Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, March 30, 2018

• \tThe Polaron Measure

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

• On the Evaluation of Sums of Periodic Gaussians

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 30, 2018, 10AM
  Andrei Osipov, Shaw Research

Thursday, March 29, 2018

• SHIMURA CURVES AND THE ABC CONJECTURE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 29, 2018, 5:30PM
  Hector Pasten, Harvard

• The Immersed Boundary Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 29, 2018, 12:30PM
  Charlie Peskin, CIMS

• An indefinite Laplacian on a rectangle

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 29, 2018, 11AM
  Jussi Behrndt, Technische Universitaet Graz

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

• Ice ages and the latent dynamics of the Indian Ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2018, 3:30PM
  Jessica E. Tierney, University of Arizona

• Stable constant-mean-curvature hypersurfaces: regularity and compactness.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 28, 2018, 11AM
  Costante Bellettini, University College London

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

• The Dispersion Bias

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 27, 2018, 5:30PM
  Lisa Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley and Aperio Group

• Functorial compactification of the moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 27, 2018, 3:30PM
  Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia

• Harmonic mappings valued in the Wasserstein space

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 27, 2018, 1PM
  Hugo Lavenant

Monday, March 26, 2018

• Closing the Loop on Secure System Design

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 26, 2018, 2PM
  Amit Levy, Stanford University

Friday, March 23, 2018

• iPhones and Dysons: using fluid dynamics to tailor technology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2018, 2:30PM
  Ian Griffiths, University of Oxford

• Quantification of Analyticity and Geometric Measure of Nodal Set

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2018, 1PM
  Fanghua Lin, CIMS

• \tRadial processes on RCD*(K,N)-spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 23, 2018, 11AM
  \tKazuhiro Kuwae, Fukuoka University

• Delay-coordinate maps and the spectra of Koopman operators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  March 23, 2018, 11AM
  Dimitrios Giannakis, with Suddhasattwa Das, Courant Institute

• Some recent progress on quantum kinetics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 23, 2018, 11AM
  Minh-Binh Tran, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• A fast direct solution technique for boundary value problems on locally perturbed geometries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 23, 2018, 10AM
  Adrianna Gillman, Rice University

Thursday, March 22, 2018

• [ Learning via Nonconvex Optimization: ReLUs, neural nets and submodular maximization]

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 22, 2018, 2PM
  Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, USC

• How to make nanofibres with a fridge magnet and a hairbrush

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 22, 2018, 12:30PM
  Ian Griffiths, Oxford

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 22, 2018, 11AM
  Minh-Binh Tran, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  ****CANCELLED******

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

• Suppression of Arctic air formation, and enhanced frequency of Sudden Stratospheric Warming events in warm climates

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 21, 2018, 3:30PM
  Eli Tziperman, Harvard

• Local and global obstructions for the random matrix norm regularization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 650
  March 21, 2018, 2:30PM
  Liza Rebrova, http://mad.cds.nyu.edu/micsem/

• Lower bound for the perimeter density at singular points of a minimizing cluster in R^N

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 21, 2018, 11AM
  Jonas Hirsch, SISSA

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

• Riemannian curvature measures.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 20, 2018, 6PM
  Thomas Wannerer, University of Jena

• Stable reduction of foliated surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 20, 2018, 3:30PM
  Federico Buonerba, Courant Institute

• Individualized multiple myeloma adaptive response modeling: mathematics for better treatment decisions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 20, 2018, 12:30PM
  Guanyu Wang, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

• Extended MHD for High Energy Density Plasmas: Methods and Simulation Results

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 20, 2018, 11AM
  Charles E. Seyler, Laboratory of Plasma Studies, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

Monday, March 19, 2018

• Computational Cloaking: Local differential privacy for physical sensor data and sparse recovery

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 19, 2018, 3:45PM
  Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan

Friday, March 16, 2018

• Statistical mechanics of active matter

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 16, 2018, 2:30PM
  Julien Tailleur, Université Paris-Diderot

• On the expressiveness of comparison queries.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  March 16, 2018, 2PM
  Shay Moran, Princeton University

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

• Typical lattice zonotopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 13, 2018, 6PM
  Ben Lund, University of Georgia

• Emergent symmetries in low-beta gyrokinetics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 13, 2018, 11AM
  Ryan White, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Friday, March 9, 2018

• Highly accurate integral equation based methods for surfactant laden drops in two and three dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 09, 2018, 2:30PM
  Anna-Karin Tornberg, KTH

• FPT-Approximation Algorithms for k-Cut and k-Treewidth Deletion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 09, 2018, 2PM
  Euiwoong Lee, NYU

• Towards Generalizable Imitation in Robotics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 09, 2018, 11AM
  Animesh Garg, Stanford

• \tLocal law of addition of random matrices on optimal scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 09, 2018, 11AM
  \tKevin Schnelli, KTH

• Optimal model reduction: An interpolatory framework

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 09, 2018, 10AM
  Serkan Gugercin, Virginia Tech

Thursday, March 8, 2018

• Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 08, 2018, 2PM
  Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton

• How to simulate the dynamics of drops?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 08, 2018, 12:30PM
  Anna-Karin Tornberg, KTH

• Exact relations for polycrystalline composites and rank-one convex, non-quasiconvex functions of high symmetry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 08, 2018, 11AM
  Yury Grabovsky, Temple University

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

• Rate of asymptotic convergence near isolated singularity of a manifold.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 07, 2018, 11AM
  Gao Chen, Princeton

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

• Connectivity of Bichromatic Matchings.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 06, 2018, 6PM
  Greg Alupis, New York University

• Non-Traditional Datasets in Quantitative Investing: Challenges and Solutions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 06, 2018, 5:30PM
  Gene Ekster, Alternative Data Group

• Local-global principles for gerbes and homogeneous spaces over semi-global fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 06, 2018, 3:30PM
  Bastian Haase, Emory University

• Mechanical positioning of multiple myonuclei in muscle cells

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 06, 2018, 12:30PM
  Angelika Manhart, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Monday, March 5, 2018

• Liquid Haskell: Usable Language-Based Program Verification

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 05, 2018, 2PM
  Niki Vazou, University of Maryland

Friday, March 2, 2018

• Efficient sampling using stochastic differential equations, from molecular dynamics to large scale inference

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2018, 2:30PM
  Benedict Leimkuhler, University of Edinburgh

• Pattern formation on the sphere

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2018, 10AM
  Hadrien Montanelli, Columbia

Thursday, March 1, 2018

• Efficient Analytical and Numerical Treatment of High Contrast Composites

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 01, 2018, 3:30PM
  Yuliya Gorb, Univ of Houston
  *** Please note the unusual time and day of the week of this event

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 01, 2018, 2PM
  Thomas Pock, TU Graz

• Adaptive stochastic algorithms for particle systems in and out of equilibrium

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 01, 2018, 12:30PM
  Benedict Leimkuhler

• Discrete harmonic analysis and applications to ergodic theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 01, 2018, 11AM
  Mariusz Mirek, Institute of Advanced Study

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

• Toward Understanding the Multi-Scale Coupling in Global Oceanic Flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 28, 2018, 3:30PM
  Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester

• Transforming Computation and Communication Patterns for High-Performance

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 28, 2018, 2PM
  Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, Rutgers University

• Uniform measures: examples and characterizations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 28, 2018, 11AM
  A. Dali Nimer, Chicago

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

• Enhancing Turbulence in Ocean Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 27, 2018, 2:30PM
  Laure Zanna, University of Oxford
  **Please note unusual day for this seminar

• Adaptive Adversarial Learning for a Diverse Visual World

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 27, 2018, 2PM
  Judy Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley

• What modeling and aquaporin-1 can teach us about early atherosclerosis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 27, 2018, 12:30PM
  David Rumschitzki, The City College of New York

Monday, February 26, 2018

• A Conditional Gaussian Framework for Uncertainty Quantification, Data Assimilation and Prediction of Complex Turbulent Dynamical Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 26, 2018, 3:45PM
  Nan Chen, CIMS

• Towards a More Stable Network Infrastructure

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 26, 2018, 2PM
  Radhika Mittal, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, February 23, 2018

• A Robust Inverse Scattering Transform for the Focusing Nonlinear Schr\\"odinger Equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 23, 2018, 2:30PM
  Peter Miller, University of Michigan

• Programming Abstractions for Data Stream Processing Systems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 23, 2018, 11AM
  Konstantinos Mamouras, University of Pennsylvania

• \tSpectral Theory Sum Rules, Meromorphic Herglotz Functions and Large Deviations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 23, 2018, 11AM
  \tBarry Simon, Caltech

• Graph Partitioning using Matrix Differential Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 23, 2018, 10AM
  Nicola Guglielmi, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy

Thursday, February 22, 2018

• igenvalues in multivariate random effects models

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 22, 2018, 2PM
  Ivan Selesnick, NYU

• A stochastic variational inequality (SVI) approach modeling free boundary dynamics on turbulent thermal convection

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 22, 2018, 12:30PM
  Jinzi Mac Huang, CIMS

• Elasticity with residual stress and related problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 22, 2018, 11AM
  Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

• Lower-Tropospheric Eddy Momentum Fluxes in Idealized Models and Reanalysis Data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 21, 2018, 3:30PM
  Nicholas Lutsko, MIT

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

• Randomness and structure in neural representations for learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 20, 2018, 12:30PM
  Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University

• Wave kinetic equation in a nonstationary and inhomogeneous medium with a weak quadratic nonlinearity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 20, 2018, 11AM
  Daniel Ruiz, Sandia National Laboratory

• Wave kinetic equation in a nonstationary and inhomogeneous medium with a weak quadratic nonlinearity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 20, 2018, 11AM
  Daniel Ruiz, Sandia National Laboratory

Friday, February 16, 2018

• Which subspaces can be the fixed points of a finite group acting on a space?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 16, 2018, 1PM
  Sylvain Cappell, Courant Institute

• \tAnother look into the Wong-Zakai theorem for stochastic heat equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 16, 2018, 11AM
  Yu GU, CMU

• The Summation-by Parts Property: Provably Stable Discretizations of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 16, 2018, 10AM
  Dave Zingg, Toronto

Thursday, February 15, 2018

• Autotuning the learning rate in stochastic gradient methods

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 15, 2018, 3PM
  Rachel Ward, UT Austin

• $L^p$ Hardy inequality on $C^{1,\\gamma}$ domains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 15, 2018, 11AM
  Yehuda Pinchover, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

• Stable flight of meteors

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Feb. 14, 2018, 12:30PM
  Pejman Sanaei, partner: Georg Stadler

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

• Constructive Polynomial Partitioning for Lines in R3: Revisiting Depth Cycle Elimination.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 13, 2018, 6PM
  Esther Ezra, Bar-Ilan University and Georgia Tech.

• 1-cycles and arithmetic of weighted complete intersections

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 13, 2018, 3:30PM
  Cristian Minoccheri, Stony Brook University

• Next generation neural field models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 13, 2018, 12:30PM
  Áine Byrne, Center for Neural Science, New York University

Monday, February 12, 2018

• Kahler-Einstein metrics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 12, 2018, 3:45PM
  Gabor Szekelyhidi, Notre Dame

• Mathematical methods for the statistical mechanics of mesoscopic particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 12, 2018, 9:30AM
  Emilio Zappa, CIMS

Sunday, February 11, 2018

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

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 11, 2018, 3:45PM
  Luis Chacon, Los Alamos National Lab

Friday, February 9, 2018

• An algorithm for overcoming the curse of dimensionality in Hamilton-Jacobi equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 09, 2018, 2:30PM
  Yat Tin Chow, UCLA

• Derivation of kinetic equations from Hamiltonian systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 09, 2018, 1PM
  Pierre M Germain, Courant Institute

• Building Correct Programs

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 09, 2018, 11AM
  William Mansky, Princeton University

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 09, 2018, 11AM
  Evita Nestoridi, Princeton University

• Support Function Based Optimization of Eigenvalues

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 09, 2018, 10AM
  Emre Mengi, Koc University, Turkey

Thursday, February 8, 2018

• Summation formulae and speculations on L functions attached to triples of automorphic representations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 08, 2018, 5:30PM
  Jayce Getz, Duke/IAS

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 08, 2018, 2PM
  David Rothschild, Microsoft Research

• Granular erosion in Stokes flow and non-normal surface waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 08, 2018, 12:30PM
  Nick Moore, Florida State University

• Anisotropic Type II Blow-up for the Semi-linear Heat Equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 08, 2018, 11AM
  Charles COLLOT, NYU AD / Courant Institute

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

• The latitudinal dependence of geostrophic turbulence in the atmosphere and ocea

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 07, 2018, 3:30PM
  Rei Chemke, Columbia

• Sparse Linear Algebra in the Exascale Era

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 07, 2018, 2PM
  Erin Carson, CIMS

• Rigidity of Warped Cones and Coarse Geometry of Expanders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 07, 2018, 11AM
  Wouter Van Limbeek, Michigan

• Connectivity of Neural Networks Optimization Landscapes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 07, 2018, 10:15AM
  Luca Venturi, NYU

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

• Polyomino and Rectilinear Knot Projections.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 06, 2018, 6PM
  Joseph Malkevitch, York College (CUNY)

• Trading Illiquid Goods: Market Making as a Sequence of Sealed-Bid Auctions, with Analytic Results

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 06, 2018, 5:30PM
  Peter Cotton, Data Science Division of J.P. Morgan

• Nested Hilbert schemes, local Donaldson-Thomas theory, Vafa-Witten / Seiberg-Witten correspondence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 06, 2018, 3:30PM
  Artan Sheshmani, Harvard University

• Circadian Rhythmicity of Pain Sensitivity: A Firing-Rate Model of Dorsal Horn Circuitry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 06, 2018, 12:30PM
  Jennifer Crodelle, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

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