Past Events

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

• 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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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Southern Ocean Residual Circulation

  3:30PM, Location TBA Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Madeleine Youngs, NYU

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

• 3:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Modeling and parameterizing submesoscale turbulence in dense Arctic flows

  3:30PM, Location TBA Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Elizabeth Yankovsky, NYU

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Friday, September 18, 2020

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Collective Behaviour in Fish, Flow Sensing and PPE Design

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Siddhartha Verma, Florida Atlantic University, (host: Ristroph)

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall Zoom
  

  A cavalcade of short research talks from Professors

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall Zoom Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Aleks Donev, Alex Mogilner, Charlie Peskin, Marsha Berger, and Georg Stadler, CIMS

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Friday, September 11, 2020

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  A coarse-grained model of microtubule hydrodynamics (and streaming flows in the fruit fly oocyte)

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  David Stein, Flatiron Institute, (host: Shelley)

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall zoom
  

  Organizational meeting

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall zoom Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

• 11:15AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Ageostrophic dynamics in the ocean interior

  11:15AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Lia Siegelman, Scripps

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

• 1PM, Location TBA
  

  Optimizing the free energy and kinetic accessibility for systems of self-assembling colloids

  1PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Anthony Trubiano

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

• 3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBD

  3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Morgan E. O'Neill, Stanford

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Monday, May 4, 2020

• 3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA

  3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematics Colloquium
  Laure Zanna, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

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Friday, May 1, 2020

• 11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA

  11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Nike Sun, MIT Mathematics Department

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

• 1PM, Location TBA
  

  Hydrodynamics of magnetic chains, and flexible fibres with a twist

  1PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Brennan Sprinkle

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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

• 3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBD

  3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Jadwiga Richter, NCAR

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

• 5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  CANCELLED - On the Value of Portfolio Construction

  5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Jason MacQueen, Smart Portfolio Strategies (SPS)
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall via Zoom -- see link below
  

  Composing and decomposing surfaces in R^n and H_n

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall via Zoom -- see link below Geometry and Geometric Analysis Working Group
  Robert Young, New York University

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Monday, April 27, 2020

• 3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA

  3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematics Colloquium
  Jan Hesthaven, EPFL

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Thursday, April 23, 2020

• 1PM, Location TBA
  

  A sharp interface version of the immersed boundary finite element method

  1PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Charles Puelz
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  On unique ergodicity and mixing for the damped-driven stochastic KdV equation

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Analysis Seminar
  Vincent Martinez, Hunter College - CUNY

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

• 3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  The disruption of the quasibiennial oscillation in 2016

  3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Peter Hitchcock, Cornell

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

• 5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

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

  5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Julien Guyon, Bloomberg L.P.

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Friday, April 17, 2020

• 11:05AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Columbia-Courant probability day at Columbia

  11:05AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

• 1PM, Location TBA
  

  How can we estimate the slowest dynamics of a Markov process?

  1PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Robert Webber
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  An evolution equation modeling roots of polynomials under differentiation

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Analysis Seminar
  Stefan STEINERBERGER, Yale

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Monday, April 13, 2020

• 3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA

  3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematics Colloquium
  Paul Dupuis, Brown University

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Friday, April 10, 2020

• 11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA

  11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Dima Ioffe, Technion

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Thursday, April 9, 2020

• 1PM, Warren Weaver Hall remote; zoom link sent via email
  

  The Universal Route to Rogue Waves via Instanton Theory

  1PM, Warren Weaver Hall remote; zoom link sent via email Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Tobias Grafke (Warwick)
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall -- via Zoom, see link below
  

  Geometric flows and topology

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall -- via Zoom, see link below Analysis Seminar
  Bruce Kleiner, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

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Monday, April 6, 2020

• 11:45AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Concentration inequality around the thermal equilibrium measure of Coulomb gases

  11:45AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Student Probability Seminar
  David Padilla-Garza, CIMS

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Friday, April 3, 2020

• 1PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Statistical prediction for a classical dynamical system using a quantum system

  1PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar
  Dimitris Giannakis, CIMS/CAOS
• 11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA

  11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Kyle Luh, Harvard University

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

• 1PM, Location TBA
  

  Equilibrium statistical mechanics of semiflexible fibers (worm-like chains)

  1PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Aleksandar Donev, Courant Institute

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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

• 3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Hybrid modeling: best of both worlds?

  3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Pierre Gentine, Columbia

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

• 5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  CANCELLED - Modeling Interest Rate and FX Derivatives with Division Algebras

  5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Gregory Pelts
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Ideal Plasma Response to Applied External Boundary Deformations in a Heliotron

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Tony Cooper, Swiss Alps Fusion Energy

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Monday, March 30, 2020

• 3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  CANCELLED

  3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematics Colloquium
  Christof Schutte, Free Univ. of Berlin
• 11:45AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  TBA

  11:45AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Student Probability Seminar
  Yuval Peled, CIMS

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Friday, March 27, 2020

• 11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA.

  11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Arjun Krishnan, University of Rochester

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Regularity of the free boundary for the two-phase Bernoulli problem

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Analysis Seminar
  Guido DE PHILIPPIS, CIMS

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

• 5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

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

  5:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Cristian Homescu, Director, Chief Investment Office, Investment Solutions Group at Bank of America

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Monday, March 23, 2020

• 3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  CANCELLED

  3:45PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Mathematics Colloquium
  Pierre Tarres, NYU Shanghai

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Friday, March 20, 2020

• 11:10AM, Location TBA
  

  No seminar

  11:10AM, Location TBA Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Springbreak

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Friday, March 13, 2020

• 12PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Multi-time distribution of TASEP

  12PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Zhipeng Liu, University of Kansas
• 11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  TBA

  11:10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
  Dmitry Chelkak, ENS Paris

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Scattering structure for linear Vlasov-Poisson equations with magnetic field

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Analysis Seminar
  Bruno Despres, University Paris 6

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