Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2008-2009
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 29, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Ehud Yariv, Technion
- Title: Electroconvection about Conducting Bodies in the Thick Debye Layer
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Friday, October 3, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 3:00PM
- S.H. Davis, P. Voorhees, A. Nepomnyashchy, Northwestern University
- Title: The Research Career of Alexander A. Golovin
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Monday, October 6, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- James Brasseur, Penn State
- Title: Discovery of a Mechanical Mechanism for Gastro-Esophageal Reflux
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Monday, October 13, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- William Schultz, NSF
- Title: Fish Swimming Stability
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 10:00AM
- Dr. William Schultz, National Science Foundation
- Title: What's the Buzz at NSF?
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Friday, October 17, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 2:00PM
- Anthony Anderson, Northwestern University
- Title: Dynamics and Stability of Freezing Metallic Foams
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Monday, October 20, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Tech M416, 4:00PM
- Edward Ott, University of Maryland
- Title: Dynamics of Large Systems of Many Coupled Oscillators: Low
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Abstract and details available
Monday, October 27, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- John C. Bischof, University of Minnesota
- Title: Bioheat and Mass Transfer Measurement and Modeling in Cryobiology
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Ken Golden, University of Utah
- Title: Mathematics of Sea Ice to Help Predict Climate Change
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
Monday, November 17, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University
- Title: From Target Search to Travel Bugs
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Friday, November 21, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 2:00PM
- Genevieve Brown, Northwestern University
- Title: Time Delayed Feedback Control of Subcritical Limit Cycles
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Abstract and details available
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
- ESAM Colloquium
Evanston, 4:00PM
- Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota
- Title: Multiscale Analysis in Biology
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Abstract and details available
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 4:00PM
- Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University
- Title: Sparse time
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- PakWing Fok, California Institute of Technology
- Title: Acceleration of enzyme repair of DNA by charge transport:
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Monday, January 26, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 4:00PM
- Ching-Shan Chou, University of California Irvine
- Title: Spatial dynamics of cell signaling
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Abstract and details available
Thursday, January 29, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Jeffrey Fox, Cornell University
- Title: Multi-scale modeling of cardiac electrophysiology: dynamic
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Monday, February 2, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Shawn Shadden, Stanford University
- Title: A dynamical systems approach to transport
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Abstract and details available
Thursday, February 5, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Denis Tsygankov, University of North Carolina
- Title: The Theory of Biological Nanomachines
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Abstract and details available
Monday, February 9, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 12:00PM
- Joe Paris, Northwestern University IT This talk is part of the RTG Project.
- Title: New High Performance Computing Initiatives at NU and Beyond
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- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 4:00PM
- Petia Vlahovska, Dartmouth College
- Title: Complex dynamics of red blood cells and vesicles in viscous flows
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Daniel H. Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Title: Growth of a Dendritic Channel Network
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Friday, February 13, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 2:00PM
- Jill Klentzman, Southern Methodist University
- Title: The Effect of Evaporation on Fingering Instabilities
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Monday, February 16, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Daniel Abrams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Title: Synchronous Lateral Excitation on London's Millennium Bridge
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Friday, February 20, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Yuliya Peet, University of Pierre and Marie Curie
- Title: Prediction and Manipulation of Skin Friction in High-Reynolds
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago
- Title: Clouds and Climates
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Abstract and details available
Friday, March 6, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 3:00PM
- Matthew Miklius, Northwestern University
- Title: Quantifying Geometric Order in Epithelial Tissues
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Abstract and details available
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Qing Nie, University of California - Irvine
- Title: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling
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Abstract and details available
Monday, March 30, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Tom Krejcie, Northwestern University
- Title: Mathematical Modelling: A Physiologically-Based Recirculatory
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M416, 1:00PM
- Morgan Stanley ,
- Title: Quantitative Finance Program and Job Opportunities
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Abstract and details available
Friday, April 3, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Professor Jay D. Humphrey, Texas A
- Title: On the Mechanical and Biological Stability of Intracranial
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Abstract and details available
Monday, April 6, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor G. Nicolis, University Libre de Bruxelles There will be a reception following
- Title: Frontiers in Complex Systems Research
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor G. Nicolis, University Libre de Bruxelles Refreshments will be served at 3:30
- Title: Kinetics of Transitions Across a Barrier in the Presence of Time
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Monday, April 13, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Jinglai Li, Northwestern University
- Title: A SVD-based method for determining large deformations in optical
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Abstract and details available
Monday, April 20, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Paul Steen, Cornell University
- Title: Dynamics and Stability of Volume Scavenging Drop Arrays: Coarsening
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Abstract and details available
Monday, April 27, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Michael Ward, University of British Columbia
- Title: Self-Replicating Spot Patterns and Spot Instabilities for Reaction-
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Friday, May 1, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M 416, 2:00PM
- Larry Aagesen, Northwestern University
- Title: Self-Similar Pinch-Off of Liquid Tubes in Dendritic Aluminum-Copper
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Abstract and details available
Monday, May 4, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. A. Podolny, Northwestern University
- Title: Marangoni convection in binary liquids and nanofluids in the
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Monday, May 11, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M 416, 4:00PM
- Professor Tom Solomon, Bucknell University
- Title: Front propagation and synchronization in reactive flows with
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Friday, May 15, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Institute M 416, 2:00PM
- Juergen Vollmer, Max-Planck Institute
- Title: Rain in a test tube?
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Monday, May 18, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. Michael Gratton, Northwestern University
- Title: Transient and self-similar dynamics in thin film coarsening
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
- Professor Joseph Bull, University of Michigan
- Title: Gas embolotherapy: a vascular microbubble approach for tumor
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Monday, June 1, 2009
- ESAM Colloquium
Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
- Dr. J. Wilkening, Berkeley University
- Title: Computation of time-periodic solutions of nonlinear PDE
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