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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Courantin Mathemati SPRING / SUMMER 2007 COURANT INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES SPRING / SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2007 The 2007 Courant Lectures lished a fund to endow a series of Courant Lectures to be Volume 4 - Number 2 delivered every two years. Kurt Friedrichs, who was chosen Faculty Honors and Awards NYU Women in Computing Group Visit The 2007 Courant Lectures,“Traces, Determinants, and to present the gift, stated,“One may think that one of the Probability Theory” and “Quillen Metrics, the Hypoelliptic roles mathematics plays in other sciences is that of providing the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center Henry McKean, Professor of Mathematics, has been Laplacian: the role and the functional integral” were present- law and order, rational organization and logical consistency, Courant Institute of awarded the 2007 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for ed on March 23rd and 26th by Prof. Jean-Michel Bismut, but that would not correspond to Courant's ideas. In fact, Women in Computing (WinC), a student organization spon- Lifetime Achievement.The prize citation honors him for Professor of Mathematics at University Paris XI (Orsay) and within mathematics proper Courant has always fought sored by the Computer Science Department of the Courant “his rich and magnificent mathematical career” and recog- one of the world’s leaders in index theory,probability,geom- against overemphasis of the rational, logical, legalistic aspects Mathematical Sciences Institute at NYU, along with IBM, organized a student visit nizes his “profound influence on his own and succeeding etry, and stochastic control. of this science and emphasized the inventive and construc- to the IBM Watson Research Center at Hawthorne on generations of mathematicians.” We are very pleased to announce that this venerable lec- tive, esthetic and even playful on the one hand, and on the Friday,March 30th.The visit included talks by senior IBM Weiqing Ren,Assistant Professor of Mathematics, ture series has been re-invigorated through extremely gener- other hand those pertaining to reality.How mathematics can executives and researchers and was attended by NYU stu- Raghu Varadhan Awarded 2007 tistical physics, population dynamics, econometrics and Scott Sheffield,Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and ous endowment gifts from Dan Stroock, in memory of Alan retain these qualities when it invades other sciences is an dents at the undergraduate, M.S., and Ph.D.levels. finance, and traffic engineering. It has also greatly expanded Akshay Venkatesh,Associate Professor of Mathematics, Stroock, who was a long time supporter of NYU both finan- interesting and somewhat puzzling question. Here we hope Abel Prize The highlight of the event was a talk by Fran Allen were named Sloan Research Fellows for 2007.These cially and through his many years of service on the board of our gift will help.” our ability to use computers to simulate and analyze the who is an IBM Fellow Emerita, this year's Turing Award awards are intended to enhance the careers of the finest trustees, and by the GopalVaradhan Foundation, established The first speaker, in 1959, was Eugene Wigner, one of Raghu Varadhan, Frank J. occurrence of rare events. Over the last four decades, the the- winner and the first woman to win this award. Fran Allen's young faculty members in specified fields of science. in memory of Mr.Varadhan, an alumnus of New York the greatest mathematical physicists of the 20th century.His Gould Professor of ory of large deviations has become a cornerstone of modern talk, entitled “Compiling a Career”, provided an overview Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually University,WSUC class of 1990, who lost his life in the talk,“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the of her inspiring career and her important contributions to Mathematics, was named the probability,both pure and applied.” in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary September 11, 2001 attacks on the WorldTrade Center. Natural Sciences,”became quite famous and was subse- the field of computer science.The NYU students were 2007 winner of the Abel The Abel Prize was established by the government of molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathe- The origin of the lectures dates back to Richard Courant’s quently published in Communications on Pure and Applied both moved and inspired by Fran Allen’s talk. Prize for his “ ‘fundamental Norway in 2002 following the model of the Nobel prizes to matics, neuroscience, and physics. 70th birthday on January 8, 1958, when his friends estab- Mathematics. IBM speakers were: Cathy Lasser (VP,Industry contributions to probability commemorate the 200th centenary of the birth of Niels Undergraduate Research Solutions and Emerging Business), alumna and Courant theory and in particular for Henrik Abel.The prize was given on May 22nd in Oslo, Council member Susan Puglia (VP,Quality and Process creating a unified theory of Norway by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Kristina Chodorow, a senior in the Computer Science Transformation Executive for Technical Career Paths large deviations’…[His This is particularly exciting for us, as it is the second time in Department, recently was selected for Honorable Mention Development and Technical Support), Brenda Dietrich in this year’s CRA (Computing Research Association) (Director, Mathematical Sciences),Anshu Kak (Executive work] provides a unifying five years that one of our faculty was named Abel Laureate. Outstanding Undergraduate Awards. Her research, super- IT Architect), Mahesh Viswanathan (Lead Architect, and efficient method for Peter Lax received the prize in 2005 for his “groundbreaking vised by Silver Professor Margaret Wright, aimed at Information on Demand). clarifying a rich variety of phenomena arising in complex sto- contributions to the theory and application of partial differen- improving a popular direct search optimization method for chastic systems, in fields as diverse as quantum field theory,sta- tial equations and to the computation of their solutions.” problems in which the function being minimized is extremely expensive to compute. Kristina developed a new algorithm that makes better use of already-computed func- Courant Faculty Helmut Hofer Professor Amir Pnueli joined the tion values. In numerical tests so far, her method has been faculty of the Courant Institute in competetive with or more efficient than several widely and Amir Pnueli Named Silver used codes. Maragaret Wright comments that,“Kristina is Sciences Mathematical Professors 1999. Previously,he had been on the an outstanding and impressive student in talent, intellectual faculties of the Weizmann Institute of accomplishment, and service to the community.” In 1997, Professor Helmut Hofer Science and of Tel-Aviv University, orn Institute Courant During lunch, the students had an opportunity to of came to the Courant Institute from where he founded and chaired the 2007 Courant Institute Student Prizes meet with other CIMS alumni working at IBM including the Swiss Federal Institute of Department of Computer Science. Awarded April 13th. Congratulations to Michael Burke, Philippe Charles, Meng-chen Hsieh,Anca Technology, Zurich, as a professor of He is one of the pioneers of the Ivan, Rodric Rabbah, Edith Schonberg,Alexander Totok, the following winners: Mathematics. field of verification.This field is concerned with proving the Aristotelis Tsirigos and to hear speakers Charles Lickel (VP, 2 Number - 4 Volume His major research interests center correctness of computer hardware and software. For many Henning Biermann Award - Ashish Rastogi Software) and David Cohn (Director of Business 2007 SUMMER / SPRING on symplectic geometry, dynamical Sandra Bleistein Prize - Caroline Muller Informatics). years this was regarded by many as a quixotic endeavor. Hollis Cooley Prize - Henry O. Jacobs WinC’s mission is to support women interested in systems, and partial differential equa- However, by the mid-nineties, owing to the increasing diffi- Janet Fabri Prize - Iuliana Ionita Computer Science and technology by providing an envi- tions. The field of symplectic geometry has been one of the culty of achieving acceptable reliability via testing alone, and Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize - Yoichiro Mori ronment to encourage them and activities to inspire them. most vibrant areas of research in pure mathematics for the owing to improved methods and faster computers, verification Max Goldstein Prize - Morgan Silver In addition to IBM,WinC collaborates with Google and last two decades. It is an outgrowth of classical Hamiltonian was increasingly recognized as an indispensable practical Harold Grad Memorial Prize - Alexey Kuptsov and Morgan Stanley to organize academic panels, technical New York University mechanics, which has application to many areas, including methodology. Ashish Rastogi workshops, a mentoring program, recruiting (full-time Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences mathematical physics, dynamical systems, and low-dimen- The significance of this work has been amply recognized. Moses A. Greenfield Research Award - jobs) and internship events along with company visits.We Office of the Director sional topology. Its goal is to understand the global structure Professor Pnueli received the ACM Turing Award in 1996 Alexander Hasha and Matthias Heymann send our thanks to Fran Allen and our alumni participants. Warren Weaver Hall Wilhelm Magnus Memorial Prize - Ryan Walker 251 Mercer Street of solutions in phase space, with the potential for discover- “…for his seminal
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