Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2002-2003

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 7, 2002

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. A. Berezhkovskii,   NIH and Karpov Inst. Phys. Chem. (Moscow)
Title: Kinetics of diffusion controlled reactions: From traditional theories to new approaches
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Monday, October 21, 2002

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. J. Pedlosky,   Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Title: Rossby waves in irregular basins
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Monday, November 4, 2002

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. K. Gurski,   N.I.S.T.
Title: The effect of anisotropic surface energy and contact lines and the Rayleigh instability
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Monday, November 18, 2002

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. K. Elder,   Oakland University
Title: Modeling elasticity with phase field crystals
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Monday, December 2, 2002

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Khenner,   SUNY Buffalo
Title: Models for selective area epitaxial crystal growth
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Monday, January 13, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. L. Chopp,   Northwestern University
Title: Modeling quorum sensing in bacterial biofilms
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Thursday, January 16, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech L211, 9:30AM
Prof. K. Showalter,   W. Virginia University
Title: Chemical waves and patterns
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Monday, January 20, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. L. Ryzhik,   University of Chicago
Title: Advection effects on reaction-diffusion problems
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Monday, January 27, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J. Bona,   UIC
Title: Theory and applications of long wave models
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Wednesday, January 29, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 3:00PM
Dr. D. Nykamp,   UCLA
Title: Reconstructing the Coupling of Neurons from Spike Times
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Monday, February 3, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. V. Backman,   N.U.
Title: Light scattering from random media: From analytical theory to cancer diagnosis
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Monday, February 10, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Voorhees,   N.U.
Title: Coarsening of topologically complex two-phase structures
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Monday, February 17, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Watson,   N.U.
Title: Coarsening dynamics of faceted crystal growth in 3D: The Hamilton- Jacobi-Cahn-Hilliard equation
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Monday, February 24, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Wiegmann,   Univ. of Chicago
Title: Novel Aspects of the Laplacian Growth Problem
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Monday, March 3, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Gorman,   U. Houston
Title: Spirals and Counterpropagating Spots in the Dynamics of Pulsating Flames
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Monday, March 10, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. I. Epstein,   Brandeis Univ.
Title: Chemistry in Very Small Spaces: Pattern Formation in Reactive Microemulsions
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Friday, March 14, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 10:00AM
L. B. Freund,   Brown University
Title: A description of strain-driven formation of semiconductor nanostructures
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Thursday, March 27, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 3:00PM
Dr. Felix Otto,   University of Bonn
Title: Scaling Laws in Coarsening and Spreading
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Monday, April 7, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. P. Gordon,   U. Chicago
Title: Initiation of Subsonic Detonation and Structure of the Detonation Wave
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Monday, April 14, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Ye. A. Rastigejev,   N.U.
Title: Multiscale Computations with a Wavelet Decomposition Algorithm: Applications to Inert and Reactive Flow Simulations
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Friday, April 18, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 12:00PM
Prof. M. Gurtin,   Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Plasticity of single-crystals at the micron level, a gradient theory that accounts for geometrically necessary dislocations
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Monday, April 21, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. X. Li,   I.I.T.
Title: Drop Deformation in Shear Flow: The Effects of Walls and Surfactants
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Monday, April 28, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Paolucci,   U. Notre Dame
Title: Slow Manifolds in Chemically Reactive Flows
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Monday, May 12, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Joseph E. Flaherty,   R.P.I.
Title: Adaptive and Parallel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws. Part 1. Fundamental Computational and Theoretical Properties
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Joseph E. Flaherty,   R.P.I.
Title: Adaptive and Parallel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws. Part 2. A Posteriori Error Estimation and Superconvergence
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Monday, May 19, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Holmes,   Princeton U.
Title: Low Dimensional Models of Turbulent Plane Couette Flow
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Friday, May 23, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Lunt 105, 3:10PM
Prof. C. Peskin,   Courant Inst. Math. Sci.
Title: Muscle and Blood: Cardiac Mechanics by the Immersed Boundary Method
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Monday, August 11, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. R. Krechetnikov,   U. C. Santa Barbara
Title: On New Surfactant Driven Phenomena: A Reversed Saffman-Taylor Instability and Taylor Cones without Electric Field
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 9:00AM
Mark Asta (Northwestern), Jerry Floro (Sandia National Labs), A. Golovin (Northwestern), Max G. Lagally (University of Wisconsin), Lincoln J. Lauhon (Harvard / Northwestern), Dongqi Li (Argonne National Lab), Jerry Tersoff (IBM), Richard P. Van Duyne (Northwestern),   .
Title: 2nd Annual Workshop on the Evolution and Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots
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