Past Events

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Past Math Events

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

• Graph formulas for tautological cycles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 07, 2017, 3:30PM
  Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University

• Effects of mechano-electric feedback of the cardiac bioelectrical activity: a simulation study

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 07, 2017, 12:30PM
  Simone Scacchi, University of Milan, Italy

Monday, March 6, 2017

• Robots in Clutter: Learning to Understand Environmental Changes

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 06, 2017, 2PM
  David Held, University of California, Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 1:45pm

Friday, March 3, 2017

• Optimal wall-to-wall transport by incompressible flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 03, 2017, 2:30PM
  Ian Tobasco, University of Michigan

• Making the Fastest Routers Programmable

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 03, 2017, 11:30AM
  Anirudh Sivaraman, MIT
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• \tA Sharp Quasi-Invariance Result for Gaussian Measures under NLS with Quartic Dispersion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 03, 2017, 11AM
  Philippe Sosoe, Harvard

• Anisotropic Multiscale Systems on Bounded Domains (with Applications to Efficient Solvers for PDEs)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 03, 2017, 10AM
  Gitta Kutyniok, TU-Berlin

Thursday, March 2, 2017

• Optimal Approximation with Sparse Deep Neural Networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 02, 2017, 2:30PM
  Gitta Kutyniok, TU Berlin

• Boundary Layers in Periodic Homogenization of Neumann Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2017, 11AM
  Zhongwei Shen, Univ. Kentucky

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

• Simple Stochastic Dynamical Models Capturing the Statistical Diversity of El Nino Southern Oscillation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 01, 2017, 3:30PM
  Nan CHEN, Courant

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

• Topological Drawings of Complete Bipartite Graphs.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 28, 2017, 6PM
  Jean Cardinal, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

• Ciliated tissue creates microfluidic habitats with distinct filtering and mixing properties

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 28, 2017, 12:30PM
  Eva Kanso, University of Southern California

• Langmuir wave filamentation in the kinetic regime and multidimensional Vlasov simulations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 28, 2017, 11AM
  Denis Silantyev, University of New Mexico

Friday, February 24, 2017

• Domain Decomposition: From Poisson to Coupled Multi-physics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Feb. 24, 2017, 2:30PM
  Xiao-Chuan Cai, University of Colorado at Boulder
  A reception will follow in the lounge.

• A New Approach to Network Functions

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 24, 2017, 11:30AM
  Aurojit Panda, University of California, Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am \n

• Random coalescing geodesics in first-passage percolation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 24, 2017, 11:15AM
  Daniel Ahlberg, IMPA and Uppsala University

• \t Percolative properties of Brownian interlacements and its vacant set

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 24, 2017, 10:15AM
  Xinyi Li, U. Chicago

Thursday, February 23, 2017

• Nonconvex Recovery of Low-Complexity Models

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 23, 2017, 2:30PM
  John Wright, Columbia

• Regularity of free boundaries in obstacle problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 23, 2017, 11AM
  Xavier Ros-Oton, Univ. Texas

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

• Investigating the role of external radiative forcing in driving the Atlantic Multidecal Oscillation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 22, 2017, 3:30PM
  Katinka BELLOMO, Columbia U.

• Hardening Cloud and Datacenter Systems Against Configuration Errors

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 22, 2017, 2PM
  Tianyin Xu, University of California, San Diego
  ***Refreshments will be served

• The Geometric Burnside's Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 22, 2017, 11AM
  Brandon Seward, NYU

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

• Some results on estimation of synaptic conductances

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 21, 2017, 12:30PM
  Toni Guillamon, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and NJIT

• Zimmer's conjecture: subexponential growth, measure rigidity and strong property (T)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 805
  Feb. 21, 2017, 10AM
  David Fisher, Indiana University

Monday, February 20, 2017

• Subexponential growth, measure rigidity, strong property (T) and Zimmer’s conjecture"

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2017, 3:45PM
  David Fisher, Indiana University

Friday, February 17, 2017

• Large Deviations Theory for Chemical Reactions Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 17, 2017, 11:30PM
  Andrea Agazzi, Stanford and Université de Genève

• Randomized Algorithms Meets Formal Verification

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 17, 2017, 11:30AM
  Justin Hsu, University of Pennsylvania
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• \t KPZ growth in a half space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 17, 2017, 10:30AM
  Guillaume Barraquand, Columbia

• Simulating semi-flexible fiber suspensions in Stokes flow applied to cell mechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 17, 2017, 10AM
  Ehssan Nazockdast, Simons Foundation

Thursday, February 16, 2017

• STRONG ARITHMETIC EQUIVALENCE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 16, 2017, 5:30PM
  Andrew Sutherland, MIT

• Organization and Analysis on data tensors

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 16, 2017, 2:30PM
  Ronald Coifman, Yale

• Renormalized martingale solutions to the Boltzmann equation with stochastic forcing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 16, 2017, 11AM
  Sam Punshon-Smith, Maryland

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

• A Lagrangian View of Oceanic Turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 15, 2017, 3:30PM
  Dhruv BALWADA, Courant

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

• Approximation Algorithms for Time-Window TSP and Prize Collecting TSP Problems.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 14, 2017, 6PM
  Su Jia, Stony Brook University

• \t Calabi-Yau compactifications and Landau-Ginzburg Hodge numbers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 14, 2017, 3:30PM
  Victor Przyjalkowski, Steklov Institute

• The master equation in mean field games

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 14, 2017, 1PM
  Pierre Cardaliaguet, Universite Paris-Dauphine

• Variational integration for ideal MHD and formation of current singularity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 14, 2017, 11AM
  Yao Zhou, Princeton University

Monday, February 13, 2017

• Stability theorems for geometric variational problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 13, 2017, 3:45PM
  Francesco Maggi, ICTP, Trieste

• ePCA: Exponential family PCA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 13, 2017, 11AM
  Edgar Dobriban, Stanford University

Friday, February 10, 2017

• From atomistic dynamics to mesoscale models of epitaxial growth

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 10, 2017, 2:30PM
  Dionisios Margetis, U Maryland

• Uniform large deviations principle for a general class of stochastic partial differential equations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 10, 2017, 11AM
  Mickey Salins, Boston University

• Computational Methods for Storm Surge Modeling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 10, 2017, 10AM
  Kyle Mandli, Columbia

Thursday, February 9, 2017

• Inverse problems in acoustic scattering and cryo-electron microscopy

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 09, 2017, 2:30PM
  Leslie Greengard, CIMS

• The master equation in mean field games

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 09, 2017, 11AM
  Pierre Cardaliaguet, Universite Paris-Dauphine

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

• The development of 2015 El Nino and the end of global warming "hiatus"

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 08, 2017, 3:30PM
  Alexey FEDOROV, Yale U.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

• Insights from Euler's polyhedral formula into the structure of 3-polytopes.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 07, 2017, 6PM
  Joseph Malkevitch, Department of Mathematics, York College (CUNY)

• Good and bad reduction of dynatomic modular curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 07, 2017, 3:30PM
  Andrew Obus, University of Virginia

• No equations, no variables, no parameters, no space, no time: Data and the computational modeling of complex/multiscale systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 07, 2017, 12:30PM
  Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Princeton University

• A problem in the evolution of crystal facets from a continuum view

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 07, 2017, 11AM
  Dionisios Margetis, Univ of Maryland
  NOTE: Most "Materials Working Group" talks will NOT be announced in the seminar bulletin. To receive announcements by email, contact Bob Kohn (kohn@cims.nyu.edu).

Friday, February 3, 2017

• Towards a continuum mechanics for (dry) active particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 03, 2017, 2:30PM
  Wen Yan, Simons Foundation

• Hardware-conscious data processing systems

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 03, 2017, 11:30AM
  Holger Pirk, MIT
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• Incremental methods for additive convex cost optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 03, 2017, 10AM
  Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Rutgers

Thursday, February 2, 2017

• Large time behavior of solutions to 3-D MHD system with initial data near equilibrium

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 02, 2017, 11AM
  Ping Zhang

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

• Local and adelic Hecke algebra isomorphisms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Jan. 31, 2017, 3:30PM
  Valentijn Karemaker, University of Pennsylvania

• Sensory transduction by active, noisy oscillators on the brink of self-oscillation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 31, 2017, 12:30PM
  Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, The Rockefeller University

• Recent advances in the variational formulation for reduced Vlasov-Maxwell equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Jan. 31, 2017, 11AM
  Alain Brizard, Saint Michael's College

Monday, January 30, 2017

• High dimensional sparse approximation of elliptic PDEs with lognormal coefficients

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 30, 2017, 3:45PM
  Albert Cohen, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Friday, January 27, 2017

• Optimal rates of estimation for the multi-reference alignment problem

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room CDS 650
  Jan. 27, 2017, 4PM
  Jonathan Weed, MIT

• Extreme Events and Metastability in Fluids and Waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 27, 2017, 2:30PM
  Tobias Grafke, CIMS

• Reinforced Random Walks and Statistical Physics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Jan. 27, 2017, 11AM
  Pierre Tarres, Université Paris-Dauphine

• Solving Conic Optimization Problems with MOSEK

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 27, 2017, 10AM
  Erling Andersen, MOSEK

Thursday, January 26, 2017

• Optimal Shrinkage of Covariance Matrices in light of the Spiked Covariance Model

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Jan. 26, 2017, 2:30PM
  David Donoho, Stanford

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

• Parabolicity of leaves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 25, 2017, 11AM
  Mario Bonk, UCLA

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

• A Mathematical Model of the Rat Kidney: K+-Induced Natriuresis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 24, 2017, 12:30PM
  Alan M. Weinstein, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Friday, January 20, 2017

• Frozen Gaussian approximation with surface hopping: a stochastic semiclassical algorithm for high dimensional Schroedinger equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 20, 2017, 2:30PM
  Jianfeng Lu, Duke

Monday, December 19, 2016

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2016 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Dec. 19, 2016, 5:30PM
  Various Speakers
  Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.

Friday, December 16, 2016

• Extensions of the Erdös-Rényi Law of Large Numbers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 16, 2016, 11:30AM
  Yuri Kifer, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem and U. of Pennsylvania

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 16, 2016, 11AM
  Florent Bekerman, MIT

Thursday, December 15, 2016

• Elasto-capillary phenomena in thin solids: Singular mechanics and irregular geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 15, 2016, 12:30PM
  Benny Davidovitch, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 13, 2016, 3:15PM
  Sergei Kuksin, Univ. Paris 7

Monday, December 12, 2016

• Uniqueness of weak solutions to the Ricci flow and topological applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 12, 2016, 3:45PM
  Richard Bamler, UC Berkeley

Friday, December 9, 2016

• Differential forms on Dirichlet spaces and Bakry-Emery estimates on metric graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 09, 2016, 11AM
  \tFabrice Baudoin, U. of Connecticut

• Optimization methods for optimal transport in imaging

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 09, 2016, 10AM
  Dirk Lorenz, TU-Braunschweig

Thursday, December 8, 2016

• Extensible, Performance-Aware, SMM-based Runtime Integrity Measurement

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  Dec. 08, 2016, 12:30PM
  Karen Karavanic, Portland State University
  ***Please note the unusual time and day of this event Refreshments will be served at 12:15pm

• Bayesian determination of static chromatin structure from Hi-C data and DCS studies of chromatin dynamics in ESCs and derived neurons fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 08, 2016, 12:30PM
  Simeon Carstens, Center for Soft Matter Research, Department of Physics, NYU

• Hamiltonians and normal forms for water waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 08, 2016, 11AM
  Walter Craig, McMaster Univ.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

• A Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 07, 2016, 3:30PM
  Sulian THUAL, NYU

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

• Counting Ordinary Lines over the Complex Numbers.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 06, 2016, 6PM
  Charles Wolf, Rutgers University.

• Landau damping in the Kuramoto model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2016, 11AM
  Helge Dietert, University Paris 7

• Simulating laser-wakefield acceleration with pseudo-spectral Particle-In-Cell algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Dec. 06, 2016, 11AM
  Remi Lehe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Monday, December 5, 2016

• Nonlocality in Fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2016, 3:45PM
  Peter Constantin, Princeton University

Friday, December 2, 2016

• A mathematical framework for the classification of Self-assembling Polypeptide Nanoparticles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 02, 2016, 2:30PM
  Giuliana Indelicato, University of Torino

• \tMulti-period Portfolio Selection and Bayesian Dynamic Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 02, 2016, 1PM
  Petter Kolm

• Model Reduction for Edge-Weighted Personalized PageRank

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 02, 2016, 11:30AM
  David Bindel, Cornell University
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• Gaussian complex zeros on the hole event: the emergence of a forbidden region

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 02, 2016, 10:30AM
  Alon Nishry, U. Michigan

Thursday, December 1, 2016

• Motion of a hot particle in viscous fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 01, 2016, 12:30PM
  Naomi Oppenheimer, Simons Foundation.

• Demixing Sines and Spikes: Spectral Super-resolution in the Presence of Outliers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 01, 2016, 11AM
  Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

• Modeling and dynamics of the non-traditional Coriolis force in geophysical flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 30, 2016, 3:30PM
  Marine TORT, Scripps / UCSD

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

• \t Hyperelliptic loci in moduli spaces of curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 29, 2016, 3:10PM
  Nicola Tarasca, University of Utah

• The dissassembly of viral capsids as a case study for the stability of large complexes made of repeated building blocks.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 29, 2016, 11AM
  Paolo Cermelli, University of Torino

Monday, November 28, 2016

• Mathematical optimization for data analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 28, 2016, 11AM
  Soledad Villar, UT Austin

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

• Load Balanced Routing using area-preserving maps and medial axis.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 22, 2016, 6PM
  Mayank Goswami, Queens College (CUNY)

• Spike Triggered Regression on Neuronal Network Reconstruction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 22, 2016, 12:30PM
  Yaoyu Zhang, New York University, Abu Dhabi and Courant Institute, NYU

Monday, November 21, 2016

• Prime number theorems for hyperbolic manifolds and rational maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2016, 3:45PM
  Hee Oh, Yale University

• Convergence of phase-field models and thresholding schemes to multi-phase mean-curvature flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 21, 2016, 11AM
  Tim Laux, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig

Friday, November 18, 2016

• Machine Learning, Data Science and Decisions for a Better Planet

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 18, 2016, 11:30PM
  Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Oxford
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• evolving dynamical systems for temperature compensated clocks and developmental patterning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 18, 2016, 2:30PM
  Eric Siggia, Rockefeller

• \tPredicting the cloud patterns of the Madden-Julian Oscillation through a low-order nonlinear stochastic model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 18, 2016, 1PM
  \tNan Chen, CIMS

• Fast convolution with free-space Green’s functions. Applications to molecular electrostatics, acoustic and electromagnetic scattering and plasma physics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 18, 2016, 10AM
  Felipe Vico, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

Thursday, November 17, 2016

• CAPACITY THEORY AND OPTIMALITY OF COPPERSMITH'S THEOREM

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 17, 2016, 5:30PM
  Zachary Scherr, Bucknell University

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