Message from the Director
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Announcements
Sylvia Serfaty receives Henri Poincaré Prize
Global Distinguished Professor Sylvia Serfaty was awarded a Henri Poincaré Prize at the 2012 International Congress on Mathematical Physics,… [more]
Ivan Corwin receives Young Scientist Prize
Courant alumnus Ivan Corwin received an International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize along with two… [more]
News
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funds G-STEM
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded funding for the NYU Courant Girls Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Summer Program… [more]
"Fingerprinting" Artworks
The Entrupy system, developed by Lakshmi Subramanian and Ashlesh Sharma, for labelling works of art against counterfeiting, is featured in… [more]
Advances in Deep Learning
Recent articles and radio interviews on Deep Learning, featuring/citing Yann LeCun, appear from NPR, the New York Times,… [more]
Computer Scientists Reveal How Aquatic Olympic Gold is Captured
A research team headed by Chris Bregler followed olympic athletes during their training in pools across the U.S. this spring,… [more]
Teaching Robots to Improvise
Yann LeCun and collaborators at five universities teach self-piloted drones to improvise when encountering unexpected obstacles, as featured in
Seminars and Events
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2013
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING:10:00 A.M., 1302 WWH
Title: Quasiperiodic Scattering Problems with Multi-material Interfaces
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 512
Title: Crossing speeds of random walks among "sparse" or "spiky" Beroulli potentials on integers
Elena Kosygina, Baruch College, CUNY
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: A convex approximation of Euler's elastica functional
Benedikt Wirth, CIMS
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
COB COLLOQUIUM:12:30 P.M., WWH 101
Title: Shedding light on the elusive mechanics of hearing in the mammalian cochlea
Jonathan Fisher, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Rockefeller University
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
Special Events
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Abel in New York
Feb 21, 2013, WWH 109