Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2006


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 16, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Martin Bazant,   MIT
Title: Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis
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Friday, January 20, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Thierry Emonet,   University of Chicago
Title: Fluctuation-adaptation relationship in bacterial chemotaxis
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Friday, January 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M345, 3:00PM
Prof. Zdenek Bazant,   Northwestern University
Title: Statistical Mechanics of Failure Risk: From Atomic to Structural Scale
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Friday, February 10, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Peter S. Dodds,   Columbia University
Title: Models of social and biological contagion
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Monday, February 20, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jacob Rubinstein,   Indiana University
Title: The Weighted Least Action Principle
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Ila Fiete,   Kavli Institute
Title: TBA
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ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Ila Fiete,   Kavli Institute
Title: A General Theory of Optimization by Perturbation in Realistic Neural Networks and a Model of Birdsong Learning
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Thursday, February 23, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Oleg Igoshin,   University of California- Davis
Title: Patterns and Signaling Networks in Bacterial development: Insights from Mathematical Modeling
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Monday, February 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Peter D. Miller,   University of Michigan
Title: New Results on the Semiclassical Limit for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Joshua Weitz,   Princeton University
Title: Evolutionary ecology of microbial and viral communities: from microstates to macrodynamics
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Monday, March 6, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Keith Promislaw,   Michigan State University
Title: Modeling Issues in PEM Fuel Cells: From Macro to Nano
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Stefano Boccaletti,   CNR- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi
Title: New Issues in Complex Networks' Structure and Dynamics
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Monday, March 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jens O.M. Karlsson,   Georgia Tech
Title: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Damage During Cryopreservation and Cryosurgery
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Monday, April 3, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Gregory Kriegsmann,   NJIT
Title: Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media
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Monday, April 24, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Yefim Brun,   DuPont
Title: Statistical Physics of a Macromolecule in a Narrow Pore and Liquid Chromatography of Polymers
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Monday, May 1, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Adilson Motter,   Northwestern University
Title: Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems
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Monday, May 8, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Eric Lauga,   MIT
Title: Bacteria and Snails: Biofluid Mechanics on Small Scales
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Monday, May 15, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao,   Georgia Tech
Title: Breath Figures and the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in Polymer Films
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Monday, May 22, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress,   Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress,   Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight.
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Monday, September 25, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Wendy Zhang,   University of Chicago
Title: Singular Surfaces
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:10PM
Prof. M. Gromov,   IHES and CIMS
Title: Protein Problems: How a Mathematician May Think of Proteins
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Monday, October 9, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. C. Postlehwaite,   Northwestern University
Title: Cycling Cycles: Dynamics Near A Heteroclinic Network
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Monday, October 16, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Mark Newman,   University of Michigan
Title: Epidemics, ERDOS Numbers and the Internet: The Structure and Function of Networks
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Monday, October 23, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Tom Krupenkin,   Lucent Technologies
Title: Nanograss, Nanobricks, Nanonails, and Other Things Useful in Your Nano-landscaping
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Monday, October 30, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor David Srolovitz,   Yeshiva University
Title: Curvature-Driven Growth in Polycrystalline Materials and Froths: Beyond von Neumann
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Monday, November 6, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Horacio Rotstein,   NJIT
Title: Mechanistic Aspects of the Creation of Theta Rythmic Activity in the Hippocampus: A Modeling Study
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Monday, November 13, 2006

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Leo Kadanoff,   University of Chicago
Title: Computer Simulations
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