Edward L. Reiss was a distinguished applied mathematician at Northwestern who passed away in 2000. To honor his memory, the Edward L. Reiss Memorial Fund was established to support the Edward L. Reiss Memorial Lectures in Applied Mathematics as an annual event.
- Edward L. Reiss -
2009
The 2009 speaker will be Professor G. Nicolis of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Professor Nicolis will deliver two lectures:
Frontiers in Complex Systems Research
April 6, 2009, Room M416, 4:00 PM
A reception will be held at 5 PM in room M416.
Kinetics of Transitions Across a Barrier in the Presence of Time Dependent Forcing
April 7, 2009, Room M416, 4:00 PM
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in room M416.
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2008
The 2008 speaker was Professor Harry Swinney of the University of Texas. Professor Swinney delivered two lectures:
Emergence of Spatial Patterns in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems.
May 5, 2008, Room M416, 4:00 PM
A reception was held at 5 PM in room M416.
Dymical Systems Invariant Curves as Barriers to Transport in Oceanic Flows
May 6, 2008, Room M416, 4:00 PM
Refreshments were served at 3:30 PM in room M416.
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2007
The 2007 speaker was Professor Sir Michael Berry of the University of Bristol. Professor Berry delivered two lectures:
Polarization fingerprints in the clear blue sky.
June 7, 2007, Room M345, 4:00 PM
A reception was held at 5 PM in room M416.
Physics of non-Hermitian degeneracies
June 8, 2007, Room M345, 4:00 PM
Refreshments was served at 3:30 PM in room M416.
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2006
The 2006 speaker was Professor Stephen Childress of Courant Institute, NYU. This lecture was co-sponsored by the IGERT program. Professor Childress delivered two lectures:
FLAPPING FLIGHT AS A BIFURCATION IN REYNOLDS NUMBER
May 22, 2006, Room M416, 4:00 PM
A reception will follow the lecture.
PAIRED VORTICES, VORTICITY GROWTH, AND HOVERING FLIGHT
May 23, 2006, Room M416, 4:00 PM
Refreshments at 3:30 PM
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2005
The 2005 speaker was Professor Edward A. Spiegel of Columbia University.
BIFURCATIONS AND GEOMETRY
May 23, 2005, Room M416, 4:00 PM
A reception will follow the lecture.
CONTINUUM EQUATIONS FOR RAREFIED GASES
May 24, 2005, Room M416, 4:00 PM
Refreshments at 3:30 PM
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2004
The 2004 speaker was Professor George C. Papanicolaou of Stanford University
PASSIVE AND ACTIVE ARRAY IMAGING IN CLUTTER
May 17, 2004, Room M416, 4:00 PM
A reception will follow the lecture.
HIGH CAPACITY COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
May 18, 2004, Room M416, 4:00 PM
Refreshments at 3:30 PM
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2003
The 2003 speaker was Professor Joseph E. Flaherty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
ADAPTIVE AND PARALLEL DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS FOR CONSERVATION LAWS
FUNDAMENTAL COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL PROPERTIES
May 12, 2003, Room M416, 4:00 PM
A-POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATION AND SUPERCONVERGENCE
May 13, 2003, Room M416, 4:00 PM
2002
The 2002 speaker was Professor Joseph B. Keller of Stanford University.
THE MATHEMATICS OF VISUAL PERCEPTION
BINOCULAR VISION
May 13, 2002, Room M416, 4:00 PM
COLOR VISION
May 14, 2002, Room M416, 4:00 PM
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2001
The 2001 speaker was Professor Herbert B. Keller of the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego.
CONTINUATION, BIFURCATION AND HOMOTOPY IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
May 14, 2001, Room M416, 4:00 PM
THE RECURSIVE PROJECTION METHOD: STABILIZATION AND ACCELERATION OF ITERATIVE PROCESSES
May 15, 2001, Room M416, 4:00 PM
