Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Monday, October 5, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Henry Abarbanel,   University of California - San Diego
Title: Dynamical State and Parameter Estimation
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Henry Abarbanel,   University of California - San Diego
Title: Dynamical State and Parameter Estimation
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Monday, October 12, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Todd Murphey,   Northwestern University
Title: Efficient Hybrid Optimization for Skid-Steering Estimation and
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Monday, October 19, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Edgar Knobloch,   University of California - Berkeley
Title: Spatially localized patterns
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Edgar Knobloch,   University of California - Berkeley
Title: Spatially localized patterns
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Monday, October 26, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Rachel Kuske,   University of British Columbia
Title: Noise-driven order via multiple scales in biological models
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Friday, October 30, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Guy Baruch,   Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Numerical Solution of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 3:00PM
Guy Baruch,   Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Numerical solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz equation
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Monday, November 2, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Eric Forgoston,   United States Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Improving Prediction of Random Epidemic Outbreaks
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Monday, November 9, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Erik Luijten,   Northwestern University
Title: Simulating the self-assembly and hydrodynamics of anisotropic
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Friday, November 13, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Paul Fischer,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Accurate, Stable, and Scalable Algorithms for Convection-Dominated
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Monday, November 16, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Daniel Abrams,   Northwestern University
Title: Statistical Topography: Why Isn't the Earth Flat?
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Friday, November 20, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Dr. A. Class,   University of Karlsruhe
Title: Hierarchical Modeling of Flames as Gasdynamic Discontinuities
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Monday, November 30, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Harris Wong,   Louisiana State University
Title: Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Dual-wet Micro Heat Pipe
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 345, 4:00PM
Dr. Alexander Eydeland,   Morgan Stanley
Title: Commodity Models: From Ags to Zinc
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