Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2011-2012


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.


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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Monday, January 9, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Peter Smereka,   University of Michigan
Title: Modeling and Computation of Strained Heteroepitaxial Growth using
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Monday, January 23, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Jeffrey Beck,   Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Title: Biologically Plausible Probabilistic Reasoning in Neural Circuits
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Friday, January 27, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Michael Davis,   Northwestern University
Title: Dynamics of metal foam solidification
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Monday, January 30, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Gino Biondini,   State University of New York at Buffalo, Abstract Many physical
Title: Solitons, boundary value problems and web structure
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Monday, February 6, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Vladimir Itskov,   University of Nebraska
Title: Memory encoding and continuous attractors in recurrent networks
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Monday, February 13, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Samuel Isaacson,   Boston University
Title: Stochastic reaction-drift-diffusion methods for studying the
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Monday, February 27, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Eric Kostelich,   Arizona State University
Title: Short-term Forecasting of Weather and Cancer: Finding the Initial
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Monday, March 5, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Paul K. Newton,   University of Southern California
Title: Metastatic pathway diagrams for cancer progression via Markov chain
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Monday, March 26, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Mason Porter,   University of Oxford
Title:  Community Structure in Networks
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Monday, April 2, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. James Bagrow,   Northwestern University
Title: Human Dynamics Through the Lens of Modern Data
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Monday, April 9, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Mark Bowick,   Syracuse University
Title:  Facets of Order
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Monday, April 16, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Hermann Eberl,   University of Guelph
Title:   Bacteria Yelling: Yet another mathematical view on inter-colony
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Monday, April 23, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 11:00AM
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Jonathan Weare,   University of Chicago
Title:   Accurate rare event simulation and an application to geophysical
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Monday, April 30, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Stuart Rice,   University of Chicago   There will be a reception following the
Title: Confined Colloid Suspensions: Some Equilibrium Properties
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Stuart Rice,   University of Chicago   Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.  
Title:  Confined Colloid Suspensions: Some Out-of-Equilibrium Properties
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Monday, May 7, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor James Kozloski,   IBM
Title: The Neural Tissue Simulator: An Ultrascalable Solution to Arbitrary
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Monday, May 14, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor W.E. Sherwood,   University of Utah
Title:  Global phase response and multiple time-scale dynamics
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Monday, May 21, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Prof. G. Orosz,   University of Michigan  
Title:   From Delayed Nodes to Delayed Networks: Applications in
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 1:00PM
Yasuhide Fukumoto,   Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, Japan
Title:   Kinematic variational principle for vortical structure of Euler
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