Past Events

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Past Math Events

Thursday, October 31, 2013

• Two Tales of a Microbial City

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 31, 2013, 12:30PM
  Isaac Klapper, Temple University

• Blow-up behavior for subconformal semilinear wave equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2013, 11AM
  Hatem Zaag

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

• Geometric Partitioning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 29, 2013, 6PM
  Bill Steiger, Rutgers University

• Derived Reid's recipe for abelian subgroups of SL3(C)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 29, 2013, 3:30PM
  Timothy Logvinenko, Cardiff University

• Multi-region, relaxed MHD and the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 29, 2013, 1:30PM
  Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

• Phase response properties of half-center oscillators (joint work with Tim Lewis)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 29, 2013, 12:30PM
  Calvin Zhang, CIMS

Monday, October 28, 2013

• Tales of Our Forefathers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 28, 2013, 3:45PM
  Barry Simon, Math Dept., Caltech

Friday, October 25, 2013

• Dispersing Billiards with Holes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 25, 2013, 4PM
  Mark Demers, Fairfield University

• An asymptotic parallel-in-time method for highly oscillatory PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2013, 2:30PM
  Terry Haut, Los Alamos National Lab

• How Cryptosystems Are REALLY Broken

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2013, 11:30AM
  Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute
  **Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Random matrix with locally-varying potential

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 25, 2013, 11AM
  Jinho Baik, University of Michigan

• The renormalized volume of of asymptotically hyperbolic metrics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 25, 2013, 11AM
  Otis Chodosh, Stanford

• Nonsmooth Slope, Alternating Projections, and Trajectories of Deepest Descent

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2013, 10AM
  Adrian Lewis, School of ORIE, Cornell University

• Undergraduate Research Presentations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Oct. 25, 2013, 10AM

Thursday, October 24, 2013

• Well-posedness of the Stokes-Coriolis system in the half-space over a rough surface

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2013, 11AM
  Anne-Laure Dalibard

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 23, 2013, 3:30PM
  Xylar Asay-Davis, NYU/LANL

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

• On Kinetic Delaunay Triangulations; A Near Quadratic Bound for Unit Speed Motions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 22, 2013, 6PM
  Natan Rubin, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu/FU Berlin

• Stellarator Research at Columbia University

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 22, 2013, 1:30PM
  Francesco Volpe, APAM Columbia University

• The Optimal Fibre Orientation in an Iliac Bifurcation Model

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 22, 2013, 12:30PM
  Xiaoyu Luo, University of Glasgow

Monday, October 21, 2013

• Survey on the Farrell-Jones Conjecture

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 21, 2013, 3:45PM
  Wolfgang Luck, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics

Friday, October 18, 2013

• Perturbations of geodesic flows by recurrent dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 18, 2013, 4PM
  Marian Gidea, Yeshiva University

• The Truth about diffusion (in liquids)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2013, 2:30PM
  Aleksandar Donev, CIMS

• Spectrum Policy Activism and the Birth of Wi-Fi and Other Innovative Wireless Technologies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2013, 11:30AM
  Michael Marcus
  Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM

• Some open problems on measure concentration in abstract ergodic theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 18, 2013, 11AM
  Tim Ausin, CIMS

• Support Maximization with Linear Programming in the Cone of Nonnegative Measures

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 18, 2013, 10AM
  Didier Henrion, LAAS-CNRS University of Toulouse and Czech Technical University in Prague
  ****PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED****

Thursday, October 17, 2013

• Causal and Structural Connectivity of Neuronal Networks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 17, 2013, 12:30PM
  Douglas Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• Stability and existence of traveling wave solutions to the timelike extremal surface in Minkowski space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 17, 2013, 11AM
  Jianli Liu, CIMS

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 16, 2013, 3:30PM
  Georgiy Stenchikov, KAUST

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

• Fractional covering numbers with an application to the Levi-Hadwiger problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 15, 2013, 6PM
  Boaz Slomka, Tel Aviv University

Friday, October 11, 2013

• Statistical properties of Lorentz processes in a tube

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 11, 2013, 4PM
  Peter Nandori, CIMS

• The spectra of non-Hermitian random matrices

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 11, 2013, 1PM
  Ofer Zeitouni, CIMS Visitor

• Delocalization of eigenvectors of random matrices with independent entries.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 11, 2013, 11AM
  Mark Rudelson, Universtiy of Michigan

• Thermally induced nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluids: gravity and finite-size effects

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 11, 2013, 11AM
  Jan Sengers, UMD
  ***Please note the change in time and location for this talk, it will be held in 1314 at 11am

• Phase Diagrams of Large Graphs.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Oct. 11, 2013, 10AM
  Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin

• A Staggered Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Stokes System and its Fast Solvers by Domain Decomposition Methods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 11, 2013, 10AM
  Hyea Hyun Kim, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Thursday, October 10, 2013

• On the motion of a small body immersed in a two dimensional incompressible perfect fluid

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 10, 2013, 11AM
  Christophe Lacave, Institut Mathematique de Jussieu

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

• The role of oceans in setting climate sensitivity and radiative feedbacks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Oct. 09, 2013, 3:30PM
  Brian Rose, SUNY

• Couplings and attractiveness for interacting particle systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 09, 2013, 11AM
  Ellen Saada, Universite Paris Descartes

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

• Feasible sequences of vectors

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 08, 2013, 6PM
  Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv and IAS, Princeton

• Groebner techniques for ideals of ribbons

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 08, 2013, 3:30PM
  David Swinarski, Fordham University

• 3D Equilibrium Reconstruction for Stellarators and Tokamaks

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Oct. 08, 2013, 1:30PM
  Samuel Lazerson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

• The unfolded protein response in mammalian cells under stress: a modeling approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 08, 2013, 12:30PM
  Rodica Curtu, University of Iowa

Friday, October 4, 2013

• The Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem in Hilbert Space

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 04, 2013, 4PM
  Alex Blumenthal, CIMS

• The Neural Mechanisms and Fluid Dynamics of Crustacean Swimming

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 04, 2013, 2:30PM
  Calvin Zhang, CIMS

• Modeling neuronal network dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 04, 2013, 1PM
  Aaditya Rangan, CIMS

• Hodge theory for group cohomology and applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 04, 2013, 11AM
  David Fisher, Indiana University and NYU

• Continuous Analogues of Matrix Factorizations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 04, 2013, 10AM
  Alex Townsend, University of Oxford

Thursday, October 3, 2013

• Splitting two monotone operators goes a long way

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 03, 2013, 11AM
  Patrick Louis Combettes, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Paris 6

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

• Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a new dry GCM setup

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 02, 2013, 3:30PM
  Martin Jucker, Princeton

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

• Geometric TSP with Neighborhoods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 01, 2013, 6PM
  Joe Mitchell, SUNY, Stony Brook

• Sparsity and Compressed Coding in Sensory Systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 01, 2013, 12:30PM
  Victor Barranca, CIMS and Abu Dhabi, NYU

Friday, September 27, 2013

• Large deviation of stochastic differential equations (part II)

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Sept. 27, 2013, 4PM
  Yao Li, CIMS

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 27, 2013, 3PM

• Mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Sept. 27, 2013, 11AM
  Robert Haslhofer, NYU

• Francis’s Algorithm

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 27, 2013, 10AM
  David Watkins, Washington State University

Thursday, September 26, 2013

• On invariant measures for 2d Euler and some other models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 26, 2013, 11AM
  Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

• Freshwater fluxes from Greenland as a new regular of climate regime changes in the Arctic-North Atlantic system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 25, 2013, 3:30PM
  Andrey Proshutinsky, Woods Hole

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

• Weyl Groups of Extended Affine Root Systems of Type $A_1$.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 24, 2013, 6PM
  Mohammad Nikouei, Stevens Institute of Technology

Friday, September 20, 2013

• Optimal design of a cavity for RCS reduction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 20, 2013, 2:30PM
  Jun Lai, CIMS

• A Model for the Collective Behavior of Interacting Socio-Economical Agents

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 20, 2013, 1PM
  Micaela Fedele, CIMS

• Hole probability for entire functions represented by Gaussian Taylor series

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 20, 2013, 11AM
  Alon Nishri, Princeton University

• Algorithms Based on Analytic Function Values at Roots of Unity

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 20, 2013, 10AM
  Nick Trefethen, Oxford University and CIMS

Thursday, September 19, 2013

• Rapid dynamics at the initial moments of liquid droplet impact

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 19, 2013, 12:30PM
  John M. Kolinski, Harvard University

• Out-of-equilibrium dynamics for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation: From energy cascades to weak turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 19, 2013, 11AM
  Zaher Hani, CIMS

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

• The tropopause and the thermocline: analogs or antonyms?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 18, 2013, 3:30PM
  Geoff Vallis, University of Exeter

Friday, September 13, 2013

• Calculating Beltrami fields from Maxwell fields: An integral equation method

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 13, 2013, 2:30PM
  Mike O'Neil, CIMS

• Performance of the Metropolis algorithm on a disordered tree: the Einstein relation.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 13, 2013, 11AM
  Ofer Zeituni, University of Minnesota

• On some properties of mean field spin glasses

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 13, 2013, 10AM
  Antonio Auffinger, University of Chicago

• A Nasty Cone with Nice Properties – New Issues in Copositive Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 13, 2013, 10AM
  Immanuel Bomze, University of Vienna

Thursday, September 12, 2013

• In search of the 'Ultimate' state of Rayleigh-Benard convection

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 12, 2013, 12:30PM
  Jared Whitehead, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Random weighted Sobolev inequalities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 12, 2013, 11AM
  Laurent Thoman, Universite de Nantes

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

• On the interpretation of inter-model spread in CMIP5 climate sensitivity estimates

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 11, 2013, 3:30PM
  Jessica Vial, Columbia

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

• Successive Minima Inequalities

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 10, 2013, 6PM
  Martin Henk, University of Magdeburg

Friday, September 6, 2013

• Stochastic stabilization of OEDs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Sept. 06, 2013, 2:30PM
  Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University

• Persistence Probabilities..

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 06, 2013, 11AM
  Amir Dembo, Stanford University

• The subelliptic heat kernel and small time asymptotics on sub Riemannian model spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Sept. 06, 2013, 10AM
  Jing Wang, Purdue

Thursday, September 5, 2013

• Diffusiophoresis of Colloids at Nano-scales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Sept. 05, 2013, 12:30PM
  Nima Sharifi Mood, The Benjamin Levich Institute, City University of New York

Sunday, April 28, 2013

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2013, 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).

Sunday, March 3, 2013

• Periodically driven noisy neuronal models: a spectral approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 03, 2013, 12:30PM
  Alla Borisyuk, University of Utah

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

• Overcoming Fear of Clowns

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1019
  Feb. 06, 2013, 1:45PM
  Daniel Tsadok, NYU
  TEST TEST TEST(line 2)

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

• Title: Seminar Series: Jan 29 to March 12

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Feb. 05, 2013, 2PM
  Charles Newman, CIMS

Sunday, February 3, 2013

• Counting curves in 3-folds and 5-folds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Feb. 03, 2013, 3:30PM
  Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University

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