Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 1996-1997
The colloquia of the Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics Department are held at 4:00 in Tech M416 unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are served one half hour prior to the colloquium.
Thursday, February 6, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor J.M. Restrepo, UC Los Angeles
- Title: Wave-generated mass transport and sand bars
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Monday, February 9, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. M. Short, U. Illinois
- Title: Multi-dimensional instability of detonation waves
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Thursday, February 13, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Dr. G. Luther, Hewlett-Packard Labs
- Title: Towards a systems theory for nonlinear optics
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Thursday, February 20, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor T. Witelski, MIT
- Title: Lubrication theory for gas bearing sliders in disk drives
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Monday, February 24, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor A.A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion, Israel
- Title: Marangoni Patterns and Waves
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Thursday, February 27, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor A. Tomboulides, Swiss Federal Inst. Tech.
- Title: Numerical Simulation of Low-Mach-Number Combustion
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Monday, March 3, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech LR 4, 12:00
- Professor H. Huppert, Cambridge U.
- Title: Violent Volcanic Eruptions and Gigantic Landslides
Special Note: joint colloquium with Mechanical Engineering
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Thursday, April 10, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor S. Tanveer, Ohio State U.
- Title: Dendrites and Complex Singularities
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Monday, April 14, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor S.I. Hariharan, U. Akron
- Title: On Exterior Problems in Unbounded Domains
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Thursday, April 17, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 3:00pm
- Professor C. Menyuk, U Maryland Baltimore County
- Title: New Approaches for High Data Rate Fiber Transmission: 100Gbits/sec and Beyond
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Thursday, April 24, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor A. Yarin, Technion, Israel
- Title: Impact of Drops on Solid Surfaces: Capillary and Shock Waves, and Shocks
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Monday, April 28, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor L. Redekopp, U. Southern California
- Title: The Interaction of Convection and Internal Waves: a Natural Codimension-3 Problem
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Monday, May 5, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Dr. G. Merchant, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
- Title: Application of Stochastic Models to Financial Derivatives
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Thursday, May 8, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor D.S. Cohen, CalTech
- Title: New Asymptotic Scales for Moving Boundary Diffusion Problems
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Monday, May 12, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor H.-C. Chang, U. Notre Dame
- Title: Coherent Structure Description of Falling Film Waves
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Thursday, May 15, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M351, 4:30pm
- Professor J.B. Keller, Stanford U.
- Title: Muscle Mechanics and Locomotion
Special Note: This is the Nemmers Prize Lecture. It is jointly hosted with the Mathematics Department
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Monday, May 19, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor J.-M. Vandenbroeck, U. Wisconsin
- Title: Singular Free Surface Flows
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Wednesday, May 21, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor R. Caflisch, UC Los Angeles
- Title: Theory and application of quasi-Monte Carlo methods
Special Note: this talk is jointly sponsored with the Mathematics Department
Abstract and details available
Thursday, May 29, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor E.A. Spiegel, Columbia U.
- Title: Convective Pattern Theory
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Monday, June 2, 1997
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech 3396, 4:00pm
- Professor J.B. Keller, Stanford U.
- Title: Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions
Special Note: Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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