Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2011


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 3, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Jeff Moehlis,   University of California - Santa Barbara
Title: Controlling Neurons
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Monday, January 10, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Mary Silber,   Northwestern University
Title: Case study of a tipping point in Earth's climate system: A
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Monday, January 17, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Joseph Tien,   Ohio State University
Title: Modeling waterborne disease dynamics
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Friday, January 21, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Professor Pam Cook,   University of Delaware
Title: Flows and properties of entangled complex fluids
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Monday, January 24, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Elaine Spiller,   Marquette University
Title: Modeling Models: An efficient method for calculating the
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Monday, January 31, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Michael Schnabel,   Northwestern University
Title: Orientation Maps in the Visual Cortex: Pattern Formation in the
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Monday, February 7, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Jack Cowan,   University of Chicago
Title:   A new approach to the modeling of large-scale brain activity
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Monday, February 14, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Ryan Gutenkunst,   University of Arizona
Title:   Sloppy modeling and natural selection in biochemical networks
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Monday, February 21, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Jon Rubin,   University of Pittsburgh
Title:   Minimal models of inflammation: clinical insights and
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Friday, February 25, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Yulia Peet,   Northwestern University Understanding of blood flow dynamics and its
Title: Computational Modeling of Blood Flow in Flexible Vessels
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Monday, February 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Ed Munro,   University of Chicago
Title: Dynamics of cell polarization: Experiments and models
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Monday, March 7, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor H.S. Udaykumar,   University of Iowa
Title:   From Imaging to Computation: A seamless Eulerian approach
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Monday, March 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor J.L. Thiffeault,   University of Wisconsin
Title: Simple models of stirring by swimming organisms
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Monday, April 4, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Peter Voorhees,   Northwestern University
Title: From Swift-Hohenberg Equations to Grain Growth in Nanocrystals
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Monday, April 11, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Philip Maini,   University of Oxford   There will be a reception following the
Title: How the leopard got its spots
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Professor Philip Maini,   University of Oxford   Refreshments will be served at 1:30 PM.  
Title: Mathematical modeling of tumor dynamics
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Philip Maini,   University of Oxford   Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM.  
Title: Mathematical modeling of tumor dynamics
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Friday, April 15, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Chris Vogl,   Northwestern University
Title: Modeling Vitrification as a Free Boundary between Anomalous and
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Monday, April 18, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Maurice Blount,   Northwestern University
Title: Bending and buckling of a falling viscous thread
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Monday, April 25, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Z. Toroczkai,   University of Notre Dame
Title:   A continuous-time approach to constraint satisfaction:
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Friday, April 29, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Matthew Tanzy,   Northwestern University
Title:   Combustion waves with Multiple Reactions
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Monday, May 2, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor A. Nepomnyashchy,   The Technion (Eshbach lecture)    
Title:   Marangoni convection in solutions
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Monday, May 9, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. L. Tsimring,   University of California - San Diego
Title:   Degrade-and-fire oscillations in small synthetic gene networks
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Monday, May 16, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor D. Abbot,   University of Chicago
Title:   The Jormungand Global Climate State and Implications for Snowball
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Friday, May 20, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Chris Gruber,   Northwestern University
Title:   Vitrification as a Moving Interface Problem with Anomalous
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Monday, May 23, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor B. Marsh,   Johns Hopkins University
Title:   On the cessation of thermal convection in silicate magmas
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Peter Ehrhard,   TU Dortmund
Title: Radial spreading and stability of thin rotating droplets
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM
Nusret Balci,   University of Minnesota
Title: Symmetric Factorization of the Conformation Tensor in Viscoelastic
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM
E.Kirkinis,   University of Washington
Title: Electromagnetic propulsion  and separation by chirality of
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Monday, August 1, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 10:00AM
David Goulet ,  
Title: Modeling Biochemical Cascades using Ordinary, Partial, Functional,
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Charles R. Doering,   University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: Ultimate State of Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Benard Convection
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Monday, October 3, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Melvin Leok,   University of California, San Diego  
Title:  Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their
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Monday, October 10, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Patrick Shipman,   Colorado State University  
Title:  Symmetries and Shapes: Maximal Packing and Pattern Formation at
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Monday, October 17, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Akif Ibraguimov,   Texas Tech University  
Title:  Stability analysis of the generalized Forchheimer flows in porous
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Monday, October 24, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Eleftherios Kirkinis,   Northwestern University  
Title:  Renormalization Group Methods in Applied Mathematics
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Monday, October 31, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Yi-Ping Ma,   University of Chicago  
Title:  Localized States in one and two spatial dimensions
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Monday, November 7, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Hendrik Hansen-Goos,   Yale University  
Title:  Density functional theory of classical fluids: a fundamental
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Alex Roxin,   University of Barcelona
Title:  The role of degree distribution in shaping the dynamics in
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Friday, November 11, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Professor Herbert E Huppert,   Institute of Theoretical Geophysics DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Title: Fluid modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration
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Monday, November 14, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Juan C. Lasheras,   University of California, San Diego
Title: The Role of Myosin II Motors and F-actin Dynamics in the Mechanics
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Monday, November 21, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Victor Matveev ,   New Jersey Institute of Technology  
Title:  Modeling localized cell calcium dynamics involved in synaptic
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Monday, November 28, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
 Dr. Tuhin Sahai,   United Technologies Research Center      
Title:  Hearing the Clusters in a Graph and other Scalable Algorithms for
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Monday, December 5, 2011

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Fred Furtado,   University of Wyoming
Title:  Scaling analysis of multiphase fluid flow in heterogeneous porous
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