Special Events Archive

  • 2019 Holiday Lecture
    Speaker: Professor Steve Strogatz, The Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University
    Infinite Powers: The story of calculus
    Dec 13, 2019, 3:00PM, WWH 109
    A party will follow in the lounge.
  • Longer Service Awards
    May 10, 2019, 3:30PM, WWH Lounge
  • Prizes and Fellowships Ceremony
    May 03, 2019, 3:30PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Administrative Professionals Day
    Apr 26, 2019, 3:30PM, WWH Lounge
  • A Conference to Celebrate the 70th Birthday of Andrew Majda
    Nonlinear Dynamics and Data: Prediction, State Estimation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Systems
    March 15-17, 2019, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  • Holiday Lecture and Party
    Speaker: Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
    The Antikythera Mechanism: Mathematical Astronomy through Ancient Gears
    Dec 14, 2018, 2:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the 13th floor lounge.
  • Northeast Probability Seminar 2018
    November 15-16, 2018, Kimmel Center & Warren Weaver Hall
  • Faculty Forum
    Nov 09, 2018, 1:00PM, WWH 109
  • Courant Lectures Part II
    Speaker: Andrea L. Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA
    Swarming by Nature and by Design
    Oct 17, 2018, 11:15AM, WWH 102
  • Courant Lectures Part I
    Speaker: Andrea L. Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA
    The Mathematics of Crime
    Oct 15, 2018, 3:45PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the 13th floor lounge.
  • Courant Instructor Day
    Oct 12, 2018, WWH 1302
  • Seminar in Honor of Eliezer Hameiri
    Sep 21, 2018, 2:00PM - 4:00PM, WWH 1302
    A reception will follow in the 13th floor lounge.
  • New Academic Year Welcome Reception
    Sep 07, 2018, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Conference in Honor of Professor David Cai
    May 18, 2018, 9:00AM - 4:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Graduation Celebration
    May 15, 2018, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Longer Service Awards
    May 11, 2018, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • A Discussion of Sustainability at Courant
    May 04, 2018, WWH 102
    12:20PM - 1:20PM
  • Administrative Professionals Day
    Apr 27, 2018, 3:30PM, WWH Lounge
  • Prizes and Fellowships Ceremony
    Apr 20, 2018, 3:30PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Henry McKean's Birthday and Retirement Celebration
    Dec 14, 2017, 3:00PM - 5:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Holiday Lecture and Party
    Speaker: Richard Bonneau, New York University
    Exploring the Vastness of Biodiversity from Atoms to Ecosystems
    Dec 08, 2017, 2:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Celebration in Honor of Cathleen Synge Morawetz
    Nov 17, 2017, 1:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • New Academic Year Welcome Reception
    Sep 08, 2017, 2:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Dynamics, aging and universality in complex systems
    A celebration in honor of Gérard Ben Arous
    June 19-23, 2017, WWH 109
    The registration deadline is April 30th 2017.
  • Graduation Celebration
    May 16, 2017, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Longer Service Awards
    May 12, 2017, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Administrative Professionals Day
    Apr 26, 2017, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 21, 2017, 2:30PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Joe Keller Memorial
    Apr 18, 2017, 12:30PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Courant Lectures Part II
    Speaker: Professor Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
    Symbolic matrices
    Apr 07, 2017, 11:00AM, WWH 102
  • Reception in Honor of Yann LeCun
    Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
    Apr 07, 2017, 4:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Courant Lectures Part I
    Speaker: Professor Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
    Operator scaling - theory and applications
    Apr 06, 2017, 2:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the 13th Floor Lounge.
  • Domain Decomposition: Past, Present and Future
    A Workshop in Honor of Olof Widlund's Retirement
    February 24-25, 2017, Warren Weaver Hall
  • Holiday Lecture and Party
    Speaker: Professor Petter Kolm, Courant Institute
    Musings on Math, Magic and the Mind
    Dec 09, 2016, 2:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Faculty Forum
    Nov 18, 2016, 1:00PM, WWH 109
  • Raghu's 50th Anniversary Party
    Nov 10, 2016, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Circle on the Road
    National Association of Math Circles
    October 28-30, 2016, Center for Mathematical Talent, Courant Institute
  • New Academic Year Reception
    Oct 24, 2016, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • The Alchemy of Algorithms: How Mathematical Medical Modeling Is Making Precision Healthcare a Reality
    Speaker: Glen de Vries, President, Medidata Solutions
    Oct 13, 2016, 6:00PM - 7:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
    Reception and networking after the talk.
  • Spring 2016 Lecture Series - Part 5
    Speaker: Clément Hongler, EPFL
    May 18, 2016, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, WWH 101
    Beyond conformal invariance: massive theories, counting arguments, exact scattering matrices.
  • Graduation Celebration
    May 17, 2016, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Spring 2016 Lecture Series - Part 4
    Speaker: Clément Hongler, EPFL
    May 12, 2016, 2:00PM - 4:00PM, WWH 101
    Minimal models: unitary series, fusion rules, partition functions, explicit constructions.
  • Tamar Arnon's Retirement Party
    May 06, 2016, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
    Please join us as we thank Tamar for 30 years at Courant.
  • Spring 2016 Lecture Series - Part 3
    Speaker: Clément Hongler, EPFL
    May 06, 2016, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, WWH 1302
    Virasoro algebra representation theory: Kac determinant formula, classification of Virasoro representations, null-field equations, differential equations.
  • Retirement Party/Longer Service Awards
    May 05, 2016, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Random Roads: A Celebration of Joel Spencer's 70th Birthday
    April 29-30, 2016, WWH 109
  • NYU Workshop on Optimal Transportation, Equilibrium, and Applications to Economics
    April 29-30, 2016, Kauffman Management Center, 44 West 4th Street, Room 2-65
  • Spring 2016 Lecture Series - Part 2
    Speaker: Clément Hongler, EPFL
    Apr 29, 2016, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, WWH 1302
    Fields and geometry: the stress-energy tensor, conformal symmetry, central charge, Virasoro commutation relations, unitarity, boundaries.
  • Larry Cohen's Retirement Party
    Apr 28, 2016, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
    Please join us as we toast Larry on 41 years at Courant!
  • Administrative Professionals Day
    Apr 27, 2016, 3:00PM, WWH Lounge
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 22, 2016, 2:30PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Spring 2016 Lecture Series - Part 1
    Speaker: Clément Hongler, EPFL
    Apr 21, 2016, 2:00PM - 3:15PM, WWH 102
    General picture: local fields, correlations, partition functions. Examples of models and of exact results coming from CFT.
  • Courant Lectures Part II
    Speaker: Professor Horng-Tzer Yau, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
    Beyond Mean Field Theory and d-regular graphs
    Apr 01, 2016, 11:00AM, WWH 102
  • Courant Lectures Part I
    Speaker: Professor Horng-Tzer Yau, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University
    Random Matrix Statistics — A new class of statistical laws for highly correlated systems
    Mar 31, 2016, 2:30PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the 13th Floor Lounge
  • NYU President Andrew Hamilton Visits Courant
    Mar 09, 2016, 1:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor Lounge
  • NYU-Oxford Workshop on Mathematical Models of Defects and Patterns
    January 5-8, 2016, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  • Holiday Lecture and Party
    Speaker: Professor Jun Zhang, Courant Institute
    The Little Lab in the Lobby
    Dec 04, 2015, 1:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • Lecture and Reception in Honor of the Glen de Vries Professorship in Health Statistics
    Speaker: David Sontag, Courant Institute
    How Will Machine Learning Change Health Care?
    Nov 18, 2015, 4:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the 13th floor lounge.
  • Courant Faculty Meeting and New Faculty Reception
    Oct 23, 2015, 2:00PM, WWH 109
    A reception will follow in the lounge.
  • New Academic Year Welcome Reception
    Sep 17, 2015, 2:00PM, 13th Floor Faculty Lounge
  • Longer Service Awards Reception
    May 07, 2015, 3:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall 13th Floor Lounge
  • 30th Annual Geometry Festival
    May 1-3, 2015, Warren Weaver Hall
  • Courant Lectures Part II
    Speaker: Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute
    On Time and Order in Cryptography
    Apr 28, 2015, 11:00AM, WWH 102
  • Courant Lectures Part I
    Speaker: Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate and the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute
    The Cryptographic Lens
    Apr 27, 2015, 3:30PM, WWH 109
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 24, 2015, 2:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall Room 109
  • Peter Lax, Mathematician: Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh – Book Signing
    Apr 23, 2015, 4:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall 13th Floor Lounge
  • Special Seminar
    Speaker: Patrick Wolfe, University College London
    Apr 07, 2015, 5:15PM, Room 1302
  • Celebration for Louis Nirenberg
    Mar 30, 2015, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, WWH 13th Floor Lounge
  • Special Seminar
    Speaker: Laura Haas, IBM Fellow and Director, IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab
    Accelerating the Discovery of Insights from Data
    Mar 23, 2015, 5:00PM, WWH 1302
  • 2015 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference
    March 16-18, 2015, Warren Weaver Hall
  • Holiday Lecture and Party
    Dec 12, 2014, 2:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall Room 109
  • Director's Event
    Speaker: TBA, TBA
    WWH 1302 & Faculty Lounge
  • Courant Faculty Meeting & Reception
    Oct 17, 2014, 2:00PM
  • Louis Nirenberg's 90th Birthday Celebration
    Oct 17, 2014, 3:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall 13th Floor Lounge
    Please RSVP by the 3rd of October to RSVP@courant.nyu.edu
  • Courant Welcome Reception
    Sep 19, 2014, 2:00PM - 4:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall 13th Floor Lounge
  • Courant Lectures Part II
    Speaker: Simon Donaldson, Imperial College London
    "Kahler metrics and projective embeddings II: Gromov-Hausdorff limits."
    Apr 25, 2014, 10:00AM, WW109
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 25, 2014, 2:30PM, WWH 109
    Followed by a reception in the WWH 13th Floor Lounge
  • Courant Lectures Part I
    Speaker: Simon Donaldson, Imperial College London
    (General Audience Lecture)
    "Kahler metrics and projective embedding I: approximation and asymptotics."
    Apr 24, 2014, 3:00PM, WW109
    After the lecture, a reception is to follow in the 13th floor lounge.
  • Archimedes in the 21st Century
    May 31-Jun 1, 2013, WWH 109
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 26, 2013, 3:30PM, WWH 109
    Followed by a reception in the WWH 13th Floor Commons
  • Courant Lectures
    Speaker: Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck
    Statistical and Causal Learning (General Audience Lecture)
    Apr 25, 2013, 5:00PM, WWH 109
    Followed by a reception in the WWH 13th Floor Commons
  • Inference of Cause and Effect
    Apr 26, 2013, 10:00AM, WWH 1302
  • Abel in New York
    Feb 21, 2013, WWH 109
  • Holiday Lecture and Party
    Speaker: Yann LeCunn
    "Robots with Learning (Dis)abilities," Yann LeCun
    Dec 14, 2012, 2:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
    The Holiday Party will immediately follow in the 13th floor Commons
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 27, 2012, 3:30PM, WWH 109
    Immediately followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Commons
  • The Courant Lectures
    Sparsification of Graphs and Approximation of Matrices
    Apr 02, 2012, 11:30AM - 12:30PM, WWH 1302
  • The Courant Lectures
    Speaker: Daniel Spielman (Yale)
  • Algorithms, Graph Theory, and Laplacian Linear Equations
    General Audience Lecture
    Mar 30, 2012, 3:45PM - 4:45PM, WWH 109
    Followed by a reception in the 13th floor lounge
  • Holiday Lecture and Party
    Speaker: Chris Bregler, NYU's Courant Institute
    Followed by a reception in the WWH Commons
    Dec 09, 2011, 3:00PM, WWH 109
  • Reception in honor of Raghu Varadhan
    Winner of the National Medal of Science
    Dec 02, 2011, 4:00PM, WWH 13th Floor Commons
  • Visiting Members Reception
    Oct 21, 2011, 4:00PM, WWH 13th Floor Commons
  • Fritz John Lecture Series
    In celebration of his 100th birthday
    1302 WWH
  • 75th Anniversary Celebration
  • Panel Sessions
    May 07, 2011
  • Plenary Talks
    Followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Commons
    May 06, 2011
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 29, 2011, 2:00PM, WWH 109
    Reception to follow in the 13th floor commons
  • The Courant Lectures
  • "Mathematical Analysis of 'Hit and Run' Algorithms"
    Apr 08, 2011, 11:30AM, WWH 109
  • Speaker: Persi Diaconis, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford
    "The Search For Randomness" (General Audience)
    Followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Commons
    Apr 07, 2011, 3:30PM, WWH 109
  • 75th Anniversary Holiday Lecture
    Speaker: Michael Shelley, Courant Institute
    A Model(ed) Holiday
    Followed by the Holiday Party in the 13th Floor Commons
    Dec 16, 2010, 3:00PM, WWH 109
  • Memorial Conference in Honor of Paul Garabedian
    Dec 04, 2010, WWH 109 and 13th floor commons
  • Visiting Members Reception
    Oct 27, 2010, 4:00PM, WWH Commons
  • Reception in honor of Louis Nirenberg
    Winner of the Chern Medal
    Oct 25, 2010, 5:00PM, Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor Lounge
  • Startup Weekend NYC
    June 11-13, 2010, 109 WWH and 13th Floor Commons
  • Fluid Dynamics: From Theory to Experiment
    In Honor of Steve Childress
    June 7-10, 2010, Montana State University, Bozeman Montana
  • Memorial and Symposium in Honor of Amir Pnueli
    May 7-9, 2010, WWH 109
  • Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Mathematics in Finance Program
    Honoring Marco Avellaneda, Risk Magazine's Quant of the Year
    May 04, 2010, 6:00PM, WWH 13th Floor Commons
  • From Riemannian Geometry to Modern Computer Graphics
    Speaker: Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
    Apr 30, 2010, 4:00PM - 5:00PM, Jacobs Academic Building, Room 474
    Six MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York
  • Courant Lectures
    Speaker: Alfio Quarteroni, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    "Complexity reduction in the numerical approximation of Partial Differential Equations" (General Audience)
    Apr 29, 2010, 4:00PM, WWH 109
  • "Mathematical models for the cardiovascular system: analysis, numerical simulation, applications"
    Apr 30, 2010, 11:00AM, WWH 109
  • Reception in honor of Subhash Khot
    Winner of NSF's Alan T. Waterman Award
    Apr 28, 2010, 5:00PM, WWH Commons
  • Welcome reception for Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
    Apr 26, 2010, 5:30PM, 13th Floor Commons, WWH
  • Student Prizes Ceremony
    Apr 16, 2010, 3:30PM - 4:30PM, WWH 109
    Reception to follow in the WWH Commons
  • 25th Annual Geometry Festival
    April 9-11, 2010, WWH 109
  • 2nd Annual Algorithmic Trading Conference: Dynamic Portfolios, Optimal Execution, and Risk
    Feb 05, 2010, NYU Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Place
  • Holiday Lecture
    Speaker: Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge
    "It works on paper... geometry and mechanics in dimension 2.5"
    Holiday Party to follow in the Commons
    Dec 16, 2009, 3:00PM, WWH 109
  • Workshop on High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies
    December 11-12, 2009, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  • Keller/Isaacson Memorial Conference on Numerical Analysis
    Dec 04, 2009, WWH 109
  • Courant Institute Alumni Evening
    Speaker: Sashi Reddi, Ph.D., Founder and Chairman, AppLabs; Founder and Chairman, FXLabs
    Speaker: Chris Bregler, Professor of Computer Science, Courant
    RSVP to: rsvp@cims.nyu.edu
    Nov 13, 2009, 5:00PM, WWH 13th floor commons
  • Conference on the Future of Risk Management
    Nov 13, 2009, 8:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
  • Visiting Members Reception
    Oct 22, 2009, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, WWH Commons
  • Conference on Neural Dynamics and Computation
    In honor of John Rinzel
    June 13-14, 2009, WWH
  • Workshop on High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies
    June 10-12, 2009, WWH
  • Conference of the Center for Hydrogen Fusion Power
    May 19-20, 2009, Washington, D.C.
  • Modern Perspectives in Applied Mathematics
    A Meeting in Honor of Andrew J. Majda
    May 18-22, 2009, WWH 109
  • Reception in honor of Percy Deift's Election to the NAS
    May 07, 2009, 4:00PM - 6:00PM, WWH Commons
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Workshop 2009
    To Honor the memory of George Zaslavsky
    April 24-25, 2009, WWH 1302
  • 2009 CATER Workshop on Technologies for Development
    Apr 10, 2009, WWH 109
  • Conference in Memory of Thomas Bringley
    Mar 28, 2009, 8:30AM - 4:15PM, WWH 1302
  • Memorial for Jack Schwartz
    with Reception in the 13th Floor Commons
    Mar 27, 2009, 7:00PM, WWH 109
  • Celebration for Mikhael Gromov
    Recipient of the 2009 Abel Prize
    Mar 26, 2009, 4:00PM, WWH Commons
  • Courant Lectures
    Speaker: Emmanuel Candes, Caltech
    "The amazing power of convex relaxation: the surprising story of compressive sensing"
    "The amazing power of convex relaxation: the surprising story of matrix completion"
    March 23-24, 2009, WWH 109 & Commons
  • "Picturing the Science of Climate Change"
    a lecture hosted by CAOS & Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes
    Jan 07, 2009
  • Symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use
    November 14-15, 2008, WWH
  • Algorithmic Trading Conference
    Oct 03, 2008, 566 LaGuardia Pl.
  • Fast Algorithms for Scientific Computing
    Symposium in honor of Olof B. Widlund on the occasion of his 70th Birthday
    September 19-20, 2008, WWH
  • Issues in Technology Management
    Speaker: Steve Yatko, Managing Director of Credit Suisse and Head of the Global R&D IT Group
    Apr 30, 2008, 5:30PM - 6:00PM
  • Wolfgang Doeblin - A Mathematician Rediscovered
    Speaker: Agnes Handwerk and Harrie Willems
    Apr 14, 2008, 3:45PM
  • Fifth IACR Theory of Cryptography Conference: TCC 2008
    March 19-21, 2008
  • Singularities in Geometry and Topology
    In honor of Sylvain Cappell
    March 17-20, 2008
  • Courant Lectures
    Speaker: Jon Kleinberg, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
    "The Geography of Social and Information Networks"
    "Modeling Social and Economic Exchange in Networks"
    March 12-13, 2008, WWH 109 & Commons
  • Courant Lectures
    Speaker: Jean-Michel Bismut
    "Traces, determinants, and probability theory"
    Mar 23, 2007, 11:00AM - 12:00PM, WWH 109
  • "Quillen metrics, the hypoelliptic Laplacian: the role of the functional integral"
    Mar 26, 2007, 11:00AM - 12:00PM, WWH 109
  • Applications of Mathematics in Biology, Physiology, and Medicine
    In Honor of Charles S. Peskin and David M. McQueen
    October 20-21, 2006
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Workshop 2006
    October 6-8, 2006
  • LA PIETRA WEEK IN PROBABILITY 2006
    In honor of Michael Aizenman's and Chuck Newman's 60th birthdays
    June 19-23, 2006
  • Recent advances in nonlinear partial differential equations and applications
    In honor of Peter D. Lax and Louis Nirenberg
    June 7-10, 2006
  • Human Language Technology conference: HLT-NAACL 06
    June 4-9, 2006
  • Integrable Systems, Random Matrices, and Applications Conference
    In honor of Percy Deift's 60th Birthday
    May 22-26, 2006
  • Fourth Northeast Probability Seminar
    November 17-18, 2005
  • A Conference in Honor of Peter Lax and Louis Nirenberg
    on the occasion of their 80th birthdays
    October 28-29, 2005
  • Current Topics in Micromagnetics
    June 1-5, 2005
  • Submanifolds, Singular Varieties and Stratified Spaces
    Julius' Ides of March Topology Festival
    March 13-16, 2005

 

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