Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 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, 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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Thursday, October 8, 1998
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J. Fineberg, Hebrew U., Israel
- Title: How things break: Instability in Dynamic Fracture
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Monday, October 19, 1998
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J. Powers, U. Notre Dame
- Title: Ignition theory for shearing reactive solids
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Monday, October 26, 1998
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. A. Neishtadt, Moscow Space Research Inst.
- Title: On the delay of stability loss for periodic trajectories in systems with slowly varying parameters
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Monday, November 2, 1998
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor A.K. Kapila, R.P.I.
- Title: Modeling the transition from deflagration to detonation in granular explosives
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Monday, November 9, 1998
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor G. Tryggvason, U. Michigan
- Title: Direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows
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Monday, November 16, 1998
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor S.W. Joo, Yeungnam U. Korea
- Title: Interfacial Instabilities in Ferrofluids
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Monday, November 30, 1998
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor L. Kramer, U. Bayreuth, Germany
- Title: Patterns and Defects in the Anisotropic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
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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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