Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 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.


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
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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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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Thursday, February 22, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Wilson Truccolo,   Brown University-Neuroscience Department
Title: Stochastic Modeling of Neural Point Processes
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Abstract and details available


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
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


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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Abstract and details available


Tuesday, September 4, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 11:00AM
Jens Eggers,   University of Bristol
Title: Hydrodynamic theory of coating
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Monday, October 1, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Emo Todorov,   University of California San Diego
Title: A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actions
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Monday, October 8, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Natalia Komarova,   UC Irvine
Title: Stochastic modeling of cancer
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Monday, October 29, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Petia Vlahovska,   Dartmouth
Title: Dynamics of vesicles in hydrodynamic and electric fields
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Monday, November 12, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi,   NWU
Title: The Adaptive Representation of Space and Time Through Motor
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Monday, November 26, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Lincoln Lauhon,   Northwestern University The capability to grow extremely pure
Title: The roles of 'impurities' in the growth of anisotropic
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Monday, December 3, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dean Ho,   NWU
Title: Functionalized Nanomaterials at the Interface of Biology and
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