ESAM Colloquia Archive

Thursday, March 1, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Wei Ji Ma, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Rochester
Title: Neural Variability and Optimal Computation

Monday, February 26, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dirk Brockmann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization
Title: Topological Superdiffusion: From Target Localization on Folding Polymers to Human Travel and Modern Spread of Diseases

Thursday, February 22, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Wilson Truccolo, Brown University
Title: Stochastic Modeling of Neural Point Processes

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Paul Krapivsky, Boston University
Title: The Motion of Molecular Spiders

Monday, February 19, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Elizabeth Torres, CALTECH
Title: Dynamics Without Movement

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Leonor Saiz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Title: Multilevel Modeling of Biological Processes: From Molecular Interactions at the Cell Membrane to the Dynamics of Gene Regulation Networks

Monday, February 12, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Angela Yu, Princeton
Title: To Spike or Not to Spike: Optimal Change-Detection in Single Neurons

Thursday, February 8, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dmitri Volfson, UC San Diego
Title: The Role of Population Dynamics in Phenotypic variability

Monday, February 5, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Eric Shea-Brown, NYU
Title: Dynamics of Correlation and Coding in Simple Neural Circuits

Monday, January 29, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor K. Kording, Northwestern University
Title: Rational Models of Movement

Monday, January 22, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Andrew Belmonte, Penn. State Univ.
Title: Deep and Shallow Impact: Acoustic Ripples and Elastic Splashes

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Santiago Schnell, Indiana University
Title: Enzyme Reactions Within Cells

Friday, January 12, 2007

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Rob Sturman, University of Leeds
Title: Special Non-linear Seminar: Fluid Mixing

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. E. Tuck, University of Adelaid, Australia
Title: Extensional fall of a slender viscous drop

Friday, June 2, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. John White, Boston University
Title: Mechanisms and Consequences of Coherent Activity in the Hippocampal Formation

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Paired vortices, voricity growth, and hovering flight

Monday, May 22, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Childress, Courant Institute, NYU
Title: Flapping flight as bifurcation in Reynolds number

Friday, May 19, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Bertrand Duplantier, Theoretical Physics, CEA-Saclay
Title: Brownian Motion

Monday, May 15, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Srinivasarao, Georgia Tech
Title: Breath Figures and the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in Polymer Films

Friday, May 12, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Reichhardt: Boolean models for genetic regularity networks

Monday, May 8, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. E. Lauga, MIT
Title: Bacteria and Snails: Biofluid Mechanics on Small Scales

Friday, May 5, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Jane Wang, Cornell
Title: Wang: Efficiency of flapping flight

Monday, May 1, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Motter, Northwestern University
Title: Chaos Theory for Relativistic Dynamical Systems

Friday, April 28, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Greg Huber, University of Connecticut
Title: Huber: Dominos, first passage problems, and dynamic binding in flagellar motor statistics

Monday, April 24, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Y. Brun, DuPont
Title: Statistical Physics of a Macromolecule in a Narrow Pore and Liquid Chromatography of Polymers

Friday, April 14, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Ian Dobson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Towards Estimating the Risk of Cascading Failure Blackouts

Friday, April 7, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Professor Daniel Segre, Boston University
Title: Learning about the evolution of biochemical networks from topology, fluxes and perturbations

Monday, April 3, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. G. Kriegsmann, NJIT
Title: Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media

Friday, March 31, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University
Title: Statistical Analysis for Network Science

Monday, March 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J.O.M. Karlsson, Georgia Tech
Title: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Damage During Cryopreservation and Cryosurgery

Friday, March 10, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Michael F. Schatz, Center for Nonlinear Science and School of Physics, Georgia Tech
Title: Homological Characterization of Spiral Defect Chaos

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Stefano Boccaletti, CNR- Instituto dei Sistemi Complessi
Title: New Issues in Complex Networks' Structure and Dynamics

Monday, March 6, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. K. Promislaw, Michigan State University
Title: Modeling Issues in PEM Fuel Cells: From Macro to Nano

Monday, February 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P.D. Miller, University of Michigan
Title: New Results on the Semiclassical Limit for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation

Monday, February 20, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J. Rubinstein, Indiana University
Title: The Weighted Least Action Principle

Friday, February 17, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Roger Guimera, Northwestern University
Title: Modules and roles: towards a cartography of complex networks

Friday, February 10, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. P.S. Dodds, Columbia University
Title: Models of Social and Biological Contagion

Friday, February 10, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. P.S. Dodds, Columbia University
Title: Models of social and biological contagion

Friday, February 3, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Renato Feres, Washington University, St. Louis
Title: Random Billiards and Diffusion

Friday, January 27, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Z. P. Bazant, Northwestern University
Title: Statistical Mechanics of Failure Risk: From Atomic to Structural Scale

Friday, January 20, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. T. Emonet, University of Chicago
Title: Fluctuation-adaptation relationship in bacterial chemotaxis

Monday, January 16, 2006

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Z. Bazant, MIT
Title: Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis

Friday, December 2, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Eva Kanson, University of Southern California
Title: An Articulated Fish Swimming with Point Vortices

Monday, November 28, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Graham, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Transition, turbulence and drag reduction in polymer solutions: the role of self-sustained coherent structures

Friday, November 18, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Grae Worster, Cambridge, UK
Title: The interior of mushy layers revealed

Monday, November 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. K. Schweizer, University of Illinois
Title: Microscopic Theories of Hybrid Soft Materials: Structure, Gelation and Viscoelasticity of Nanoparticle-Polymer Suspensions

Friday, November 11, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Tasso Kaper, Boston University
Title: Dynamics of patterns in activator-inhibitor systems

Monday, November 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Chaieb, University of Illinois
Title: Large Deformations in Biomembranes: From the Golgi to Drug Delivery

Friday, November 4, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
George Lauder, Harvard University
Title: How fishes: swim experimental hydrodynamics and the mechanics of flexible propulsors

Thursday, November 3, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Preetpaul, IGERT Intern-Sandia National Labs
Title: IGERT-Brown Bag Lunch Seminars: Optoelectronic oscillators based on VCSELs and Electro-Absorption Modulators (EAMs) for generating short optical pulses with low timing jitter

Monday, October 31, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Dunand, Northwestern University
Title: Metallic Foams

Friday, October 28, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Andy Ruina, Cornell
Title: Energetics of Walking

Thursday, October 27, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Gabriel Aguirre-Ollinger, Northwestern University
Title: Passive Walking: Intro to Nonlinear Dynamics

Monday, October 24, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. S. Roper, Northwestern University
Title: Fluid Driven Fracture in Geophysics

Monday, October 17, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Norris, Rutgers
Title: Stability of Propagating Cracks and Front Waves using Matched Asymptotic Expansions

Monday, October 10, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. K. Lindenberg, UCSD
Title: Reactions of Subdiffusive Particles and Subdiffusive Traps

Friday, October 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Michael Dickinson, California Institute of Technology
Title: How Flies Fly

Thursday, October 6, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
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Title: IGERT Brown Bag Lunch-discussion on the future of student participation in dynamical systems

Monday, October 3, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion
Title: Interfacial Phenomena in Evaporating Binary Mixtures

Friday, September 30, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
John Maddocks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Title: Multi-Scale Models of Sequence-Dependent DNA Mechanics

Friday, September 23, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Nail Akhmediev, The Australian National University
Title: Dissipative solutions in life and science

Friday, June 10, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Marc Barthelemy, CE Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France
Title: Heterogeneity and predictability of global epidemics

Friday, June 3, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Werner Pesch, University of Bayreut, Germany
Title: Rayleigh-Bnard convection with modulated acceleration

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University
Title: Continuum Equations for Rarefied Gases

Monday, May 23, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Edward A. Spiegel, Columbia University
Title: Bifurcations and Geometry

Friday, May 20, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Tim Elston, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Title: Regulation of MAP kinase activity revealed by mathematical modeling and experimental analysis

Monday, May 16, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois @ Champagne/Urbana
Title: Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Simulation of Polycrystalline Materials using the Phase Field Crystal Model

Monday, May 9, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Stephen Watson, Northwestern University
Title: Morphometric Characterization of Coarsening Faceted Crystal Surfaces

Thursday, May 5, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. John Hudson, University of Virginia
Title: Dynamical Order and Complexity in Populations of Chemical Oscillators

Monday, May 2, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. John Bush, MIT
Title: Walking on Water: Biolocomotion at the Interface

Friday, April 29, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Roman Rafikov, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Title: Coagulation Processes in Astrophysical Systems

Monday, April 25, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. James Grotberg, University of Michigan
Title: Biofluid Mechanics in Lungs and Lung Devices

Monday, April 18, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Fred Hickernell, IIT
Title: Fast Spline Methods of High Dimensional Problems

Thursday, April 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Thomas Mason, UCLA
Title: Nanoemulsions: Extreme Liquid Dispersions

Friday, April 8, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Sima Setayeshgar, Indiana University
Title: Physical Limits to Biochemical Signaling

Wednesday, April 6, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Daniel Stouffer, Postdoc: Chemical Engineering and NSF/IGERT, NWU
Title: A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Natural Ecosystems

Monday, April 4, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Andrew Kraynik, Sandia National Laboratories
Title: Structure and Rheology of Random Foam

Friday, April 1, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Andre Levchenko, John Hopkins University
Title: Quantification of NF-kappaB: Marriage of Genetics, Biochemistry and Mathematic Modeling

Monday, March 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Jerry Marsden, CalTech
Title: Lagrangian Coherent Structures

Friday, March 11, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame
Title: On Multiscale Approaches to Three-Dimensional Modeling of Morphogenesis

Monday, March 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Kostas Grigoropoulos, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Laster Assisted Nanofabrication and Nanoparticle Processing

Friday, March 4, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Daniel Grunbaum, University of Washington
Title: Resolving individual-level behaviors underlying distinct group search strategies in fish

Monday, February 28, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Sasha Golovin, Northwestern University
Title: Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films

Friday, February 25, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Chad Topaz, UCLA
Title: Social biological organisms: aggregation patterns and dynamics

Monday, February 21, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Mary Silber, Northwestern University
Title: Faraday Wave Pattern Formation

Friday, February 18, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Richard Murray, Control and Dynamical Systems, Cal Tech
Title: Cooperative Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems

Monday, February 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Ziad Musslimani, University of Central Florida
Title: Multiscale Asymptotic Analysis of Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media

Friday, February 11, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Brent Dorion, Center for Neural Science, NYU
Title: Delay-Induced Neural Oscillations in Communicating Fish

Monday, February 7, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Francois Blanchette, University of Chicago
Title: Sedimentation in a Stratified Ambient

Friday, February 4, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Gary Blasdel, Northwestern University
Title: Optical Imaging of non-vascular Intrinsic Signals in Monkey Visual Cortex

Monday, January 17, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Johnathan B. Freund, UIUC
Title: The Atomic Detail of an Evaporating Meniscus: MD and Continuum Model Comparisons

Friday, January 14, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Victoria Booth, University of Michigan
Title: Mean Theta Phase of Model CA1 Pyramidal Cell Firing Changes with Location to Synaptic Stimuli

Monday, January 10, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Baruch Meerson, The Hebrew University
Title: Pattern Formation in Granular Gases: Non-Equilibrium Physics in a Sandbox

Monday, January 3, 2005

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Jung Choi, Northwestern University
Title: The Interaction of Premixed Combustion and Near-Critical Swirling Flow

Monday, December 6, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Recent Advances in Higher Order Numerical Methods with Applications to Vascular Flows

Friday, December 3, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Eric Klavins, University of Washington
Title: Self-Organizing Robotic Systems

Monday, November 29, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Northwestern University
Title: Foam Bubbles: The Importance of Being Isotropic

Friday, November 19, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Jean-Pierre Nadal, ENS
Title: Neural Computation in the Cerebellum (and elsewhere): What Silent Synapses Tells Us

Monday, November 15, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto
Title: Fluctuations, Reactions, & Fronts: Mesoscopic Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Friday, November 12, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Mitra Hartmann, Northwestern University
Title: Hardware Models for Studying Sensory Coding in Nervous System

Monday, November 8, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. T. Horikis, Northwestern University
Title: Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers: Solution Perturbation Theory

Friday, November 5, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Francesco Bullo, University of California @ Santa Barbara
Title: Motion Coordination for Multi- Agent Networks: Algorithmic Design and Theoretical Framework

Monday, November 1, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
E. Demekhin, University of Notre Dame
Title: 3D Localized Coherent Structures of Surface Turbulence

Friday, October 29, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Kathleen C. Howell, Purdue University
Title: Spacecraft Mission Design in Multi-Body Regimes

Monday, October 25, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Boris Khusid, NJIT
Title: Electric Field Driven Phenomena for Manipulating Particles in Micro- and Nano- Devices

Friday, October 22, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
John F. Marko, University of Illinois @ Chicago
Title: Micromechanical study of proteins interacting with single DNA molecules

Monday, October 18, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Self-Organization of Microtubules and Molecular Motors

Friday, October 15, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University
Title: Collective Motion and Mobile Sensor Networks

Monday, October 11, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg, Germany
Title: Transition to turbulence in pipe flow: new aspects of an old problem

Friday, October 8, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
B. Nadler, Yale University
Title: Ionic Permeation Through Protein Channels and NonEquilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Friday, October 1, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Hermann Riecke, Northwestern University
Title: Persistence and Failure in Networks of Excitable Neurons with Local and Non-Local Connectivity

Monday, September 20, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University
Title: Ordered Upwind Methods for Approximating Invariant Manifolds

Friday, May 28, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Joceline Lega, University of Arizona
Title: Instability of local deformations of an elastic filament

Monday, May 24, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
T. Jackson, Univ. of Illinois
Title: Recent advances in the numerical simulation of composite solid propellant combustion

Friday, May 21, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Kevin Bassler, University of Houston
Title: The evolution of developmental canalization in networks of competing boolean nodes

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford Univ.
Title: High Capacity Communication Systems in Complex Environments

Monday, May 17, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford Univ
Title: Passive and Active Array Imaging in Clutter

Friday, May 14, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Jerry Golub, Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania
Title: Internal Structure of granular shear flows

Monday, May 10, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
V. Entov, Russian Acad. Sci.
Title: Mathematics of enhanced oil recovery: Models, advances and open issues

Friday, May 7, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Robert Behringer, Duke University
Title: Science in the sandbox: Forces and fluctuations in granular materials

Monday, May 3, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
S. Abarzhi, Stanford Univ.
Title: Nonlinear evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor unstable fluid interface

Friday, April 30, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Linn F. Mollenauer, Bell Labs & Lucent Technologies
Title: Ultra-long-haul dense WDM with dispersion-manages solutions: The paradox of best performance from this most nonlinear of transmission modes

Monday, April 26, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
I. Epstein, Brandeis Univ.
Title: Chemistry in very small spaces: Pattern formation in microemulsions

Friday, April 23, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Robert Ghrist, University of Illinois
Title: Optimal coordination in robotics

Monday, April 19, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
D. Luss, Univ. of Houston
Title: Transversal temperature patterns on top of packed bed reactors

Friday, April 16, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin
Title: Spatiotemporal dynamics of intracavity second harmonic generation

Friday, April 9, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Title: Packing spheres with capillary forces

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Fred Hickernell, Hong Kong Baptist Univ.
Title: Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Numerical Integration of Multivariate Functions

Monday, April 5, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
J. Choi, Northwestern University
Title: Effect of Lean Premixed Combustion on Near-Critical Swirling Flow

Friday, April 2, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Steven T. Cundiff, NIST & University of Colorado
Title: Pulse dynamics in modelocked lasers

Monday, March 29, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
C. Cui, Northwestern University
Title: Flame Propagation in Channels: Effects of Heat Loss and Differential Diffusion

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
K. K. Tung, Univ. of Washington
Title: On 2D and QG Turbulence

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Roman Grigoriev, Georgia Tech
Title: Chaotic mixing in microdroplets: theory and experiment

Friday, March 12, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Mark Newman, University of Michigan
Title: Community structure in complex networks

Monday, March 8, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
A. Povitsky, U. of Akron
Title: Fluid Dynamics Issues in the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes

Friday, March 5, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Alex Gaeta, Cornell University
Title: Nonlinear wave collapse of ultrashort laser pulses

Monday, March 1, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
A. Kapila, RPI
Title: Nonplanar Detonations in High-Energy Explosives

Friday, February 27, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Gemunu Gunaratne, University of Houston
Title: How to find out when bones may break

Monday, February 23, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
A. Neimark, Princeton Univ
Title: Statistical Mechanics and Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase Transformations and Nucleation in Nanoconfined Fluids

Friday, February 20, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Ute Ebert, CWI Amsterdam
Title: Branching sparks..the dynamics of electric breakdown

Monday, February 16, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
C. Muratov, NJIT
Title: Transmission of Autocrine Signals in Epithelial Layers: Modeling and Analysis

Friday, February 13, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Tom Solomon, Bucknell University
Title: Reaction-advection-diffusion systems with chaotic advection

Monday, February 9, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Y. Lvov, RPI
Title: Energy Spectra in the Ocean's Internal Wave Field: Theory and Observations

Friday, February 6, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
R. Morimoto, Northwestern University
Title: The biological response to the stress of misfolded proteins: Neurodegenerative disease

Monday, February 2, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
M. Glickman, RPI
Title: Topological Analysis of Network Structures in 3D

Monday, January 26, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
M. Short, UIUC
Title: Structure and Dynamics of Flames in Microchannels

Friday, January 23, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
C. McKinstrie, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Title: Phase jitter in solution communication systems

Monday, January 19, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
F. Bloom, Northern Illinois Univ.
Title: Modeling Pulse Combustor Driven Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Enhancement

Friday, January 16, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Jeff Moehlis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: The response dynamics of neural oscillator populations

Monday, January 12, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
A. Rucklidge, U. of Leeds
Title: Boundary Effects and the Onset of Taylor Vortices

Friday, January 9, 2004

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
H. G. Purwins, University of Muenster, Germany
Title: Dissipative solutions in physical systems

Friday, December 5, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Nikos Mantzaris, Rice University
Title: A computational study of the signal transduction mechanisms and wave propagation in astrocytic glial cells

Monday, December 8, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. E. Knobloch, U. Calif. & U. Leeds
Title: Nearly inviscid Faraday Waves

Monday, December 1, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion
Title: Long wave pattern formation

Monday, November 24, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. A. Mineev, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
Title: New experimental and theoretical advances in 2D viscous fingering

Monday, November 17, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. A. Class, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Title: Flames in inhomogeneous mixtures as gasdynamic discontinuities

Monday, November 10, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. H. Wong, LSU
Title: A slope-dependent disjoining pressure for nonzero contact angles: derivation and application

Monday, November 3, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. Olagunju, Univ. of Delaware
Title: Non-isothermal viscoelastic torsional flow

Monday, October 20, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. H. Levine, Iowa State Univ.
Title: A blow-up conjecture of Nagai chemotaxis

Thursday, October 16, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Huerre, Ecole Polytechnique
Title: Self-sustained oscillatory states in shear flows: linear and nonlinear selection mechanics
Special Note: Note unusual day
Monday, September 29, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. T. Schulze, U. Tennessee
Title: The many facets of film growth modeling

Friday, September 5, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. P. Tabeling, Ecole Superieure de Pysique et Chimie Industrielles and Ecole Normale Superieure
Title: What Can Be Learned from Microfluidics
Special Note: Note unusual time and day
Wednesday, August 27, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 9:00AM
Mark Asta (Northwestern), Jerry Floro (Sandia National Labs), A. Golovin (Northwestern), Max G. Lagally (University of Wisconsin), Lincoln J. Lauhon (Harvard / Northwestern), Dongqi Li (Argonne National Lab), Jerry Tersoff (IBM), Richard P. Van Duyne (Northwestern), .
Title: 2nd Annual Workshop on the Evolution and Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots
Special Note: Program can be found at http://www.esam.northwestern.edu/events/nirt.html
Monday, August 11, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. R. Krechetnikov, U. C. Santa Barbara
Title: On New Surfactant Driven Phenomena: A Reversed Saffman-Taylor Instability and Taylor Cones without Electric Field

Friday, May 23, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Prof. C. Peskin, Courant Inst. Math. Sci.
Title: Muscle and Blood: Cardiac Mechanics by the Immersed Boundary Method
Special Note: Note unusual time, date and location. Jointly sponsored by the Mathematics Dept.
Friday, May 23, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 3:10PM
Prof. C. Peskin, Courant Inst. Math. Sci.
Title: Muscle and Blood: Cardiac Mechanics by the Immersed Boundary Method
Special Note: Note unusual time, date and location. Jointly sponsored by the Mathematics Dept.
Monday, May 19, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Holmes, Princeton U.
Title: Low Dimensional Models of Turbulent Plane Couette Flow

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Joseph E. Flaherty, R.P.I.
Title: Adaptive and Parallel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws. Part 2. A Posteriori Error Estimation and Superconvergence

Monday, May 12, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. Joseph E. Flaherty, R.P.I.
Title: Adaptive and Parallel Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws. Part 1. Fundamental Computational and Theoretical Properties

Monday, April 28, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Paolucci, U. Notre Dame
Title: Slow Manifolds in Chemically Reactive Flows

Monday, April 21, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. X. Li, I.I.T.
Title: Drop Deformation in Shear Flow: The Effects of Walls and Surfactants

Friday, April 18, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 12:00PM
Prof. M. Gurtin, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Plasticity of single-crystals at the micron level, a gradient theory that accounts for geometrically necessary dislocations
Special Note: Note unusual date and time. Refreshment will be served at 11:45.
Monday, April 14, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. Ye. A. Rastigejev, N.U.
Title: Multiscale Computations with a Wavelet Decomposition Algorithm: Applications to Inert and Reactive Flow Simulations

Monday, April 7, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. P. Gordon, U. Chicago
Title: Initiation of Subsonic Detonation and Structure of the Detonation Wave

Thursday, March 27, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 3:00PM
Dr. Felix Otto, University of Bonn
Title: Scaling Laws in Coarsening and Spreading
Special Note: Note unusual day and time. Refreshments will be at 2:45.
Friday, March 14, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 10:00AM
L. B. Freund, Brown University
Title: A description of strain-driven formation of semiconductor nanostructures
Special Note: Note unusual time. Jointly sponsored with Mechanics Colloquium
Monday, March 10, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. I. Epstein, Brandeis Univ.
Title: Chemistry in Very Small Spaces: Pattern Formation in Reactive Microemulsions

Monday, March 3, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Gorman, U. Houston
Title: Spirals and Counterpropagating Spots in the Dynamics of Pulsating Flames

Monday, February 24, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Wiegmann, Univ. of Chicago
Title: Novel Aspects of the Laplacian Growth Problem

Monday, February 17, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Watson, N.U.
Title: Coarsening dynamics of faceted crystal growth in 3D: The Hamilton-Jacobi-Cahn-Hilliard equation

Monday, February 10, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. P. Voorhees, N.U.
Title: Coarsening of topologically complex two-phase structures

Monday, February 3, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. V. Backman, N.U.
Title: Light scattering from random media: From analytical theory to cancer diagnosis

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 3:00PM
Dr. D. Nykamp, UCLA
Title: Reconstructing the Coupling of Neurons from Spike Times
Special Note: Note unusual day and time
Monday, January 27, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J. Bona, UIC
Title: Theory and applications of long wave models

Monday, January 20, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. L. Ryzhik, University of Chicago
Title: Advection effects on reaction-diffusion problems

Thursday, January 16, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech L211, 9:30AM
Prof. K. Showalter, W. Virginia University
Title: Chemical waves and patterns
Special Note: Note unusual day and time. Refreshments at 9:15 am. Jointly sponsored by the Chemical Engineering Department
Monday, January 13, 2003

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. D. L. Chopp, Northwestern University
Title: Modeling quorum sensing in bacterial biofilms

Monday, December 2, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Khenner, SUNY Buffalo
Title: Models for selective area epitaxial crystal growth

Monday, November 18, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. K. Elder, Oakland University
Title: Modeling elasticity with phase field crystals

Monday, November 4, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. K. Gurski, N.I.S.T.
Title: The effect of anisotropic surface energy and contact lines and the Rayleigh instability

Monday, October 21, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. J. Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Title: Rossby waves in irregular basins

Monday, October 7, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. A. Berezhkovskii, NIH and Karpov Inst. Phys. Chem. (Moscow)
Title: Kinetics of diffusion controlled reactions: From traditional theories to new approaches

Monday, August 26, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 2:00PM
Prof. A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion
Title: Vortex-Type and Dipole-Type Solitons in Nonlinear Optical Media

Monday, June 3, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. V. Hatzimanikatis, Northwestern Univ.
Title: Mathematical modeling and analysis of complex biopolymerization networks

Monday, May 20, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. Shvartsman, Princeton Univ.
Title: Modeling and computation of cell communication in drosophila egg development

Monday, May 6, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. J. Keener, Univ. of Utah
Title: The dynamics of defibrillation

Monday, April 29, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. C.K.R.T. Jones, Brown Univ.
Title: Injecting Lagrangian elements into the ocean modeling process

Monday, April 22, 2002

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. S. A. Campbell, Univ. of Waterloo
Title: Stability and bifurcations of a ring of oscillators with delayed coupling

Monday, April 16, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. L. Levitov, M.I.T.
Title: Conformal models of Laplacian growth

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

Monday, March 12, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. A. Karma, Northeastern University
Title: Wave dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:00PM
Prof. M. Golubitsky, Univ. of Houston
Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
Special Note: Note unusual date and location - Jointly sponsored by Mathematics Department
Monday, February 26, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Prof. N. Patankar, Northwestern University
Title: Numerical Simulation of Particulate Flows

Thursday, February 22, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15PM
Prof. C.K. Chu, Columbia Univ.
Title: TBA
Special Note: note unusual day, time and location. Jointly sponsored with the Mathematics Dept.
Monday, February 19, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
V. Linetsky, Northwestern University
Title: Spectral Methods in Derivative Pricing

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: note unusual day, time and location. Jointly with Departments of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering
Monday, January 29, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
E. Shaqfeh, Stanford University
Title: The Dynamics of DNA in flow

Monday, January 15, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. A. Class, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Title: An Interface-tracking control-volume finite-element method for melting and solidification problems

Thursday, January 11, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Lecture Room 5, 9:00AM
Dr. S. Troian, Princeton University
Title: Thermocapillary Flow on Chemically Patterned Surfaces: A Design Concept for Configurable Microfluidic Delivery Systems
Special Note: Co-sponsored by the Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Departments
Monday, January 8, 2001

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00PM
Dr. I. Aranson, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Continuum Theory of Avalanches in Granular Material

Monday, November 20, 2000

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

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

Monday, November 6, 2000

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

Monday, October 30, 2000

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

Monday, October 23, 2000

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

Monday, October 16, 2000

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

Monday, September 25, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor B. Sandstede, Ohio State U.
Title: Super-spiral structures of spiral waves

Monday, May 22, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. B. Rubinstein, Northwestern U.
Title: Automated symbolic nonlinear anlaysis

Monday, May 15, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor D. McLaughlin, Courant Inst. Math. Sci.
Title: Modelling the Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque Monkey

Monday, May 1, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S. Ghosal, Northwestern U.
Title: A Simplified Theory of Triple Flames

Monday, April 17, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor Yves Pomeau , Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
Title: Moving contact line: mathematical or physical problem?

Monday, April 10, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J.R. Birge, Northwestern University
Title: Pricing Options on Diffusion & Jump Processes with Applications in Energy & Weather Derivatives

Monday, April 3, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor H. Riecke, Northwestern U.
Title: Localized and disordered structures in fluid flow

Wednesday, March 29, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Lunt 105, 4:15pm
Professor Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Chaotic Geodesics on a Bagel

Monday, March 13, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor S.H. Chung, National Seoul University
Title: Propagation Characteristics of Tribrachial Flames

Monday, February 28, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. K. Swanson, U. Washington
Title: A Quantitative Model for Brain Tumor Growth and Invasion

Monday, February 21, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. S. Rica, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
Title: Buckling and post-buckling of elastic plates and shells

Thursday, February 17, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. Y.J. Chen, Northwestern U.
Title: Flow-induced morphologies in directional solidification

Monday, February 14, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. G. Biondini, Northwestern U.
Title: Soliton communications and wavelength-division multiplexing

Monday, February 7, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Golovin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Title: Faceting and Roughening of Growing Crystal Surfaces

Monday, January 31, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. A. Hosoi, M.I.T.
Title: Wine tears and other evaporatively driven instabilities in thin films

Monday, January 24, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor P. Brazhnik, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Title: Modeling Spatio-temporal Phenomena in Complex Biological Systems: Propagating Waves in Excitable Media

Monday, January 17, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. E. Izhikevich, Arizona State U.
Title: Canonical-Model Approach to Computational Neuroscience

Monday, January 10, 2000

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J.B. Grotberg, U. Michigan
Title: Liquid Plug Propagation in the Lung

Monday, November 29, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor M. Slemrod, U. Wisconsin
Title: New Results on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion

Monday, November 15, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor P. Milewski, U. Wisconsin
Title: Solitary and breaking waves in equatorial shallow water

Monday, November 8, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor J. Bronski, U. Illinois
Title: Estimates of long-tailed probability distribution functions in passive scalar transport

Tuesday, November 2, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor A. Winfree, U. Arizona
Title: Unsolved Problems of the Heart

Friday, October 29, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech A230, 3:15pm
Professor C. Roberts, N. Arizona U.
Title: Modeling complex human-environment interactions: the Grand Canyon River Trip Simulation Project

Monday, October 25, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Dr. I. Kliakhandler, Northwestern U.
Title: Interfacial dynamics of film flows

Monday, October 18, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor R. Kamien, U. Pennsylvania
Title: Minimal surfaces, screw dislocations and all that

Monday, October 4, 1999

ESAM Colloquium Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor T. Takeno, U. Nagoya
Title: Impact of advances in numerical computation on combustion science and technology