Fall 2013
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Diffusiophoresis of Colloids at Nano-scales
Nima Sharifi Mood, The Benjamin Levich Institute, City University of New York
Friday, September 06, 2013
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The subelliptic heat kernel and small time asymptotics on sub Riemannian model spaces
Jing Wang, Purdue
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Persistence Probabilities..
Amir Dembo, Stanford University
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic stabilization of OEDs
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Successive Minima Inequalities
Martin Henk, University of Magdeburg
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the interpretation of inter-model spread in CMIP5 climate sensitivity estimates
Jessica Vial, Columbia
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Random weighted Sobolev inequalities
Laurent Thoman, Universite de Nantes
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: In search of the 'Ultimate' state of Rayleigh-Benard convection
Jared Whitehead, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Friday, September 13, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Nasty Cone with Nice Properties – New Issues in Copositive Optimization
Immanuel Bomze, University of Vienna
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: On some properties of mean field spin glasses
Antonio Auffinger, University of Chicago
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Performance of the Metropolis algorithm on a disordered tree: the Einstein relation.
Ofer Zeituni, University of Minnesota
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Calculating Beltrami fields from Maxwell fields: An integral equation method
Mike O'Neil, CIMS
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The tropopause and the thermocline: analogs or antonyms?
Geoff Vallis, University of Exeter
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Out-of-equilibrium dynamics for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation: From energy cascades to weak turbulence
Zaher Hani, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Rapid dynamics at the initial moments of liquid droplet impact
John M. Kolinski, Harvard University
Friday, September 20, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Algorithms Based on Analytic Function Values at Roots of Unity
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University and CIMS
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Hole probability for entire functions represented by Gaussian Taylor series
Alon Nishri, Princeton University
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Model for the Collective Behavior of Interacting Socio-Economical Agents
Micaela Fedele, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Optimal design of a cavity for RCS reduction
Jun Lai, CIMS
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Weyl Groups of Extended Affine Root Systems of Type $A_1$.
Mohammad Nikouei, Stevens Institute of Technology
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Freshwater fluxes from Greenland as a new regular of climate regime changes in the Arctic-North Atlantic system
Andrey Proshutinsky, Woods Hole
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On invariant measures for 2d Euler and some other models
Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Friday, September 27, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Francis’s Algorithm
David Watkins, Washington State University
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces
Robert Haslhofer, NYU
Courant Instructor Day
1:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Courant Instructor Day
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1:30-1:45 Calvin Zhang
The Neural Mechanisms and Fluid Dynamics of Crustacean Swimming
1:45-2:00 Peter Nandori
Statistical properties of the Lorentz process and some related models
2:00-2:15 Dmitry Zakharov
Tautological relations on moduli
BREAK
2:30-2:45 Bakytzhan Kallemov
A multiscale approach for polymer-laden fluids
2:45-3:00 Sivaram Ambikasaran
Fast algorithms for dense numerical linear algebra
3:00-3:15 Carlos Borges
A multifrequency method for the solution of the inverse acoustic
scattering problem for star-shaped objects
The Neural Mechanisms and Fluid Dynamics of Crustacean Swimming
1:45-2:00 Peter Nandori
Statistical properties of the Lorentz process and some related models
2:00-2:15 Dmitry Zakharov
Tautological relations on moduli
BREAK
2:30-2:45 Bakytzhan Kallemov
A multiscale approach for polymer-laden fluids
2:45-3:00 Sivaram Ambikasaran
Fast algorithms for dense numerical linear algebra
3:00-3:15 Carlos Borges
A multifrequency method for the solution of the inverse acoustic
scattering problem for star-shaped objects
New York City Teaching Seminar Joint NYU/Columbia/CUNY
3:00PM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
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Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Large deviation of stochastic differential equations (part II)
Yao Li, CIMS
Monday, September 30, 2013
Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture
5:30PM,
WWH
Title: Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture
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Center for Jewish History, which is just off the east edge of Union Square at 15
West 16th St.
Featuring performance by Momenta Quartet
Speakers:
Morton Lowengrub, Provost and Senior VP, Yeshiva University
Peter D. Lax, Prof Emeritus,
Courant Institute
Moritz Epple, Prof Hist of Science,
Univ of Frankfurt/Main
(RSVP 212.868.4444)
West 16th St.
Featuring performance by Momenta Quartet
Speakers:
Morton Lowengrub, Provost and Senior VP, Yeshiva University
Peter D. Lax, Prof Emeritus,
Courant Institute
Moritz Epple, Prof Hist of Science,
Univ of Frankfurt/Main
(RSVP 212.868.4444)
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Sparsity and Compressed Coding in Sensory Systems
Victor Barranca, CIMS and Abu Dhabi, NYU
Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture
1:30PM,
WWH Please see below for location
Title: Turmoil and Transition: Tracing Emigre Mathematicians in the Twentieth Century
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Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews, NYU
(corner of University Place & Washington Mews)
1:30 pm Welcome (S. Cappell/NY)
2:00 pm Panel I (Chair, M. Epple/Frankfurt)
David E. Rowe (Mainz):
Transforming Tradition -- Richard Courant in Goettingen and New York
Volker Remmert (Wuppertal):
Forms of Remigration -- Emigre Jewish Mathematicians and Germany in the Immediate Postwar Period
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Panel II (Chair, Marjorie Senechal/Northampton)
Istvan Hargittai (Budapest):
Von Neumann's Wisdom -- From Hungary to Germany and from Germany to the U.S.
Remarks & Reminiscences: Eyewitness accounts from family of Richard Courant & Kurt Friedrichs
(corner of University Place & Washington Mews)
1:30 pm Welcome (S. Cappell/NY)
2:00 pm Panel I (Chair, M. Epple/Frankfurt)
David E. Rowe (Mainz):
Transforming Tradition -- Richard Courant in Goettingen and New York
Volker Remmert (Wuppertal):
Forms of Remigration -- Emigre Jewish Mathematicians and Germany in the Immediate Postwar Period
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Panel II (Chair, Marjorie Senechal/Northampton)
Istvan Hargittai (Budapest):
Von Neumann's Wisdom -- From Hungary to Germany and from Germany to the U.S.
Remarks & Reminiscences: Eyewitness accounts from family of Richard Courant & Kurt Friedrichs
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Geometric TSP with Neighborhoods
Joe Mitchell, SUNY, Stony Brook
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a new dry GCM setup
Martin Jucker, Princeton
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Splitting two monotone operators goes a long way
Patrick Louis Combettes, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Paris 6
Friday, October 04, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Continuous Analogues of Matrix Factorizations
Alex Townsend, University of Oxford
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Hodge theory for group cohomology and applications
David Fisher, Indiana University and NYU
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Modeling neuronal network dynamics
Aaditya Rangan, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Neural Mechanisms and Fluid Dynamics of Crustacean Swimming
Calvin Zhang, CIMS
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: The Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem in Hilbert Space
Alex Blumenthal, CIMS
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Simons Foundation & Friends of Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
10:00AM,
WWH Please see below for location
Title: Celebrating the Mathematics of Pierre Deligne
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REGISTER: http://deligneday.eventbrite.com
LOCATION: Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium, 160 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10010*
*MORNING SESSION* FOR MATHEMATICIANS
10:00 AM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
10:15 AM PIERRE DELIGNE’S SECRET GARDEN: LOOKING BACK AT SOME OF HIS LETTERS
Speaker: *Luc Illusie*, Universite Paris-Sud
11:00 AM HODGE SYMMETRIES
Speaker: *Alexander Goncharov*, Brown University
*AFTERNOON SESSION *FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC
2:00 PM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
2:10 PM ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY & THE ONGOING UNIFICIATION OF MATHEMATICS
Speaker: *Ravi Vakil, *Stanford University
3:00 PM NUMBER THEORY & GEOMETRY AS BRIDGES BETWEEN PARALLEL WORLDS
Speaker: *Brian Conrad*, Stanford University
4:00 PM PERSONAL REMINISCENCES
Speakers: *Luc Illusie*, Universite Paris-Sud
*Dennis Sullivan*, SUNY Stony Brook
*Bernard Saint-Donat*, Harvard University
LOCATION: Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium, 160 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10010*
*MORNING SESSION* FOR MATHEMATICIANS
10:00 AM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
10:15 AM PIERRE DELIGNE’S SECRET GARDEN: LOOKING BACK AT SOME OF HIS LETTERS
Speaker: *Luc Illusie*, Universite Paris-Sud
11:00 AM HODGE SYMMETRIES
Speaker: *Alexander Goncharov*, Brown University
*AFTERNOON SESSION *FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC
2:00 PM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
2:10 PM ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY & THE ONGOING UNIFICIATION OF MATHEMATICS
Speaker: *Ravi Vakil, *Stanford University
3:00 PM NUMBER THEORY & GEOMETRY AS BRIDGES BETWEEN PARALLEL WORLDS
Speaker: *Brian Conrad*, Stanford University
4:00 PM PERSONAL REMINISCENCES
Speakers: *Luc Illusie*, Universite Paris-Sud
*Dennis Sullivan*, SUNY Stony Brook
*Bernard Saint-Donat*, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Biomathematics and Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The unfolded protein response in mammalian cells under stress: a modeling approach
Rodica Curtu, University of Iowa
Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 905
Title: 3D Equilibrium Reconstruction for Stellarators and Tokamaks
Samuel Lazerson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: Groebner techniques for ideals of ribbons
David Swinarski, Fordham University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Feasible sequences of vectors
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv and IAS, Princeton
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Couplings and attractiveness for interacting particle systems
Ellen Saada, Universite Paris Descartes
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH
Title: The role of oceans in setting climate sensitivity and radiative feedbacks
Brian Rose, SUNY
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the motion of a small body immersed in a two dimensional incompressible perfect fluid
Christophe Lacave, Institut Mathematique de Jussieu
Friday, October 11, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Staggered Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Stokes System and its Fast Solvers by Domain Decomposition Methods
Hyea Hyun Kim, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Phase Diagrams of Large Graphs.
Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin
Applied Mathematics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1314
Title: Thermally induced nonequilibrium fluctuations in fluids: gravity and finite-size effects
Jan Sengers, UMD
***Please note the change in time and location for this talk, it will be held in 1314 at 11am
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Delocalization of eigenvectors of random matrices with independent entries.
Mark Rudelson, Universtiy of Michigan
Graduate Student and Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The spectra of non-Hermitian random matrices
Ofer Zeitouni, CIMS Visitor
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Statistical properties of Lorentz processes in a tube
Peter Nandori, CIMS
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Fractional covering numbers with an application to the Levi-Hadwiger problem
Boaz Slomka, Tel Aviv University
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBD
Georgiy Stenchikov, KAUST
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stability and existence of traveling wave solutions to the timelike extremal surface in Minkowski space
Jianli Liu, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Causal and Structural Connectivity of Neuronal Networks
Douglas Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Friday, October 18, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Support Maximization with Linear Programming in the Cone of Nonnegative Measures
Didier Henrion, LAAS-CNRS University of Toulouse and Czech Technical University in Prague
****PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED****
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Some open problems on measure concentration in abstract ergodic theory
Tim Ausin, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Spectrum Policy Activism and the Birth of Wi-Fi and Other Innovative Wireless Technologies
Michael Marcus,
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Truth about diffusion (in liquids)
Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Perturbations of geodesic flows by recurrent dynamics
Marian Gidea, Yeshiva University
Monday, October 21, 2013
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Survey on the Farrell-Jones Conjecture
Wolfgang Luck, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Optimal Fibre Orientation in an Iliac Bifurcation Model
Xiaoyu Luo, University of Glasgow
Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 905
Title: Stellarator Research at Columbia University
Francesco Volpe, APAM Columbia University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: On Kinetic Delaunay Triangulations; A Near Quadratic Bound for Unit Speed Motions
Natan Rubin, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu/FU Berlin
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBD
Xylar Asay-Davis, NYU/LANL
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Well-posedness of the Stokes-Coriolis system in the half-space over a rough surface
Anne-Laure Dalibard,
Friday, October 25, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Nonsmooth Slope, Alternating Projections, and Trajectories of Deepest Descent
Adrian Lewis, School of ORIE, Cornell University
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: The renormalized volume of of asymptotically hyperbolic metrics
Otis Chodosh, Stanford
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Random matrix with locally-varying potential
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: How Cryptosystems Are REALLY Broken
Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: An asymptotic parallel-in-time method for highly oscillatory PDEs
Terry Haut, Los Alamos National Lab
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Dispersing Billiards with Holes
Mark Demers, Fairfield University
Monday, October 28, 2013
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Tales of Our Forefathers
Barry Simon, Math Dept., Caltech
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Phase response properties of half-center oscillators (joint work with Tim Lewis)
Calvin Zhang, CIMS
Magneto Fluid Dynamics Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 905
Title: Multi-region, relaxed MHD and the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code
Stuart Hudson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: Derived Reid's recipe for abelian subgroups of SL3(C)
Timothy Logvinenko, Cardiff University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Geometric Partitioning
Bill Steiger, Rutgers University
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Blow-up behavior for subconformal semilinear wave equations
Hatem Zaag,
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Two Tales of a Microbial City
Isaac Klapper, Temple University
Friday, November 01, 2013
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds
Song Sun, Stonybrook
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Competing Brownian Particle Systems
Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia University
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Competing Brownian Particle Systems
Ioannis Karatzas, Columbia University
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Beyond Two: Discovering Complex Relationships in Real-world Problems
Susan Epstein, Hunter College
Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Contact Process
Shirshendu Chatterjee, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Spectra of Vibrational Modes of Random Elastic Networks
Marija Vucelja, Rockefeller University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Breaking of Ergodicity in Expanding Systems of Globally Coupled Piecewise Affine Circle Maps
Bastien Fernandez, Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS Marseille
Monday, November 04, 2013
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Random walks on groups and the Kaimanovich-Vershik 1983 conjecture for lamplighter groups" Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor)
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Organization of fluid flow in the vein networks of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum
Karen Alim, Harvard University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: An Approximation Algorithm for Multi-Guarding Galleries
David Kirkpatrick, University of British Columbia
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Stochastic Superparameterization
Ian Grooms, NYU/Courant
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Ill-posedness / Well-posedness Results for a Class of Active Scalar Equations
Susan Friedlander,
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Transport phenomena in flows of granular materials
Ivan C. Christov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Number Theory Seminar
5:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: On the Fundamental Group Scheme
Marco Garuti, Università degli studi di Padova
Friday, November 08, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Nonsymmetric Preconditioning for Symmetric Linear Equations and Eigenvalue Problems
Andrew Knyazev, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Intersection local times, loop soups and permanental Wick powers.
Michael Marcus, The City University of New York
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: The order-chaos phase transition for a general class of complex Boolean networks
Shirshendu Chatterjee, CIMS
Computer Science Colloquium
11:30AM,
WWH 1302
Title: TBA
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
**Refreshments will be served at 11:15AM
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Some examples of boundary layers in fluid mechanics
Anne-Laure Dalibard, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Coarse-grained molecular dynamics for multiscale material modeling
Xiantao Li, PSU
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Nonequilibrium Steady-States for Particle Systems
Yao Li, CIMS
Monday, November 11, 2013
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry
Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Stochastic energetics and adiabatic elimination for non-Gaussian processes: Insight from Marcus stochastic calculus
Bin Min,
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: The Chow ring of the moduli space of genus 6 curves
Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: A Size Sensitive Discrepancy Bound for Set Systems of Bounded Primal Shatter Dimension
Ester Ezra, CIMS
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
6:00PM,
Other 19 Washington Square North
Title: Mathematics of Clouds: Beyond the Engineering of Climate Models
Boualem Khouider, Victoria
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Null mean curvature flow and marginally outer trapped surfaces
Kristen Moore, Potsdam University and MSRI
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Wave Effects in the Tropical Tropopause Layer
Joan Alexander, NWRA
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A new proof of Landau damping in the nonlinear Vlasov equations
Jacob Bedrossian, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Out of Equilibriumness of Light-Activated Colloidal Particles
Jeremie A. Palacci, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University
Dynamical Systems Seminar
4:00PM,
WWH 705
Title: Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction from Microscopic Principles
Domokos Szász, Budapest University of Technology
Friday, November 15, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Discontinuous Galerkin with Peace-wise Constant Fluxes for Diffusion Equations
Yuri Kuznetsov, University of Houston
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke University
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Asymptotic geometry of two-dimensional self-shrinkers
Lu Wang,
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Diffusion and super-diffusion of energy in one dimensional systems of oscillators
Stefano Olla, Université Paris Dauphine
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Disequilibrium, coarse-graining and information
Richard Kleeman, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The Markovian approximation in the Theory of Coarse-Graining
Pep Espanol, UNED, Madrid, Spain
New York City Teaching Seminar Joint NYU/Columbia/CUNY
3:00PM,
WWH 512
Title: TBA
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Droplet Splashing
Michael Brenner, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The Influence of Spatial Variation in Chromatin Density on the Time to Find DNA Binding Sites
Samuel Isaacson, Boston University
Algebraeic Geomerty Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: Ramification theory in arithmetic geometry and existence of slices
Sophie Marques, CIMS
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Exact Solutions and Bounds for General Art Gallery Problems and an FPTAS for a Variant.
Christiane Schmidt, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Refined Life at High Resolution: Subgrid Modelling in the Eddy-Rich Regime
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Two-Sided Estimate for the Gaussian Noise Stability Defici
Ronen Eldan,
Analysis Seminar
11:55AM,
WWH 1302
Title: The vortex filament equation for a regular polygon
Luis Vega,
NYU Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 304
Title: Matching on-the-fly: Sequential Allocation with Higher Power and Efficiency
Adam Kapelner, UPenn
Friday, November 22, 2013
New York Area Theory Day
9:30AM,
WWH 109
Title: Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia External Sponsorship by: Google
,
The Theory Day will be held at Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, Auditorium 109,
New York.
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Program
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9:30--10:00: Coffee and bagels
10:00--10:55: Prof. Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University and IAS)
Radio Networks
10:55--11:05: Short break
11:05--12:00: Prof. Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science and NYU)
Dissection: A New Paradigm for Solving Bicomposite Search Problems
12:00--02:00: Lunch break
02:00--02:55: Prof. Adam Marcus (Crisply, LLC and Yale University)
Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs of all degrees
02:55--03:15: Coffee break
03:15--04:10: Prof. David Steurer (Cornell University)
Approximate Constraint Satisfaction Requires Large LP Relaxations
For directions, please see
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/direct.html and
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Location/directions.html (building 46)
To subscribe to our mailing list, follow instructions at
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/theory-ny
Organizers:
Yevgeniy Dodis: dodis@cs.nyu.edu
Tal Rabin: talr@us.ibm.com
Cliff Stein: cliff@ieor.columbia.edu
Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, Auditorium 109,
New York.
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Program
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9:30--10:00: Coffee and bagels
10:00--10:55: Prof. Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University and IAS)
Radio Networks
10:55--11:05: Short break
11:05--12:00: Prof. Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science and NYU)
Dissection: A New Paradigm for Solving Bicomposite Search Problems
12:00--02:00: Lunch break
02:00--02:55: Prof. Adam Marcus (Crisply, LLC and Yale University)
Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs of all degrees
02:55--03:15: Coffee break
03:15--04:10: Prof. David Steurer (Cornell University)
Approximate Constraint Satisfaction Requires Large LP Relaxations
For directions, please see
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/direct.html and
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Location/directions.html (building 46)
To subscribe to our mailing list, follow instructions at
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/theory-ny
Organizers:
Yevgeniy Dodis: dodis@cs.nyu.edu
Tal Rabin: talr@us.ibm.com
Cliff Stein: cliff@ieor.columbia.edu
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Crouzeix's Conjecture
Anne Greenbaum, University of Washington
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 101
Title: On the connection between the spectral gap of convex bodies and the variance conjecture
Ronan Eldan, Microsoft Research
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Nonlinear phase mixing in fluid mechanics and kinetic theory: "irreversible" stability in reversible systems
Jacob Bedrossian, CIMS
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Spectral Analysis of Continuum Kinetic Velocity Diffusion Equations
Jon Wilkening, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Encoding evidence of independence into Bayesian network structure learning
Rachel Hodos, CIMS
Magneto - Fluid Dynamics Seminar
1:30PM,
WWH 905
Title: An integral equation for Taylor states
Mike O'Neil, CIMS
Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
2:00PM,
WWH 202
Title: TBA
Costante Bellettini, Princeton
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Metric Geometry and the Diameter of Polytopes
Bruno Benedetti, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Monday, December 02, 2013
Joint Mathematics - Biology Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Mathematical biology of the lamellipodial treadmill
Alex Mogilner, UC Davis
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Hamiltonian Evolution Equations - Where They Come From, What They Are Good For
Juerg Froehlich, ETH Zurich (& IAS)
*** Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor)
NYU - Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus Rogers Hall 425
Title: Estimates of normal curvatures of space-like hypersurfaces in de Sitter space and convexity
Vladimir Oliker, Emory University
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Biomathematics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Connecting High-throughput Data to Build Better Models of the Immune System in Health and Disease
Brian Kidd, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Strong solutions of infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equations
Hirofumi Osada, Kyushu University
Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
3:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: The mesoscale dynamics of cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer
Tra Dinh, Princeton
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Asymptotic behavior for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with partially periodic data
Benoit Pausader, Princeton University
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Transport of particles, drops, and small organisms in density stratified fluids
Arezoo Ardekani, University of Notre Dame
NYU - Poly Mathematics Colloquium
4:35PM,
Off-Campus TBA
Title: Computational Art History: Three Emerging Projects
C.Richard Johnson,Jr, Cornell University
Friday, December 06, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: A Multifrequency Method for the Shape Reconstruction of 2D Scatterers
Carlos Borges, CIMS
Probability Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 512
Title: Stochastic calculus via regularization in Banach spaces: path dependent calculus and stochastic evolution equations
Francesco Russo, ENSTA ParisTech
Probability Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 517
Title: Dynamical rigidity of Ginibre interacting Brownian motions
Hirofumi Osada, Kyushu University
Applied Mathematics Seminar
2:30PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Sampling and noise
Alexandre Chorin, UC Berkeley
Monday, December 09, 2013
Special Applied Mathematics Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Modeling, simulation and inference for non-Newtonian fluids
Georg Stadler, University of Texas Austin
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Waves in honeycomb structures
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Biomathmatics / Computational Biology Colloquium
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Making sense --- or not --- of deep DNA sequencing data
Daniel Fisher, Stanford University
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30PM,
WWH 317
Title: The geometry of the Frey-Mazur conjecture
Benjamin Bakker, Courant Institute
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Analysis Seminar
11:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: On the different rates of blow-up for the 1-corotational harmonic heat flow
Remi Schweyer,
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Settling and Rising in Stratified Fluids: fluid-structure interactions and multiphase flow
Shilpa Khatri, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, December 13, 2013
Numerical Analysis And Scientific Computing Seminar
10:00AM,
WWH 1302
Title: Recent Progress on the Search of 3D Euler Singularities
Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology
Graduate Student And Postdoc Seminar
1:00PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Riemann-Hilbert problems, orthogonal polynomials and computation
Tom Trogdon, CIMS
NYU Computer Science
5:00PM,
WWH 13th floor commons
Title: Fall 2013 Showcase
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Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Mathematics Colloquium
3:45PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Introduction to incidence geometry
Larry Guth, MIT
**Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Special Analysis Seminar
12:15PM,
WWH 1302
Title: Diffuse Decompositions of Polynomials
Daniel Kane, Stanford University
Geometry Seminar
6:00PM,
WWH 1314
Title: Divide and Conquer Roadmaps for Algebraic Sets
Marie-Francoise Roy, University of Rennes, France
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar
12:30PM,
WWH 1314
Title: The innate immune system: some theory, some experiments and some medical implications
Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute