Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, November 14, 2014

• Markov type for planar graphs and applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 14, 2014, 11AM
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft

• \tMultigrid Methods for Saddle Point Problems.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2014, 10AM
  Duk-Soon Oh, Rutgers

• Poisson and compound Poisson asymptotics for statistics of multiple recurrencies to shrinking sets.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 14, 2014, 10AM
  Yuri Kifer, Jerusalem

Thursday, November 13, 2014

• Random methods in geometry

  Location TBA
  Nov. 13, 2014, 5:30PM
  Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University, visiting NYU
  event location: 6 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn

• Infinite Groups --- from the very beginning (1900 + ?) to our time

  Location TBA
  Nov. 13, 2014, 4:35PM
  Efim Zelmanov, University of California - SD
  event location: 6 Metrotech Ctr, Brooklyn

• A predictive Model for Yeast Cell Polarization in Pheromone Gradients

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 13, 2014, 12:30PM
  Nicolas Meunier, MAP5, Universite Paris Descartes, France

• Weakly regular Einstein spacetimes with symmetry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 13, 2014, 11AM
  Philippe Le Floch, Univ. Paris 6

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

• Multiple regimes and thermohaline variability in the quasi-adiabatic pole-to-pole circulation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 12, 2014, 3:30PM
  Christopher WOLFE

• Infinite Dimensional Superalgebras

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 12, 2014, 11:30AM
  Efim Zelmanov, University of California, San Diego
  ** Please note the change of time for this event

• Regularity results for general nonlocal equations of quasilinear type

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 805
  Nov. 12, 2014, 11AM
  Yannick Sire, Aix-Marseille University

• Matching, choice and entropy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 12, 2014, 10AM
  Alfred Galichon, Sciences Po

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

• Repairing tropical curves by means of linear tropical modifications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 11, 2014, 3:30PM
  Maria Angelica Cueto, Columbia University

• Multiscale Modelling in Physiology: Lungs and Saliva

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 11, 2014, 12:30PM
  James Sneyd

• Numerical algorithms applied to RadioFrequency problems in fusion.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 11, 2014, 11AM
  John Wright, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Monday, November 10, 2014

• The Dynamics of Calcium: Oscillations and Waves, Experiments and Theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 10, 2014, 3:45PM
  James Sneyd, University of Auckland

Sunday, November 9, 2014

• The Goodman-Pollack Fest/Feast.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor Commons
  Nov. 09, 2014, 9AM
  Various Speakers

Saturday, November 8, 2014

• The Goodman-Pollack Fest/Feast.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th Floor Commons
  Nov. 08, 2014, 9AM
  Various Speakers

Friday, November 7, 2014

• Phase behaviors of non-Brownian suspensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 2:30PM
  Kyongmin Yeo, IBM Watson Research Center

• Inverse problems governed by large-scale PDE models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 1PM
  Georg Stadler, CIMS

• Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 11:30AM
  David Johnson, Columbia University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• \tScalable finite element viscous flow solvers on octree meshes, with application to ice sheet dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2014, 10AM
  Tobin Isaac, University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, November 6, 2014

• Markov partitions and 1-dimensional tilings

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 06, 2014, 4PM
  Maciej Wojtkowski

• The lifespan of small data solutions to the KP-I

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2014, 2PM
  Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths, Univ. of California - Berkeley

• Brownian Interactions in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 06, 2014, 12:30PM
  Mehdi Karzar-Jeddi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

• The Yang-Mills Plateau problem in supercritical dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2014, 11AM
  Mircea Petrache, ETH/Zurich

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

• The Northern Hemisphere summertime circulation: Mechanisms and future changes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 05, 2014, 3:30PM
  Tiffany SHAW, Columbia

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

• Stable pairs and knot invariants

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 04, 2014, 3:30PM
  Davesh Maulik, Columbia University

• The fluid dynamics of jellyfish swimming and feeding

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 04, 2014, 12:30PM
  Laura Miller, University of North Carolina

Monday, November 3, 2014

• The Surface Subgroup Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 03, 2014, 3:45PM
  Vladimir Markovic, Caltech

Friday, October 31, 2014

• Fast-slow systems with chaotic noise

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2014, 2:30PM
  David Kelly, CIMS

• Set-Indexed processes and regularity.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 31, 2014, 11AM
  Ely Merzbach, Bar-Ilan

• 4-dimensional arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds and quantum error correcting codes.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 31, 2014, 11AM
  Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University/NYU

• \tUpwind methods for second order wave equations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2014, 10AM
  Thomas Hagstrom, Southern Methodist University

Thursday, October 30, 2014

• Diffusion through non-transversal transition chains

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 30, 2014, 4PM
  Adrià Simon, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech

• Bacterial Swimming in Polymer Solutions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 30, 2014, 12:30PM
  Wilson Poon, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 30, 2014, 11AM
  Mark Wilkinson, CIMS

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

• Stochastic Models and Statistics for Extreme Precipitation Events

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 29, 2014, 3:30PM
  Sam STECHMANN

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

• "Positivity and singularities in characteristic p

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Oct. 28, 2014, 3:30PM
  Mircea Mustaţă, University of Michigan

• Local Analysis of Wave Fields produced from Hindcasted Rogue Wave Sea States

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 28, 2014, 2PM
  Frederic Dias, University College, Dublin

• A Novel Characterization of Amalgamated Networks in Natural Systems Using Sparse and Low-Rank Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 28, 2014, 12:30PM
  Victor Barranca, Courant Institute and NYUAD Institute, New York University

Monday, October 27, 2014

• The mysterious role of stability in solids with defects

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 27, 2014, 3:45PM
  Gilles Francfort, Universite Paris 13 and Institut Universitaire de France
  \n**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. \nin the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, October 24, 2014

• NON-EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF TURBULENCE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2014, 2:30PM
  David Ruelle, IHES

• Fast algorithms for Gaussian processes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2014, 1PM
  Michael O'Neil

• Satellite operators and piecewise-linear concordance

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 24, 2014, 1PM
  Adam Levine, Princeton

• Random tilings and Hurwitz numbers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 24, 2014, 11AM
  Jonathan Novak, MIT

• Various presenters

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Oct. 24, 2014, 10AM

Thursday, October 23, 2014

• The Set-Indexed Levy Process: Stationarity and Local regularity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Oct. 23, 2014, 4:35PM
  Ely Merzbach, Bar-Ilan University

• Analytic quasiperiodic matrix cocycles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 23, 2014, 4PM
  Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Irvine

• Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Microtubule/Motor Protein Assemblies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 23, 2014, 12:30PM
  Tong (Tony) Gao, CIMS

• Information Theory: Old and New--A Personal View

  Location TBA
  Oct. 23, 2014, 11AM
  Shlomo Shamai, Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

• On-Site and Off-Site Solitary Waves of the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Multiple Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 23, 2014, 11AM
  Michael Jenkinson, Columbia

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

• Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability as a Thermally Coupled Mode Enhanced by Cloud Feedback

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 22, 2014, 3:30PM
  Amy CLEMENT, University of Miami

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

• Analytic Root Isolation: A complete unconditional Clustering Algorithm

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 21, 2014, 6PM
  Chee Yap, Courant Institute, New York University, New York

• A novel method for decoding neural activity in sensory and frontal cortices during perceptual decision-making in rodents

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 21, 2014, 12:30PM
  Michele Insanally, New York University

Friday, October 17, 2014

• Universality in random matrix theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 17, 2014, 1PM
  Paul Bourgade

• Getting to the Cloud and Using it, Securely

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 17, 2014, 11:30AM
  Thomas Ristenpart, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• Stationary random graphs and the hyperbolic Poisson Voronoi tessellation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 17, 2014, 11AM
  Elliot Paquette, Weizmann

• \tBDDC deluxe domain decomposition algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 17, 2014, 10AM
  Olof Widlund, Courant Institute

Thursday, October 16, 2014

• Quasistatic dynamical systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 16, 2014, 4PM
  Mikko Stenlund, University of Helsinki

• A trajectory equation for walking droplets: hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 16, 2014, 12:30PM
  Anand U. Oza, CIMS

• Gibbs-like behavior of dispersive PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 16, 2014, 11AM
  Tom Trogdon, CIMS

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

• Filtering with noisy Lagrangian tracers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 15, 2014, 3:30PM
  Xin TONG, CIMS

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

• Integral versions of the Tate conjecture over finite fields

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Oct. 14, 2014, 3:30PM
  Alena Pirutka, Centre de Mathematiques Laurent Schwartz

Friday, October 10, 2014

• Multilevel methods for kinetic equations of plasma dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 10, 2014, 2:30PM
  Lee Ricketson, CIMS

• Onsager's Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 10, 2014, 1PM
  Tristan Buckmaster

• Revisiting Network Resource Allocation in Data Centers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 10, 2014, 11:30AM
  Fahad Dogar, Tufts University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15 \n

• Filling multiples of embedded curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 10, 2014, 11AM
  Robert Young, NYU

• A class of Laplacian multiwavelets bases for high-dimensional data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 10, 2014, 10AM
  Nir Sharon, Tel Aviv

• Joint Columbia-NYU probability talks, organized by probabilists from both institutions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 10, 2014, 9:30AM
  Various

Thursday, October 9, 2014

• Nearly integrable systems with orbits accumulating to KAM tori

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 09, 2014, 4PM
  Marcel Guardia, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu

• Field Theory for Four Fundamental Interactions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 09, 2014, 11AM
  Shouhong Wang, U. of Indiana

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

• Quantification and prediction of rare events in nonlinear waves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 08, 2014, 3:30PM
  Themistoklis SAPSIS

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

• Clustered planarity testing for trees

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 07, 2014, 6PM
  Radoslav Fulek, Columbia University, New York

• Rationality questions and quartic threefolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Oct. 07, 2014, 3:30PM
  Alena Pirutka, Centre de Mathematiques Laurent Schwartz

• Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAST

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 07, 2014, 12:30PM
  Alexander Alekseyenko, NYU School of Medicine

Friday, October 3, 2014

• Some geometric aspects of the theory of convex polytopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 03, 2014, 11AM
  Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University

• Intersections of SLE paths

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 03, 2014, 11AM
  Hao Wu, MIT

Thursday, October 2, 2014

• Valuations and the Special Linear Group

  Location TBA
  Oct. 02, 2014, 4:35PM
  Christoph Haberl, Vienna University of Science and Technology

• Variations of Neron-Severi ranks of reductions of algebraic surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 505
  Oct. 02, 2014, 2:45PM
  Edgar Costa, CIMS

• Scalar Active Matter: Field Theories, Phase Ordering and Fluid Dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 02, 2014, 12:30PM
  Michael E. Cates, University of Edinburgh

• The Morse and Maslov indices for multidimensional Schroedinger operators with matrix-valued potentials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 02, 2014, 11AM
  Yuri Latushkin, U. of Missouri

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

• Interaction of atmospheric and oceanic weather

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 01, 2014, 3:30PM
  Ivy FRENGER, Princeton

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

• Geometric constructions of exotic (hyper)graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 30, 2014, 6PM
  Noga Alon, Tel-Aviv University, Israel and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

• Singularities of moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces and Nakajima quiver varieties

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Sept. 30, 2014, 3:30PM
  Giulia Sacca, Stony Brook University

• Understanding the role of cellular replication limits as a tumor suppressor pathway

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 30, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ignacio A. Rodriguez Brenes, University of California, Irvine

Monday, September 29, 2014

• Ramanujan graphs and symmetric error correcting codes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 29, 2014, 3:45PM
  Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Friday, September 26, 2014

• Mathematics of the Faraday Cage

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 26, 2014, 2:30PM
  Nick Trefethen, NYU, Oxford

• Non-backtracking spectrum of random graphs.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 26, 2014, 11AM
  Charles Bordenave, Toulouse

• \tAsymptotically compatible discretization of parametrized variational problems with applications to nonlocal models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 26, 2014, 10AM
  Qiang Du, Columbia University

Thursday, September 25, 2014

• Structured chaos shapes spike-response noise entropy in balanced neural networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Sept. 25, 2014, 4PM
  Guillaume Lajoie, Max Planck Institute

• Optimization, Adaptation, and Initiation of Biological Transport Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 25, 2014, 12:30PM
  Dan Hu, Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

• Solitary water waves on shear flows and with surface pressure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 25, 2014, 11AM
  Miles Wheeler, CIMS

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

• A Generalization of the Convex Kakeya Problem.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 23, 2014, 6PM
  Hee-Kap Ahn, Pohang, South Korea

• Kodaira dimension and zeros of holomorphic one-forms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Sept. 23, 2014, 3:30PM
  Christian Schnell, Stony Brook University

• Morphogenetic models: from genetic networks to patterns

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 23, 2014, 12:30PM
  Pablo Padilla, Institute for Applied Mathematics, National University of Mexico

• The HiFi multi-fluid modeling framework: Computational fluid modeling of magnetized plasmas in laboratory and space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Sept. 23, 2014, 11AM
  Vyacheslav Lukin, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Friday, September 19, 2014

• Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 19, 2014, 4PM
  Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA
  *** Please note time change, seminar will be held at 4:00pm

• N/A

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th Floor Lounge
  Sept. 19, 2014, 2PM

• Continuity of phase transitions for models of Statistical Mechanics.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 19, 2014, 11AM
  Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA

• A level-set based mesh evolution method for shape optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 19, 2014, 10AM
  Charles Dapogny, Rutgers, New Brunswick

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