Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2004-2005


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, September 20, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Alex Vladimirsky,   Cornell University
Title: Ordered Upwind Methods for Approximating Invariant Manifolds
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Monday, October 4, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor B. Nadler,   Yale University Refreshments are served at 3:30PM
Title: Ionic Permeation Through Protein Channels and NonEquilibrium Statistical Mechanics
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Monday, October 11, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Jih-Chiang Tsai,   University of Pennsylvania
Title: Flows of densely packed granular particles: time evolution, shear banding, and reversal transients
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Monday, October 18, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Igor Aronson,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Self-Organization of Microtubules and Molecular Motors
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Monday, October 25, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Boris Khusid,   N.J.I.T.
Title: Electric Field Driven Phenomena for Manipulating Particles in Micro- and Nano- Devices
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Monday, November 1, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
E. Demekhin,   University of Notre Dame
Title: 3D Localized Coherent Structures of Surface Turbulence
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Monday, November 8, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Theodoros Horikis,   Northwestern University
Title: Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers: Soliton Perturbation Theory
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Monday, November 15, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Raymond Kapral,   University of Toronto
Title: Fluctuations, Reactions and Fronts: Mesoscopic Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Systems
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Monday, November 29, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Sascha Hilgenfeldt,   Northwestern University
Title: Foam Bubbles: The Importance of Being Isotropic
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Monday, December 6, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Paul Fischer,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Recent Advances in Higher Order Numerical Methods with Applications to Vascular Flows
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Monday, January 3, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Jung Choi,   Northwestern University
Title: The Interaction of Premixed Combustion and Near-Critical Swirling Flow
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Monday, January 10, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Baruch Meerson,   The Hebrew University
Title: Pattern Formation in Granular Gases: Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox
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Monday, January 17, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jonathan B. Freund,   UIUC
Title: The Atomic Detail of an Evaporating Meniscus: MD and Continuum Model Comparisons
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Monday, February 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Francois Blanchette,   University of Chicago
Title: Sedimentation in a Stratified Ambient
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Monday, February 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Ziad Musslimani,   University of Central Florida
Title: Multiscale Asymptopic Analysis of Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media
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Monday, February 21, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Mary Silber,   Northwestern University
Title: Faraday Wave Pattern Formation
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Monday, February 28, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Alexander Golovin,   Northwestern University
Title: Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films
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Monday, March 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Costas Grigoropoulos,   University of California, Berkeley
Title: Laser Assisted Nanofabrication and Nanoparticle Processing
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Monday, March 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jerrold Marsden,   Caltech
Title: Lagrangian Coherent Structures
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Monday, April 4, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Andrew Kraynik,   Sandia National Laboratories
Title: Structure and Rheology of Random Foam
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Thursday, April 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Thomas Mason,   UCLA
Title: Nanoemulsions: Extreme Liquid Dispersions
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Monday, April 18, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Fred Hickernell,   IIT
Title: Fast Spline Methods for High Dimensional Problems
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Monday, April 25, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. James Grotberg,   University of Michigan
Title: Biofluid Mechanics in Lungs and Lung Devices
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Monday, May 2, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. John Bush,   MIT
Title: Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface
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Thursday, May 5, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech Lecture Room 5, 9:00AM
Prof. John Hudson,   University of Virginia
Title: Dynamical Order and Complexity in Populations of Chemical Oscillators
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Monday, May 9, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Watson,   Northwestern University
Title: Morphometric Characterization of Coarsening Faceted Crystal Surfaces
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Monday, May 16, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld,   University of Illinois- Champaign/Urbana
Title: Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Simulation of Polycrystalline Materials using the Phase Field Crystal Model
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Monday, May 23, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Edward A. Spiegel,   Columbia University
Title: Bifurcations and Geometry
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Edward A. Spiegel,   Columbia University
Title: Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases
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