Past Events

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Past Math Events

Friday, February 7, 2014

• Physics-based Animation Sound: Progress and Challenges

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 07, 2014, 11:30AM
  Doug James, Cornell University
  ***Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Translation invariant Gibbs measures on tilings by Nx1 Rectangles.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Feb. 07, 2014, 11AM
  Martin Tassy, Brown University

Thursday, February 6, 2014

• Various topics will be presented

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 06, 2014, 12:30PM
  Kazem Edmond, Physics, Center for Soft Matter Research
  Also speaking during this session: Alexander Shtukenberg, Chemistry, Molecular Design Institute

• A quantitative Brunn-Minkowski inequality and estimates on the the remainder in the Riesz rearrangement inequality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 06, 2014, 11AM
  Eric Carlen, Rutgers University

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

• Time series analysis and data-driven model discrimination beyond usual assumptions: mathematical ideas, algorithmic methods, HPC and application examples

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 05, 2014, 3:30PM
  Illia Horenko, ICS Lugano

• Seminar Series: Jan 29 to March 12

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 05, 2014, 2PM
  Charles Newman, CIMS

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

• Crossing Numbers and Combinatorial Characterization of Monotone Drawings of Kn

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 04, 2014, 6PM
  Radoslav Fulek, Columbia University

• Numerical simulations of Alfvenic turbulence in the solar wind

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Feb. 04, 2014, 1:30PM
  Jean Carlos Perez, University of New Hampshire

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

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Feb. 04, 2014, 12:30PM
  Joshua Goldwyn, Center for Neural Science, New York University

• On the well-posedness of an interface damped free boundary fluid-structure model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Feb. 04, 2014, 11AM
  Igor Kukavica, USC

Monday, February 3, 2014

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 03, 2014, 12:30PM
  Keiichi Itatani

Friday, January 31, 2014

• Learning and Fast Simulation of Intrinsically Low-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical Systems in High Dimensions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 31, 2014, 1PM
  Miles Crosskey, Duke University

• A sublinear bound for the variance of solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Jan. 31, 2014, 11AM
  Ivan Matic, Baruch College City University of New York

Thursday, January 30, 2014

• Are Black Holes Real ?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 30, 2014, 11AM
  Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

• Multiscale Geometry of High-Dimensional Data, with applications to Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 29, 2014, 3:30PM
  Mauro Maggioni, Duke

• Seminar Series: Jan 29 to March 12

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 29, 2014, 2PM
  Charles Newman, CIMS

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

• The Babel Fish: Active Signal Detection in the Ear

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Jan. 28, 2014, 12:30PM
  Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, The Rockefeller University

Monday, January 27, 2014

• On Bitcoin and Red Balloons

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 27, 2014, 11:30AM
  Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

Thursday, January 23, 2014

• Living Liquid Crystals

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Jan. 23, 2014, 12:30PM
  Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory

Thursday, January 16, 2014

• The nonlinear heat equation with high order mixed derivatives of the Dirac delta as initial values and Applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Jan. 16, 2014, 11AM
  Slim Tayachi, University Tunis El Manar

Thursday, December 19, 2013

• The innate immune system: some theory, some experiments and some medical implications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 19, 2013, 12:30PM
  Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

• Divide and Conquer Roadmaps for Algebraic Sets

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 17, 2013, 6PM
  Marie-Francoise Roy, University of Rennes, France

• Diffuse Decompositions of Polynomials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 17, 2013, 12:15PM
  Daniel Kane, Stanford University

Monday, December 16, 2013

• Introduction to incidence geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 16, 2013, 3:45PM
  Larry Guth, MIT
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

Friday, December 13, 2013

• Fall 2013 Showcase

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 13th floor commons
  Dec. 13, 2013, 5PM

• Riemann-Hilbert problems, orthogonal polynomials and computation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 13, 2013, 1PM
  Tom Trogdon, CIMS

• Recent Progress on the Search of 3D Euler Singularities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 13, 2013, 10AM
  Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology

Thursday, December 12, 2013

• Settling and Rising in Stratified Fluids: fluid-structure interactions and multiphase flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 12, 2013, 12:30PM
  Shilpa Khatri, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• On the different rates of blow-up for the 1-corotational harmonic heat flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 12, 2013, 11AM
  Remi Schweyer

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

• The geometry of the Frey-Mazur conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 10, 2013, 3:30PM
  Benjamin Bakker, Courant Institute

• Making sense --- or not --- of deep DNA sequencing data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 10, 2013, 12:30PM
  Daniel Fisher, Stanford University

Monday, December 9, 2013

• Waves in honeycomb structures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 09, 2013, 3:45PM
  Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
  **Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).

• Modeling, simulation and inference for non-Newtonian fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 09, 2013, 11AM
  Georg Stadler, University of Texas Austin

Friday, December 6, 2013

• Sampling and noise

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2013, 2:30PM
  Alexandre Chorin, UC Berkeley

• Dynamical rigidity of Ginibre interacting Brownian motions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Dec. 06, 2013, 11AM
  Hirofumi Osada, Kyushu University

• A Multifrequency Method for the Shape Reconstruction of 2D Scatterers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2013, 10AM
  Carlos Borges, CIMS

• Stochastic calculus via regularization in Banach spaces: path dependent calculus and stochastic evolution equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 06, 2013, 10AM
  Francesco Russo, ENSTA ParisTech

Thursday, December 5, 2013

• Computational Art History: Three Emerging Projects

  Location TBA
  Dec. 05, 2013, 4:35PM
  C.Richard Johnson,Jr, Cornell University

• Transport of particles, drops, and small organisms in density stratified fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 05, 2013, 12:30PM
  Arezoo Ardekani, University of Notre Dame

• Asymptotic behavior for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with partially periodic data

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2013, 11AM
  Benoit Pausader, Princeton University

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

• The mesoscale dynamics of cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 04, 2013, 3:30PM
  Tra Dinh, Princeton

• Strong solutions of infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Dec. 04, 2013, 11AM
  Hirofumi Osada, Kyushu University

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

• Connecting High-throughput Data to Build Better Models of the Immune System in Health and Disease

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 03, 2013, 12:30PM
  Brian Kidd, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Monday, December 2, 2013

• Estimates of normal curvatures of space-like hypersurfaces in de Sitter space and convexity

  Location TBA
  Dec. 02, 2013, 4:35PM
  Vladimir Oliker, Emory University

• Hamiltonian Evolution Equations - Where They Come From, What They Are Good For

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 02, 2013, 3:45PM
  Juerg Froehlich, ETH Zurich (& IAS)
  *** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor)

• Mathematical biology of the lamellipodial treadmill

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 02, 2013, 11AM
  Alex Mogilner, UC Davis

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

• Metric Geometry and the Diameter of Polytopes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 26, 2013, 6PM
  Bruno Benedetti, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Nov. 26, 2013, 2PM
  Costante Bellettini, Princeton

• An integral equation for Taylor states

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 26, 2013, 1:30PM
  Mike O'Neil, CIMS

• Encoding evidence of independence into Bayesian network structure learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 26, 2013, 12:30PM
  Rachel Hodos, CIMS

Friday, November 22, 2013

• Spectral Analysis of Continuum Kinetic Velocity Diffusion Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2013, 2:30PM
  Jon Wilkening, UC Berkeley

• Nonlinear phase mixing in fluid mechanics and kinetic theory: "irreversible" stability in reversible systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2013, 1PM
  Jacob Bedrossian, CIMS

• On the connection between the spectral gap of convex bodies and the variance conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Nov. 22, 2013, 12:30PM
  Ronan Eldan, Microsoft Research

• Crouzeix's Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2013, 10AM
  Anne Greenbaum, University of Washington

Thursday, November 21, 2013

• Matching on-the-fly: Sequential Allocation with Higher Power and Efficiency

  Location TBA
  Nov. 21, 2013, 4:35PM
  Adam Kapelner, UPenn

• The vortex filament equation for a regular polygon

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2013, 11:55AM
  Luis Vega

• A Two-Sided Estimate for the Gaussian Noise Stability Defici

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2013, 11AM
  Ronen Eldan

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

• A Refined Life at High Resolution: Subgrid Modelling in the Eddy-Rich Regime

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 20, 2013, 3:45PM
  Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

• Exact Solutions and Bounds for General Art Gallery Problems and an FPTAS for a Variant.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 19, 2013, 6PM
  Christiane Schmidt, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University

• Ramification theory in arithmetic geometry and existence of slices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 19, 2013, 3:30PM
  Sophie Marques, CIMS

• The Influence of Spatial Variation in Chromatin Density on the Time to Find DNA Binding Sites

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 19, 2013, 12:30PM
  Samuel Isaacson, Boston University

Monday, November 18, 2013

• Droplet Splashing

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 18, 2013, 3:45PM
  Michael Brenner, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Friday, November 15, 2013

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 15, 2013, 3PM

• The Markovian approximation in the Theory of Coarse-Graining

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2013, 2:30PM
  Pep Espanol, UNED, Madrid, Spain

• Disequilibrium, coarse-graining and information

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2013, 1PM
  Richard Kleeman, CIMS

• Asymptotic geometry of two-dimensional self-shrinkers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 15, 2013, 11AM
  Lu Wang

• Diffusion and super-diffusion of energy in one dimensional systems of oscillators

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 15, 2013, 11AM
  Stefano Olla, Université Paris Dauphine

• Discontinuous Galerkin with Peace-wise Constant Fluxes for Diffusion Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2013, 10AM
  Yuri Kuznetsov, University of Houston

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 15, 2013, 10AM
  Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University

Thursday, November 14, 2013

• Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction from Microscopic Principles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 14, 2013, 4PM
  Domokos Szász, Budapest University of Technology

• Out of Equilibriumness of Light-Activated Colloidal Particles

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 14, 2013, 12:30PM
  Jeremie A. Palacci, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University

• A new proof of Landau damping in the nonlinear Vlasov equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2013, 11AM
  Jacob Bedrossian, CIMS

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

• Wave Effects in the Tropical Tropopause Layer

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 13, 2013, 3:45PM
  Joan Alexander, NWRA

• Null mean curvature flow and marginally outer trapped surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 13, 2013, 11AM
  Kristen Moore, Potsdam University and MSRI

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

• Mathematics of Clouds: Beyond the Engineering of Climate Models

  Online, 19 Washington Square North
  Nov. 12, 2013, 6PM
  Boualem Khouider, Victoria

• A Size Sensitive Discrepancy Bound for Set Systems of Bounded Primal Shatter Dimension

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 12, 2013, 6PM
  Ester Ezra, CIMS

• The Chow ring of the moduli space of genus 6 curves

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 12, 2013, 3:30PM
  Ravi Vakil, Stanford University

• Stochastic energetics and adiabatic elimination for non-Gaussian processes: Insight from Marcus stochastic calculus

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 12, 2013, 12:30PM
  Bin Min

Monday, November 11, 2013

• Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 11, 2013, 3:45PM
  Ravi Vakil, Stanford University

Friday, November 8, 2013

• Nonequilibrium Steady-States for Particle Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 08, 2013, 4PM
  Yao Li, CIMS

• Coarse-grained molecular dynamics for multiscale material modeling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2013, 2:30PM
  Xiantao Li, PSU

• Some examples of boundary layers in fluid mechanics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2013, 1PM
  Anne-Laure Dalibard, CIMS

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2013, 11:30AM
  Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• The order-chaos phase transition for a general class of complex Boolean networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 08, 2013, 11AM
  Shirshendu Chatterjee, CIMS

• Intersection local times, loop soups and permanental Wick powers.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 08, 2013, 10AM
  Michael Marcus, The City University of New York

• Nonsymmetric Preconditioning for Symmetric Linear Equations and Eigenvalue Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2013, 10AM
  Andrew Knyazev, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Thursday, November 7, 2013

• On the Fundamental Group Scheme

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 07, 2013, 5:30PM
  Marco Garuti, Università degli studi di Padova

• Transport phenomena in flows of granular materials

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 07, 2013, 12:30PM
  Ivan C. Christov, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Ill-posedness / Well-posedness Results for a Class of Active Scalar Equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2013, 11AM
  Susan Friedlander

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

• Stochastic Superparameterization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2013, 3:30PM
  Ian Grooms, NYU/Courant

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

• An Approximation Algorithm for Multi-Guarding Galleries

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 05, 2013, 6PM
  David Kirkpatrick, University of British Columbia

• Organization of fluid flow in the vein networks of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 05, 2013, 12:30PM
  Karen Alim, Harvard University

Monday, November 4, 2013

• Random walks on groups and the Kaimanovich-Vershik 1983 conjecture for lamplighter groups" Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 04, 2013, 3:45PM
  Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
  ** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor)

Friday, November 1, 2013

• Breaking of Ergodicity in Expanding Systems of Globally Coupled Piecewise Affine Circle Maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 01, 2013, 4PM
  Bastien Fernandez, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille

• The Spectra of Vibrational Modes of Random Elastic Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2013, 2:30PM
  Marija Vucelja, Rockefeller University

• The Contact Process

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2013, 1PM
  Shirshendu Chatterjee, CIMS

• Beyond Two: Discovering Complex Relationships in Real-world Problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2013, 11:30AM
  Susan Epstein, Hunter College
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Competing Brownian Particle Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 01, 2013, 11AM
  Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia University

• Competing Brownian Particle Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 01, 2013, 11AM
  Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia University

• Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Nov. 01, 2013, 11AM
  Song Sun, Stonybrook

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