Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
ESAM Colloquium
Year 2014-2015

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 29, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Cristiįn Huepe Minoletti, Labo Labs; Title: Elasticity-based mechanism for collective motion in natural and
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Monday, October 13, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Rolf Ryham, Fordham University; Title: Control of Lipidic Pore Dynamics by Aqueous Viscosity
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available

Monday, October 20, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Nathan Kutz, University of Washington; Title: Sparsity and Equation-Free Methods for Complex Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Monday, October 27, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Martin Golubitsky, Ohio State University; Title: Patterns of Synchrony: From Animal Gaits to Binocular Rivalry
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Monday, November 3, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Andreas Waechter, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department,; Title: A Derivative-Free Method for Solving Nonlinear Optimization
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Monday, November 10, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Ira Schwartz, US Naval Research Laboratory; Title: Predicting epidemic rare events: A dynamical systems perspective
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Monday, November 17, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Oskar Hallatschek, University of California, Berkeley; Title: The Role of Noise in the Dynamics of Evolution: The Evolutionary
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Monday, December 1, 2014

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Enkeleida Lushi, Brown University and Courant Institute; Title: Fluid Flows Created by Swimming Bacteria Drive Self-Organization
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Monday, January 5, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Christopher Danforth, University of Vermont; Title: Remote Sensing of Emotional States in Real-Time --
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Monday, January 12, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Hassan Masoud, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU) and Princeton; Title: Fluid-Structure Interactions from Nano- to Macro-Scale, from
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 11:15AM: Dr. Anand Oza, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU); Title: A Trajectory Equation for Walking Droplets: Hydrodynamic Pilot-
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Monday, January 26, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Kang-Ling Liao, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University; Title: A Mathematical Model for the Anti-PD-1 and IL-27 Drugs in Cancer
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Monday, February 2, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Alexander Wray, Imperial College London; Title: Electrostatically-Controlled Film Dynamics in Curved Geometries
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Monday, February 16, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Jané Kondev, Brandeis University; Title: Building a Proportional Cell: How Cells Control the Size of Their
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Monday, March 2, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Horacio Rotstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Title: Frequency Preference Response to Oscillatory Inputs in Neuronal
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Monday, March 9, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Dr. Alex Roxin, Centre de Recerca MatemĆ tica; Title: Ā Synchrony and Firing Rate in Neuronal Networks: An Exact
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Monday, March 30, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Ā Professor Sophie Denéve, Ā Ć‰cole Normale Supérieure; Title: Ā Efficient Coding in Balanced Neural Networks
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Monday, April 6, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Petia Vlahovska, Brown University; Title: Complex fluid interfaces in electric fields: belted drops, patchy
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Monday, April 13, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Ā ProfessorĀ Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington; Title: Ā Why has global warming paused for the past 15 years?
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Monday, April 20, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Professor Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University; Title: Phases and Phase Transitions in the Collective Motility of the
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Monday, May 4, 2015

ESAM Colloquium Technological Institute M416, 4:00PM: Ā Professor Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland; Title: Ā Modeling the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks: Insights and
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