Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, January 26, 2024

Thursday, January 25, 2024

• Theory Seminar

  On the promise of quantum advantage for classical optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Jan. 25, 2024, 11AM
  Kunal Marwaha, University of Chicago

Thursday, December 14, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Robust sublinear expanders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 14, 2023, 11AM
  Matija Bucic, Princeton University

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Dimensionality reduction reveals dependence of voter polarization on political context

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor Open Space and online
  Dec. 13, 2023, 5:30PM
  Sam Wang, Princeton University and Electoral Innovation Lab

• Lecture on Stability of Ecology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Dec. 13, 2023, 4PM
  Prof. Lev Ginzburg, Stony Brook

Friday, December 8, 2023

• Courant Holiday Lecture 2023

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 08, 2023, 1:30PM

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  AOS/CMSC: Bayesian Learning of Biogeochemical Models and Generalized Neural Closure Models with Interpretability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 08, 2023, 10AM
  Pierre Lermusiaux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, December 7, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Cap sets, corners, and fast matrix multiplication

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 07, 2023, 11AM
  Kevin Pratt, New York University

Friday, December 1, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Rare-Event Simulation for Machine Learning Models: Challenges and Remedies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 01, 2023, 10AM
  Henry Lam, Columbia University

Thursday, November 30, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Sampling, spectral gaps and stochastic localization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 30, 2023, 2PM
  Ahmed el Alaoui, Cornell

• Theory Seminar

  Optimal Online Discrepancy Minimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 30, 2023, 11AM
  Victor Reis, Institute for Advanced Study

Monday, November 27, 2023

• Courant PIs Workshop - Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 12th Floor
  Nov. 27, 2023, 9AM

Friday, November 17, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Topological Invariants in Fluid Dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 17, 2023, 10AM
  Albert Chern, University of California, San Diego

Thursday, November 16, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Is it easier to count communities than find them?

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 16, 2023, 2PM
  Dana Yang

• Northeast Probabilty Seminar

  Kimmel Center, Room 912/914
  Nov. 16, 2023, 9AM

Friday, November 10, 2023

• ENYGMMA: Empowering New York Gender Minority Mathematicians

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Nov. 10, 2023, 12:30PM
  Sylvia Serfaty, NYU and Azita Mayeli, CUNY

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Self-assembly in stratified fluids and extreme depth fluctuations in high-altitude Himalayan lakes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 10, 2023, 10AM
  Richard M Mclaughlin, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thursday, November 9, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  On the Emergence of Invariant Low-Dimensional Subspaces in Gradient Descent for Learning Deep Networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 09, 2023, 2PM
  Qing Qu

• Theory Seminar

  The number of -queens configurations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 09, 2023, 11AM
  Michael Simkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Monday, November 6, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Quantifying Communities of Interest in Electoral Redistricting

  Online,
  Nov. 06, 2023, 5:45PM
  Ranthony Edmonds, Duke University and Parker Edwards, Florida Atlantic University

• The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2023, 4PM
  Ananyo Bhattacharya

Friday, November 3, 2023

• Postdoc Day Presentations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2023, 11:30AM

• CS Colloquium

  Codesigning Computing Systems for Artificial Intelligence

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 03, 2023, 11AM
  Suvinay Subramanian

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Scalable classical, quantum-inspired and quantum algorithms for PDEs: A few case studies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2023, 10AM
  Shravan Veerapaneni, University of Michigan

Thursday, November 2, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 02, 2023, 2PM
  Weijie Su, UPenn

• Theory Seminar

  A proof of the Kotzig–Ringel–Rosa conjecture and the Graham-Sloane Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 02, 2023, 11AM
  Edinah Gnang, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, October 27, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Scientific machine learning: advances in representation learning and generative AI for scientific applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Oct. 27, 2023, 10AM
  Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez, Google

Thursday, October 26, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  A mathematical perspective on transformers

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 26, 2023, 2PM
  Philippe Rigollet, MIT

• Theory Seminar

  Blockchain Transaction Fee Mechanisms - an Axiomatic and Non-Myopic Analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 26, 2023, 11AM
  Yotam Gafni, Technion

Friday, October 20, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Adjoint Monte Carlo Methods for Kinetic Equation Constrained Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Oct. 20, 2023, 10AM
  Yunan Yang, Cornell

Thursday, October 19, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  How to Make Your Approximation Algorithm Private: A Black-Box Differentially-Private Transformation for Tunable Approximation Algorithms of Functions with Low Sensitivity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 19, 2023, 11AM
  Tamalika Mukherjee, Columbia University

Friday, October 13, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Mosaics of Big Data: Database Systems and Information Management -- Trends and a Vision

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 13, 2023, 11AM
  Volker Markl

Thursday, October 12, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 12, 2023, 2PM
  Yuting Wei

• Theory Seminar

  Ramsey graphs and additive combinatorics without addition

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 12, 2023, 11AM
  Liana Yepremyan, Emory University

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  AOS/CMSC: AI, quantum and reduced precision: routes to efficient next-generation climate simulators?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Oct. 11, 2023, 3:30PM
  Tim Palmer, University of Oxford

Friday, October 6, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Oct. 06, 2023, 10AM
  Steven L. Brunton, University of Washington

Thursday, October 5, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Logic reasoning and generalization on the unseen

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 05, 2023, 2PM
  Emmanuel Abbe

• Theory Seminar

  A new upper bound for the Heilbronn triangle problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 05, 2023, 11AM
  Cosmin Pohoata, Institute for Advanced Study

Friday, September 29, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  A geometrical connection between sparse and low-rank matrices (and its uses for machine learning)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 29, 2023, 10AM
  Lawrence Saul, Flatiron Institute

Thursday, September 28, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Online List Labeling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 28, 2023, 11AM
  Hanna Komlós, Rutgers University

Friday, September 22, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Structure-Preserving Model Reduction for Transport-Dominated Port-Hamiltonian Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Sept. 22, 2023, 10AM
  Philipp Schulze, TU Berlin

Thursday, September 21, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Two recent lower bounds for interactive decision making

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Sept. 21, 2023, 2PM
  Yanjun Han, NYU

• Theory Seminar

  A Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 21, 2023, 11AM
  Henry Yuen, Columbia University

Friday, September 15, 2023

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Scalable computations for nonlinear balanced truncation model reduction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 15, 2023, 10AM
  Boris Kramer, University of California San Diego

Thursday, September 14, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Codes with locality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Sept. 14, 2023, 11AM
  Tal Yankovich, Tel Aviv University

Sunday, July 30, 2023

• The Brainiacs Series

  Location TBA
  

Thursday, June 8, 2023

• Bio Dynamics Days (BDD2023)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  June 08, 2023, 9:45AM

Monday, June 5, 2023

• The Brainiacs Series

  Online,
  

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

• One-Day Meeting on Ergodic Theory for Complex Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 24, 2023, 11:30AM

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Thursday, May 11, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Learning from Tuples

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  May 11, 2023, 11AM
  Grigory Yaroslavtsev, George Mason University

Friday, May 5, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2023, 4PM
  Aurora Basinski, CAOS

• 2023 Prizes and Fellowships Award Ceremony

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  May 05, 2023, 1:30PM

Thursday, May 4, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Learning-Augmented Mechanism Design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  May 04, 2023, 11AM
  Eric Balkanski, Columbia University

Friday, April 28, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 28, 2023, 4PM
  David Connelly, CAOS

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Optimizing Convex Compositions of Matrix Traces on the Stiefel Manifold

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2023, 10AM
  Ren-cang Li, University of Texas at Arlington

Thursday, April 27, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Beyond the Computer Vision Comfort Zone

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 27, 2023, 2PM
  Jean Ponce, Inria/NYU

Monday, April 24, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Scan, Shuffle, Rescan: Two-Prover Election Audits With Untrusted Scanners

  Online,
  April 24, 2023, 5:30PM
  Sunoo Park, Columbia University

Friday, April 21, 2023

• Reception Celebrating Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room - Lounge
  April 21, 2023, 4:30PM

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2023, 4PM
  Cai Maitland-Davies, CAOS

• Special Lecture in Celebration of Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  K-Spectral Sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2023, 3:30PM
  Anne Greenbaum, University of Washington

• Special Lecture in Celebration of Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  Forty Years of Adaptive Mesh Refinement

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2023, 2:45PM
  Donna Calhoun, Boise State University

• Special Lecture in Celebration of Marsha Berger and Margaret Wright

  Generalized Tensor Decomposition: Utility for Data Analysis and Mathematical Challenges

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2023, 2PM
  Tamara Kolda, MathSci.ai

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  A fantastic voyage through complex biofluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2023, 10AM
  Saverio Spagnolie, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday, April 20, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Convergence Analysis of Langevin Algorithms for Sampling in Continuous and Discrete Times

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 20, 2023, 2PM
  Andre Wibisono, Yale

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  Maintaining Privacy of the Minority without Ignoring It: Differentially Private Oversampling for Imbalanced Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 19, 2023, 3PM
  Rachel Cummings, Columbia

Friday, April 14, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 14, 2023, 4PM
  Hassan Mason, CAOS

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Perivascular pathways and the dimension-2 gap

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2023, 10AM
  Marie E. Rognes, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

Thursday, April 13, 2023

• Theory Seminar

  New Directions in Algorithms with Predictions: Learning and Privacy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 13, 2023, 11AM
  Misha Khodak, Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, April 10, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  Quantifying Communities of Interest in Electoral Redistricting

  Online,
  April 10, 2023, 5:30PM
  Ranthony Edmonds, Ohio State University and Parker Edwards, University of Notre Dame

Friday, April 7, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 07, 2023, 4PM
  Andrew Brettin, CAOS

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Convergence rate analysis and improved iterations for numerical radius computation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2023, 10AM
  Tim Mitchell, CUNY Queens College

Thursday, April 6, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Thinking Fast with Transformers: Algorithmic Reasoning via Shortcuts

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  April 06, 2023, 2PM
  Surbhi Goel, UPenn

• Theory Seminar

  Random walks on rotating expanders

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  April 06, 2023, 11AM
  Gil Cohen, Tel Aviv Univeristy

Friday, March 31, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 31, 2023, 4PM
  Ryan Shìjié Dù, CAOS

• CS Colloquium

  Flexible Physical Problem-Solving in Minds and Machines

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 31, 2023, 11AM
  Kelsey Allen, DeepMind

Thursday, March 30, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Embodied Intelligence Through World Models

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 30, 2023, 2PM
  Danijar Hafner, University of Toronto

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Feature Learning with SGD

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 30, 2023, 2PM
  Jason Lee, Princeton

• Courant Lectures with Andrew Stuart

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  March 30, 2023, 11AM

• Theory Seminar

  Algorithmic Applications of Hypergraph and Partition Containers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 30, 2023, 11AM
  Or Zamir, Institute for Advanced Study

Friday, March 24, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Accelerating Biomedical Discovery and Therapeutic Biologic Design with Machine Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 24, 2023, 11AM
  Ge Liu, MIT

• Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar

  Model order reduction in contour integration method for parametric linear evolution equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 24, 2023, 10AM
  Nicola Guglielmi, Gran Sasso Science Institute

Thursday, March 23, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Towards the Statistically Principled Design of ML Algorithms

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 23, 2023, 2PM
  Frederic Koehler

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  A Unified View of Distributional Robust Decision Making

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15
  March 23, 2023, 2PM
  Jose Blanchet

• Theory Seminar

  (In)-Approximability of Steiner Tree in Lp metrics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 23, 2023, 11AM
  Karthik C.S., Rutgers University

Monday, March 20, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Machine Learning-Guided Treatment Discovery and Planning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 20, 2023, 2PM
  Charlotte Bunne

Thursday, March 16, 2023

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  Variational Principles for Mirror Descent and Mirror Langevin Dynamics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 16, 2023, 2PM
  Maxim Raginski

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Designing and Evaluating Language Models for Human Interaction

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 14, 2023, 2PM
  Mina Lee

Friday, March 10, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  Prospective student visiting day

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 10, 2023, 4PM

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Aligning Robot and Human Representations

  4 Washington Square North, Room 825
  March 08, 2023, 11AM
  Andreea Bobu

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Computational Imaging for Scientific Discovery: From Cloud Physics to Black Hole Dynamics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 07, 2023, 2PM
  Aviad Levis

Monday, March 6, 2023

• Math and Democracy Seminar

  The Geometry and Election Outcome (GEO) Metric

  Online,
  March 06, 2023, 5:30PM
  Marion Campisi, San José State University

Friday, March 3, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  A 3rd/2nd order MOOD limited well-balanced scheme for the shallow water equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 03, 2023, 4PM
  Sophie Hörnschemeyer, Achen University, Germany

Thursday, March 2, 2023

• CS Colloquium

  Searching for the Implicit Bias of Deep Learning

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th Floor
  March 02, 2023, 3:30PM
  Matus Telgarsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Math and Data (MaD) Seminar

  TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 02, 2023, 2PM
  Andre Wibisono

• CS Colloquium

  Enabling Self-sufficient Robot Learning

  4 Washington Square North, Room 825
  March 02, 2023, 2PM
  Rika Antonova

• Theory Seminar

  Optimization-friendly generic mechanisms without money

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 02, 2023, 11AM
  Mark Braverman, Princeton University

Friday, February 24, 2023

• Atmosphere Ocean Science Student Seminar

  Talks on non-math topics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 24, 2023, 4PM
  All volunteered, CAOS

• Postdoc Day

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 24, 2023, 1:30PM

• CS Colloquium

  Colloquium: Convex Integer Optimization

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Feb. 24, 2023, 11AM
  Haotian Jiang

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