Past Events

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Past Math Events

Monday, December 7, 2020

• Democracy and the Pursuit of Randomness

  Online, zoom
  Dec. 07, 2020, 5:30PM
  Ariel Procaccia, Harvard University

Friday, December 4, 2020

• Topological floppy modes in aperiodic networks and a mechanical duality theorem

  Online, zoom
  Dec. 04, 2020, 2:30PM
  Xiaoming Mao, University of Michigan

• Optimal Sensor Placement and Quantification of Model Uncertainty via Model Order Reduction

  Online, zoom
  Dec. 04, 2020, 10AM
  Karen Veroy-Grepl, Eindhoven University of Technology

Thursday, December 3, 2020

• Shape dynamics of ice melting in cold water

  Online, zoom
  Dec. 03, 2020, 12:30PM
  Scott Weady

• Dynamics of Henon maps with zero entropy

  Online, zoom
  Dec. 03, 2020, 10AM
  Enrique Pujals, Graduate Center CUNY

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

• Hydraulic jump-like dynamics above supercell thunderstorms

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Dec. 02, 2020, 3:30PM
  Morgan E O'Neill, Stanford University

Monday, November 30, 2020

• Random matrices quantum chaos and analytic number theory

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 30, 2020, 3:45PM
  Paul Bourgade, NYU

Friday, November 20, 2020

• Unsteady fluid fragmentation

  Online, Zoom
  Nov. 20, 2020, 2:30PM
  Lydia Bourouiba, The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, MIT

• Bifurcations in Vlasov and Kuramoto models

  Online, ZOOM
  Nov. 20, 2020, 11AM
  David Metivier, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, France

• TBA

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 20, 2020, 10AM
  George Biros, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, November 19, 2020

• TBA

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 19, 2020, 12:30PM
  Frederick Law, Terrence Alsup, CIMS

• A New View on Integrability: On Matching Dynamical Systems through Koopman Operator Eigenfunctions

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 19, 2020, 10AM
  Erik Bollt , Clarkson University

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

• The disruption of the quasibiennial oscillation

  Online, via Zoom
  Nov. 18, 2020, 3:30PM
  Peter Hitchcock, Cornell

• TBA

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 18, 2020, 10AM
  Luke Peilen, CIMS

Monday, November 16, 2020

• Design of Monte Carlo when dealing with metastable processes: rates of convergence and optimization for parallel methods

  Online, ZOOM
  Nov. 16, 2020, 3:45PM
  Paul Dupuis, Brown University

Friday, November 13, 2020

• Efficient sampling and optimization on manifolds for the modeling of macromolecular interactions

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 13, 2020, 2:30PM
  Dima Kozakov, SUNY Stony Brook

• Multiphase flow modeling: Control and optimization of wave energy converter devices

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 13, 2020, 10AM
  Amneet Bhalla,, San Diego State University

Thursday, November 12, 2020

• AUTOMORPHIC FORMS ON GSp(4)

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 12, 2020, 4PM
  Ramin Takloo-Bighash, University of Illinois at Chicago

• TBA

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 12, 2020, 12:30PM
  Laurel Ohm

• Regularity of the free boundary for the two-phase Bernoulli problem

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 12, 2020, 11AM
  Matthew Rosenzweig, MIT

• Improved bounds on the rate of mixing for the map of two falling balls

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 12, 2020, 10AM
  Peter Balint, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

• Sea ice: the next generation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA,
  Nov. 11, 2020, 3:30PM
  Chris Horvat, Brown

• Backward Feature Correction: How can deep learning perform deep learning?

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 11, 2020, 11:15AM
  Yuanzhi Li , CMU

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

• Static Replication of European Standard Dispersion Options as a Radon Transform Inverse Problem

  Online, ZOOM
  Nov. 10, 2020, 5:30PM
  Sébastien Bossu, NYU Courant & Ogee Group LLC
  Registration: This event is free, but requires registration. Please use this link to register: \nhttps://forms.gle/7u3YVdgVLk2J7ovX9

Monday, November 9, 2020

• culptures formed by fluidic erosion, dissolving and melting

  Online, ZOOM
  Nov. 09, 2020, 3:30PM
  Leif Ristroph , CIMS

Friday, November 6, 2020

• Topological statistics and defects in biological matter

  Online, ZOOM
  Nov. 06, 2020, 2:30PM
  Jorn Dunkel, MIT

• Algorithms for Generating Initial Guesses for Sequences of Linear Systems in a GPU-Accelerated Incompressible Flow Solver

  Online, zoom
  Nov. 06, 2020, 10AM
  Tim Warburton,, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Thursday, November 5, 2020

• The nanoscale caterpillar: or how to achieve precise motion with random sticky feet

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 05, 2020, 12:30PM
  Sophie Marbach, CIMS

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

• Data-driven parameterization and super-parameterization of subgrid-scale processes using deep learning

  Online, via Zoom
  Nov. 04, 2020, 3:30PM
  Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University

Friday, October 30, 2020

• The (Un)known (Un)knowns of COVID-19 Transmission - A Fluid Dynamicist's Perspective

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 30, 2020, 2:30PM
  Rajat Mittal, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, October 29, 2020

• Geometrical and topological strategies for pumping

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 29, 2020, 12:30PM
  Leif Ristroph , CIMS

Monday, October 26, 2020

• Votes of Confidence: Leveraging Mathematics to Ensure Election Integrity

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 26, 2020, 5:30PM
  Audrey Malagon, Virginia Wesleyan University

Friday, October 23, 2020

• The Physics of Stinging

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 23, 2020, 2:30PM
  Kaare Jensen, Danish Technical University

Thursday, October 22, 2020

• Topological entropy and a unique measure of maximal entropy for finite horizon Sinai billiards

  Online, Zoom
  Oct. 22, 2020, 5PM
  Mark Demers , Fairfield University

• Numerical methods for doubly-periodic electrostatics and Stokes flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 22, 2020, 12:30PM
  Ondrej Maxian, ZeCheng Gan, Partner: Aleksandar Donev, CIMS

• Local smoothing estimate for the cone in $R^3$

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 22, 2020, 11AM
  Hong Wang, IAS Princeton

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• Hybrid modeling: best of both worlds ?

  Online, via Zoom
  Oct. 21, 2020, 3:30PM
  Pierre Gentine, Columbia

• Hierarchical community detection by recursive partitioning

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 21, 2020, 11:15AM
  Elizaveta (Liza) Levina, University of Michigan

Friday, October 16, 2020

• Some Results on Force-Directed Drawings of Graphs

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 16, 2020, 10AM
  John Urschel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, October 15, 2020

• On two mathematical approaches related to neuroscience topics

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 15, 2020, 5PM
  Benjamin Ambrosio , Université du Havre

• Strongly interacting multi-solitons and asymptotically static nonlinear waves

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 15, 2020, 11AM
  Andrew Lawrie, MIT

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

• On estimating the mean of a random vector

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 14, 2020, 11:15AM
  Gabor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)

Friday, October 9, 2020

• Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 09, 2020, 2:30PM
  Lenka Zdeborova, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA/Saclay
  THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Monday, October 5, 2020

• TBA

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 05, 2020, 5:30PM
  Momin Malik, MoveOn / Harvard University

Friday, October 2, 2020

• TBA

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 02, 2020, 10AM
  Daniel Kressner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

Thursday, October 1, 2020

• On the mixing local limit theorem and applications.

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 01, 2020, 5PM
  Peter Nandori

• Regularity estimates for the Boltzmann equation without cutoff

  Online, ZOOM
  Oct. 01, 2020, 11AM
  Luis Silvestre, The University of Chicago

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

• A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Southern Ocean Residual Circulation

  Online, via Zoom
  Sept. 30, 2020, 3:30PM
  Madeleine Youngs, NYU

Friday, September 25, 2020

• Efficient Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment using Clustering and Multi-resolution Modeling

  Online, ZOOM
  Sept. 25, 2020, 10AM
  Randall J LeVeque, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

• Modeling and parameterizing submesoscale turbulence in dense Arctic flows

  Online, via Zoom
  Sept. 23, 2020, 3:30PM
  Elizabeth Yankovsky, NYU

Friday, September 18, 2020

• Collective Behaviour in Fish, Flow Sensing, and PPE Design

  Online, Zoom
  Sept. 18, 2020, 2:30PM
  Siddhartha Verma, Florida Atlantic University

• Multigrid Methods for Computing Low-Rank Solutions to Parameter-Dependent Partial Differential Equations

  Online, ZOOM
  Sept. 18, 2020, 10AM
  Howard Elman, University of Maryland

Thursday, September 17, 2020

• A cavalcade of short research talks from Professors

  Online, ZOOM
  Sept. 17, 2020, 12:30PM
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Aleks Donev, Alex Mogilner, Charlie Peskin, Marsha Berger, and Georg Stadler, CIMS

Friday, September 11, 2020

• A coarse-grained model of microtubule hydrodynamics (and streaming flows in the fruit fly oocyte)

  Online, ZOOM
  Sept. 11, 2020, 2:30PM
  David Stein , Flatiron Institute

Thursday, September 10, 2020

• Organizational Meeting

  Online, Zoom
  Sept. 10, 2020, 12:30PM

Thursday, June 25, 2020

• Bio Dynamics Days 2020

  Online,
  June 25, 2020, 10AM
  LMAH, FR CNRS 3335, Le Havre Normandie University, France Courant Institute, NYU, New York, USA,
  The workshop will be held remotely during the month of June.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

• The generalization error of overparametrized models: Insights from exact asymptotics

  Online, ZOOM
  June 24, 2020, 10AM
  Andrea Montanari, Stanford

Thursday, June 18, 2020

• Bio Dynamics Days 2020

  Online,
  June 18, 2020, 10AM
  LMAH, FR CNRS 3335, Le Havre Normandie University, France Courant Institute, NYU, New York, USA,
  The workshop will be held remotely during the month of June.

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

• Design for Inference and the Power of Random Experiments in Biology

  Online, ZOOM
  June 17, 2020, 2PM
  Aviv Regev, Broad Institute, MIT/Harvard

Thursday, June 11, 2020

• Bio Dynamics Days 2020

  Online,
  June 11, 2020, 10AM
  LMAH, FR CNRS 3335, Le Havre Normandie University, France Courant Institute, NYU, New York, USA,
  The workshop will be held remotely during the month of June.

Thursday, June 4, 2020

• Bio Dynamics Days 2020

  Online,
  June 04, 2020, 10AM
  LMAH, FR CNRS 3335, Le Havre Normandie University, France Courant Institute, NYU, New York, USA
  The workshop will be held remotely during the month of June.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

• Diffusion methods help understand and denoise data sets; when there is additional structure (as is often the case), one can use (and get additional benefit from) a fiber bundle model

  Online, ZOOM
  June 03, 2020, 2PM
  Ingrid Daubechies, Duke

Friday, May 29, 2020

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs Conference

  Online, NYU Abu Dhabi
  May 29, 2020, 2PM
  Various
  Please note times are in Gulf Standard Time

Thursday, May 28, 2020

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs Conference

  Online, NYU Abu Dhabi
  May 28, 2020, 2PM
  Various
  Please note times are in Gulf Standard Time

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs Conference

  Online, NYU Abu Dhabi
  May 27, 2020, 2PM
  Various
  Please note times are in Gulf Standard Time

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs Conference

  Online, NYU Abu Dhabi
  May 26, 2020, 3PM
  Various
  Please note times are in Gulf Standard Time

Monday, May 25, 2020

• Long Time Behavior and Singularity Formation in PDEs Conference

  Online, NYU Abu Dhabi
  May 25, 2020, 4:30PM
  Various
  Please note times are in Gulf Standard Time \n

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

• On the effectiveness of Richardson Extrapolation in Machine Learning

  Online, ZOOM
  May 20, 2020, 10AM
  Francis Bach , Inria/ ENS
  Time: 10am ET / 4pm GMT+2

Thursday, May 14, 2020

• Ageostrophic dynamics in the ocean interior

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 14, 2020, 11:15AM
  Lia Siegelman, Scripps

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 06, 2020, 3:30PM
  Morgan E. O'Neill, Stanford

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

• In vitro and in vivo models of cardiac dynamics

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  May 05, 2020, 12:30PM
  Boyce Griffith, Department of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Monday, May 4, 2020

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  May 04, 2020, 3:45PM
  Laure Zanna, CIMS

Thursday, April 30, 2020

• TBA

  Online, ZOOM
  April 30, 2020, 1PM
  Brennan Sprinkle, CIMS

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

• TBD

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 29, 2020, 3:30PM
  Jadwiga Richter, NCAR

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

• On the Value of Portfolio Construction

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 28, 2020, 5:30PM
  Jason MacQueen
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Monday, April 27, 2020

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 27, 2020, 3:45PM
  Jan Hesthaven, EPFL

Thursday, April 23, 2020

• A sharp interface version of the immersed boundary finite element method

  Online, Zoom
  April 23, 2020, 1PM
  Charles Puelz, CIMS

• On unique ergodicity and mixing for the damped-driven stochastic KdV equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 23, 2020, 11AM
  Vincent Martinez, Hunter College - CUNY

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

• The disruption of the quasibiennial oscillation in 2016

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 22, 2020, 3:30PM
  Peter Hitchcock, Cornell

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

• The Joint S&P 500/VIX Smile Calibration Puzzle Solved

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 21, 2020, 5:30PM
  Julien Guyon, Bloomberg L.P.
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

• Oscillatory timeseries data sheds light on molecular mechanisms of circadian timekeeping

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 21, 2020, 12:30PM
  Jaekyoung Kim, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Thursday, April 16, 2020

• TBD

  Online, ZOOM
  April 16, 2020, 1PM
  Robert Webber, CIMS

• An evolution equation modeling roots of polynomials under differentiation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 16, 2020, 11AM
  Stefan STEINERBERGER, Yale

Monday, April 13, 2020

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 13, 2020, 3:45PM
  Paul Dupuis, Brown University

Thursday, April 9, 2020

• 1PM, Warren Weaver Hall remote; zoom link sent via email The Universal Route to Rogue Waves via Instanton Theory

  Online, ZOOM
  April 09, 2020, 1PM
  Tobias Grafke , Warwick

• Geometric flows and topology

  Online, ZOOM
  April 09, 2020, 11AM
  Bruce Kleiner, CIMS
  Zoom waiting room opens at 10:45am

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

• TBA

  Online, ZOOM
  April 08, 2020, 2PM
  Wenting Zheng, University of California, Berkeley

• Statistical and Computational aspects of Wasserstein Barycenters

  Online, ZOOM
  April 08, 2020, 10AM
  Philippe Rigollet , MIT
  For further information: https://math.ethz.ch/s/math-and-data

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

• From molecular interactions to whole muscle strength: the challenges of modeling muscle across scales

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  April 07, 2020, 12:30PM
  Katelyn Jarvis, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

• Hybrid modeling: best of both worlds?

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  April 01, 2020, 3:30PM
  Pierre Gentine, Columbia

• TBA

  Online, ZOOM
  April 01, 2020, 2PM
  Klaus v. Gleissenthall, University of California, San Diego

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

• Modeling Interest Rate and FX Derivatives with Division Algebras

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 31, 2020, 5:30PM
  Gregory Pelts, https://math.nyu.edu/dynamic/calendars/seminars/mathematical-finance-seminar/
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

• A hybrid cell-based model to understand the blood vessel growth

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  March 31, 2020, 12:30PM
  Rocio Vega Martinez, Department of Mathematics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

• Ideal Plasma Response to Applied External Boundary Deformations in a Heliotron

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  March 31, 2020, 11AM
  Tony Cooper, Swiss Alps Fusion Energy
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Monday, March 30, 2020

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 30, 2020, 3:45PM
  Christof Schutte, Free Univ. of Berlin
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 30, 2020, 2PM
  Paul Allen Grubbs, Cornell University
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Friday, March 27, 2020

• TBA

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 27, 2020, 11AM
  Zhiting Hu, Carnegie Mellon University
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Thursday, March 26, 2020

• Regularity of the free boundary for the two-phase Bernoulli problem

  Online, https://nyu.zoom.us/j/302100627
  March 26, 2020, 10:30AM
  Guido DE PHILIPPIS, CIMS
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED to ZOOM: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/302100627

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

• Bridging CS and Math through the lens of Structure and Randomness

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  March 25, 2020, 2PM
  Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

• Machine Learning for Quantitative Investment and Wealth Management: Opportunities and Challenges

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  March 24, 2020, 5:30PM
  Cristian Homescu, Director, Chief Investment Office, Investment Solutions Group at Bank of America
  PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

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