Past Events

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Past Math Events

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

• The Infrastructure Behind Google's Cloud (especially, the network)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 09, 2014, 11:30AM
  Jeff Mogul, Google

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

• Tetrahedron Contact Graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 08, 2014, 6PM
  Justin Iwerks

• A model of the medial superior olive explains spatio-temporal features of local field potentials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 08, 2014, 12:30PM
  Joshua Goldwyn, Center for Neural Science, New York University

• Helical magnetorotational instability of the MHD Couette-Taylor flow with Keplerian velocity profile

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  April 08, 2014, 11AM
  Oleg Kirillov, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Monday, April 7, 2014

• Taming diverging stochastic PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2014, 3:45PM
  Martin Hairer, University of Warwick
  ***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• Lagrangian Relaxation for Natural Language Processing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 07, 2014, 11:30AM
  Alexander Rush, MIT
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Saturday, April 5, 2014

• The Infrastructure Behind Google's Cloud (especially, the network)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 05, 2014, 11:30AM
  Jeff Mogu, Google

Friday, April 4, 2014

• Vortex Dynamics in Cyclotrons

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2014, 2:30PM
  Antoine Cerfon, CIMS

• Multiple-Source Adaptation Problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2014, 1PM
  Mehryar Mohri, CIMS

• Scalable Probabilistic Inference For Complex Dynamical Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2014, 11:30AM
  Lei Li, University of California, Berkeley
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• Convergence of finite voter model densities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 04, 2014, 11AM
  J. Theodore Cox, Syracuse University

• Ricci flow through singularities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  April 04, 2014, 11AM
  Bruce Kleiner, NYU

• Liouville Brownian motion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  April 04, 2014, 10AM
  Christophe Garban, CNRS ENS Lyon, UMPA

• \tMultiple Eigenvalues in Stability Analysis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 04, 2014, 10AM
  Oleg Kirillov, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Thursday, April 3, 2014

• Remarks on the conjectured Log-Brunn-Minkowski inequality

  Location TBA
  April 03, 2014, 4:30PM
  Christos Saroglou, Texas A&M University

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

• Topographic Enhancement of Eddy Efficiency in Baroclinic Equilibration

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 02, 2014, 3:30PM
  Ryan Abernathy, LDEO/Columbia

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

• Tracking surface glycans on live cancer cells with single molecule sensitivity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  April 01, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ben Ovryn, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• Spectral asymptotics for "April Fools" wave equations on compact > spacetimes that pretend to be elliptic

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 01, 2014, 11AM
  Bob Strichartz, Cornell

• Small-data materials informatics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 01, 2014, 11AM
  Kris Reyes, Princeton

• Spectral asymptotics for "April Fools" wave equations on compact spacetimes that pretend to be elliptic

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 01, 2014, 11AM
  Bob Strichartz, Cornell

Monday, March 31, 2014

• Computational Foundations of Bayesian Inference and Probabilistic Programming

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 31, 2014, 11:30AM
  Daniel Roy, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Friday, March 28, 2014

• Global Stability of Dynamical Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  March 28, 2014, 4PM
  Benjamin Webb, Rockefeller University

• Shimura curves contained in the Jacobian locus in small genus

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  March 28, 2014, 3:30PM
  Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University

• On variational formulation of entropy solutions to nonlinear conservation laws

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2014, 2:30PM
  Eitan Tadmor, U. Maryland

• Dynamics of ferromagnets: averaging methods, bifurcation diagrams, and thermal noise effects

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2014, 1PM
  Katie Newhall, CIMS

• Increase Accuracy of Immersed Boundary Methods Using Fourier Approximations of Delta Functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 28, 2014, 10AM
  Robert Guy, University of California, Davis

Thursday, March 27, 2014

• Mechanical reaction-diffusion equations in biological systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 27, 2014, 12:30PM
  Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

• Higher regularity in stochastic homogenization for uniformly elliptic equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 27, 2014, 11AM
  Scott Armstrong

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

• Copepod aggregations: influences of physics and collective behavior

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 26, 2014, 3:30PM
  Glenn Flierl, L'Ocean, Paris

• Statistical Text Analysis for Social Science

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 26, 2014, 11:30AM
  Brendan O'Connor, Carnegie Mellon University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

• Sums of Squares and Varieties of Minimal Degree

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 25, 2014, 6PM
  Greg Blekherman, Georgia Tech

• Stochastic inference of dynamic system models: from single-molecule experiments to statistical estimation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  March 25, 2014, 12:30PM
  Samuel Kou, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

Monday, March 24, 2014

• Transport Architectures for an Evolving Internet

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 24, 2014, 11:30AM
  Keith Winstein, MIT
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15 \n

Thursday, March 20, 2014

• Various dynamics for several vortex filaments

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 20, 2014, 11AM
  Valeria Banica, Universite d'Evry

Friday, March 14, 2014

• Data-driven optimal transport

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 14, 2014, 2:30PM
  Esteban Tabak, CIMS

• \tThe Mathematics and Physics of weak turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 14, 2014, 1PM
  Pierre Germain, CIMS

• Gluing constructions for constant mean curvature (hyper)surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 14, 2014, 11AM
  Christine Breiner, Fordham

• Local quantum unique ergodicity for random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 14, 2014, 11AM
  Paul Bourgade, University of Cambridge

• The thinned extremal process of the 2D discrete Gaussian Free Field

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 14, 2014, 10AM
  Oren Louidor, The Technion (Israel)

Thursday, March 13, 2014

• Vertical versus horizontal Poincare inequalities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room Rogers Hall 302
  March 13, 2014, 4:30PM
  Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University

• Universality in Extremal Statistics: the case of log-correlated random variables

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 13, 2014, 4PM
  Louis-Pierre Arguin, Université de Montréal

• Generalized Witten conjectures for moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 13, 2014, 2PM
  Jake Solomon, Hebrew University

• Various Topics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 13, 2014, 12:30PM
  Mark Tuckerman and Eric DeGiuli, NYU

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

• The life-cycle of wind generated near-inertial waves in strong ocean fronts

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 12, 2014, 3:30PM
  Dan Whitt, Stanford

• A Convex-Programming Framework for Super-Resolution

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 12, 2014, 1:30PM
  Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Stanford

• Knowledge-Driven Text Understanding

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 12, 2014, 11:30AM
  Kenny Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

• Intrinsic Volumes of Random Cubical Complexes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 11, 2014, 6PM
  Michael Werman, Department of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Special divisors on hyperelliptic curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 11, 2014, 3:30PM
  Jacob Tsimerman, Harvard University

• Interface fluctuations and KPZ: experimental approach to mathematical sciences

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 11, 2014, 3:30PM
  Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, University of Tokyo

• Sparsity-based Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Physiologic Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  March 11, 2014, 12:30PM
  Leon Axel, Departments of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine

• Aspects of Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithms for (Gyro) Kinetic Simulations of Plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 11, 2014, 11AM
  Ammar Hakim, PPPL

Monday, March 10, 2014

• Random matrix and partial differential equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 10, 2014, 3:45PM
  Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University
  ***Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, March 7, 2014

• Constructivism

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 805
  March 07, 2014, 3:30PM
  O'Donnel

• Local Structure Analysis and Defect Characterization in Atomic-Resolution Images

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 07, 2014, 2:30PM
  Matt Elsey, CIMS

• Representation, Modeling and Computation: Opportunities and Challenges of Modern Datasets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 07, 2014, 11:30AM
  Alekh Agarwal, Microsoft Research
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  March 07, 2014, 11AM
  Enrico Le Donne, University of Jyväskyä

• A multi-scale refinement of the 2nd moment method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  March 07, 2014, 11AM
  Nicola Kistler, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Thursday, March 6, 2014

• Optimizing snake locomotion in the plane

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 06, 2014, 12:30PM
  Silas Alban, University of Michigan

• Stability of infinite time aggregation for Keller-Seguel equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 06, 2014, 11AM
  Tej-eddin Ghoul, CIMS

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

• Extreme events and turbulence

  Location TBA
  March 05, 2014, 4:30PM
  President and Dean Sreenivasan, NYU Polytechinic School of Engineering

• Changes in the distribution of rain in response to warming

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 05, 2014, 3:30PM
  Angie Pendergrass, U Washington

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

• Toward GIT stability of syzygies of canonical curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  March 04, 2014, 3:30PM
  Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College

• Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Schemes for Cahn-Hilliard Type Models and Hybrid Discrete Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2014, 3:30PM
  Andreas Aristotelous

• Novel Causal Score for Learning Conjunctive Bayesian Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  March 04, 2014, 12:30PM
  Ilya Korsunsky, New York University

• Landau damping in Sobolev spaces for the Vlasov-HMF model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 04, 2014, 11AM
  Erwan Faou, INRIA Rennes and ENS Paris

• Helicity-Flux-Driven Alpha Effect in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 04, 2014, 11AM
  Fatima Ebrahimi, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University and PPPL

Friday, February 28, 2014

• Arnold Diffusion Problem and Applications to Celestial Mechanics, Part I

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Feb. 28, 2014, 4PM
  Marian Gidea, Yeshiva University

• Shimura curves contained in the Jacobian locus

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 28, 2014, 12PM
  Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University

• Vector fields on metric measure spaces, and 1-rectifiable structure

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 28, 2014, 11AM
  Andrea Schioppa, NYU

• Graph Expansion and Communication Complexity of Algorithms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 28, 2014, 10AM
  Olga Holtz, UC Berkeley

Thursday, February 27, 2014

• Mathematical Superpowers: The Politics of Universality in a Divided World

  Online, NYU Jordan Center, 2nd Floor at 19 University Place
  Feb. 27, 2014, 1PM

• A particle walks into an interface...

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 27, 2014, 12:30PM
  Vinothan Manoharan, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University

• KdV limit for geometric Schrodinger equations with potential

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 27, 2014, 11AM
  Pierre Germain, CIMS

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

• Counting plane graphs: Perfect matchings, spanning cycles, and Kasteleyn's technique

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 25, 2014, 6PM
  Adam Sheffer, Tel Aviv University

• Lifting Galois covers to characteristic zero with non-Archimedean analytic geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 25, 2014, 3PM
  Daniele Turchetti, Institut de mathemathiques de Jussieu

• Tightness of convex relaxations for certain inverse problems on graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 312
  Feb. 25, 2014, 2:30PM
  Afonso Bandeira, Princeton University

• A convex optimization approach to generalized moment problems in multivariate spectral estimation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 25, 2014, 2PM
  Michele Pavon, University of Padova

Monday, February 24, 2014

• On the Computational and Statistical Interface & 'Big Data'

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room Cantor Film Center (36 E. 8th Street), Room 101
  Feb. 24, 2014, 5:10PM
  Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, February 21, 2014

• Localized representation of eigenspaces via convex optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 21, 2014, 2:30PM
  Jianfeng Lu, Duke University

• Biased random walk on supercritical percolation clusters

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 21, 2014, 11AM
  Alexander Fribergh, Université de Toulouse

• Efficient Simulation of Gas Flow in a Pipe Network (Techniques and Theory in Model Order Reduction)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 21, 2014, 10AM
  Sara Grundel, Max Planck Institute

Thursday, February 20, 2014

• Almost sure well-posedness for the periodic 3D quintic NLS below the energy space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 20, 2014, 2:30PM
  Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• A weak Dirichlet problem for the cold plasma model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2014, 11AM
  Thomas H. Otway, Yeshiva University

• A weak Dirichlet problem for the cold plasma model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 20, 2014, 11AM
  Thomas Otway, Yeshiva University
  Please note special time: Joint with Analysis Seminar

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

• Robust Analytics on Data Streams

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 19, 2014, 11:30AM
  Flip Korn, AT&T Labs
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

• Birational isotriviality of fiber spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Feb. 18, 2014, 3:30PM
  Christian Böhning, Universität Hamburg

• Memorial for Samuel L. Marateck

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Feb. 18, 2014, 12:30PM

Friday, February 14, 2014

• Phyllotaxis, pushed pattern fronts and optimal packing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 14, 2014, 2:30PM
  Alan Newell, Univ. of Arizona

• Investigation of Crouzeix's Conjecture via Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 14, 2014, 1PM
  Michael Overton, CIMS

• The noisy Burgers equation and interacting diffusions.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 14, 2014, 11AM
  Herbert Spohn, IAS Princeton and TUM Munich

• Structure of measures in Lipschitz differentiability spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 14, 2014, 11AM
  David Bate, University of Chicago

Thursday, February 13, 2014

• Large-scale structures in (moist) convection

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 13, 2014, 12:30PM
  Alexandre Pieri, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council

• Models for “mixtures”, multifluid flows

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 13, 2014, 11AM
  Thierry Goudon, Inria, France

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

• From two-dimensional to rotating turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 12, 2014, 3:30PM
  Basile Gallet, U d'Orsay

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

• Bounding the equivariant Betti numbers and computing the generalized Euler-Poincaré characteristic of symmetric semi-algebraic sets.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 11, 2014, 6PM
  Saugate Basu, Purdue University

• Evolution is Pleased with Simplicity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Feb. 11, 2014, 12:30PM
  Aviv Bergman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• On the regularity of varifold mean curvature flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Feb. 11, 2014, 11AM
  Yoshihiro Tonegawa, Hokkaido University

Monday, February 10, 2014

• Minerva: A Scalable and Highly Efficient Training Platform for Deep Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 10, 2014, 11:30AM
  Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

Friday, February 7, 2014

• Cognitive load theory

  Location TBA
  Feb. 07, 2014, 3:30PM

• The Simplest Complex Fluid? The Remarkable Rheology of Hard-sphere Suspensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 07, 2014, 2:20PM
  Jeff Morris, City College

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