Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, October 20, 2017

• Approximation of Functions Over Manifolds by Moving Least Squares

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  Oct. 20, 2017, 11AM
  Barak Sober, Tel Aviv University

Thursday, October 19, 2017

• Rotation theory for higher dimensional torus mappings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 19, 2017, 3:45PM
  Tianqi Wu, Courant

• Bridging the Gap between Constant Step Size Stochastic Gradient Descent and Markov Chains

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Oct. 19, 2017, 2PM
  Francis Bach, INRIA, ENS

• On multi-dimensional compact solitary patterns

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 19, 2017, 11AM
  Philip Rosenau, Tel Aviv University

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

• Low-Dimensional Reduced-Order Models for Statistical Response and Uncertainty Quantification in Turbulent Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2017, 3:30PM
  Andrew J. Majda, Courant

• SPECIAL WEDNESDAY SEMINAR: The Threshold Theorem for Yang-Mills

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Oct. 18, 2017, 3:30PM
  Daniel Tataru, U. C. Berkeley

• A cocompactness theorem for convergence groups

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 18, 2017, 11AM
  Misha Kapovich, UC Davis

• Self-Avoiding Walks on the Honeycomb Lattice

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 18, 2017, 10AM
  Guillaume Dubach

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

• Routing in Geometric Graphs.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 17, 2017, 6PM
  Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University

• The local-global dimension spectrum of quadratic forms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 17, 2017, 3:30PM
  Asher Auel, Yale

• Reentrainment of the circadian pacemaker during jet lag: east-west asymmetry and the effects of north-south travel

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 17, 2017, 12:30PM
  Amitabha Bose, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

• The mimetic finite difference method and the mass-lumped finite element method for the Landau-Lifshitz equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 17, 2017, 11AM
  Eugenia Kim, University of California, Berkeley

Monday, October 16, 2017

• Elastic failures and stochastic successes on the top of the world

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 16, 2017, 3:45PM
  John Wettlaufer, Yale

• Rigidity of branching microstructures in shape-memory alloys

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 16, 2017, 11AM
  Thilo Simon, NJIT

Friday, October 13, 2017

• Markov chain Monte Carlo and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics in drug discovery

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 13, 2017, 2:30PM
  John Chodera

• Covariate-corrected biclustering methods for gene-expression and GWAS data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 13, 2017, 1PM
  Aaditya Rangan, CIMS

• TBA

  Online, 60 Washington Square South
  Oct. 13, 2017, 10AM

• Isogeometric Analysis and Domain Decomposition

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 13, 2017, 10AM
  Olof Widlund, CIMS

Thursday, October 12, 2017

• NON-ARCHIMEDEAN AX-LINDEMANN THEOREM

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 12, 2017, 5:30PM
  Francois Loeser, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, Paris

• (un)conventional regularization for efficient large scale machine learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Oct. 12, 2017, 2PM
  Lorenzo Rosasco, MIT

• The Shock Development Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 12, 2017, 11AM
  Demetri Christodoulou, ETH Zurich

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

• Interactions between near-inertial waves and mesoscale mean flow in the ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 11, 2017, 3:30PM
  Jin-Han Xie, CIMS

• Under the Covers: The networks of a cloud provider

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  Oct. 11, 2017, 12:30PM
  Jeff Mogul, Google

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

• Constructing finite projective planes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 10, 2017, 6PM
  J. B. Nation, University of Hawaii

• Intersections of two Grassmannians in P^9

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 10, 2017, 3:30PM
  Alexander Perry, Columbia University

• ODEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 10, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• Tiny Functions for Codecs, Compilation, and (Maybe) Soon Everything

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  Oct. 10, 2017, 11AM
  Keith Winstein, Stanford University

• Does a photon have a linear polarizability and why does it matter?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 10, 2017, 11AM
  Ilya Dodin, PPPL and Princeton University

Monday, October 9, 2017

• Gauge-string duality in lattice gauge theories

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 09, 2017, 3:45PM
  Sourvav Chatterjee, Stanford
  (The Tea Service will NOT be provided at this event)

Friday, October 6, 2017

• Programming the dynamics of active colloids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 06, 2017, 2:30PM
  Kyle Bishop, Columbia University

• Observations of sub-mesoscale shallow, salinity fronts in the Bay of Bengal during winter monsoon

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 06, 2017, 11AM
  Amit Tandon, U Mass, Dartmouth

• Homogenization of a class of 1-D nonconvex viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in random media

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 06, 2017, 11AM
  \tAtilla Yılmaz, Koç University

• Untangling the nonlinearity in inverse scattering using data-driven reduced order models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 06, 2017, 10AM
  Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan

Thursday, October 5, 2017

• A semidefinite relaxation of k-means clustering

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Oct. 05, 2017, 2PM
  Dustin Mixon, Ohio State

• Geometric Topology meets Computational Complexity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 05, 2017, 12:15PM
  Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis

• Finite-time singularity formation in incompressible fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 05, 2017, 11AM
  Tarek Elgindi, UCSD

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

• A rectifiability theorem for anisotropic energies and Plateau problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 04, 2017, 11AM
  Antonio De Rosa, CIMS

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

• Optimal Execution, Order-Placement Tactics, and Hamiltonian Dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 03, 2017, 5:30PM
  Jerome Benveniste (joint work with Gordon Ritter), NYU Courant, M.S. Mathematics in Finance

• Almost all plane curves are simply connected

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 03, 2017, 3:30PM
  Michael McQuillan, IHES

• Quadrature

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 03, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• Metriplectic dynamics -- a framework for plasma kinetic theory and numerics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 03, 2017, 11AM
  Eero Hirvijoki, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

• Online Blind Deconvolution for Sequential Through-the-Wall-Radar-Imaging

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 03, 2017, 11AM
  Hassan Mansour, MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Monday, October 2, 2017

• Surface Diffusion and Related Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 02, 2017, 11AM
  Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion

Friday, September 29, 2017

• On random walks, local limits, and random interlacements in dimension 2

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 29, 2017, 11AM
  Pierre-Francois Rodriguez, UCLA

• On the solution of elliptic partial differential equations on regions with corners

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 29, 2017, 10AM
  Kirill Serkh, CIMS

Thursday, September 28, 2017

• Extrapolation from sparsity

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium 150
  Sept. 28, 2017, 2PM
  Laurent Demanet, MIT

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

• The dynamics of Atlantic sea level change

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 27, 2017, 3:30PM
  Laure Zanna

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

• Dynamic Orthogonal Range Searching on the RAM, Revisited.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Sept. 26, 2017, 6PM
  Konstantinos Tsakalidis, NYU/Tandon

• The gonality of complete intersection curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 26, 2017, 3:30PM
  Brooke Ullery, Harvard University

• Rational Functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 26, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• Pseudo spectral collocation with Maxwell polynomials for kinetic equations with energy diffusion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Sept. 26, 2017, 11AM
  Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet, CIMS

Monday, September 25, 2017

• Signal Fragmentation for Low Frequency Radio Transmission

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 25, 2017, 3:45PM
  Russ Caflisch, NYU, CIMS

Friday, September 22, 2017

• Dense suspensions: Frictional effects in shear thickening and related phenomena

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 22, 2017, 2:30PM
  Jeffrey Morris, The City College of New York (Levich Institute)

• Berry-Esseen Theorem for the Random Conductance Model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 22, 2017, 11AM
  \tSebastian Andres, Cambridge Univ

• Pursuing Rapid Convergence for Gradient Sampling-like Methods for Nonsmooth Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 22, 2017, 10AM
  Lucas Simoes, University of Campinas, Brazil

Thursday, September 21, 2017

• Conditional Density Estimation through Optimal Transport

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Sept. 21, 2017, 2PM
  Esteban Tabak, CIMS

• The statistical foundations of learning to control

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Room C15
  Sept. 21, 2017, 11AM
  Ben Recht

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

• Understanding and quantifying the stratospheric circulation using age of air

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 20, 2017, 3:30PM
  Marianna Katherine Linz, MIT

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

• Gonality and the strong uniform boundedness conjecture for periodic points

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 19, 2017, 3:30PM
  Bjorn Poonen, MIT

• Chebyshev Series

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 19, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

• A Numerical Study of Human Concept Categorization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 19, 2017, 12:30PM
  Nicole Fider, Mathematics Department, University of California, Irvine

• Landau damping of sound waves in kinetic magnetohydrodynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Sept. 19, 2017, 11AM
  Jesus Ramos, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Monday, September 18, 2017

• The Rough Energy Landscape Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 18, 2017, 3:45PM
  Giulio Biroli, Institute for Theoretical Physics CEA Saclay

Friday, September 15, 2017

• Statistics, Computation and Learning with Graph Neural Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 15, 2017, 2:30PM
  Joan Bruna Estrach, CIMS

• Surface effects in dense random graphs with sharp constraints

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 15, 2017, 11AM
  \tCharles Radin, Universiy of Texas

• Low-rank methods for PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 15, 2017, 10AM
  Peter Benner, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg

Thursday, September 14, 2017

• Adaptive Regularization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Auditorium Hall 150
  Sept. 14, 2017, 2PM
  Yoram Singer, Princeton

• The Sphere Covering Inequality and Its Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 14, 2017, 11AM
  Amir Moradifam, UC Riverside

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

• Understanding the Impact of Arctic Amplification on the Midlatitude Circulation Using a Hierarchy of Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 13, 2017, 3:30PM
  Yutian Wu, Lamont

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

• Further Consequences of The Colorful Helly Hypothesis.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 12, 2017, 6PM
  Natan Rubin, Ben-Gurion University

• Algebraic representatives and intermediate Jacobians over perfect fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 12, 2017, 3:30PM
  Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, University of Colorado

• Random Functions and Random Differential Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 12, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

Friday, September 8, 2017

• \tBeurling estimates, heat kernel decay and DLA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 08, 2017, 11AM
  Ariel Yadin, Ben Gurion University

• Some new vector spaces of possible linearizations for matrix polynomials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 08, 2017, 10AM
  Heike Fassbender, University of Braunschweig

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 05, 2017, 3:30PM
  Laure Zanna

• Gaussian Elimination

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 05, 2017, 1:25PM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

Friday, June 23, 2017

• Intelligent Question Answering Using the Wisdom of the Crowd

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 110
  June 23, 2017, 11:30AM
  Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

• Language variation in Natural Language Processing

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  June 20, 2017, 11:30AM
  Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Monday, June 19, 2017

• Dynamics, aging and universality in complex systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  June 19, 2017, 8:30AM
  Various Speakers
  Conference dates: \nMonday, June 19, 2017 - Friday, June 23, 2017

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  June 13, 2017, 3:30PM
  Burglind Jorl-Jöricke, Max Planck Institute

Friday, May 26, 2017

• \t The weight, geometry and coalescence of scaled polymers in Brownian last passage percolation.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 26, 2017, 11AM
  Alan Hammond, UC Berkeley

Thursday, May 18, 2017

• Valuations on lattice polytopes: Old and new

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 707
  May 18, 2017, 6:05PM
  Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Technology

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

• The Material Skeleton of Fluid Flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 17, 2017, 3:30PM
  Mattia SERRA, ETH Zurich

• Semidefinite programming relaxations for matrix completion, inverse scattering and blind deconvolution

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 17, 2017, 2PM
  Augustin Cosse, NYU CDS and Courant Institute

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 16, 2017, 1PM
  Afonso Bandeira, CIMS, Amelia Perry (MIT), and Alex Wein (MIT)

Friday, May 12, 2017

• Positive polynomials and numerical approximation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  May 12, 2017, 2:15PM
  Bruno Després, Laboratoire J.-L. Lions, Université Paris 6

• Numerical Aspects of Flow Stabilization by Riccati Feedback

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 12, 2017, 10AM
  Heiko Weichelt, The Mathworks, UK

Thursday, May 11, 2017

• Sharp geometric and functional inequalities and applications to geometry and PDEs

  Location TBA
  May 11, 2017, 6:30PM
  Guozhen Lu, University of Connecticut

• Inverse problems in acoustic scattering and cryo-electron microscopy

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 11, 2017, 4PM
  Leslie Greengard, CIMS

• The interesting dynamics of weakly collisional high-beta plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  May 11, 2017, 11AM
  Jonathan Squire, Caltech

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

• Ensemble Kalman filters in high dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 10, 2017, 3:30PM
  Xin TONG, U of Singapore

Monday, May 8, 2017

• Singularities in geometry, topology and strings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 08, 2017, 3:45PM
  Antonella Grassi, University of Pennsylvania
  ***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Friday, May 5, 2017

• Fast Algorithms for Robust Stability Measures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 05, 2017, 10AM
  Tim Mitchell, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg

Thursday, May 4, 2017

• A Few Fairy Math Tales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 6 Metrotech Center, Rogers Hall 325
  May 04, 2017, 5:05PM
  Dmitri Burago, Penn State University

• Murder, Matrices, and Minima - Adventures in Blind Deconvolution

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  May 04, 2017, 2:30PM
  Thomas Strohmer, UC Davis

• Level-Set strategy for SCFT

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 04, 2017, 12:30PM
  Gaddiel Ouaknin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University.

• Counterexamples to Sobolev regularity for degenerate Monge-Ampere equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 04, 2017, 11AM
  Connor Mooney, ETH Zurich

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

• Index of A Free Boundary Minimal Surface

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 03, 2017, 11AM
  Hung Tran, UC Irvine

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

• The shape of phylogenetic treespace.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 02, 2017, 6PM
  Katherine St. John, Lehman College (CUNY), New York

• Stochastic Variance Reduction Methods for Policy Evaluation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2017, 3:45PM
  Lihong Li, Microsoft Research

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