Past Events

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Past Math Events

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

• Periodically driven noisy neuronal models: a spectral approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 03, 2015, 12:30PM
  Alla Borisyuk, University of Utah

• Beyond the Child-Langmuire Limit

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 03, 2015, 11AM
  Mark Rosin, Pratt Institute and UCLA

Monday, March 2, 2015

• The porous media equation: Local and nonlocal

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 02, 2015, 3:45PM
  Luis Caffarelli

Friday, February 27, 2015

• Near-flip buckling and scaling instability of critical loads

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 27, 2015, 2:30PM
  Yury Grabovsky, Temple University

• Steady water waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 27, 2015, 1PM
  Miles Wheeler

• Computationally-efficient Learning Algorithms for Large-scale Visual Recognition

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 27, 2015, 11:30AM
  Zaid Harchaoui, NYU and Inria
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• \tColumbia-NYU probability seminar series

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 27, 2015, 11AM
  various

Thursday, February 26, 2015

• Periodically driven noisy neuronal models: a spectral approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Feb. 26, 2015, 4PM
  Alla Borisyuk, University of Utah

• Interfacial Responses to Mechanical Forcings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 26, 2015, 12:30PM
  Emilie Dressaire, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

• Convexity properties of Grassmannians and the Bernstein problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 26, 2015, 11AM
  Juergen Jost, Max Planck Institute (Leipzig)

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

• Insights into Forced Climate from Large Initial Condition Ensembles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 25, 2015, 3:30PM
  Paul Kushner, University of Toronto

• Tightness of convex relaxations for certain inverse problems on graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Feb. 25, 2015, 2:30PM
  Afonso Bandeira, Princeton University
  ***Please note unusual day/location

• Deep Learning: Present, Challenges and Beyond

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 25, 2015, 11:30AM
  Kyunghyun Cho, University of Montreal
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

• Vertical Visibility among Parallel Polygons in Three Dimensions.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 24, 2015, 6PM
  Radoslav Fulek, Columbia University, New York

• Fano varieties and Laurent polynomials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 24, 2015, 3:30PM
  Viktor Przyjalkovski, Steklov Institute of Mathematics

• Cytoskeletal dynamics in cell division and polarized cell growth

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 24, 2015, 12:30PM
  Dimitrios Vavylonis, Lehigh University

Monday, February 23, 2015

• Fibrations in rational surfaces and their sections

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 23, 2015, 3:45PM
  Brendan Hassett, Rice University

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Feb. 23, 2015, 11AM
  Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt

Friday, February 20, 2015

• Low density phases in a uniformly charged liquid with homogeneous neutralizing background

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2015, 2:30PM
  Cyril Muratov, NJIT

• The hydrid resonance of Maxwell's equations in slab geometry: bessel functions and general dissipation tensor

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2015, 1PM
  Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard, CIMS

• The exact k-SAT threshold for large k

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 52
  Feb. 20, 2015, 11AM
  Nike Sun, Microsoft, MIT

• \tUniversality in numerical computations with random data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2015, 10AM
  Thomas Trogdon, CIMS

• Hole probabilities and gap probabilities for products of random complex matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 20, 2015, 10AM
  Eugene Strahov, Jerusalem

Thursday, February 19, 2015

• Gauge-invariant boundary conditions with possible applications to a millennium problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 19, 2015, 11AM
  Antonella Marini, Yeshiva Univ

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

• Ocean boundary conditions for Greenland's fastest outlet glacier

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 18, 2015, 3:30PM
  Carl Gladish, MIT

• Structured Models for Unlocking Language Data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 18, 2015, 11:30AM
  Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, University of California, Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

• The Elekes-Rónyai-Szabó theory and its applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 17, 2015, 6PM
  Micha Sharir, Tel-Aviv University/Courant Institute

• Tropical varieties and linear algebra

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 17, 2015, 3:30PM
  Louis Rowen, Bar-Ilan University

Friday, February 13, 2015

• Measure based regularization for variational image processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 13, 2015, 2:30PM
  Martin Holler, University of Graz (Austria)

• Interactive Online Data Exploration and Analytics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 13, 2015, 11:30AM
  Feifei Li, University of Utah

• Cohomological structures in geometry and topology inspired by mathematical physics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 13, 2015, 11AM
  Hisham Sati, University of Pittsburgh

• Busemann functions for the directed polymer model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 13, 2015, 11AM
  Timo Seppalainen, Wisconsin

• Optimal transport and Schroedinger bridges from a control and computational perspective

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 13, 2015, 10AM
  Michele Pavon, University of Padova

Thursday, February 12, 2015

• Mechanics and Hydrodynamics of Cellular Assemblies.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 12, 2015, 12:30PM
  Ehssan Nazockdast, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

• The logarithmic Minkowski problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 12, 2015, 11AM
  Gaoyong Zhang, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

• Frequency preference response to oscillatory inputs in neuronal models: a geometric approach to subthreshold resonance

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Feb. 11, 2015, 4PM
  Horacio Rotstein, NJIT

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

• The Power of Preprocessing: Detecting and constructing intersections between geometric objects

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 10, 2015, 6PM
  Stefan Langerman, Free University of Brussels

• The Prym map revisited

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 10, 2015, 3:30PM
  Klaus Hulek, Leibniz Universität Hannover

• Computation of three-dimensional ideal MHD equilibria with singular currents

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 10, 2015, 11AM
  Joaquim Loizu, Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, and PPPL

Monday, February 9, 2015

• Self-Replication, Exponential Growth, Selection and Competition in Artificial Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 09, 2015, 3:45PM
  Paul Chaikin, NYU

• Selective Inference via the Condition on Selection Framework and Communication-efficient Sparse Regression

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 09, 2015, 11:30AM
  Jason Lee, Stanford University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Friday, February 6, 2015

• The rare interaction limit in a fast-slow mechanical system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Feb. 06, 2015, 4PM
  Domokos Szász, Budapest University of Technology

• A Topological Framework for Local Structure Analysis in Large Point Sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 06, 2015, 11:15AM
  Emanuel Lazar, University of Pennsylvania
  ***Please note this seminar will beheld at a different time than the regular weekly program.

• Rectifiable measures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 06, 2015, 11AM
  Raanan Schul, Stony Brook

• Extreme values of the Riemann zeta function and characteristic polynomials of random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 06, 2015, 11AM
  Jonathan Keating, Bristol

Thursday, February 5, 2015

• The Boltzmann equation in all space and the effects of dispersion and dissipation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 05, 2015, 1:30PM
  Irene Gamba, Univ. Texas - Austin

• Polymerization Forces Exerted by Microtubules and the Position of Cellular Organelles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 05, 2015, 12:30PM
  Jonathon Howard, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

• Spectral density and eigenstate entanglement in quantum spin chains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 05, 2015, 11AM
  Jon Keating, Univeristy of Bristol

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

• Guarding Variants: Continuous 1.5D Terrain Guarding and (Edge) 2-Transmitter Cover.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 03, 2015, 6PM
  Christiane Schmidt, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

• Cylinders in del Pezzo surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 03, 2015, 3:30PM
  Ivan Cheltsov, University of Edinburgh

• Vortex flow visualization in the cardiovascular system and its clinical applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13014
  Feb. 03, 2015, 12:30PM
  Keiichi Itatani, http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium

• Approximately conical deformations of thin elastic sheets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 03, 2015, 11AM
  Heiner Olbermann, Univ of Bonn

Monday, February 2, 2015

• Arithmetic Statistics in Function Fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 02, 2015, 3:45PM
  Jon Keating, Bristol

Friday, January 30, 2015

• Associative memory through self-assembly

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 30, 2015, 2:30PM
  Zorana Zeravcic, Rockefeller University

Thursday, January 29, 2015

• Quantum cohomology, intersection cohomology and integrable systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Jan. 29, 2015, 3:30PM
  Michael McBreen, EPFL Lausanne

• Positional Fluctuations of Interphase Chromatin

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 29, 2015, 12:30PM
  Alexandra Zidovska, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University

• Rigorous asymptotic derivation of the Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic system from Navier-Stokes-Maxwell

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 29, 2015, 11AM
  Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria

Monday, January 26, 2015

• Some aspects of realization spaces of polytopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 26, 2015, 3:45PM
  Karim Adiprasito, IHES and Hebrew U. of Jerusalem

Thursday, January 22, 2015

• Shock Development in Spherical Symmetry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 22, 2015, 11AM
  André Lisibach, ETH Zurich

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 20, 2015, 2:30PM
  Amneet Bhalla, UNC

• Well-posedness and regularity for a class of thin-film free boundary problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 20, 2015, 11AM
  Manuel Victor Gnann, University of Michigan

Thursday, December 18, 2014

• Existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions for the thin-film equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 18, 2014, 11AM
  Mohamed Majdoub, Faculte de Sciences de Tunis

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2014 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Dec. 17, 2014, 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.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

• Two modes of urine formation in neonatal rat kidney by means of optimization problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 16, 2014, 12:30PM
  Mariano Marcano, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

Friday, December 12, 2014

• The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences: A Historical Perspective, 1934-1972

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 12, 2014, 2PM
  Brittany Shields, CIMS

• Violation of the area law in quantum spin chains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 12, 2014, 11AM
  Ramis Movassagh, Northeastern, MIT

Thursday, December 11, 2014

• Randomness and genericity in (some of) mathematics

  Location TBA
  Dec. 11, 2014, 4:35PM
  Igor Rivin, Temple University
  Six Metrotech Center \nBrooklyn, New York 11201

• A non-local variational problem arising from studies of nonlinear charge screening in graphene monolayers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 11, 2014, 11AM
  Cyrill Muratov, NJIT

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

• Computational Geometry in Air Traffic Management

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 09, 2014, 6PM
  Joseph Mitchell, Stony Brook University

• Modeling the zebrafish animal model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 09, 2014, 12:30PM
  Maurizio Porfiri, Polytechnic School of Engineering, NYU

Monday, December 8, 2014

• A new potential-theoretic formulation for Maxwell's equations: geometry and analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 08, 2014, 3:45PM
  Felipe Vico, Polytechnic University of Valencia

Friday, December 5, 2014

• Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2014, 2:30PM
  Lucy Colwell, Cambridge University

• The total surgery obstruction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  Dec. 05, 2014, 1PM
  Andrew Ranicki, University of Edinburgh
  *** Please note the time and location have changed for this seminar

• Noisy heteroclinic networks and sequential decision making

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2014, 1PM
  Yuri Bakhtin

• Statistical Mechanics arising from Random Matrix theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 05, 2014, 11AM
  Thomas Spencer, IAS

• An immersed-boundary method for suspensions of rigid bodies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2014, 10AM
  Aleksandar Donev, Courant Institue

Thursday, December 4, 2014

• evisiting Contact and Conformal Geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 04, 2014, 11AM
  Abbas Bahri, Rutgers Univ.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

• Big science with little data: a new wave-vortex decomposition method for one-dimensional spectra in the atmosphere and ocean

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 03, 2014, 3:30PM
  Oliver BUHLER, CIMS

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

• Arithmetic quotients of the mapping class group

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Dec. 02, 2014, 3:30PM
  Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Force scaling behavior of actomyosin stress fibers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 02, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ben Fogelson, NYU Courant Institute

Monday, December 1, 2014

• Singular Eigenvalue Perturbation Theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 01, 2014, 3:45PM
  Barry Simon, Caltech

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

• Motility at microscopic scale

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 26, 2014, 10AM
  Antonio De Simone, SISSA

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

• Measuring Distances Between Road Networks.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 25, 2014, 6PM
  Brittany Therese Fasy, Department of Computer Science, Tulane University

• Force generation and propagation, and contraction of random actomyosin ring

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 25, 2014, 12:30PM
  Dietmar Oelz

Monday, November 24, 2014

• The Riemann-Hilbert Method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 24, 2014, 3:45PM
  Alexander Its, IUPUI

Friday, November 21, 2014

• Stochastic variational inequalities and their applications in engineering

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2014, 2:30PM
  Laurent Mertz, CIMS

• The Erdos-­Hajnal Conjecture and Combinatorial Clustering with Forbidden Patterns

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2014, 11:30AM
  Krzysztof Choromanski, Google Research New York
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• \tTime Reversal for the Inverse problem of locating sources and obstacles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2014, 10AM
  Eli Turkel, Tel Aviv University

Thursday, November 20, 2014

• Enumeration of graphs, Random matrices and applications in Computational Biology

  Location TBA
  Nov. 20, 2014, 4:35PM
  Nikita Alexeev, Steklov Institute at St.Petersburg
  ** 6 MetroTech Roadway, Brooklyn

• Renormalization of critical circle maps and rotational attractors of two-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 20, 2014, 4PM
  Michael Yampolsky, University of Toronto

• Moduli of curves and differentials with real periods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 20, 2014, 3:30PM
  Chaya Norton, University of Montreal

• PDE Models for Ferrofluids and Their Numerical Analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 20, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ignacio Tomas, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

• Coastal-open ocean exchange of carbon: Mechanisms and ecological implications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 19, 2014, 3:30PM
  Zouhair LACHKAR, NYUAD

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

• Extensions of Golomb’s Tromino Theorem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 18, 2014, 6PM
  Jonathan Lenchner, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center.

• How cells tell left from right: Active Chiral Processes in Soft Biological Matter

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 18, 2014, 12:30PM
  Sebastian Fürthauer, NYU Courant Institute and Harvard Center for System Biology

• Scattering of radio frequency waves by plasma blobs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 18, 2014, 11AM
  Abhay Ram, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Monday, November 17, 2014

• Search games and Optimal Kakeya Sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 17, 2014, 3:45PM
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research

Friday, November 14, 2014

• Grain Growth and Grain Growth Stagnation in Metallic Films: The Curious Tail of a Tale and an Ear

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 2:30PM
  Katayun Barmak, Columbia University

• Cell movement as a free boundary problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 1PM
  Alex Mogilner, CIMS

• Activities in Considerate Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 11:30AM
  Ted Selker, University of California-Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

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