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
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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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