Previous Weekly Bulletins

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Complexifications of Morse Function, the Directed Fukaya Category and Exact Lgrangian Submanifolds in Cotangent Bundles (an overview)
Joe Johns, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Dispersive Solutions for Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Symmetry and Classification of Solution of Critical Exponent Problem on Heisenberg Group
Joytshana V. Prajapat, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M. in the lounge
http://math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/colloquium.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Spectral Sequence of Seidel, Fukaya and Smith
Joe Johns, NYU
http://cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
What Did the Totalitarian Language in the Former Socialistic Czechoslovakia Look Like?
Vera Schmiedtova, Charles University, Prague
Please note that the day, time, and room number will not be the usual day, time, and room number. http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Antarctic Intermediate Water Formation: Theory, Simulation, and Observation
Richard Karsten, Acadia University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Spectral Sequence of Seidel, Fukaya and Smith II
Joe Johns, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Greedy Drawings of Planar Triangulations
Raghavan Dhandapani, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cryptograph and Game Theory 1
Yevgeniy Dodis, Discussion Leader
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

THEORY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Logarithmic Regret Algorithms for Online Convex Optimization
Amit Agarwal, Princeton University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/index.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
L^{\infty} and Moment Bounds for a PDE Modelling Coagulation
Alan Hammond, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, 719 Broadway, 7th Floor
Textual Entailment: Framework, Learning and Applications
Idan Szpektor, Bar Ilan University, Israel
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Testing for a Theta
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Methods for Magnetic Fusion
Paul Garabedian, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Guided Modes and Resonance in Periodic Structues
Steven Shipman, Louisiana State University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Q Gradings in Heegaard-Floer Homology
Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Representation of a General Incompressible Linearly Elastic Material as a System of Elastic Fibers Embedded in an Incompressible Fluid
Charles S. Peskin (joint work with Yoichiro Mori), CIMS

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamical Systems with Holes
Mark Demers, University of Connecticut, Fairfield

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Ramsey-type Results for Intersection Graphs of Geometric Objects
Jacob Fox, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Marine Ice Sheet Dynamics
Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
High Dimensional Complexifications
Joe Johns, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Drawing Graphs with Few Slopes
Geza Toth, Renyi Institute, Hungarian Academy
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
$C^{1, \alpha}$ Regularity for Infinity Harmonic Functions in the Plane
Ovidiu Savin, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cryptograph and Game Theory 2
Yevgeniy Dodis, Discussion Leader
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Effects of Discreteness and Resonance in $\beta$-FPU Chains
Boris Gershgorin, RPI
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Approximation Algorithms for Unique Games
Konstantin Makarychev, Princeton University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/index.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
4:15 P.M., Room 9204, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Additive Approximation for Edge-Deletion Problems
Benny Sudakov, Renyi Institute, Princeton University and IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Sherlock Trader: Take-Over Sleuth
Mike Lipkin, Katama Trading and American Stock Exchange
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Data-Centric Approach to Synthronization
Frank Tip, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Erdos-Renyi Phase Transition
Joel Spencer, CIMS

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Rare Events in Complex Systems
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Q Gradings in Heegaard-Floer Homology: Part II
Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Experimental Investigation and a Theory of Valveless Pumping
Tom Bringley, CIMS

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Ergodic Properties of Higher Dimensional Hyperbolic Billiards
Peter Balint, NYU

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Crossing Numbers of Toroidal Graphs
Geza Toth, Renyi Institute, Hungarian Academy
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Net Energy Dissipation Rates in the Tropical Ocean and ENSO Dynamics
Alexey Fedorov, Yale University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Pseudoholomorphic Curves into Contact Lie Groups and the Holomorphic Wacky Principle: Part I
Sunil Pinnamaneni, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Induced Subgraphs of Ramsey Graphs with Many Distinct Degrees
Boris Bukh, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Some Effects of Irregular Boundaries in Fluid Mechanics
David Gerard-Veret, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cryptograph and Game Theory 2 (Continued)
Yevgeniy Dodis, Discussion Leader
Note the slightly later starting time
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Optimizing Locomotion: Experiments with Legged Locomotion and Flapping-winged Flight
Russ Tedrake, MIT Robot Locomotion Group
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Greedy Drawings of Planar Triangulations
Raghavan Dhandapani, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Symmetry Classification of a Family of Mixed Stochastic Volatility Models
Tai-Ho Wang, National Chiao Tung University and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
The Sato-Tate Conjecture
Richard Taylor, Harvard University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY:
9:30 A.M. - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The talks are 15 Minutes each
Session 1. 9:30 - 10:30 A.M.

• Luis Silvestre
  An Extension Problem Related to the Fractional Laplacian
• David Gerard-Varet
  The Mathematical Study of Boundary Layers
• Pierre Germain
  Weak and Strong Solutions in Fluid Mechanics
• Ning Jiang
  Weakly Compressible Navier-Stokes Approximatins of Gas Dynamics

Session 2. 11:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.

• Julien Dubedat
  Schramm-Loewner Evolutions
• Alan Hammond
  Resonances and Random Translations of a Torus
• Peter Balint
  Billiard Systems: A Model for Chaos
• Ioana Suvaina
  On Einstein Metrics on 4-Manifolds with Finite Cyclic Fundamental Group
• Yongzhong Xu
  Contact Form Geometry via Legendrian Curves

BREAK: 12:15 - 2:30 P.M.

Session 3. 2:30 - 3:45 P.M.

• Kevin Lin
  Reliable and Unreliable Dynamics in Driven Coupled Oscillators
• Lee Deville
  Reliability and Synchronization in Stochastic Dynamical Systems
• James Taylor
  Encoding Genomic Sequence Alignment for Identification of Functional Elements
• David Bindel
  Simulating Microsystems: From Resonance Calculations to Better Cell Phones
• Wei Zhu
  A Model for Liquid Crystal Elastomers

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 109
Bell's Inequalities for Quantum Probabilities
Jack Schwartz, NYU Professor Emeritus
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in the lobby of Warren Weaver Hall outside of Room 109
Note the room number
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Pseudoholomorphic Curves into Contact Lie Groups and the Holomorphic Wacky Principle: Part II
Sunil Pinnamaneni, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Vortex-induced Vibrations by the Immersed Boundary Method
Yongsam Kim, CIMS

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Exchangeable, Gibbs and Equilibrium Measures for Subshifts
Jon Aaronson

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 402
Orderability of the Universal Cover of the Groups of Contactomorphisms of RP³: Yet Another Proof
Peter Albers, NYU
Note the room number.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Arrangements of Topological Hyperplanes
Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Pseudoholomorphic Curves into Contact Lie Groups and the Holomorphic Wacky Principle: Part III
Sunil Pinnamaneni, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stable Blow-Up Dynamics for the Relativistic Gravitational Vlasov-Poisson System
Pierre Raphael, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Practical Identity-Based Encryption Without Random Oracles
Sherman Chow
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Polyelectrolyte Solution Rheology
Ralph Colby, Penn State, Materials Science and Engineering
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Linearity-Inducing Class of Stochastic Processes
Xavier Gabaix, MIT and Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Arithmetic of Dynamical Green's Functions
Matt Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
7th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8
See the Program at
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Elsy/activities/dynamicsworkshop/2006/schedule.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Computational Symmetry
Yanxi Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Glancing Interactions of Internal Solitary Waves
Dan Goldberg
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
7th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8
See the Program at
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Elsy/activities/dynamicsworkshop/2006/schedule.html

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8

DYNAMICS DAYS AT THE COURANT:
7th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8
See the Program at
http://cims.nyu.edu/%7Elsy/activities/dynamicsworkshop/2006/schedule.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On Transport and Deformation in Electrolyte Fluids
Chun Liu, Penn State

JOINT COURANT-PHYSICS NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Geometry of a Whole Sunflower: Selection and Stability of Phyllotactic Patterns during Growth
Yves Couder, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Distinct Triangle Areas in the Plane and in Three-Space
Csaba D. Toth, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
The Discharging Method and Its Applications for Graph Drawing
Rados Radoicic, Baruch College, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Upper Bounds on the Coarsening Rate of a Discrete Ill-posed Nonlinear Diffusion Equation
John Greer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Lattices and Cryptography: An Overview of Recent Results with Emphasis on RSA and NTRU Cryptosystems
Petros Mol
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Thermal Convection in a Strongly Stratified Two-Dimensional-Like Fluid
Xiao-lun Wu, University of Pittsburg, Physics and Astronomy
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
4:15 P.M., Room 9204, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Testing for a Theta
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University and Clay Mathematics Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
More than Indifferent: High-frequency Trading in a Limit-order Book
Sasha Stoikov, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Rankin-Selberg Type Identities for Fourier Coefficients and Gelfand Pairs
Andre Reznikov, Bar-Ilan University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13

THE SECOND NORTHEASTERN VERIFICATION SEMINAR:
Courant Institute, WWH 109
Hosted by the Analysis of Computer Systems Group (ACS Group)

• 10:00 - 10:15 A.M.: Coffee
• 10:15 - 10:30: Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 10:30 - 12:00 Noon -- SESSION 1
  • Modeling C. elegans Development: System Design Meets Biology
    Hillel Kugler, NYU
  • Accelerating High-level BMC using Synthesis for Verification Paradigm
    Malay K. Ganai, NEC Labs
  • Analysis of Security Policies
    Scott D. Stoller, Stony Brook University
• 12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
• 2:00 - 3:30 -- SESSION 2
  • Verifying Assembly-level Garbage Collectors Implementations in Coq
    Andrew McCreight, Yale University
  • Secure Information Flow by Mating Invariants
    David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology
  • CFL-Reachability in Subcubic Time
    Swarat Chaudhuri, University of Pennsylvania
• 3:30 - 4:00: Break
• 4:00 - 5:00 -- SESSION 3
  • Analysis of Interacting Pushdown Systems
    Vineet Kahlon, NEC Labs
  • Local Proofs for Global Properties
    Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs
• 5:00 - 6:00: Open Discussion and 5 Minute Madness

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Spectral Inclusion Regions for Stability Analysis
David Bindel, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Asymptotics of the Heat Kernel at the Cut Locus with Connections to Brownian Motion
Robert Neel, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Jumping of the Symmetric Plurigenera along Families
Bruno de Oliveira, Miami
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Simply Connected Asymmetric Manifolds
Matthias Kreck, Heidelberg
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Puzzling p-Laplacian
Scott Sheffield, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16

COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
A Taste of Compressed Sensing
Ronald DeVore

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Symplectic Vortices on the Complex Plane and Quantum Cohomology
Fabian Ziltener, LMU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17

SPECIAL SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY AND DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
WWH 1314
Quantum Cohomology and Relative Symplectic Invariants
Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv

• 1:00 P.M.:
  Part I: Algebraic Structures and Foundations
• 2:15 P.M.:
  Part II: Applications

Please note the change in time and room number.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_diff.html
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Large Eddy Simulation of Open Channel Flow through Emergent and Submerged Vegetation using Immersed Boundary Method
Chunlei Liang, Institute of Hydromechanics, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Conservation Laws for Conformally Invariant Lagrangians and Schrödinger Equations
Tristan Rivière ETH Zürich
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Delauney Graphs and Conflict-free Colorings
Xiaomin Chen, Google
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Simulated Impact of Climate Change on Hurricanes
Tom Knutson, GFDL
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Fredholm Property and Compactification for Symplectic Vortices on the Complex Plane
Fabian Ziltener, LMU
Note the special time!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Passing to the Limit in the Ginzburg-Landau Equations, and Related Open Problems
Etienne Sandier, Universite Paris-12 and McMaster
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mitigating Dictionary Attacks on Password-Protected Local Storage
Shai Halevi, IBM Research
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Collective Dynamics in Dispersions of Anisotropic and Deformable Particles
David Saintillan, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

SPECIAL LECTURE:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Formation of Shocks in 3-Dimensional Fluids
Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH Zurich
Note the change in time!
Preceded by Tea at 3:30 P.M.
First of a 3-part Special Lecture Series. Continues 10/23 and 10/24

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Risk Neutral Valuation of Counterparty Risk
Damiano Brigo, Banca IMI
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Equivariant Cohomology and the Fundamental Lemma
Ngo Bao Chau, Universite Paris-Sud and IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20

Project Presentations for the Courant Summer Undergraduate Research
9:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Exercise 2006
All are welcome!

APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICINE:
A Two-Day Conference in honor of Charles S. Peskin's and David M. McQueen's 60th Birthdays
Courant Institute-NYU, WWH 109
Continues Saturday, October 21
For more information, see the Conference website at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/mathbio/index.html

FRIDAY TALKS: All talks and breaks are in WWH 109

• 8:30 - 9:30 A.M.: Breakfast and Coffee
• 9:30 - 10:00: Opening Remarks
• 10:00 - 10:30: Arjun Raj, MIT
  Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology
• 10:30 - 11:00: Paul J. Atzberger, UC Santa Barbara
  A Stochastic Immersed Boundary Method for Microscopic Fluid Dynamics: Toward Modeling Cellular Mechanics
• 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break
• 11:30 - 12:00 Noon: Samuel Isaacson, University of Utah
  The Reaction-diffusion Master Equation and Spatially Continuous Stochastic Reaction-diffusion Models
• 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch on your own
• 2:00 - 2:30: Tamar Schlick, NYU
  A Tale of Histone Tails
• 2:30 - 3:00: Michael Mascagni, Florida State University
  Using Simple Stochastic Differential Equations to Solve Complicated Partial Differential Equations
• 3:00 - 3:30: Coffee Break
• 3:30 - 4:00: Daniel Forger, University of Michigan
  Towards a Detailed Understanding of the Mammalian Timekeeping
• 4:00 - 4:30: Mette Olufsen, North Carolina State University
  Short Term Regulation during Postural Change from Sitting to Standing
• 5:00 P.M.: Wine and Cheese Reception (CIMS 13th Floor Lounge)

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Constrained Pseudo-Transient Continuation
C.T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Large Deviations for Stochastic Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations and Solitary Waves
Eric Gautier, Yale University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Planning Algorithms and Information Spaces
Steven M. Lavalle, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
The Symplectic 2-Torus as a Poisson Lie ''Group''
Alan Weinstein, Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Population Density Approach to Network Modeling: Fast Solvers and Firing Rate Dynamics
Cheng Ly
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Efficient Ensemble Kalman Filters for Numerical Weather Prediction
John Harlim, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Subdivision Methods for Solving Polynomial Equations
Bernard Mourrain, Project GALAAD, INRIA, France
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Juliana Faus da Silva Dias
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21

APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICINE:
A Two-Day Conference in honor of Charles S. Peskin's and David M. McQueen's 60th Birthdays
Courant Institute-NYU, WWH 109
For more information, see the Conference website at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/mathbio/index.html

SATURDAY TALKS: All talks and breaks are in WWH 109

• 9:00 - 10:00 A.M.: Breakfast and Coffee
• 10:00 - 10:30: Arthur Sherman, National Institute of Health, NIDDK
  Ionic and Metabolic Oscillations in Pancreatic Beta-Cells
• 10:30 - 11:00: John Rinzel, NYU
  Timing Computations in the Auditory Brain Stem
• 11:00 - 11:30: Coffee Break
• 11:30 - 12:00 Noon: Christoph Börgers, Tufts University
  Gamma Oscillations and Attention
• 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch on your own
• 2:00 - 2:30: Yoichiro Mori, University of British Columbia
  Three-dimensional Model of Cellular Electrical Activity
• 2:30 - 3:00: Boyce Griffith, CIMS-NYU
  Towards an Electro-Mechano-Fluidic Model of the Heart
• 3:00 - 3:30: Coffee Break
• 3:30 - 4:00: Aaron Fogelson, University of Utah
  Computational Modeling of Arterial Platelet Thrombosis
• 4:00 - 4:30: Laura Miller, University of North Carolina
  Fluid Dynamics and Mechanosensing in the Developing Embryonic Heart
• 4:30 - 5:00: Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
  Biofluidmechanics of Reproduction
• 5:00 - 5:30: Group Photograph (Outside Courant, weather permitting)
• 6:00 - 10:00 P.M.: Banquet Dinner (NYU Kimmel Hall)

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23

SPECIAL LECTURE:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Formation of Shocks in 3-Dimensional Fluids
Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH Zurich
Preceded by Tea at 3:00 P.M.
Second of a 3-part Special Lecture Series. Continues 10/24

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Noise-induced Alternations in an Attractor Network Model of Perceptual Bi-stability
Ruben Moreno Bote, Center for Neural Science, NYU

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:30 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Impossibility Results for Combiners for CRHFs
Daniel Wichs, NYU
Note the different place and date/time.
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

SPECIAL LECTURE:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Formation of Shocks in 3-Dimensional Fluids
Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH Zurich
Preceded by Tea at 3:00 P.M.

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Ergodic Properties of Hyperbolic Billiard Systems II
Peter Balint, NYU

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ensemble Mean Dynamics for Understanding Atmospheric Low-Frequency Flow and ENSO
Fei-Fei Jin, Florida State University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Room 815, (Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Cell Asdsembly Formed by Denervation
Hide Cateau, RIKEN Institute, Japan
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Gromov Hyperbolic Spaces and Sharp Constants for Isoperimetric and Filling Radius Inequalities
Stefan Wenger, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Actin Self-assembly, Cell Crawling and Listeria Motility
Andrea Liu, UCLA, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Big Line Bundles
Xinyi Yuan, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Parallel Numerical Methods for a Porous Media Model in Biomechanics
Christian Wiener, University of Karlsruhe
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Circular Beta Ensembles
Rowan Killip, UCLA
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Programming Languages and Automated Theorem Proving
Aaron Stump, Washington University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Immersed Boundary Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction
Charles Peskin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Crash Course on Character Encodings
Yusuke Shinyama, NYU
Please note the change in room and building!
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Theory of Correlations for Spiking Neurons
Eric Shea-Brown, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Nastrom-Gage Energy Spectrum of the Atmosphere
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MUSIC AT CIMS EVENT:
5:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Lounge
Matthias Kreck, violoncello
Edmond Schonberg, piano
Light refreshments will be served.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
11:00 A.M., Columbia University, 7th Floor Interschool Lab, CEPSR Building
Lexical Networks
Dragomir R. Radev, University of Michigan
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Low Degree Complete Intersections and Weak Approximations over Function Fields of Curves
Johan de Jong, Columbia/MIT

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Existence of C ^{{ 1,1 }} Solution and Its Applications
Xiuxiong Chen, Madison
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On Lattice Thermal Casimir: Numerical Methods and Theory
Samuela Pasquali, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Theorique, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Reliable and Unreliable Dynamics in Driven Coupled Oscillators
Kevin Lin, NYU

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Almost C ^∞ Regularity of Homogeneous MA Equation (arising from Kähler geometry) and Its Application
Xiuxiong Chen, Madison
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Sylvester-Gallai Type Theorems for Pseudoparabolas
Amitai Perlstein, Technion, Haifa
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Critical Wave Equation: Finite and Infinite Energy Solutions
Pierre Germain, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
Please note: This seminar is on Thursday, 11/2 (not Friday, 11/3).

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
12:15 - 1:45 P.M., WWH 1302
How to Tell which of the Encrypted Numbers is Greater?
Vladimir Kolesnikov, Bell Laboratories
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling and Simulating the Fluid Dynamics of Electrowetting on Dielectric (EWOD)
Shawn Walker, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Quantitative Strategies for Derivatives Trading
Dennis Yang, ATMIF LLC
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Quantitative Equidistribution of Small Points on Elliptic Curves
Clayton Petsche, CUNY
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Estimation of Constrained Mixture Densities
Jim Burke, University of Washington
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Cutoff Phenomenon for Finite Markov Chains
Laurent Saloff-Coste, Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE/MATH COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 109
Some Thoughts on the Foundations of Scientific Computation
Steve Smale, UC Berkeley and Toyota Institute Chicago
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in front of WWH 109
Please note the new room number!
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
A Combinatorial Description of Knot Floer Homology
Ciprian Manolescu, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Mixing in Stratified Fluids
Esteban Tabak, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Directed Self-assembly of Molecular Neteworks with Unique Topologies
Michael Ward, NYU Chemistry
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Effects of Tidal Mixing on an Ocean Global Circulation Model
Caroline Muller
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

NEW YORK AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR at COURANT INSTITUTE
WWH 101

• 4:00 P.M.: Xiuxiong Chen, Madison
  A Recent Update on Extremal Kähler Metrics
• 5:15 P.M.: Eugene Lerman, UIUC
  Singular Symplectic Toric Varieties -- First Steps

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Ealbers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Neighborly Embedded Manifolds and Continuous Hashing
Gil Kalai, Yale University and Hebrew University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 513
How to Analyze a Numerical Turbulence Spectrum?
W. Nevins, LLNL
http://www.math.nyu.edu/mfdd/imre/mfdd.html

SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:00 P.M., Room 639, (Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Electro-Hydrodynamic Couplings at the Colloidal Scale: Fundamental Principles and Microfluidic Applications
Armand Ajdari, ESPCI/CNRS, Paris, France

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Regularity and Symmetry for the Solutions of Integral Systems Related to HLS Inequality
Fengbo Hang, Princeton University

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On Conservative Newhouse Phenomena
Anton Gorodetski, Caltech

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Submesoscale Processes in the Upper Ocean
Amala Mahadevan, Boston University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 613
Quantum Resonances in Semi-classical Chaotic Scattering
Maciej Zworski, UC Berkeley

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Bijective Decomposition of Tree-rooted Maps
Olivier Bernardi, Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Edge of the Wedge Theorem
Leon Ehrenpreiss
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
12:15 - 1:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Sequential Aggregate Signatures and Multisignatures without Random Oracles
Kristiyan Haralambiev, NYU
Please note that Robert Soule's talk, originally to be held today, has been rescheduled for November 30th.
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Elastic Turbulence: Random Flow of Visco-elastic Fluid without Inertia
Victor Steinberg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Integral Moments for GL(n): Toward Breaking Convexity (in the t-Aspect)
Paul Garrett, University of Minnesota
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Introduction to Kinetic and Fluid Models for Fusion Plasmas, and Linear Solvers for these Simulations
Mark Adams, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Random Planar Curves in Lattice Models with Local Weights
John Cardy, Oxford University and IAS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Einstein Metrics on 4-manifolds with Finite Cyclic Fundamental Group
Ioana Suvaina, NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

NEURO FRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Modeling Orientation Plasticity
Nin Qian, Columbia University

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Transparent Achievement of Correlated Equilibrium
Silvio Micali, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Wigner Measure and Semiclassical Limits of Schrödinger Type Equations
Ping Zhang, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Analysis of Complex Time Series by Scale Dependent Lyapunov Exponent
Jianbo Gao, University of Florida, Electrical and Computer Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
2:30 P.M., WWH 102
A Computational Linguist on Wall Street
Christer Samuelsson, ChoiceMaker Inc.
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Mixing Columnar Model for a Moist Atmosphere
Fred Laliberte
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM / SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Tiling Spaces with Infinite Local Complexity
Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas
Preceded by Tea at 3:15 P.M.

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Tba
Al Momin, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Mechanism of Forward Motion during Flapping Flight
Shih Ting Huang, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Neighborly Embedded Manifolds and Continuous Hashing
Gil Kalai, Yale University and Hebrew University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Glacial Variability During the Pleistocene: Summer Energy and Continuous Obliquity Pacing
Peter Huybers, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 -5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, 815 Meyer Hall
Testing Hypotheses about Computations in the Visual System using Targeted Cell Class Ablation
Sheila Nirenberg, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill-Cornell
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Floer Homology for Surface Diffeomorphisms
Al Momin, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16

NORTH EAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
November 16-17, 2006
C.P. Davis Auditorium, Columbia University
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar/

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Applied and Theoretical Challenges for Multi-scale Hyperbolic PDEs in the Tropics
Andy Majda, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
11:00 A.M., Conference Room, 715 Broadway, 7th Floor
Automatic Deidentification by using Sentence Features and Label Consistency
Eiji Aramaki, University of Tokyo
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Large Deviation Principles in Optical Communication Systems: Theoretical and Experimental Study
Maxim Shkarayev, University of Arizona
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

THEORY SEMINAR:
5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Engineering Highway Hierarchies
Dominik Schultes
Note different time and venue.
http://cs.nyu.edu/%7Erastogi/theory/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
``42''
Brian Conrey, American Institute of Mathematics
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

NORTH EAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
November 16-17, 2006
C.P. Davis Auditorium, Columbia University
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar/

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Boundary Corrector for Linear Elliptic Equations with Rapidly Oscillating Coefficients
Henrique Versieux, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Distance Trisector Curves and Zone Diagram with Approximation Using Convex Distance Metrics
Tetsuo Asano, JAIST
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Correlations vs. Causality? Coding in Cortex
Aaditya Rangan, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
An MJO Analog and Intraseasonal Variability in a Multi-cloud Model above the Equator
Sam Stechmann
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COB SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
Extracting Signals from Multi-genome Alignments for Identification of Functional Elements
James Taylor, CIMS and the Center for Comparative Functional Genomics (Biology, NYU)

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
11:00 A.M., Conference Room, 715 Broadway, 7th Floor
Maximum Margin Labeling for Multi-topic Text Categorization
Hideto Kazama, Google
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 513
Nonlinear Approximation by Greedy Algorithms: Theory, Applications and Open Problems
Albert Cohen, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Note special day, time and place
http://www.math.nyu.edu/%7Egunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Universal Algorithms for Machine Learning
Wolfgang Dahmen, RWTH Aachen
No Math Colloquium today. Instead, please note the special day, time and place for this seminar.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/%7Egunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Basic Classical Fredholm Analysis for J-holomorphic Curves
Umberto Hryniewicz, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
11:00 A.M., Conference Room, 715 Broadway, 7th Floor
Filtering Noise from Gazetteer Generated for Unsupervised NER
David Nadeau, University of Ottawa
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Regularity and Synchrony in Motor Proteins
Lee DeVille, CIMS

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
12:30 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 101
Identity-based Traitor Tracing
Alex Dent
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Quadruple Junction Solutions in the Entire Three Dimensional Space
ChangFeng Gui, UConn
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Some Phenomena in Networks Modeled by Generalized Lotka-Volterra Equations
Valentin Afraimovich, Mexico

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Spectral Invariants in Lagrangian Intersection Theory
Rémi Leclercq, Montreal
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR / MATH COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Proof of the Weinstein Conjecture in Dimension 3
Cliff Taubes, Harvard University
Preceded by Tea at 3:00 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:45 - 5:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Deriving the Boltzmann Equation from Hard-sphere Dynamics: Part I -- General
Oscar Lanford, ETH-Zurich
This talk will take place in two parts, the second being Tuesday, December 5th, at 4:00 P.M.

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
The Convex Dimension of a Graph
Nir Halman, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Eocene Paradox: Maintaining Weak Temperature Gradients in Warm Climates
Robert Korty, Cal Tech
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 -5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, 815 Meyer Hall
Population Dynamics in the Rat Prefrontal Cortex during Timing Behavior
Alfonso Renart, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Undecidable Statements and the Zero-One Law in Random Geometric Graphs
Amit Agarwal, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Some Liouville Theorem and Gradient Estimate
Yanyan Li, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
CANCELLED
Hiding Secret Points amidst Chaff
Robert Soule, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
The p-Adic Langlands Conjecture for GL(2) over Q
Matthew Emerton, Northwestern University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Nonlinearity in Hedge Fund Returns
Raphael Douady, RiskData
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1

WORKSHOP 2006: Vortices and Waves in Geophysical Flows
December 1 and 2, WWH 102

• 8:30 - 9:00 A.M.: Continental Breakfast
• 9:00 - 10:00: Andrew Majda
  Angular Momentum, Statistical Mechanics, and Intense Geophysical Vortices
• 10:00 A.M.: Coffee Break
• 10:30 - 11:30: Mike Montgomery
  Incipient Hurricane Formation Revisited
• 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.: Nick Hall
  African Easterly Waves: Observations and Modelling
• 12:30 P.M.: Lunch
• 2:00 - 3:00: Rupert Klein
  Multi-scale Analyses for Intense Atmospheric Vortices
• 3:00: Coffee Break
• 3:30 - 4:30 P.M.: Da-Lin Zhang
  Recent Advances in Modeling Tropical Cyclones

Registration is required. Send an email to the workshop organizer, Michelle Cordero at cordero@cims.nyu.edu, stating your name, institution, and which days you plan to attend.
This Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University (Andrew Majda).

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nearly-Linear Time Algorithms for Solving Symmetric, Diagonally-Dominant Linear Systems
Dan Spielman, Yale University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Hydrodynamic Limit for the Simple Exclusion Process with Degenerated Bond Disorder
Milton Jara, IMPA and CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NEURO FRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Perceptual Learning and Top-Down Influences in Primary Visual Cortex
Wu Li, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
CANCELLED
Tba
Vladimir Vapnik, NEC
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Monte Carlo and Math Finance
Jonathan Goodman
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

SPECIAL NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
3:00 P.M., WWH 101
Plaintext Awareness in the Common Random String Model
Alex Dent, Royal Hollaway University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cloaking: A New Phenomenon in Electromagneteism
Graeme Milton, University of Utah
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MUSIC AT CIMS:
5:00 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge
Susan Szesztay and Edmond Schonberg, piano

Schubert: Impromptu in B flat, Op. 142 no. 3
Bartok: Sonatina

Bagpipers
Bear Dance
Finale

Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Foreign Lands -- A curious story -- catch me if you can -- Entreating Child -- Perfect Happiness -- An Important Event -- Dreaming -- By the Fireside -- Knight of the Hobby-Horse -- Almost Too Serious -- Frightening -- Child Falling Asleep -- The Poet Speaks
Khatchaturian: Valse-Caprice and Dance
Schubert: Fantasy in F minor, D940 for Piano 4-hands

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2

WORKSHOP 2006: Vortices and Waves in Geophysical Flows
December 1 and 2, WWH 102

• 8:30 - 9:00 A.M.: Continental Breakfast
• 9:00 - 10:00: Oliver Buhler
  Internal Waves in the Atmosphere and Ocean
• 10:00 A.M.: Coffee Break
• 10:30 - 11:30: Sonya Legg
  Internal Tides at Topography: Nonlinearity and Breaking
• 11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.: John Schinocca
  Waves, Vortices and Climate Change
• 12:30 P.M.: Lunch
• 2:00 - 3:00: Stefan Llewellyn Smith
  Internal-wave Interactions with Vortices and Topography: NIO Dispersion and Generation of Internal Tides
• 3:00: Coffee Break
• 3:30 - 4:30 P.M.: Open discussion / closing remarks

Registration is required. Send an email to the workshop organizer, Michelle Cordero at cordero@cims.nyu.edu, stating your name, institution, and which days you plan to attend.
This Workshop is sponsored jointly by the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science and the Morse Chair of Arts and Sciences at New York University (Andrew Majda).

MONDAY, DECEMBER 4

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Symplectic Surgeries and Their Applications
Ioana Suvaina, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Immersed Boundary Method with Advection-Electrodiffusion
Pilhwa Lee, CIMS

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR / MATH COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On PDEs
Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Moisture Effects on Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Circulations
Dargan Frierson, University of Chicago
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Eigenvalues of Large Sample Covariance Matric in Statistics
Jinho Baik, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
12:15 - 1:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Hiding Secret Points amidst Chaff
Robert Soule, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Floppy and Squishy: Low-Reynolds Number Locomotion with Deformable Bodies and Surfaces
Eric Lauga, MIT, Math Department
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
What Is a Good Risk Measure: Bridging the Gaps between Data, Coherent Risk Measures, and Insurance Risk Measures
Steven Kou, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Finiteness for Class Numbers for Groups over Global Fields
Brian Conrad, Columbia University and University of Michigan
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8

IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY:
Courant Institute, WWH 109

• 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee
• 10:00 - 10:55: Julia Chuzhoy, Institute for Advanced Study
  Cut Problems in Graphs: Algorithms and Complexity
• 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
• 11:05 - 12:00 Noon: Dan Boneh, Stanford University
  Queries on Encrypted Data
• 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
• 2:00 - 2:55: Michel Goemans, MIT
  Minimum Bounded Degree Spanning Trees
• 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
• 3:15 - 4:10 P.M.: Jonathan Kelner, Institute for Advanced Study and MIT
  A Randomized Polynomial-Time Simplex Algorithm for Linear Programming

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall06

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Speeding Up Numerical Computations via Conformal Maps
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
t ^{{ 1/3 }} Superdiffusivity of Finite-Range Asymmetric Exclusion Processes on Z
Benedek Valko, University of Toronto
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Witten Equation and Singularity Theory
Yongbin Ruan, Michigan Ann Arbor
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/diff_geom.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Work of Wendelin Werner: An Expanded Fields Medal Laudation from ICM 2006 in Madrid
Chuck Newman
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tice/seminar/

NY AREA SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
Columbia University

• 1:30 P.M., ROOM 417: Melissa Liu, Columbia University
  Gromov-Witten Invariants of Toric Calabi-Yau Threefolds
• 2:30 P.M., ROOM 507: Mohammed Abouzaid, Chicago
  Homological Mirror Symmetry for Toric Varieties

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~albers/courant_symplectic_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inducing Regular Behavior in Stochastic Systems
R.E. Lee DeVille, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Arctic Landfast Sea Ice
Chris Konig
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, DECEMBER 11

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Homological Mirror Symmetry for Blowups of CP ²
Denis Auroux, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Image Denoising with an Orientation-Adaptive Gaussian Scale Mixture Model
David Hammond, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/%7Egunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13

SPECIAL ALL DAY CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM THEORY AND MANIFOLDS:
Graduate Center at CUNY
Check the bottom of the web page linked below:
http://math.gc.cuny.edu/seminars/einsteinchair.html

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 -5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, 815 Meyer Hall
Statistical Models for Neural Encoding, Decoding, and Optimal Stimulus Design
Liam Paninski, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Estimate on the Blowing-up Solutions of a Fourth Order Equation
Yongzhong Xu, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU CRYPTO READING GROUP:
12:15 - 1:45 P.M., WWH 1302
On Robust Combiners for Private Information Retrieval and Other Primitives
Kevin Lawler, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

HOLIDAY LECTURE:
3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Fluids at Play in Nature, Sport, and the Laboratory
John Bush, MIT

HOLIDAY PARTY:
4:00 - 6:30 P.M., 13th floor common area
You are cordially invited to attend the CIMS annual holiday festivities!
RSVP by December 11th to Kathy Locke at Locke@cims.nyu.edu or by phone at (212) 998-3256

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Ordinary Cohomology for Arithmetic Groups
Gunter Harder, Max-Planck Institut f&uumul;r Mathematik, Germany and IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tidal Flow over Topography: Instabilities of the Waves Radiated
Caroline Muller
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
Discovery of Multiple Phenotypic Capacitors in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Sasha Levy, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/compneuroandbio.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
On Triangles of Minimum Area and Tetrahedra of Minimum Volume
Adrian Dumitrescu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
A Borel Transform Method for Locating Singularities of Taylor and Fourier Series
Uriel Frisch, Observatoire de Nice
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~dhu/AMLindex.html