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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