Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, April 24, 2015

• The Medium Amplitude Oscillatory Shear of Colloidal Dispersions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 24, 2015, 12PM
  James W Swan, MIT Chemical Engineering

• Water Waves with vorticity and asymptotic models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 605
  April 24, 2015, 11AM
  David Lannes, University of Bordeaux

• Fluctuations of the free energy of spherical spin glass

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 24, 2015, 11AM
  Jinho Baik, Michigan

• The Kahler Ricci flow on Fano manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 24, 2015, 11AM
  Bing Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• \t A class of (2+1)-dimensional growth process with explicit stationary measure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 24, 2015, 10AM
  Fabio Toninelli, CNRS

Thursday, April 23, 2015

• Peter Lax, Mathematician: Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor lounge
  April 23, 2015, 4PM

• Existence and stability of traveling waves in a non-monotone feedforward chain of simple phase oscillators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 23, 2015, 4PM
  Stanislav Mintchev, The Cooper Union

• Analysis of concentration in Banach spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 23, 2015, 2PM
  Cyril Tintarev, Uppsala University

• Lower bounds for nodal sets of Laplacian eigenfunctions using heat flow arguments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 23, 2015, 11AM
  Stefan Steinerberger, Yale University

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

• Line Segment Visibility with Sidedness Constraints.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2015, 6PM
  Jon Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

• Moduli of tropical plane curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 21, 2015, 3:30PM
  Ralph Morrison, UC Berkeley

• Computational Geometry Aspects of Monte Carlo Approaches to PDE Problems in Biology, Chemistry, and Materials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2015, 12:30PM
  Michael Mascagni, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University

• Towards high-quality machine translation for complex language pairs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  April 21, 2015, 11:30AM
  Arianna Bisazza, University of Amsterdam

• Mathematical modeling of cell adhesion forces: from delay to friction, an instantaneous limit

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2015, 11AM
  Vuk Milisic, Universite Paris 13

Monday, April 20, 2015

• Linear methods for large data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2015, 3:45PM
  Dean Foster, University of Pennsylvania
  ***Colloquium Tea Preceding Talks 3:15-3:45 pm in the lounge (13th floor)

• Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 20, 2015, 11:30AM
  Peter Bailis, University of California, Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Friday, April 17, 2015

• Fermi Pasta Ulam system - new ideas about old problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2015, 2:30PM
  Yuri Lvov, RPI

• High-order Boundary Integral Algorithms for Soft Particles in Stokesian Flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2015, 1PM
  Abtin Rahimian

• Scaling window of Bernoulli percolation on Z^d

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 17, 2015, 11AM
  Hugo Duminil-Copin, Geneve

• \tVariable coefficient and volume integral for Helmholtz equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2015, 10AM
  Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard, CIMS

• IBM/NYU/Columbia

  Location TBA
  April 17, 2015, 9:30AM
  Various
  *** Event is being held at Columbia University

Thursday, April 16, 2015

• The Curious Case of Non-Equilibrium Finance

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 16, 2015, 4PM
  Mike Lipkin

• Boundedness properties for birational automorphisms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 16, 2015, 3:30PM
  Constantin Shramov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

• Collective Dynamics in Active Biological Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 16, 2015, 12:30PM
  Shawn D. Ryan, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

• Supercritical systems of Schroedinger equations in dimension two

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 16, 2015, 11AM
  Daniele Cassani, University of Insubria (Italy)

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

• Correlation and Causation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 15, 2015, 3:30PM
  George Sugihara, Scripps

• Principled and Practical Web Application Security

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 15, 2015, 11:30AM
  Deian Stefan, Stanford University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

• Improved lower bounds for the chromatic number of several small dimensional Euclidean spaces.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 14, 2015, 6PM
  Dan Ismailescu, Hofstra University.

• Modeling the Formation of Ring-Like Oligomers of Synaptotagmin During Synaptic Fusion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 14, 2015, 12:30PM
  Jie Zhu, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University

• Turbulence, stressed horizontal convection and the oceans' overturning circulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2015, 11AM
  Francesco Paparella, Universita del Salento

Monday, April 13, 2015

• Generalized Tangent Vector Fields for Fabrication-Aware Geometry Processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2015, 11:30AM
  Daniele Panozzo, ETH Zurich
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Friday, April 10, 2015

• The trouble with crystal facets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 10, 2015, 2:30PM
  Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland

• On a new continuity path for canonical metrics in Kaehler geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 10, 2015, 11AM
  Xiuxiong Chen, Stony Brook University

• Airy diffusion and N^{1/3} fluctuations in the 2D Ising model.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 10, 2015, 11AM
  Senya Shlosman, Marseille, Moscow

Thursday, April 9, 2015

• Introduction to normal form theory of analytic vector fields near a fixed point and to rigidity problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 09, 2015, 5PM
  Laurent Stolovitch, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis

• Regularity of invariant densities for systems with random switching

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 09, 2015, 3:45PM
  Tobias Hurth, University of Toronto

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 09, 2015, 12PM
  Marija Vucelja, Rockefeller University, AND Lucas Champollion, Department of Linguistics

• Quantum complete integrability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 09, 2015, 11AM
  Laurent Stolovitch, University of Nice

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

• Beyond horizontal convection: laboratory and numerical experiments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2015, 3:30PM
  Stefan Llewellyn-Smith, UCSD

• Rigorous OS Design: an Idea Whose Time Has Come

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 08, 2015, 11:30AM
  Leonid Ryzhyk, Carnegie Mellon University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15 \n

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

• On the isotypic decomposition of cohomology modules of symmetric semi-algebraic sets: polynomial bounds on multiplicities.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 07, 2015, 6PM
  Saugata Basu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

• Making Sense of Network Data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2015, 5:15PM
  Patrick Wolfe, University College London

• The cytokinetic actomyosin contractile ring: what does it do and how?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 07, 2015, 12:30PM
  Ben O'Shaughnessy, Columbia University

Monday, April 6, 2015

• Fast reconnection and turbulence induced by the plasmoid instability

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 07, 2015, 1AM
  Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University and PPPL

• Enabling small-scale hydraulics through bio-inspired design and active fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2015, 3:45PM
  Anette Hosoi, MIT

• Randomness Vs. Memory: A Treasure(s) Hunt

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 06, 2015, 11:30AM
  Omer Reingold, Weizmann and SRA
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15 \n

Friday, April 3, 2015

• Tractor beam by water waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 2:30PM
  Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann

• Group scheme theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 1PM
  Sophie Marques

• \tTransportation Techniques for Geometric Data Processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 11:30AM
  Justin Solomon, Stanford University

• The impossibility of periodic motion in general relativity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 03, 2015, 11AM
  Spyros Alexakis, University of Toronto

• The Abelian sandpile on periodic Euclidean graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 03, 2015, 11AM
  Charles Smart, Cornell

• Numerical Modeling of Vesicle Electrohydrodynamics in Three Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 03, 2015, 10AM
  Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz, SUNY Buffalo

Thursday, April 2, 2015

• Ergodic theory, cohomology and the diffraction spectrum of self-similar quasicrystals

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 02, 2015, 4PM
  Rodrigo Trevino, CIMS

• Flexible and deep models for density estimation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 02, 2015, 3:30PM
  Iain Murray, University Edinburgh

• Active Colloidal Assemblies with Rotating Magnetic Fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 02, 2015, 12:30PM
  Sibani Lisa Biswal, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

• Model skill and sensitivity to initial conditions in a sea-ice prediction system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 01, 2015, 3:30PM
  Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, U Washington

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

• Asymptotic properties of families of K3 surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 31, 2015, 3:30PM
  Simion Filip, University of Chicago

Monday, March 30, 2015

• Celebration for Louis Nirenberg

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor lounge
  March 30, 2015, 4PM

• Building a Better Web Browser

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2015, 11:30AM
  James Mickens, Microsoft Research
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Friday, March 27, 2015

• \tFast algorithms based on asymptotic expansions of special functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  March 27, 2015, 4PM
  Alex Townsend, MIT

• Building polyhedra by self-assembly

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 27, 2015, 2:30PM
  Govind Menon, Brown University

• Simulating passive and active Brownian suspensions of particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 27, 2015, 1PM
  Aleksandar Donev, CIMS

• Parallel Proofs for Parallel Programs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 27, 2015, 11:30AM
  Zachary Kincaid, University of Toronto
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• On some criteria for quantum and stochastic confinement

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 27, 2015, 11AM
  Irina Nenciu, UI Chicago

• On the evaluation of prolate spheroidal wave functions and associated quadrature rules

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 27, 2015, 10AM
  Andrei Osipov

Thursday, March 26, 2015

• 2D Tilings: Dimers, Tetris and Percolation

  Location TBA
  March 26, 2015, 4:35PM
  David & Gregory Chudnovsky, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

• An introduction to the Evans function, Birman-Schwinger operators, and Fredholm determinants in stability of traveling waves.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  March 26, 2015, 4PM
  Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri

• Non-dissipative Shapable Sheet

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 26, 2015, 12:30PM
  Naomi Oppenheimer, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago

• Global existence solutions and geometric properties of the SGQ sharp front

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 26, 2015, 11AM
  Diego Cordoba, Madrid University

• On Wigner and Bohmian measures in semiclassical quantum dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 26, 2015, 10AM
  Christof Sparber, U. Illinois - Chicago

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

• Stratified turbulence at laboratory and atmospheric scales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 25, 2015, 3:30PM
  Michael Waite, U Waterloo

• Learning Systems: Systems and Abstractions for Large-Scale Machine Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 25, 2015, 11:30AM
  Joseph Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

• « having a ball » with spherical geometry.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 24, 2015, 6PM
  Elizabeth Chen

• Higgs bundles, spectral data, and isomorphisms among low dimensional Lie groups

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 24, 2015, 3:30PM
  Steve Bradlow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Nuclear Chromodynamics: Hydrodynamic description of chromatin dynamics in cell nucleus

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 24, 2015, 12:30PM
  Alexander Grosberg, Physics Department, NYU

Monday, March 23, 2015

• Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2015, 5PM
  Laura Haas, IBM Fellow and Director, IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab

• Adventures in Urban Informatics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2015, 3:45PM
  Steve Koonin, NYU

• Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery in the Big Data Era

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 23, 2015, 11:30AM
  James Faghmous, University of Minnesota
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

• IBM/NYU/Columbia

  Location TBA
  March 17, 2015, 9:30AM
  Various
  *** Event is held at Columbia University

Friday, March 13, 2015

• Data-driven forecasting without a model and with a partially known model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 13, 2015, 2:30PM
  Tyrus Berry, Pennsylvania State University

• Resonant delocalization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 13, 2015, 11AM
  Simone Warzel, Munich

• \t Larg-N analysis of the sinh-model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 13, 2015, 10AM
  Karol Kozlowski, CNRS

Thursday, March 12, 2015

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 12, 2015, 12PM
  Rahul Satija, Department of Biology and Genome Center AND, Ken Birnbaum, Department of Biology
  **Please note the earlier start time for this event

• Faber-Krahn inequalities in sharp quantitative form

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 12, 2015, 11AM
  Guido de Phillipis, University of Lyon

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

• EnKF and catastrophic filter divergence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 11, 2015, 3:30PM
  David Kelly, CIMS

• Probabilistic Models of Human Population Admixture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 11, 2015, 11:30AM
  Sriram Sankararaman, Harvard
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

• Isosceles trapezoids, perpendicular bisectors, and few distinct distances

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 10, 2015, 6PM
  Ben Lund, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

• A New Structural Approach to Genomic Discovery of Disease: Example of Adult-Onset of Diabetes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 10, 2015, 12:30PM
  Lawrence Sirovich, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University

• Scattering and Blow-up for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with complex valued data below the standing waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 10, 2015, 11AM
  Takahisa Inui, Kyoto University
  **please note special TUESDAY seminar

Monday, March 9, 2015

• Gliders, Bicycles, Toys and Walking Robots

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 09, 2015, 3:45PM
  Andy Ruina, Cornell

• Situated Learning and Understanding of Natural Language

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 09, 2015, 11:30AM
  Yoav Artzi, University of Washington
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Friday, March 6, 2015

• Metastability and Access to the Ground State in a Class of Variational Models for Self-assembly

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 06, 2015, 2:30PM
  Rustum Choksi, McGill

• Dispersing billiards and the heat equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 06, 2015, 1PM
  Peter Nandori

• Long range order for random colourings on planar graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 06, 2015, 11AM
  Roman Kotecky, Warwick

• inite Element Exterior Calculus and Applications.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 06, 2015, 10AM
  Richard Falk, Rutgers-New Brunswick

• Block Spin Transformation of 2D O(N) Sigma Model, Toward Solving a Millennium Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 06, 2015, 10AM
  Keiichi R.Ito, Kyoto

Thursday, March 5, 2015

• Some geometric mechanisms for Arnold Diffusion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  March 05, 2015, 4PM
  Rafael de la Llave, Georgia Tech

• The Euler-Maxwell system in 2D

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 05, 2015, 11AM
  Yu Deng, Princeton University

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

• Clouds, water vapor and (extra-) tropical circulation changes under global warming

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2015, 3:30PM
  Aiko Voigt, Columbia

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

• CANCELLED Graph Chordality Via the Weil Lefschetz Map

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 03, 2015, 6PM
  Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University/IAS
  CANCELLED

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