Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 1999-2000
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, October 4, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor T. Takeno, U. Nagoya
- Title: Impact of advances in numerical computation on combustion science and technology
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Monday, October 18, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor R. Kamien, U. Pennsylvania
- Title: Minimal surfaces, screw dislocations and all that
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Monday, October 25, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. I. Kliakhandler, Northwestern U.
- Title: Interfacial dynamics of film flows
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Friday, October 29, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech A230, 3:15pm
- Professor C. Roberts, N. Arizona U.
- Title: Modeling complex human-environment interactions: the Grand Canyon River Trip Simulation Project
Special Note: Unusual day and time. This Talk is jointly sponsored with the Transportation Center
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Tuesday, November 2, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor A. Winfree, U. Arizona
- Title: Unsolved Problems of the Heart
Special Note: Note unusual day
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 8, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J. Bronski, U. Illinois
- Title: Estimates of long-tailed probability distribution functions in passive scalar transport
Special Note: UNFORTUNATELY THIS TALK HAD TO BE CANCELLED
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Monday, November 15, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor P. Milewski, U. Wisconsin
- Title: Solitary and breaking waves in equatorial shallow water
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Monday, November 29, 1999
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor M. Slemrod, U. Wisconsin
- Title: New Results on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with the Department of Mathematics
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Monday, January 10, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J.B. Grotberg, U. Michigan
- Title: Liquid Plug Propagation in the Lung
Special Note: jointly sponsored with the Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Monday, January 17, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. E. Izhikevich, Arizona State U.
- Title: Canonical-Model Approach to Computational Neuroscience
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Monday, January 24, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor P. Brazhnik, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Title: Modeling Spatio-temporal Phenomena in Complex Biological Systems: Propagating Waves in Excitable Media
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Monday, January 31, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. A. Hosoi, M.I.T.
- Title: Wine tears and other evaporatively driven instabilities in thin films
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Monday, February 7, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. A. Golovin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Title: Faceting and Roughening of Growing Crystal Surfaces
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Monday, February 14, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. G. Biondini, Northwestern U.
- Title: Soliton communications and wavelength-division multiplexing
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. Y.J. Chen, Northwestern U.
- Title: Flow-induced morphologies in directional solidification
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Monday, February 21, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. S. Rica, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
- Title: Buckling and post-buckling of elastic plates and shells
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Monday, February 28, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. K. Swanson, U. Washington
- Title: A Quantitative Model for Brain Tumor Growth and Invasion
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Monday, March 13, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor S.H. Chung, National Seoul University
- Title: Propagation Characteristics of Tribrachial Flames
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Wednesday, March 29, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:15pm
- Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Title: Chaotic Geodesics on a Bagel
Special Note: Joint Colloquium with Mathematics Department
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Monday, April 3, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor H. Riecke, Northwestern U.
- Title: Localized and disordered structures in fluid flow
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Monday, April 10, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor J.R. Birge, Northwestern University
- Title: Pricing Options on Diffusion & Jump Processes with Applications in Energy & Weather Derivatives
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Monday, April 17, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor Yves Pomeau , Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
- Title: Moving contact line: mathematical or physical problem?
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Monday, May 1, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor S. Ghosal, Northwestern U.
- Title: A Simplified Theory of Triple Flames
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Monday, May 15, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Professor D. McLaughlin, Courant Inst. Math. Sci.
- Title: Modelling the Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque Monkey
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Monday, May 22, 2000
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00pm
- Dr. B. Rubinstein, Northwestern U.
- Title: Automated symbolic nonlinear anlaysis
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