Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, September 18, 2014

• Onsager's Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 18, 2014, 11AM
  Tristan Buckmaster, CIMS

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

• Transitions and Tipping Points in the Changing Arctic Cryosphere

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 17, 2014, 3:30PM
  Ivan SUDAKOV, Utah

• N/A

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th Floor Lounge
  Sept. 17, 2014, 3:30PM

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

• Zeta functions of prehomogeneous vector spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Sept. 16, 2014, 3:30PM
  Gautam Chinta, City College of New York

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 16, 2014, 12:30PM
  Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology

• Shallow Packing: Revisiting Housler's Proof

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Sept. 16, 2014, 6AM
  Esther Ezra, CIMS

Monday, September 15, 2014

• Discrete or Continuous?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 15, 2014, 3:45PM
  Nick Trefethen, NYU and University of Oxford

Friday, September 12, 2014

• Optimal Arrangements of Rigid Shapes -- A Voronoi Approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 12, 2014, 2:30PM
  Lisa Larsson, CIMS

• Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 12, 2014, 10AM
  Randall J LeVeque, University of Washington

Thursday, September 11, 2014

• Noncollision Singularities in a Planar Four-body Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Sept. 11, 2014, 4PM
  Jinxin Xue, University of Chicago

• Individual and collective surfing of chemically active particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 11, 2014, 12:30PM
  Hassan Masoud, CIMS

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

• Combinatorial discrepancy for boxes via the ellipsoid-infinity norm.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 09, 2014, 6PM
  Sasho Nikolov, Rutgers University

• Role of linker histones in the structure and dynamics of chromatin fibers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 09, 2014, 12:30PM
  Antoni Luque, Postdoc, Schlick Lab, Chemistry Department, New York University

Saturday, September 6, 2014

• A Symposium Marking Jean Taylor's 70th Birthday

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Sept. 06, 2014, 1PM
  Various speakers
  Friends and Colleagues of Jean Taylor will gather to celebrate her scientific accomplishments and impact. If you wish to participate, please sign up at \nhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6T3RFDJ \n \nAlso note: the Museum of Mathematics will hold a related event later the same day (Sat Sept 6, 8-10:30pm). Besides being an opportunity to recognize Jean Taylor's many contributions, it provides an opportunity to see MoMath's exhibits. For more information and/or to register for the MoMath event, see: \nhttps://in.momath.org/civicrm/event/info?id=234&reset=1

Friday, September 5, 2014

• Viruses and geometry – a new perspective on virus assembly and anti-viral therapy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 05, 2014, 2:30PM
  Reidun Twarock, University of York

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

• Computing Teichmuller maps between polygons.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 02, 2014, 6PM
  Mayank Goswami, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken.

Monday, September 1, 2014

• Discrete or Continuous?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 01, 2014, 3:45PM
  Nick Trefethen, NYU and University of Oxford

Thursday, August 14, 2014

• NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SUMMER 2014 SHOWCASE

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Aug. 14, 2014, 6PM
  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.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

• A Gamma-convergence approach to a quasicontinuum method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  July 30, 2014, 2PM
  Anja Schloemerkemper, University of Wuerzburg

Thursday, June 12, 2014

• Degenerate parabolic equations arising in the modelling of biofilms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  June 12, 2014, 11AM
  Messoud Efendiyev

Monday, June 9, 2014

• Some remarks on the logarithmic Brunn-Minkowski inequality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room Rogers Hall 302
  June 09, 2014, 4:35PM
  Alina Stancu, Concordia University

Friday, June 6, 2014

• MUSIC at CIMS ****CANCELLED***

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th Floor Commons
  June 06, 2014, 4:30PM
  Urs Rutishauser - violin, Steve Flanders - cello and Ed Schonberg - piano.
  Beethoven \nTrio Op 1 no. 3 \n \nDvorak \nTrio Op. 65

Thursday, June 5, 2014

• Myosin driven contraction of random actin arrays is promoted by the combined effect of treadmilling and cross-linker proteins

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  June 05, 2014, 12:30PM
  Dietmar Ölz, University of California, Davis

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

• The Ternary Goldbach Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  May 27, 2014, 3:30PM
  Harald Helfgott, École Normale Supérieure, París

Thursday, May 22, 2014

• Oliver Pohl, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Berlin

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 22, 2014, 12:30PM
  Oliver Pohl, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Berlin

• On Multi-Dimensional Compact Patterns

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 22, 2014, 11AM
  Philip Rosenau, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University

• Two-fluid Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection with a Kinetic Closure for the Electron Pressure Anisotropy

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  May 22, 2014, 11AM
  Obioma Ohia, MIT

Saturday, May 17, 2014

• 500 YEARS OF MELANCOLIA IN MATHEMATICS

  Location TBA
  May 17, 2014, 10AM
  various
  Speakers: \nJohn Conway, Princeton, \nSergiu Klainerman, Princeton, \nJeffrey Lagarias, Michigan, \nJohn Morgan, Columbia \nRichard Schroeppel \nRichard Stanley, MIT \nGünter Ziegler, Berlin \n \n \nhttp://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/lectures-and-panels/free-lectures/melencolia-as-an-allegory-of-creation

Friday, May 16, 2014

• Phase Transitions in Directed Graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 16, 2014, 11AM
  Lingjiong Zhu, University of Minnesota

Thursday, May 15, 2014

• Biomimetic propulsion of elastic structures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 15, 2014, 12:30PM
  Sophie Ramananarivo, CIMS

• Computational Problems in Tensors

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 15, 2014, 12PM
  Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Large-amplitude solitary water waves with vorticity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 15, 2014, 11AM
  Miles Wheeler, Brown

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

• Analytical theory of the wind-driven sea

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  May 14, 2014, 3:30PM
  Vladimir Zakharov, U Arizona

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

• Showcase of various projects completed in computer science

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th Floor Commons
  May 13, 2014, 5PM

• Fun with gerbes II- 2-Galois theory and the algebraic interpretation of co-homology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  May 13, 2014, 3:30PM
  Michael McQuillan, IHES, Paris

• A model for falling-tone Chorus in the Earth magnetosphere

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  May 13, 2014, 11AM
  Rualdo Soto-Chavez, Princeton University and PPPL

Monday, May 12, 2014

• Best approximation by algebraic and semi-algebraic sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 12, 2014, 3:45PM
  Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois, Chicago
  ***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, May 9, 2014

• Limiting distributions for intermittent systems with holes:

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  May 09, 2014, 4PM
  Mark Demers, Fairfield University

• Harmonic maps in rigidity problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  May 09, 2014, 11AM
  Chikako Mese, Johns Hopkins

Thursday, May 8, 2014

• Irreducible representations of oscillatory and swirling flows in active soft matter

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 08, 2014, 12:30PM
  R. Adhikari, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

• A glimpse of supertropical algebra and its applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 08, 2014, 11AM
  Zur Izhakian, University of Aberdeen

• On the biharmonic energy with Monge Ampere constraints

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 08, 2014, 11AM
  Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

• Cohomological Invariants of degree 3 and torsion in the Chow group of a versal flag

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  May 06, 2014, 3:30PM
  Kirill Zaynullin, University of Ottawa

• Noise and Signaling in Cancer Systems Pharmacology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  May 06, 2014, 12:30PM
  Marc Birtwistle, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

• Rigidity of Isometric Immersions and degenrate deformations of Sobolev regularity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 06, 2014, 11:30AM
  Reza Pakzad, University of Pittsburgh

Monday, May 5, 2014

• Lax pairs, Hankel operators and transition to high frequencies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 05, 2014, 3:45PM
  Patrick Gerard, Université Paris-Sud and Institut Universitaire de France
  ***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor)

• Cube complexes and the proof of Thurston's conjectures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 05, 2014, 11AM
  Dani Wise, McGill

Friday, May 2, 2014

• Minimal data rates and entropy for control problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  May 02, 2014, 4PM
  Christoph Kawan, Courant Insitute

• Quantitative stochastic homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2014, 2:30PM
  Scott Armstrong, Univ of Paris Dauphine

• Quadrature by Expansion: A new method for the evaluation of layer potentials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2014, 1PM
  Leslie Greengard, CIMS

• From Scattering to Spectral Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2014, 11:30AM
  Joan Bruna, CIMS
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• Diapycnal mixing in the ocean interior: patterns, processes and parameterizations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102
  May 02, 2014, 11AM
  Jen MacKinnon, Scripps

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  May 02, 2014, 11AM
  Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, SUNY New Paltz

• Multi-level Iterative Methods and Temporal Parallelism

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 02, 2014, 10AM
  Mike Minion, Stanford University

Thursday, May 1, 2014

• Spectral theory of triangular difference operators and the combinatorial Gale transform

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  May 01, 2014, 3:30PM
  Igor Krichever, Columbia University

• Chaotic motion of charged particles in toroidal magnetic configurations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  May 01, 2014, 1:30PM
  Xavier Leoncini, Université Aix-Marseille

• A qualitative central limit theorem for the effective diffusion in IID environments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 01, 2014, 11AM
  Antoine Gloria, Univ Libre de Bruxelles

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

• Periodic variability in the large-scale middle latitude atmosphere

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 30, 2014, 3:30PM
  David Thompson, Colorado State U

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

• The Pascal Mysticum

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 29, 2014, 6PM
  Alex Ryba, Queens College (CUNY)

• Frontier problems in feature selection for Big Data analytics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 29, 2014, 12:30PM
  Constantin Aliferis, NYU Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics

Monday, April 28, 2014

• Numerical Algebraic Intersection with Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2014, 3:45PM
  Charles Wampler, General Motors and University of Notre Dame
  ***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• Nonparametric Measures of Dependence

  Online, 1255 Amsterdam Ave
  April 28, 2014, 9AM
  Please see link for details
  Location: The conference and workshop will be held in the School of Social Work Building (9th and 10thfloors; 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027). \n \nAs part of our 2013-2014 focus year on “Measures of Dependence”, the Department of Statistics at Columbia University is organizing a 3-day workshop and a 1-day conference on “Nonparametric Measure of Dependence” (Apr 28th to May 2nd). This conference is open to the public. \n \nPlease register (free) at http://bit.ly/Qnor9W.

Friday, April 25, 2014

• Various

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  April 25, 2014, 2:30PM
  Various
  **Immediately followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Commons

• Order, Disorder, Symmetry and Complexity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 25, 2014, 1PM
  Daniel L. Stein, CIMS and NYU Physics

• Micro-swimming Navigation in Microfluidics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 25, 2014, 12:30PM
  Vasily Kanstler, Warwick and SkolTech
  **** PLEASE NOTE TIME / LOCATION OF SEMINAR CHANGE

• Fragmentation-dilation processes and their limits

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 25, 2014, 10AM
  Jean Bertoin, Universität Zürich

• Calculating Electrical and Thermal Conductivities in a Hydrogen Plasma with Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 25, 2014, 10AM
  Christian Scullard, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Thursday, April 24, 2014

• Hydrostatic properties of convex bodies

  Location TBA
  April 24, 2014, 5:35PM
  Helmut Groemer, University of Arizona

• Valuations on lattice polytopes

  Location TBA
  April 24, 2014, 4:35PM
  Monika Ludwig, Vienna University of Technology

• Global well-posedness of incompressible elastodynamics in 2D

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 24, 2014, 11AM
  Zhen Lei, Fudan

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

• Distinct Volume Subsets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 22, 2014, 6PM
  William Gasarch, University of Maryland, College Park

• Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAST

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 22, 2014, 12:30PM
  Alexander Alekseyenko, NYU School of Medicine

Monday, April 21, 2014

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2014, 6PM
  Jon Lenchner

• Homotopical effects of k-dilation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 805
  April 21, 2014, 2PM
  Larry Guth, MIT

Friday, April 18, 2014

• Riemann--Hilbert problems and the inverse scattering transform: From asymptotics to computation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 18, 2014, 2:30PM
  Tom Trogdon

• Convergence of harmonic maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 18, 2014, 1PM
  Zahra Sinaei, CIMS

• Sandpiles and system-spanning avalanches

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 18, 2014, 11AM
  Lionel Levine, Cornell University

• The hypo elliptic Laplacian in real and complex geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 18, 2014, 11AM
  Jean-Michel Bismut, Orsay

• Dynamics of Ising spin systems..

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 18, 2014, 10AM
  Claude Godrèche, Institut de Physique Théorique, Saclay

• Finite-difference Gaussian Rules for Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operators, Perfectly Matched Layers and Inverse Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 18, 2014, 10AM
  Vladimir Druskin, Schlumberger Doll Research

Thursday, April 17, 2014

• The half space property for minimal hypersurfaces in MxR

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  April 17, 2014, 4:30PM
  Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University

• Around the Bridgeland differential on M_{g,n}

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 17, 2014, 3:45PM
  Andrei Caldarau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Motion and locomotion of liquid crystal elastomers and networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 17, 2014, 12:30PM
  Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University

• On Multi-Dimensional Compressible Navier-Stokes Systems with Large Oscillations and Vacuum.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 17, 2014, 11AM
  Zhouping Xin, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

• Pathways for CO2 transfers between the atmosphere and the ocean interior

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  April 16, 2014, 3:30PM
  Marina Levy, L'Ocean, Paris

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

• An abstract approach to Ramsey theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  April 15, 2014, 3:30PM
  Slawomir Solecki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Principal component analysis with structured factors

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 15, 2014, 12:45PM
  Andrea Montanari, Stanford

• Role of linker histones in the structure and dynamics of chromatin fibers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 15, 2014, 12:30PM
  Antoni Luque, Biomath Group, Department of Chemistry, New York University

Monday, April 14, 2014

• On the geometry of maximum entropy problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 14, 2014, 3:45PM
  Michele Pavon, Universita di Padova
  *** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, April 11, 2014

• Oscillatory motions and Arnold diffusion in the restricted planar three body problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  April 11, 2014, 4PM
  Tere M Seara, UPC, Barcelona

• The Causes of Metastability and Their Effects on Transition Times

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 11, 2014, 2:30PM
  Katie Newhall, CIMS

• The Aha! Moment: From Data to Insight

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 11, 2014, 11:30AM
  Dafna Shahaf, Stanford University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• Embedded minimal tori in S^3

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 11, 2014, 11AM
  Simon Brendle, Stanford

• Extended Sparsification and Hierarchical Compression Based Fast Direct Solvers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 11, 2014, 10AM
  Sivaram Ambikasaran, CIMS

• Stability problem in the dust-Einstein system with a positive cosmological constant

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 11, 2014, 10AM
  Mahir Hadzic, Kings College, London
  *** Please note special day for this event

Thursday, April 10, 2014

• Uniqueness questions in Convex Geometry

  Location TBA
  April 10, 2014, 4:35PM
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University

• Scattering Representations for Recogntion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 10, 2014, 4PM
  Joan Bruna, NYU, Courant

• Some mathematics as applied physics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 10, 2014, 12:30PM
  Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge and Harvard University

• Solitary water waves in three dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 10, 2014, 11AM
  Erik Wahlen, University of Lund

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

• Direct Statistical Simulation of Geophysical Flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 09, 2014, 3:30PM
  Brad Marston, Brown

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