Message from the Director
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Announcements
Raghu Varadhan awarded National Medal of Science
The White House announced in a Sept. 27, 2011 Press Release that S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan was named a recipient… [more]
Mikhael Gromov elected to The Royal Society, UK
Mikhael Gromov has been elected a Foreign Member of The Royal Society, UK, along with 44 Fellows and 7 other… [more]
Marsha Berger elected Fellow of the AAAS
Marsha Berger has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in a class of 212… [more]
Gerard Ben Arous elected Fellow of the IMS
Gerard Ben Arous has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Fellowships are awarded to IMS members in… [more]
News
NYUAD International Hackathon
The first International Hackathon for the Social Good in the Arab World was held October 28-30 at NYU Abu Dhabi. The… [more]
Advances in Technology Blur the Boundaries between the Animated and the Real
In the New York Times, Chris Bregler discusses the performance-based animation technologies which are used to make convincing chimpanzees… [more]
Risk Economics Lab Established with $1 Million Leadership Pledge
The Risk Economics Lab for Decision Metrics has been established at Courant with a $1 million leadership pledge from the… [more]
Seminars and Events
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICAL MECHANICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Title: A statistical optimization princile for coarse-graining determinstic dynamics
Bruce Turkington, University of Massachusetts Amherst
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~jianfeng/seminar.htm
COB COLLOQUIUM:
12:25 P.M., WWH 102
Title: The Genome Question: Moore vs. Jevons
Bud Mishra, CIMS, NYU School of Medicine
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 201
Title: Gluing Algebraic Varieties: A birational geometric perspective
Ilya Kazhemanov, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/~koehler/algsem2.html
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Linear Predictability of the North Atlantic Ocean
Laure Zanna, Oxford
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium