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TUESDAY, JANUARY 6

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 201
Approximate Shortest Paths Amid Convex Obstacles
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7

SPECIAL LECTURE:
5:30 P.M., WWH 109 (South East corner of West 4th Street and Mercer Street)
Picturing the Science of Climate Change
Gavin Schmidt, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Photographs and images of current events can be powerful aids to understanding. However, for climate changes that occur over long time-scales, it can be a struggle to depict what is happening clearly. In an image-based slide show, I will describe a collaboration of photographers and scientists to present a visually stunning record of what is happening in climate along with the context to demonstrate what it means.
Sponsored by the center for Multi-scale Modeling of Atmospheric Phenomena and the Center for Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences at the Courant Institute.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Hardness of Embedding Simplicial Complexes in R^d
Martin Tancer, Charles University, Prague
Please note that this seminar is being held in room 317, WWH. This will be the default location for all Geometry seminars in Spring '09.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

MONDAY, JANUARY 12 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14

SPECIAL 3-DAY WORKSHOP:
Financial Engineering: Derivatives, Operator Methods and GPU Computing
8:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., January 12-14, 2009, Courant Institute, WWH Room 109
For information about this Workshop, including a link to the registration page, please check the URL below:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~mathfcon
For questions or inquiries, send e-mail to:
mathfcon@cims.nyu.edu

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Correlation Decay via Coupling for Billiards
Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Massachusetts
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ground State Selection and Energy Equi-Partition for NLS/GP
Michael I. Weinstein, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
An Inexact Newton Method for Nonlinear Constrained Optimization
Frank Curtis, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., 7th Floor, 719 Broadway
Opinion Mining using Econometrics
Panos Ipeirotis, Stern School of Business, NYU
See the URL below and click on directions:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/directions
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Fast Algorithm for Approximating the Singular Value Decomposition of a Matrix
Mark Tygert, Applied Mathematics, Yale University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ameet Talwalkar, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 - 4:50 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Speaker Tba
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Multi-Configuration Methods of Quantum Chemistry/Physics
Saber Trabelsi, University of Paris 6
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Hidden Structures in the Family of Convex Functions in Rⁿ and the New Duality Transform
Vitali Milman, Tel Aviv University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Phase Diffusion in Modulation Equations for Pattern Forming Systems
Wolf-Patrick Duell, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
Functional Ito Calculus and Robust Volatility Hedge
Bruno Dupire, Bloomberg LP
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30

SAMUEL EILENBERG LECTURES:
9:30 A.M., Columbia University, 2990 Broadway at 117th Street, 520 Mathematics
Random Surfaces and Algebraic Curves
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
First Lecture!
http://math.columbia.edu/~lrb/EilenbergLecturesS2009.htm
Note: There will be no Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar scheduled to allow those interested to attend the Eilenberg Lecture
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Recent Advances in the Computation of the Joint Spectral Radius of a Set of Matrices
Nicola Guglielmi, University of L'Aquila
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Learning Networks of Places and People from Location Data
Tony Jebara, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Columbia Machine Learning Laboratory, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

COLUMBIA'S PROBABILITY SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Ave. (bet. 121st and 122nd Streets) Room 903, 10th Floor in the School of Social Work
Large Deviations for Non-Equilibrium Particle Systems
Thierry Bodineau, Ecole Normale Superieure
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Two Coarse-Graining Studies of Stochastic Models in Molecular Biology
Pete Kramer, RPI
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Testing Models of Phenotypic Robustness and Network Centrality
Mark Siegal, NYU Biology
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
An Estimate on Weak Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations and Some of Its Consequences
Walter Craig, McMaster University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Mathematical Modeling of Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death)
Kenneth Ho, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

JOINT CRYPTOCRACY/MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Advances in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Claire Monteleoni, Columbia University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
How Hot Can a Heat Bath Get?
Martin Hairer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Small-Size Epsilon-Nets for Geometric Range Spaces
Esther Ezra, Duke University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Cloud and Climate Modeling: From Super-Parameterization to Large-Eddy Simulation of Deep Convection
Marat Khairoutdinov, Stony Brook University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Examples of Large Global Smooth Solutions of the 3D Incompressible Navier-Stokes System
Jean-Yves Chemin, University of Paris 6
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Icicles, Washboard Road and Meandering Syrup
Stephen W. Morris, University of Toronto, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Faster Polynomial Multiplication via Multipoint Kronecker Substitution
David Harvey
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
K3 Surfaces, Shioda-Inose Structures, and Real Multiplication
Abhinav Kumar, MIT
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, FEBRUARY 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Solution Strategies for Stochastsic Partial Differential Equations
Howard Elman, University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Resolvents of R-Diagonal Ensembles
Todd Kemp, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Computer-based Design of Protein-Protein Interactions
Brian Kuhlman, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Complex Fluids: Viscoelastic Response to Thermal Fluctuations and Stability of Active Suspensions
Christel Hohenegger
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Approximating Stationary Statistical Properties of Dissipative Chaotic Dynamical Systems
Xiaoming Wang, FSU
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Maximally Efficient Mixing in Replenishing Passive Scalar Turbulence
Shane Keating
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9

NYU MANY CORES READING GROUP:
12:45 - 2:00 P.M., Room 1221, 719 Broadway
A Brief Tutorial on the Erlang Language and Its Relationship with Other Concurrent and General-Purpose Languages
Chris Conway
Background reading: Concurrent Programming in Erlang
Erlang is an open source language that makes it easy to create and manage processes using message passing instead of locks. It supports a high level of concurrency. Code in a running system can be hot-swapped. Applications include message switching systems, including ones at Ericsson (where the language was developed), Amazon's SimpleDB, and Facebook's Chat.
http://www.rubinsteyn.com/manycores/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Quantitative Behavior of Lipschitz Maps from the Heisenberg Group to L¹
Jeff Cheeger, CIMS
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

NEW YORK CITY CATEGORY THEORY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., Room 4421, Graduate Center of The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St., diagonally across from the Empire State Building)
On the Algorithmic Informational Content of Categories
Noson S. Yanofsky, Brooklyn College, CUNY

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling Proximal Tubule Cell Homeostasis during Glomerulotubular Balance
Alan Weinstein, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Spectral Clustering with Perturbed Data
Ameet Talwalkar, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 - 4:50 P.M., WWH 101
Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions Based on Gaussian Measures
Kristiyan Haralambiev, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Multi-Directed Hypergraph Representations of {0,+1,-1}-Matrices
Lucas Rusnak, Binghamton University, SUNY
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Hysteresis in Thermohaline Laboratory Models
Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Fadell-Rabinowitz Index on Dual Legendrian Sub-Manifolds of the Loop Space for a Contact Manifold M³
Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

STATISTICS IN SOCIETY LECTURE:
12:00 Noon - 1:15 P.M., WWH 1302
Data Analysis in an 'Expanded Field'
Mark Hansen, Dept. of Statistics, UCLA, and Co-PI for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
This talk examines the interface between statistics, computing and society.
http://research.cens.ucla.edu/
For an example of how the Center's work on "urban sensing" can inform the interaction between society and the environment, see:
http://urbans.cens.ucla.edu/

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Irit Dinur
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Another Look at Credit Index Option Pricing
Bjorn Flesaker, Bloomberg LP
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 317
Specialization Theorems and Unlikely Intersection
Joseph Silverman, Brown University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Two-Dimensional Invasion Percolation and Incipient Infinite Clusters
Michael Damron, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Just Causes or Just-so Causes
Bud Mishra, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, NYU
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Geometry of a Modulational Instability
Jared Bronski, Urbana-Champaign
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Background for the talk: A Parameter Study of Spectral Energy Energy Distribution in the Boussinesq System
Speaker Tba
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
The Role of Water in Recognition of Acetylated Lysine by Bromodomains
Roman Osman, MSSM
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
PAC-Bayes
John Langford, Yahoo
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 - 4:50 P.M., WWH 101
Security Amplification for Interactive Cryptographic Primitives
Ragesh Jaiswal, Columbia University
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
A Taste for Algebraic Combinatorics for (Combinatorial) Geometry
Thomas Zaslavsky, Binghamton University, SUNY
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Parameter Study of Spectral Energy Distribution in the Boussinesq System
Susan Kurien, Los Alamos
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY PANEL:
6:30 P.M., WWH 109
Hear technology professionals from various business sectors talk about how technology is used in their company, the issues that they currently face, and what is in store for the future. Participants include Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Blackrock, and Deloitte Consulting. Resumes will be collected (please bring one copy per company). The first half of the panel discussion will consist of a moderator-led Q&A, and the second half will be an open Q&A with the audience.
A reception with refreshments will follow outside room 109.
This event is organized by WinC, MACS, and ACM.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Minimal-Mass Blow-Up Solutions to the Mass-Critical gKdV
Shuanglin Shao, IAS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Virtual Lung Project at UNC
Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina, Math
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Mario Szegedy
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
Manin's Conjecture on Rational Points and Adelic Periods
Hee Oh, Brown 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

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 512
Dynamic Hedging of Portfolio Credit Derivatives
Gabriel Kan, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Universality at the Edge of the Spectrum for Random Matrices with Independent Entries: Soshnikov's Theorems and Some Extensions
Sasha Sodin, Tel-Aviv University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Homogenization and Multiobjective Optimization: Computational Challenges
Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

NEUROFRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Searching for Autocoherence in the Cortical Network with a Time-Frequency Analysis of the Local Field Potential
Samuel P. Burns, Courant Institute/Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Practically Efficient Secrecy Preserving Proofs of Correctness of Computations, and Financial Cryptography
Michael O. Rabin, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Brief Introduction to Computational Neuroscience: Neuronal Network Modeling
Aaditya Rangan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Spectral Lagrangian Methods for Nonlinear Boltzmann Type Equations
Irene Gamba, UT Austin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21

10th ANNUAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE WINTER WORKSHOP:
8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 102, Courant Institute
Workshop 2009: Oceanography at the Observational and Modeling Frontier: Submesoscale Dynamics
This workshop will consist of about five or six 45-minute invited lectures each day, as well as ample time for informal discussions.
For further information on participants, registration, and local information, see:
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/object/workshop.2009
Sponsored jointly by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS).

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23

SPECIAL LECTURES IN PROBABILITY AT COLUMBIA:
9:30 - 11:00 A.M., Columbia University, Hamilton 517
Can a Single Mutant's Progeny Survive For Ever?
Etienne Pardoux, Marseille
Note the unusual place and time!
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~schertzer/probability_seminar.html/
See also: http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Barriers in Cryptography and Complexity Theory
Boaz Barak, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

NYU MANY CORES READING GROUP:
12:45 - 2:00 P.M., Room 1221, 719 Broadway
How Fast Can APL Be?
Roy Lowrance
In the spirit of this upcoming talk, click on the link for a video of John Scholes livecoding The Game of Life in APL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl-GB&hl=en-GB&v=a9xAKttWgP4&fmt=18
http://www.rubinsteyn.com/manycores/

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Nucleation and Growth of Integrin Adhesions
Ben Ovryn, Dept. of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 201
On Lattices, Learning with Errors, Random Linear Codes, and Cryptography
Aristeidis Tentes, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Support Vector Method for Novelty Detection
Eugene Weinstein, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SPECIAL LECTURE:
5:30 - 8:00 P.M., WWH 109
Financial Darwinism: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Financial Crisis and the Future of Wall Street
Leo M. Tilman, President, L.M. Tilman & Co.; Adjunct Faculty, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Polynomial Hierarchy, Betti Numbers and a Real Analogue of Toda's Theorem
Saugata Basu, Purdue University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

SPECIAL LECTURES IN PROBABILITY AT COLUMBIA:
9:30 - 11:00 A.M., Columbia University, School of Social Work, Room 1025, (1255 Amsterdam Ave., bet. 121st & 122nd Streets)
Homogenization and SPDEs
Etienne Pardoux, Marseille
Note the unusual place and time!
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~schertzer/probability_seminar.html/
See also: http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Enlightened Trial and Error: Gaining Design Insight Through New Prototyping Tools
Björn Hartmann, Stanford University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
What Would Have Happened to the Ozone Layer if CFCs Had Not Been Regulated?
Paul Newman, NASA/GSFC
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
What Does an Option Price Mean?
Peter Carr, Bloomberg LP
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The KdV/KP-1 Limit of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Frederic Rousset, University of Rennes 1
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Time Series Estimation
Juan Restrepo, University of Arizona, Math
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anup Rao
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 317

4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: Frank Calegari, Northwestern University
Towards Modularity Theorems over Imaginary Quadratic Fields
5:30 - 7:00 P.M.: François Loeser, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Some Applications of Model Theory to Algebraic Geometry

TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317.
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Automatic Solution of Differential Equations using Chebfun and Chebop
Toby Driscoll, University of Delaware
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
The Ghirlanda-Guerra Identities and Ultrametricity in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model
Dmitry Panchenko, Texas A&M
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Foundations of Privacy: Contextual Integrity, The Logic of Privacy and Beyond
Anupam Datta, Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Upper Bounds on Photonic Bandgaps
Mikael Rechtsman
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
The Hodge Theory of Character Varieties
Mark Andrea de Cataldo, Stony Brook University
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/diff_geom.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Mathematical Understanding of Tau-Leaping Algorithm
Tiejun Li, Peking University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Background for the talk: Recent Developments in Modeling Ice Sheet Driven Sea Level Change
Carl Gladish
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Precise Temporal Processing in the Auditory Brain Stem
John Rinzel, NYU, Center for Neuro Science
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, MARCH 2

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Support Vector Method for Novelty Detection
Eugene Weinstein, NYU
(Scholkopf et al., NIPS 2000)
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
From Diaconis-Fulton Addition to a Free Boundary Problem
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Computer Simulation of the Immune System: Study of Cross-Reactive Tc Memory against Heterologous Viruses
Yiming Cheng, Dept. of Rheumatology, NYU School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 P.M., WWH 101
On Lattices, Learning with Errors, Random Linear Codes, and Cryptography
Aristeidis Tentes, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
A Brief Introduction to Computational Neuroscience: Neuronal Network Modeling
Aaditya Rangan, CIMS
(rerun of Feb. 20th talk)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
On the Second Half of Boole's Laws of Thought
Jay Sulzberger, Energetica Systems, NYC
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Functional Programming Perspectives on Concurrency and Parallelism
Matthew Fluet, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Recent Developments in Modeling Ice Sheet Driven Sea Level Change
Glenn Milne, University of Ottawa
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Entire Solutions of Completely Coercive Quasilinear Elliptic Equations
James Serrin, University of Minnesota
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Memory as Vibration in a Disconnecting Air Bubble
Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago, Physics and James Franck Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
The Geometry of Binary Search Trees
John Iacono
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., Meyer Hall, Room 122
Exprimental Attempts to Simulate Large-Scale Continental Dynamics
Jun Zhang

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
CHANGED TO THURSDAY, MARCH 12th!
Tba
Rama Cont, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
On the Cohomology of Some Non-Compact Shimura Variety
Sophie Morel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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, MARCH 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Augmentation Preconditioners for Saddle Point Linear Systems
Chen Greif, University of British Columbia
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

SPECIAL JOINT COLUMBIA/COURANT SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Is the Critical Percolation Probability Local?
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Stochastic Games in Synthesis and Verification
Krishnendu Chatterjee, University of California, Santa Cruz
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
L² Extension of Holomorphic Functions from Algebraic Hypersurfaces
Dror Varolin, Stony Brook University
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/diff_geom.html

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Iterative Shrinkage/Thresholding Algorithms: Some History and Recent Developments
Mario A.T. Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Tecnico
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Mathematical Problems in Atmosphere Ocean Fluid Dynamics
Oliver Buhler
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The String Method as a Dynamical System
Maria Cameron, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Background for the talk: The Impact of Interactive Icebergs on the Ocean and Sea Ice in a Global Climate Model
Dan Goldberg
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

MONDAY, MARCH 9

NYU MANY CORES READING GROUP:
12:45 - 2:00 P.M., Room 1221, 719 Broadway
Dense Linear Algebra Design Issues for Manycore Environments
David Bindel, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/manycores/

COLES SCIENCE SALON:
5:30 - 6:30 P.M., East Room, 2nd Floor, Bobst Library
The General Circulation of the Atmosphere, from Colombus to Meteosat
Professor Olivier Pauluis, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute
Refreshments will be served.
Talk presented by the Bobst Library.
Please RSVP at:
http://tinyurl.com/salon-rsvp

TUESDAY, MARCH 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Musings on Mathematics and Microbiology
Peter Kramer, RPI
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 P.M., WWH 101
Simultaneous Hardcore Bits and Cryptography Against Memory Attacks
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, MIT and IBM
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Impact of Interactive Icebergs on the Ocean and Sea Ice in a Global Climate Model
Torge Martin, Princeton/GFDL
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, MARCH 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Recent Results for Special Lagrangian Equations
Yu Yuan, University of Washington
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lagrangian Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Flow
Nicholas Ouellette, Yale University, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
The Berkovich Julia Set of a Rational Function and the Equicontinuity Locus
Robert Rumely, University of Georgia
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 512, Courant Institute
Too Interconnected to Fail: Contagion and Systemic Risks in Financial Networks
Rama Cont, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 13

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Stochastic Scale Invariance and KPZ Equation
Vincent Vargas, Université Paris Dauphine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NEUROFRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1314, Courant Institute
Phase-to-Rate Transformations Encode Touch in a Scanning Sensorimotor System
Professor David Kleinfeld, Dept. of Physics, UCSD
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Scaling Up Semi-Supervised Learning to Gigantic Image Collections
Rob Fergus, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Background for the talk Coupling between Tropical Rainfall and the Large Scale Atmospheric Circulation at Submonthly Time Scales
Olivier Pauluis
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Enhancing Conformational Sampling in Complex Systems via Novel Spatial-Warping Transformations
Mark Tuckerman, NYU, Chemistry
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Smoothing Effects for the Balescu-Lenard Equation
Robert M. Strain III, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MONDAY, MARCH 23

NYU MANY CORES READING GROUP:
12:45 - 2:00 P.M., Room 1221, 719 Broadway
Discussion on Concrete APL, J, K, and Q Examples
Dennis Shasha
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/manycores/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., WWH 317
Geometric Properties of Sobolev Mapping and Applications to Nonlinear Elasticity
Reza Pakzad, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COURANT LECTURE:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 109
The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: The Surprising Story of Compressive Sensing
Emmanuel Candes, Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, CalTech
(General Audience)
A reception follows in the 13th Floor Common.

TUESDAY, MARCH 24

COURANT LECTURE:
11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M., WWH 102
The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: The Surprising Story of Matrix Completion
Emmanuel Candes, Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, CalTech

NYU MANY CORES READING GROUP:
3:00 - 4:15 P.M., Room 1221, 719 Broadway
Tacit Parallelism
Robert Bernecky
Note: This talk is on a Tuesday and starts at 3:00 P.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/manycores/

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Universality in the Two Matrix Model
Maurice Duits, CalTech
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Geometry of Expanding Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures and the Liftability Problem
Jose Alves, University of Porto
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Maximizing the Number of Colorings
Po-Shen Loh, Princeton University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Pulling Rank: Inference from Incomplete Data
Benjamin Recht, California Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Coupling Between Tropical Rainfall and the Large Scale Atmospheric Circulation at Submonthly Time
George Kiladis, NOAA/ESRL
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

HARMONIC ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 201
Reference Free Cryo-EM Structure Determination through Eigenvectors of Sparse Matrices
Yoel Shkolnisky, Yale University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gunturk/Seminar_Schedule.html

THURSDAY, MARCH 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Around the Bounded L² Curvature Conjecture in General Reality
Jeremie Szeftel, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Physical Language of Molecules
Tsvi Tlusty, Weizmann Institute, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
Double Header, 2:15 P.M., WWH 1314

Ilias Diakonikolas
Title Tba
Amir Yehudayoff
Affine Extractors Over Prime Fields

http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

2009 ABEL PRIZE CELEBRATION FOR MIKHAEL GROMOV:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons, Warren Weaver Hall
Please join us for the celebration!

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
Modelling the Smile of Volatility
Lorenzo Bergomi, Societé Generale
http://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
Adelic Analysis on Arithmetic Surfaces
Ivan Fesenko, University of Nottingham
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 102.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

SCIENCE AT NYU: A PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES:
7:00 - 9:00 P.M., NYU SCPS Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay St. (bet. B'way & Church), 4th Floor
Teaching Robots to See
Yann LeCun, Silver Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute
A reception will follow.
First of three public programs this spring highlighting exciting new research done at NYU. $20 for general public; $10 for all NYU staff and students and NYAS members.
To register or find out more, go to:
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/

FRIDAY, MARCH 27

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Quantum Many-Body Systems and the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
Kay Kirkpatrick, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Non-Overlapping Domain Decomposition Techniques for the Helmholtz Equation
Yassine Boubendir, NJIT
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Network Coded Wireless Architecture
Sachin Katti, ICSI - University of California, Berkeley
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Coupled Surface Diffusion and Motion by Mean Curvature
Amy Novick-Cohen
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Modeling and Simulation of Soft Matter Materials using Stochastic Immersed Boundary Methods
Paul Atzberger, UCSB
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

MEMORIAL FOR JACK SCHWARTZ:
7:00 P.M., WWH 109
Please join us for a Celebration of the Life of Professor Jacob T. Schwartz
With reception to follow in the 13th Floor Lounge.
The Schwartz family would also like to invite everyone to a special open house on Saturday, March 28th. The invitation can be found on the Courant homepage
http://cims.nyu.edu/Jack_Celebration.pdf

SATURDAY, MARCH 28

A SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN MEMORY OF THOMAS BRINGLEY:
Room 1302, Courant Institute

Invited Speakers:

8:30 - 9:00 A.M.: Breakfast (Courant Lounge)
9:00 - 9:05: Introductory Remarks
9:05 - 9:35: Boyce Griffith (NYU Medicine)
Simulating the Fluid Dynamics of the Aortic Heart Valve
9:40 - 10:10: Steve Childress (NYU Mathematics)
Valveless Pumping
10:10 - 10:30: Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30: Charles Peskin (NYU Mathematics)
Tom Bringley's Ph.D. Thesis
11:35 A.M. - 12:05 P.M.: Yoichiro Mori (U Minn, Mathematics)
Convergence of the Immersed Boundary Method and the Even-Odd Condition
12:05 - 1:30: Lunch (Courant Lounge)
1:30 - 2:00: Aaron Brown (AQR Capital Management)
Whiskey, Poker and the Global Derivatives Economy
2:05 - 2:35: Jun Zhang (NYU Physics)
Reversed Flapping Flight and Inverted Hydrodynamical Drafting
2:35 - 3:00: Coffee Break
3:00 - 3:30: Arjun Raj (MIT, Physics)
Nature, Nurture or Just Dumb Luck: Stochastic Gene Expression and Cell Fate
3:35 - 4:05: Paul Atzberger, (UCSB, Mathematics)
Stochastic Immersed Boundary Methods for Simulation of Microscopic Fluid-Structure Systems with Thermal Fluctuations

Breakfast, coffee, and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Saverio Spagnolie at saverio@courant.nyu.edu

A list of speakers, talk abstracts, and schedule may be viewed at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/BringleyConference

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25

THURSDAY, MARCH 26

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Physical Language of Molecules
Tsvi Tlusty, Weizmann Institute, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
Double Header, 2:15 P.M., WWH 1314

Ilias Diakonikolas
Title Tba
Amir Yehudayoff
Affine Extractors Over Prime Fields

http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

2009 ABEL PRIZE CELEBRATION FOR MIKHAEL GROMOV:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., 13th Floor Commons, Warren Weaver Hall
Please join us for the celebration!

FRIDAY, MARCH 27

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Coupled Surface Diffusion and Motion by Mean Curvature
Amy Novick-Cohen
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Modeling and Simulation of Soft Matter Materials using Stochastic Immersed Boundary Methods
Paul Atzberger, UCSB
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

SATURDAY, MARCH 28

A SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE IN MEMORY OF THOMAS BRINGLEY:
Room 1302, Courant Institute

Invited Speakers:

8:30 - 9:00 A.M.: Breakfast (Courant Lounge)
9:00 - 9:05: Introductory Remarks
9:05 - 9:35: Boyce Griffith (NYU Medicine)
Simulating the Fluid Dynamics of the Aortic Heart Valve
9:40 - 10:10: Steve Childress (NYU Mathematics)
Valveless Pumping
10:10 - 10:30: Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30: Charles Peskin (NYU Mathematics)
Tom Bringley's Ph.D. Thesis
11:35 A.M. - 12:05 P.M.: Yoichiro Mori (U Minn, Mathematics)
Convergence of the Immersed Boundary Method and the Even-Odd Condition
12:05 - 1:30: Lunch (Courant Lounge)
1:30 - 2:00: Aaron Brown (AQR Capital Management)
Whiskey, Poker and the Global Derivatives Economy
2:05 - 2:35: Jun Zhang (NYU Physics)
Reversed Flapping Flight and Inverted Hydrodynamical Drafting
2:35 - 3:00: Coffee Break
3:00 - 3:30: Arjun Raj (MIT, Physics)
Nature, Nurture or Just Dumb Luck: Stochastic Gene Expression and Cell Fate
3:35 - 4:05: Paul Atzberger, (UCSB, Mathematics)
Stochastic Immersed Boundary Methods for Simulation of Microscopic Fluid-Structure Systems with Thermal Fluctuations

Breakfast, coffee, and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Saverio Spagnolie at saverio@courant.nyu.edu

A list of speakers, talk abstracts, and schedule may be viewed at:
http://www.math.nyu.edu/BringleyConference

MONDAY, MARCH 30

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Strictly Declarative Specification of Sophisticated Points-to-Analyses
Martin Bravenboer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Complex Interpolation between Spaces of Bounded Operators
Gilles Pisier, Université Paris VI and Texas A&M University
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY, MARCH 31st
Einstein Metrics in Abundance
Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico (visiting Courant, Spring 2009)
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/diff_geom.html

TUESDAY, MARCH 31

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, WWH 1013
Einstein Metrics in Abundance
Charles Boyer, University of New Mexico (visiting Courant, Spring 2009)
Please note the change in day and time.
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/diff_geom.html

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Influence of Intrinsic Myocardial Properties in Echocardiographic Images
Mark R. Holland, Washington University in St. Louis
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ameet Talwalkar, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 - 4:50 P.M., WWH 101
Trapdoors for Hard Lattices and New Cryptographic Constructions
Joel Alwen, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Algorithms and Heuristics for Placing and Moving Guards in Art Galleries
Joe Mitchell, Stony Brook University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Learning from Collective Preferences, Behavior, and Beliefs
Jennifer Wortman, University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Landau Damping: Relaxation without Dissipation
Cedric Villani, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyons
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Experimental Studies of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, in a Rotating Frame and with a Liquid-Vapor Two-Phase Fluid
Jin-Qiang Zhong, University of California, Santa Barbara, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Deforming Weak Ramification
Gunther Cornelissen, University of Utrecht
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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 2

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Landau Damping: Relaxation without Dissipation
Cedric Villani, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyons
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
E pur si muove: Galiliean-Invariant Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations on a Moving Mesh
Volker Springel, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
A 'Weak Convergence' Alternative to Harris Chains
Martin Hairer, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NEUROFRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Room 1314 13th Floor, Warren Weaver Hall
Coding and Reliability in the Fly Antennal Lobe
Aaditya Rangan, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Accountability for Distributed Systems
Andreas Haeberlen, Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Diascalar Diffusion: Mixing and Transport in a Tracer-based Coordinate System
Shane Keating
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Adaptive Resolution Simulations: Towards Open Systems Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Kurt Kremer, Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Background for the talk Exploring Deep Convection Over Land and Oceans in Idealized Cloud Resolving Model Runs
Frederic Laliberte
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Analyses of Neuronal Populations in the Primary Visual Cortex, VI: Dynamics and Spatial Summation
Bob Shapley, NYU, Center for Neural Science
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, APRIL 6

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Towards Reliable Storage Systems
Haryadi Gunawi, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

BIOINFORMATICS SEMINAR:
1:00 P.M., 715 Broadway, 10th Floor
A Set-Cover-Based Approach for Inexact Graph Matching
Misael Mongiovi
http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~skleinberg/weekly_meeting.shtml

TUESDAY, APRIL 7

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer
Franziska Michor, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Universal Kernel-Based Learning with Applications to Regular Languages
Aryeh Kontorovich, Weizmann Institute
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 - 4:50 P.M., WWH 101
Public-Key Cryptosystems from the Worst-Case Shortest Vector Problem
Daniel Wichs
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Global Well-Posedness for a Boussinesq System with Critical Dissipation
Hmidi Taoufik, University of Rennes
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of Non-Autonomously Perturbed Homoclinic Solutions
Qiudong Wang, University of Arizona
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
The Gale-Berlekamp Switching Game
Garry Bowlin, Binghamton University, SUNY
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Bidirectional Programming Languages
Nate Foster, University of Pennsylvania
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Exploring Deep Convection Over Land and Oceans in Idealized Cloud Resolving Model Runs
Larissa Back, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

THURSDAY, APRIL 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Asymptotics for Internal Waves
David Lannes, Ecole Normale Superieure
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Motors Based on Shape Change: See How They Run
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University, Liquid Cristal Institute and Chemical Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., NYU, Courant Institute, WWH 102
The Intersection of Subfields of a Function Field
Michael Zieve, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 102.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 10

2009 CATER WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT:
9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M., WWH 109

The CATER reserch group cordially invites you to attend!

The Cost-Effective Appropriate Technologies for Emerging Regions (CATER) is a new multidisciplinary research initiative at NYU that focuses on developing appropriate, low-cost Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for addressing pressing problems in developing regions. CATER is a joint initiative comprising faculty from Computer Science, the School of Medicine, the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, NYU's Economics Department, and NYU-Polytechnic.

For further information and the detailed agenda, please see:
http://cater.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/index.php/Workshop09

There is no registration fee, but we have limited space. Kindly RSVP to:
caterworkshop@gmail.com

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fast and Robust Multigrid Methods for Non-Newtonian Fluids Models
Young-Ju Lee, Rutgers University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Growth Rates and Explosions in Sandpiles
Lionel Levine, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Non-Narkovian Model of Rill Erosion
Michael Damron
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Hamiltonian Systems and Liouville Equations with Discontinuous Hamiltonians: Computation of High Frequency Waves in Heterogeneous Media
Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Background for the talk Variational Approach to Computational Time Series Analysis and Clustering of Non-Stationary Multivariate Data
Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
POSTPONED TO FRIDAY, APRIL 24th

Sarah Sirin, NYU, Sackler
Modelling of Lipids and Proteins: A Coarse-Grained Approach to Studying Membrane Protein Dynamics
Segun Jung, NYU, Chemistry
RNA Structure Analysis and Modelling

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

THURSDAY, APRIL 9

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Asymptotics for Internal Waves
David Lannes, Ecole Normale Superieure
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 10

2009 CATER WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT:
9:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M., WWH 109

The CATER reserch group cordially invites you to attend!

For further information and the detailed agenda, please see:
http://cater.cs.nyu.edu/wiki/index.php/Workshop09

There is no registration fee, but we have limited space. Kindly RSVP to:
caterworkshop@gmail.com

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Growth Rates and Explosions in Sandpiles
Lionel Levine, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Non-Narkovian Model of Rill Erosion
Michael Damron
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
POSTPONED TO FRIDAY, APRIL 24th

Sarah Sirin, NYU, Sackler
Modelling of Lipids and Proteins: A Coarse-Grained Approach to Studying Membrane Protein Dynamics
Segun Jung, NYU, Chemistry
RNA Structure Analysis and Modelling

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

MONDAY, APRIL 13

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 317
Generalized Langevin Equations and Non-Markovian Fokker-Planck Equations for Molecular Systems
Eric Darve, Stanford University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
The Second Law of Probability: Entropy Growth in the Central Limit Theorem
Professor Keith Ball, University College London
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 14

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Beyond Poisson Synaptic Input in Population Models for Neural Network Activity
Daniel Tranchina, CIMS and Department of Biology
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

THE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FORUM:
2:00 P.M., 7th Floor, 719 Broadway
Evaluation in Pronoun Resolution: Results and Mysteries
Ruslan Mitkov, Research Institute of Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton
Note: If you are not an NYU Proteus group member but would like to attend, please email so we can see the number expected:
sekine@cs.nyu.edu
See the URL below and click on directions:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/directions
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Lyapunov Exponents in Hilbert Spaces (following Ruelle)
Zeng Lian, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Discrete Morse Theory for Arrangements of Hyperplanes
Emanuele Delucchi, Binghamton University, SUNY
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Variational Approach to Computational Time Series Analysis and Clustering of Non-Stationary Multivariate Data
Illia Horenko, University of Berlin
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Symmetry and Elliptic Attractors
Messoud Efendiev, Helmholtz Center Munich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Correlations in Suspensions of Swimming Micro-Organisms: Theory and Simulation
Patrick T. Underhill, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chemical and Biological Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Affine Extractors Over Prime Fields
Amir Yehudayoff
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
Formal Degrees and the Local Theta Correspondence
Wee Teck Gan, University of California at San Diego
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

SCIENCE AT NYU: A PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES:
7:00 - 9:00 P.M., NYU SCPS Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay St. (bet. B'way & Church), 4th Floor
Systems Biology: Learning the Circuits that Run Life's Program
Rich Bonneau, joint member of both the Biology and Computer Science departments. Recently selected as one of the top 20 scientists under 40 by Discover magazine.
Second of three public programs this spring highlighting exciting new research done at NYU. $20 for general public; $10 for all NYU staff and students and NYAS members.
To register or find out more, go to:
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Symmetry and Elliptic Attractors
Messoud Efendiev, Helmholtz Center Munich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Affine Extractors Over Prime Fields
Amir Yehudayoff
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations and Applications to Data Mining
Petros Drineas, RPI
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Double Header: 10:00 A.M., WWH 312

A Negative Result for Stochastic Differential Equations
Xue-Mei Li, University of Warwick
Modeling Sand
Charles Radin, University of Texas at Austin

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

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Sub-Sampling in Parametric Estimation of Stochastic Differential Equations from Discrete Data
Ilya Timofeyev, Houston
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

2009 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,
Piotr Mirowski
Sandra Bleistein Prize for notable achievement by a woman in applied mathematics or computer science,
Antonina Mitrofanova and Sukbin Lim
Hollis Cooley Prize for excellence and promise in undergraduate mathematics,
Karol Koziol
Janet Fabri Prize for an outstanding dissertation in computer science,
Raia Hadsell
Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for an outstanding dissertation in mathematics,
Paul Hand
Max Goldstein Award for undergraduate creativity in computing,
Matthew Nolin
Harold Grad Memorial Prize for outstanding performance and promise as a graduate student,
Afshin Rostamizadeh
Moses A. Greenfield Research Award for outstanding interdisciplinary studies by a current student,
Ignacio Rodriguez
Wilhelm Magnus Memorial Prize for significant contributions to the mathematical sciences,
Michael Damron and Diogo Arsénio
Bella Manel Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics on the graduate level by a woman or a member of another under-represented group,
Lin Li
Matthew Smosna Prize for excellence in computer science,
Manda Wilson

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Symmetry and Elliptic Attractors
Messoud Efendiev, Helmholtz Center Munich
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Affine Extractors Over Prime Fields
Amir Yehudayoff
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Double Header: 10:00 A.M., WWH 312

A Negative Result for Stochastic Differential Equations
Xue-Mei Li, University of Warwick
Modeling Sand
Charles Radin, University of Texas at Austin

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

2009 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,
Piotr Mirowski
Sandra Bleistein Prize for notable achievement by a woman in applied mathematics or computer science,
Antonina Mitrofanova and Sukbin Lim
Hollis Cooley Prize for excellence and promise in undergraduate mathematics,
Karol Koziol
Janet Fabri Prize for an outstanding dissertation in computer science,
Raia Hadsell
Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for an outstanding dissertation in mathematics,
Paul Hand
Max Goldstein Award for undergraduate creativity in computing,
Matthew Nolin
Harold Grad Memorial Prize for outstanding performance and promise as a graduate student,
Afshin Rostamizadeh
Moses A. Greenfield Research Award for outstanding interdisciplinary studies by a current student,
Ignacio Rodriguez
Wilhelm Magnus Memorial Prize for significant contributions to the mathematical sciences,
Michael Damron and Diogo Arsénio
Bella Manel Prize for excellence and promise in mathematics on the graduate level by a woman or a member of another under-represented group,
Lin Li
Matthew Smosna Prize for excellence in computer science,
Manda Wilson

MONDAY, APRIL 20

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1013
Tba
Jean-Michel Bismut, University of Paris-Sud
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/diff_geom.html

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Sharp Scattering and Blow-Up Regimes for Focusing Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation
Slim Ibrahim, University of Victoria
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

TUESDAY, APRIL 21

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Analysis of the Look-Ahead Model of RNA Elongation during Transcription
Andrew Matteson, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Occam's Razor: Understanding the Cost of Complexity
Spencer Greenberg, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:20 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 101
Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices
Craig Gentry, IBM
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Uniqueness of SRB Measures for Transitive Diffeomorphisms of Surfaces
Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz (Montevideo)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Linear Orders in 0-Minimal Structures with an Application to Economics
Charles Steinhorn, Vassar College
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENTAL DISTINGUISHED LECTURE:
11:00 A.M., Davis Auditorium, 4th Floor (campus level) of Shapiro Engineering Research Center, Columbia University
Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Johanna Moore, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Director of the Human Communication Research Centre, and Deputy Head of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh
For directions, please see:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/resources/directions

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Temperature Differences between the Hemispheres Drives Ice-Age Climate Variability
Robbie Toggweiler, NOAA/GFDL
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Unsteady Flows of Fluids with Pressure Dependent Viscosity in Unbounded Domains
Mohamed Majdoub, University of Tunis
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lava Tube Stability
Miranda Holmes, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Columbia University, Room 312 Math
Torsion in the Homology of Arithmetic Groups
Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
Errors, Robustness, and the Fourth Quadrant
Nassim Taleb, NYU-Polytechnic Institute and Universa Investments
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lava Tube Stability
Miranda Holmes, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Tba
Padma Raghavan, Penn State
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

NEUROFRIDAY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., Courant Institute, WWH Room 1314, 13th Floor,
Two Faces of V2: Feedforward and Feedback
Professor Richard Born, Dept. of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Soft-Constrained Iterative Methods for Blind Source Separation
Jack Xin, University of California at Irvine
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

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

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

Sarah Sirin, NYU, Sackler
Modelling of Lipids and Proteins: A Coarse-Grained Approach to Studying Membrane Protein Dynamics
Segun Jung, NYU, Chemistry
RNA Structure Analysis and Modelling

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 and SATURDAY, APRIL 25

SPECIAL WORKSHOP ON NONLINEAR DYNAMICS:
To honor the memory of Professor George M. Zaslavsky
The scientific part of the Workshop will take place on Friday and Saturday morning in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1302. This is followed by a memorial session Saturday afternoon, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109.
To view the Program, please click on the link:
http://math.nyu.edu/~lsy/activities/dynamicsworkshop/2009/schedule.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lava Tube Stability
Miranda Holmes, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Tba
Padma Raghavan, Penn State
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

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

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

Sarah Sirin, NYU, Sackler
Modelling of Lipids and Proteins: A Coarse-Grained Approach to Studying Membrane Protein Dynamics
Segun Jung, NYU, Chemistry
RNA Structure Analysis and Modelling

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 and SATURDAY, APRIL 25

MONDAY, APRIL 27

SPECIAL PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ising (Conformal) Fields and Cluster Area Measures
Federico Camia, Vrije Universiteit
NOTE the date and room change!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Inapproximability of NP-Complete Problems, Discrete Fourier Analysis, and Geometry
Professor Subhash Khot, NYU, Courant Institute
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lava Tube Stability
Miranda Holmes, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Tba
Padma Raghavan, Penn State
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

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

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

Sarah Sirin, NYU, Sackler
Modelling of Lipids and Proteins: A Coarse-Grained Approach to Studying Membrane Protein Dynamics
Segun Jung, NYU, Chemistry
RNA Structure Analysis and Modelling

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 and SATURDAY, APRIL 25

MONDAY, APRIL 27

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Modeling the Evolution of Regulatory Networks
Mark Siegal, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
Inflating Polyhedral Surfaces
Igor Pak, University of Minnesota
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M.^*, WWH 512^*
Dyson's Sine Kernel, Wigner Random Matrices, and Interacting Particle Systems
Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University
^*NOTE the date, room and time change!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Power of Broadcast Algorithms in Wireless ad hoc Networks
Majid Khabbazian, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Comparison Theorem and a Liouville Theorem for Some Conformally Invariant Elliptic Equations
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 102^*
User-Centric Data Processing in Resource Constraint Environments
Mohamed Sharaf, University of Toronto
^*Note the change in room!
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Flight of a Tumbling Elastic Wing and Aggregation of Floating Particles
Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University, Physics
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
719 Broadway, Room 1221
Unsupervised Learning of Feature Hierarchies
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
Advisor: Yann LeCun

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
Hilbert Irreducibility Above Algebraic Groups
Umberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
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, MAY 1

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY:
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501

9:00 - 10:00 A.M.: Registration / Coffee
10:00 - 11:00: Martin Hairer
Ergodic Theory of Non-Markovian Stochastic Processes
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon: Steven Evans
Eigenvalues of Large Random Trees
2:00 - 3:00 P.M.: Cedric Villani
Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities, Concentration, etc.
3:00 - 4:00: Van Vu
Random Matrices: The Distribution of the Smallest Singular Values (Universality at the Hard Edge)
4:00 - 4:30: Francesco Cellarosi
On the Curlicue Measure Generated by Quadratic Trigonometric Sums

Registration is free by RSVP to:
cpday@math.columbia.edu
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Error Estimation and Evaluation of Matrix Functions
Lothar Reichel, Kent State
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Learning Boundary Detection by Minimizing Image Segmentation Error
Sebastian Seung, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and MIT
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
Vorticity Homogenization and the Prandtl-Batchelor Theorem
Shane Keating
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

GAMES FOR LEARNING INSTITUTE SPRING EVENTS:
2:00 P.M., WWH 109, 4th Street and Mercer
Games and 21st Century Learning
James Paul Gee, Author and National Academy of Education member, and Arizona State University Professor
Open to the public.
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI) is a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University and a consortium of universities.
http://www.g4li.nyu.edu

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Rare Event Simulation with Vanishing Error for Small Noise Diffusions
Jonathan Weare, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Experimental Attempts to Simulate Large-Scale Continental Dynamics
Jun Zhang
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Molecular and Network Modeling in Synthetic and Systems Biology
Bruce Tidor, MIT
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

COURANT STUDENT CONFERENCE:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Lounge
The Courant Student Conference will bring together Courant graduate students from all Math and CS areas, in a casual setting. Poster/demo presenters will have the opportunity to:

Practice presentation skills
Get exposed to research in Math and CS at the Courant Institute
Share ideas and perhaps start new collaborations
Learn to present research in front of a diverse audience

Food and refereshments will be served.

The audence will have the possibility to vote for the three best poster presentations, who will each receive a $100 prize.

More information and abstract submission at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~csstu/csc2009.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
719 Broadway, Room 1221
Unsupervised Learning of Feature Hierarchies
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
Advisor: Yann LeCun

FRIDAY, MAY 1

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY:
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501

9:00 - 10:00 A.M.: Registration / Coffee
10:00 - 11:00: Martin Hairer
Ergodic Theory of Non-Markovian Stochastic Processes
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon: Steven Evans
Eigenvalues of Large Random Trees
2:00 - 3:00 P.M.: Cedric Villani
Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities, Concentration, etc.
3:00 - 4:00: Van Vu
Random Matrices: The Distribution of the Smallest Singular Values (Universality at the Hard Edge)
4:00 - 4:30: Francesco Cellarosi
On the Curlicue Measure Generated by Quadratic Trigonometric Sums

Registration is free by RSVP to:
cpday@math.columbia.edu
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Error Estimation and Evaluation of Matrix Functions
Lothar Reichel, Kent State
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Vorticity Homogenization and the Prandtl-Batchelor Theorem
Shane Keating
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Rare Event Simulation with Vanishing Error for Small Noise Diffusions
Jonathan Weare, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Experimental Attempts to Simulate Large-Scale Continental Dynamics
Jun Zhang
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Molecular and Network Modeling in Synthetic and Systems Biology
Bruce Tidor, MIT
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

Practice presentation skills
Get exposed to research in Math and CS at the Courant Institute
Share ideas and perhaps start new collaborations
Learn to present research in front of a diverse audience

Food and refereshments will be served.

The audence will have the possibility to vote for the three best poster presentations, who will each receive a $100 prize.

More information and abstract submission at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~csstu/csc2009.html

MONDAY, MAY 4

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

We will celebrate Steve Childress's life, work, and retirement. Special talks will be given by Professors Ed Spiegel and Charlie Peskin.
We will also be celebrating the longer service awards of the members of the CIMS community listed below:

10 Years of Service:
Reeva Goldsmith
Keisha Grady
Richard Kleeman
Amir Pnueli
Lai-Sang Young
Jun Zhang
Denis Zorin

15 Years of Service:
Fedor Bogomolov
Davi Geiger
Nathan Hull
Andrew J. Majda
Satoshi Sekine
Esteban G. Tabak

20 Years of Service:
Jeff Cheeger
Leslie Greengard
Charles Newman

25 Years of Service:
Zvi Kedem
Dennis Shasha
Alan Siegel

30 Years of Service:
Tamar Arnon
Eliezer Hameiri
Michael Overton

35 Years of Service:
Sylvain Cappell

45 Years of Service:
Albert Novikoff

50 Years of Service:
Paul Garabedian

SCIENCE AT NYU: A PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES:
7:00 - 9:00 P.M., New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St. 40th Floor
Neurocinematics! Where Neuroscience Meets Filmmaking

Speakers:

David Heeger and Barbara Knappmyer of the NYU Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory
Nava Rubin of the NYU Center for Neural Science
Uri Hasson of the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University
Michael Grabowski, NYU Adjunct Instructor in Film, Video and Broadcasting

Third of three public programs this spring highlighting exciting new research done at NYU. $20 for general public; $10 for all NYU staff and students and NYAS members.
To register or find out more, go to:
http://www.scps.nyu.edu/

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
719 Broadway, Room 1221
Unsupervised Learning of Feature Hierarchies
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
Advisor: Yann LeCun

FRIDAY, MAY 1

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY:
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501

9:00 - 10:00 A.M.: Registration / Coffee
10:00 - 11:00: Martin Hairer
Ergodic Theory of Non-Markovian Stochastic Processes
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon: Steven Evans
Eigenvalues of Large Random Trees
2:00 - 3:00 P.M.: Cedric Villani
Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities, Concentration, etc.
3:00 - 4:00: Van Vu
Random Matrices: The Distribution of the Smallest Singular Values (Universality at the Hard Edge)
4:00 - 4:30: Francesco Cellarosi
On the Curlicue Measure Generated by Quadratic Trigonometric Sums

Registration is free by RSVP to:
cpday@math.columbia.edu
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Error Estimation and Evaluation of Matrix Functions
Lothar Reichel, Kent State
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Vorticity Homogenization and the Prandtl-Batchelor Theorem
Shane Keating
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Rare Event Simulation with Vanishing Error for Small Noise Diffusions
Jonathan Weare, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Experimental Attempts to Simulate Large-Scale Continental Dynamics
Jun Zhang
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Molecular and Network Modeling in Synthetic and Systems Biology
Bruce Tidor, MIT
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

Practice presentation skills
Get exposed to research in Math and CS at the Courant Institute
Share ideas and perhaps start new collaborations
Learn to present research in front of a diverse audience

Food and refereshments will be served.

The audence will have the possibility to vote for the three best poster presentations, who will each receive a $100 prize.

More information and abstract submission at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~csstu/csc2009.html

MONDAY, MAY 4

10 Years of Service:
Reeva Goldsmith
Keisha Grady
Richard Kleeman
Amir Pnueli
Lai-Sang Young
Jun Zhang
Denis Zorin

15 Years of Service:
Fedor Bogomolov
Davi Geiger
Nathan Hull
Andrew J. Majda
Satoshi Sekine
Esteban G. Tabak

20 Years of Service:
Jeff Cheeger
Leslie Greengard
Charles Newman

25 Years of Service:
Zvi Kedem
Dennis Shasha
Alan Siegel

30 Years of Service:
Tamar Arnon
Eliezer Hameiri
Michael Overton

35 Years of Service:
Sylvain Cappell

45 Years of Service:
Albert Novikoff

50 Years of Service:
Paul Garabedian

SCIENCE AT NYU: A PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES:
7:00 - 9:00 P.M., New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St. 40th Floor
Neurocinematics! Where Neuroscience Meets Filmmaking

Speakers:

David Heeger and Barbara Knappmyer of the NYU Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory
Nava Rubin of the NYU Center for Neural Science
Uri Hasson of the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University
Michael Grabowski, NYU Adjunct Instructor in Film, Video and Broadcasting

TUESDAY, MAY 5

2008-2009 COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRIZE WINNERS:
These prizes will be presented to the recipients at the Dean's Awards Ceremony:

CS Prize for Academic Excellence
WINNERS: Alexander Pine and Matthew Solomon
CS Prize for Academic Excellence in the Honors Program
WINNER: Melanie Clements
CS Prize for Academic Excellence and Service to the Department
WINNER: Rachal Royce
CS Prize for the Most Promising Student in the Junior Year
WINNER: Jiexun Xu

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of Vortex Filaments in the Reaction-Diffusion Systems
A.V. Panfilov, Dept. of Theoretical Biology, University of Utrecht
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
The Enumerative Combinatorial Geometry of Coxeter Groups
Louis Billera, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
719 Broadway, Room 1221
Unsupervised Learning of Feature Hierarchies
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
Advisor: Yann LeCun

FRIDAY, MAY 1

COLUMBIA-PRINCETON PROBABILITY DAY:
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501

9:00 - 10:00 A.M.: Registration / Coffee
10:00 - 11:00: Martin Hairer
Ergodic Theory of Non-Markovian Stochastic Processes
11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon: Steven Evans
Eigenvalues of Large Random Trees
2:00 - 3:00 P.M.: Cedric Villani
Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities, Concentration, etc.
3:00 - 4:00: Van Vu
Random Matrices: The Distribution of the Smallest Singular Values (Universality at the Hard Edge)
4:00 - 4:30: Francesco Cellarosi
On the Curlicue Measure Generated by Quadratic Trigonometric Sums

Registration is free by RSVP to:
cpday@math.columbia.edu
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Error Estimation and Evaluation of Matrix Functions
Lothar Reichel, Kent State
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/%7Edbindel/nasem/

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Vorticity Homogenization and the Prandtl-Batchelor Theorem
Shane Keating
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Rare Event Simulation with Vanishing Error for Small Noise Diffusions
Jonathan Weare, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Experimental Attempts to Simulate Large-Scale Continental Dynamics
Jun Zhang
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Molecular and Network Modeling in Synthetic and Systems Biology
Bruce Tidor, MIT
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

Practice presentation skills
Get exposed to research in Math and CS at the Courant Institute
Share ideas and perhaps start new collaborations
Learn to present research in front of a diverse audience

Food and refereshments will be served.

The audence will have the possibility to vote for the three best poster presentations, who will each receive a $100 prize.

More information and abstract submission at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~csstu/csc2009.html

MONDAY, MAY 4

10 Years of Service:
Reeva Goldsmith
Keisha Grady
Richard Kleeman
Amir Pnueli
Lai-Sang Young
Jun Zhang
Denis Zorin

15 Years of Service:
Fedor Bogomolov
Davi Geiger
Nathan Hull
Andrew J. Majda
Satoshi Sekine
Esteban G. Tabak

20 Years of Service:
Jeff Cheeger
Leslie Greengard
Charles Newman

25 Years of Service:
Zvi Kedem
Dennis Shasha
Alan Siegel

30 Years of Service:
Tamar Arnon
Eliezer Hameiri
Michael Overton

35 Years of Service:
Sylvain Cappell

45 Years of Service:
Albert Novikoff

50 Years of Service:
Paul Garabedian

SCIENCE AT NYU: A PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES:
7:00 - 9:00 P.M., New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St. 40th Floor
Neurocinematics! Where Neuroscience Meets Filmmaking

Speakers:

David Heeger and Barbara Knappmyer of the NYU Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory
Nava Rubin of the NYU Center for Neural Science
Uri Hasson of the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University
Michael Grabowski, NYU Adjunct Instructor in Film, Video and Broadcasting

TUESDAY, MAY 5

2008-2009 COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRIZE WINNERS:
These prizes will be presented to the recipients at the Dean's Awards Ceremony:

CS Prize for Academic Excellence
WINNERS: Alexander Pine and Matthew Solomon
CS Prize for Academic Excellence in the Honors Program
WINNER: Melanie Clements
CS Prize for Academic Excellence and Service to the Department
WINNER: Rachal Royce
CS Prize for the Most Promising Student in the Junior Year
WINNER: Jiexun Xu

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 317
The Enumerative Combinatorial Geometry of Coxeter Groups
Louis Billera, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6

NYU COMPUTER SCIENCE SPRING SHOWCASE:
5:00 - 9:00 P.M., 13th Floor
Come joint the students of the Computer Science department at an event showcasing projects that have been completed in various computer science courses this semester. The courses represented at the show are listed below. This is a great opportunity to see the creativity and industry of NYU's CS department. Refreshements will be served.

Bregler - G22.2270-001 - Computer Graphics and Vision

Fergus - G22.3033-003 - Computational Photography

Franchitti - G22.2440-001 - Software Engineering

Geiger - G22.3033-012 - Information Science of Marketing

Hull - V22.0201-002 - Computer Systems Organization

Hull - V22.0380-002 - Flash Programming

Hull - V22.0480-004 - iPhone Programming^*

LeCun - V22.0480-001 - Robotics

Korth - G22.3812-001 - Info Technology Projects

Sorkine - G22.3033-004 - Interactive Shape Modeling

Subramanian - G22.2620-001 - Networks and Distributed Systems

For a preview of some iPhone projects visit:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring09/V22.0480-004/iphone_apps.html)

THURSDAY, MAY 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fluid-Kinetic Boundary Layers and Navier-Stokes Limits of the Boltzmann Equation
Ning Jiang, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

AT&T Labs Research Distinguished Speaker Series:
3:30 P.M., AT&T Shannon Laboratory, Auditorium, Room C050, 180 Park Ave., Bldg. 103, Florham Park, NJ
Cognitive User Interfaces: An Engineering Approach
Steve Young, Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge University Engineeering Department, U.K.
Reception: 4:30 - 5:30 P.M.
Visitors must reserve a place in advance by May 5th by emailing:
dssorg@research.att.com
Using Internet Explorer, please click on the URL for directions to the AT&T Shannon Laboratory
http://tinyurl.com/c9na3s

RECEPTION IN HONOR OF PERCY DEIFT:
4:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH, 13th Floor Commons
It is our pleasure to announce that Percy Deift has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences together with 71 other new members from the U.S., and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries. Please join us in congratulating Percy!

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, WWH 512
Swap Rate Variance Swaps
Nicolas Merener, Universidad Torcuato DiTella
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
CANCELLED
Topological Tools in the Analysis of Point Cloud Data
Leonidas Guibas, Stanford University
Please note the different day and change in location.
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

FRIDAY, MAY 8

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Inviscid Limit for Damped and Driven Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in R²
Hantaek Bae
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~gladish/seminar/

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Oral Exam Talk
Carl Gladish
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6

Bregler - G22.2270-001 - Computer Graphics and Vision

Fergus - G22.3033-003 - Computational Photography

Franchitti - G22.2440-001 - Software Engineering

Geiger - G22.3033-012 - Information Science of Marketing

Hull - V22.0201-002 - Computer Systems Organization

Hull - V22.0380-002 - Flash Programming

Hull - V22.0480-004 - iPhone Programming^*

LeCun - V22.0480-001 - Robotics

Korth - G22.3812-001 - Info Technology Projects

Sorkine - G22.3033-004 - Interactive Shape Modeling

Subramanian - G22.2620-001 - Networks and Distributed Systems

For a preview of some iPhone projects visit:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring09/V22.0480-004/iphone_apps.html)

THURSDAY, MAY 7

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Fluid-Kinetic Boundary Layers and Navier-Stokes Limits of the Boltzmann Equation
Ning Jiang, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MAY 8

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN SCIENCE STUDENT SEMINAR:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Oral Exam Talk
Carl Gladish
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_student

MONDAY, MAY 11

GAMES FOR LEARNING INSTITUTE SPRING EVENTS:
2:00 P.M., Pless Hall, 5th Floor Conference Room, 82 Washington Square East
Action Video Game Playing as a Learning Tool
Daphne Bavelier, Cognitive Scientist, University of Rochester
Open to the public.
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI) is a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University and a consortium of universities.
http://www.g4li.nyu.edu

TUESDAY, MAY 12

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Network Dynamics of Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons
Yi Sun, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

THURSDAY, MAY 14

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Courant Institute, WWH 512
Analytic Approximations to Pricing Problems in Quantitative Trading
Richard Jordan, The Clearing Corporation
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, MAY 15

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 312
Nonconventional Limit Theorems
Yuri Kifer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The NYU spring semester ends on Monday, May 4th. Some PMPS talks will be held during the summer. Check the URL below.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

MONDAY, MAY 18

COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY SPECIAL TALK:
7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 109
Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own
David Bollier
Based on his book of the same name, David Bollier is a leading American activist, author, blogger and proponent of "free culture" on the Internet and the commons. He is an editor of http://www.Onthecommons.org and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Bollier is also co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C. organization that advocates for the public's stake in the Internet and copyright law, and the author of Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth and Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture, and four other books.
More about Viral Spiral can be found at the website http://www.viralspiral.cc and more about Bollier can be found at http://www.bollier.org
Hosted by Aram Sinnreich and Evan Korth.
Sponsored by: ACM-NYU, Free Culture, ISOC-NY, and WinC

THURSDAY, MAY 14

FRIDAY, MAY 15

MONDAY, MAY 18

THURSDAY, MAY 14

FRIDAY, MAY 15

MONDAY, MAY 18

MONDAY, MAY 18 - FRIDAY, MAY 22

MODERN PERSPECTIVES IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS:
Beginning at 9:00 A.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
A Conference in Honor of Andrew J. Majda's 60th Birthday
To see the announcement and conference agenda, please see:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/events/special/majdafest/

FRIDAY, MAY 22

IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY:
412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University

9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and Bagels
10:00 - 10:55: Dana Moshkovitz (IAS)
Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error
10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
11:05 - 12:00 Noon: Craig Gentry (IBM Research)
Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices
12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
2:00 - 2:55: Mark Braverman (Microsoft Research)
Approximating Bounded Depth Circuits with Polynomials
2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:10: Muthu Muthukrishnan (Google Labs and Rutgers University)
Three Problems in Internet Ad Systems

For directions, please see:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/directions.html
Also see: http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/theory_day.html

TUESDAY, MAY 26

GAMES FOR LEARNING INSTITUTE SUMMIT:
9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South
Join us the day before the 6th Annual Games for Change Festival
( http://www.gamesforchange.org) for a day of discussion and networking with educational game designers, developers, evaluators and users, as we consider the current landscape of games for learning and forge new collaborations to empirically develop design patterns for effective educational games.
Please email info@g4li.org for poster requirements and template and to RSVP for the summit.
Open to the public.
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI) is a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University and a consortium of universities.
http://www.g4li.nyu.edu

FRIDAY, MAY 29

THESIS DEFENSE:
2:00 P.M., WWH 312
2D Invasion Percolation and a Rill Erosion Model
Michael Damron

THURSDAY, MAY 14

FRIDAY, MAY 15

MONDAY, MAY 18

MONDAY, MAY 18 - FRIDAY, MAY 22

FRIDAY, MAY 22

IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY:
412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University

9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and Bagels
10:00 - 10:55: Dana Moshkovitz (IAS)
Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error
10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
11:05 - 12:00 Noon: Craig Gentry (IBM Research)
Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices
12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
2:00 - 2:55: Mark Braverman (Microsoft Research)
Approximating Bounded Depth Circuits with Polynomials
2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:10: Muthu Muthukrishnan (Google Labs and Rutgers University)
Three Problems in Internet Ad Systems

For directions, please see:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/directions.html
Also see: http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/theory_day.html

TUESDAY, MAY 26

FRIDAY, MAY 29

THESIS DEFENSE:
2:00 P.M., WWH 312
2D Invasion Percolation and a Rill Erosion Model
Michael Damron

THURSDAY, MAY 14

FRIDAY, MAY 15

MONDAY, MAY 18

MONDAY, MAY 18 - FRIDAY, MAY 22

FRIDAY, MAY 22

IBM RESEARCH / NYU / COLUMBIA THEORY DAY:
412 Schapiro (CEPSR) Building, Columbia University

9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and Bagels
10:00 - 10:55: Dana Moshkovitz (IAS)
Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error
10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
11:05 - 12:00 Noon: Craig Gentry (IBM Research)
Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices
12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
2:00 - 2:55: Mark Braverman (Microsoft Research)
Approximating Bounded Depth Circuits with Polynomials
2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:10: Muthu Muthukrishnan (Google Labs and Rutgers University)
Three Problems in Internet Ad Systems

For directions, please see:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/theory/directions.html
Also see: http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/theory_day.html

TUESDAY, MAY 26

FRIDAY, MAY 29

THESIS DEFENSE:
2:00 P.M., WWH 312
2D Invasion Percolation and a Rill Erosion Model
Michael Damron

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 - FRIDAY, JUNE 12

WORKSHOP ON HIGH-FREQUENCY FINANCE AND QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES:
Warren Weaver Hall Room 109, Courant Institute
For more about the Workshop and registration information, please click on the Workshop link at:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/%7Emathfcon/
For questions or inquiries, send e-mail to mathfcon@cims.nyu.edu

FRIDAY, JUNE 19 and SATURDAY, JUNE 20

OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE:
NYU Law School (Vanderbilt Hall), 40 Washington Square South
Open Video is the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and further decentralization in online video. These qualities provide more fertile ground for independent producers, bottom-up innovation, and greter protection for free speech online. The conference will showcase awesome cultural works, inspiring talks, and cool tech demos.
For more information, click on the "Schedule" at
http://www.openvideoconference.org

THURSDAY, JUNE 25

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Aspects of Non-Equilibruim: Growth and Pattern Formation in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation
Hans Fogedby, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark) and Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark)

THURSDAY, JULY 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
Location and Time TBA
Tba
Clément Hongler, Université de Genève
The NYU spring semester ends on Monday, May 4th. Some PMPS talks will be held during the summer. Check the URL below for updates.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
The Van Der Waerden Conjecture for the Mixed Volume, Its Proof and Algorithmic Applications
Leonid Gurvits, Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Scientific Computing in Molecular Biology
Frank Noe, Free University of Berlin
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
A Characterization of Simplicial Polytopes with g₂ = 1
Eran Nevo, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:10 A.M., WWH 412
Two Critical Behaviour of Random Planar Graphs
Mihyun Kang, Technische Universität Berlin
Please note the slight change in the start time of this seminar.
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Pinning of Interfaces in Random Media
Patrick Dondl, Bonn University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COB WELCOME RECEPTION:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
All COB Students and Faculty are Welcome!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Pinning of Interfaces in Random Media
Patrick Dondl, Bonn University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COB WELCOME RECEPTION:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 102
All COB Students and Faculty are Welcome!

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Viral Latency Explained by a Model of DI-Particle-Viral-Host Interations
Avi Ma'ayan, Dept. of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Tutorial on Groth-Sahai: Efficient Non-Interative Proof Systems for Bilinear Groups
Victor Shoup, NYU
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto/

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
A Total Variation-based Graph Clustering Algorithm for Cheeger Ratio Cuts
Arthur D. Szlam

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 317
Geometric Crystals and Lie Groups
David Kazhdan, Hebrew University
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/diff_geom.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
A Total Variation-based Graph Clustering Algorithm for Cheeger Ratio Cuts
Arthur D. Szlam

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 317
Geometric Crystals and Lie Groups
David Kazhdan, Hebrew University
http://cims.nyu.edu/~ioana/diff_geom.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Cloaking for the Helmholtz Equation in the Whole Spaces
Hoai Minh Nguyen, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Biologically-Generated Flows by Plankton
Jeannette Yen, Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anup Rao
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

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

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon, WWH 517
Random Matrices on Compact Groups and Independence
Paul Bourgade, Télécom-Paris Tech
NOTE the usual time and place!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No AMS (Incoming Ph.D. reception)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

CIMS RECEPTION:
3:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons
Welcoming new Ph.D. students in Computer Science and Mathematics
All Ph.D. students, faculty and staff are invited.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
A Total Variation-based Graph Clustering Algorithm for Cheeger Ratio Cuts
Arthur D. Szlam

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 317
Geometric Crystals and Lie Groups
David Kazhdan, Hebrew University
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Cloaking for the Helmholtz Equation in the Whole Spaces
Hoai Minh Nguyen, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Biologically-Generated Flows by Plankton
Jeannette Yen, Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anup Rao
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

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

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No AMS (Incoming Ph.D. reception)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

CIMS RECEPTION:
3:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons
Welcoming new Ph.D. students in Computer Science and Mathematics
All Ph.D. students, faculty and staff are invited.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOLOGICAL LEARNING LAB SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
A Total Variation-based Graph Clustering Algorithm for Cheeger Ratio Cuts
Arthur D. Szlam

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 317
Geometric Crystals and Lie Groups
David Kazhdan, Hebrew University
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Cloaking for the Helmholtz Equation in the Whole Spaces
Hoai Minh Nguyen, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Biologically-Generated Flows by Plankton
Jeannette Yen, Georgia Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Anup Rao
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

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

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No AMS (Incoming Ph.D. reception)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

CIMS RECEPTION:
3:00 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons
Welcoming new Ph.D. students in Computer Science and Mathematics
All Ph.D. students, faculty and staff are invited.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
On the Taxonomy of Life Forms
Lawrence Sirovich, Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Space-Efficient Identity Based Encryption Without Pairings by D. Boneh, C. Gentry, and M. Hamburg
Adriana Lopez, NYU
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/abstracts/bgh.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

SPECIAL MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 512
Reaction Motifs and Functional Modules in Protein Regulatory Networks
John Tyson, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
PLEASE NOTE: Unusual DAY and ROOM
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Going Up? Meltwater Flow under Antarctic Ice Shelves
Andrew Wells, Yale University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

COB THESIS DEFENSE:
4:30 P.M., WWH 201
Prostate Cancer Health Disparity in African American and Caucasian American Men Characterized through the Landscape of Genomic Instability
COB student, Alexander Pearlman, is defending his thesis.
Open to COB Community.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Navier-Stokes Flow with Non-decaying Initial Velocity, and Its Applications
Yoshi Giga, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
11:30 P.M., WWH 512
Modeling ITER Operation Scenario
Vassili Parail, Head, JET Theory Division, UKAEA, Culham
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sedimentation of a Rigid Sphere in a Bubbly Fluid
Andrew Belmonte, Pennsylvania State University, Math
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Monotonicity in Bargaining Networks
Yuval Rabani
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Path-Dependence of Leveraged ETF Returns
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Monotonicity in Bargaining Networks
Yuval Rabani
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Path-Dependence of Leveraged ETF Returns
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 102
Bijective Approach to Tree-Rooted Maps
Olivier Bernardi, MIT
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 202
Learning from Multiple Measurements
Sam Roweis
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

COURANT INSTRUCTORS DAY:
1:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302

1:30 - 1:45 P.M.: Alexander Fribergh
Random Walks in Random Environments
1:45 - 2:00 P.M.: Kay Kirkpatrick
Extreme-Temperature Phenomena in Statistical Mechanics: Super-Hot Plasmas and Super-Cool Quantum Gases
2:00 - 2:15 P.M.: Jianfeng Lu
Density Functional Theory: Challenges from a Numerical Point of View
2:15 - 2:30 P.M.: Nawaf Bou-Rabee
On Numerically Solving SDEs Arising in Molecular Dynamics
2:30 - 2:45 P.M.: Jeremy Brandman
Numerical Methods for Eigenvlue Problems on Surfaces

BREAK

3:15 - 3:30 P.M.: Rachel Ward
Quiet Sigma Delta Quantization: Removing Audible Periodicities in Analog-to-Digital Conversion
3:30 - 3:45 P.M.: Hoai-Minh Nguyen
Some Estimates for the Topological Degree of Maps from Sphere into Itself
3:45 - 4:00 P.M.: Hwakil Kim
Hamiltonian Systems and Calculus of Differential Forms on the Wasserstein Space
4:00 - 4:15 P.M.: Sonal Jain
Statistics of p-Adic L-Functions

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
No AMS (Courant Instructor Day)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th & 35th Streets)
Corroborate and Learn Facts from the Web
Shubin Zhao, Google
hj294@nyu.edu
If there is any problem at signing in the building, please call Heng Ji at (212) 817-8196 or (646) 662-5355.
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Expedition in Systems Biology
Bud Mishra, NYU, Biology
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Neurochemistry of Sleep and Wake: Modeling the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle
Lisa Rogers, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, RPI
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Chapter 1: Prediction, Learning, and Games
Vasilis Gkatzelis, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Crystalline Flow Starting from Non-Admissible Data
Mi-Ho Giga, University of Tokyo
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
On the Necessary and Sufficient Assumptions for UC Computation
Claudio Orlandi, University of Aarhus, Denmark
http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/247

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Around the Hirsch Conjecture
Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
3:00^* P.M., WWH 317
L² Methods, Knot Concordance, Localization and Amenable Groups
Kent Orr, University of Indiana
^* Note the new time and room number.
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Gravity Waves from Jets and Vortex Dipoles
Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
A Pair Correlation Bound Implies the Central Limit Theorem for Sinai Billiards
Mikko Stenlund, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Gravity Waves from Jets and Vortex Dipoles
Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
A Pair Correlation Bound Implies the Central Limit Theorem for Sinai Billiards
Mikko Stenlund, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Coagulation-Fragmentation Transport and Vanishing Diffusion Limit
Pavel B. Dubovski, Stevens Institute of Technology
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Analysis and Probability of Boolean Functions: Results and Problems
Gil Kalai
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Gravity Waves from Jets and Vortex Dipoles
Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
A Pair Correlation Bound Implies the Central Limit Theorem for Sinai Billiards
Mikko Stenlund, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Analysis and Probability of Boolean Functions: Results and Problems
Gil Kalai
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Superconcentration
Sourav Chatterjee, NYU and UC Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Analysis of Direct Searches for Non-Lipschitzian Functions
Luis Nunes Vicente, University of Coimbra
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Correlation Clustering with Noisy Input
Claire Mathieu, Brown University
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 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Introduction to Cross-Document Coreference
Amit Bagga, Comcast
^*Please note an earlier time slot.

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Symmetry and Locomotion
Stephen Childress, CIMS
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
Climate Change and the Mathematics of Transport in Sea Ice
Kenneth M. Golden, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Utah
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Gravity Waves from Jets and Vortex Dipoles
Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
A Pair Correlation Bound Implies the Central Limit Theorem for Sinai Billiards
Mikko Stenlund, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Lab Meeting
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Analysis and Probability of Boolean Functions: Results and Problems
Gil Kalai
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Superconcentration
Sourav Chatterjee, NYU and UC Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Step Evolution for Crystals of Finite Size
Hala Al Hajj Shehadeh
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Towards a Calculus for Nonlinear Spectral Gaps
Assaf Naor, CIMS
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Vaccine-Induced Pathogen Strain Replacement
Maia Martcheva, CIMS and Dept. of Mathematics, University of Florida
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Visualizing R^N and Some New Dualities
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
11:00 - 12:30 P.M., WWH 512
Renormalization of Henon Map, I
Mikhail Lyubich, Stony Brook University
Part II follows at 4:00 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Renormalization of Henon Map, II
Marco Martens, Stony Brook University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Renormalization of Henon Map, II
Marco Martens, Stony Brook University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Global Existence of Smooth Solutions of a 3-D Loglog Energy-Supercritical Wave Equation
Tristan Roy, UCLA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Synchrony in Stochastic Pulse-Coupled Neuronal Network Models
Katie Newhall, Dept. of Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Privacy-Preserving Data Release: Efficient Algorithms and Hardness Results
Guy Rothblum
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
No-Expected-Profit and the Decay of Market Impact
Jim Gathereal, Merrill Lynch & Co.
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 317
Global Divisibility of Heegner Points and Tamagawa Numbers
Dimitar Jetchev, Hudson River Trading LLC
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Renormalization of Henon Map, II
Marco Martens, Stony Brook University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Probabilistic Representation of a Generalized Porous Media Type Equation and Related Fields
Francesco Russo, INRIA Rocquencourt, Projet MATHFI and Univeresité Paris 13
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Domain Decomposition Methods for Almost Incompressible Elasticity
Olof Widlund, CIMS
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Visualizing R^N and Some New Dualities
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv 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
Statistical Arbitrage in U.S. Equity Markets
Marco Avellaneda, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Unsupervised Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation
Sam Brody, Columbia University

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Non-Intrusive and Structure Preserving Multiscale Integration of ODEs, SDEs, Hamiltonian Systems and langevin Equations with Hidden Slow Dynamics via Flow Averaging
Houman Owhadi, Caltech
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Renormalization of Henon Map, II
Marco Martens, Stony Brook University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

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

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Quantum Unique Ergodicity and Number Theory
Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Application of Load-Dependent Chemical Reactions: Biological Friction and Cell Mechanosensation
S. Walcott, Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Learning Latent Variable Grammars for Natural Language Parsing
Slay Petrov, Google
NOTE: This talk will be at Google. If you have not done so for a previous talk, please contact Afshin Rostamizadeh at rostami@cs.nyu.edu by 12:00 Noon on Monday, October 12th to register as a visitor.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Message Authentication Codes from Unpredictable Block Ciphers
Yevgeniy Dodis, NYU
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Lattice Packing of Convex Bodies
Peter Gruber, Technical University, Vienna
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Unstable Periodic Orbits in the Models of the Low Frequency Atmospheric Variability
Andrey Gritsun, Russian Academy of Sciences
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Spatial Chaos of Traveling Waves as a Unique Velocity
Bastien Fernandez, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Spatial Chaos of Traveling Waves as a Unique Velocity
Bastien Fernandez, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Hamilton System on the Wasserstein Space Using Optimal Transport Theory as a Main Tool
Hwa Kil, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Weak Compressibility of Surface Wave Turbulence
Marija Vucelja, Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Hardness of Nearest Neighbor under L-infinity
Mihai Patrascu
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
SO(2,2) Periods of Non-Tempered SO(3,2) Representations
Yannan Qiu, Columbia University
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in the Math Lounge on the 5th Floor.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room 622
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Spatial Chaos of Traveling Waves as a Unique Velocity
Bastien Fernandez, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Hardness of Nearest Neighbor under L-infinity
Mihai Patrascu
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Real-Time Embedded Convex Optimization
Stephen Boyd, Stanford University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Near-Critical Random Graph: Its Structure, Diameter and Mixing Time
Jian Ding, University of California, Berkeley
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Refactoring for Reentrancy
Manu Sridharan, IBM
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

PMPS INFORMAL LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:10 - 1:10 P.M., Room 1314
Concentration of Polynomials in Random Matrices
Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
Bring your lunch!
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

S.U.R.E. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
The date for this event has been changed to FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th
RSVP: By Monday, November 2nd to Jillian Kerlin at jillian@math.nyu.edu

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Toeplitz Operators on Bergman Spaces
Jani Virtanen, CIMS
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
From Electronic Structure to Elasticity
Jianfeng Lu, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

GRAPHICS SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
GelSight: Retrographic Sensing for Touch, Texture and Shape
Ted Adelson, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
GelSight ( http://www.mit.edu/~kimo/gelsight/ ) is an exciting breakthrough of broader than usual interest, and all are very welcome to attend.

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Data Mining in Systems Biology
Avi Ma'ayan, MSSM
Please note the change in day.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Spatial Chaos of Traveling Waves as a Unique Velocity
Bastien Fernandez, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Hardness of Nearest Neighbor under L-infinity
Mihai Patrascu
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Refactoring for Reentrancy
Manu Sridharan, IBM
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

S.U.R.E. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
The date for this event has been changed to FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th
RSVP: By Monday, November 2nd to Jillian Kerlin at jillian@math.nyu.edu

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
From Electronic Structure to Elasticity
Jianfeng Lu, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Data Mining in Systems Biology
Avi Ma'ayan, MSSM
Please note the change in day.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
A Microscopic Time Scale Approximation to the Behavior of the Local Slope of a Faceted Surface under a Nonuniform Driving Force
Yoshikazu Giga, University of Tokyo
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 412
Spatial Chaos of Traveling Waves as a Unique Velocity
Bastien Fernandez, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Hardness of Nearest Neighbor under L-infinity
Mihai Patrascu
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Refactoring for Reentrancy
Manu Sridharan, IBM
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

S.U.R.E. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
The date for this event has been changed to FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th
RSVP: By Monday, November 2nd to Jillian Kerlin at jillian@math.nyu.edu

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
From Electronic Structure to Elasticity
Jianfeng Lu, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Data Mining in Systems Biology
Avi Ma'ayan, MSSM
Please note the change in day.
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Intraflagellar Transport and Flagellar Length Control
Thomas Fai, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., WWH 312
Shocks and Instabilities in Hall-MHD Fluids, where Rankine-Hugoniot Conditions Do Not Apply
Eliezer Hameiri, CIMS
Please note the unusual day and room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

GRAPHICS SEMINAR:
1:30 P.M., 719 Broadway, Room 1221
Spectral Methods for Non-Rigid Shape Analysis
Martin Reuter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Object Matching Under Invariances and the Gromov-Hausdorff Distance
Facundo Memoli, Stanford University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Scale-Dependent Relative Dispersion Statistics in a Hierarchy of Ocean Models
Andrew Poje, CUNY College of Staten Island
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ricci Flow and the Determinant of the Laplacian on Non-Compact Surfaces
Pierre Albin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 317^*
Interpolation of Functions
Charles Fefferman
^* Please note the different room number than usual.
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 412
Basic Attractors of Nonlinear PDEs and Their Bifurcations
Björn Birnir, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 517^*
Improving Privacy and Security in Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption
Sherman Chow, NYU
^*Please note the venue change (Room 517) for this time.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

VISITING MEMBERS RECEPTION:
4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor Commons

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Recovering Correlation from Index Options
Rama Cont, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

JOINT COLUMBIA-CUNY-NYU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415
BGG Correspondence and the Cohomology of Compact Kaehler Manifolds
Mihnea Popa, Chicago Circle
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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Ricci Flow and the Determinant of the Laplacian on Non-Compact Surfaces
Pierre Albin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 412
Basic Attractors of Nonlinear PDEs and Their Bifurcations
Björn Birnir, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

VISITING MEMBERS RECEPTION:
4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, 13th Floor Commons

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Recovering Correlation from Index Options
Rama Cont, Columbia University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
Biased Random Walks on a Percolation Cluster
Alexander Fribergh, NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Essential Immersed Surfaces in Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Jeremy Kahn
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Latent Force Models
Neil Lawrence, University of Manchester
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 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Expectation Maximization Tutorial
Andrew Rosenberg, CUNY
Another talk follows at 2:00 P.M.

GRADUATE STUDENT/POSTDOC SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Fluid Dynamics of Quantum Vortices
Oliver Buhler, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Confidence Measure for Word Alignment
Fei Huang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Changes in Migration Patterns of the Capelin as an Indicator of Temperature Changes in the Arctic Ocean
Bjorn Birnir, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

GAMES SEMINAR:
3:00 P.M.,^* 721 Broadway, 9th Floor
Preparing for Life in the Creative Society
Mitch Resnick, Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab
Professor Resnick's talk is presented jointly by the Games for Learning Institute and the NYU Game Center.
^*The time for this talk is 3:00 P.M. (not 6:00 P.M. as shown on the website):
http://g4li.org/archives/437

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

Mariann Micsinai, NYU, Sackler
Co-Profiling of Copy Number Events and DNA Marks in Cancer
David Braun (MSSM)
STAT3 Activation Dynamics in Response to IL-6 and IL-10

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

WOMEN IN COMPUTING (WinC):
4:00 P.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
Google Wave
A Tech Talk by Google
Join us to find out how Google work, play, and change the world, and how you can be part of this adventure.
Googlers will be present, and job opportunities (at Fortune Magazine's "Best Company To Work For" two years running) will be discussed post-talk.
Open to everyone
Refreshments will be served! Also, Google goodies and raffle will be included.
For more information, please visit our website at:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~wincweb/
Or via email: wincinfo@cs.nyu.edu

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Folding Patterns Seen in a Compressed Elastic Thin Films Bonded to a Stiff Substrate
Jeremy Brandman, University of Tokyo
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Kinetic Model Identification of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Signaling in Cancer
Andrew Matteson, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Total Energy Decay for Super-Critical Wave Equations with Damping around Infinity
Kenji Nakanishi, Kyoto University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 P.M., WWH 312
Tba
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, IBM
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Tropicalisation of Rational Varieties
Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
On the Position of the Mid-Latitude Storm Track and Westerly Winds in an Idealized Moist Model
Jian Lu, COLA
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Co-Compact Imbeddings and Critical Nonlinearity Revisited
Kyril Tintarev, University of Uppsala
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms
Eric Lauga, UC San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees
Ofer Neiman
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 317
Lattice Points on Circles and Spheres and Nodal Sets of Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian
Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv University & IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in WWH 317.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, WWH 317
http://math.columbia.edu/%7Egoldfeld/JointNTS.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Co-Compact Imbeddings and Critical Nonlinearity Revisited
Kyril Tintarev, University of Uppsala
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees
Ofer Neiman
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
High-Dimensional Homomorphism Height Functions Are Flat
Ron Peled, NYU
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Compactness and Blow-Up Phenomena for Constant Scalar Curvature Metrics in High Dimensions
Rick Schoen
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Web-Scale Multi-Lingual Opinion Mining: "Just What the Doctor Ordered" or "Run of the Mill"?
Ryan McDonald, Google
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

Steve Heilman
Orthogonal Polynomials with Respect to Self-Similar Measures
Louis-Pierre Arguin
Uniqueness of Ground States for Short-Range Spin Glasses

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

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Sts.)
Extracting Events and Active Learning of Event Detection Patterns
Ralph Grishman, NYU
If you want to meet Prof. Grishman individually after the talk, please email Heng Ji at
hj294@nyu.edu

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
A Macroscopic Type of Wave-Particle Duality: The Role of `Path Memory'' in the Motion of Bouncing Droplets
Yves Couder, Matière et Systèmes Complexes Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM:
4:00 P.M., WWH 102
Mapping the Network of Pathways of CO Diffusion in Myoglobin
Luca Maragliano, University of Chicago
http://cob.as.nyu.edu/object/cob.ne.colloquium.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Co-Compact Imbeddings and Critical Nonlinearity Revisited
Kyril Tintarev, University of Uppsala
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees
Ofer Neiman
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

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

Steve Heilman
Orthogonal Polynomials with Respect to Self-Similar Measures
Louis-Pierre Arguin
Uniqueness of Ground States for Short-Range Spin Glasses

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

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
An Introduction to Some Mathematical Models of Fracture
Gilles Francfort, University of Paris 13
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Fair Allocations to Random Points
Ron Peled, CIMS
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Slope-Based Stochastic Resonance: How Noise Enables Phasic Neuron Models to Encode Slow Signals
Yan Gai, NYU Center for Neural Science
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 312
Dual System Encryption: Realizing Fully Secure IBE and HIBE under Simple Assumptions
Kris Haralambiev
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Global Rigidity
Robert Connelly, Cornell University
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Convection at Oceanic Fronts
John Taylor, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Convection at Oceanic Fronts
John Taylor, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Homogenization of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sailing on Diffusion
Thomas Peacock, MIT, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 317
Double or Nothing: The Blinking Brain
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Simple Affine Extractors using Dimension Expansion
Ariel Gabizon
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 102
Creating Competition Out of Thin Air: An Experimental Study of Right-to-Choose Auctions
Andrew Schotter, NYU
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
p-Adic Calabi Theorem and Algebraic Dynamical Systems
Xinyi Yuan, Harvard 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

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Convection at Oceanic Fronts
John Taylor, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Homogenization of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sailing on Diffusion
Thomas Peacock, MIT, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 317
Double or Nothing: The Blinking Brain
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Simple Affine Extractors using Dimension Expansion
Ariel Gabizon
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517

Oren Louidor, NYU
Finite Connections for Supercritical Bernoulli Bond Percolation in 2D
Partha Dey, University of California, Berkeley
Stein's Method and Large Deviation for Number of Triangles in Erdös-Rényi Model Random Graph

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

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Large Scale Geometry of Negatively Curved Homogeneous Spaces
Xiangdong Xie
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 101
Oblivious Transfer with Access Control
Maria Dubovitskaya, IBM Moscow Lab
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Situated Visualization
Sean White, Columbia 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
Energy-Driven Pattern Formation
Robert Kohn, CIMS
Preceded by tea and cookies at 12:45 P.M.
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~holmes/seminar/index.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
No seminar this week.
Instead we invite you to attend the New York Academy of Sciences 4th Annual Machine Learning Symposium
held from 10:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
For more information, see:
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

CUNY / NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 - 3:00 P.M., Room 4422, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (bet. 34th and 35th Streets)
Machine Learning Approaches to Text and Multimedia Mining
Joe Iria, University of Sheffield

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Quasicrystal Conductivity Conundrum: Spectral Theory and Optical Experiments
Mikael Rechtsman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Convection at Oceanic Fronts
John Taylor, MIT
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Homogenization of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR:
12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sailing on Diffusion
Thomas Peacock, MIT, Mechanical Engineering
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~binliu/AMLindex.html

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:15 P.M., WWH 317
Double or Nothing: The Blinking Brain
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~lsy/seminars/

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Simple Affine Extractors using Dimension Expansion
Ariel Gabizon
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517

Oren Louidor, NYU
Finite Connections for Supercritical Bernoulli Bond Percolation in 2D
Partha Dey, University of California, Berkeley
Stein's Method and Large Deviation for Number of Triangles in Erdös-Rényi Model Random Graph

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

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 202
Large Scale Geometry of Negatively Curved Homogeneous Spaces
Xiangdong Xie
http://math.nyu.edu/~bkleiner/dgtsem.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 101
Oblivious Transfer with Access Control
Maria Dubovitskaya, IBM Moscow Lab
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Situated Visualization
Sean White, Columbia University
Refreshments will be served at 11:15 A.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
The Quasicrystal Conductivity Conundrum: Spectral Theory and Optical Experiments
Mikael Rechtsman, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9

MATERIALS WORKING GROUP:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 517
Moving Contact Lines and the Thin-Film Approximation
Weiqing Ren, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/working_group.html

MACHINE LEARNING PH.D. SEMINAR:
1:45 - 3:45 P.M., WWH 1314
Chapter 2: Prediction, Learning, and Games
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/ml/2008/index.html

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM:
3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Marianna Csornyei, University College London
Colloquium Tea at 3:15 - 3:45 P.M. in the Lounge (13th floor).
http://www.math.nyu.edu/research/colloq.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR:
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Renewal-Reward Processes and Single-Molecule Experiments on Motor Proteins
Arjun Krishnan, CIMS
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/comp_neuroandbio.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR:
4:00 - 5:30 P.M., WWH 312
Public Key Encryption Schemes with Auxiliary Input
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, IBM
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/crg/

GEOMETRY SEMINAR:
6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 202
Planar Graphs and Planar Posets
William T. Trotter, Georgia Institute of Technology
http://cs.nyu.edu/~raghavan/geometry/index.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:30 A.M., WWH 517^*
On Some Nonlocal Functionals in Digital Image Restoration
Simon Masnou, University of Lyon 1
^*Please note special day and time.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION DEFENSE:
11:00 A.M., WWH 412
Solving Quantified First Order Formulas in Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Candidate: Yeting Ge
Advisor: Clark Barrett
Committee:
Prof. Clark Barrett (NYU Advisor, Reader)
Dr. Leonardo de Moura (Microsoft Research, Reader)
Prof. Morgan Deters (NYU, Reader)
Prof. Benjamin Goldberg (NYU, Auditor)
Prof. Ernest Davis (NYU, Auditor)

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
2:00 P.M., Columbia University, Open Meeting Area (in the back of the Computer Science Building)
Transition from Sentence to Discourse
Aravind K. Joshi, Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania
Directions:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/resources/directions

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Poleward Migrations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in Simple Analytical and Cloud Resolving Models
Williams Boos, Harvard University
http://caos.cims.nyu.edu/page/events_colloquium

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Uniform Bounds and Lubrication Approximation for Spreading Droplets
Hans Knuepfer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 102
Computers and Safety
Nancy Leveson, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 12:15 P.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 412
BOUT++ Simulations of ELMs and RMPs
Ben Dudson, Dept. of Physics, University of York
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Boaz Barak
This talk is tentative.
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
Heights, Equidistribution, Analytic Spaces, and a formula of Mahler
Antoine Chambert-Loir, Rennes and IAS
TEA: 5:00 - 5:30 served in Room C415, C-level: one floor down from lobby.
Note: RTG Seminar: 4:00 - 4:45, Room C415
http://math.columbia.edu/~goldfeld/JointNTS.html

NEW YORK QUANTITATIVE FINANCE SEMINAR:
5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Center for Financial Engineering, Columbia University, Blackrock Auditorium, Park Avenue Plaza at 55 East 52nd St.
Capital Requirements, Acceptable Risks and Profits
Dilip Madan, University of Maryland
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

ANALYSIS SEMINAR:
11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Uniform Bounds and Lubrication Approximation for Spreading Droplets
Hans Knuepfer, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM:
12:30 P.M., WWH 102
Computers and Safety
Nancy Leveson, MIT
Refreshments will be served at 12:15 P.M.
http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/colloquia

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 412
BOUT++ Simulations of ELMs and RMPs
Ben Dudson, Dept. of Physics, University of York
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

NYU/COURANT THEORY SEMINAR:
2:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Boaz Barak
This talk is tentative.
http://cs.nyu.edu/web/Calendar/colloquium/cs_theory_seminar

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF RISK MANAGEMENT:
Starting at 8:30 A.M., Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
For program highlights, registration, and more about the Conference, please see more at the link:
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~mathfcon/index.php/upcoming-events/nov13-2009
For any other questions or inquiries, send e-mail to: mathfcon@cims.nyu.edu

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tractable Performance Bounds for Compressed Sensing
Alexandre d'Aspremont, Princeton University
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/webapps/fall2009/nasc_seminars

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:
10:00 A.M., Room 517
The Branching Diffusion on Hyperbolic Space
Mark Kelbert, Swansea University
http://math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

S.U.R.E. RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 101
Come and listen to brief research presentations from NYU mathematics undergraduate students who participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (S.U.R.E.) over the summer!
Refreshments will be served.

Undergraduate Student Participants:

Aukosh Jagannath:
Further extensions of adiabatic invariant theory for charged particle motion
Research Mentor: Professor Harold Weitzner

Shunxin Jiang:
Random walks with correlated steps
Research Mentor: Dr. Maria Cameron

Stephanie Lewkiewicz:
Winner-take-all neural networks and visual search tasks
Research Mentor: Professor John Rinzel and Dr. Daniel Marti

Rachel Marano:
Mathematical modeling and biological systems: What are the effects of smoking on fetal and maternal circulation?
Research Mentor: Professor Charles Peskin

Trang Nguyen:
Auction theory: Risk-return analysis for risk-averse seller
Research Mentor: Professor Robert Kohn

Kelly Sielert:
The impact of resolution on general circulation models
Research Mentor: Professor Edwin Gerber

Dominick Villano:
The effects of action potential backpropagation on precision coincidence detection in MSO neurons
Research Mentor: Professor John Rinzel

Scott Yang:
A numerical approach to two and three dimensional invasion percolation
Research Mentor: Professor Charles Newman

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

Bror Jonsson
Using Lagrangian Trajectories for Something Useful: Tracking Satellite Chlorophyll with the Help of Numerical Models
Themis Sapsis
Dynamics of Inertial Particles in Fluid Flows

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

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEMINAR:
1:00 - 2:00 P.M., 7th floor conference room, 715 Broadway
Statement Map Generation: Assisting Information Credibility Analysis by Visualizing Arguments
Koji Murakami, NAIST, Japan
Everybody welcome. But please email Satoshi Sekine if you are not an NYU member and will attend (for space concern) at:
sekine@cs.nyu.edu
For the NYCNLP website see:
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nycnlp/

APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEMINAR:
2:30 - 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Shape Optimization of Peristaltic Pumping
Shawn Walker, CIMS
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/ams/

COURANT INSTITUTE ALUMNI EVENING:
5:30 P.M., WWH 13th Floor Commons

5:30 P.M.: Coffee
6:00 P.M.: Program featuring Sashi Reddi and Chris Bregler
7:00 P.M.: Reception and networking wine and cheese social