Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 1998-1999
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, 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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Friday, January 8, 1999
- 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 with B.M.E. Unusal time and location!
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Monday, January 11, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
U. Chicago Eckhart 202, 4:00pm
- Professor E.A. Spiegel, Columbia U.
- Title: Dynamics of Coherent Structures
Special Note: This talk is sponsored by the Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium. It will be held at the University of Chicago in Eckhart 202
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Monday, January 18, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor M. Silber, Northwestern U.
- Title: Parametric instabilities and pattern formation
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Monday, January 25, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor D. Muraki, Courant Inst. Math.Sci.
- Title: An interfacial wave treatment of tropopause dynamics
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Monday, February 1, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor H. Levine, U. California San Diego
- Title: Pattern formation in Micro-organisms
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Monday, February 15, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor H. Riecke, Northwestern U.
- Title: Localized Structures in pattern forming systems: worms in electroconvection
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Monday, February 22, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor B. Pitman, S.U.N.Y
- Title: On a mechanical theory for fluid-particle beds at high solids volume fraction
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Monday, March 1, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J. Daou, Tech. Univ. Madrid
- Title: Flame propagation in nonuniform reactive gaseous mixtures
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Monday, March 8, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor V. Entov, Russ. Acad. Science
- Title: Nonlinear interface dynamics in Hele-Shaw flows and porous media
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Monday, March 29, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. B. Echebarria, U. Navarra, Spain
- Title: Stability of hexagonal patterns in rotating convection
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Monday, April 5, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- H. Grimm, E.P.F.L., Switzerland
- Title: Banded structures in alloys, nonlinear mode interactions and normal forms
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Monday, April 12, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. A. Moukasian, U. Notre Dame
- Title: Reaction wave propagation mechanisms in gasless heterogeneous systems
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Monday, April 19, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. A. Tandia , Lab. Analyse des Systemes, CNRS, France
- Title: Thin-film deposition and the level-set method
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Monday, April 26, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor D.S. Cohen, Caltech
- Title: Modeling bioremediation of TCE at DOE's Savannah River site
Special Note: sponsored by Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium
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Monday, May 10, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor L. Pismen, Technion - Israel Inst. Technology
- Title: Quest for complex order
Special Note: Talk is an Eshbach Distinguished Lecture
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Monday, May 17, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. D. Meinkohn, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Germany
- Title: Curvature-driven flow in thin liquid films
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 4, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor S. Morris, U. California, Berkeley
- Title: A simplified free-boundary problem for the evaporating wetting meniscus
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Tuesday, July 6, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 11:00am
- Dr. J.R.A. Pearson, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
- Title: Thin film rupture in high Reynolds number flows
Special Note: Note unusal time and date
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