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Winter 2013 Newsletter
Volume 10, No. 1 Newsletter The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University 2013 Winter 2 Jinyang Li: Building 5 How can the mysterious Distributed Systems that connection between Bridge Applications and nature and mathematics Hardware be explained? It can’t, says Henry McKean 3 New Faculty 6 Winter 2013 Puzzle How Fair is a Fair Coin? 4 In the accounting software 7 The Generosity of Friends field, Anne-Claire McAllister’s Courant degree has made all the difference In this Issue: Jinyang Li: Building Distributed Systems That Bridge Applications and Hardware by M.L. Ball the hardware. When new hardware is built, without good systems Piccolo: Distributed Computation software it’s very clumsy to use and won’t reach the majority of using Shared In-memory State application programmers. It’s a careful balance between making your system very usable and maintaining extremely high performance,” Node-1 said Jinyang. Get, Put, Update (commutative) Jinyang’s Project Piccolo: Faster, more robust, and getting lots of notice When approaching a new project, Jinyang prefers a bottom-up PageRank Accumulate=sum Distrubuted in-memory state approach. “I like to take a very concrete piece of application that A: 1.35 B: 5.44 I really care about – like machine learning or processing a lot of C: 2.01 … text – and then look at the existing hardware and say, ‘We have lots of machines and they’re connected by a fast network and each of them has a lot of memory and a lot of disks,’” she said. “‘How can I enable that application to utilize this array of hardware? What is the Node-2 Node-3 glue, what is the infrastructure that’s needed? To make the challenges concrete, let me start by building this infrastructure that specifically can process a large amount of text really quickly. -
Matical Society Was Held at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, 1947
THE APRIL MEETING IN NEW YORK The four hundred twenty-fourth meeting of the American Mathe matical Society was held at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, 1947. The attendance was over 300, includ ing the following 300 members of the Society: C. R. Adams, C. F. Adler, R. P. Agnew, E.J. Akutowicz, Leonidas Alaoglu, T. W. Anderson, C. B. Allendoerfer, R. G. Archibald, L. A. Aroian, M. C. Ayer, R. A. Bari, Joshua Barlaz, P. T. Bateman, G. E. Bates, M. F. Becker, E. G. Begle, Richard Bellman, Stefan Bergman, Arthur Bernstein, Felix Bernstein, Lipman Bers, D. H. Blackwell, Gertrude Blanch, J. H. Blau, R. P. Boas, H. W. Bode, G. L. Bolton, Samuel Borofsky, J. M. Boyer, A. D. Bradley, H. W. Brinkmann, Paul Brock, A. B. Brown, G. W. Brown, R. H. Brown, E. F. Buck, R. C. Buck, L. H. Bunyan, R. S. Burington, J. C. Burkill, Herbert Busemann, K. A. Bush, Hobart Bushey, J. H. Bushey, K. E. Butcher, Albert Cahn, S. S. Cairns, W. R. Callahan, H. H. Campaigne, K. Chandrasekharan, J. O. Chellevold, Herman Chernoff, Claude Chevalley, Ed mund Churchill, J. A. Clarkson, M. D. Clement, R. M. Cohn, I. S. Cohen, Nancy Cole, T. F. Cope, Richard Courant, M. J. Cox, F. G. Critchlow, H. B. Curry, J. H. Curtiss, M. D. Darkow, A. S. Day, S. P. Diliberto, J. L. Doob, C. H. Dowker, Y. N. Dowker, William H. Durf ee, Churchill Eisenhart, Benjamin Epstein, Ky Fan, J.M.Feld, William Feller, F. G. Fender, A. D. -
Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics
SOME FUNDAMENTAL THEOREMS IN MATHEMATICS OLIVER KNILL Abstract. An expository hitchhikers guide to some theorems in mathematics. Criteria for the current list of 243 theorems are whether the result can be formulated elegantly, whether it is beautiful or useful and whether it could serve as a guide [6] without leading to panic. The order is not a ranking but ordered along a time-line when things were writ- ten down. Since [556] stated “a mathematical theorem only becomes beautiful if presented as a crown jewel within a context" we try sometimes to give some context. Of course, any such list of theorems is a matter of personal preferences, taste and limitations. The num- ber of theorems is arbitrary, the initial obvious goal was 42 but that number got eventually surpassed as it is hard to stop, once started. As a compensation, there are 42 “tweetable" theorems with included proofs. More comments on the choice of the theorems is included in an epilogue. For literature on general mathematics, see [193, 189, 29, 235, 254, 619, 412, 138], for history [217, 625, 376, 73, 46, 208, 379, 365, 690, 113, 618, 79, 259, 341], for popular, beautiful or elegant things [12, 529, 201, 182, 17, 672, 673, 44, 204, 190, 245, 446, 616, 303, 201, 2, 127, 146, 128, 502, 261, 172]. For comprehensive overviews in large parts of math- ematics, [74, 165, 166, 51, 593] or predictions on developments [47]. For reflections about mathematics in general [145, 455, 45, 306, 439, 99, 561]. Encyclopedic source examples are [188, 705, 670, 102, 192, 152, 221, 191, 111, 635]. -
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News 6/2013 Mathematics C. Abbas, Michigan State University, East Lansing, K. Alladi, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, T. Aven, University of Oslo, Norway; U. Jensen, MI, USA USA; P. Paule, Johannes Kepler University Linz, University of Hohenheim, Germany Austria; J. Sellers, A. J. Yee, The Pennsylvania State Introduction to Compactness University, University Park, PA, USA (Eds) Stochastic Models in Reliability Results in Symplectic Field Combinatory Analysis This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date Theory presentation of some of the classical areas of reli- Dedicated to George Andrews ability, based on a more advanced probabilistic framework using the modern theory of stochastic The book grew out of lectures given by the Contents author in 2005. Symplectic field theory is a processes. This framework allows analysts to for- Congruences modulo powers of 2 for a certain new important subject which is currently being mulate general failure models, establish formulae partition function (H.-C. Chan and S. Cooper).- developed. The starting point of this theory are for computing various performance measures, Cranks—really, the final problem (B.C. Berndt, compactness results for holomorphic curves as well as determine how to identify optimal H.H. Chan, S.H. Chan, and W.-C. Liaw).- Eisen- established in 2004. The book gives a systematic replacement policies in complex situations. In stein series and Ramanujan-type series for 1/π introduction providing a lot of background mate- this second edition of the book, two major topics (N.D. Baruah and B.C. Berndt).- Parity in parti- rial much of which is scattered throughout the have been added to the original version: copula tion identities (G.E. -
Council Congratulates Exxon Education Foundation
from.qxp 4/27/98 3:17 PM Page 1315 From the AMS ics. The Exxon Education Foundation funds programs in mathematics education, elementary and secondary school improvement, undergraduate general education, and un- dergraduate developmental education. —Timothy Goggins, AMS Development Officer AMS Task Force Receives Two Grants The AMS recently received two new grants in support of its Task Force on Excellence in Mathematical Scholarship. The Task Force is carrying out a program of focus groups, site visits, and information gathering aimed at developing (left to right) Edward Ahnert, president of the Exxon ways for mathematical sciences departments in doctoral Education Foundation, AMS President Cathleen institutions to work more effectively. With an initial grant Morawetz, and Robert Witte, senior program officer for of $50,000 from the Exxon Education Foundation, the Task Exxon. Force began its work by organizing a number of focus groups. The AMS has now received a second grant of Council Congratulates Exxon $50,000 from the Exxon Education Foundation, as well as a grant of $165,000 from the National Science Foundation. Education Foundation For further information about the work of the Task Force, see “Building Excellence in Doctoral Mathematics De- At the Summer Mathfest in Burlington in August, the AMS partments”, Notices, November/December 1995, pages Council passed a resolution congratulating the Exxon Ed- 1170–1171. ucation Foundation on its fortieth anniversary. AMS Pres- ident Cathleen Morawetz presented the resolution during —Timothy Goggins, AMS Development Officer the awards banquet to Edward Ahnert, president of the Exxon Education Foundation, and to Robert Witte, senior program officer with Exxon. -
Hopf Algebroids and Their Cyclic Theory
Hopf Algebroids and Their Cyclic Theory NIELS KOWALZIG May 29, 2009 Contents Introduction 1 1 Preliminaries 11 1.1 Cyclic Theory . 11 1.2 A-rings and A-corings . 20 1.3 Hopf Algebras and Their Cyclic Cohomology . 22 1.4 Lie-Rinehart Algebras . 24 1.5 Groupoids . 26 2 Hopf Algebroids 27 2.1 Left Bialgebroid Structures . 27 2.2 Left Hopf Algebroids . 29 2.3 Left Bialgebroid Modules and Comodules . 30 2.4 Homological Coalgebra for Left Bialgebroid Comodules . 32 2.5 Right Bialgebroids . 34 2.6 Hopf Algebroids . 36 3 Constructions 43 3.1 Left and Right Duals of Bialgebroids . 43 3.2 Push Forward Bialgebroids . 51 3.3 Matched Pairs of Bialgebroids . 52 3.3.1 Left Module Rings for Bialgebroids . 53 3.3.2 Right Comodule Corings for Bialgebroids . 54 3.3.3 Matched Pairs . 55 4 Examples of Hopf Algebroids 59 4.1 Immediate Examples . 59 4.1.1 The Enveloping Algebra Ae .............................. 59 4.1.2 Hopf Algebras Twisted by a Character . 59 4.2 Universal Enveloping Algebras of Lie-Rinehart Algebras . 61 4.2.1 The Canonical Left Hopf Algebroid Structure on VL . 61 4.2.2 Hopf Algebroid Structures on VL ........................... 62 4.3 Jet Spaces of Lie-Rinehart Algebras . 66 4.4 Convolution Algebras . 69 4.5 Function Algebras . 72 4.6 Connes-Moscovici Algebras . 76 4.7 Bicrossed Product Realisation . 79 5 Hopf-Cyclic Cohomology 85 5.1 The Space of Coinvariants . 85 5.2 Cocyclic Structures on Hopf Algebroids . 86 5.2.1 Connes’ Associated Bicomplex . 91 5.3 Hopf-Hochschild Cohomology as a Derived Functor . -
Prize Is Awarded Every Three Years at the Joint Mathematics Meetings
AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY LEVI L. CONANT PRIZE This prize was established in 2000 in honor of Levi L. Conant to recognize the best expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS in the preceding fi ve years. Levi L. Conant (1857–1916) was a math- ematician who taught at Dakota School of Mines for three years and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for twenty-fi ve years. His will included a bequest to the AMS effective upon his wife’s death, which occurred sixty years after his own demise. Citation Persi Diaconis The Levi L. Conant Prize for 2012 is awarded to Persi Diaconis for his article, “The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution” (Bulletin Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), no. 2, 179–205). This wonderful article is a lively and engaging overview of modern methods in probability and statistics, and their applications. It opens with a fascinating real- life example: a prison psychologist turns up at Stanford University with encoded messages written by prisoners, and Marc Coram uses the Metropolis algorithm to decrypt them. From there, the article gets even more compelling! After a highly accessible description of Markov chains from fi rst principles, Diaconis colorfully illustrates many of the applications and venues of these ideas. Along the way, he points to some very interesting mathematics and some fascinating open questions, especially about the running time in concrete situ- ations of the Metropolis algorithm, which is a specifi c Monte Carlo method for constructing Markov chains. The article also highlights the use of spectral methods to deduce estimates for the length of the chain needed to achieve mixing. -
The West Math Collection
Anaheim Meetings Oanuary 9 -13) - Page 15 Notices of the American Mathematical Society January 1985, Issue 239 Volume 32, Number 1, Pages 1-144 Providence, Rhode Island USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings THIS CALENDAR lists all meetings which have been approved by the Council prior to the date this issue of the Notices was sent to the press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the office of the Society. Abstracts must be accompanied by the Sl5 processing charge. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence. Rhode Island. on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information consult the meeting announcements and the list of organizers of special sessions. -
Gerhard Hochschild (1915/2010) a Mathematician of the Xxth Century
GERHARD HOCHSCHILD (1915/2010) A MATHEMATICIAN OF THE XXth CENTURY WALTER FERRER SANTOS Abstract. Gerhard Hochschild’s contribution to the development of mathematics in the XX century is succinctly surveyed. We start with a personal and mathematical biography, and then consider with certain detail his contributions to algebraic groups and Hopf algebras. 1. The life, times and mathematics of Gerhard Hochschild 1.1. Berlin and South Africa. Gerhard Paul Hochschild was born on April 29th, 1915 in Berlin of a middle class Jewish family and died on July 8th, 2010 in El Cerrito where he lived after he moved to take a position as professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1958. His father Heiner was an engineer working as a patent attonery and in search of safety sent Gerhard and his older brother Ulrich, to Cape Town in May of 1933. The boys were some of the many germans escaping from the Nazis that were taking over their native country. The first 18 years of his life in Germany were not uneventful. In 1924 his mother Lilli was diagnosed with a lung ailment and sent –together with his younger son Gerhard that was then nine years old– to a sanatorium in the Alps, near Davos. Later in life he commented to the author that reading in Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) by Thomas Mann, about Hans Castorp –Mann’s main character in the book– he evoked his own personal experiences. Castorp was transported away from his ordered and organized family life to pay a visit to his cousin interned also in a sanatorium in Davos. -
Awards at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Seoul (Korea) 2014
Awards at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Seoul (Korea) 2014 News release from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) The Fields medals of the ICM 2014 were awarded formidable technical power, the ingenuity and tenac- to Arthur Avila, Manjual Bhagava, Martin Hairer, and ity of a master problem-solver, and an unerring sense Maryam Mirzakhani; and the Nevanlinna Prize was for deep and significant questions. awarded to Subhash Khot. The prize winners of the Avila’s achievements are many and span a broad Gauss Prize, Chern Prize, and Leelavati Prize were range of topics; here we focus on only a few high- Stanley Osher, Phillip Griffiths and Adrián Paenza, re- lights. One of his early significant results closes a spectively. The following article about the awardees chapter on a long story that started in the 1970s. At is the news released by the International Mathe- that time, physicists, most notably Mitchell Feigen- matical Union (IMU). We are grateful to Prof. Ingrid baum, began trying to understand how chaos can Daubechies, the President of IMU, who granted us the arise out of very simple systems. Some of the systems permission of reprinting it.—the Editors they looked at were based on iterating a mathemati- cal rule such as 3x(1 − x). Starting with a given point, one can watch the trajectory of the point under re- The Work of Artur Avila peated applications of the rule; one can think of the rule as moving the starting point around over time. Artur Avila has made For some maps, the trajectories eventually settle into outstanding contribu- stable orbits, while for other maps the trajectories be- tions to dynamical come chaotic. -
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Day convolution and the Hodge filtration on THH by Saul Glasman V-- Submitted to the Department of Mathematics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of z CD Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics QLL = <~ - at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY June 2015 @Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015. All rights reserved. Parts of this thesis were first published in Mathematical Research Letters in 2015, published by International Press. A uthor .. ...................... Department of Mathematics April 29, 2015 Signature redacted" Certified by.... e ......... ........I.................... Clark Barwick Cecil and Ida B. Green Career Development Associate Professor Thesis Supervisor Accepted by. Signature redacted.................... William Minicozzi Chairma Depart ent Committee on Graduate Theses Day convolution and the Hodge filtration on THH by Saul Glasman Submitted to the Department of Mathematics on April 29, 2015, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics Abstract This thesis is divided into two chapters. In the first, given symmetric monoidal oc- categories C and D, subject to mild hypotheses on D, we define an oc-categorical analog of the Day convolution symmetric monoidal structure on the functor category Fun(C, D). In the second, we develop a Hodge filtration on the topological Hochschild homolgy spectrum of a commutative ring spectrum and describe its elementary prop- erties. Thesis Supervisor: Clark Barwick Title: Cecil and Ida B. Green Career Development Associate Professor 3 4 Acknowledgments This thesis, as well as the author's mathematical career, owes an inestimably enor- mous debt to nearly five years spent in the company of Clark Barwick's deep insight and inexhaustibly patient guidance. -
A LIFE of the IMMEASURABLE MIND MARK Kac, Enigmas Of
Tlu! Annals of Probabtlity 1986, Vol. 14, No.4, 1139-1148 A LIFE OF THE IMMEASURABLE MIND MARK KAc, Enigmas of Chance, An Autobiography. Harper and Row, New York, 1985, xxvii + 163 pages, $18.95. REVIEW BY JOEL E. COHEN Rockefeller University Live with the pleasure of the immeasurable mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 What worlds Mark Kac traversed! Born in August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, he died in October 1984, somewhere between Mutual Assured Destruction and Star Wars. Born in Krzemieniec, Poland, a town that experi enced Czarist, Polish, German, and Soviet control within his lifetime, he died in Los Angeles, California, near lots formerly used to make Hollywood movies, in a county of orange groves. Born where no teaching positions were open to his father, as a Jew, despite his father's advanced degrees from the universities of Leipzig and Moscow, Kac died in the fullness of honors the United States of America awards to those, of any origin, who create well. Born when the mathematical nature of probability theory was a mystery and statistical inde pendence was an enigma within a mystery, he died during the spring flowering of probability theory and statistical physics. In his autobiography, which he did not live to see in print, Mark Kac (pronounced "cots") aims to give the reader "a glimpse into the making of a scientist as he is influenced by his family, his teachers and collaborators as well as by those intangibles which pertain to his development: the political conditions and social attitudes of his time and the cataclysmic events of history."(xxvii) [I give page numbers after quotations.] The book does not aim to be, and is not, a history of probability theory in the twentieth century.