Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, September 15, 2016

• Synchronization of Large Linear Oscillator Arrays

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Sept. 15, 2016, 4PM
  Peter Veerman, Portland State University

• Explorations in biofluids: Stokes oddities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 15, 2016, 12:30PM
  Lisa Fauci, Tulane University

• Mean Field Limits for Ginzburg-Landau Vortices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 15, 2016, 11AM
  Sylvia Serfaty, CIMS

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

• Locally conformally Kähler manifolds with potential

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 13, 2016, 3:30PM
  Liviu Ornea, University of Bucharest

• Fast Reactive Brownian Dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13014
  Sept. 13, 2016, 12:30PM
  Aleksandar Donev, Courant Institute, NYU

Friday, September 9, 2016

• Edge states in honeycomb structures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 09, 2016, 2:30PM
  James Lee-Thorpe, CIMS

• On the Linear Convergence of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 09, 2016, 10AM
  Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday, September 8, 2016

• Flow-structure interaction at the micro-scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 08, 2016, 12:30PM
  Megan Davis Wykes, CIMS

Thursday, September 1, 2016

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

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 01, 2016, 11AM
  Bruce Kleiner, NYU

Monday, August 29, 2016

• Conference on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry at Courant

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Aug. 29, 2016, 10AM
  Various speakers, Please see link for further details

Monday, August 15, 2016

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2016 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room WWH 13th floor commons
  Aug. 15, 2016, 6PM
  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. \n

Thursday, June 2, 2016

• TBA

  Location TBA
  June 02, 2016, 5:05PM
  Martin Henk, Technical University Berlin

Thursday, May 26, 2016

• TBA

  Location TBA
  May 26, 2016, 5:05PM
  Franz Schuster, Vienna University of Technology

• Population dynamics and therapeutic resistance: mathematical models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 26, 2016, 11AM
  Alexander Lorz, Univ. Paris 6

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

• Discovering Latent Representations for Patient State in Intensive Care Units

  Location TBA
  May 25, 2016, 11AM
  Marzyeh Ghassemi, MIT

Friday, May 20, 2016

• Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Decomposition

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 20, 2016, 10AM
  Yariv Aizenbud, Tel Aviv University

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

• Graduation Celebration

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room Lounge
  May 17, 2016, 3PM

Monday, May 16, 2016

• Large Deviations and a Conjecture of Lukic

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 16, 2016, 4PM
  Barry Simon, Caltech

Friday, May 13, 2016

• The homogenization commutator

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 13, 2016, 1PM
  Antoine Gloria, Free University of Brussels

Thursday, May 12, 2016

• New and missing volume inequalities for L_p zonotopes

  Location TBA
  May 12, 2016, 5:05PM
  Karoly Boroczky, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics,Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Central European University

• The one dimensional cubic half wave equation: small mass solitons, almost integrability and transition to high frequencies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 12, 2016, 11AM
  Patrick Gerard, University Paris-Sud

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2016 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  May 10, 2016, 4PM
  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. \n

• Waves in space plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  May 10, 2016, 11AM
  Eun-Hwa Kim, PPPL

Friday, May 6, 2016

• oisy Population Recovery in Polynomial time

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 06, 2016, 2PM
  Michael Saks, Rutgers University

• \tDynamics of the brain: mathematics meets neuroscience

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 06, 2016, 1PM
  \tLai-Sang Young, CIMS

• The Arrow of Time - Images of Irreversible Behavior

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 06, 2016, 11AM
  Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zürich

• On growth of iterated monodromy groups: a geometric point of view

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  May 06, 2016, 11AM
  Misha Hlushchanka, Jacobs University Bremen

• Finite Elements Methods on Non-Aligned Meshes for High Contrast Interface Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 06, 2016, 10AM
  Marcus Sarkis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Random functions: A new road to universality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 06, 2016, 10AM
  Van Vu, Yale

Thursday, May 5, 2016

• Retirement Party/Longer Service Awards

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room Lounge
  May 05, 2016, 3PM

• Infectious disease transmission through the lens of fluid dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2016, 12:30PM
  Lydia Bourouiba, MIT

• Control and stabilization of the incompressible Euler equation with free surface

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 05, 2016, 11AM
  Thomas Alazard, ENS Paris

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

• Phase retrieval with Gabor frames: reconstruction and stability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 04, 2016, 2PM
  Palina Salanevich, Jacobs University Bremen

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

• Complexity of elimination for systems of differential equations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 03, 2016, 6PM
  Alexey Ovchinnikov, Queens College (CUNY)

• Design principles of actin treadmill: lessons from the fragment

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 03, 2016, 12:30PM
  Alex Mogilner, New York University

Monday, May 2, 2016

• Inverse Problems in Optical Imaging

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2016, 3:45PM
  John Schotland, University of Michigan
  ** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, April 29, 2016

• The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Spot Solutions to Reaction-Diffusion Systems in R2

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 29, 2016, 2:30PM
  Michael Ward, University of British Columbia

• \tInsights into Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 29, 2016, 1PM
  \tEin-Ya Gura

• Fast Learning Requires Good Memory: A Time-Space Lower Bound for Parity Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 29, 2016, 1PM
  Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute

• Algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov stretch factors

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 29, 2016, 11AM
  Balazs Strenner, IAS

• A Sparse Linear Programming method for Optimal Transportation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 29, 2016, 10AM
  Adam Oberman, McGill University

Thursday, April 28, 2016

• CM LIFTINGS OF ABELIAN VARIETIES

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  April 28, 2016, 5:30PM
  Frans Oort, University of Utrecht

• When your big data seems too small: accurate inferences beyond the empirical distribution

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 28, 2016, 12:30PM
  Gregory Valiant, Stanford

• The (unreasonable?) effectiveness of resistive force theory in granular locomotion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 28, 2016, 12:30PM
  Daniel Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Symmetry, quantitative Liouville theorems and analysis of large solutions of conformally invariant fully nonlinear elliptic equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2016, 11AM
  Yanyan Li, Rutgers Univ.

• A Space Decomposition Framework for Nonlinear Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2016, 10AM
  Luis Vicente, University of Coimbra & Rice University

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

• Diffusion Models in Population Genetics

  Location TBA
  April 27, 2016, 5:10PM
  Charles Epstein, University of Pennsylvania

• An asymptotic model for the coupled evolution of near-inertial waves and quasi-geostrophic flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 27, 2016, 3:30PM
  Gregory WAGNER, UCSD

• Administrative Professionals Day

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room Lounge
  April 27, 2016, 3PM

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

• Convexity in Tree Spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 26, 2016, 6PM
  Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley

• Tumor treatment with oncolytic viruses and dendritic cell vaccines: hierarchical model development and the robustness of optimal treatment protocols

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 26, 2016, 12:30PM
  Jana Gevertz, The College of New Jersey

Friday, April 22, 2016

• Student Prizes Ceremony

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 22, 2016, 2:30PM

• \tLattices and a Reverse Minkowski Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 22, 2016, 1PM
  \tOded Regev

• Notions of differential calculus on metric measure spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 22, 2016, 11AM
  Nicola Gigli, SISSA

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 22, 2016, 11AM
  Jack Hanson, CUNY

• Challenges in Multivalued Matrix Functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 22, 2016, 10AM
  Nick Higham, University of Manchester

• Mean field limits for stochastic differential games

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 22, 2016, 10AM
  Daniel Lacker, Brown

Thursday, April 21, 2016

• How does a neuron integrate spatiotemporal synaptic inputs?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2016, 12:30PM
  Douglas Zhou, Institute of Natural Sciences & Math Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• A Nash-Kuiper theorem for $C^{1,1/5}$ isometric immersions of disks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2016, 11AM
  Camillo de Lellis, Univ. Zurich

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

• Understanding umbrella sampling approaches to rare event simulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 20, 2016, 11AM
  Jonathan Weare, U. Chicago

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

• Minimizing co-location potential for moving points.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 19, 2016, 6PM
  David Kirkpatrick, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

• Multi-Level Regulation in the Mammalian Circadian Clock

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 19, 2016, 12:30PM
  Casey O. Diekman, NJIT

Friday, April 15, 2016

• A Short History of the Immersed Boundary Method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 15, 2016, 2:30PM
  Boyce Griffith, UNC
  ***3:30pm-5:30pm Reception to celebrate Charlie Peskin's 70th birthday, 13th floor lounge

• Emergent phases in large constrained graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 15, 2016, 11AM
  Charles Radin, Austin

• Certifying the Thurston norm via SL(2, C)-twisted homology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 15, 2016, 11AM
  Ian Agol, UC Berkeley

• Level Set Methods in Convex Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 15, 2016, 10AM
  James Burke, University of Washington

• Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia \tExternal sponsorship by: Google

  Location TBA
  April 15, 2016, 9:30AM
  Various Speakers, http://cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/news/colloquium/844/

Thursday, April 14, 2016

• Problems in human motion planning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 14, 2016, 12:30PM
  Brian Skinner, MIT

• Symmetrization and stabilization of solution of nonlinear elliptic problem: dynamical systems approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2016, 11AM
  Messoud Efendiyev, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

• Do mid-latitude jet shifts cause cloud feedbacks?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2016, 3:30PM
  Kevin Michael GRISE, University of Virginia

• Trade-offs in Statistical Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2016, 1PM
  Quentin Berthet, Cambridge

• Marginalization is not Marginal: Non-Convex, Bayesian-Inspired Algorithms for Sparse and Low-Rank Estimation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2016, 11:30AM
  David Wipf, Microsoft Research Beijing
  ** Refreshments at 11:15am.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

• Turán-Type Theorems for Triangles in Convex Point Sets.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 12, 2016, 6PM
  Pat Morin, Carleton University, Ottowa

• Understanding entrainment properties of circadian oscillator models using a one-dimensional map

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 12, 2016, 12:30PM
  Amitabha Bose, NJIT

• Newton-Raphson method for deducing error-field sources in the CNT stellarator

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 12, 2016, 11AM
  Kenneth Hammond, Columbia University

Monday, April 11, 2016

• Deviations of the maximum for a class of non-determinantal ensembles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 11, 2016, 1PM
  Thomas Kriecherbauer, Bayreuth

Friday, April 8, 2016

• Hertz Saved the Solar System

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2016, 4PM
  John Wettlaufer, Yale University

• PRECESSION ON A ROTATING SADDLE: A GYRO FORCE IN AN INERTIAL FRAME

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2016, 2:30PM
  Oleg Kirillov, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow and Helmholtz-Zentrum, Dresden-Rossendorf

• \tOn the averaging principle of Freidlin and Wentzell and its refinement along trajectories containing saddle points.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2016, 1PM
  \tZsolt Pajor-Gyulai

• Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses: Seeing Through Walls, Gesture Control, and Vital Sign Monitoring

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2016, 11:30AM
  Fadel Adib, MIT
  Refreshments at 11:15am

Thursday, April 7, 2016

• LOWER BOUNDS ON DIMENSIONS OF MOD-p HECKE ALGEBRAS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 07, 2016, 5:30PM
  Anna Medvedovsky, ICERM

• Ising Interfaces and Exploration Trees

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2016, 4:10PM
  Clement Hongler, EPFL

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 07, 2016, 2:45PM
  Mikhail Verbitsky, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

• Multiphysics models for hybrid kinetic-fluid systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 07, 2016, 11AM
  Cesare Tronci, Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, UK

• The degenerate special Lagrangian equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2016, 11AM
  Jake Solomon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

• On the arithmetic of integral representations of finite groups

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 06, 2016, 5PM
  Dmitry Malinin, University of the West Indies, Kingston

• Word meanings and human cognition: A computational perspective

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2016, 11:30AM
  Yang Xu, University of California at Berkeley
  Hosted by Dennis Shasha. Refreshments at 11:15am. \n

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

• Packing and covering convex bodies by cylinders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 05, 2016, 6PM
  Károly Bezdek, University of Calgary

• Dynamical degrees of automorphisms of algebraic surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 05, 2016, 3:30PM
  Igor Dolgachev, University of Michigan

• Bacterial cartels at steady supply

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 05, 2016, 12:30PM
  Ned Wingreen, Princeton University

• Excited random walks in Markovian cookie environments on Z

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 05, 2016, 10AM
  Elena Kosygina, CUNY

Monday, April 4, 2016

• Planar Ising Model: random fields and curves, discrete and continuous structures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2016, 3:45PM
  Clément Hongler, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  ** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• DeepDive: A Data Management System for Machine Learning Workloads

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2016, 11:30AM
  Ce Zhang, Stanford University
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Friday, April 1, 2016

• Bridging scales through nonlocal modeling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 01, 2016, 2:30PM
  Qiang Du, Colmbia University

• Middleboxes as a cloud service

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 01, 2016, 11:30AM
  Justine Sherry, University of California at Berkeley
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Busemann functions and second class particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 01, 2016, 10AM
  Eric Cator, Radboud University

• Communication Lower Bounds for Loop Nests

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 01, 2016, 10AM
  Nicholas Knight, CIMS

Thursday, March 31, 2016

• Flow optimization for unconventional approaches to hydrokinetic energy conversion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 31, 2016, 12:30PM
  Shreyas Mandre, Brown University

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

• The geometry of eddy-mean flow interaction in the ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2016, 3:30PM
  David MARSHALL, Oxford

• Knowledge Graph Construction using Machine Reading Methods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2016, 11:30AM
  Ndapa Nakashole, Carnegie Mellon University
  Refreshments served at 11:15am

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