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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

JOINT PHYSICS-COURANT SEMINAR ON NONLINEAR DYNAMICS: 2:00 P.M., Room 424b, Meyer Building (Physics)
The Transition from Regular to Irregular Motions Explained as Travel on Riemann Surfaces
Francesco Calogero, Physics Department, University of Rome `La Sapienza', Italy

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

MATH PH.D. STUDENT ORIENTATION: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M., WWH 813
SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 102
Supporting Early Design Exploration of Augmented Reality Experiences
Blair MacIntyre, Georgia Tech College of Computing
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME!
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Reflexive Side-Channel Cryptanalysis: Cache and Acoustic Attacks
Eran Tromer, Weizmann Institute
Joint work with Dag Arne Osvik and Adi Shamir
A copy of the paper can be found at:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/papers/cache.pdf
Visit the Cryptography Seminar webpage at: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Bodies in Fluids
Mike Shelley, CIMS
See the AMS webpage if updated: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

INFORMAL COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Organizational Meeting
Everyone is welcome, particularly graduate students interested in computational finance. Bring a sandwich!
See our web page at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/goodman/seminars/ComputationalFinance/
For further information, please contact Jonathan Goodman at goodman@cims.nyu.edu

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Simulating the Blood-Muscle-Valve Mechanics of the Heart by an Adaptive and Parallel Version of the Immersed Boundary Method
Boyce Griffith, CIMS
This is a public Defense of Thesis. All are welcome.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 4:30, WWH 1302
The Parameterization of Gravity-Wave Drag in General Circulation Models of the Atmosphere
John Scinocca, University of Victoria
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 3:45 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Methods for Modeling Gene Expression and Spatially Distributed Chemical Kinetics
Samuel Isaacson, CIMS
This is a public Defense of Thesis. All are welcome.
Please note unusual day and time for this seminar.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Two Results About Large Random Matrices
Amir Dembo, Stanford University
See the abstract at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
HIERO: A Hierarchical Phase-based Model for Statistical Machine Translation
David Chiang, University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Analysis and Design of DNA Devices
Niles Pierce, Caltech
See the AMS webpage if updated: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
PH.D. STUDENT WELCOME RECEPTION, MATH AND COMPUTER SCIENCE: 3:30 - 5:30 P.M.,
13th Floor Commons

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

SYMPOSIUM ON THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE: 9:15 A.M. - 5:30 P.M., WWH 101

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Sticks, French Fries and Potatoes in Polygons
Joe Mitchell, Stony Brook University
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

NEW FACULTY RECEPTION: 4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1303
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Functional Lattice Models for CDOs, CMSs, Quantos and Other Hybrids
Claudio Albanese, Imperial College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

MS MATH STUDENT ORIENTATION: 10:00 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1314
APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
New Singular Solutions of the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University
Joint work with N. Gavish and X.P. Wang
See the AMS webpage if updated: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~eve2/ams.html
MS COMPUTER SCIENCE WELCOME: 6:00 - 8:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

CELEBRATION of the Elections of Margaret Wright into the National Academy of Sciences and Marsha Berger into the National Academy of Engineering , WWH 13th Floor Common at 4:00 P.M.!

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 102
Sampling to Estimate Arbitrary Subset Sums
Mikkel Thorup, AT&T
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 102
Note the change in room number!
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/


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Vol. 51, No. 2 -- September 14, 2005

A regional meeting of the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America conferred upon Melvin Hausner its Award for Distinguished Teaching in recognition of extraordinarily successful teaching and commitment to students. The surprise event was held at York College, Long Island on 7th May 2005.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30-4:30, WWH 1302
The Parameterization of Gravity-Wave Drag in General Circulation Models of the Atmosphere
John Scinocca, University of Victoria
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS TEA TIME SEMINAR:
3:45-4:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Methods for Modeling Gene Expression and Spatially Distributed Chemical Kinetics
Samuel Isaacson, CIMS
This is a public Defense of Thesis. All are welcome.
Please note unusual day and time for this seminar.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Two Results About Large Random Matrices
Amir Dembo, Stanford University
See the abstract at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
HIERO: A Hierarchical Phase-based Model for Statistical Machine Translation
David Chiang, University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Analysis and Design of DNA Devices
Niles Pierce, Caltech
See the AMS webpage if updated: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

PH.D. STUDENT WELCOME RECEPTION, MATH AND COMPUTER SCIENCE:
3:30 - 5:30 P.M., 13th Floor Commons

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 and SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

SYMPOSIUM ON THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE:
9:15 A.M. - 5:30 P.M., WWH 109
Please note the change in room number!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

SPECIAL DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 402
An Etale Approach to the Novikov Conjecture
Alexander Dranishnikov, University of Florida
Visit the Seminar webpage at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Invertible and Quasistatic Finite Elements for Skeletal Muscle Simulation
Joseph Teran, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Sticks, French Fries and Potatoes in Polygons
Joe Mitchell, Stony Brook University
To see the abstract using AcroDist application, click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Functional Lattice Models for CDOs, CMSs, Quantos and Other Hybrids
Claudio Albanese, Imperial College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

MS MATH STUDENT ORIENTATION:
10:00 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1314

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Jack Schwartz, Professor Emeritus, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Functional Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
Peter Lax, CIMS
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
New Singular Solutions of the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University
Joint work with N. Gavish and X.P. Wang
See the AMS webpage if updated: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MS COMPUTER SCIENCE WELCOME:
6:00 - 8:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

CELEBRATION of the Elections of Margaret Wright into the National Academy of Sciences and Marsha Berger into the National Academy of Engineering , WWH 13th Floor Common at 4:00 P.M.!

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Noncommutative Wiener Lemma and Tracial State on the Banach Algebra of Time-Frequency Shift Operators
Radu Balan, Siemens Corporate Research
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
On the Structure of General Mean-Variance Hedging Strategies
Ales Cerny, City University London
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 102
Sampling to Estimate Arbitrary Subset Sums
Mikkel Thorup, AT&T
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 102
Note the change in room number!
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
No seminar due to Courant Instructor Day
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 - 1:45 P.M., WWH 101
Recent Work on Supervised Ranking
Cynthia Rudin, Center for Neural Science and CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Mode Dynamics and Active Control Studies and Experiments on RFX-mod
Roberto Paccagnella, Istituto Gas Ionizzati del C.N.R.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302

Hurricanes and Climate
Kerry Emanuel, M.I.T.
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Numerical Simulations of an Infinite Fiber Suspension
Katarina Gustavsson
Note special date and time!
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract: http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., 815 MEYER HALL,
Center for Neural Science, Room 815

From Combinatorial Coding to Strongly Correlated Networks States in a Neural Population
Elad Schneidman, Princeton University
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.princeton.edu/~elads/
See the CNF website at:
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Conformally Parametrized Surfaces with Bounds on the Wilmore Energy
Ernst Kuwert, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Invertible and Quasistatic Finite Elements for Skeletal Muscle Simulation
Joseph Teran, CIMS
See the AML website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMIMAR:
2:00 P.M., Meyer 424B (Physics Department Building)
Stretched Times and Divergent Time Scales Near the Glass Transition
Michael Shlesinger, Office of Naval Research

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Implied Volatility Processes: Evidence from the Volatility Derivatives Market
George Skiadopolous, University of Piraeus
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M.,
Room 312 Math, Columbia University

Geometry of Unitary Eigenvarieties and Rank of Selmer Groups
Joel Bellaiche, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage for link to abstract: http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS5.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyperbolic Equations
Lilia Krivodonova, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Some Correlation Inequalities
Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
Abstract available at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithmic Theory of Sparse Approximation Problems
S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Modeling Diffusion Processes in Unbounded Domains
Leslie Greengard
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/

NYC NLP FORUM:
2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Better k-best Parsing, Hypergraphs, and Dynamic Programming
Liang Huang, University of Pennsylvania
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/index.shtml

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Functional and Evolutionary Inference in Gene Networks: Does Topology Matter?
Mark L. Siegal, Dept. of Biology, New York University
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Wave-Driven Vortex Dynamics in the Near-Shore Region
Andrea Barreiro
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Toward the End of Cumulus Parameterization: Sensitivity of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations to Horizontal Resolution
Olivier Paulius, CIMS
Note the slightly earlier starting time and the change in room number.
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302

Index Theory for Subelliptic Boundary Value Problems
C. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
Preceded by tea in the lounge at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/colloquium.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Stochastic Immersed Boundary Method Incorporating Thermal Fluctuations: Toward Modeling Membrane Dynamics of the Cell
Paul Atzberger, RPI

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Riemann-Hilbert Approach to Some Theorems on Toeplitz Operators and Orthogonal Polynomials
Jorgen Ostensson, CIMS
See the Special Analysis Seminar webpage for abstract:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Nonadiabatic Ponderomotive Barriers
Ilya Dodin, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Note the earlier time for this seminar!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Tropical Teleconnections and Their Implications for Modern and Past Climates
R. Saravanan, NCAR
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417,
Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY

The Alternating Cone of a 2-colored Graph
Amitava Bhattacharya, University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

FOURTH NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
Room: KC 900 Series, Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South)
A two-day seminar to be held November 17 and 18th

Symposium Reception Thursday after lectures to be held at Courant Institute, 13th Floor Commons

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Emergence of Large Scale Coherent Structure under Small Scale Random Bombardments
Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Jane Wang, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
See the AML website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
Tropical Teleconnections and Their Implications for Modern and Past Climates
R. Saravanan, NCAR
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Room C198, CUNY Graduate Center
Mahler Measures, Equidistribution, and Applications
Thomas Tucker, Rochester University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage for link to abstract: http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS5.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

FOURTH NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
Room: KC 900 Series, Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South)
A two-day seminar to be held November 17 and 18th

Symposium Reception Friday after lectures to be held at Courant Institute, 13th Floor Commons

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Time-Stepping Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations
Jonathan Goodman, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

THE IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY:
WWH 109

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Protein Production and Stochastic Exclusion Processes
Tom Chou, UCLA
See the speaker's webpage! http://www.biomath.ucla.edu/~tchou
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Caroline Muller
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 813
How Good is the Conventional Quasilinear Operator for Ion Cyclotron Heating?
Choong-Seock Chang (CIMS) and Jaemin Kwon (PPPL)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Coupling the Internal Force-Generating Mechanisms of Eucaryotic Cilia and Flagella with External Fluid Mechanics
Lisa Fauci, Tulane and CIMS

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30 - 4:30, WWH 1302
An Ice Free Arctic?
Bruno Tremblay, Columbia University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
See the CAOS Seminars webpage for abstract if available: http://math.nyu.edu/caos teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Conformally Parametrized Surfaces with Bounds on the Wilmore Energy
Ernst Kuwert, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Invertible and Quasistatic Finite Elements for Skeletal Muscle Simulation
Joseph Teran, CIMS
See the AML website: http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMIMAR:
2:00 P.M., Meyer 424B (Physics Department Building)
Stretched Times and Divergent Time Scales Near the Glass Transition
Michael Shlesinger, Office of Naval Research

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Implied Volatility Processes: Evidence from the Volatility Derivatives Market
George Skiadopolous, University of Piraeus
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M.,
Room 312 Math, Columbia University

Geometry of Unitary Eigenvarieties and Rank of Selmer Groups
Joel Bellaiche, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage for link to abstract: http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS5.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyperbolic Equations
Lilia Krivodonova, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Some Correlation Inequalities
Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
Abstract available at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithmic Theory of Sparse Approximation Problems
S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
See the CS Seminars webpage: http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Modeling Diffusion Processes in Unbounded Domains
Leslie Greengard
For complete GSPD Seminar listings, see http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/

NYC NLP FORUM:
2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Better k-best Parsing, Hypergraphs, and Dynamic Programming
Liang Huang, University of Pennsylvania
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/index.shtml

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Functional and Evolutionary Inference in Gene Networks: Does Topology Matter?
Mark L. Siegal, Dept. of Biology, New York University
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Wave-Driven Vortex Dynamics in the Near-Shore Region
Andrea Barreiro
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

Vol. 51, No. 15 -- December 14, 2005

Last issue of the Fall 2005 Semester. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14

THEORY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Robust Approximate Zeros for Newton's Method
Vikram Sharma, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/~wu/theory/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Long Range Scattering for the Maxwell-Schrðdinger System
Giorgio Velo, Università di Bologna
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

HOLIDAY LECTURE:
3:00 P.M., WWH 109

Nobody Knows Anything (a brief history of the future)
Ken Perlin, CIMS

Holiday Party, 4:30 P.M., 13th Floor Commons
RSVP by December 9th to Anne Seaton, seaton@cims.nyu.edu
or call (212) 998-3256.

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU-CIMS, 13th Floor
Bounding Picard Numbers of Surfaces, or How to succeed in coding theory without really trying
Kiran Kedlaya, M.I.T.
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 P.M. served in the Math Lounge on the 13th floor
See the Joint Number Theory Seminars webpage for link to abstract: http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS5.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Corner Percolation on Z sup 2 and the Square Root of 17
Gabor Pete, UC Berkeley
Abstract available at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 813 Tba
Jeff Harris, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
LogTM: Log-based Transactional Memory
Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
See the AMS webpage: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
CANCELLED
Basics of Systematic Stochastic Modeling of Climate Variability
Christian Franzke
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/