Past Events

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Predicting phase transitions in nonequilibrium systems

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Ruben Zakine, CIMS

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

• 3:30PM, Online
  

  Ocean-atmosphere dynamics of decadal climate variability

  3:30PM, Online Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Robert Jnglin Wills, University of Washington
• 3PM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Integrability, Normal Forms, and Magnetic Axis Coordinates

  3PM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Nathan Duignan, University of Colorado, Boulder
• 9AM, Online
  

  The All-or-Nothing Phenomenon

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Ilias Zadik, CIMS

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Algorithmic Auditing

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Srikanth Krishnamurthy, QuantUniversity, Adjunct Faculty - Northeastern University

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Thursday, April 15, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Open Problems in Applied Math

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Alex Mogilner, Sophie Marbach, Rob Webber

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

• 3:30PM, Online
  

  A continuum viscous-elastic-brittle, FEM/DG model for the fracture and drift of sea ice

  3:30PM, Online Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Veronique Dansereau
• 9AM, Online
  

  The lower tail probability of the half-space KPZ equation

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Yujin Kim, CIMS

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Deep Reinforcement Learning for Asset Allocation in U.S. Equities

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Miquel Noguer i Alonso, Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute, NYU Courant

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Friday, April 9, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Random walks and PDEs in graph-based learning

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Jeff Calder, U. Minnesota (host: Kohn)

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Thursday, April 8, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  A Festival of Machine Learning in Science at NYU (Part 2)

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Ben Peherstorfer, Laure Zanna, Eric Vanden-Eijnden, and Michael Lindsey

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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

• 9AM, Online
  

  Contiguity, second moments, and overlap formulas

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Tim Kunisky, CIMS

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Thursday, April 1, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  A Festival of Machine Learning in Science at NYU (Part 1)

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  David Grier, Glen Hocky, Mark Tuckerman

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

• 3:45PM, Online
  

  Hidden Physics Models

  3:45PM, Online Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Maziar Raissi, University of Colorado
• 10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  More is different, Anomalous is normal?

  10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Evdokiya Kostadinova, Baylor University
• 9AM, Online
  

  Extreme eigenvalues of random $d$-regular graphs

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Jiaoyang Huang, CIMS

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Modelling the Oil Squeeze: Storage and Trading Opportunities in Oil Derivatives

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Ilia Bouchouev, Pentathlon Investments LLC

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Friday, March 26, 2021

• 2:05PM, Location TBA
  

  Interactions of Passive and Active Capillary Disks

  2:05PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Daniel Harris, Brown University (host: Ristroph)

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Undergrad research

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Mengjian Hua and Bob Junyi Zou, CIMS

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Feature Selection in Jump Models

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Peter Nystrup, InCommodities A/S
• 9AM, Online
  

  Heat kernel on the infinite percolation cluster

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Chenlin Gu, ENS

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Brief talks on Math History

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Alex Mogilner, Tristan Goodwill, Brennan Sprinkle, CIMS

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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

• 9AM, Online
  

  Large Deviation Principle for local empirical measure of Coulomb gases at intermediate temperature regime

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  David Padilla-Garza, TU Dresden

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Monday, March 15, 2021

• 3:45PM, Online
  

  Two short analytical stories: (1) Thin films, an edge, and a novel similarity solution and (2) A new look at ODEs and resonance

  3:45PM, Online Mathematics Colloquium
  Howard Stone, Princeton

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Friday, March 12, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Streaming k-PCA and concentration for random matrix products

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Jonathan Niles-Weed, Courant

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Thursday, March 11, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Projects from undergraduate modeling and simulation

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Students of Charles Peskin (see description)
• 11AM, Online
  

  Singular solutions of the binormal flow

  11AM, Online Analysis Seminar
  Valeria Banica, LJLL - Sorbonne Université

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

• 9AM, Online
  

  Log-Sobolev inequalities for mixture distributions

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Sinho Chewi, MIT

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Machine Learning for Quantitative Investment and Wealth Management: Opportunities and Challenges

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Cristian Homescu, Investment & Portfolio Analytics, Chief Investment Office, Global Wealth and Investment Management, Bank of America

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Monday, March 8, 2021

• 3:45PM, Online
  

  Emerging symmetries in 2D percolation

  3:45PM, Online Mathematics Colloquium
  Hugo Duminil-Copin, Université de Genève and IHES.

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Friday, March 5, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Shake your hips: an active particle with a fluctuating propulsion force

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Jean-Luc Thiffeault, U. Wisconsin (host: Childress)

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Thursday, March 4, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Uncovering hidden signals and causal effects from data through optimal transport

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Esteban Tabak, Courant

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

• 3:30PM, Online
  

  Scattering of inertia-gravity-wave by geostrophic turbulence

  3:30PM, Online Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Hossein Kafiabad, U. Edinburgh
• 10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Fourth-order continuum kinetic simulations of instabilities and gyromotion physics in magnetized plasmas

  10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Genia Vogman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Modeling Interest Rate and FX Derivatives with Division Algebras

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Gregory Pelts

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Monday, March 1, 2021

• 3:45PM, Online
  

  Long timescale behavior from trajectory data

  3:45PM, Online Mathematics Colloquium
  Jonathan Weare, NYU

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Friday, February 26, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Nonlinear model reduction for transport-dominated problems

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Benjamin Peherstorfer, Courant

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Thursday, February 25, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Some software for scientific programming

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Florian Wechsung, Ondrej Maxian, Huy Dinh, and Raul Perez
• 11AM, Online
  

  Global dynamics of the Kompaneets equation

  11AM, Online Analysis Seminar
  Gautam Iyer, Carnegie Mellon University

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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

• 9AM, Online
  

  Asymptotics of Wasserstein distances under Gaussian smoothing

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Hong-Bin Chen, CIMS

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Machine Learning in Finance: Putting it Into Practice

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Joseph Simonian, Autonomous Investment Technologies LLC

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Monday, February 22, 2021

• 3:45PM, Online
  

  Local smoothing for the wave equation.

  3:45PM, Online Mathematics Colloquium
  Larry Guth, MIT

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Friday, February 19, 2021

• 11:30AM, Location TBA
  

  Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data

  11:30AM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Lenka Zdeborova, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay (host: Vanden- Eijnden)

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Some tools for scientific computer graphics

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Sophie Marbach, Georg Stadler, Aleks Donev and Brennan Sprinkle
• 11AM, Online
  

  A regularity method for lower bounds on the Lyapunov exponent for stochastic differential equations

  11AM, Online Analysis Seminar
  Jacob Bedrossian, University of Maryland

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Stochastic organization of the mitotic spindle

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Chris Miles

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Friday, February 5, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Life In Flatland: Emergent Origins of Behavior in Non-Neuronal Systems

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Manu Prakash, Stanford University (host: Ristroph)

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Brownian Dynamics with Constraints

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Brennan Sprinkle

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Thursday, January 28, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Organizational meeting

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Everyone

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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online Zoom
  

  The Joint S&P 500/VIX Smile Calibration Puzzle Solved

  5:30PM, Online Zoom Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Julien Guyon, Bloomberg L.P.

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Generalized Constantin-Lax-Majda equation: Collapse vs. blow up and global existence

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Denis Silantyev

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Friday, December 11, 2020

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Special Event - ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION ON LIBOR TRANSITION

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Claudio Albanese, Antje Berndt, Samim Ghamami, Lotfi Karoui, Petter Kolm and Fabio Mercurio
• 4:10PM, Location TBA
  

  Physics of Cycling

  4:10PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Christophe Clanet, CNRS, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Two Research Talks

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Mariya Savinov, Yu-hsuan Shih
• 11AM, Location TBA
  

  Codimension two area and Yang-Mills-Higgs

  11AM, Location TBA Analysis Seminar
  Alessandro Pigati, NYU

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

• 10AM, Location TBA
  

  Boolean functions and probability theory

  10AM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Yuval Peled, CIMS

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

• 5:30PM, Online Zoom
  

  On the Value of Portfolio Construction

  5:30PM, Online Zoom Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Jason MacQueen, Smart Portfolio Strategies (SPS)

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Friday, December 4, 2020

• 3:55PM, Location TBA
  

  Topological floppy modes in aperiodic networks and a mechanical duality theorem

  3:55PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Xiaoming Mao, University of Michigan

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Shape dynamics of ice melting in cold water

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Scott Weady

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Hydraulic jump-like dynamics above supercell thunderstorms

  3:30PM, Location TBA Morgan E O'Neill, Stanford University
• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Hydraulic jump-like dynamics above supercell thunderstorms

  3:30PM, Location TBA Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Morgan E O'Neill, Stanford University
• 10AM, Location TBA
  

  Examples of log-correlated fields

  10AM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Krishnan Mody, CIMS

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Monday, November 30, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Random matrices quantum chaos and analytic number theory

  3:30PM, Location TBA Mathematics Colloquium
  Paul Bourgade, NYU

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Friday, November 20, 2020

• 3:55PM, Location TBA
  

  Unsteady fluid fragmentation

  3:55PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Lydia Bourouiba, MIT

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Thursday, November 19, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Two Paper Review Talks: Simulated Annealing and Simulated Tempering

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Frederick Law, Terrence Alsup, CIMS

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  The disruption of the quasibiennial oscillation

  3:30PM, Location TBA Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Peter Hitchcock, Cornell
• 10AM, Location TBA
  

  Large Deviations Principles for Coulomb Gases

  10AM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Luke Peilen, CIMS

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Monday, November 16, 2020

• 3:45PM, Location TBA
  

  Design of Monte Carlo when dealing with metastable processes: rates of convergence and optimization for parallel methods

  3:45PM, Location TBA Mathematics Colloquium
  Paul Dupuis, Brown University
• 10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Bifurcations in Vlasov and Kuramoto models

  10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  David Metivier, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, France
• 5AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Discussion of film "Picture a Scientist"

  5AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  

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Friday, November 13, 2020

• 3:55PM, Location TBA
  

  Efficient sampling and optimization on manifolds for the modeling of macromolecular interactions

  3:55PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Dima Kozakov, Stony Brook University

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Mathematical foundations of slender body theory

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Laurel Ohm
• 11AM, Location TBA
  

  From Point Vortices to 2D Incompressible Euler in the Mean-Field Limit

  11AM, Location TBA Analysis Seminar
  Matthew Rosenzweig, MIT

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Sea ice: the next generation

  3:30PM, Location TBA Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Chris Horvat, Brown

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Static Replication of European Standard Dispersion Options as a Radon Transform Inverse Problem

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Sébastien Bossu, NYU Courant & Ogee Group LLC

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Monday, November 9, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Sculptures formed by fluidic erosion, dissolving and melting

  3:30PM, Location TBA Mathematics Colloquium
  Leif Ristroph, NYU
• 10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Zonally dominated dynamics and Dimits threshold in curvature-driven ITG turbulence

  10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Plamen Ivanov, University of Oxford

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Friday, November 6, 2020

• 3:50PM, Location TBA
  

  Topological statistics and defects in biological matter

  3:50PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Jorn Dunkel, MIT
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Nonlinear Kinetic Self-Organized Structures in High Energy Density Plasmas and Efficient and Accurate Plasma Simulation

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc.

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Thursday, November 5, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  The nanoscale caterpillar: or how to achieve precise motion with random sticky feet

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Sophie Marbach, CIMS

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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Data-driven parameterization and super-parameterization of subgrid-scale processes using deep learning

  3:30PM, Location TBA Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University
• 1PM, Location TBA
  

  Discrepancy theory

  1PM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Dylan Altschuler, CIMS

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Friday, October 30, 2020

• 3:45PM, Location TBA
  

  The (Un)known (Un)knowns of COVID-19 Transmission: A Fluid Dynamicist's Perspective

  3:45PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Rajat Mittal, Johns Hopkins University

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Thursday, October 29, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Geometrical and topological strategies for pumping

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Leif Ristroph, CIMS
• 11AM, Location TBA
  

  Fluctuations around the Boltzmann equation

  11AM, Location TBA Analysis Seminar
  Sergio Simonella, ENS Lyon

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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

• 10AM, Location TBA
  

  An Introduction to Coulomb Gases

  10AM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Elias Hess-Childs, CIMS

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Monday, October 26, 2020

• 10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Quasisymmetry near axisymmetry

  10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Gabriel Plunk, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany

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Friday, October 23, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  The Physics of Stinging

  3:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Kaare Jensen, Technical University of Denmark

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Numerical methods for doubly-periodic electrostatics and Stokes flow

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Ondrej Maxian, Zecheng Gan, Partner: Aleksandar Donev, CIMS
• 11AM, Location TBA
  

  Local smoothing estimate for the cone in $R^3$

  11AM, Location TBA Analysis Seminar
  Hong Wang, IAS Princeton

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Hybrid modeling: best of both worlds ?

  3:30PM, Location TBA Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Pierre Gentine, Columbia
• 10AM, Location TBA
  

  A brief introduction to forward-backward stochastic differential equations

  10AM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Alex Dunlap, CIMS

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  PDE-constrained optimization problems

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Yunan Yang, Florian Weschung, CIMS
• 11AM, Location TBA
  

  Strongly interacting multi-solitons and asymptotically static nonlinear waves

  11AM, Location TBA Analysis Seminar
  Andrew Lawrie, MIT

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

• 10AM, Location TBA
  

  Roots of random polynomials: a gentle introduction to the Kac-Rice formula

  10AM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Tim Kunisky, CIMS

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Friday, October 9, 2020

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Lenka Zdeborova, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA/Saclay, (host: Vanden-Eijnden)

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Thursday, October 8, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Toy models for the many faces of magnetized plasma turbulence

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Antoine Cerfon, CIMS

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Wednesday, October 7, 2020

• 10AM, Location TBA
  

  Introduction to Free Probability

  10AM, Location TBA Student Probability Seminar
  Ben McKenna, CIMS

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Thursday, October 1, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Collisions of billiard balls in 3D with spin and friction

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Charlie Peskin, CIMS
• 11AM, Location TBA
  

  Regularity estimates for the Boltzmann equation without cutoff

  11AM, Location TBA Analysis Seminar
  Luis Silvestre, The University of Chicago

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