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Previous Weekly Bulletins

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
A Quasi-Linear Gyrokinetic Transport Model for Tokamak Plasmas
Alessandro Casati, CEA, IRFM, Institute of Research on Magnetic Fusion, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Chaos and Bifurcations in 2007-08 Financial Crisis: Building a Market Instability Indicator
Raphael Douady, RiskData
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 101
Connection Probabilities and RSW-Type Bounds for the Two-Dimensional FK Ising Model
Pierre Nolin, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Almost Optimal Bounds for Direct Product Threshold Theorem
Charanjit Jutla, IBM Research-Watson
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

SPECIAL PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
5:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Convergence of Ising Model Interfaces to Dipolar SLE
Clement Hongler, Universite de Geneve
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Gabor and Wavelet (Super)Frames with Hermite and Laguerre Functions
Luis Daniel Abreu, CMUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Kay Kirkpatrick, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., 715 Broadway, Room 1003
A Word-processor for DNA
Ehud Shapiro, Dept. of Computer Science & Applied Math and Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Maneuverability and Stability of Flying Insects
Leif Ristroph, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Small-Size Epsilon-Nets for Geometric Range Spaces
Esther Ezra
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.
Zombie Banks and the Real Economy: Are the Two Compatible?
Christopher Whalen, NYQF
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 317
Random Matrices and Complexity of Spin Glasses
Antonio Auffinger, CIMS
Please note the permanent change in room number for the semester!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Distributed Radio Systems
Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases
Ed Spiegel
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Bayesian Inverse Problems in PDEs
Andrew Stuart, Warwick
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Large-Scale Conformational Sampling in All-Atom Protein Models using Temperature-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics
Cameron Abrams, Drexel University
Refreshments will be provided.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Droplet Phases in Non-Local Ginzburg-Landau Models with Coulomb Repulsion in Two Dimensions
Cyrill Muratov
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Immersed Boundary Method with Porous Boundary
Yongsam Kim, Chung-Ang University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Secure Rural Banking on a Single Insecure Cellphone
Dennis Shasha
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Ph.D. THESIS DEFENSE:
2:30 P.M., ICAHN Building, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Room 16-82 (16th Floor)
Candidate: Dario Ghersi (MSSM/COB student)
Committee:
Dr. Mihaly Mezei, MSSM
Dr. Roman Osman, MSSM
Dr. Yingkai Zhang, NYU
Dr. Ming-Ming Zhou, MSSM
Please note the room change to Room 16-82.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Response of the Hydrological Cycle to Climate Change
Caroline Muller
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On Global Attractors of Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDEs
Alexander Komech, University of Vienna
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sailing the Surfactant Sea: The Effect of Geometry and Topology on Membrane Hydrodynamics and on the Fluctuations of Red Blood Cells
Alex Levine, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Graph Expansion and the Unique Games Conjecture
David Steurer
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 517
Ergodicity of Some Open Systems with Particle-Disk Interactions
Tanya Yarmola, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamic Mixture Time-Series Models and Their Application to Volatility Estimation and Statistical Arbitrage Trading
Xixin Silas Cheng, Surge Trading
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102
Stable Birational Invariants with Galois Descent Property
Marat Rovinsky, IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 102.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 102
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5

2nd ANNUAL ALGORITHMIC TRADING CONFERENCE:
Dynamic Portfolios, Optimal Execution, and Risk
Jack H. Skirball Center, NYU (566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012)
Sponsored by the Mathematics in Finance Masters Program at the Courant Institute, NYU
For more event and registration details, please visit:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~mathfcon/index.php/upcoming-events/feb-5-2010
For questions or inquiries, please send e-mail to:
mathfcon@cims.nyu.edu

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 317
Fluctuations of the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process
Ivan Corwin, CIMS
Please note the permanent change in room number for the semester!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
What Kinds of Invariants Are Used to Classify Spaces and Their Symmetries?
Sylvain Cappell
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Crystal Surface Motion: A Story of Two Scales
Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Metric-induced Wrinkling of Thin Sheets
Peter Bella
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Exchangeability and Continuum Limits of Discrete Random Structures
David Aldous, 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, FEBRUARY 9

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Immersed Boundary Method for Variable Viscosity Fluids
Thomas Fai, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Tetrahedron Packing and Related Problems
Yoav Kallus, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Optimal Conditions for the Extension of the Mean Curvature Flow
Nam Le, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Physical Aspects of Microorganism Cooperation
Knut Drescher, DAMPT, University of Cambridge
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Speed of Arnold Diffusion for Analytic Hamiltonian Systems
Ke Zhang, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415

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

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Dynamic Mixture Time-Series Models and Their Application to Volatility Estimation and Statistical Arbitrage Trading
Xixin Silas Cheng, Surge Trading
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 317
Rigorous Evaluation of Critical Exponents through Scaling Limit
Pierluigi Falco, Institute of Advanced Study
Please note the permanent change in room number for the semester!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Learning Models for Scalable Visual Recognition
Lorenzo Torresani, Dartmouth College
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Reading Motion Signatures
Christoph Bregler
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computation of Time-Periodic Solutions of Fluid Interface Problems
Jon Wilkening, University of California at Berkeley
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 512*
Tba
Olivier Pauluis
Please note this talk will be in Room 512 today.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Systems Biology and Therapeutics
Stuart Sealfon, MSSM
Refreshments will be provided.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
No Talk (Presidents' Day)
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Academic Curiosity or Practical Means to Get More Bang for Our Health Care Buck?
R. Scott Braithwaite, Dept. of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
*12:30 P.M., WWH 102*
Online Data Forensics for Click Fraud Detection
Ahmed Metwally, Google
Refreshments will be served at 12:15 P.M.
Please note the different room number and time!
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Simultaneous Partitions by k-Fans
Imre Barany, Alfréd Rényi Mathematical Institute
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Make3D: Single Image Depth Perception and Its Applications to Robotics
Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell University
http://make3d.stanford.edu
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Efficiently Recovering Second-Order Models in Derivative-Free Optimization
Katya Schleinberg, Columbia University and CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Response of Tropical Precipitation to Extratropical Thermal Forcing
Sarah Kang, Columbia University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Streaming k-Means Approximation
Ragesh Jaiswal
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Speed of Arnold Diffusion for Analytic Hamiltonian Systems
Ke Zhang, University of Maryland
Rescheduled from Feb. 11th.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Metaplectic Whittaker Functions and Crystal Graphs
Sol Friedberg, Boston College
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, FEBRUARY 19

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Graph Expansion and Communication-Optimal Algorithms
Olga Holtz, UC Berkeley, TU-Berlin and IAS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 317
Random Curves, Scaling Limits and Loewner Evolutions
Antti Kemppainen, University of Helsinki
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
THIS TALK IS POSTPONED
Symplectic Categories
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Control with Application to Quadruped Locomotion and Autonomous Helicopter Flight
Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
12:45 - 1:45 P.M., Room 6496, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Can One Language Bootstrap the Other: A Case Study on Event Extraction
Zheng Chen, CUNY
Please note the new room number and time for this semester!
If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please contact matt@cs.qc.cuny.edu
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://latlab.cs.qc.cuny.edu/nlpatcuny/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Title Tba
Matthew Leingang
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Frederic Laliberte
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22

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

SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Charged and Complex Fluid Interfaces: Electrokinetics and Rheology
Todd Squires, University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Methods for Numerical Simulations: Noise Reduction, Projective Integration, and Data Compression
Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
*12:30 P.M., WWH 102*
A Shapley Value Perspective on ISP Settlements
Richard Ma, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 12:15 P.M.
Please note the different room number and time!
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRAPHICS AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221 (large conference room)
Streak Surfaces for Flow Visualization
Holger Theisel, University of Magdeburg

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Witness Proximity Graphs
Muriel Dulieu, Polytechnic Institute of NYU
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Discrete Sampling
William Wu, Stanford University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A New Method Using a Linearized Land-Atmosphere Model to Comprehend the Coupling and Feedback between the Land and Atmosphere at the Daily Timescale
Pierre Gentine, Columbia University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
From `Insect' Hovering to `Continental' Drift: Bio and Geo-Inspired Archetypes in Fluid-Structure Interactions
Bin Liu, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
A Regularity Lemma, and Low-Weight Approximators, for Low-Degree Polynomial Threshold Functions
Andrew Wan
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
Counting Rational Points on Chatelet Surfaces
T.D. Bowning, University of Bristol and IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 102.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 102
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
6:10 P.M., Room 414, Schapiro Engineering Research Center, Columbia University
Finding Information on the Web with Textual Question Answering
Sandra Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://latlab.cs.qc.cuny.edu/nlpatcuny/ See the URL below and click on directions:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/directions

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Joint Spectral Characteristics of Matrices and Semidefinite Programming
Raphael Jungers, MIT
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 - 11:00 A.M., WWH 317
Functional Ito Calculus, Integration by Parts and Stochastic Integral Representation of Martingale Functionals
Rama Cont, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Holistic Language Processing: Joint Models of Linguistic Structure
Jenny Finkel, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Directed Polymers in Random Environment with Heavy Tails
Oren Louidor
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Wave Generation in Geophysical Fluids as an Exponential-Asymptotics Problem
Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

INAUGURAL POLYTECHNIC TRUSTEES' EMINENT SCHOLAR LECTURE:
3:00 P.M. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Jacobs Academic Building, Room 474, at Six Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY
From Riemannian Geometry to Modern Computer Graphics
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard Unviersity
Jointly sponsored by Polytechnic Institute of NYU and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
http://www.poly.edu/events/yau-lecture

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Kinetic Model Identification of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Signaling in Cancer
Andrew Matteson, CIMS
Refreshments will be provided.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, MARCH 1

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon, WWH 517
The Energy of the Critical Nucleus, for a Solid-Solid Phase Transformation
Hans Knuepfer
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Harmonic Wave Problems
Jan Hesthaven, Brown University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

CATEGORY THEORY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., Room 4421, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th Street, diagonally across from the Empire State Building, NY)
Operads and Homotopy Theory for Algebraic Structures: Part I
Joseph Hirsh, The Graduate Center, CUNY
This is a 3-part lecture. Part II: March 8th and Part III: March 15th.

TUESDAY, MARCH 2

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Towards a New Generation of PIC Modeling Tools for Maxwell-Vlasov Problems
Jan S. Hesthaven, Director of Center for Computation and Visualization, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
From Agnostic Antagonist Antibodies to Shrinking Stem Cells: Applications of Modeling and Simulation in Oncology Pharmaceutics
Dean Bottino, Modeling and Simulation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Non-Malleable Codes
Daniel Wichs
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., 715 Broadway, Room 1003
Evolution and the Social Contract
Brian Skyrms, UC Irvine, Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Local Approximation and Quantization of Operators with Bandlimited Kohn-Nirenberg Symbols
Felix Krahmer, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Basin and Channel Contributions to a Model Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Louis-Philippe Nadeau, McGill University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MARCH 4

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Sharp Hardy Uncertainty Principle for Schrodinger Evolutions
Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Swimming Bacteria at Work: From Reduction of Viscosity to Rotation of Gears
Andrey Sokolov, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Varieties and Applications of Direct Product Theorems
Russell Impagliazzo, University of California at San Diego and IAS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
A Potential Application of the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture
David Rohrlich, Boston 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, MARCH 5

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Conformally Kahler-Einstein Metrics and the Bach Tensor
Brian Weber, SUNY Stony Brook
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Learning Correspondence Representations for Natural Language Processing
John Blitzer, University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
12:45 - 1:45 P.M., Room 6496, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Automatic Readability Assessment
Lijun Feng, CUNY
For more information about Computational Linguistics at CUNY:
http://latlab.cs.qc.cuny.edu/nlpatcuny/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Complex Flows of Complex Fluids
Michael Shelley
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 317
Random Matrices: Universality of the Local Eigenvalues Statistics
Van Vu, Rutgers University
Please note the different time.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Do Fish Stir the Ocean?
Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin - Madison
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, MARCH 8

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Fluid Simulations of Interchange Turbulence
Bo Li, Dartmouth College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

CATEGORY THEORY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., Room 4421, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th Street, diagonally across from the Empire State Building, NY)
Operads and Homotopy Theory for Algebraic Structures: Part II
Joseph Hirsh, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Part III: March 15th.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Visualization and Analysis of Particles and Magnetic Field Topology
Allen Sanderson, University of Utah
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1302
Multiscale Modeling of Granular Flow
Chris Rycroft, Mathematics, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Lab
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Comparing Alternative Laboratory Monitoring Strategies for HIV-Infected Patients in Western Kenya: A Computer Simulation Model
R. Scott Braithwaite, Dept. of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Compression from Collisions, Or Why CRHF Combiners Have a Long Output
Aris Tentest
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
New Methods for Unfolding Convex Polyhedra
Joseph O'Rourke, Smith College
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Sparse Legendre Expansions via l1 Minimization
Rachel Ward, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Radar Sounding and Imaging of Fast-Flowing Glaciers and Ice-Sheet Margins
Prasad Gogineni, University of Kansas
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MARCH 11

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Equivariant Landau-Lifshitz Equation of Degree Two
Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Marriage Equation
James D. Murray, Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford & Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Market Microstructure Invariants
Anna Obizhaeva, University of Maryland
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
The Fluctuations in the Number of Points of Curves over Finite Fields
Chantal David, Concordia 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

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
6:10 P.M., 7th Floor Interschool Lab, Schapiro Engineering Research Center, Columbia University
Probabilistic Approaches for Modeling Text Structure and Their Application to Text-to-Text Generation
Regina Barzilay, MIT

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Marking the Brownian Web and Applications
Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, SUNY
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Message Passing Networks
Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Obvious Yet Overlooked Means for Testing Statistical Theories: An Informal Presentation
Mark Tygert
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Surprises in Viscous Flows: From Charged Drops to Bacteria in Curved Channel Flows
Howard Stone, Princeton University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
The Physics of Conjugate Gardients or: How to please your parents
Carl Gladish
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Gene Expression: What Does It Say About You?
Ravi Sachidanandam, MSSM
Refreshments will be provided.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, MARCH 15

CATEGORY THEORY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., Room 4421, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th Street, diagonally across from the Empire State Building, NY)
Operads and Homotopy Theory for Algebraic Structures: Part III
Joseph Hirsh, The Graduate Center, CUNY

TUESDAY, MARCH 16

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
A Constant Factor Approximation for TSP with Neighborhoods in the Plane
Joseph Mitchell, Stony Brook University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Increasing Stability in the Continuation and Inverse Problems
Victor Isakov, Wichita State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 19

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
12:45 - 1:45 P.M., Room 6496, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
Modeling Iconic Gesture Generation in Humans and Virtual Humans
Paul Tepper, Northwestern University

MONDAY, MARCH 22

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Finding Structure with Randomness
Joel Tropp, Caltech
Note the special time and location.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Effective Electron Dynamics in Crystals with Macroscopic Perturbations
Jianfeng Lu
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
In Vivo Imaging of Neurochemistry with Positron Emission Tomography (PET): An Introduction to the Physical Principles, and an Example using PET to Ascertain Pharmacokinetic Characteristics of Drugs in Living Systems
Mark Slifstein, Columbia University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Integers
Craig Gentry, IBM Research - Watson
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY, MARCH 25th
Local Well-posedness for Quadratic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Kotaro Tsugawa, Nagoya University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Unavoidable Crossings in Plane Coverings
Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Title TBA
Ali Rahimi, Intel Research, Seattle
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

HISTORY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR:
6:00 - 8:00 P.M., The Gallatin School (for Individualized Study), 1 Washington Place, Room 801
Einstein's Encounters with Mathematicians: The Swiss Years
Prof. David E. Rowe, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
This talk is a New York Academy of Sciences event.

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Chern-Moser Operators and Symmetries of Levi Degenerate Manifolds
Martin Kolar, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Transport and Collective Dynamics in Suspensions of Swimming Microorganisms
Mike Graham, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Forgetfulness of Balls and Bins
Will Perkins
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 705
Local Well-posedness for Quadratic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Kotaro Tsugawa, Nagoya University
Rescheduled from March 23rd. Please note the slightly earlier time and the change in room number for this talk.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Coupling for Nonstationary Compositions of Anosov Diffeomorphisms
Mikko Stenlund
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
Double Header (No RTG talk), NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102

TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 102.
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 26

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Critical Slowdown for the Ising Model on the Two-Dimensional Lattice
Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithmic Software Verification
Ranjit Jhala, University of California at San Diego
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302 -- Double Header

Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Maria Gehne
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

MONDAY, MARCH 29

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Poincaré-Hopf Theorem and Indices of One-Forms for Singular Spaces
Joerg Schuermann, University of Munster
Please note the different day for this talk.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Cauchy: Towards an Analytical Calculus of Computation
Swarat Chaudhuri, Pennsylvania State University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Learning Components for Human Sensing
Fernando De la Torre, CMU
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
CANCELLED. TO BE RESCHEDULED FOR SOME TIME IN APRIL.
Beyond the Elliptic Genus
Isadore M. Singer, MIT
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 30

NYU ABU DHABI PRESENTS:
11:00 A.M., Courant Institute, WWH 1302
Scientific Research in Extreme Environments, or on Multiscale Interactions in Complex Natural Systems
Sérgio H. Faria, University of Göttingen
A talk by NYUAD Environment Faculty Candidate and presented on behalf of the Courant Institute's Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science.

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptive Multi-Scale Simulation of a Cardiac Strand Model
Paul Hand, Division of Cardiology, NYU School of Cardiology
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Optimization Problems
Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Structured Sparse Principal Component Analysis and Dictionary Learning
Francis Bach, INRIA - Willow Project, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Computational Time Series Analysis for Multidimensional Non-Stationary Geophysical Data with External Factors
Illia Horenko, Freie Universitat Berlin
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

PRINCETON MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., Princeton University, Finall Hall 314
L1 Embeddings of the Heisenberg Group and Fast Estimation of Graph Isoperimetry
Assaf Naor, NYU
Joint work with Jeff Cheeger and Bruce Kleiner

THURSDAY, APRIL 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fractional Diffusion Limits for Kinetic Equations
Antoine Mellet, University of Maryland
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Role of Singularities in Hydrodynamics
Jens Eggers, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
Venue: WWH 1302. Please note the change in the venue.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Title Tba
Iftach Haitner
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317

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

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Characteristic Classes of Complex Hypersurfaces
Laurentiu Maxim, University of Wisconsin
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

NEURO FRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, ROOM TBA
Controlling Chaotic Activity in Neural Networks
Larry Abott, Columbia University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Large-Context Models for Large-Scale Machine Translation
John DeNero, University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Relaxation of a Crystal Surface: Step ODE's, PDE's, and Self-Similarity
Hala Al Hajj Shehadeh
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Low Energy Transfer to the Moon, Chaos, and Random Walk
Edward Belbruno, Princeton University and Innovative Orbital Design, Inc.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ed Gerber
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Geometry, Genetics and Evolution
Eric Siggia, Rockefeller Unviersity
Refreshments will be provided.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 2 - SATURDAY, APRIL 3

24-HOUR HACKATON:
CIMS and the ACM chapters of NYU and Columbia, ADI at Columbia and tech@NYU at NYU, are excited to present a new opportunity for students interested in the interface of technology and entrepreneurship: HackNY

All NYC students are invited to a 24-hour hackathon at NYU on April 2-3 from 7:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M., and all NYC startups are invited to submit to demo their hot technologies, share their APIs and data, and impress NYC's next generation of code powerhouses, many of whom will be looking for summer internships.

MONDAY, APRIL 5

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Modeling and Characterization of the Mechanical Behavior of Nano-sized Structural Elements
Remi Dingreville, NYU-Poly
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., 715 Broadway, Room 1003
Robustness of Evidential Probability
Greg Wheeler, Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA), New University of Lisbon, Portugal
NOTE the change in time to 3:30 P.M.
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

TUESDAY, APRIL 6

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Random Walk on Percolation Clusters, and Scale-Invariant Groups
Gábor Pete, University of Toronto
NOTE the date and room change.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
719 Broadway, Room 1221
Candidate: Samantha Kleinberg
Thesis Title: An Algorithmic Enquiry Concerning Causality
Advisor: Bud Mishra

Committee:
Prof. Bud Mishra (NYU Advisor, Reader)
Prof. Ernest Davis (NYU, Reader)
Prof. Michael Strevens (NYU, Reader)
Prof. Rohit Parikh (CUNY, Auditor)
Prof. Petter Kolm (NYU, Auditor)

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Computational and Experimental Studies of Atrial Fibrillation
James Kneller, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center and NYU Medical Center
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
3N Colored Points in a Plane
Gunter Ziegler, TU Berlin
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Programming Language Ideas Escape the Lab: A Declarative Data Description Language for Managing Ad hoc Data
Kathleen Fisher, AT&T Labs Research
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

NYU ABU DHABI PRESENTS:
2:00 P.M., Courant Institute, WWH 1302
Climate Change in the Sahel, Past, Present and Future
Alessandra Giannini, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
A talk by NYUAD Environment Faculty Candidate and presented on behalf of the Courant Institute's Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science.

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Some Extensions of the Surface Quasi-Geostrophic Model
Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 512
Symplectic Categories
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

THURSDAY, APRIL 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On a Class of Mean Field Equations and Their Applications
Gabriella Tarantello, Universita di Roma
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 512
Dynamics on Character Varieties for the Free Group
Yair Minsky, Yale University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Bacterial Microfluidics: The Physics and Engineering of Flagellated Bacteria
Kenny Breuer, Division of Engineering, Brown University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Title Tba
Adi Gottlieb
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
Geometric Problems in Arithmetic Dynamics
Thomas Tucker, University of Rochester
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, APRIL 9

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
On Some Central Limit Theorems by Martingale Approximation
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Ph.D. THESIS DEFENSE:
10:30 A.M., Mount Sinai, Room AMC330 - Radiology Education Conference Room
Candidate: Claudia Calcagno (MSSM/COB)
Title: Dynamic Contrast Enhanced (DCE) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Atherosclerosis
Advisor: Zahi Fayad

Committee:
Dr. Roberto Sanchez (MSSM)
Dr. Charles Peskin (NYU Courant)
Dr. Leslie Greengard (NYU Courant)
Dr. Ehud Kaplan (MSSM)
Dr. Leon Axel (NYU Medical Center)
Dr. Zahi Fayad (Advisor - MSSM)

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Learning to Rank
Mehryar Mohri
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Synchrosqueezed Wavelet Transforms: A Tool for Empirical Mode Decomposition
Jianfeng Lu, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Frederic Laliberte
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

FRIDAY, APRIL 9 - SUNDAY, APRIL 11

25th ANNUAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL:
Beginning Friday afternoon to Sunday, noon, Courant Institute, WWH 109

Friday, April 9

Saturday, April 10

Sunday, April 11

For more information, please click on the link:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/geomfest/index

MONDAY, APRIL 12

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Maximum Entropy and Applications in Natural and Social Sciences
Miroslav Dudik, Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

TUESDAY, APRIL 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Role of Voltage-Dependent Dendritic Currents in Subthreshold Input Integration
Michiel Remme, NYU Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SPECIAL GRAPHICS AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, 12th Floor, Room 1221
Structured Integrators for Dissipation and Contact
Danny Kaufman, Columbia University

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
i-Hop Homomorphic Encryption Schemes
Shai Halevi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 412
Concentration Inequalities for Dynamical Systems
Jean-René Chazottes (CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
A Complex Analogue of Toda's Theorem
Saugata Basu, Purdue University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Exploring New Models and Features for Visual Recognition
Ce Liu, Microsoft Research New England
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Ensemble Semantics: A General Information Extraction Framework
Patrick Pantel, University of Southern California
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Climate Change: Realities, Surprises, and Opportunities
Paul Mayewski, University of Maine
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, APRIL 15

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Self-Assembled Magnetic Surface Microswimmers
Igor Aronson, Argonne National Lab
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Lower Bounds for the Error Decay Incurred by Coarse Quantization Schemes in Analog-to-Digital Conversion
Rachel Ward
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
Artin's Conjecture on Zeros of p-Adic Forms
Roger Heath-Brown, Oxford 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, APRIL 16

DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY CONFERENCE:

For more information, please click on the link:
http://qc.edu/~aovchinnikov/DAG2010/preliminary%20program.pdf

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY, APRIL 23rd
Title TBA
Gregory Margulis, Yale University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Quantization of Random Linear Movements
Sinan Güntürk, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Machine Translation: Re-envisioning the Model Space
Michael Galley, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302 - Double Header

Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Entropy Stable Approximations of Navier-Stokes Equations with No Artificial Numerical Viscosity
Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

2010 CIMS STUDENT PRIZES:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 109, followed by a reception in the 13th Floor Common

Henning Biermann Award for outstanding contributions by a doctoral student to education or service to the department of computer science,
Antonina Mitrofanova

Sandra Bleistein Prize for notable achievement by a woman in applied mathematics or computer science,
Samantha Kleinberg

Hollis Cooley Prize for excellence and promise in undergraduate mathematics,
Shunxin Jiang

Janet Fabri Prize for an outstanding dissertation in computer science,
Yotam Gingold
Antonina Mitrofanova

Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for an outstanding dissertation in mathematics,
Miranda Holmes
Oren Louidor

Max Goldstein Award for undergraduate creativity in computing,
Hannah Weddle

Harold Grad Memorial Prize for outstanding performance and promise as a graduate student,
Andras Pataki
Daniel Wichs

Moses A. Greenfield Research Award for outstanding interdisciplinary studies by a current student,
Carl Gladish
Giulio Trigila

Wilhelm Magnus Memorial Prize for significant contributions to the mathematical sciences,
Ivan Corwin

Bella Manel Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics on the graduate level by a woman or a member of another under-represented group,
Dian Shen

Masters Student Thesis Prize for an outstanding thesis in Mathematics,
Caroline Kerr

Matthew Smosna Prize for excellence in computer science,
Ravi Malhotra
Long Xuan Nguyen

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 512
Juliana Dias
Please note the change in room for today!
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

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

Refreshments will be provided.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 16 - SUNDAY, APRIL 18

DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY CONFERENCE:

For more information, please click on the link:
http://qc.edu/~aovchinnikov/DAG2010/preliminary%20program.pdf

MONDAY, APRIL 19

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Beyond the Elliptic Genus
I.M. Singer, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Exploiting Parallelism to Scale Software Routers
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Research Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

TUESDAY, APRIL 20

NEW YORK AREA MONTHLY CRYPTO DAY:
Courant Institute, WWH 1302
http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~gccg/cd/index.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 201*
Unsupervised Feature Learning
Honglak Lee, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
*Please note the change in room number
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Near to the Heart: Physiological Modeling in Cardiovascular Diseases
Karim Azer, Applied Computer Science and Mathematics, Merck & Co., Inc.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

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, APRIL 21

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Approximate Inference in Graphical Models
David Sontag, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Effect of Latent Heat on Storm Track Dynamics
Yohai Kaspi, Cal Tech
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, APRIL 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Tba
Frederic Rousset, University of Rennes
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Bio-inspired Self-Organizing Morphogenetic Robotic Systems
Yan Meng, Stevens Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Constructive Algorithms for Discrepancy Minimization
Nikhil Bansal
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:45 P.M., WWH 102
Data Assimilation using Ensemble Kalman Filters
Sebastian Reich, University of Potsdam, Germany
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

NYU ABU DHABI PRESENTS:
3:00 P.M., Meyer Building, 4 Washington Place, Room 551
Adaptive Neural Coding of Cortical Neurons to the Statistics of the Naturalistic Signal
Yuguo Yu, Yale University (NYUAD Neural Science Faculty Candidate)

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Critical p-Adic L-Functions
Joel Bellaiche, Brandeis 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, APRIL 23

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Two Talks:

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

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
12:45 - 1:45 P.M., Room 6496, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets
On-Demand Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery
Satoshi Sekine, NYU
If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please email Heng Ji at
hj294@nyu.edu

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Random Minkowsky Theorem
Gregory Margulis, Yale University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamic Similarity: An Antarctic Ice Shelf and a French Turntable
David Holland
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Mathematical Theory of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Amit Singer, Princeton University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Naftali Cohen
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

MONDAY, APRIL 26

GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
3:15 P.M., WWH 512
Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Dave Gabai, Princeton University
Please note the room number and the change of starting time.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Problems in Mixing
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Sr. Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Mathematics, NYU
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

WELCOME RECEPTION FOR KATEPALLI R. SREENIVASAN:
5:30 P.M. in the Warren Weaver Hall 13th Floor Commons

TUESDAY, APRIL 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Phototransduction: Where Electrophysiology and Molecular Genetics Meet Mathematics
Daniel Tranchina, CIMS, Department of Biology, and Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:40 P.M., WWH 1302
Regularity in Variational Analysis
Alexander Ioffe, Technion
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon, 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
Neural Networks Reveal the Splicing Code
Brendan Frey, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 512
Atmospheric Temperature Trends: Observations vs. GCMs
Celeste Johanson, University of Washington
Please note the change in room number.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

RECEPTION IN HONOR OF SUBHASH KHOT:
Winner of the 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award
5:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall 13th Floor Commons

THURSDAY, APRIL 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
New Proof of the KdV Approximation of the Water Wave Problem
Wolf-Patrick Duell, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Mechanics of Swimming Microorganisms
Tom Powers, Division of Engineering, Brown University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 517
Invariant Measures and Phase Transitions for Two-Dimensional and Geostrophic Turbulence
Freddy Bouchet, Nice-France
Please note the change in room number.
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
The Missing Log in Large Deviations for Subgraph Counts
Sourav Chatterjee
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

XXVth COURANT LECTURE:
4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
Complexity Reduction in the Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations (General Audience)
Alfio Quarteroni, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
A reception follows in the 13th Floor Commons
A second talk will be given on Friday, April 30th at 11:00 A.M.

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102
Central Limit Theorem for Random Multiplicative Functions
Sourav Chatterjee, CIMS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 102.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 102
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 30

Courant's WinC, Google & Princeton's (GWISE) Annual NYC Girls Conference 2010
8:00 A.M., NYU Kimmel Center, 10th Floor
For more information, please visit:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb/HS

ICT AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES:
Room 900, Kimmel Center, NYU (60 Washington Square South)
A one-day workshop hosted by NYU CATER, NYU Africa House, AES, AFEA and NYU-Poly TM.
To learn more about this workshop and see the program, click on the link:
http://cater.cs.nyu.edu/Workshop10
There is limited seating for about 75 people. Please register at the site below if you wish to attend:
http://bit.ly/c0z4mV

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Two Talks:

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

XXVth COURANT LECTURE:
11:00 A.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
Mathematical Models for the Cardiovascular System: Analysis, Numerical Simulation, Application
Alfio Quarteroni, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:45 - 1:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Numerical Generation of a Vortex Ring Cascade in Quantum Turbulence
Robert M. Kerr, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Warwick
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamics of Perceptual Bistability: e.g., the Necker Cube
John Rinzel
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

The Inaugural Polytechnic Trustees' Eminent Scholar Lecture:
3:30 P.M., Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Jacobs Academic Bldg., Room 474, Six Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn
From Riemannian Geometry to Modern Computer Graphics
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
Tea at 3:30 P.M. in front of JAB 474
Reception in LC400 immediately after the lecture
Jointly sponsored by NYU Poly and Courant Institute

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Xichen Li
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
There is No Clock in the Gamma-Band Activity of the Local Field Potential
Sam Burns, NYU
Refreshments will be provided.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, MAY 3

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Wall Force Produced in ITER Disruptions
Henry R. Strauss, CIMS (Ret.)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

Dept. of Computer Science Doctoral Dissertation Defense:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302

Candidate: Ameet Talwalkar
Thesis Title: Matrix Approximation for Large-Scale Learning
Advisor: Mehryar Mohri

Committee:
Prof. Mehryar Mohri (NYU Advisor, Reader)
Dr. Corinna Cortes (Google Research, Reader)
Dr. Sanjiv Kumar (Google Research, Reader)
Prof. Mark Tygert (NYU Math, Auditor)
Prof. Dennis Shasha (NYU CS, Auditor)

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Nonmodal Approach to Plasma Linear Theory
Enrico Camporeale, Queen Mary University of London, UK
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Natural Boundaries and Spectral Theory
Barry Simon, Caltech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, MAY 4

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Computer Simulation of Voltage Sensitive Calcium Ion Channels in Dendritic Spine
Pilhwa Lee, University of Connecticut Health Center
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Packing of Regular Tetrahedra: A Combined Analytical and Numerical Search
Michael Engel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

Celebrating 10th Anniversary of Math Finance Program:
6:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons
Please joint the Courant Institute, its students faculty, alumni, and friends as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Math Finance Program and honor Marco Avellaneda for being named Risk Magazine's Quant of the Year.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING 2010 SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 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, MAY 6

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Front Propagation and Phase Transitions for Fractional Diffusion Equations
Xavier Cabre, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
3:00 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 412
The Parabolic Resonance Instability
Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Sieving in Groups
Alex Kontorovich, Brown University and IAS
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, MAY 7 - SUNDAY, MAY 9

AMIR PNUELI MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
For more information, please see further down.

FRIDAY, MAY 7

IBM RESEARCH | NYU | COLUMBIA THEORY DAY:
Davis Auditorium, 412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Bldg., Columbia University

For directions, please see
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/directions.html

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
Internal DLA and the Gaussian Free Field
Scott Sheffield, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Accelerating First Order Methods for Convex Optimization Problems Arising in Machine Learning
Katya Scheinberg, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/nasc_seminars

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
POSTPONED TO MONDAY, MAY 10th
Are Fusion Plasmas Compressible?
Antoine Cerfon, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Modeling Rare Events in Complex Systems
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

FRIDAY, MAY 7 - SUNDAY, MAY 9

AMIR PNUELI MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

Friday, May 7th
Remembering Amir Pnueli
4:00 P.M., WWH 109
With tributes from his family, friends, colleagues, and students.
Reception to follow in the 13th floor commons.

Saturday, May 8th
Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium
8:15 A.M. - 5:30 P.M., Courant Institute, WWH 109
To see the full 3-day program, please click on the link:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/acsys/pnueli/

Sunday, May 9th
Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium
8:30 A.M. - 5:30 P.M., WWH 109
To see the full 3-day program, please click on the link:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/acsys/pnueli/

MONDAY, MAY 10

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Coming to Grips with Complexity in Computer-Aided Verification
Ken McMillan, Cadence Berkeley Labs
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 202
Are Fusion Plasmas Compressible?
Antoine Cerfon, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, MAY 11

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Role of Voltage-Dependent Dandritic Currents in Subthreshold Input Integration
Michiel Remme, NYU Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12

SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Formation of Black Holes
Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 715/719 Broadway, Room 1221
The Eye of the Terminator: Modeling the Visual System in Hardware
Eugenio Culurciello, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale University
http://cbll.cs.nyu.edu/www/doku.php?id=seminars:seminars

THURSDAY, MAY 13

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Bounds on the Growth of High Sobolev Norms of Solutions to 1d Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Vedran Sohinger, MIT
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MAY 14

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 317
A Particle Dynamics Related to the Shuffling Algorithm for the Aztec Diamond
Eric Nordenstam, Université Catholique de Louvain
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

MONDAY, MAY 17

CATEGORY THEORY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., Room 4421, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street, diagonally across from the Empire State Building)
Natural Weak Factorization Systems in Model Structures
Emily Riehl, University of Chicago

THURSDAY, MAY 20

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:15 A.M.,* WWH 1302
Einstein Spacetimes with Distributional Curvature
Philippe LeFloch, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Please note the slightly later starting time.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

THURSDAY, MAY 27

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Soliton Dynamics under a Slowly Varying Medium for Generalized KdV Equations
Claudio Munoz
A second seminar follows.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:15 A.M., WWH 1302
Homogenized Diffusion Limit for Semiconductor Boltzmann-Poisson System
Lazhar Tayeb, El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

THURSDAY, JUNE 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:15* A.M., WWH 1302
Blood-Flow Modelling and Simulations Along and Through a Braided Multi-Layer Metallic Stent
Vuk Milisic, Lab. J. Kuntzmann, CNRS
*Please note the slightly later starting time.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
Extensive Escape Rate in Lattices of Weakly Coupled Expanding Maps
Bastien Fernandez, Courant Institute and Marseille

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
Dynamics and Control in Fluids, Engineering and Biochemistry
Stefan Siegmund, TU Dresden

MONDAY, AUGUST 2

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Quenched Random Lorentz Tubes
Marco Lenci (Bologna)
Joint work with G. Cristadoro and M. Seri

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:15 P.M., WWH 1314
A Chaotic Walk in a Frozen Environment
Mikko Stenlund, CIMS
Joint work with T. Simula and L. Leskelä