Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, November 17, 2016

• Root Separation Bound

  Location TBA
  Nov. 17, 2016, 4:10PM
  Hoon Hong, NC State University

• Paracontrolled calculus and singular PDES through the heat semigroup

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 17, 2016, 11AM
  Frederic Bernicot, University of Nantes

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

• The dynamics of a three-dimensional ocean overturning circulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 16, 2016, 3:30PM
  Andrew THOMPSON, Caltech

• The structure of currents in R^n and in metric spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 16, 2016, 11AM
  Andrea Schioppa, ETH

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

• Solving k-SUM using few linear queries using point location.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 15, 2016, 6PM
  John Iacono, New York University.

• Hyperplane sections of K3 surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 15, 2016, 3:10PM
  Enrico Arbarello, University of Rome

• Regularization of collapse in the dynamics of biological cells: connecting microscopic and macroscopic scales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 15, 2016, 12:30PM
  Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico

Monday, November 14, 2016

• Energy Identity for Stationary Yang Mills

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2016, 3:45PM
  Aaron Naber, Northwestern University
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, November 11, 2016

• Sea surface temperatures, planetary rotation rate, and precipitation in the African Sahel and the Intertropical Convergence Zone

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 11, 2016, 3:30PM
  Spencer HILL, Caltech

• Traveling Waves in Myxobacteria

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 11, 2016, 2:30PM
  Angelika Manhart, CIMS

• Grand Computational Challenges in Phylogenomics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 11, 2016, 11:30AM
  Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• \tLDP and CLT for fluctuations of Coulomb gases

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 11, 2016, 11AM
  Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS

• Data assimilation by the Ensemble Kalman filter and other particle filters — why are 50 ensemble members enough?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 11, 2016, 10AM
  Matti Morzfeld, University of Arizona at Tucson

Thursday, November 10, 2016

• THE MINIMAL NUMBER OF GENERATORS AND DENSITY OF GENERATING SETS OF ALGEBRAS FINITE OVER THE INTEGERS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 10, 2016, 5:30PM
  Marcin Mazur, SUNY at Binghamton

• \tOptimality and sub-optimality of PCA for spiked random matrix models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Nov. 10, 2016, 5PM
  Amelia Perry, MIT

• The genesis of "critters": a multi-part story

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 10, 2016, 12:30PM
  Blaise Delmotte, Courant Institute, NYU.

• On the critical points of optimization problems arising from low rank factorization approaches to semidefinite programming

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 10, 2016, 11AM
  Afonso Bandeira, CIMS

• GEMPIC: Geometric ElectroMagnetic Particle-In-Cell Methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell System and Gyrokinetics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 10, 2016, 11AM
  Michael Kraus, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

• A new vertical-versus-horizontal isoperimetric inequality on the Heisenberg group, with applications to metric geometry and approximation algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 10, 2016, 11AM
  Assaf Naor, Princeton

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

• Sea surface temperatures, planetary rotation rate, and precipitation in the African Sahel and the Intertropical Convergence Zone

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 09, 2016, 3:30PM
  Spencer HILL, Caltech

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

• \t Existence of twisted symmetric differentials and the geometry of projective subvarieties

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 08, 2016, 3:10PM
  Christopher Langdon, University of Miami

• A Probability Polling State—the Maximum Entropy Principle in Neuronal Data Analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 08, 2016, 12:30PM
  Zhi-Qin John Xu, New York University, Abu Dhabi and Courant Institute, NYU

Monday, November 7, 2016

• A message passing algorithm for cryo-EM and synchronization problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 07, 2016, 11AM
  Alex Wein, MIT

Friday, November 4, 2016

• Quenched large deviations for random walks on supercritical percolation clusters

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 04, 2016, 11:30PM
  Chiranjib Mukherjee, WIAS Berlin

• On the asymptotic performance of l_q regularized least squares

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 04, 2016, 2:30PM
  Arian Maleki, Columbia

• Fibrations, subsurface projections and veering triangulations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 04, 2016, 11AM
  Yair Minsky, Yale

• Variational principles for discrete maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 04, 2016, 10:30AM
  Martin Tassy, UCLA

• A fluctuating boundary integral method for Brownian suspensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 04, 2016, 10AM
  Aleks Donev, CIMS

Thursday, November 3, 2016

• Quantifying the ‘tails’ of extreme events in intermittent systems, a probabilistic-decomposition based approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2016, 3:30PM
  Mustafa MOHAMAD, MIT

• Drop electrohydrodynamics under strong electric fields: Three singular limits

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 03, 2016, 12:30PM
  Ehud Yariv, Department of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

• Vectorial nonlinear potential theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2016, 11AM
  Tuomo Kuusi, Aalto University (Helsinki)

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

• Representing Agricultural Land Management in Earth System Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 02, 2016, 3:30PM
  Sonali MCDERMID, NYU

• Bounded Ricci curvature and the codimension 4 conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 02, 2016, 11AM
  Jeff Cheeger, CIMS

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

• Configurations of lines in 3-space and rigidity of planar structures.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 01, 2016, 6PM
  Orit Raz, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.

• Uniformity of integral points and Lang-Vojta's conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 01, 2016, 3:30PM
  Kenny Ascher, Brown University

Monday, October 31, 2016

• Convection, jets and atmospheric circulation in an idealized aquaplanet model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2016, 3:30PM
  Penelope MAHER, University of Exeter

Friday, October 28, 2016

• Optimization on manifolds to solve low-rank semidefinite relaxations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 28, 2016, 2:30PM
  Nicolas Boumal, Princeton

• Bistable Dynamics of Perceiving Ambiguous Stimuli

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 28, 2016, 1PM
  John Rinzel

• The ant in high-dimensional labyrinths (II)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 28, 2016, 11AM
  \tAlexander Fribergh, U. Montréal

• The ant in high-dimensional labyrinths (I)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 28, 2016, 10AM
  Gérard Ben Arous, Courant

• From Dominant Eigenspace Computation to Orthogonal Constrained Optimization Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 28, 2016, 10AM
  Xin Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences and CIMS

Thursday, October 27, 2016

• Hydrodynamic quantum analogs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 27, 2016, 12:30PM
  John W. M. Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT.

• Prandtl's boundary layers: the good, the bad, and the ugly

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 27, 2016, 11AM
  Toan Nguyen, Penn State Univ.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

• Extreme heat waves sampled through large deviation algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 26, 2016, 3:30PM
  Freddy BOUCHET, Lyon

• Differentiability and rectifiability on metric planes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 26, 2016, 11AM
  Guy David, NYU

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

• Placing a Point to Maximize Angles.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 25, 2016, 6PM
  Mark Yagnatinsky

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2016, 3:45PM
  Lin Xiao, Microsoft Research

• \t Motivic Euler products

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 25, 2016, 3:30PM
  Margaret Bilu, ENS

• Modeling the Mitral Valve

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 25, 2016, 12:30PM
  Alex Kaiser, Courant Institute, NYU

• Global solutions to the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 524
  Oct. 25, 2016, 11AM
  P. LeFloch, Univ. Paris 6

Friday, October 21, 2016

• Structured Prediction and Deep Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 21, 2016, 11:30AM
  Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Thursday, October 20, 2016

• A PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF RANKS OF ELLIPTIC CURVES

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 20, 2016, 5:30PM
  Alvaro Lozano Robledo, University of Connecticut

• Data-driven techniques for modeling, control, and sensor placement

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 20, 2016, 4:45PM
  Eurika Kaiser, U. Washington

• The Formation of Large Scale Vortices in Rotating Convection and Their Resulting Dynamo Action

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 20, 2016, 12:30PM
  David Hughes, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds

• Fourth order equations in conformal geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 20, 2016, 11AM
  Paul Yang, Princeton Univ.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

• Radiative convective equilibrium as a framework for studying the interaction between convection and its large-scale environment

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 19, 2016, 3:30PM
  Levi SILVERS, GFDL

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

• Means and convex hulls in tree space.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 18, 2016, 6PM
  Megan Owen, Lehman College, CUNY

• Bandits and agents: How to incentivize exploration?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2016, 3:45PM
  Alex Slivkins, Microsoft Research

• Log birational boundedness of Calabi-Yau pairs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 18, 2016, 3:30PM
  Gabriele di Cerbo, Columbia University

• Mathematical biology and pharmacology models in Pharma: challenges and applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 18, 2016, 12:30PM
  Karim Azer, Translational Informatics, Sanofi US

• Dynamos in Rapidly Rotating Convection with no Inertia

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 18, 2016, 11AM
  David Hughes, University of Leeds

Friday, October 14, 2016

• Stable Matchings and Scarf’s Lemma

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 14, 2016, 2:30PM
  Rakesh Vohra, UPenn

• Big Data Management and Apache Flink: Key Challenges and (Some) Solutions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 14, 2016, 11:30AM
  Volker Markl, TU Berlin and DFKI
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

Thursday, October 13, 2016

• Remarks on incompatible and compatible sets of matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 13, 2016, 11AM
  John Ball, University of Oxford

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

• Seasonal prediction and predictability of Arctic sea ice in a dynamical forecast system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 12, 2016, 3:30PM
  Mitch BUSHUK, GFDL

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

• Title: Inference on Graphs with Noisy Side Information: Tight Rates and Efficient Algorithms.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 11, 2016, 3:45PM
  Dylan Foster, Cornell University

Friday, October 7, 2016

• Large deviation theory applied to climate physics, a new frontier of statistical physics and applied mathematics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 07, 2016, 2:30PM
  Freddy Bouchet, ENS de Lyon and CNRS

• \tFrom Seismology to Compressed Sensing and Back, a Brief History of Optimization-Based Signal Processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 07, 2016, 1PM
  \tCarlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS

• \t Liouville quantum gravity and peanoshere

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 07, 2016, 11:30AM
  Xin Sun, MIT

• Heat kernel bounds for interacting particle systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 07, 2016, 10:30AM
  Jean-Christophe Mourrat, CNRS

• Cubature, approximation, and isotropy in the hypercube

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 07, 2016, 10AM
  Nick Trefethen, University of Oxford and CIMS

• Flow-structure interaction at the micro-scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 07, 2016, 10AM
  Megan Davies Wykes, Courant Institute, NYU

Thursday, October 6, 2016

• Two-dimensional steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 06, 2016, 11AM
  Julien Guillod, Princeton Univ.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

• Clouds, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity in Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations of Self-Aggregation of Convection

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 05, 2016, 3:30PM
  Allison WING, Columbia

• Poincare inequalities via quantitative connectivity, and differentiability in metric measure spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 05, 2016, 11AM
  Sylvester Eriksson-Bique, NYU

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

• Spontaneous Oscillation and Fluid-Structure Interaction of Cilia

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 04, 2016, 12:30PM
  Jihun Han, Courant Institute, NYU

Monday, October 3, 2016

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 03, 2016, 3:30PM
  Vladimir ZAKHAROV, University of Arizona, Lebedev Physical Institute

Sunday, October 2, 2016

• Splitting of a gap in the bulk of the spectrum of random matrices.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 02, 2016, 11:30AM
  Igor Krasovsky, Imperial College

Thursday, September 29, 2016

• TOWARD A CLASSIFICATION OF LOCAL OORT GROUPS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 29, 2016, 5:30PM
  Andrew Obus, University of Virginia

• Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1214
  Sept. 29, 2016, 12:30PM
  Meredith Betterton, University of Colorado Boulder

• On the Cauchy problem for vortex rings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 29, 2016, 11AM
  Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

• On Network Disconnectivities with Applications.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 27, 2016, 6PM
  Alon Efrat, University of Arizona, Tucson.

• Spectral thresholds in the bipartite stochastic block model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 27, 2016, 3:45PM
  Laura Florescu, NYU

• Good reduction of three-point Galois covers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 27, 2016, 3:30PM
  Andrew Obus, University of Virginia

• Variational current-coupling gyrokinetic-MHD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Sept. 27, 2016, 11AM
  Joshua Burby, Courant Institute NYU

Friday, September 23, 2016

• Variational problems on graphs and their continuum limits

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 23, 2016, 2:30PM
  Dejan Slepcev, Carnegie Mellon University

• Optimization on Sparse Random Graphs and its Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 23, 2016, 11AM
  \tSubhabrata Sen, Stanford

• Mesh-free finite difference methods for fully nonlinear elliptic equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 23, 2016, 10AM
  Brittany Froese, NJIT

Thursday, September 22, 2016

• Exponential Growth of Periodic Orbits and Entropy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Sept. 22, 2016, 4PM
  Yun Yang, CUNY Graduate Center

• Non-Monotonic Aging and Memory Retention in Disordered Mechanical Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 22, 2016, 12:30PM
  Yoav Lahini, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.

• The relaxation of a general family of broken bond crystal surface models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 22, 2016, 11AM
  Jeremy Marzuola, University of North Carolina

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

• Future sea level rise constrained by observations and long-term commitment

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 21, 2016, 3:30PM
  Matthias MENGEL, Potsdam Institute for Climate Research

• Uniqueness of weak solutions to Ricci flow, and Perelman's convergence conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 21, 2016, 11AM
  Bruce Kleiner, CIMS

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

• Geometrical Problems Inspired by Partitions and Compositions.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 20, 2016, 6PM
  Joseph Malkevitch, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, York College (CUNY).

• Interactive Clustering

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 20, 2016, 3:45PM
  Adam Lelkes, University of Illinois at Chicago

Friday, September 16, 2016

• Topological conjugacy of iterated random orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Sept. 16, 2016, 4:30PM
  Julian Newman, Imperial College

• Entropic and Displacement interpolation of probability distributions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 16, 2016, 2:30PM
  Tryphon Georgiou, University of Minnesota and UC Irvine

• Absorbing-State Phase Transitions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 16, 2016, 11AM
  Leo Rolla, U. de Buenos Aires and NYU Shanghai

• Fast Approximation of the Stability Radius and the H-infinity Norm for Large-Scale Linear Dynamical Systems with Output Feedback

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 16, 2016, 10AM
  Michael Overton, CIMS

Thursday, September 15, 2016

• Topological conjugacy of iterated random orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Sept. 15, 2016, 5PM
  Peter Veerman, Portland State University

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