Special Events Archive

  • 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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