Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2010


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, January 11, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Igor Aronson,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Reduction of Viscosity in Suspensions of Swimming Microorganisms
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 18, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Jorge Nocedal,   Northwestern University
Title: Optimization, Differential Equations and Machine Learning
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 25, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Marta C. Gonzalez,   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Understanding individual human mobility patterns using location
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Yulia Peet,   Northwestern University
Title: On the stability of grid overlapping methods with spectral elements
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 5, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Jonathan Schwalbe,   Northwestern University
Title: Dynamics of Lipid Bilayer Membranes
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 8, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Neelesh A. Patankar,   Northwestern University
Title: The hydrodynamics of aquatic locomotion and its potential impact on
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 12, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Professor Carl Gardner,   Arizona State University
Title: Modeling Ionic Flow in Biological Cells
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 15, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Adilson E. Motter,   Northwestern University
Title: Sensitive Dependence on Network Structure: To Sync or Not to Sync
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 22, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Michael Buice,   National Institutes of Health
Title: Correlations, fluctuations and stability of a finite-size network
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Steve Cox,   Rice University
Title: Toward a Minimal Model of a Large Spiking Cell
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Thursday, March 4, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Sheldon Natenberg,   Chicago Trading Company
Title: Option Market-Making, Pricing, and Risk Management
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 8, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Carson C. Chow,   National Institutes of Health
Title: A tractable theory of ligand-mediated gene induction
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 9, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Lisa Melanson,   Northwestern University
Title: Numerical Modeling of Intracranial Aneurysms
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Lisa Goldberg,   MSCI Barra
Title: How Well Can We Forecast the Risk of Financial Extremes?
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Lisa Goldberg,   MSCI Barra
Title: How Well Can We Forecast the Risk of Financial Extremes?
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Thursday, April 15, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Sy Levin,   Princeton University There will be a reception following the
Title: The Challenges of Sustainability
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Friday, April 16, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Professor Sy Levin,   Princeton University Refreshments will be served at 1:30 PM.
Title: Collective Motion in Animal Populations
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Monday, April 19, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Snezhana I. Abarzhi,   The University of Chicago
Title: The effect of heterogeneities and noise on pattern formation and
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 26, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor C. Wolverton,   Northwestern University
Title: First-Principles Discovery of Materials for Hydrogen Storage
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Monday, May 3, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Tsynkov,   North Carolina State
Title: On SAR Imaging through the Earth's Atmosphere
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Friday, May 7, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Peter Stewart,   Northwestern University
Title: Local and Global Instabilities of Flow in a Flexible-Walled Channel
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Abstract and details available


Monday, May 10, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor B. Ermentrout,   University of Pittsburgh
Title: Double or nothing: driving the visual system
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Monday, May 17, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. W. Rappel,   University of California - San Diego
Title: Which way to go? Modeling eukaryotic chemotaxis
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 28, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M 416, 2:00PM
Dr. David Salac,   Northwestern University
Title: Dynamic Behavior of Lipid Vesicles in Viscous Flows
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Ian Griffiths,   University of Oxford
Title: Mathematical modelling of adsorption kinetics and micellization in
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 4, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Benjamin Vaughan,   University of Cincinnati
Title: Numerical Simulations of the Propagation of a Liquid Plug through a
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 11, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor B. Akers,   University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Water Waves with Surface Tension
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 18, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Sandip Ghosal,   Northwestern University
Title: Transport Problems in Capillary Electrophoresis
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Monday, October 25, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor A. Rempel,   University of Oregon
Title: Melting and sliding in glaciology and fault mechanics
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Monday, November 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Kartik Srinivasan,   National Institute of Standards and Technology
Title: Quantum and classical light-matter interactions in nanophotonic
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 8, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. J. Benson,   National Institute of Standards and Technology
Title: Modeling and Optimization in Cryobiology
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 15, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Gregory A. Kriegsmann,   New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Electric Discharge Sintering: A Mathematical Model
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Thursday, November 18, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M164, 4:00PM
Dr. K. Seshadri,   Trading and Investments Educational Institute
Title: Innovative Market Trading Strategies
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 22, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. M. Favata,   Caltech
Title: Observing the nonlinear dynamics of general relativity with
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