Past Events

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Past Math Events

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

• Tropical Schemes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  May 02, 2017, 3:30PM
  Noah Giansiracusa, Swarthmore College

• Relative equilibria for planar Euler equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  May 02, 2017, 2:30PM
  Zineb Hassainia, CIMS

• Universality and hyperuniformity of Weyl-Heisenberg ensembles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  May 02, 2017, 2PM
  Luis Daniel Abreu, ARI-Vienna

Friday, April 28, 2017

• Elasticity, Geometry and Buckling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2017, 2:30PM
  Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton

• \tBaroclinic turbulence in Earth's oceans

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2017, 1PM
  \tShafer Smith, CIMS

• Central Limit Theorems and Bootstrap in High Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 28, 2017, 11AM
  Victor Chernozhukov

• A Space Decomposition Framework for Nonlinear Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2017, 10AM
  Luis Nunes Vicente, University of Coimbra & Rice University

Thursday, April 27, 2017

• Sketchy Decisions: Low-rank matrix optimization with optimal storage

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 27, 2017, 2:30PM
  Joel Tropp, Caltech

• Ill-posedness for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 27, 2017, 11AM
  Tsukasa Iwabuchi, Tohoku University

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

• Structured sparse recovery with sparse random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  April 26, 2017, 3:30PM
  Bubacarr Bah, AIMS South Africa

• The Balanced Radiative Effect of Tropical Anvil Clouds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 26, 2017, 3:30PM
  Dennis HARTMANN, U. Washington, Seattle

• Optimal transport for particle image velocity and variational methods for fluid flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 26, 2017, 2PM
  Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria

• Two generalizations of the original Volume Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 26, 2017, 11AM
  Qingtao Chen, NYUAD

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

• Representation of convex geometries by convex shapes.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 25, 2017, 6PM
  Kira Adaricheva, Hofstra University

• Combinatorial Inference

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 25, 2017, 3:45PM
  Han Liu, Princeton University

• Local-To-Global Principles for Galois Covers of Curves in Characteristic P

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 25, 2017, 3:30PM
  Renee Bell, MIT

• An Eulerian Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme for the Fully Kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell System

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 25, 2017, 11AM
  James Juno, University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, April 21, 2017

• Should you derive, or let the data drive? A stochastic optimization approach for model mis-specification mitigation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2017, 10AM
  Lior Horesh, IBM TJ Watson

Thursday, April 20, 2017

• The Landscape of some Statistical Learning Problems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 20, 2017, 2:30PM
  Andrea Montanari, Stanford

• Entrapment, escape, and diffusion of active particles in complex environments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 20, 2017, 12:30PM
  Saverio Spagnolie, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Dirichlet problems for mixed type equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2017, 11AM
  Kevin Payne, University of Milano

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

• Summer heat overwinters in the Arctic Ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 19, 2017, 3:30PM
  Mary-Louise TIMMERMANS, Yale U.

• Hyperbolic rank rigidity for strict quarter-pinching negatively curved manifold.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 11:00am
  April 19, 2017, 11AM
  Thang Nguyen, NYU

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

• Geometric transversality.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 18, 2017, 6PM
  Florian Frick, Cornell University

• \t Local-global principles over arithmetic function fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 18, 2017, 3:30PM
  David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania

• Colleagues and friends will discuss Joe's work and impact

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 18, 2017, 12:30PM

• Traveling waves in a free boundary problem modeling cell motility

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 18, 2017, 12:30PM
  Jan Fuhrmann, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Monday, April 17, 2017

• Phase transitions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2017, 3:45PM
  Allan Sly, Princeton University

Friday, April 14, 2017

• Design at the Nanoscale: Reaching the Limits of Light-Matter Interactions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2017, 2:30PM
  Owen Miller, Yale

• \t1d/2d log-gases: searching for transitions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2017, 1PM
  Thomas Leblé

• Lyapunov exponents of products of non-identically distributed independent matrices and transformations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 14, 2017, 11:15AM
  Ilya Goldsheid, Queen Mary University

• The SK model is FRSB at zero temperature.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 14, 2017, 10:15AM
  Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern Univ.

• Approximate Versions of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2017, 10AM
  Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers

Thursday, April 13, 2017

• Macroscopic fluctuations of discrete particle systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2017, 3:20PM
  Vadim Gorin, MIT

• Collaborative Dictionary Learning from Big, Distributed Data

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room Room 150
  April 13, 2017, 2:30PM
  Waheed Bajwa, Rutgers

• Shape up to run - how bacterial motilities impact selective cellular morphologies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 13, 2017, 12:30PM
  Bin Liu, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced

• Models for boundary layer separation: the Prandtl equation and beyond?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2017, 11AM
  Anne-Laure Dalibard, UPMC Paris 6

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

• Birational geometry of moduli spaces of parabolic bundles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 11, 2017, 3:30PM
  Han-Bom Moon, Fordham University

• Building a model of visual cortex

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 11, 2017, 12:30PM
  Lai-Sang Young, CIMS, New York University

Friday, April 7, 2017

• Sphere packings, singularities, and statistical mechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2017, 2:30PM
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, CIMS

• Enabling Data-Driven Optimization of Quality of Experience for Internet Applications

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 07, 2017, 2PM
  Junchen Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am \n

• Exponential number of equilibria and depinning threshold for directed polymers in a random potential

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 07, 2017, 11AM
  \tYan Fyodorov, King's College London

• Sketchy Decisions: Convex Low-Rank Matrix Optimization with Optimal Storage

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2017, 10AM
  Madeleine Udell, Cornell

Thursday, April 6, 2017

• The Lp-Minkowski problem for negative p after Chou-Wang

  Location TBA
  April 06, 2017, 6:30PM
  Károly Böröczky, Central European University and Renyi Institute

• THE SPHERE PACKING PROBLEM IN DIMENSIONS 8 AND 24

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 06, 2017, 5:30PM
  Maryna Viazovska, Berlin Mathematical School

• New conjectures on intrinsic volumes on Riemannian and Alexandrov spaces

  Location TBA
  April 06, 2017, 5:05PM
  Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv University

• Self-organization of confined microbial suspensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 06, 2017, 12:30PM
  Enkeleida Lushi, Courant Institute, NYU.

• Instability, index theorems, and exponential dichotomy of Hamiltonian PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2017, 12PM
  Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Tech

• Optimization Challenges in Deep Learning

  Online, 12 Waverly pl, L120
  April 06, 2017, 11AM
  Ben Recht, UC Berkeley

• An Algorithm for Advancing Slow Features in Fast-Slow Systems without Scale Separation - A Young Measure Approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2017, 11AM
  Edriss Titi, Texas A&M

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

• New perspectives on El Nino dynamics and East Asian Monsoon variability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 05, 2017, 3:30PM
  Malte STUECKER, U. Washington, Seattle

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

• Valuations on lattice polytopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 04, 2017, 6PM
  Karoly Boroczky, Central European University and Rényi Institute

• Deformations of symplectic singularities and the orbit method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 04, 2017, 3:30PM
  Ivan Losev, Northeastern University

• Constrained Counting and Sampling: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 04, 2017, 1PM
  Kuldeep Meel, Rice University

• A new more realistic model of visual cortex can explain selectivity, its diversity, dynamics and more

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 04, 2017, 12:30PM
  Robert Shapley, NYU Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute

Monday, April 3, 2017

• Harmonic Functions and Irreducible Affine Representations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2017, 3:45PM
  Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  ***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• Revolutionizing Medicine through Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 03, 2017, 2PM
  Mihaela van der Schaar, UCLA, University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute

Friday, March 31, 2017

• On Phase Transitions for Spiked Random Matrix and Tensor Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 31, 2017, 1PM
  Afonso Bandeira, CIMS

• Variable Coefficients and Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic Waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 31, 2017, 10AM
  Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard, CIMS

Thursday, March 30, 2017

• Mathematial Mysteries of Deep Convolutional Networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 30, 2017, 2:30PM
  \tStephane Mallat, ENS Ulm

• Spatiotemporal Self-Organization of Fluctuating Bacterial Colonies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 30, 2017, 12:30PM
  Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS

• Scattering of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the 3D radial energy space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2017, 12PM
  Zaher Hani, Georgia Tech
  ****Special noon seminar

• Bilinear estimates in quasilinear evolution equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2017, 11AM
  Alexander Ionescu, Princeton Univ.

• Continuation from lectures 1-3

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2017, 9AM
  Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
  ** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

• The vertical structure of ocean eddies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 29, 2017, 3:30PM
  Joe LACASCE, U. of Oslo

• Safeguarding Users from Adversarial Networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 29, 2017, 2PM
  Roya Ensafi, Princeton University

• Strategic Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 29, 2017, 9AM
  Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
  ** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

• VC-dimension and Ramsey's problem.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 28, 2017, 6PM
  Janos Pach, EPFL and Renyi Institute

• Addressing Computational and Statistical Gaps with Deep Neural Networks.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2017, 3:45PM
  Joan Bruna, CIMS

• Chow groups with coefficients for some twisted homogeneous varieties

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 28, 2017, 3:30PM
  Patrick McFaddin, University of South Carolina

• Cell Movement - Zooming In

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 28, 2017, 12:30PM
  Angelika Manhart, CIMS

Friday, March 24, 2017

• Tales of Emerging Complexity: from Self-Assembly to Self-Replication

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 24, 2017, 2:30PM
  Alexei Tkachenko, Brookhaven National Laboratory

• \tSmall Noise, Big Impact: The Inexorable Effect of Random Perturbations on Dynamical Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 24, 2017, 1PM
  Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS

• Natural Language Understanding with Paraphrases and Composition

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 24, 2017, 11:30AM
  Ellie Pavlick, University of Pennsylvania
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• \tNumerical analysis of random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 24, 2017, 11:15AM
  Tom Trogdon, UC Irvine

• Random perturbations of non-normal matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 24, 2017, 10:15AM
  Elliot Paquette, Ohio State University

• Anderson Acceleration: Convergence Theory and Numerical Experience

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 24, 2017, 10AM
  Tim Kelley, NCSU

Thursday, March 23, 2017

• PCA from noisy linearly transformed measurements

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 23, 2017, 2:30PM
  Amit Singer, Princeton

• The Monge-Ampere eigenvalue problem and global smoothness of the eigenfunctions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2017, 11AM
  Nam Le, Indiana

• Asymptotic Values of Dynamic Games

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2017, 9AM
  Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
  ** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

• Multireference alignment, bispectrum inversion and cryo-EM

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 22, 2017, 2PM
  Tamir Bendory, Princeton University

• Building Fully Trustworthy Sequential and Concurrent System Software

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 22, 2017, 2PM
  Ronghui Gu, Yale University

• Finite Composite Games

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 22, 2017, 9AM
  Sylvain Sorin, Univ Paris 6
  ** Please note the lecture is 110 minutes (9am to 10:50am)

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

• Geometric ideas in Sum-Product theory.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  March 21, 2017, 6PM
  Abdul Basit, Rutgers University

• Statistical Cost Sharing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 21, 2017, 3:45PM
  Umar Syed, Google Research, NYC

• Local and global obstructions for the random matrix norm regularization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 650
  March 21, 2017, 2:30PM
  Liza Rebrova, University of Michigan

• Reaction-diffusion model of hair-bundle morphogenesis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 21, 2017, 12:30PM
  Adrian Jacobo, The Rockefeller University

Monday, March 20, 2017

• From the liquid drop model for nuclei to the ionization conjecture for atoms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 20, 2017, 3:45PM
  Rupert Frank, LMU Munich and Caltech

• Towards Automated Machine Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 20, 2017, 2PM
  Alp Kucukelbir, Columbia University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 1:45pm

Friday, March 10, 2017

• Invariant polynomials and quotients of spheres

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 10, 2017, 1PM
  \tBen Blum-Smith

• Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 10, 2017, 11:30AM
  Justin Cheng, Stanford University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• \tHarnack inequality for a balanced random environment

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 10, 2017, 11AM
  \tXiaoqin Guo, U. Purdue

• Clustered Particle Filtering for High Dimensional Non-Gaussian Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 10, 2017, 10AM
  Yoonsang Lee, CIMS

Thursday, March 9, 2017

• Simple Rules for Decision-Making

  Online, 246 Greene Street, Kimball Hall, 3rd Floor Conference Room
  March 09, 2017, 11:30PM
  Ravi Shroff, NYU/CUSP

• A TOPOLOGICAL/COMBINATORIAL DESCRIPTION OF GALOIS GROUPS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 09, 2017, 5:30PM
  Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania

• Learning determinantal point processes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 150
  March 09, 2017, 2:30PM
  Philippe Rigollet, MIT

• The life of vortex knots and links: the flow of knottiness across scales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 09, 2017, 12:30PM
  William Irvine, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago.

• Geometry and large N asymptotics in Laughlin states.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 09, 2017, 11AM
  Semyon Klevtsov, Cologne

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

• TSP With Point Locational Uncertainty.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 07, 2017, 6PM
  Tyler Mayer, Stony Brook University.

• Stochastic approximation for representation learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 07, 2017, 3:45PM
  Raman Arora, Johns Hopkins University

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