News & Announcements

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• NIST selects a winning algorithm based on Oded Regev's work

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the first group of encryption tools designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer. The winning algorithm for public key encryption—the CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm—relies upon the work of Courant's Oded Regev. Read More

• Jonathan Niles-Weed chosen as a Sloan Research Fellow

  Courant faculty Jonathan Niles-Weed has been elected as a 2022 Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowship honors "early-career scholars who represent the most promising researchers working today." Congratulations Jonathan! Read More

• Sad News of the Passing of our Colleague and Friend, Professor Marco Avellaneda 1955 - 2022

  Marco was on the faculty of NYU Courant for almost 40 years, starting as a Courant Instructor in 1985. After his early work on applied math, he spent most of his career working on mathematical finance. Marco was a tremendously creative and energetic person and we will greatly miss him. … Read More

• Guido DePhilippis named 2021 Simons Investigator

  Further information is available here.

  Congratulations!

• Jeff Cheeger has been awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences

  Jeff Cheeger has been awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his "remarkable insights that have transformed, and continue to transform, modern geometry." 

  For more information, read the press release here.

  Congratulations, Jeff! 

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Upcoming Seminars

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• Multistability and constitutive relations of cell motion on Fibronectin lanes

  Mostly Biomathematics Lunchtime Seminar
  Martin Falcke, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Dept. of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin
  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314

• Entropy production in nondegenerate diffusions

  Student Probability Seminar
  Renaud Raquépas, CIMS
  1PM, Warren Weaver Hall 517

• Getting more for less - better A/B testing via causal regularization

  Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Kevin Webster, Citadel
  5:30PM, Online Zoom access provided to registrants

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• Singularities in fluids: self-similar analysis, computer assisted proofs and physics-informed neural networks

  Analysis Seminar
  Tristan Buckmaster, University of Maryland
  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302

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• New Methods for Sobolev Spaces on Metric Spaces

  Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar
  Sylvester Eriksson-Bique, University of Oulu
  11AM, Online

• TBA

  Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Lorenzo Taggi, Sapienza Università di Roma
  11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302

• Thresholds

  Mathematics Colloquium
  Jinyoung Park, Stanford
  1PM, Warren Weaver Hall 512

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• An Introduction to causal AI for Institutional Investment Managers

  Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Ben Steiner, General Manager, causaLens
  5:30PM, Online Zoom access provided to registrants

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