Message from the Director
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Announcements
Motion Capture applied to Orchestra Conduction
Chris Bregler's Motion Capture Lab has been working with Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, in… [more]
Pierre Germain receives Sloan Research Fellowship
Pierre Germain has received a Sloan Research Fellowship along with 125 other young scholars. The Fellowship recognizes early-career scientists who… [more]
Raghu Varadhan awarded National Medal of Science
The White House announced in a Sept. 27, 2011 Press Release that S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan was named a recipient… [more]
Mikhael Gromov elected to The Royal Society, UK
Mikhael Gromov has been elected a Foreign Member of The Royal Society, UK, along with 44 Fellows and 7 other… [more]
News
Maintaining Balance Easier for Top-Heavy Hoverers
Researchers in Applied Math Lab used pyramid-shaped paper "bugs" to determine that in flight, top-heavy structures are more likely to… [more]
Growing Job Opportunities in Computer Science
Obstacles Help Organisms Move More Quickly
Mike Shelley, Jun Zhang, and researchers from the Applied Math Lab find that obstacles in an organism's path could help… [more]
Seminars and Events
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR:
2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Title: Optimal error bounds in stochastic homogenization
Felix Otto, MPI-MIS, Leipzig
http://cims.nyu.edu/ams/
JUNE 4-6, 2012
CONFERENCE CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAYS OF: R.R. Coifman, P. W. Jones and V. Rokhlin
Title: Challenges in Geometry, Analysis and Computation: High-Dimensional Synthesis
All are welcome and registration is free. Speakers include Greg Beylkin, Emmanuel Candes, Marianna Csornyei, Dave Donoho, Anna Gilbert, Leslie Greengard, Antti Kupiainen, Stephane Mallat, Gunnar Martinsson, Eric Michielssen, Amit Singer, John Strain, Terry Tao, Van Vu, and Sijue Wu.
Yale University
For more information and registration please visit: http://gauss.math.yale.edu/conferences/cjr/Home.html