Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 1996-1997


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, February 6, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor J.M. Restrepo,   UC Los Angeles
Title: Wave-generated mass transport and sand bars
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Monday, February 9, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. M. Short,   U. Illinois
Title: Multi-dimensional instability of detonation waves
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Thursday, February 13, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Dr. G. Luther,   Hewlett-Packard Labs
Title: Towards a systems theory for nonlinear optics
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Thursday, February 20, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor T. Witelski,   MIT
Title: Lubrication theory for gas bearing sliders in disk drives
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Monday, February 24, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor A.A. Nepomnyashchy,   Technion, Israel
Title: Marangoni Patterns and Waves
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Thursday, February 27, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor A. Tomboulides,   Swiss Federal Inst. Tech.
Title: Numerical Simulation of Low-Mach-Number Combustion
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Monday, March 3, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech LR 4, 12:00
Professor H. Huppert,   Cambridge U.
Title: Violent Volcanic Eruptions and Gigantic Landslides
Special Note: joint colloquium with Mechanical Engineering
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Thursday, April 10, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor S. Tanveer,   Ohio State U.
Title: Dendrites and Complex Singularities
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Monday, April 14, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor S.I. Hariharan,   U. Akron
Title: On Exterior Problems in Unbounded Domains
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Thursday, April 17, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 3:00pm
Professor C. Menyuk,   U Maryland Baltimore County
Title: New Approaches for High Data Rate Fiber Transmission: 100Gbits/sec and Beyond
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Thursday, April 24, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor A. Yarin,   Technion, Israel
Title: Impact of Drops on Solid Surfaces: Capillary and Shock Waves, and Shocks
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Monday, April 28, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor L. Redekopp,   U. Southern California
Title: The Interaction of Convection and Internal Waves: a Natural Codimension-3 Problem
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Monday, May 5, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Dr. G. Merchant,   Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
Title: Application of Stochastic Models to Financial Derivatives
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Thursday, May 8, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor D.S. Cohen,   CalTech
Title: New Asymptotic Scales for Moving Boundary Diffusion Problems
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Monday, May 12, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor H.-C. Chang,   U. Notre Dame
Title: Coherent Structure Description of Falling Film Waves
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Thursday, May 15, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M351, 4:30pm
Professor J.B. Keller,   Stanford U.
Title: Muscle Mechanics and Locomotion
Special Note: This is the Nemmers Prize Lecture. It is jointly hosted with the Mathematics Department
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Monday, May 19, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor J.-M. Vandenbroeck,   U. Wisconsin
Title: Singular Free Surface Flows
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Wednesday, May 21, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor R. Caflisch,   UC Los Angeles
Title: Theory and application of quasi-Monte Carlo methods
Special Note: this talk is jointly sponsored with the Mathematics Department
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Thursday, May 29, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor E.A. Spiegel,   Columbia U.
Title: Convective Pattern Theory
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Monday, June 2, 1997

ESAM Colloquium       Tech 3396, 4:00pm
Professor J.B. Keller,   Stanford U.
Title: Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions
Special Note: Chicago Area Applied Mathematics Colloquium
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