Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2007-2008


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.


Tuesday, September 4, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 11:00AM
Jens Eggers,   University of Bristol
Title: Hydrodynamic theory of coating
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 1, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Emo Todorov,   University of California San Diego
Title: A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actions
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 8, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Natalia Komarova,   UC Irvine
Title: Stochastic modeling of cancer
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 29, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Petia Vlahovska,   Dartmouth
Title: Dynamics of vesicles in hydrodynamic and electric fields
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 12, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi,   NWU
Title: The Adaptive Representation of Space and Time Through Motor
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Monday, November 26, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Lincoln Lauhon,   Northwestern University The capability to grow extremely pure
Title: The roles of 'impurities' in the growth of anisotropic
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Monday, December 3, 2007

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dean Ho,   NWU
Title: Functionalized Nanomaterials at the Interface of Biology and
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 14, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech LR5, 4:00PM
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Friday, January 18, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
S. Olson,   North Carolina State University
Title: Talk canceled: A level set reaction-diffusion model for cartilage
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Monday, January 21, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Eric Keaveny,   Brown University
Title: Paramagnetic Beads: From Dipolar Aggregation to Artificial magnetic
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Friday, January 25, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Elizabeth Bouzarth,   University of North Carolina
Title: Modeling Biologically Inspired Fluid Flow Using Regularized
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 28, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       LR5, 4:00PM
Eric Luijten,   University of Illinois aat Urbana-Champaign
Title: Self-assembly driven by electrostatic interactions: Understanding
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Friday, February 8, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Sarah Olson,   North Carolina State University
Title: A Level Set Reaction Diffusion Model for Cartilage Regeneration
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 11, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Michael Gratton,   Duke University
Title: Coarsening of Thin Fluid Films
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 22, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Laura Schmidt,   University of Chicago
Title: Vibrational Modes of an Implosion Singularity
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Monday, March 3, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Peter Jung,   Ohio University
Title: Optimal Synaptic Transmission
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 10, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Cristian Huepe,   Northwestern University
Title: New Perspectives in the Study of Swarming Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 17, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Tom Mullin,   Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Manchester
Title: Pattern switching in a cellular solid: potential applications in
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Friday, March 21, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Erin Lennon,   Univerity of California Santa Barbara
Title: Field Theoretic Simulations of Diblock Copolymers
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 31, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Lucien Brush,   University of Washington
Title: Dynamics of films in foam
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Abstract and details available


Monday, April 14, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Diego del Castillo Negrete,   Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title: Fractional diffusion models of anomalous transport
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Monday, April 21, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Aaditya Rangan,   New York University
Title: The line motion illusion in a cortical network model
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Abstract and details available


Monday, April 28, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Daniel Ben-Avraham,   Clarkson University
Title: On the Ordering of Random Walkers on the Line
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 5, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Harry Swinney,   University of Texas
Title: Emergence of Spatial Patterns in Physical, Chemical and Biological
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Harry Swinney,   University of Texas
Title: Dynamical Systems Invariant Curves as Barriers to Transport in
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Friday, May 9, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Anette (Peko) Hosoi,   MIT
Title: Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 16, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
David Salac,   Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Title: Fast Marching Methods: Time Advancement and Non-Graded Cartesian
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 19, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
J. Rinzel,   New York University (Courant Institute)
Title: Dynamics of perceptual bistability
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 23, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 2:00PM
David Hansen,   Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Title: Singular Velocities Within a Low Reynolds Number Fluid
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, May 27, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Stephen J. Watson,   Glasgow University
Title: Undercooled Herring Crystals Violate the Wulff Construction
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Monday, June 2, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Jinqiao Duan ,   Illinois Institute of Technology
Title: Exit Phenomena under Non-Gaussian Fluctuations
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, July 28, 2008

ESAM Colloquium       Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Timothy P. Schulze,   University of Tennessee
Title: Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods
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