Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, October 22, 2015

• Avian flight as an inspiration for drone design

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 22, 2015, 12:30PM
  David Lentink, Stanford University

• Title: A New Analytic Approach to Wave Turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 22, 2015, 11AM
  Tristan Buckmaster, CIMS

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

• Realization of sign matrices in Euclidean spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 20, 2015, 6PM
  Noga Alon, Tel-Aviv University and IAS

• A benefit of randomness in synaptic vesicle release

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 20, 2015, 12:30PM
  Calvin Zhang, NYU Courant Institute

• The Ginzburg-Landau Model of Superconductivity with Prescribed Topological Degree on the Boundary

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 20, 2015, 11AM
  Alex Mesiats, CIMS

Monday, October 19, 2015

• Logarithmic Time Online Multiclass Prediction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 19, 2015, 3:45PM
  Anna Choromanska

• Graphs, vectors and integers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 19, 2015, 3:45PM
  Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and Institute for Advanced Study
  ***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Friday, October 16, 2015

• Flexibility, stroke, and dimensionless parameters: the importance of telling the whole story for swimming micro-organisms in complex fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 16, 2015, 2:30PM
  Becca Thomases, UC Davis

• Conveying and Analyzing Shapes: From Art to Science

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 16, 2015, 11:30AM
  Alla Sheffer, University of British Columbia
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Local eigenvalue statistics for random regular graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 16, 2015, 11AM
  \tRoland Bauerschmidt, Harvard

• \tAvoiding Communication in Krylov Subspace Methods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 16, 2015, 10AM
  Erin Carson, CIMS

Thursday, October 15, 2015

• A high-order Immersed Boundary method for solving PDE on arbitrary smooth domains using Fourier spectral methods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 15, 2015, 12:30PM
  David Stein, UC Davis

• On the Helmholtz equations with sign changing coefficients

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 15, 2015, 11AM
  Hoai-Minh Nguyen, EPFL

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

• \t How to count zeros arithmetically?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 13, 2015, 3:30PM
  Jesse Kass, University of South Carolina

• Implicit particle-in-cell algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 13, 2015, 11AM
  Guangye Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, October 12, 2015

• Introducing the Divergent Autoencoder Classifier for Machine Learning Applications

  Online, 726 Broadway. 7th floor
  Oct. 12, 2015, 12PM
  Kenneth J. Kurtz, Binghamton University (SUNY)

Friday, October 9, 2015

• The semidefinite program PhaseLift can solve phase retrieval with corrupted data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 09, 2015, 2:30PM
  Paul Hand, Rice University

• \tFluid-Structure Interaction by the Immersed Boundary Method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 09, 2015, 1PM
  \tCharles S. Peskin, CIMS

• Atmospheric constraints on ocean physics and biogeochemistry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 09, 2015, 11:15AM
  Laure RESPLANDY, Scripps

• \tFast Steerable Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 09, 2015, 10AM
  Jane Zhao

Thursday, October 8, 2015

• Integral versus differential geometry

  Location TBA
  Oct. 08, 2015, 5:10PM
  Joseph Fu, University of Georgia

• Lyapunov exponents for SL(2,R) cocycles.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 08, 2015, 4PM
  Thomas Spencer, IAS

• Spontaneous flow in active fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Oct. 08, 2015, 2PM
  Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University

• Earth-System Stability Through Geologic Time

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 08, 2015, 12:30PM
  Daniel Rothman, MIT

• Boundary expansions for the Loewner-Nirenberg problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 08, 2015, 11AM
  Qing Han, University of Notre Dame

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

• Nuclear Famine: The Threat to Humanity From Nuclear Weapons

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 07, 2015, 3:30PM
  Alan ROBOCK, Rutgers University

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

• An Exposition of the Green-Tao Paper “On Sets Defining Few Ordinary Lines"

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 06, 2015, 6PM
  Jon Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Counterexamples to the local-to-global principle for rational points in low dimension

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 06, 2015, 3:30PM
  Alexei Skorobogatov, Imperial College, London

• Physical Aspects of Spindle Assembly

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Oct. 06, 2015, 2PM
  Daniel Needleman, Harvard

• Modeling cell calcium dynamics on fine spatio-temporal scales: comparison of deterministic and stochastic approaches, and novel steady-state "nano-domain" approximations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 06, 2015, 12:30PM
  Victor Matveev, NJIT

Monday, October 5, 2015

• Who Will save fusion- Harry Potter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, or Donald Trump?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 05, 2015, 3:45PM
  Jeffrey Freidberg, MIT
  ***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor).

Friday, October 2, 2015

• Various

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 02, 2015, 10AM

Thursday, October 1, 2015

• Valuations on Function Spaces

  Location TBA
  Oct. 01, 2015, 5:10PM
  Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Science and Technology

• Diffusion and rheology in crowded, 3D-confined suspensions: A model for intracellular transport

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 01, 2015, 12:30PM
  Roseanna Zia, Cornell University

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

• The role of mixed layer instabilities in submesoscale turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 30, 2015, 3:30PM
  Jorn CALLIES, MIT

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

• Combinatorial geometry via equivariant topology and finite Fourier analysis.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 29, 2015, 6PM
  Steven Simon, Wellesley College

• Non-abelian Lefschetz hyperplane theorems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 29, 2015, 3:30PM
  Daniel Litt, Columbia University

• Phase transitions in the evolution of phenotypic memory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 29, 2015, 12:30PM
  Antun Skanata, New York University

Monday, September 28, 2015

• They can't arrest us all: working with the WikiLeaks Cable Release Data

  Online, 726 Broadway, 7th floor
  Sept. 28, 2015, 12PM
  Arthur Spirling, NYU

Friday, September 25, 2015

• Signed loop representations of Ising correlations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 25, 2015, 11AM
  \tWouter Kager, Amsterdam

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

• Boundary Layer Thermodynamic Surveillance for High-Impact Local Weather Forecasting

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 23, 2015, 3:30PM
  Randolph 'Stick' WARE, Radiometrics

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

• Skeletons, degenerations, and Gromov-Witten theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 22, 2015, 3:30PM
  Dhruv Ranganathan, Yale University

• Inhibition-based theta resonance in a hippocampal network: a modeling study

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 22, 2015, 12:30PM
  Horacio G. Rotstein, NJIT

Monday, September 21, 2015

• Projection-Free Optimization and Online Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 21, 2015, 3:45PM
  Elad Hazan, Princeton University

Friday, September 18, 2015

• Coupling surface diffusion and mean curvature motion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 18, 2015, 2:30PM
  Amy Novick-Cohen

• Products of random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 18, 2015, 11AM
  Arno Kuijlaars, Leuven

• Scaling Limits of Disordered Systems: Marginal Relevance and Universality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 18, 2015, 10AM
  Rongfeng Sun, Singapore

• EULER-MACLAURIN, GREGORY, AND OTHER EQUISPACED INTERPOLANTS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 18, 2015, 10AM
  Lloyd N. Trefethen, Oxford and CIMS

Thursday, September 17, 2015

• Open Gromov-Witten invariants and combinatorial counts of real rational plane curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Sept. 17, 2015, 3:30PM
  Amitai Zernik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Internal Wave Excitation by Turbulent Convection

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 17, 2015, 12:30PM
  Daniel Lecoanet, UC Berkeley

• Compactness questions for triholomorphic maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 17, 2015, 11AM
  Costante Bellettini

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

• The Kodaira dimension of complex hyperbolic manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 15, 2015, 3:30PM
  Benjamin Bakker, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Sharp interface limit in a phase field model of cell motility

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 15, 2015, 12:30PM
  Leonid Berlyand, Pennsylvania State University

Friday, September 11, 2015

• Sparse Mean-Field Optimal Control: Can Governments Really Lead the Society?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 11, 2015, 2:30PM
  Massimo Fornasier, Technical University of Munich

• Long-time influence of small perturbations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 11, 2015, 11AM
  Mark Freidlin, Maryland

Thursday, September 10, 2015

• Flapping wings propelling in a fluid

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 10, 2015, 12:30PM
  Sophie Ramananarivo, CIMS

• Accelerated Simulation Methods for Plasma Kinetics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 10, 2015, 11AM
  Russel Caflisch, IPAM, UCLA

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

• An Applied Math Perspective on Climate Science, Turbulence, and Other Complex Systems (Lagrange Prize Lecture)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 09, 2015, 3:30PM
  Andrew Majda, Courant

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

• Cone volume measure of convex bodies.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 08, 2015, 6PM
  Gaoyong Zhang, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Friday, September 4, 2015

• \t Raney distribution and random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 04, 2015, 11AM
  Peter Forrester, Melbourne

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

• Asymmetry in regional sea level projections

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 02, 2015, 4PM
  Roderik VAN DE WAL, Utrecht University

Saturday, August 15, 2015

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2016 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Aug. 15, 2015, 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.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

• Cell motility by cytoskeleton dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  June 04, 2015, 11:30AM
  Christian Schmeiser, University of Vienna

Friday, May 29, 2015

• Weakly Supervised Video Understanding

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 29, 2015, 11:30AM
  Jean Ponce, Ecole Normale Superieure
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Thursday, May 21, 2015

• Dynamics near the subcritical transition of the 3D Couette flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 21, 2015, 11AM
  Jacob Bedrossian, Maryland

Friday, May 15, 2015

• Around the complex interplay between organization, heterogeneity and collective dynamics of neuronal networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 15, 2015, 2:30PM
  Jonathan Toubou, College de France- INRIA

• Condensing zero-range processes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 15, 2015, 11AM
  Claudio Landim, IMPA

Thursday, May 14, 2015

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 14, 2015, 12PM
  Holger Knaut \tLangone Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology AND, \tThomas Neubert \tLangone Medical Center, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

• An equation on random variables related to fermionic systems of particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 14, 2015, 11AM
  Anne-Sophie De Suzzoni, Paris 13

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2015 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  May 12, 2015, 5PM
  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.

Monday, May 11, 2015

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 11, 2015, 3:45PM
  Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield

Sunday, May 10, 2015

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2016 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  May 10, 2015, 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.

Friday, May 8, 2015

• Mathematical structure of hierarchies of reduced MHD models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 08, 2015, 2:30PM
  Bruno Despres, UPMC

• Numerical simulation of endocytosis: Diffuse interface models for membranes with curvature-inducing molecules

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 08, 2015, 1PM
  John Lowengrub, UC-Irvine

• Universal behaviors in geometric heat flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  May 08, 2015, 11AM
  Dan Knopf, University of Texas Austin

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 08, 2015, 11AM
  Kevin Schnelli, IST Vienna

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 08, 2015, 10AM
  Fabio Martinelli, Roma

• Extreme-scale nonlinear Stokes solvers, with application to flow simulations in Earth's mantle

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 08, 2015, 10AM
  Georg Stadler, CIMS

Thursday, May 7, 2015

• Geometric ergodicity for diffusions with random regime switching

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  May 07, 2015, 4PM
  Xin Tong, CIMS

• Longer Service Awards Reception

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor lounge
  May 07, 2015, 3PM

• Interfacial Dynamics of Dissolving Objects in Fluid Flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 07, 2015, 12:30PM
  Chris H. Rycroft, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

• Global Simulations of Atmospheric Rivers: Past, Present & Future

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 06, 2015, 3:30PM
  Jeff Kiehl, NCAR

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

• Some Geometric Partitioning Questions, Answers, Algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2015, 6PM
  William Steiger, Rutgers University

• Introduction to mathematical biology applications in the pharmaceutical industry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2015, 12:30PM
  Karim Azer, Interdisciplinary Pharmacometrics Program at Sanofi

Monday, May 4, 2015

• Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 04, 2015, 3:45PM
  Gunnar Martinsson, UC Boulder
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, May 1, 2015

• Event held May 1 -3

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  May 01, 2015, 2:30PM

• \t The Z-invariant massive Laplacian on isoradial graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 01, 2015, 11AM
  Beatrice de Tiliere, Paris 6

Thursday, April 30, 2015

• Some algebraic related structures in the family of convex sets

  Location TBA
  April 30, 2015, 4:35PM
  Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University

• Entropy, volume growth and SRB measures for Banach space mappings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 30, 2015, 4PM
  Alex Blumenthal, CIMS

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 30, 2015, 12PM
  David Hogg, \tAstronomy \tAND, Michael Blanton, \tAstronomy

• Variational methods for mean field games with degenerate diffusion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 30, 2015, 11AM
  Jameson Graber, University of Texas at Dallas

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

• Subspace Clustering with Ordered Weighted L1 Minimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 29, 2015, 4PM
  Ulas Ayaz, Brown University

• Energy methods and blow-up rate for semilinear wave equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 29, 2015, 12PM
  Hatem Zaag, CNRS and University Paris 13

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

• Some connections between measure partitions and polynomial partitioning.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 28, 2015, 6PM
  Abdul Basit, Rutgers University

• From Quantum Groups to Noncommutative Geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 28, 2015, 3:30PM
  Dimitri Gourevitch, Université de Valenciennes

• Universal Structure in the Modulation of Neuronal Excitability: Synaptic Control of Coding, Resonance, and Network Synchronization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 28, 2015, 12:30PM
  Christoph Kirst, The Rockefeller University

• On Time and Order in Cryptography

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  April 28, 2015, 11AM
  Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute

Monday, April 27, 2015

• The Cryptographic Lens

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 27, 2015, 3:30PM
  Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute

Friday, April 24, 2015

• N/A

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 24, 2015, 2:30PM

• Random walks on the random graph

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 24, 2015, 1PM
  Eyal Lubetzky

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