Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2000-2001


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, September 25, 2000

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor B. Sandstede,   Ohio State U.
Title: Super-spiral structures of spiral waves
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanik,   Northwestern University
Title: TBA
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ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanik,   Northwestern University
Title: TBA
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Monday, October 16, 2000

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. Y. Young,   Northwestern University
Title: Stratified Kolmogorov Shear FLow
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 23, 2000

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. M. Higuera,   Northwestern University
Title: Weakly Nonlinear Dynamics of Liquid Bridges
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Monday, October 30, 2000

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. S. Weinstein,   Eastman Kodak
Title: Modeling of Planar Liquid Curtains
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Monday, November 6, 2000

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Hatzimanikatis,   Northwestern University
Title: Mathematical and Computational Biotechnology
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Monday, November 13, 2000

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. J. Porter,   Northwestern University
Title: Heteroclinic Dynamics in 1:n Steady-State Mode Interactions
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Monday, November 20, 2000

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor Y. Kevrekidis,   Princeton U.
Title: "Coarse" Stability and Bifurcation Analysis using Time Steppers
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Monday, January 29, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
E. Shaqfeh,   Stanford University
Title: The Dynamics of DNA in flow
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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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
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Monday, February 19, 2001

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
V. Linetsky,   Northwestern University
Title: Spectral Methods in Derivative Pricing
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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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
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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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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