Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2006-2007
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 25, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago
- Title: Singular Surfaces
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Lunt 105, 4:10PM
- Prof. M. Gromov, IHES and CIMS
- Title: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think of Proteins
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, October 9, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. C. Postlehwaite, Northwestern University
- Title: Cycling Cycles: Dynamics Near A Heteroclinic Network
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Monday, October 16, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Mark Newman, University of Michigan
- Title: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The Structure and Function of Networks
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Monday, October 23, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Tom Krupenkin, Lucent Technologies
- Title: Nanograss, Nanobricks, Nanonails, and Other Things Useful in Your Nano-landscaping
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Monday, October 30, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor David Srolovitz, Yeshiva University
- Title: Curvature-Driven Growth in Polycrystalline Materials and Froths: Beyond von Neumann
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Monday, November 6, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Horacio Rotstein, NJIT
- Title: Mechanistic Aspects of the Creation of Theta Rythmic Activity in the Hippocampus: A Modeling Study
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Monday, November 13, 2006
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
- Title: Computer Simulations
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Santiago Schnell, School of Informatics, Indiana University
- Title: Enzyme reactions within cells
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, January 22, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. Andrew Belmonte, Penn. State University
- Title: Deep and Shallow Impact: Acoustic Ripples and Elastic Splashes
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Thursday, February 8, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dmitri Volfson, UC San Diego
- Title: The Role of Population Dynamics in Phenotypic Variability
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, February 12, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Angela Yu, Princeton
- Title: To Spike or Not to Spike: Optimal Change-Detection in Single
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Monday, February 19, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Elizabeth Torres, CALTECH
- Title: Dynamics without movement
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Paul Krapivsky, Department of Physics-Boston University
- Title: The Motion of Molecular Spiders
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Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 22, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Wilson Truccolo, Brown University-Neuroscience Department
- Title: Stochastic Modeling of Neural Point Processes
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Monday, February 26, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dirk Brockmann, Max Planck Institute for ynamics and Self Organization
- Title: Topological superdiffusion: from target localization on folding
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Wei Ji Ma, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences-University of Rochester
- Title: Neural variability and optimal computation
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Abstract and details available
Monday, April 9, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Hsiang-Wei Lu, UCLA
- Title: Electrowetting in a Hele-Shaw Cell
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Friday, April 13, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- David Salac, University of Michigan
- Title: Investigations of Directed Self-Assembled Systems using the Level
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Monday, April 16, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Erifc Choate, University of North Carolina
- Title: Linear viscoelasticity of nematic liquid crystal polymers in small
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Monday, April 30, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Yi-Ju Chen, 454 Corp.
- Title: Massively-Parallel Genome Sequencing in Microfabricated Picoliter
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Monday, May 7, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. S. Abarji, I.I.T.
- Title: Influence of parametric forcing on the non-equilibrium dynamics of
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Monday, May 14, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor C. O'Hern, Yale University
- Title: Are Mechanically Stable Hard Particle Packings Equally Likely?
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Monday, May 21, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Professor Alexander Yarin, Univ. Illinois Chicago
- Title: Electrospinning of Nanofibers and Nanotubes
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Monday, June 4, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Prof. J. Klafter, Tel Aviv University
- Title: From Diffusion to Anomalous Diffusion: Subdiffusion and Levy Walks
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
M345, 4:00PM
- Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol
- Title: Polarization Fingerprints in the Clear Blue Sky
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 8, 2007
- ESAM Colloquium
M345, 4:00PM
- Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol
- Title: Physics of Non-Hermitian Degeneracies
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