Past Events

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Past Math Events

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

• Modeling and Scalability Analysis for Pancake Charging Solenoids Using Both Direct and Iterative Solvers

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Dec. 10, 2019, 11AM
  Jaman Mohebujjaman, MIT PSFC

Monday, December 9, 2019

• Mechanisms for chaos

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 09, 2019, 3:45PM
  Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago

Friday, December 6, 2019

• Optimizing self-assembly pathways using insights from coarse-grained models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2019, 2:30PM
  William M. Jacobs, Princeton University Department of Chemistry

• Fine structure of measures satisfying a PDE constraint

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2019, 1PM
  Guido De Philippis, CIMS

• Phase transitions in generalized linear models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2019, 11:10AM
  Léo Miolane, NYU Courant and Center for Data Science

• Contour Integral Methods for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems: A System Theoretic Approach

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 06, 2019, 10AM
  Mark Embree, Va Tech

• Various

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  Dec. 06, 2019, 9:30AM
  IBM/NYU/Columbia

Thursday, December 5, 2019

• NEWTON POLYGON STRATIFICATION OF THE TORELLI LOCUS IN PEL-TYPE SHIMURA VARIETIES

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Dec. 05, 2019, 5:30PM
  Wanlin Li, MIT

• Recent progress of various Volume Conjectures for links as well as 3-manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 202
  Dec. 05, 2019, 4PM
  Qingtao Chen, NYU-Abu Dhabi

• Analyses of gradient methods for the optimization of wide two layer neural networks

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Dec. 05, 2019, 2PM
  Lenaic Chizat , Orsay-Paris Sud

• Correct rounding of transcendental functions: an approach via Euclidean lattices and approximation theory

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 101
  Dec. 05, 2019, 2PM
  Nicolas Brisebarre, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

• Models and methods for mathematical physiology

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Dec. 05, 2019, 12:30PM
  Charles Puelz, CIMS

• Recent Progress on Singularity Formation of 3D Euler Equations and Related Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Dec. 05, 2019, 11AM
  Tom Hou, Caltech

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency: Lessons from predictive models in criminal justice

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor
  Dec. 04, 2019, 5:30PM
  Kristian Lum, Lead Statistician at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

• QSP modeling efforts to advance global health: application to TB drugs and vaccines

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Dec. 03, 2019, 12:30PM
  Karim Azer, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

• Finite Larmor Radius effects at the H-mode pedestal and their implication of the force free MHD equilibrium

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Dec. 03, 2019, 11AM
  Wei-li Lee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

• Inferring causation from time series with perspectives in Earth system sciences

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 27, 2019, 3:30PM
  Jakob Runge

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

• Sylvester-Gallai theory in complex space.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 26, 2019, 6PM
  Alex Cohen , Yale

• Anomaly Detection for Financial Time Series

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 26, 2019, 5:30PM
  Michael Rabadi, quantPORT

• Robust control of hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations: theory and applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 26, 2019, 2PM
  Florent Di Meglio, MINES ParisTech

Friday, November 22, 2019

• On the mixing local limit theorem and applications.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 22, 2019, 4PM
  Peter Nandori

• Control of membrane-bound tethered signaling reactions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2019, 2:30PM
  Samuel Isaacson, Boston University Department of Mathematics and Statistics

• Nonlinear wave-vortex interactions in shallow, deep, and quantum fluids

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2019, 1PM
  Oliver Bühler, CIMS/CAOS

• Random-then-Greedy Procedure: From Empirical Risk Minimization to Gradient Boosting Machine

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 22, 2019, 10AM
  Hai-hao (Sean) Li, Chicago

Thursday, November 21, 2019

• Practical Advances in Complex Roots Clustering

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 446
  Nov. 21, 2019, 2PM
  Rémi Imbach, New York University

• Introduction to Particle-Based Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Nov. 21, 2019, 12:30PM
  Sam Isaacson, Boston University

• Stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 21, 2019, 11AM
  Benoit Pausader, Brown

• Recent progress in nonlinear inviscid damping for two dimensional incompressible Euler equation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 21, 2019, 9:45AM
  Hao Jia, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

• Natural Language Processing and its Applications in Finance

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 527
  Nov. 20, 2019, 3:30PM
  Peter Hafez, Chief Data Scientist, RavenPack

• Machine learning for parameterization of moist processes in the atmosphere

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 20, 2019, 3:30PM
  Janni Yuval, MIT

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

• Quantum Calculations on Potassium Ion Channels

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 19, 2019, 12:30PM
  Michael E. Green, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York

• An adjoint approach for the shape gradients of three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic equilibria

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 19, 2019, 11AM
  Elizabeth Paul, University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, November 15, 2019

• From singularity phenomena in thin films to chemically driven > active matter

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2019, 2:30PM
  Fan Yang, Princeton University MAE Department

• Decompositions of log-correlated fields with applications

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2019, 12PM
  Eero Saksman, University of Helsinki

• Strong asymptotic freeness for random tensors of unitaries.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 15, 2019, 11:10AM
  Benoît Collins, Kyoto University

• Noncollapsed degeneration of Einstein 4-manifolds

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 15, 2019, 11AM
  Tristan Ozuch-Meersseman, Ecole Normale Superieure

• Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance Data Analytics

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 15, 2019, 11AM
  David Bader, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  *** \nRefreshments will be served at 10:45am

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 15, 2019, 10AM

Thursday, November 14, 2019

• p-ADIC FAMILIES OF MODULAR FORMS AND SINGULAR MODULI FOR REAL QUADRATIC FIELDS

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 14, 2019, 5:30PM
  Jan Vonk, Princeton University

• Differentiable Ranks and Quantiles using Optimal Transport (video)

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 14, 2019, 2PM
  Marco Cuturi , Google Brain

• Proof-of-work Certificates for High Complexity Computations for Linear Algebra

  Online, CUNY Graduate Center, room 3309
  Nov. 14, 2019, 2PM
  Erich Kaltofen, North Carolina State University

• Optimal experimental design under model uncertainty with application to subsurface flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Nov. 14, 2019, 12:30PM
  Karina Koval, partner Sophie Marbach

• Statistical Inference with Adaptively Collected Data

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 650
  Nov. 14, 2019, 12:30PM
  Yash Deshpande , MIT

• Large Deviations Principles for Coulomb Gases

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 14, 2019, 12:15PM
  Luke Peilen, CIMS

• On no-return theorems in nonlinear dispersive PDEs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 14, 2019, 11AM
  Wilhelm SCHLAG, Yale

• Direct epiperimetric inequalities for the classical and thin obstacle problem

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 14, 2019, 9:45AM
  Maria Colombo, IAS

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

• Model Risk Management for Alpha Strategies create with Deep Learning

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 12, 2019, 5:30PM
  Ben Steiner, Global Fixed Income, BNP Paribas Asset Management

• Rational maps of K3 and abelian surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 12, 2019, 3:30PM
  Ilya Karzhemanov , Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

• The Eulerian space-time correlation of Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and the interpretation of Parker Solar Probe measurements

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 905
  Nov. 12, 2019, 11AM
  Jean Perez, Florida Tech

Monday, November 11, 2019

• Quantitative estimates of propagation of chaos for large deterministic or stochastic systems of interacting particles.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 11, 2019, 3:45PM
  P. E. Jabin, University of Maryland

Friday, November 8, 2019

• Tuning the random walk of active colloids: from individual run-and-tumble to dynamic clustering

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2019, 2:30PM
  Hamid Karani, Northwestern

• Reynolds-robust preconditioning for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 08, 2019, 10AM
  Florian Wechsung, Courant Institute

• Various

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 512
  Nov. 08, 2019, 9:30AM
  Christopher Hofman, Gaultier Lambert and Jonathan Niles-Weed , University of Washington, University of Zurich, and NYU

Thursday, November 7, 2019

• Coupling the Yoccoz–Birkeland population model with price dynamics: chaotic livestock commodities market cycles.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Nov. 07, 2019, 3:45PM
  Stefano Marmi , Scuola Normale Superiore

• Fewnomial Hypersurfaces have Polynomially Many Connected Components

  Location TBA
  Nov. 07, 2019, 2PM
  Maurice Rojas, National Science Foundation and Texas A&M University

• The Blessings of Multiple Causes

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Nov. 07, 2019, 2PM
  David Blei , Columbia

• A filamentary cascade model of the inertial range of turbulence

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 07, 2019, 12:30PM
  Steve Childress, Courant

• Statics and dynamics of real-space condensation in the zero range process and related models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Nov. 07, 2019, 12:15PM
  Ori Hirschberg, CIMS

• Integrable nonlocal nonlinear equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 07, 2019, 11AM
  Ziad MUSSLIMANI, Florida State University

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

• Controls on the efficiency of ocean warming

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 06, 2019, 3:30PM
  Emily Newsom, University of Oxford

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

• Discrete Fourier analysis and incidence geometry.

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 05, 2019, 6PM
  Mark Lewko

• Recent Trends and Challenges in Treasure and Capital Markets From A Practitioner's Viewpoint

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 05, 2019, 5:30PM
  Tat Sang Fung, President and Senior Advisor, Finch Lead

• Around the uniform rationality

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Nov. 05, 2019, 3:30PM
  Ilya Karzhemanov , Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

• Elliptic integrands in geometric variational problems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Nov. 05, 2019, 11AM
  Antonio De Rosa, CIMS

Friday, November 1, 2019

• Mechanics and Dynamics of Cell Growth Control in Microbes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2019, 2:30PM
  Rico Rojas, NYU Biology

• Estimating the Wasserstein distance

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2019, 1PM
  Jonathan Niles-Weed, CIMS

• Spin glasses, statistical inference, and Hamilton-Jacobi equations

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2019, 11:10AM
  Jean-Christophe Mourrat, NYU Courant Institute

• Limited-Memory BFGS with Displacement Aggregation

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Nov. 01, 2019, 10AM
  Albert Berahas, Lehigh

Thursday, October 31, 2019

• Insights into loss of ergodicity by symmetry breaking in expanding systems of coupled maps

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 31, 2019, 3:45PM
  Bastien Fernandez

• Learning Selection Strategies in Buchberger's Algorithm

  Location TBA
  Oct. 31, 2019, 2PM
  Dylan Peifer, Cornell University

• Numerical methods for inextensible slender bodies in Stokes flow, and their Brownian motion

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Oct. 31, 2019, 12:30PM
  Ondrej Maxian & Aleks Donev

• Nonclassical area minimizing oriented surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 31, 2019, 11AM
  Camillo DE LELLIS, IAS

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

• Is Statistics Good for Democracy?

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 7th floor
  Oct. 30, 2019, 5:30PM
  Andrew Gelman, Columbia University

• On the interaction between submesoscales and turbulence: from theory to implementation in global climate models

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 30, 2019, 3:30PM
  Abigail Bodner, Brown University

• Lower bounds on scalar curvature and regularization via Ricci flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 517
  Oct. 30, 2019, 11AM
  Paula Burkhardt-Guim, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

• Valuations on convex functions

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 29, 2019, 6PM
  Monika Ludwig, TU Wien

• Relearning the Lessons of the Global Financial Crisis

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 29, 2019, 5:30PM
  David M. Rowe, President of David M. Rowe Risk Advisory

• Linking Microbial Metabolism to Microbial Community Environment

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 29, 2019, 12:30PM
  Isaac Klapper, Department of Mathematics, Temple University

• Geodesics on singular spaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 29, 2019, 11AM
  Daniel Grieser, University of Oldenburg

Monday, October 28, 2019

• Random growth and integrable systems

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 28, 2019, 3:45PM
  Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto

Friday, October 25, 2019

• Diffusion exit problems near unstable equilibria

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 705
  Oct. 25, 2019, 4PM
  Yuri Bakhtin, CIMS

• Generalization error of linearized neural networks: staircase and double-descent

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 25, 2019, 3:30PM
  Song Mei , Stanford

• Stationary varifolds near multiplicity 2 planes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 25, 2019, 1:30PM
  Neshan Wickramasekera, Cambridge

• Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2019, 11:10AM
  Amir Dembo, Stanford University

• Directional H2-matrices for Helmholtz problems with complex frequencies

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 25, 2019, 10AM
  Maria Lopez Fernandez, Sapienza University, Rome

Thursday, October 24, 2019

• Proofs by example

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
  Oct. 24, 2019, 5:30PM
  Benjamin Matschke, Boston University

• Estimating location parameters in entangled single-sample distributions

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150
  Oct. 24, 2019, 2PM
  Po-Ling Loh, UW Madison

• Certifying solutions to a square analytic system

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 446
  Oct. 24, 2019, 2PM
  Kisun Lee, Georgia Tech

• Economic Growth and Price Equilibrium

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room TBA
  Oct. 24, 2019, 12:30PM
  Charles Peskin , CIMS

• Rare exit events near a repelling equilibrium

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201
  Oct. 24, 2019, 12:15PM
  Hong-Bin Chen, CIMS

• Eventual regularization for fractional mean curvature flow

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 24, 2019, 11AM
  Stephen Cameron, CIMS

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

• Learning Hidden Markov Models by Penalizing Jumps

  60 Fifth Avenue, Room 527
  Oct. 23, 2019, 3:30PM
  Peter Nystrup, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University & Visiting Researcher at NYU Courant

• Stirring, Mixing, Growing: the relevance of scale awareness for plankton modeling

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 23, 2019, 3:30PM
  Francesco Paparella, NYUAD

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

• Disproportionate Division

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 22, 2019, 6PM
  Bhargav Narayanan, Rutgers

• Increasing After-tax Returns in Wealth Management - Tax Optimization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 22, 2019, 5:30PM
  Eric Bronnenkant, Head of Tax, Betterment

• Training a stochastic controller for automatic insulin dosing via machine learning optimization methods

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 22, 2019, 12:30PM
  Jonathan Goodman, CIMS

• Generic Multiplicity One Singularities of Mean Curvature Flow of Surfaces

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314
  Oct. 22, 2019, 11AM
  Ao Sun, MIT

• TBA

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 22, 2019, 11AM
  Hamid Karani , Northwestern

• Stationary varifolds near multiplicity 2 planes

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 22, 2019, 11AM
  Neshan Wickramasekera, Cambridge

Monday, October 21, 2019

• Thermodynamic sampling algorithms with applications to molecular dynamics and neural network parameterization

  Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302
  Oct. 21, 2019, 3:45PM
  Ben Leimkuhler,, Edinburgh

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