Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2004


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 12, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Rucklidge,   U. Leeds
Title: Boundary Effects and the Onset of Taylor Vortices
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Monday, January 19, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. F. Bloom,   Northern Illinois University
Title: Modeling Pulse Combustor Driven Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Enhancement
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Monday, January 26, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Note unusual location: Tech M345, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Short,   UIUC
Title: Structure and Dynamics of Flames in Microchannels
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Monday, February 2, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Glicksman,   RPI
Title: Topological Analysis of Network Structures in 3D
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Monday, February 9, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Y. Lvov,   RPI
Title: Energy Spectra in the Ocean's Internal Wave Field: Theory and Observations
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Monday, February 16, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. C. Muratov,   NJIT
Title: Transmission of Autocrine Signals in Epithelial Layers: Modeling and Analysis
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Monday, February 23, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Neimark,   Princeton University
Title: Statistical Mechanics and Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase Transformations and Nucleation in Nanoconfined Fluids
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Monday, March 1, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Kapila,   RPI
Title: Nonplanar Detonations in High-Energy Explosives
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Monday, March 8, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Povitsky,   U. Akron
Title: Fluid Dynamics Issues in the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. K. K. Tung,   Univ. of Washington
Title: On 2D and QG Turbulence
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Monday, March 29, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. C. Cui,   Northwestern University
Title: Flame Propagation in Channels: Effects of Heat Loss and Differential Diffusion
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Monday, April 5, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. J. Choi,   Northwestern University
Title: Effect of Lean Premixed Combustion on Near-Critical Swirling Flow
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Wednesday, April 7, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Fred J. Hickernell,   Hong Kong Baptist University
Title: Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Numerical Integration of Multivariate Functions
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Monday, April 19, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Luss,   Univ. of Houston
Title: Transversal temperature patterns on top of packed bed reactors
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Monday, April 26, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. I. Epstein,   Brandeiss Univ.
Title: Chemistry in very small spaces: Pattern formation in microemulsions
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Monday, May 3, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. S. Abarzhi,   Stanford Univ.
Title: Nonlinear evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor unstable fluid interface
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Monday, May 10, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. V. Entov,   Russian Acad. Sci.
Title: Mathematics of enhanced oil recovery: Models, advances and open issues
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Monday, May 17, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. George C. Papanicolaou,   Stanford University
Title: Passive and Active Array Imaging in Clutter
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. George C. Papanicolaou,   Stanford University
Title: High Capacity Communication Systems in Complex Environments
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Monday, May 24, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. T. Jackson,   Univ. of Illinois
Title: Recent advances in the numerical simulation of composite solid propellant combustion
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Monday, May 31, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. V. Entov,   Russian Acad. Sci.
Title: Mathematics of enhanced oil recovery: Models, advances and open issues
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Monday, September 20, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Alex Vladimirsky,   Cornell University
Title: Ordered Upwind Methods for Approximating Invariant Manifolds
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Monday, October 4, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor B. Nadler,   Yale University Refreshments are served at 3:30PM
Title: Ionic Permeation Through Protein Channels and NonEquilibrium Statistical Mechanics
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Monday, October 11, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Jih-Chiang Tsai,   University of Pennsylvania
Title: Flows of densely packed granular particles: time evolution, shear banding, and reversal transients
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Monday, October 18, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Igor Aronson,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Self-Organization of Microtubules and Molecular Motors
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Monday, October 25, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Boris Khusid,   N.J.I.T.
Title: Electric Field Driven Phenomena for Manipulating Particles in Micro- and Nano- Devices
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Monday, November 1, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
E. Demekhin,   University of Notre Dame
Title: 3D Localized Coherent Structures of Surface Turbulence
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Monday, November 8, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Theodoros Horikis,   Northwestern University
Title: Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers: Soliton Perturbation Theory
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Monday, November 15, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Raymond Kapral,   University of Toronto
Title: Fluctuations, Reactions and Fronts: Mesoscopic Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Systems
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Monday, November 29, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Sascha Hilgenfeldt,   Northwestern University
Title: Foam Bubbles: The Importance of Being Isotropic
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Monday, December 6, 2004

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Paul Fischer,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Recent Advances in Higher Order Numerical Methods with Applications to Vascular Flows
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