Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 1997-1998


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.


Monday, September 22, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor M. Velarde ,   Univ. Complutense de Madrid
Title: Surface and internal waves driven by surfactant gradients and instability
Special Note: NOTE NEW LOCATION
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Monday, October 13, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. S.K. Wilson,   U. Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Title: On Lubrication with comparable viscous and inertia forces
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Monday, October 20, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. D. Vaynblat,   M.I.T.
Title: Large Amplitude Nonlinear Resonant Acoustic Waves without Shock
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Monday, October 27, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor P. Ronney,   Univ. Southern California
Title: Front Propagation in Quasi-2d Channels
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Monday, November 3, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. L. Jiang,   U. Michigan
Title: Nonlinear Water Waves: Wave Breaking and Capillary Effects
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Monday, November 10, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Volpert,   Northwestern U.
Title: Mathematical Modeling of Frontal Polymerization
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Monday, November 17, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J.B. Greenberg ,   The Technion, Israel
Title: New Results in Laminar Spray Flame Theory
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Monday, December 1, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor G.A. Kriegsmann ,   N.J.I.T.
Title: Growth and Stabilization of Hot Spots in Microwave-Heated Ceramic Fibers
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Monday, December 8, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. Y.J. Chen,   Cornell U.
Title: Pinch-off Dynamics of a Collapsing Soap-Film Bridge
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Monday, January 12, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor R. Sowers ,   U. Illinois
Title: Some probabilistic comments on boundary layers in the Allen-Cahn equation
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Monday, January 19, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor Laurette Tuckerman,   LIMSI-CNRS, France, and IMA U. of Minnesota
Title: Stability analysis of perturbed plane Couette flow
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Monday, February 2, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor O. Basaran,   Purdue U.
Title: Drop formation in the presence and absence of an electric field
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Monday, February 9, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. M. Short,   U. Illinois
Title: Multi-dimensional instability of detonation waves
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Monday, February 16, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor E. Knobloch ,   U. California, Berkeley
Title: Bursts
Special Note: sponsored by the Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium
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Tuesday, February 17, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor E. Knobloch ,   U. California, Berkeley
Title: Fully nonlinear rapidly rotating convection
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Monday, March 2, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor R. Lande ,   U. Oregon
Title: Anthropogenic, ecological and genetic factors in extinction
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Monday, March 16, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S. Troian ,   Princeton U.
Title: Novel instabilities in thin liquid films: the beauty and the beast
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Wednesday, March 18, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       U. Chicago Eckhart 202 Refreshments at 3:30 in E209, 4:00pm
Professor T.P. Liu,   Stanford U.
Title: Quasilinear hyperbolic parabolic PDE's: Recent progress and new challenges
Special Note: Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium
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Thursday, March 19, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. M. Mineev-Weinstein ,   Los Alamos National Lab
Title: Selection of the Saffman-Taylor finger width in the absence of surface tension: an exact resu
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Monday, March 30, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S. Solla ,   Northwestern U.
Title: Connections between statistical physics and statistical inference: a Bayesian approach to learning theory
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Thursday, April 30, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor L. Mahadevan ,   MIT
Title: Crescents and Cones in Crumpled Sheets
Special Note: unusual day
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Thursday, May 28, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. V. Kovanis,   Phillips Labs
Title: Instabilities of Coupled Diode Lasers
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ESAM Colloquium       Tech M128, 12:00 noon
Professor R. Kamm,   M.I.T.
Title: The role of mechanics in the biological remodeling of the asthmatic airway
Special Note: Jointly sponsored by B.M.E. unusual location and time!
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