Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2012-2013


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 1, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Henry Abarbanel,   UCSD
Title: Building Nervous Systems from the Bottom Up
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 8, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
H. Pirouz Kavehpour,   University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Physics of Coalescing Drops at Planar Interfaces
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 15, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Srevatsan Muralidharan,   Northwestern
Title:  Multilayer Thin Film Growth on Crystalline and Quasicrystalline
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 22, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Matthew Tirrell University of Chicago ,  
Title: Multivalent Ionic Interactions in Multicomponent Polyelectrolyte
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, October 29, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Q. Du Penn State University ,  
Title: How to Search for Transition States/Saddle Points
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 5, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Michael Shelley,   New York University
Title: How Flexible, Motile, and Erodible Bodies Interact with Fluids
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 12, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Peter Stewart,   University of Oxford
Title: Solidification of Molten Metallic Foams
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 16, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 2:00PM
Andreas Class,   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Title: Compressible Cavitation with Stochastic Field Method
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available
ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Andreas Class,   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Title: Compressible Cavitation with Stochastic Field Method
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, November 19, 2012

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Nicolas Brunel,   University of Chicago
Title: Dynamics of Large Networks of Neurons: Asynchronous and Synchronous
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, January 28, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Lisa Fauci,   Tulane University
Title:  A Tale of Waving Tails: Calcium-Driven Dynamics of Undulatory
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 4, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Kristin Swanson,   Northwestern University
Title:   Patient-Specific Mathematical Neuro-Oncology: Driving a
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 11, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
George Karniadakis,   Brown University
Title:   Multiscale Modeling and Simulations of Physical and
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, February 18, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Sara Solla,   Northwestern University
Title:   Generalized Linear Models of Spiking Neurons  
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 4, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Brent Doiron,    University of Pittsburgh
Title: Variability in the Dynamics of the Idling Brain
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, March 6, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Mike Reed,   Duke University
Title: Mathematics, Cell Metabolism, and Public Health
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 11, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Jeremy Gunawardena,   Harvard Medical School
Title:  Overcoming Molecular Complexity in Biological Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, March 18, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
John Guckenheimer,    Cornell University
Title:  Mixed Mode Oscillations
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 8, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Carl Bender,   Washington University
Title:  PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, April 9, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 1:00PM
Professor Michael Shelley,   New York University's Courant Institue  
Title:  How Flexible, Motile, and Erodible Bodies Interact with Fluids
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Contact info here


Monday, April 15, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Angelo Caccuito,   Columbia University
Title:  The Ugly, the Fluid, and the Elastic: Short Stories on Particle
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 22, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Thomas Pence,   Michigan State University
Title:  Boundary Value Problems for Soft Materials that Exhibit Swelling
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, April 29, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor S. Jon Chapman,   University of Oxford
Title:  Beyond All Orders: The Future of Asymptotics?
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, April 30, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor S. Jon Chapman,   University of Oxford
Title:  Localised Pattern Formations and Snaking Bifurcation Diagrams
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 6, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor John Wettlaufer,   Yale University
Title:  Collisional Cosmogony
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Monday, May 13, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Doctor E. Martens,   Technical University of Denmark  
Title:  Chimera States in Mechanical Oscillator Networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Contact info here


Monday, May 20, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM
Professor Aleksander Donev,   New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Title:  Coupling an Incompressible Fluctuating Fluid with Suspended
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, August 27, 2013

ESAM Colloquium       Technological Institute M416, 11:00AM
Ehud Meron,   Benu-Gurion University, Israel
Title: Pattern formation aspects of desertification and rehabilitation of
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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