The Courant Institute 75th Anniversary
Celebrates
Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer St.
New York, NY 10012
75th Anniversary Holiday Lecture and Party
Michael Shelley
Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science and the Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics
A Model(ed) Holiday
(General Audience Lecture)
Thursday, December 16, 2010, 3:00pm
Warren Weaver Hall, room 109
Followed by the Holiday Party in the 13th Floor Commons
The Courant Lectures
Persi Diaconis
Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford
The Search for Randomness
(General Audience Lecture)
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 3:30pm
Warren Weaver Hall, room 109
Followed by a reception in the 13th floor lounge
Mathematical Analysis of 'Hit and Run' Algorithms
Friday, April 8, 2011, 11:30am
Warren Weaver Hall, room 109
75th Anniversary Celebration
Plenary Talks
Friday, May 6, 2011
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
8:30 | Breakfast |
9:00-9:45 |
Leslie Greengard (NYU) Fast algorithms and potential theory in scientific computing |
10:00-10:45 |
Assaf Naor (NYU) |
11:00-11:45 |
Sylvia Serfaty (Paris 6/NYU) Renormalized energy, Abrikosov lattice, and random matrices |
12:00-12:15 | 75th Anniversary Courant Institute Film Screening |
12:00-2:00 | Break |
2:00-2:45 |
Lloyd N. Trefethen (Oxford) Robust rational interpolation, Padé approximation, and extrapolation of sequences |
3:00-3:45 | Shafi Goldwasser (MIT/Weizmann) The Evolution of a Proof |
4:00-4:45 | Dennis Shasha (NYU) The Changing Nature of Invention in Computer Science |
5:00-5:45 | Tadashi Tokieda (Cambridge) Linguistic curiosities |
6:00-6:15 | 75th Anniversary Courant Institute Film Screening |
6:00 | Reception in the 13th floor commons |
Panel Sessions
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Warren Weaver Hall, Rooms 101 & 102
9:30 |
Breakfast |
10:00-11:00 | Games for Learning |
Atmosphere & Ocean Science | |
11:15-12:15 | Mathematics, Biology, and Medicine |
Technology and Economic Development | |
12:30-1:30 | Student Poster Presentations and lunch, |
13th floor commons | |
1:45-2:45 | The Future Role of Financial Markets |
Human vs Machine 2011: Recent trends in A.I., Turing Tests, Uncanny Valleys, and Wisdom of Crowds. | |
3:00-4:00 | Computational Biology, Genomics, and Bioinformatics |