Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 1998-1999


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, October 8, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J. Fineberg,   Hebrew U., Israel
Title: How things break: Instability in Dynamic Fracture
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Monday, October 19, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J. Powers,   U. Notre Dame
Title: Ignition theory for shearing reactive solids
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Monday, October 26, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Neishtadt,   Moscow Space Research Inst.
Title: On the delay of stability loss for periodic trajectories in systems with slowly varying parameters
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Monday, November 2, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor A.K. Kapila,   R.P.I.
Title: Modeling the transition from deflagration to detonation in granular explosives
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Monday, November 9, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor G. Tryggvason,   U. Michigan
Title: Direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows
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Monday, November 16, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S.W. Joo,   Yeungnam U. Korea
Title: Interfacial Instabilities in Ferrofluids
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Monday, November 30, 1998

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor L. Kramer,   U. Bayreuth, Germany
Title: Patterns and Defects in the Anisotropic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
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Friday, January 8, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M128, 12:00 noon
Professor R. Kamm,   M.I.T.
Title: The role of mechanics in the biological remodeling of the asthmatic airway
Special Note: jointly sponsored with B.M.E. Unusal time and location!
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Monday, January 11, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       U. Chicago Eckhart 202, 4:00pm
Professor E.A. Spiegel,   Columbia U.
Title: Dynamics of Coherent Structures
Special Note: This talk is sponsored by the Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium. It will be held at the University of Chicago in Eckhart 202
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Monday, January 18, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor M. Silber,   Northwestern U.
Title: Parametric instabilities and pattern formation
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Monday, January 25, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor D. Muraki,   Courant Inst. Math.Sci.
Title: An interfacial wave treatment of tropopause dynamics
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Monday, February 1, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor H. Levine,   U. California San Diego
Title: Pattern formation in Micro-organisms
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Monday, February 15, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor H. Riecke,   Northwestern U.
Title: Localized Structures in pattern forming systems: worms in electroconvection
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Monday, February 22, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor B. Pitman,   S.U.N.Y
Title: On a mechanical theory for fluid-particle beds at high solids volume fraction
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Monday, March 1, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J. Daou,   Tech. Univ. Madrid
Title: Flame propagation in nonuniform reactive gaseous mixtures
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Monday, March 8, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Entov,   Russ. Acad. Science
Title: Nonlinear interface dynamics in Hele-Shaw flows and porous media
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Monday, March 29, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. B. Echebarria,   U. Navarra, Spain
Title: Stability of hexagonal patterns in rotating convection
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Monday, April 5, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
H. Grimm,   E.P.F.L., Switzerland
Title: Banded structures in alloys, nonlinear mode interactions and normal forms
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Monday, April 12, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Moukasian,   U. Notre Dame
Title: Reaction wave propagation mechanisms in gasless heterogeneous systems
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Monday, April 19, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Tandia ,   Lab. Analyse des Systemes, CNRS, France
Title: Thin-film deposition and the level-set method
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Monday, April 26, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor D.S. Cohen,   Caltech
Title: Modeling bioremediation of TCE at DOE's Savannah River site
Special Note: sponsored by Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Consortium
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Monday, May 10, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor L. Pismen,   Technion - Israel Inst. Technology
Title: Quest for complex order
Special Note: Talk is an Eshbach Distinguished Lecture
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Monday, May 17, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. D. Meinkohn,   German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Germany
Title: Curvature-driven flow in thin liquid films
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Friday, June 4, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S. Morris,   U. California, Berkeley
Title: A simplified free-boundary problem for the evaporating wetting meniscus
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Tuesday, July 6, 1999

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 11:00am
Dr. J.R.A. Pearson,   Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Title: Thin film rupture in high Reynolds number flows
Special Note: Note unusal time and date
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