:15am

Friday, May 18, 2018

• Conference

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  May 18, 2018, 9AM
  Various Speakers

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

• ENSO in climate models: Progress and Opportunities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 16, 2018, 3:30PM
  Andrew T. Wittenberg, NOAA

• Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Perturbation and Its Applications to the Predictability Problems in Atmospheres and Oceans

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 16, 2018, 11AM
  Mu Mu, Fudan University

Monday, May 14, 2018

• A Mobile Ecosystem for Faster Web Access in Developing Regions

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 14, 2018, 11:15AM
  Yasir Zaki, NYU Abu Dhabi

Friday, May 11, 2018

• Checking consistency of algebraic inequalities by prolongation and linear relaxation

  Location TBA
  May 11, 2018, 3PM
  Hoon Hong, NC State University

• BioDDFT: A hybrid continuum-discrete mechanical collective cell model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 11, 2018, 2:30PM
  John Lowengrub, University of California Irvine

• Optimality principles and identification of dynamic models of biosystems

  Location TBA
  May 11, 2018, 2PM
  Julio Banga, Marine Research Institute, Vigo

• \tInterface Profile in the Planar Ising Model: exact results

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 11, 2018, 11AM
  \tDouglas Abraham, Oxford University

Thursday, May 10, 2018

• Computational complexity of solving polynomial differential equations over unbounded domains

  Location TBA
  May 10, 2018, 3PM
  Amaury Pouly, Max Planck Institute, Saarbrücken

• Optimal experimental design for inverse problems under uncertainty

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 10, 2018, 12:30PM
  Karina Koval, CIMS

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

• In silico–in vitro approach to study the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 08, 2018, 12:30PM
  Alexander V. Panfilov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Gent University, Belgium

Monday, May 7, 2018

• Imaging with correlations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 07, 2018, 3:45PM
  George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
  ****Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, May 4, 2018

• Optimality in microvascular networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 04, 2018, 2:30PM
  Marcus Roper

• Spectral Algorithms and SoS Proofs for Planted Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 04, 2018, 2PM
  Sam Hopkins, Cornell University

• How to Characterize the Worst-Case Performance of Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 04, 2018, 10AM
  Frank E. Curtis, Lehigh University

Thursday, May 3, 2018

• Numerical and certified computation of the topology of projected curves

  Location TBA
  May 03, 2018, 3PM
  Rémi Imbach, New York University

• Global Optimality in Matrix Factorization and Deep Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 03, 2018, 2PM
  Rene Vidal, John Hopkins

• Simple computational methods for inertial microfluidic device design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 03, 2018, 12:30PM
  Marcus Roper, UCLA

• Gravity water waves and emerging bottom

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 03, 2018, 11AM
  Thibault de Poyferre, U. C. Berkeley

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

• Why has the tropical lower stratosphere stopped cooling for the last 20 years?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2018, 3:30PM
  Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia

• Title Uniform lattices acting on RAAG complexes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  May 02, 2018, 11AM
  Jingyin Huang, Bonn

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

• Approximating (k, l)-center clustering for curves.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 01, 2018, 6PM
  Michael Horton, University of Sydney and NYU.

• Funding and Counterparty Credit Costs for CCP and OTC Trading

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 01, 2018, 5:30PM
  Leif Andersen, BAML and NYU Courant

• Rigorous computation of the endomorphism ring of a Jacobian

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  May 01, 2018, 3:30PM
  John Voight, Dartmouth College

• Pulsing Soft Corals are Novel Mesoscale Mixers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 01, 2018, 12:30PM
  Laura Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monday, April 30, 2018

• Compressed sensing Petrov-Galerkin: When data science helps solve problem in applied mathematics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  April 30, 2018, 11AM
  Jean-Luc Bouchot

Friday, April 27, 2018

• On dominability of hyperkaehler manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  April 27, 2018, 3:30PM
  Ljudmila Kamenova, Stony Brook University

• Active Mechanics in the Cell

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 27, 2018, 2:30PM
  Michael Shelley, CIMS

• \tThe high-density hard-core model on a triangular lattice

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 27, 2018, 11AM
  \tIzabella Stuhl, Penn State

• An accurate and fast solver for high-frequency wave propagation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 27, 2018, 10AM
  Matthias Taus, MIT

Thursday, April 26, 2018

• Representations of p-adic groups

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 26, 2018, 5:30PM
  Jessica Fintzen, University of Michigan and IAS

• Robustness Meets Algorithms

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 26, 2018, 2PM
  Ankur Moitra, MIT

• Industrial math problems; modeling membrane filtration; and the influence of internal membrane pore structure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 26, 2018, 12:30PM
  Linda Cummings, NJIT

• On the Mathematical Theory of Graphene and its artificial analogues

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 26, 2018, 11AM
  Michael Weinstein, Columbia University

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

• The dual Minkowski problem and polytopes.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 24, 2018, 6PM
  Karoly Boroczky, Central European University and Rényi Institute.

• Computational Modeling of Cardiac Electromechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 24, 2018, 12:30PM
  Simone Rossi, Mathematics Department, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monday, April 23, 2018

• Back to the roots: Multivariate polynomial optimization by numerical linear algebra

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 23, 2018, 3:45PM
  Bart De Moor, University of Leuven
  *** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 23, 2018, 11AM
  Steve Shkoller, UC Davis

Friday, April 20, 2018

• Modeling granular materials from fundamentals to applications: Surprising complexity meets surprising simplicity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2018, 2:30PM
  Ken Kamrin, MIT

• Approximate spectral approach to transport properties of waves in heterogeneous media

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 20, 2018, 11:15AM
  Mitia Duerinckx, Université Libre de Bruxelles

• Non-holonomic stability and rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of driving stability and of the falling cat phenomenon go sour

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 20, 2018, 10AM
  Andy Ruina, Cornell

Thursday, April 19, 2018

• Manifold Representation by an Unsupervised Neural Net: Biology, Mathematics and Computation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 150
  April 19, 2018, 2PM
  Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers

• Should we worry about asteroid-generated tsunamis?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 19, 2018, 12:30PM
  Marsha Berger, CIMS

• A nonlocal isoperimetric problem with dipolar repulsion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 19, 2018, 11AM
  Thilo Simon, NJIT

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

• Bounded-angle spanning trees and their applications.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 17, 2018, 6PM
  Matthew (Matya) Katz, Ben-Gurion University.

• (Log-)epiperimetric inequality and regularity at isolated singularities for almost Area-Minimizing currents

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 17, 2018, 11AM
  Luca Spolaor

Monday, April 16, 2018

• Fluid Mechanics at the Scale of the Cell

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 16, 2018, 3:45PM
  Prof. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge

Sunday, April 15, 2018

• Decoding the Weather Machine

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 15, 2018, 12PM

Friday, April 13, 2018

• Neuroscience Showcase

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 13, 2018, 3:30PM

• Modeling thin liquid films: from liquid crystals to liquid metals

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2018, 2:30PM
  Lou Kondic, NJIT, UCLA

• Polynomial approximations of the region of attraction of a polynomial control system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 13, 2018, 10AM
  Didier Henrion, Toulouse

Thursday, April 12, 2018

• Asynchronous Parallel Computing for Optimization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 12, 2018, 2PM
  Wotao Yin, UCLA

• How complicated is Brownian motion in liquids?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 12, 2018, 12:30PM
  Aleksandar Donev, CIMS

• The hidden landscape of localization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 12, 2018, 11AM
  Svitlana Mayboroda, Univ of Minnesota

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 11, 2018, 11AM
  Emmanuel GRENIER

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

• Geometric Energies: Between Combinatorial Geometry and Additive Combinatorics.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 10, 2018, 6PM
  Adam Sheffer, Baruch College, CUNY

• Heights on stacks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 10, 2018, 3:30PM
  Jordan Ellenberg, UW-Madison

• Stochastic Spatial Modeling of Attachment and Detachment Processes in Molecular Motor-Cargo Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 10, 2018, 12:30PM
  Peter Kramer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• High Order FInite Methods on Sparse Grids for Kinetic Plasma Simulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 10, 2018, 11AM
  Lee Ricketson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• High Order Finite Volume Methods on Sparse Grids for Kinetic Plasma Simulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 10, 2018, 11AM
  Lee Ricketson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Monday, April 9, 2018

• The Kolmogorov code of turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 09, 2018, 3:45PM
  Oliver Buhler, CIMS

• On the extrapolation of analytic functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 09, 2018, 10AM
  Narek Hovsepyan, Temple Univ

Friday, April 6, 2018

• Pattern Growth from Interfacial Fluid Instabilities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2018, 2:30PM
  Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT

• Fast, Accurate Tools for Physical and Biophysical Modeling in Complex Geometries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2018, 1PM
  Leslie Greengard, CIMS

• Visual Perception and Navigation in 3D Scenes

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 06, 2018, 11AM
  Saurabh Gupta, University of California, Berkeley

• Continuous analogues of Krylov methods for differential operators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 06, 2018, 10AM
  Alex Townsend, Cornell

Thursday, April 5, 2018

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 05, 2018, 2PM
  Justin Romberg, Georgia Tech

• Modeling the relative diffusion of DNA-coated colloids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 05, 2018, 12:30PM
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS

• Remarks on Onsager's Conjecture and Anomalous Dissipation on domains with and without boundaries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 05, 2018, 11AM
  Theodore Drivas, Princeton University

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

• Progress in Studying Ocean Turbulence from Lagrangian Trajectories

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2018, 3:30PM
  Jonathan Lilly, NWRA

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

• On the number of lines on projective hypersurfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 314
  April 03, 2018, 6PM
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University

• Remarks on degenerations of hyperkähler manifolds and OG10

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 03, 2018, 3:30PM
  Giulia Sacca, MIT

• Compressing turbulence and a bound on its energy behavior

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 03, 2018, 11AM
  Seth Davidovits, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Monday, April 2, 2018

• Programming shape

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  April 02, 2018, 3:45PM
  L. Mahadevan, Harvard

• How Computer Science Informs Modern Auction Design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 02, 2018, 2PM
  Tim Roughgarden

• Data-driven problems in elasticity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 02, 2018, 10AM
  Stefan Mueller, Univ of Bonn

Friday, March 30, 2018

• Delay-coordinate maps and the spectra of Koopman operators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  March 30, 2018, 4PM
  Dimitrios Giannakis, with Suddhasattwa Das, Courant Institute

• Fighting the curse of dimensionality in kinetic simulations of plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2018, 1PM
  Antoine Cerfon, Courant Institute

• \tThe Polaron Measure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 30, 2018, 11AM
  Raghu Varadhan, Courant Institute

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