Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2011

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 3, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Jeff Moehlis, University of California - Santa Barbara; Title: Controlling Neurons
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Monday, January 10, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Mary Silber, Northwestern University; Title: Case study of a tipping point in Earth's climate system: A
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Monday, January 17, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Joseph Tien, Ohio State University; Title: Modeling waterborne disease dynamics
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Friday, January 21, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Professor Pam Cook, University of Delaware; Title: Flows and properties of entangled complex fluids
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Monday, January 24, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Elaine Spiller, Marquette University; Title: Modeling Models: An efficient method for calculating the
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Monday, January 31, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Michael Schnabel, Northwestern University; Title: Orientation Maps in the Visual Cortex: Pattern Formation in the
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Monday, February 7, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Jack Cowan, University of Chicago; Title: A new approach to the modeling of large-scale brain activity
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Monday, February 14, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Ryan Gutenkunst, University of Arizona; Title: Sloppy modeling and natural selection in biochemical networks
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Monday, February 21, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Jon Rubin, University of Pittsburgh; Title: Minimal models of inflammation: clinical insights and
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Friday, February 25, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Dr. Yulia Peet, Northwestern University Understanding of blood flow dynamics and its; Title: Computational Modeling of Blood Flow in Flexible Vessels
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Monday, February 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Ed Munro, University of Chicago; Title: Dynamics of cell polarization: Experiments and models
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Monday, March 7, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor H.S. Udaykumar, University of Iowa; Title: From Imaging to Computation: A seamless Eulerian approach
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Monday, March 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor J.L. Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin; Title: Simple models of stirring by swimming organisms
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Monday, April 4, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Peter Voorhees, Northwestern University; Title: From Swift-Hohenberg Equations to Grain Growth in Nanocrystals
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Monday, April 11, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Philip Maini, University of Oxford There will be a reception following the; Title: How the leopard got its spots
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Professor Philip Maini, University of Oxford Refreshments will be served at 1:30 PM.; Title: Mathematical modeling of tumor dynamics
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ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Philip Maini, University of Oxford Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.; Title: Mathematical modeling of tumor dynamics
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Friday, April 15, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Chris Vogl, Northwestern University; Title: Modeling Vitrification as a Free Boundary between Anomalous and
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Monday, April 18, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Maurice Blount, Northwestern University; Title: Bending and buckling of a falling viscous thread
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Monday, April 25, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Z. Toroczkai, University of Notre Dame; Title: A continuous-time approach to constraint satisfaction:
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Friday, April 29, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Matthew Tanzy, Northwestern University; Title: Combustion waves with Multiple Reactions
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Monday, May 2, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor A. Nepomnyashchy, The Technion (Eshbach lecture); Title: Marangoni convection in solutions
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Monday, May 9, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. L. Tsimring, University of California - San Diego; Title: Degrade-and-fire oscillations in small synthetic gene networks
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Monday, May 16, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor D. Abbot, University of Chicago; Title: The Jormungand Global Climate State and Implications for Snowball
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Friday, May 20, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Chris Gruber, Northwestern University; Title: Vitrification as a Moving Interface Problem with Anomalous
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Monday, May 23, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor B. Marsh, Johns Hopkins University; Title: On the cessation of thermal convection in silicate magmas
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Peter Ehrhard, TU Dortmund; Title: Radial spreading and stability of thin rotating droplets
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM: Nusret Balci, University of Minnesota; Title: Symmetric Factorization of the Conformation Tensor in Viscoelastic
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM: E.Kirkinis, University of Washington; Title: Electromagnetic propulsion and separation by chirality of
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Monday, August 1, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM: David Goulet ,; Title: Modeling Biochemical Cascades using Ordinary, Partial, Functional,
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Charles R. Doering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Title: Ultimate State of Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Benard Convection
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Monday, October 3, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Melvin Leok, University of California, San Diego; Title: Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their
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Monday, October 10, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University; Title: Symmetries and Shapes: Maximal Packing and Pattern Formation at
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Monday, October 17, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Akif Ibraguimov, Texas Tech University; Title: Stability analysis of the generalized Forchheimer flows in porous
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Monday, October 24, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Eleftherios Kirkinis, Northwestern University; Title: Renormalization Group Methods in Applied Mathematics
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Monday, October 31, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Yi-Ping Ma, University of Chicago; Title: Localized States in one and two spatial dimensions
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Monday, November 7, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Hendrik Hansen-Goos, Yale University; Title: Density functional theory of classical fluids: a fundamental
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Dr. Alex Roxin, University of Barcelona; Title: The role of degree distribution in shaping the dynamics in
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Friday, November 11, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM: Professor Herbert E Huppert, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics DAMTP, University of Cambridge; Title: Fluid modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration
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Monday, November 14, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Juan C. Lasheras, University of California, San Diego; Title: The Role of Myosin II Motors and F-actin Dynamics in the Mechanics
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Monday, November 21, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Victor Matveev , New Jersey Institute of Technology; Title: Modeling localized cell calcium dynamics involved in synaptic
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Monday, November 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Tuhin Sahai, United Technologies Research Center; Title: Hearing the Clusters in a Graph and other Scalable Algorithms for
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Monday, December 5, 2011

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Fred Furtado, University of Wyoming; Title: Scaling analysis of multiphase fluid flow in heterogeneous porous
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