Past Events

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Past Math Events

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

• True Trees

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 29, 2016, 6PM
  Chris Bishop, Stony Brook University

• Genus one curves in Severi-Brauer varieties

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 29, 2016, 2PM
  David Saltman, Center for Communications Research, IDA

• Distinct Roles of Inhibitory Neurons in Brain Oscillations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 314
  March 29, 2016, 12:30PM
  Songting Li, CIMS

• Passwords, keys, and coins: bridging usability and applied crypto

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 29, 2016, 11:30AM
  Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University

• Accelerating the simulation of collisional plasma by using deviational particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 29, 2016, 11AM
  Bokai Yan, UCLA

Monday, March 28, 2016

• On the (un)reasonable (in)effectiveness of mathematics in biology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2016, 3:45PM
  Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• Building Systems that Query on Compressed Data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2016, 11:30AM
  Rachit Agarwal, University of California at Berkeley
  **Refreshments at 11:15am

Friday, March 25, 2016

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

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 25, 2016, 2:30PM
  Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CIMS

• Existence of rotating vortex patches for inviscid flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 25, 2016, 1PM
  Zineb Hassainia

• Accelerating Advanced Analytics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 25, 2016, 11:30AM
  Arun Kumar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• \t Universal Randomness in 2D

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 25, 2016, 11AM
  Scott Sheffield, MIT

• Complexity Analysis of Root Clustering for a Complex Polynomial

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 25, 2016, 10AM
  Chee Yap, CIMS

Thursday, March 24, 2016

• \t Limits of pfaffian cubic fourfolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 24, 2016, 3:30PM
  Asher Auel, Yale University

• Interfacial dynamics: drops & particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 24, 2016, 12:30PM
  Sungyon Lee, Texas A&M University

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

• Hardware and Software Techniques to Scale the Memory Wall

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2016, 11:30AM
  Nathan Beckmann, MIT
  Refreshments at 11:15am

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

• Art Gallery Problem, Indoor Localization and Sensor Scheduling.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 22, 2016, 6PM
  Jie Gao, Stony Brook University

• 3-body elliptic Calogero model: a solution

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 22, 2016, 3:30PM
  Alexander Turbiner, Nuclear Science Institute, UNAM

• Experiences in gyro-kinetic total distribution simulation development

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 22, 2016, 11AM
  Salomon Janhunen, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Monday, March 21, 2016

• Exploiting compositionality to explore a large space of model structures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 21, 2016, 11:30AM
  Roger Grosse, University of Toronto
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Friday, March 11, 2016

• Local optimality and pessimality results in packing problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 11, 2016, 2:30PM
  Yoav Kallus, Santa Fe Institute

• Data-Driven Text Analysis with Joint Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 11, 2016, 11:30AM
  Greg Durrett, University of California at Berkeley
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Static large deviations of reaction-diffusion model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 11, 2016, 11AM
  Claudio Landim, IMPA

• A Novel Skew-Symmetric Discontinuous Galerkin based Approach for Non-linear Conservation Laws: High Resolution, High Performance Computing and Robustness

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 11, 2016, 10AM
  Gregor Gassner, University of Cologne

• Discrete conformal mappings and Riemann surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 11, 2016, 10AM
  Alexander Bobenko, TU Berlin

Thursday, March 10, 2016

• OPTIMAL STRONG APPROXIMATION FOR QUADRATIC FORMS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 10, 2016, 5:30PM
  Naser Sardari, Princeton University

• Classification and birational rigidity of del Pezzo fibrations with an action of the Klein simple g

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 10, 2016, 3:30PM
  Igor Krylov, University of Edinburgh

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

• Data-driven modeling and control of complex systems using sparse sensing and machine learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 09, 2016, 3:30PM
  Steven BRUNTON, University of Washington

• Automated Discovery and Learning of Complex Movement Behaviours

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 09, 2016, 11:30AM
  Igor Mordatch, University of California at Berkeley
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

• A method for calculating only part of an eigenstate and an application to quantum walks.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 08, 2016, 6PM
  Seth Cottrell, New York City Technical College (CUNY)

• Mathematical Models for a Model Experimental System

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 08, 2016, 12:30PM
  Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University

• Multi-user, ambulatory, Mixed Reality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 08, 2016, 12PM
  Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research
  *please note no refreshments will be served prior

• A new theory of deformable solids with microstructure based on Finsler differential geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 08, 2016, 11AM
  John Clayton, Army Research Lab
  Note: Most "materials working group" talks will not be posted on the weekly bulletin. For current information see http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

Monday, March 7, 2016

• TBA

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

• TBA

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

• New machine learning for ubiquitous genomics and beyond

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 07, 2016, 11:30AM
  James Zou, Microsoft Research New England and MIT
  Refreshments at 11:15am

Friday, March 4, 2016

• Kernel methods for nonparametric analog forecasting

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2016, 2:30PM
  Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS

• Unleashing Hardware Potential through Better OS Abstractions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2016, 11:30AM
  Adam Belay, Stanford University
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• The frog model on trees

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 04, 2016, 11AM
  \tToby Johnson, USC

• Inverse medium scattering with multiple frequency data and multiple angles of incidence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2016, 10AM
  Carlos Borges, CIMS

Thursday, March 3, 2016

• Insect Flight: From Newton's Law to Neurons

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 03, 2016, 12:30PM
  Jane Wang, Cornell University

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

• Key Uncertainties in Climate Forcing and Feedbacks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2016, 3:30PM
  Andrew GETTELMAN, NCAR

• Improving the Cost and Reliability of Data Center Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2016, 11:30AM
  Vincent Liu, University of Washington
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 02, 2016, 11AM
  Scott Sheffield, MIT

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

• Feynman periods: numbers and geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 01, 2016, 3:30PM
  Dmitry Doryn, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea

• Mathematical Modeling of Actin Regulation during Cancer Cell Motility

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 01, 2016, 12:30PM
  Nessy Tania, Smith College

Monday, February 29, 2016

• Statistical Methods in Climatology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 29, 2016, 3:45PM
  Michael Stein, University of Chicago
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• Convolutional Networks against the Curse of Dimensionality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 29, 2016, 11:30AM
  Joan Bruna, University of California at Berkeley
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Friday, February 26, 2016

• Wall to wall optimal transport

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 26, 2016, 2:30PM
  Charles R. Doering, University of Michigan

• Bayesian Machine Learning for Efficient Optimization of Black-box Functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 26, 2016, 11:30AM
  José Miguel Hernández Lobato, Harvard Unviersity
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Convergence of Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 26, 2016, 11AM
  Richard Bamler, UC Berkeley

• Quantum chaos, eigenvalue statistics and the Fibonacci sequence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 26, 2016, 11AM
  Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv and IAS

• A generic acceleration scheme for large-scale gradient-based optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 26, 2016, 10AM
  Zaid Harchaoui, CIMS

Thursday, February 25, 2016

• Decoding Drosophila photo-taxis and odor-taxis using natural and optogenetic stimuli

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 25, 2016, 12:30PM
  Marc Gershow, Department of Physics, NYU

• Invariant measures for stochastic reaction-diffusion equations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 25, 2016, 11AM
  Alex Misiats, CIMS

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

• Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

  Online, Center for Data Science, 726 Broadway, 7th floor
  Feb. 24, 2016, 12PM
  Michael Betancourt

• Beyond Who and What: Answering How? and Why? by Modeling Large Graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 24, 2016, 11AM
  Alex Beutel, Carnegie Mellon University
  Refreshments will be served at 10:45AM

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

• The number of k-flats spanned by a set of points.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 23, 2016, 6PM
  Ben Lund, Rutgers University

• The programmable bio-nano-chip system: a platform to digitize biology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 23, 2016, 12:30PM
  John McDevitt, Biomaterials, NYU College of Dentistry

• The global nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime for self-gravitating massive fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 23, 2016, 11AM
  Philippe LeFloch, University of Paris 6 and CNRS

• Free-Boundary Equilibrium of Toroidal Plasma: Computational Methods and Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 23, 2016, 11AM
  Holger Heumann, EP CASTOR, INRIA Méditerranée and University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

Monday, February 22, 2016

• Composing differentiable procedures for modeling, inference, and optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 22, 2016, 11AM
  David Duvenaud, Harvard University
  Refreshments will be served at 10:45AM

Friday, February 19, 2016

• Optimal Transportation for Practical Geometric Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 19, 2016, 2:30PM
  Justin Solomon, Princeton/MIT

• Event and Pattern Detection at the Societal Scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 19, 2016, 11:30AM
  Daniel B. Neill, Carnegie Mellon University

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 19, 2016, 11AM
  \tChiranjib Mukherjee, CIMS

• 3D Eddy-current tomography of deposits in steam generators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 19, 2016, 10AM
  Kamel Riahi, NJIT

Thursday, February 18, 2016

• A quantum algorithm for computing the unit group of a number field of arbitrary degree

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 18, 2016, 5:30PM
  Kristen Eisentraeger, Pennsylvania State University

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 18, 2016, 12:30PM
  Peter Foster, Applied Physics, Harvard University

• Dynamics of the Ericksen-Leslie Model for Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows with General Leslie Stress

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 18, 2016, 11AM
  Mattias Hieber, University of Darmstadt

Friday, February 12, 2016

• Stochastic approach to anomalous diffusion in two dimensional, incompressible, periodic, cellular flows.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 12, 2016, 2:30PM
  Zsolt Pajor-Gyulai, CIMS

• \tData assimilation in high dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 12, 2016, 1PM
  David Kelly

• Certified Concurrent and Distributed Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 12, 2016, 11:30AM
  Mohsen Lesani, MIT
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Hypoelliptic Laplacian and probability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 12, 2016, 11AM
  Jean-Michel Bismut, Orsay

Thursday, February 11, 2016

• Nonlinear electrohydrodynamics of particles and drops in strong electric fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 11, 2016, 12:30PM
  David Saintillan, University of California San Diego

• On the structure of phase transition maps (Joint work with G.Fusco)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 11, 2016, 11AM
  Nicholas Alikakos, University of Athens

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

• Predicting Arctic Sea Ice by Stochastic Models at Intra-Seasonal to Seasonal Time Scales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 10, 2016, 3:30PM
  Xiaojun YUAN, Lamont-Doherty Earth

• Making the World a Better Place with Cryptography

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1320
  Feb. 10, 2016, 11:30AM
  Muhammad Naveed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

• Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Data Mule Scheduling in a Sensor Network.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 09, 2016, 6PM
  Jiemin Zeng, Stony Brook University

• Representations of generalized braid groups on the derived category of a GIT quotient

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 09, 2016, 3:30PM
  Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Columbia University

• EPA + Math = fewer estrogen receptor pathway disrupters

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 09, 2016, 12:30PM
  Jean Taylor, CIMS

Friday, February 5, 2016

• Numerical Simulations for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Signal, Noise, and Temperature Considering Interactions Between Electromagnetic Fields and The Human Body

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 05, 2016, 2:30PM
  Chris Collins, NYU Medical School

• Eigenvalue Attraction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 05, 2016, 10AM
  Ramis Movassagh, IBM Yorktown Heights

Thursday, February 4, 2016

• Erosion and spreading of granular material

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 04, 2016, 12:30PM
  Alban Sauret, SVI Lab, CNRS & Saint Gobain - UMR 125.

• On Trudinger-Moser type inequalities in the whole space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 04, 2016, 11AM
  Federica Sani, University of Milan

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

• Applications of Terrestrial Radar Interferometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 03, 2016, 3:30PM
  Denis VOYTENKO, CIMS

• Archiving and Annotation: Two Aspects of Data Curation

  Online, 726 Broadway, 7th floor
  Feb. 03, 2016, 12PM
  Heiko Müller, Center for Data Science

• The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 03, 2016, 11:30AM
  David Mazières, Stanford University
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

• Recent developments for combinatorial geometries.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 02, 2016, 6PM
  Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University/IAS

• On the boundedness of the second Betti number of hyperkähler manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 02, 2016, 3:30PM
  Nikon Kurnosov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

• Micro-algae hit an obstacle: the role of hydrodynamic and contact forces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 02, 2016, 12:30PM
  Enkeleida Lushi, Brown University

Monday, February 1, 2016

• A quantitative theory of stochastic homogenization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 01, 2016, 3:45PM
  Scott Armstrong, CNRS Université Paris-Dauphine
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct

  Location TBA
  Feb. 01, 2016, 2PM
  Jay Lorch, Microsoft Research

Saturday, January 30, 2016

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 30, 2016, 3:45PM
  Albert Cohen, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, January 29, 2016

• The Distributional Rank Aggregation Problem, and an Axiomatic Analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 29, 2016, 11:30AM
  Pradeep Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• Random Partitions and the Quantum Benjamin-Ono Hierarchy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Jan. 29, 2016, 11AM
  Alexander Moll, MIT

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

• New bounds on curve tangencies and orthogonalities.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 26, 2016, 6PM
  Joshua Zahl, MIT

• Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision Course

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 26, 2016, 11:30AM
  Babak Falsafi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

Friday, January 22, 2016

• Fast Lingustic Information Retrieval from Big Data -- Introducing writing tools Linggle and WriteAhead

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  Jan. 22, 2016, 11:30AM
  Jason Chang, National Tsing Hua University
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

• Crypto is the deadliest Espresso

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 22, 2016, 9:30AM
  Various

Saturday, January 16, 2016

• Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision Course

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 16, 2016, 11:30AM
  Babak Falsafi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15am

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

• Time periodic solutions of the Navier-Stokes-Maxwell system: existence and stability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Dec. 22, 2015, 11AM
  Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria

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