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

Previous Weekly Bulletins

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Making Movies at Pixar
Rob Cook, Vice President of Technology, Pixar Animation Studios

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Curvelets, Wave Atoms and Their Numerical Implementation
Laurent Demanet, California Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Wave Packets and Optimally Sparse Decompositions of Wave Equations
Lauren Demanet, Caltech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Computing Dense Granular Flows
Lou Kondic, Math, NJIT
http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

SPECIAL CRYPTO-GROUP MEETING:
1:00 P.M., WWH 102
Introduction to the Cryptography Group at NYU
Yevgeniy Dodis and Victor Shoup, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

SPECIAL CRYPTO-GROUP MEETING:
2:00 P.M., WWH 102
TCC05 Paper: Evaluating 2-DNF Formulas on Ciphertexts by Boneh, Goh and Nissim
Kevin Lawler, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Geometric Mechanics and Aquatic Locomotion
Scott D. Kelley, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP:
11:30 A.M. - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Scientific Professionalism in the New Millennium: The Skills You Need to Succeed in Science and Mathematics Careers
Presented by Alaina Levine
Sponsored by the Dept. of Mathematics and the Dept. of Physics. The workshop is designed for undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs entering careers in the sciences.

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Circuits Inspired by Neural Science: Pattern Formation in Aggregates
Frank Hoppensteadt, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
One-dimensional Neuronal Cultures
Ofer Feinerman, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute
Note special date and time

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Inferring the Abyssal Ocean Circulation from the Distribution of Thorium-230 Using an Inverse Method
Olivier Marchal, Woods Hole
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Bounds on the Nusselt Number for the Rayleigh-Benard Problem
Felix Otto, Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Encoding Alignments for Classification Problems
James Taylor, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Penn State
http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Computation of Risk Measures of Credit Portfolios with CDO Tranches in the Factor Models Framework
Timor Misirpashaev, Numerix LLC

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Multifractal Spectrum of SLE
Dmitri Beliaev, Princeton University

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Geometric Optics, Linear Programming and Congestion in Sensornets
Richard M. Karp, University of California at Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M. in WWH 1302
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

CRYPTO-GROUP MEETING:
1:00 P.M., WWH 101
TCC'06 Paper: Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge from Homomorphic Encryption (with Ivan Damgard)
Nelly Fazio or Antonio Nicolosi, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiple Scales Asymptotic Models for Moist Atmospheric Flows and Related Conservative Numerical Schemes
Rupert Klein, Free University Berlin and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

MONDAY, JANUARY 30

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Instabilities in Ferromagnetic Thin Films
F. Otto, University of Bonn
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/colloquium.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator: Computational Biology on the Edge
Richard Bonneau, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Learning Mixtures of Product Distributions over Discrete Domains
Jon Feldman, Google research

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
What Controls the Distribution of Noble Gases in the Subtropical Thermocline -- Air-Sea Gas Exchange or Diapycnal Mixing?
Taka Ito, University of Washington
http://www.math.nyu.edu/chaos_teaching/colloquium/

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Global Regularity for the Three-Dimensional Primitive Equations of Ocean and Atmosphere Dynamics
Edriss Titi, University of California at Irvine
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Biophysical Study of Bacterial Adhesion and Motility
Jay Tang, Physics, Brown University
http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Hybrid Derivatives
Yann Coatanlem, Citigroup

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
Rational Points on Modular Abelian Varieties
Ye Tian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Accelerating Spectral Deferred Corrections for ODEs and DAEs
Michael Minion, University of North Carolina

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Cluster Swapping and Domino Tilings
Scott Sheffield, CIMS

CRYPTO-GROUP MEETING:
1:00 P.M., WWH 101
Ring Signatures without Random Oracles
Sherman Show, NYU

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Some Examples of Equation-free Computation
Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Coherence under Random Perturbations
Lee DeVille, CIMS

NEURO TUEDAY SEMINAR:
5:00 P.M., Room 815, Meyer Hall (4 Washington Place)
What Does the Neocortex Do? Error Catastrophe Avoidance in Universal Learning Machines: A Fresh Look at Circuits and Physiology
Paul Adams, SUNY Stonybrook

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Multiscale Geometry for Images and Textures
Gabriel Peyré , Ecole Polytechnique
http://math.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Ocean Eddy Dynamics in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model
Pavel Berloff, Woods Hole
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMBINATORICS SEMINAR:
6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (corner of 34th St.), Room 6417
Independent Transveersals in Locally Sparse Graphs
Po-Shen Loh, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Multipliers, Paramultipliers, and Weak-Strong Uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes Equations
Pierre Germain, Princeton University

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Patterns of Motion: A Quantitative Analysis of C. elegans Behavior
William Ryu, Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University
http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Recent Results in Liquidity Risk
Philip Protter, Cornell University

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Arithmetic Progressions and Nilmanifolds
Tamar Ziegler, IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Shock Capturing Scheme for High-speed Inert and Reactive Multi-material Flows on Overlapping Grids
Jeff Banks, RPI

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Multiscale Approximations to Reaction Networks
Lea Popovic, Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

THE NYC NLP FORUM:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Tutorial on Machine Learning for Information Extraction
Heng Ji, NYU
Today's meeting of the NYC NLP Forum will be co-located with the colloquium of the NYU Computer Science Department. Unlike most of the Forum's events, this one will offer a tutorial for a general CS audience, rather than a presentation of recent research. Note the different time and room number.
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Coarse Graining Coupled Deterministic Stochastsic Lattice Models
Andy Majda, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Climate Dynamics of a Hard Snowball Earth , by R. Pierrehumbert, JGR, 2006, in press
Lyubov Chumakova
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Role of Sparsity in Blind Source Separation
Özgür Yilmaz, University of British Columbia
http://math.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Information Transfer Between Dynamical System Components
San Liang, CIMS
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural science (Meyer Hall), Room 815
Signal Propagation and Processing in Networks of Integrate-and-Fire Neurons
Tim Vogels, Columbia University
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

COMBINATORICS SEMINAR:
6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (corner of 34th St.), Room 6417
Ranking and Clustering: Aggregating Inconsistent Information
Nir Y Ailon, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
10:00 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
Did the Great Masters 'Cheat' Using Optics? Computer Image Analysis of Renaissance Masterpieces Sheds Light on a Controversial Theory
David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations
Refreshments will be served in Room 1221
prior to the colloquium.
Please note this change in time and location!
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
On Multisoliton for GKdV and NLS
Frank Merle, Université de Cergy Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Beyond Black-Litterman: Views on Non-Normal Markets
Attilio Meucci, Lehman Brothers
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
On Two Questions of Lang
Sinnou David, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Exact and Inexact FETI Domain Decomposition Methods
Axel Klawonn, University of Essen
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
The Hypoelliptic Torsion
Jean-Michel Bismut, Universite Paris-Sud
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~maxim/DGATAG.html

CRYPTO READING GROUP:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 101
HB and HB+: Authentication Protocols for Low-Cost Devices
Kristiyan Haralambiev, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation
Robert Kohn
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Implicit Immersed Boundary Methods with Boundary Mass
Yoichiro Mori, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Random Triangulations of a Planar Point Set
Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University and CIMS
Please note the additional seminar for today!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 613
Pushing Bodies through Holes
Tudor Zamfirescu, Universitat Dortmund
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Counting Independent Sets Up to the Tree Threshold
Dror Weitz, IAS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

COMBINATORICS SEMINAR:
6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (corner of 34th St.), Room 6417
Pushing Bodies through Holes
Tudor Zamfirescu, Universitat Dortmund
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
The Dynamics of Equatorial Long Waves: A Singular Limit with Fast Variable Coefficients
Alexandre Dutrifoy
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of Vortex Dipole on Two-Dimensional Manifold
Sun-Chul Kim, Math, Chung-Ang University
http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
2:30 - 3:00 P.M., Columbia University, Computer Science Conference Room (CSB 453)
Visions, Technology, and Business of Conversational Machines
Roberto Pieraccini, TellEureka Corporation
The conference room is located beyond the administrative offices at the end of a lounge that faces onto the inner courtyard between Mudd and Fairchild Buildings:
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/
To see the NLP Forum website:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 101
Extended Tropical Algebra/Geometry: Basic Notion
Zur Izhakian, TBA
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Random Perturbations of the Hyperbolic Systems and Quasi-similarity of Deterministic and Non-deterministic Systems
Anatoly Vershik, St. Petersburg

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Sum-Product Estimates, Expanders, and Equidistribution
Alex Gamburd, IAS/Santa Cruz
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Passivity Preserving Model Reduction using a Structured Krylov Subspace Method
Heike Fassbender, Technical University of Braunschweig
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Central Limit Theorem for Multiple Stochastic Integrals and Applications
David Nualart, Kansas University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Lower Bounds on the Topology of Singularities of Smooth Maps
Mikhael Gromov, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~maxim/DGATAG.html

CRYPTO READING GROUP:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 101
Worst-Case versus Average-Case Hardness for NP
Andrej Bogdanov, IAS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Transition State Theory in a Solvable Model
Gil Ariel
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Charged Particle Motion in an Electromagneteic Field: Variations of an Old Story
Harold Weitzner, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
WWH 101

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27

CVPR COMMITTEE COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOP:
8:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M., WWH 13th Floor, Commons Area

SPECIAL TALK:
5:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
Context-Aware Computing: Understanding and Responding to Human Intention
Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Simple Poisson Processes are Excellent Models for Time-Intensity Relationships in Hearing
Suresh Krishna, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University

JOINT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Geodesic Flows of Metric Connections
Maciej Wojtkowski, University of Arizona

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Inside-Out Prlytopes
Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Generating Random Connected Graphs
Joel Spencer, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural science (Meyer Hall), Room 815
Trying for an Approximate Canonical Model for Neural Dynamics
Bruce Knight, Rockefeller University
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

COMBINATORICS SEMINAR:
6:30 P.M., Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (corner of 34th St.), Room 6417
Degenerate Crossing Numbers of Graphs
Geza Toth, Renyi Institute, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Global Well-Posedness to the 3-D Incompressible Anisotropic Navier-Stokes Equations
Ping Zhang, CIMS
Please note the change in speaker and title of talk.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Gravity Currents and Halocline Catastrophes
John Wettlaufer, Geophysics/Physics, Yale University
http://math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Design of Hyperbolic Billiards
Maciej Wojtkowski, University of Arizona

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Path We Have Chosen is Full of Hazards
Aaron Brown, Morgan Stanley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
Elliptic Curves, Quadratic Twists and p-(IN)Divisibility of L-Values
Kartik Prasanna, UCLA
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 3

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Structured Eigenvalue Problems
Daniel Kressner, University of Zagreb
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
The Configurational Measure on SLE
Greg Lawler, Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Holomorphic Disks and Link Invariants
Peter Ozsvath, Columbia University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~maxim/DGATAG.html

CRYPTO READING GROUP:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 101
Perfectly Secure Password Protocols in the Bounded Retrieval Model
Shabsi Walfish, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Convection and Climate: A Mathematical Challenge in Atmospheric Sciences
Olivier Pauluis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Adaptive Immersed Boundary Methods for Simulating Cardiac Blood-Valve Mechanics and Electrophysiology
Boyce Griffith, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, MARCH 6

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Hyperbolic Manifolds and Finite Groups
Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University and I.A.S.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/colloquium.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Semi-Implicit Immersed Boundary Method
Joseph Teran, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Solving Geometric Problems in the Streaming Model
Adi Gottlieb, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Should We Be Worried About a Shutdown of the Atlantic's Conveyor?
Pr. Wallace Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MARCH 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Energy Estimates for a Free-Boundary Problem for the Euler Equation
Jalal Shatah, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Model for Consistent Pricing of the Smile Dynamics
Lorenzo Bergomi, Societe Generale
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C198
Tba
David and Gregory Chudnovsky, Brooklyn Polytechnic Unviersity
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Balancing-Related Model Reduction for Parabolic Control Systems
Peter Benner, Technical University of Chemnitz
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 813
Non-negative Hermitian Polynomials
Dror Varolin, Stony Brook
Please note the earlier time!
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Emaxim/DGATAG.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
On Spatial Lambda-Coalescents
Anja Sturm, University of Delaware
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

JOINT CUNY-COURANT NYC RIGIDITY THEORY WORKSHOP:
The first talk will be held in WWH 109. The talks in the afternoon will be held in WWH 1302

No registration is necessary Please bring ID to show the guard. For more information about the Workshop see:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/conf/2006/rigidity.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Wave-Driven Vortex Dynamics in the Near-Shore Region
Andrea Barreiro
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Chaos and the Onset of Irreversibility in non-Brownian Suspensions
David Pine, NYU Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, MARCH 14

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Using Motion Planning to Study Molecular Motions
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15

SPECIAL PROBABILITY/ANALYSIS/GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Dvoretzky's Theorem in Metric Spaces
Assaf Naor, Microsoft Research
Note special day and location.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY
On the Number of Ordinary Points for Arrangements in the Euclidean and Projective Planes
Jonathan Lenchner, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 16

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Why Are There Tropical Warm Pools?
Amy Clement, University of Miami
Please note the special day and time for this seminar!
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

MONDAY, MARCH 20

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Variational Approach to Moving Contact Line Hydrodynamics
Ping Sheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, MARCH 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Stochastic Effects in a Bistable System in Bacteria: The Emergence of Competence in B. subtilis
Arjun Raj (speaker), CIMS and Public Health Research Institute (PHRI);
Hedia Maamar, PHRI; and Dave Dubnau, PHRI

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Partial Regularity for a Free Problem in Two Dimensions
Erik Lindgren, KTH Sweden
Note the special day and time!
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Lines Intersecting Pairwise Disjoint Congruent Spheres in d-Space
Andreas Holmsen, Bergen and New York
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Natural Selection in a Model Ocean
Mick Follows, M.I.T.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY
Old and New Directions in Ramsey Theory on Integers
Rados Radoicic, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Vortex Patterns in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Amandine Aftalion, Universite Paris 6
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Vortex Self-Stretching and the Issue of Global Regularity of Solutions of the 3D Euler Equations
Steve Childress, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Optimal Hedging and Scale Invariance: A Taxonomy of Option Pricing Models
Carol Alexander, ISMA Center, University of Reading
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, 13th Floor
Galois Representations Over General Number Fields
Frank Calegari, Harvard University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 13th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Correlation Between Two Projected Matrices Under Isometry Constraints
Paul Van Dooren, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
WWH 1013

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

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Bi-Lipschitz Embedding in Banach Spaces, Rademacher-type Theorems, and Functions of Bounded Variation
Bruce Kleiner, Yale University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Emaxim/DGATAG.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 101
Information-Theoretically Secure Protocols and Security Under Composition
Tal Rabin, IBM
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Computing Fluid Flow in Complicated Geometry
Marsha Berger
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Free Boundary Problems for Small Transaction Cost Problems
Jonathan Goodman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMIMAR:
Stony Brook, Math Building, Room P-131

MONDAY, MARCH 27

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Probabilistic Methods in Extremal Combinatorics
B. Sudakov, Princeton University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/colloquium.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Poisson Manifolds and Coisotropic Submanifolds
Marco Zambon, University of Zurich

TUESDAY, MARCH 28

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Beyond the Traditional Image: Depicting Reality by Merging Multiple Photographs and Videos
Aseem Agarwala, University of Washington
Refreshments will be served at 11:30 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Model for Telomere Length Regulation
Ignacio Rodriguez, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Making or Avoiding a Planar Graph
Tibor Szabo, ETH Zurich
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mixed-Norm Embeddings and Vertex Separators
James R. Lee, I.A.S.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How Strange Can a Finite Energy Foliation Get?
Chris Wendl, LMU

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, (Meyer Hall, at NYU's Washington Square Campus)
Tba
Christian Machens, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

THURSDAY, MARCH 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Diffusion Limit of a Semiconductor Boltzmann-Poisson System
Lazhar Tayeb, University of Tunis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Shape Optimization of Swimming Sheets
John Wilkening, Math, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Spatial Contagion in Financial Markets
Murad S. Taqqu, Boston University
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 C198
The 2-Divisibility of h [sub p][sup +]
David Hayes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-level: one floor down from lobby floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 31

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Numerical Methods for Solving Inverse Eigenvalue Problems for Non-negative Matrices
Robert Orsi, Australian National University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
WWH 1013

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

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Higher Elliptic Genera
Anatoly Libgober, UIC
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Emaxim/DGATAG.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Finding Thousands of Bugs in Millions of Lines of Code
Yichen Xie, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:00 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 101
On the Relation Between the Ideal Cipher and the Random Oracle Models
Prashant Puniya, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

SPECIAL TALK:
CANCELLED. TO BE RESCHEDULED IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Speaking in Pixels: Will Digital Games be the 21st Century's Preferred Mode of Human Expression?
Peter Raad, Southern Methodist University

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Moving Contact Line Problem
Weiqing Ren, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

THE NYC NATURAL LANGUAGUE PROCESSING FORUM:
2:30 P.M., WWH 102
The NYU Proteus Project
Ralph Grishman, Dan Melamed, Satoshi Sekine, NYY
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

MONDAY, APRIL 3

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Data Integration and Data Exchange
Alan Nash, University of California, San Diego
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

TUESDAY, APRIL 4

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Small Moments and Big Pictures
Michael Cohen, Microsoft
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Virtual Surgery: Simulating Tissue Incision and Deformation at Real-Time and Interactive Rates
Joseph Teran, CIMS

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
A Long Exact Sequence for Symplectic and Contact Homology
Frédéric Bourgeois, ULB

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Equatorial Oceanography: Strong Currents and Fast Waves
Markus Joachum, NCAR
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Vortices on the Cylinder
Urs Frauenfelder, LMU

SPECIAL TALK BY PETER BERGEN:
3:30 - 4:45 P.M., WWH 109
Technology and Terrorism
Peter Bergen, Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.; an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and CNN's terrorism analyst
Join Evan Korth's Computers and Society class for this special talk.

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Sobolev Norms and the Minkowski Problem
Deanne Yang, Polytechnic University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Adsorption on Fractal Surfaces
Po-zen Wong, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., Meyer Hall, Room 122
Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science
Carl Wieman, University of Colorado
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/events

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
A Neoclassical Look at Behavioral Finance: A Tale of Two Anomalies
Stephen Ross, M.I.T.
http://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
On Some mod p Representations of Gal(\bar Qp/Qp) and of GL2(Qp)
Laurent Berger, IHES, Paris
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Domain Decomposition Algorithms for Mortar Discretization
Hyea Hyun Kim, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
WWH 1013

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

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR -- DOUBLE HEADER:
WWH 813

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Emaxim/DGATAG.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 101
Broadcast Encryption and Traitor Tracing
Dan Boneh, Stanford University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 613
Strongly Nonlinear Internal Solitons in the Ocean: Models and Experimental Evidence
L.A. Ostrovsky, NOAA, Boulder
Please note the change in time and place!

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Traffic Modeling and Rare Events for Queues
Peter Glynn, Statistics, Stanford University
This talk is part of the Applied Math's special series of seminars on computational statistics, of interest in both mathematics and computer science.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

2006 CIMS STUDENT PRIZES: 3:30 P.M., WWH 109

Followed by a reception on the 13th floor common.

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Multiple equilibria, natural variability and climate transitions in an idealized ocean-atmosphere model (Saravanan and McWilliams, J. Climate 8 , 1995)
Ross Tulloch
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, APRIL 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Critical Analysis of Dimension Reduction by Moment Closure Methods in a Population Density Approach to Neural Network Modeling
Cheng Ly (Speaker), CIMS, and Daniel Tranchina, CIMS

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Convex Geometries and Jamison's Problem
Kira Adaricheva, Harold Washington College, Chicago
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Linear Sparsity: Learning and Algorithms
Tyler Neylon, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
CANCELLED
Tba
Jim Hansen, M.I.T.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Restrictions to Displaceable Exact Contact Embeddings I
Urs Frauenfelder, LMU

THURSDAY, APRIL 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Gauss-Green Theorem and Applications to PDEs
Thierry De Pauw, Université Catholique de Louvain
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Solitary Modes of Bacterial Culture in a Temperature Gradient
Hanna Salman, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Regular Variation and Smile Asymptotics
Peter Friz, Cambridge University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Neumann-Neumann Methods for Discontinuous Galerkin Discretizations
Marcus Sarkis, WPI, Massachusetts, and IMPA, Brazil
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-COURANT SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, Columbia University, Dept. of Statistics, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., Room 305
Brownian Motion Conditioned to Stay in a Small Ball
Terry Lyons, Oxford University
Note the change in time and location!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Taming Mutable State
Amal Ahmed, Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Calculus on Fractals
Jeff Cheeger, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 101
Asynchronous Perfectly Secure Communication over One-Time Pads
Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Telcordia
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Pony Tail Motion, Hill's Equation, Weight Loss and $\pi$ in $L [sub p]$
Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

THE NYC NATURAL LANGUAGUE PROCESSING FORUM:
2:30 P.M., WWH 109
Disambiguation of Rich Arabic Morphological Analyses
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discussion of: Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries (Mann, Bradley and Hughes, Nature 392 , 779-787)
Andrea Barreiro
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, APRIL 17

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Scalable Automated Methods for Software Reliability
Koushik Sen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Refreshments will be served at 11:30 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Yuval Peres, University of California, Berkeley
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~tschinke/.nyu/colloquium.html

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Restrictions to Displaceable Exact Contact Embeddings II
Urs Frauenfelder, LMU

TUESDAY, APRIL 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Mystery of 2D Ideal Incompressible Fluids
Alexander Schnirelman, Concordia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 101
Embracing Statistical Challenges in the IT Age
Bin Yu, Statistics, UC Berkeley
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

THURSDAY, APRIL 20

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Role in Magnetic Fusion of a Free Boundary Value Problem for the Euler Equation
Paul Garabedian, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

SPECIAL SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
Affinity Propagation for Combined Bottom-Up and Top-Down Clustering
Brendan J. Frey, University of Toronto

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Some Prospects for Hurricane Modification
Larry Sirovich, Mt. Sinai
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Energy Commodities Prices: Is Mean-Reversion Dead?
Helyette Geman, University of London and ESSEC
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 21

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Dual Algorithms for Least Squares Problems with Semidefinite Constraints, and Applications in Finance and Combinatorics
Jerome Malick, INRIA Rhones-Alpes and Cornell University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Thermal Conductivity and Fourier's Law for Oscillators with Conservative Noise
Stefano Olla, Paris Dauphine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tractable Learning of Structured Prediction Models
Ben Taskar, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Linear Predictions and Occam's Razor
Tyler Neylon
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs
Carey Priebe, Statistics, Johns Hopkins
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

COURANT-STONY BROOK JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
WWH 101

SATURDAY, APRIL 22

SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1314
Tba
Ko Honda, USC

MONDAY, APRIL 24

Two-Day Conference on Probabilistic Combinatorics and Algorithms:
in Honor of Joel Spencer's 60th Birthday
DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg., Rutgers University, Busch Campus,
Piscataway, NJ
For the workshop announcement, registration and program, see:
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Spencer/

TUESDAY, APRIL 25

Two-Day Conference on Probabilistic Combinatorics and Algorithms:
in Honor of Joel Spencer's 60th Birthday
DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg., Rutgers University, Busch Campus,
Piscataway, NJ
For the workshop announcement, registration and program, see:
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Spencer/

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Simple Recipe for Spheres and Slender Bodies in the Immersed Boundary Method for Stokes Flow
Thomas Bringley, CIMS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26

THEORY SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Method of Reduction in Learning
John Langford
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rastogi/theory/

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE FORUM:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., Center for Neural Science, Meyer Hall, Room 815, at NYU's Washington Square Campus
Separate Roles for Excitation and Inhibition in Generating Persistent Firing
Emre Aksay, Cornell Medical Center
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/events/compneuro/

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Robust Shape Fitting via Peeling and Grating Coresets
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University, Durham
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, APRIL 27

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Approximation of Sobolev Mappings into Singular Spaces
Piotr Hajlasz, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
From Forced NLS to Resonant Surface Waves: Towards Classifying the Structure of Chaotic Solutions
Vered Rom-Kedar, Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
2:00 P.M., WWH 102
Internet Algorithmics and Approximations
Lisa Fleischer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Billiards and Steep Potentials
Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Liquidation Triggers and the Valuation of Equity and Debt
Dan Galai, Hebrew University and Stern School of Business
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 C198
Motives Associated to Feynman Graphs
Spencer Bloch, University of Chicago
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C198, C-Level: one floor down from the lobby
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 28

THE IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY :
Columbia University, Davis Auditorium, 412 Shapiro (CEPSR) Building
Beginning 9:30 A.M. with coffee and bagels. For information and the Program, please see:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Distributions for Optical Design
R. Andrew Hicks, Drexel University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/overton/nasem/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
A Market-Induced Mechanism for Stock Pinning
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY, TOPOLOGY AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR -- TRIPLE HEADER:
WWH 813

http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Emaxim/DGATAG.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
How Does One Make a Model for Turbulence in a Plasma?
Harold Weitzner, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fluid-Structure Interaction: Suspensions of Fibers
Anna-Karin Tornberg, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Synoptic Modeling in the Eastern Arabian During SW Monsoon Using Upwelling Feature Models
C. Shaji
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

MONDAY, MAY 1

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Modular Static Analysis with Sets and Relations
Victor Kuncak, MIT
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/sp06

RECEPTION for Leslie Greengard on the occasion of his election into the National Academy of Engineering and for being named as the next Courant director
4:00 P.M., 13th Floor Common, Warren Weaver Hall

TUESDAY, MAY 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Network Architecture and Spiking Dynamics of Coupled Phase Oscillators
Eric Shea-Brown, CIMS and Center for Neural Science

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Quenched Invariance Principle for Random Walk on Percolation Clusters
Marek Biskup, UCLA
Note unusual day, time, and location.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Production of Compensated T-S Vriance by Mesoscale Stirring
Shafer Smith, CAOS/CIMS
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

CIMS Retirement and Longer Service Awards Reception:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons

We will celebrate the retirement of Ed Schonberg and the longer service awards of the members of the CIMS community listed below:

SEMINAR ON COMBINATORIAL COMPUTING:
6:30 P.M., Room 6417, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (corner of 34th St.), NY
Problems and Results on Data Structures
Peter Brass, City College, CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pach/combinatorics_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MAY 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations on Spheres
Patrick Gerard, University of Paris-Sud Orsay
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Effect of Surface Properties and Geometric Confinement on Droplet Formation and Deposition in Microfluidic Devices
Amy Shen, Mech. Eningeering, Washington University, St. Louis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml/Seminar/index.html

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS COURSE: Spring 2006 DemoShow
5:00 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons
Arthur Goldberg, CIMS
Food and beverages will be served.
For more information, see:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/artg/itp

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Monte Carlo Sampling of Parameter Space as a Model Validation Tool
Alexander Sokol, CompatibL Technologies
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MAY 5

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Hide-and-Seek and Spectral Invariants (on Markov Chains and Surfaces)
Jean Steiner
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~pender/seminar/spring06.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Correlation Isn't Causation and Neither is Regression
David Freedman, Statistics, UC Berkeley
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Synoptic Modeling in the Eastern Arabian During SW Monsoon Using Upwelling Feature Models
C. Shaji
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

TUESDAY, MAY 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Prandtl's Conjecture on Shock Reflections
Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University
Please note the time change from 3:30 p.m. to 11:00 a.m.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Random Polytopes and Isoperimetric Inequalities
Rolf Schneider, Universitat Freiburg
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Christiane Jablonowski, NCAR
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MAY 11

POST-COMMENCEMENT RECEPTION: 12:30 P.M.
13th Floor Common Area, Warren Weaver Hall

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, 312 Math
Adelic Integration on Surfaces, Meromorphic Continuation of Their Zeta Integral, and Mean-Periodic Functions
Ivan Fesenko, University of Nottingham
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th floor.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

FRIDAY, MAY 12

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Directed Polymers with Quenched Randomness: Declocalization Transition and Critical Properties
Fabio Toninelli, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Crystal Growth
Tim Schulze, University of Kentucky
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS:
CANCELLED
An Introduction to Paleotempestology
Agnieszka Mrowiec
http://math.nyu.edu/caos_teaching/student_seminar/

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Plasma Kinetic Equations and Numerical Simulation
Bruce Scott, Max-Planck Institute

THURSDAY, MAY 18

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Money, Gosplan, Poker and Derivatives Trading
Aaron Brown, Morgan Stanley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

MONDAY, MAY 22 - FRIDAY, MAY 26

5-Day Conference in Honor of Percy Deift's 60th birthday:
Integrable Systems, Random Matrices and Applications
Warren Weaver Hall, Courant Institute
For more information on the conference see:
http://www.math.arizona.edu/~mcl/ISRMA.html

FRIDAY, MAY 26

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
Time and Room TBA NYU Courant Institute
Third Miniconference on Ergodic Theory and Diophantine Problems
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/ScheduleJointNTS6.html

TUESDAY, JUNE 6

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of the Free-Surface Incompressible Euler Equations With or Without Surface Tension
Steve Shkoller, UC Davis