Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2008


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 14, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech LR5, 4:00PM
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Friday, January 18, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
S. Olson,   North Carolina State University
Title: Talk canceled: A level set reaction-diffusion model for cartilage
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Monday, January 21, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Eric Keaveny,   Brown University
Title: Paramagnetic Beads: From Dipolar Aggregation to Artificial magnetic
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Friday, January 25, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Elizabeth Bouzarth,   University of North Carolina
Title: Modeling Biologically Inspired Fluid Flow Using Regularized
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Monday, January 28, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       LR5, 4:00PM
Eric Luijten,   University of Illinois aat Urbana-Champaign
Title: Self-assembly driven by electrostatic interactions: Understanding
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Friday, February 8, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Sarah Olson,   North Carolina State University
Title: A Level Set Reaction Diffusion Model for Cartilage Regeneration
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Monday, February 11, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Michael Gratton,   Duke University
Title: Coarsening of Thin Fluid Films
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Friday, February 22, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Laura Schmidt,   University of Chicago
Title: Vibrational Modes of an Implosion Singularity
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Monday, March 3, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Peter Jung,   Ohio University
Title: Optimal Synaptic Transmission
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Monday, March 10, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Cristian Huepe,   Northwestern University
Title: New Perspectives in the Study of Swarming Systems
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Monday, March 17, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Tom Mullin,   Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Manchester
Title: Pattern switching in a cellular solid: potential applications in
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Friday, March 21, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Erin Lennon,   Univerity of California Santa Barbara
Title: Field Theoretic Simulations of Diblock Copolymers
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Monday, March 31, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Lucien Brush,   University of Washington
Title: Dynamics of films in foam
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Monday, April 14, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Diego del Castillo Negrete,   Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Fractional diffusion models of anomalous transport
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Monday, April 21, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Aaditya Rangan,   New York University
Title: The line motion illusion in a cortical network model
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Monday, April 28, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Daniel Ben-Avraham,   Clarkson University
Title: On the Ordering of Random Walkers on the Line
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Monday, May 5, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Harry Swinney,   University of Texas
Title: Emergence of Spatial Patterns in Physical, Chemical and Biological
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Harry Swinney,   University of Texas
Title: Dynamical Systems Invariant Curves as Barriers to Transport in
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Friday, May 9, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Anette (Peko) Hosoi,   MIT
Title: Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
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Friday, May 16, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
David Salac,   Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Title: Fast Marching Methods: Time Advancement and Non-Graded Cartesian
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Monday, May 19, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
J. Rinzel,   New York University (Courant Institute)
Title: Dynamics of perceptual bistability
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Friday, May 23, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
David Hansen,   Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Title: Singular Velocities Within a Low Reynolds Number Fluid
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Stephen J. Watson,   Glasgow University
Title: Undercooled Herring Crystals Violate the Wulff Construction
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Monday, June 2, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Jinqiao Duan ,   Illinois Institute of Technology
Title: Exit Phenomena under Non-Gaussian Fluctuations
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Monday, July 28, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Timothy P. Schulze,   University of Tennessee
Title: Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods
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Monday, September 29, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Ehud Yariv,   Technion
Title: Electroconvection about Conducting Bodies in the Thick Debye Layer
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Friday, October 3, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 3:00PM
S.H. Davis,   P. Voorhees, A. Nepomnyashchy, Northwestern University
Title: The Research Career of Alexander A. Golovin
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Monday, October 6, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
James Brasseur,   Penn State
Title: Discovery of a Mechanical Mechanism for Gastro-Esophageal Reflux
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Monday, October 13, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
William Schultz,   NSF
Title: Fish Swimming Stability
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 10:00AM
Dr. William Schultz,   National Science Foundation
Title: What's the Buzz at NSF?
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Friday, October 17, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Anthony Anderson,   Northwestern University
Title: Dynamics and Stability of Freezing Metallic Foams
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Monday, October 20, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Edward Ott,   University of Maryland
Title: Dynamics of Large Systems of Many Coupled Oscillators: Low
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Monday, October 27, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Evanston, 4:00PM
John C. Bischof,   University of Minnesota
Title: Bioheat and Mass Transfer Measurement and Modeling in Cryobiology
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Evanston, 4:00PM
Ken Golden,   University of Utah
Title: Mathematics of Sea Ice to Help Predict Climate Change
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Monday, November 17, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Evanston, 4:00PM
Dirk Brockmann,   Northwestern University
Title: From Target Search to Travel Bugs
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Friday, November 21, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Evanston, 2:00PM
Genevieve Brown,   Northwestern University
Title: Time Delayed Feedback Control of Subcritical Limit Cycles
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Evanston, 4:00PM
Hans Othmer,   University of Minnesota
Title: Multiscale Analysis in Biology
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