Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2001


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 29, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
E. Shaqfeh,   Stanford University
Title: The Dynamics of DNA in flow
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Thursday, February 1, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech L211, 12:00PM
Prof. A. Prosperetti,   Johns Hopkins University
Title: Gas and vapor bubbles in microfluidics systems
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Monday, February 19, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
V. Linetsky,   Northwestern University
Title: Spectral Methods in Derivative Pricing
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Thursday, February 22, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Prof. John C. K. Chu,   Columbia Univ.
Title: Revisit of the Unified Numerical Treatment of Hyperbolic-Elliptic Equations
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Monday, February 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. N. Patankar,   Northwestern University
Title: Numerical Simulation of Particulate Flows
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Wednesday, February 28, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Golubitsky,   Univ. of Houston
Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
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Monday, March 5, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. T. Driscoll,   University of Delaware
Title: Wavenumber-dependent time stepping for semilinear evolution
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Monday, March 12, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Karma,   Northeastern University
Title: Wave dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias
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Monday, March 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J. Vinals,   Florida State University
Title: Defect motion and domain coarsening of layered phases
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Monday, April 2, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Pelinovsky,   McMaster Univ.
Title: Dispersion-managed solitons in the normal dispersion regime: Instabilities, resonances, and PMD reduction
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Monday, April 9, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Chopp,   Northwestern University
Title: Coupling the level set method and the extended finite element method
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Monday, April 16, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. L. Levitov,   M.I.T.
Title: Conformal models of Laplacian growth
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Monday, April 23, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. T. Dupont,   Univ. of Chicago
Title: Simple models for simple flows
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Monday, April 30, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. G. Huber,   Univ. of Massachusetts - Boston
Title: cancelled
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Monday, May 7, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Gurtin,   Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Title: Configurational forces, gradient flows, and the motion of interfacial curves and surfaces
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Monday, May 14, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. H. B. Keller,   Caltech and UCSD
Title: Continuation, bifurcation and homotopy in scientific computation
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Tuesday, May 15, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. H. B. Keller,   Caltech and UCSD
Title: The recursive projection method: Stabilization and acceleration of iterative processes
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Monday, June 4, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. B. Meerson, Hebrew University,   Israel
Title: Symmetry breaking instabilities in two dimensional granular flow
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Tuesday, July 17, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
M. Siegel,   New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Some recent results on the zero surface tension limit for Hele-Shaw
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Wednesday, August 15, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. A. Nepomnyashchy,   The Technion
Title: Convection in Layered Systems
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Monday, October 8, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Linden, Univ. Calif.,   San Diego
Title: Vortex Rings and Animal Propulsion
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Monday, October 15, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Bertozzi,   Duke Univ.
Title: Navier-Stokes, Fluid Dynamics and Image and Video Inpainting
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Monday, October 29, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. B. Rubinstein,   Northwestern University
Title: The Stability of Vertical Subcooled Boiling Films
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Monday, November 5, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen J. Watson,   L.S.U.
Title: Coarsening Dynamics for the Convective Cahn-Hilliard Equation
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Monday, November 12, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. A. Class, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe,   Germany
Title: A Unified Model of Flames as Gasdynamic Discontinuities
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Monday, November 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J. Sethian, Univ. of California,   Berkeley
Title: Ordered Upwind Methods: Computing Viscosity solutions to optimal control and non-viscosity solutions to wave propagation
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Monday, December 3, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. L. Gross,   Univ. of Akron
Title: Onset of Linear Instabilities in a Solid Combustion Model
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