Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2009-2010

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, October 5, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Henry Abarbanel,   University of California - San Diego
Title: Dynamical State and Parameter Estimation
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Henry Abarbanel,   University of California - San Diego
Title: Dynamical State and Parameter Estimation
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 12, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Todd Murphey,   Northwestern University
Title: Efficient Hybrid Optimization for Skid-Steering Estimation and
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Monday, October 19, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Edgar Knobloch,   University of California - Berkeley
Title: Spatially localized patterns
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Edgar Knobloch,   University of California - Berkeley
Title: Spatially localized patterns
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Monday, October 26, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Rachel Kuske,   University of British Columbia
Title: Noise-driven order via multiple scales in biological models
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Friday, October 30, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Guy Baruch,   Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Numerical Solution of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 3:00PM
Guy Baruch,   Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Numerical solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz equation
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Monday, November 2, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Eric Forgoston,   United States Naval Research Laboratory
Title: Improving Prediction of Random Epidemic Outbreaks
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Monday, November 9, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Erik Luijten,   Northwestern University
Title: Simulating the self-assembly and hydrodynamics of anisotropic
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Friday, November 13, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Paul Fischer,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Accurate, Stable, and Scalable Algorithms for Convection-Dominated
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Monday, November 16, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Daniel Abrams,   Northwestern University
Title: Statistical Topography: Why Isn't the Earth Flat?
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Friday, November 20, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Dr. A. Class,   University of Karlsruhe
Title: Hierarchical Modeling of Flames as Gasdynamic Discontinuities
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Monday, November 30, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Harris Wong,   Louisiana State University
Title: Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Dual-wet Micro Heat Pipe
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 345, 4:00PM
Dr. Alexander Eydeland,   Morgan Stanley
Title: Commodity Models: From Ags to Zinc
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Monday, January 11, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Igor Aronson,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Reduction of Viscosity in Suspensions of Swimming Microorganisms
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Monday, January 18, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Jorge Nocedal,   Northwestern University
Title: Optimization, Differential Equations and Machine Learning
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Monday, January 25, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Marta C. Gonzalez,   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Understanding individual human mobility patterns using location
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Monday, February 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Yulia Peet,   Northwestern University
Title: On the stability of grid overlapping methods with spectral elements
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Friday, February 5, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Jonathan Schwalbe,   Northwestern University
Title: Dynamics of Lipid Bilayer Membranes
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Monday, February 8, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Neelesh A. Patankar,   Northwestern University
Title: The hydrodynamics of aquatic locomotion and its potential impact on
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Friday, February 12, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Professor Carl Gardner,   Arizona State University
Title: Modeling Ionic Flow in Biological Cells
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Monday, February 15, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Adilson E. Motter,   Northwestern University
Title: Sensitive Dependence on Network Structure: To Sync or Not to Sync
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Monday, February 22, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Michael Buice,   National Institutes of Health
Title: Correlations, fluctuations and stability of a finite-size network
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Monday, March 1, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Steve Cox,   Rice University
Title: Toward a Minimal Model of a Large Spiking Cell
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Sheldon Natenberg,   Chicago Trading Company
Title: Option Market-Making, Pricing, and Risk Management
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Monday, March 8, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. Carson C. Chow,   National Institutes of Health
Title: A tractable theory of ligand-mediated gene induction
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Friday, April 9, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Lisa Melanson,   Northwestern University
Title: Numerical Modeling of Intracranial Aneurysms
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Lisa Goldberg,   MSCI Barra
Title: How Well Can We Forecast the Risk of Financial Extremes?
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ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Lisa Goldberg,   MSCI Barra
Title: How Well Can We Forecast the Risk of Financial Extremes?
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor Sy Levin,   Princeton University There will be a reception following the
Title: The Challenges of Sustainability
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Friday, April 16, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Professor Sy Levin,   Princeton University Refreshments will be served at 1:30 PM.
Title: Collective Motion in Animal Populations
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Monday, April 19, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Snezhana I. Abarzhi,   The University of Chicago
Title: The effect of heterogeneities and noise on pattern formation and
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Monday, April 26, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor C. Wolverton,   Northwestern University
Title: First-Principles Discovery of Materials for Hydrogen Storage
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Monday, May 3, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Tsynkov,   North Carolina State
Title: On SAR Imaging through the Earth's Atmosphere
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Friday, May 7, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 2:00PM
Peter Stewart,   Northwestern University
Title: Local and Global Instabilities of Flow in a Flexible-Walled Channel
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Monday, May 10, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Professor B. Ermentrout,   University of Pittsburgh
Title: Double or nothing: driving the visual system
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Monday, May 17, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Instit M 416, 4:00PM
Dr. W. Rappel,   University of California - San Diego
Title: Which way to go? Modeling eukaryotic chemotaxis
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Friday, May 28, 2010

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M 416, 2:00PM
Dr. David Salac,   Northwestern University
Title: Dynamic Behavior of Lipid Vesicles in Viscous Flows
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