Past Events

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

• 3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Machine learning techniques to construct patched analog ensembles for data assimilation

  3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Minah Yang, Courant, NYU

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Monday, October 4, 2021

• 11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 517
  

  LDP for Interacting Diffusions

  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 517 Student Probability Seminar
  Elias Hess-Childs, CIMS

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Friday, October 1, 2021

• 2:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
  

  Surface gravity waves enhance the settling and dispersion of finite-size particles

  2:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314 Applied Math Seminar
  Michelle DiBenedetto, University of Washington

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 517
  

  Modeling and simulation of dynamic cross-linked networks

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 517 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Ondrej Maxian and Sophie Marbach, Courant Institute
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 312
  

  Mean-field limits for singular flows

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 312 Analysis Seminar
  Sylvia SERFATY, NYU

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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

• 3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Measuring mesoscale mixing to guide parameterization

  3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Shafer Smith, Courant/CAOS

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online Zoom access provided to registrants
  

  Systematic Pricing and Trading of Municipal Bonds

  5:30PM, Online Zoom access provided to registrants Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Sudar Purushothaman, Foundation Credit

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Monday, September 27, 2021

• 11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 517
  

  A brief introduction to Malliavin calculus

  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 517 Hong-Bin Chen, CIMS
• 11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 517
  

  A brief introduction to Malliavin calculus

  11:30AM, Warren Weaver Hall 517 Student Probability Seminar
  Hong-Bin Chen, CIMS

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Friday, September 24, 2021

• 2:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Singular measures and information capacity of turbulent cascades

  2:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Applied Math Seminar
  Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute

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Thursday, September 23, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 517
  

  Markov Chain Monte Carlo on manifolds (part II)

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 517 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Courant Institute
• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 312
  

  Positive Lyapunov exponents for the Galerkin-Navier-Stokes equations with stochastic forcing

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 312 Analysis Seminar
  Jacob Bedrossian, University of Maryland

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021

• 3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Overview of CAOS Research

  3:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Laure Zanna, Ed Gerber, Shafer Smith, Oliver Buhler, Olivier Pauluis, Courant, NYU

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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

• 11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  Modelling magnetically confined plasmas with the implicit particle in cell method ECSim

  11AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

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Friday, September 17, 2021

• 2:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302
  

  Could convection in porous media explain the geysers of Enceladus?

  2:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1302 Applied Math Seminar
  Samuel Boury, CIMS

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Thursday, September 16, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 517
  

  Markov Chain Monte Carlo on manifolds (part I)

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall 517 Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Courant Institute

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Thursday, July 29, 2021

• 12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall
  

  Undergraduate Summer Reseach Presentations

  12:30PM, Warren Weaver Hall Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Undergraduate students, AM-SURE program summer of 2021

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Student Presentations: Modeling, Simulation and Experiment in Fluid Dynamics

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

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

• 10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905
  

  3D flows in nonsymmetric magnetic geometries : from stellarators to astrophysics.

  10AM, Warren Weaver Hall 905 Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Seminar
  Wrick Sengupta, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Complexity and Machine Learning with Applications to Markets

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Nino Antulov-Fantulin, senior researcher at ETH Zurich

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Friday, May 7, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Self-propelled Topological Defects

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford

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Thursday, May 6, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Projection methods for quasi-static hypo-elastoplasticity

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Nick Boffi, CIMS
• 11AM, Online Online
  

  The Vlasov--Poisson--Landau system in the weakly collisional regime

  11AM, Online Online Analysis Seminar
  Sanchit Chaturvedi, Stanford

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

• 3:30PM, Online
  

  What to expect when you're graduating?

  3:30PM, Online Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Naftali Cohen, JP Morgan & Tandon
• 9AM, Online
  

  Cutoff of Markov Chains through Curvature

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Owen Mireles Briones, Stony Brook

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online
  

  Market Impact, Slippage Costs, and Optimal Execution of Large Trades

  5:30PM, Online Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Fabrizio Lillo, Università di Bologna, Scuola Normale Superiore

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Monday, May 3, 2021

• 3:45PM, Online
  

  An average John theorem

  3:45PM, Online Mathematics Colloquium
  Assaf Naor, Princeton University

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Friday, April 30, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Landscape and training regimes in deep learning

  2:30PM, Location TBA Applied Math Seminar
  Matthieu Wyart, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (host: Vanden-Eijnden)

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

• 12:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Reduce Spiking Network Dynamics to Manifolds

  12:30PM, Location TBA Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting
  Zhuo-Cheng Xiao, CIMS
• 11AM, Online Online
  

  Simultaneous development of shocks and cusps for 2D compressible Euler from smooth initial data

  11AM, Online Online Analysis Seminar
  Steve Shkoller, UC Davis

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

• 3:30PM, Online
  

  What causes atmospheric blocks? - A new perspective using the finite amplitude wave activity theory

  3:30PM, Online Atmosphere Ocean Science Colloquium
  Pragallva Barpanda, CIRES/ NOAA PSL, University of Colorado, Boulder
• 9AM, Online
  

  Random interlacements, the Gaussian free field and percolation

  9AM, Online Student Probability Seminar
  Maximilian Nitzschner, CIMS

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

• 5:30PM, Online 1302
  

  Determining Prices and Trading Strategies in FBSDE Models in Quantitative Finance with Deep Learning

  5:30PM, Online 1302 Mathematical Finance & Financial Data Science Seminar
  Bernhard Hientzsch, Corporate Model Risk, Wells Fargo

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Monday, April 26, 2021

• 3:45PM, Online
  

  Online hyperparameter optimization by real-time recurrent learning

  3:45PM, Online Mathematics Colloquium
  Kyunghyun Cho, NYU

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Friday, April 23, 2021

• 2:30PM, Location TBA
  

  Mathematics and Physics at the Moiré Scale

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

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

  Hydraulic jump-like dynamics above supercell thunderstorms

  3:30PM, Location TBA 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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