New York University Faculty of Arts and Science College of Arts and Science Graduate School of Arts and Science

Previous Weekly Bulletins

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC LUNCHTIME TEACHING SEMINAR SERIES:
11:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M., WWH 317
The First Week of Class
Small lunch provided.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Adam Oberman, Simon Fraser University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

NEW T.A. ORIENTATION:
9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M., WWH 101

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:15 P.M.,* WWH 1314
Scraping the Surface of Three Different Laboratory Problems: The Degenerate, the Discrete and the Pathological
Rich Kerswell, Bristol University, UK
*Please note the earlier start time for this seminar.

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Symmetries of Aspherical Manifolds
Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Local Fast Oscillations Can Lead to Slow Brain-Wide Neural Activity Correlations During Rest
Gustavo Deco, Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
Note: The time of the seminar is shifted 15 minutes this year.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Eigenvalue Problem of Singular Ergodic Control*
Ryan Hynd, CIMS
*Please note the change in title.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NEW YORK AREA MONTHLY CRYPTO DAY:
Beg. 9:50 A.M., 7th Floor Interschool Lab, Schapiro Engineering Research Center, Columbia University
Welcome to New York -- Introducing the new post-docs in the area
Click on Program at the link below:
http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~gccg/cd/

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast Algorithms for Approximating the Pseudospectral Abscissa and Pseudospectral Radius
Nicola Guglielmi, University of L'Aquila
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

JOINT APPLIED MATH SEMINAR/HARMONIC ANALYSIS & SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M.,* WWH 1302
Classification by Invariant Scattering
Stephane Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique
* Please note the different-than-usual time.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

SPECIAL TALK:
2:00 P.M., WWH 109
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, Inc.
Please RSVP, to rsvp@g4li.org
In decades past, models of human language were wrought from the sweat and pencils of linguists. In the modern day, it is more common to think of language modeling as an exercise in probabilistic inference from data: we observe how words and combinations of words are used, and from that build computer models of what the phrases mean. This approach is hopeless with a small amount of data, but somewhere in the range of millions or billions of examples, we pass a threshold, and the hopeless suddenly becomes effective, and computer models sometimes meet or exceed human performance. This talk gives examples of the data available in large repositories of text, images, and videos, and shows some tasks that can be accomplished with the resulting models.

BIO: Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google, Inc. He is a Fellow of the AAAI and the ACM and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field. Previously he was head of Computational Sciences at NASA and a faculty member at USC and Berkeley.

This event is organized by NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research and consortium of universities. G4LI studies the educational use of digital video games and investigates their socio-cultural, cognitive, and emotional impact.

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Complex Fluids in Biology
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 312
A Variational Approach to Shape Formation in Elastic Bodies with Prescribed Riemannian Metrics
Reza Pakzad, University of Pittsburgh
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
A Two-Scale Framework to Variable Selection with NP-Dimensionality
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling Cooperative Activity in Neural Systems
Andrea Barreiro, University of Washington
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Bonsai Trees, or How to Delegate a Lattice Basis
Adriana Lopez-Alt
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Omittable Planes
Jon Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Generation of Solitary Waves in a Pycnocline by an Internal Wave Beam
Nicolas Grisouard (Legi, University of Grenoble/CNRS, France)
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

PRINCETON MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., Princeton University, Fine Hall 314
Optimal Bounds on the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation
Felix Otto, Max-Planck Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Everywhere Differentiability of Infinity Harmonic Functions
Charles K. Smart, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stratified Flows with Vertical Layering of Density: Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Time Evolution of Flow Configurations with Their Stability
Nick Moore, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Metric Cotype in Banach Spaces
Ohad Giladi
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series
Paul Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
No Seminar Today
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Central Limit Theorem for First-Passage Percolation Across Thin Cylinders
Partha Dey, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE FACULTY RESEARCH ORIENTATION:
10:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Refreshments will be served in the 13th floor commons.
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Academic/Graduate/rorientation/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Methods for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
No Meeting
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

SPECIAL ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cloud Feedbacks and Global Climate Sensitivity
Kevin P. Hamilton University of Hawaii at Manoa
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
System Analysis of Metabolic Function in the Heart: From Molecules to Cells to Whole-Organ Function
Daniel A. Beard, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Efficient Lattice (H)IBE in the Standard Model
Joel Alwen
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
This talk has been cancelled at this time.
A Cell Complex in Number Theory
Anders Björner, Institut Mittag-Leffler
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Stability, Hyperbolicity Waves and the Boussinesq Approximation in Layered Shallow Water
Paul Milewski, University of Wisconsin at Madison
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Title TBA
Pierre Germain, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 1302
Genus 1 Point Counting in Quadratic Space and Essentially Quartic Time
Andrew Sutherland, MIT
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the 13th floor lounge.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 1302
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Stability of GMRES Convergence, With Application to Preconditioning by Approximate Deflation
Josef Sifuentes, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Euler Hydrodynamics for Attractive Particle Systems in Random Environment
Ellen Saada, Université Paris 5
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Geometric Methods for Monitoring Distributed Streams
Daniel Keren, Haifa University, Israel
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Electromagnetic Scattering and Design
Leslie Greengard, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Peristaltic Waves: Feeding the Hungry Python
Daisuke Takagi, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Form, Function, and Information Processing in Small Biological Networks
Chris Wiggins, Columbia University
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 312
Can One Differentiate SRB States with Respect to the Dynamics? What About Stable-Unstable Tangencies?
David Ruelle (IHES)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 312
Wrinkling as a Relaxation of Compressive Stresses in Thin Elastic Films
Peter Bella
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 317
Signatures Resilient to Continual Leakage on Memory and Computation
Isamu Teranishi, NEC Crpration (visiting scholar from Columbia University)
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 1003, 715 Broadway
Computational Techiques for Graph Matching and miRNA Targeting with Applications in Biology and Biomedicine
Alfredo Ferro and Alessandro Laganà, University of Catania, Italy
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:45 P.M., WWH 202
Turbulent Convection, Dynamo Action, and MHD Wave Propagation in the Solar Interior
Shravan Hanasoge, Princeton University (visiting CIMS)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Open Vocabulary Language Modeling for Binary Switch Typing Interfaces
Brian Roark, Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU), Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/sem/schedule/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
How Far Can You Reach?
Ileana Streinu, Smith College
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC LUNCHTIME TEACHING SEMINAR SERIES:
11:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M., WWH 317
Leading Effective Discussion
Small lunch provided.

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Coarse-Graining of Deterministic Dynamics via Statistical Estimation and Optimization
Bruce Turkington, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Riesz Bases of Wavelets and Applications to Numerical Solutions of Elliptic Equations
Rong Qing Jia, University of Alberta
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Green's Functions and Large Matrix Systems: Electronics and Multiphysics Design, Networked Systems, and Recommendation Engines
Vikram Jandhyala, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
*12:30 P.M., WWH 102
For Example
Scott Klemmer, Stanford HCI Group
Refreshments will be served at 12:15 P.M.
*Please note the time and room number.
Scott Klemmer is one of the leaders in the emerging and very hot area of Human Computer Interaction Design. For a synopsis of his talk, please click on the link below.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Constructive Algorithms for Discrepancy Minimization
Nikhil Bansal
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Euler Systems with Applications to Ideal Class Groups and Elliptic Curves
Victor Kolyvagin, CUNY
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Center for Financial Engineering, Columbia University, Blackrock Auditorium, 11th Floor, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
Flash Crash: The Ecosystem of an Electronic Market
Andrei Kirilenko, CFTC
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Riemannian First-Passage Percolation
Tom LaGatta, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY:
Warren Weaver Hall Room 1302

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 102*
Interactive Sound Rendering
Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
*Please note the room number.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
*4:00 P.M., WWH 705
Actions of Compact Lie Groups on Symplectic Manifolds
Krzysztof Pawalowski (Poznan)
*Note the nonstandard time for this seminar.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
No Meeting (Columbus Day)
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Activity Patterns in Networks Stabilized by Background Oscillators
Frank Hoppensteadt, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Semi-Supervised Semantic Pattern Discovery
Ang Sun, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/sem/schedule/

ITS SEMINAR IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M., Science Center (Room 4102) of the CUNY Graduate Center (5th Ave. at 34th St.)
Puzzles in Eulerian and Lagrangian Turbulence
Rainer Grauer, University of Bochum
This seminar presents some recent developments in turbulence.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Nonhydrostatic Balanced Geostrophic Equations: From Rayleigh Bendard toward Penetrative Convection
Keith Julien, University of Colorado, Boulder
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14

CRYPTO DAY:
Theme: CRYPTO/EUROCRYPT '10 papers
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall 1302

For more information, please click on the link:
http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~gccg/cd/

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 317*
Two Problems in Interfacial Fluid Dynamics
David Ambrose, Drexel University
*Please note the room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Exploring Resonance Phenomena in the Auditory System
Daniel Andor, Rockefeller University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
An Elementary Proof of the Restricted Invertibility Theorem
Nikhil Srivastava
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Relative p-Adic Hodge Theory
Ruochuan Liu, IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 520
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Towards a Parallel Solver Environment for the Numerical Simulation of Arterial Wall Models
Axel Klawonn, University of Duisburg-Essen
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Conformal Invariance of the Ising Energy Field
Clément Hongler, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Smooth Deformation of Singularities and Generalized Poincaré Complexes: A Stability Theorem and a de Rham Theorem
Markus Banagl (Heidelberg)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

S.U.R.E. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 109
Come and listen to brief research presentations from NYU Math undergraduates who have participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (S.U.R.E.)!

RSVP by Monday, October 11 to Jillian Sullivan at
jillian@math.nyu.edu

Undergraduate Student Participants:

Lauren Bandklayder
On the Stability for Chaotic Sigma-Delta Quantization
Research Mentor: Rachel Ward

Clement Chan
Numerical Methods for Tracer Transports in the Stratosphere
Research Mentor: Professor Edwin Gerber

Zachary DeStefano
The Torsion Subgroup of an Elliptic Curve
Research Mentor: Dr. Sonal Jain

Corey Everlove
Alexander Polynomials of Knots and Links
Research Mentor: Professor Sylvain Cappell

Jacob Hickey
Belyi Functions with a Limit on Ramification
Research Mentor: Professor Fedor Bogomolov

Chaney Lin
Deriving and Interpreting Gopakumar-Vafa Invariants
Research Mentor: Dingyu Yang

Samantha Lozada
Glucose Regulation in Diabetes
Research Mentor: Professor Charles Peskin

Michael Sharpnack
Stochastic Modeling of Prion Diseases
Research Mentor: Professor Charles Peskin

Michael Weiss
Computing Gröbner Bases in Python with Buchberger's Algorithm
Research Mentor: Dr. David Harvey

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fast Transforms: Banded Matrices with Banded Inverses
Gilbert Strang, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Bayesian Modeling in Multivariate Time Series: Structure, Sparsity and Computation
Mike West, Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 1003, 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
Ridiculously Parallel Statistical Inference using GPUs, or Phylogenetics Likelihoods 100-Fold Faster
Marc Suchard, UCLA Biomathematics
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Efficient Chosen-Ciphertext Security via Extractable Hash Proofs
Hoeteck Wee, CUNY
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Learning Random DNF Over the Uniform Distribution
Linda Sellie, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
http://cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/sem/schedule/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Improved Bounds for Geometric Permutations
Natan Rubin, Tel Aviv University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Forcings, Feedbacks, and Tropical Precipitation Shifts in the 20th and 21st Century
Dargan Frierson, University of Washington, Seattle
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On Fourth Order PDEs Modeling Electrostatic MEMS
Nassif Ghoussoub, University of British Columbia
*Please note the room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Title TBA
Robert Deegan, Physics Department, University of Michigan
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 317
(Super)diffusive Asymptotic for Perturbed Lorentz or Lorentz-like Processes
Domokos Szász, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102
The Norm Residue Theorem in Motivic Cohomology
Charles Weibel, Rutgers University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the 13th floor lounge.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 1302
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Sweeping Preconditioners for the Helmholtz Equation
Lexing Ying, University of Texas, Austin
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Warren Weaver Hall 317, Courant Institute

http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
11:15 A.M., WWH 317
Energy Transfer and Joint Diffusion
Domokos Szász, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Price of Anarchy in Adword Auctions
Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Riemannian First-Passage Percolation
Thomas LaGatta, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4102, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
The Ins and Outs of ESL Preposition Error Detection
Joel Tetreault (ETS)
For more inforemation about the seminar series or the "NLP at CUNY" computational linguistics research community, please visit:
http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Tyger Phenomenon for the Galerkin-truncated Burgers and Euler Equations
Uriel Frisch, Laboratoire Cassiopee, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102

http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., WWH 517
Min-Oo's Conjecture for the Hemisphere
Simon Brendle (Stanford and Princeton)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

RECEPTION IN HONOR OF LOUIS NIRENBERG:
Winner of the Chern Medal
5:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor Lounge
Special talks by Peter Lax and Fanghua Lin

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 1003, 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
`Home Depot' Model of Evolution of Prokaryotic Metabolic Networks and Their Regulation
Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven Natinoal Laboratory
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Fast, Non-Stiff Methods for the Immersed Boundary Method
Jordan Fisher, University of California at Santa Barbara
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 317
Blow-Up Solutions for Critical Trudinger-Moser Equations
Bernhard Ruf, University of Milan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
On Fejes Toth's Contact Conjecture for Sphere Packings
Tom Hales, University of Pittsburgh
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Tale of a Neural Network: From Part-of-Speech to Parsing
Ronan Collobert, NEC Laboratories, Princeton
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
MJO Modeling and Prediction
In-Sik Kang, Seoul National University, Korea
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SPECIAL RECEPTION:
4:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons
Please join us as we welcome the Visiting Members, Postdocs, and Courant Instructors to the Institute!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 101
Expanding Wave Solutions of Einstein's Equations which Induce an Anomalous Acceleration into the Standard Model of Cosmology
Joel Smoller, University of Michigan
*Please note the room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
First- and Second-Order Shape Derivative-based Analysis of Roughness Effects on Channel Flow
Georg Stadler, ICES, University of Texas at Austin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
How to Grow Your Lower Bounds
Mihai Patrascu
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Center for Financial Engineering, Columbia University, Blackrock Auditorium, 11th Floor, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
A Random Walk Down Central Asia: Investing in Frontier Markets
Clemente Capello, The Sturgeon Fund
http://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 C415
Tropical Geometry and Adelic Amoebas
Sam Payne, Yale University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Low Mach Number Models in Computational Astrophysics
John Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Convergence Rates for Loop-Erased Random Walk
Fredrik Johansson Viklund, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 202
The Dehn Function of SL(n;Z)
Robert Young (NYU and Toronto)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Graph Theoretic Approach to Markets for Indivisible Goods
Andrew Caplin, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Large-time Behavior of Small Waves
Pierre Germain, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mathematically Modeling the Neurochemistry of Human Sleep-Wake Cycles
Lisa Rogers, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Computer Assisted Design of ACC Inhibitors
Meihua Tu (Pfizer)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
An Energy-Based Method for Incompressible Elasticity Using the Immersed Boundary Method
Dharshi Devendran, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GRAPHICS AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, 12th Floor, Room 1221 (large conference room)
Computational Discrete Morse Theory
Jan Reininghaus, Zuse Institute, Berlin, Germany
http://vlg.cs.nyu.edu/Seminars/GraphicsSeminar

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Configuration Spaces of Hard Discs
Matt Kahle, IAS, Princeton
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC LUNCHTIME TEACHING SEMINAR SERIES:
11:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M., WWH 317
Topic: TBA
Small lunch provided.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Model for Dynamical Switching during Tristable Perception of Visual Plaids
Gemma Huguet (Center for Neural Science, NYU)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Transverse Instability of Solitary Waves
Frederic Rousset, University of Rennes (IRMAR)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

SPECIAL ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Exploring an Under-Ice Ocean Cavity with Sound
Walter Munk and Peter Worcester, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Coregular Representations and Elliptic Curves
Wei Ho, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Algorithm for the Rapid Evaluation of Special Function Transforms
Michael O'Neil, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Statistics of Branching Brownian Motion at the Edge
Louis-Pierre Arguin, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M., WWH 201
Uniqueness Sets for the Klein-Gordon Equation and the Solution of a Conjecture of Salem
Alfonso Montes Rodriguez, University of Seville, Spain
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~virtanen/montes-abstract.pdf

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302

Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Traveling Waves in Stratified Water
Samuel Walsh, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Imoplicit Particle Filters for Data Assimilation
Alexandre Chorin, UC Berkeley
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Model Merging and Parameter Identification of EGFR and c-MET Signaling Cascades
Andrew Matteson, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
A New Learning Paradigm: Learning with Teacher
Vladimir Vapnik
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Spontaneous Geometry via Circle Packing
Ken Stephenson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Compact Hash Codes for Scalable Matching
Sanjiv Kumar (Google Research, NY)
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Review of Recent Research on the Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones
Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Global Instability in Mechanical Systems using Geometrical Methods
Amadeu Delshams (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Methods for Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Sourav Chatterjee, NYU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Cellular Convection with a Raft
Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), MA
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
The Graph Removal Lemma
Jacob Fox
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102
Inverse Problems for Deformation Rings
Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in in the 13th floor lounge.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 1302
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12

NEW YORK AREA THEORY DAY:
Courant Institute-NYU, 251 Mercer St. (Warren Weaver Hall), Auditorium 109

Organized by: IBM / NYU / Columbia. External sponsorship by: Google.
For directions, please see
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/direct.html/ (Building 46)

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Rank-Deficient and Ill-Conditioned Nonlinear Least Squares Problems
Carl T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Warren Weaver Hall 317

http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 202
Hyperbolic Out(Fn)-Complexes
Mark Feighn (Rutgers University, Newark)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks
Michael W. Mahoney, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Algorithmic Trading: A Buy-Side Perspective
Petter Kolm, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4102, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Language Technology Research at Google
Dan Bikel (Google)
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Studies of Microtubule-based Motion in the Single-Celled C. elegans Embryo
Tamar Shinar, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 1314*
Superrotation in the Solar System
Jonathan Mitchell, UCLA
* Please note later starting time and room number.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102

http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

FRIDAY and SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 and 13

NEUGEBAUER CONFERENCE ON HISTORY OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES:
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028
One of a Cycle of Conferences in Celebration of Courant Institute's 75th Anniversary
Hosted by the NYU ISAW and by the Courant Institute
RSVP day(s) attending to isaw@nyu.edu

A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer Between History and Practice of the Exact Sciences

Program (as of October 22, 2010)*

*Time and other details subject to change

FRIDAY, November 12

Session I (8:30 - 12:30), From Mathematics to History of Mathematics

Session II (14:00 - 18:00), From Europe to America: The Mathematical Community

SATURDAY, November 13

Session III (9:00 - 13:00), From History of Mathematics to History of Astronomy

Session IV (14:30 - 18:30), From Assyriology to Renaissance Art

Reception to follow

Details of the program and the talk abstracts are at:
http://sites.google.com/site/neugebauerconference2010/home

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Threshold Models of Intracellular Calcium Release
Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham (UK)
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful Pixels
Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Comparison of Rescaled Energy for a Supercritical Nonlinear Heat Equation
Hiroshi Matano, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Quantum Money from Knots
Peter Shor, MIT
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 312
Recent Developments in Identity Based Encryption: Lattices and Beyond
Dan Boneh, Stanford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Seasonal to Interannual Predictability of Arctic Clymate
Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington, Seattle
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:45 P.M., WWH 202
Fluid-Kinetic Theory for Electrons in a Hot Magnetized Plasma
J.J. Ramos, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 317
Gabor Analysis as Noncommutative Geometry Over Noncommutative Tori
Franz Luef, UC Berkeley
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
The Fundamental Curve of p-Adic Hodge Theory
Jean-Marc Fontaine, University of Paris-Sud (and IAS)
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

THURSDAY and FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 and 19

NINTH NORTHEAST PROBABILITY SEMINAR (NEPS):
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center

Invited Speakers:

For more information on the invited speakers, registration information, hotel and travel, please consult the seminar website:
http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/probability/NortheastProbabilitySeminar

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Machine-Adapted Methods: High-Order DG Wave Propagation on GPUs
Andreas Kloeckner, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Implementing a 9.2 Quintillion Outcome Prediction Market
David Pennock, Yahoo Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Immersed Boundary Method and Its Applications
Charles Peskin, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inertial Particles Driven by a Telegraph Noise
Marija Vucelja, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Combining Computational and Experimental Biophysics to Reveal Mechanisms of Membrane Proteins Involved in Cell Signaling
Harel Weinstein, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, and Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22

FRITZ JOHN LECTURE SERIES:
In celebration of the 100th birthday of Fritz John
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Formation of Shocks in Three Space Dimensions
Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH Zurich
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
First lecture in the series. More lectures are available on the series website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/Fritz_John
These lectures are part of the Mathematics Colloquium.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Locomotion by Friction: A Mechanical Toy
Adam Stinchcombe, Applied Mathematics Laboratory, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Two is a Crowd? A Black-Box Separation of One-Wayness and Security Under Correlated Inputs
Yevgeniy Vahlis, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS APPLIED MATH / HARMONIC ANALYSIS / SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Wavelet Frames and Applications
Zuowei Shen, National University of Singapore
Please note the time for this seminar is 3:30 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Improved Bounds for the Union of Fat Triangles
Esther Ezra, NYU
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
On the Quest for Good Generative Models of Natural Images
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, University of Toronto
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29

FRITZ JOHN LECTURE SERIES:
In celebration of the 100th birthday of Fritz John
3:15 P.M.,* WWH 1302
Brief History of the Vector-Field Method and the Role Played by Fritz John
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
*Notice the special time: Prof. Klainerman's lecture will not be preceded by tea, but followed by a special reception in the 13th floor lounge.
Second lecture in the series. More lectures are available on the series website:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/Fritz_John
These lectures are part of the Mathematics Colloquium.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
10:30 A.M.,* WWH 1314
Spindle Assembly and Architecture: From Laser Ablation to Microtubule Nucleation
Dan Needleman, SEAS, Harvard University
* Please note the earlier change in time.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Graph Theory Approaches to RNA Folding and Design
Namhee Kim, NYU Dept. of Chemistry
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Hypergraph List Coloring and Euclidean Ramsey Theory
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS, Princeton
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC LUNCHTIME TEACHING SEMINAR SERIES:
11:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M., WWH 317
Exams: Creating, Proctoring, and Grading
Small lunch provided.

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
What Should an ``Outer Loop'' for Ensemble Data Assimilation Look Like?
Craig Bishop (NRL Monterey)
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Well-Posedness and Decay for the Viscous Surface Wave Problem
Ian Tice, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
Frederick Gibou, Dept. of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, UCSB
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
An Analytic Proof of the Hell-Nesetril
Gabor Kun
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
The Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics and Related Problems
Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 520
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Alternating Direction Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Convex Optimization
Donald Goldfarb, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Asymptotic Behavior of Aldous' Gossip Process
Shirshendu Chatterjee, Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:15 A.M.,* WWH 317
Dispersion for the Wave Equation in a Convex Domain
Fabrice Planchon, Université de Nice
* Please note the time and room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
An Event-Driven Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithm for Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Locomotion and Transport of Deformable Bodies
Daniel Tam, MIT
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
CAMCELLED
Towards the Integration of Structural and Systems Biology: Structure-Based Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions on a Genome-Wide Scale
Barry Honig (Columbia University)
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

MEMORIAL CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF PAUL GARABEDIAN:
Warren Weaver Hall Room 109 and the 13th Floor Commons

The Program is also shown at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/Garabedian_Meeting
We also welcome you to view the obituary that we have written for Paul here:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/Garabedian_Obituary

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Modularity of Galois Representations
Chandrshekhar Khare, UCLA
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, Room 1003
Biomarkers of Metabolic Syndrome Predict Accelerated Decline of Lung Function in NYC Firefighters that were Exposed to WTC Particulates
Michael D. Weiden, NYU Langone Medical Center
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Life's Solutions Are Not Ideal
Robert Eisenberg (Rush University), Chun Liu (Penn State University), and Yoichiro Mori (University of Minnesota)
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Strong Parallel Repetition Theorem for Projection Games on Expanders
Ricky Rosen, Weizmann Institute
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
From the Sandwich to the Waist
Alfredo Hubard, CIMS
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Localization, Smoothness, and Convergence to Equilibrium for a Thin Film Equation
Suleyman Ulusoy, University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Understanding the Limitations of Linear and Semidefinite Programming
Grant Schoenebeck
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102
The p-Adic Local Langlands Correspondence for GL(2, Qp)
Pierre Colmez, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in in the 13th floor lounge.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 1302
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10

SECURITY AND PRIVACY DAY:
Beginning 8:45 A.M., CEPSR (Shapiro) Building, Davis Auditorium, Columbia University
Details of this event, including directions and the program are available at:
http://sp2010.cs.columbia.edu/
Participation is free, but please help us plan for (free) lunch and refreshments by registering by Monday, December 6 at:
http://sp2010.cs.columbia.edu/registration.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Six Myths of Interpolation and Quadrature
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Two Talks, WWH 317

http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The New New (Wrong Wrong) Thing: The Genomics Story
Bhubaneswar Mishra, CIMS
Refreshments will be served at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/seminars/gsps/

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4102, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Automatic Dialect and Accent Recognition
Fadi Biadsy, Columbia University
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Spin-Wave Interference Patterns for Memory and Computation
Ferran Macia, NYU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11

HIGH-FREQUENCY FINANCE AND QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES:
Courant Institute-NYU, 251 Mercer St., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
8:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. both days
This two-day workshop provides a thorough coverage of quantitative investment management and high frequency trading, including topics such as:

For more information and registration, please see:
http://math.nyu.edu/~mathfcon/index.php/upcoming-events/december-10-11-2010

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13

SPECIAL HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 102
Government/Industry/Academic Strategies for Applications of High Performance Computing to Important National Problems: Another Sputnik Moment?
Victor H. Reis, Senior Advisor, Office of the Undersecretary of Eneregy for Science in the Department of Energy
A lunch will be served.

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Long Arithmetic Progressions in Sumsets
Endre Szemeredi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:15 - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Coupling a Fluctuating Fluid with Suspended Structures
Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE FALL 2010 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 9:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons
Come join the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science graduate and undergraduate courses this semester.
There will be two sessions: 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. and 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department.
Light refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16

75th ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY LECTURE:
3:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
A Model(ed) Holiday
Mike Shelley, CIMS
Followed by the Holiday Party in the 13th Floor Commons.

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Expansion and Primes in Linear Groups
Alexander Gamburd, CUNY
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Convexity and Sum Sets
Endre Szemeredi, Rutgers University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Global Small Solutions to the Navier-Stokes-Maxwell Equations
Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html