Events
Colloquia & Seminars

During the academic year, the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics holds a weekly applied math colloquium. 

  • Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
  • Tech M416
  • Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.

To subscribe to the Applied Mathematics Colloquia Listserv, send an email to seminar-join@esam.northwestern.edu

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SPRING 2016

5/23/16
 Professor Shmuel Rubinstein Harvard University
The maximally crumpled state: crumpling dynamics and the evolution of damage networks

5/16/16
 Dr. Ian Griffiths of University of Oxford
 How magnets and mathematics can help solve the current water crisis

5/10/16
 Professor L. Mahedevan of Harvard University (Reiss Lectures)
 Programming Shape: geometry, physics and engineering

5/9/16
 Professor L. Mahadevan of Harvard University (Reiss Lectures)
 Predicting Shape: geometry, physics and biology

5/2/16
 Professor Grae Worster of University of Cambridge
 Freezing of solutions and colloidal suspensions

4/25/16
 Dr. Asghar Esmaeeli of Southern Illinois University
Computational Simulations of Electrohydrodynamics of Suspensions of Liquid Drops

4/18/16
 Professor Seppe Kuehn of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Determinism and Contingency in Microbial Communities

4/11/16
 Dr. Douglas Zhou of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 Sparsity and compressed coding in neuronal networks

4/4/16
Professor Ernest Barreto of George Mason University
Collective Dynamics in Populations of Oscillators

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WINTER 2016

3/7/16
 Professor Randy LeVeque of University of Washington
Numerical Modeling of Tsunamis and Other Geohazards

2/22/2016
 Dr. Laura Stricker of Max Planck Institute for Dynanics and Self Organization (Germany)
"Numerical study of artificial microswimmers propelled by Marangoni flow"

1/25/16
 Dr. Mattia Gazzola of Harvard University
 "Inverse Design of Swimming Dynamics"

1/21/16 (Thursday @ 4pm)
 Dr. Shravan Veerapaneni of University of Michigan
 "Fast Algorithms for Particulate Flows"

1/14/16 (Thursday @4pm)
 Dr. Brian Camley of University of California, San Diego
 "Emergent Collective Chemotaxis Without Single-Cell Gradient Sensing"

1/11/16
Dr. Enkeleida Lushi of Brown University
 "Active Micro-Particles in Free Space and Confinement"

1/7/16 (Thursday @ 4pm)
 Dr. Sabetta Matsumoto of Harvard University
 "Biomimetic 4D Printing"

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Fall 2015

12/9/15 (Wednesday @ 4pm)
 Dr. Ivana Bozic of Harvard University
 "Stochastic evolutionary modeling of cancer development and resistance to treatment"

12/7/15
 Dr. Wenxiao Pan of The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
 "Mesoscale Modeling of Complex Fluids and Materials"

11/30/15
Professor Miranda Holmes-Cerfon of Courant Institute, New York University
"Kinetics of Particles with Short-ranged Interactions"

11/16/15
Professor Jasmine Foo of University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
"Understanding the Cancer Field Effect"

11/9/15
Professor Karin Leiderman of University of California, Merced
"Mathematical Modeling of Thrombus Formation Under Flow"

11/2/15
Dr. Lucy Colwell of University of Cambridge
"Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function: Modeling with Random Matrix Theory"

10/26/15
Professor Alexander Levine of University of California, Los Angeles
"Nonequilibrium Semiflexible Network and the Mechanics of the Cell"

10/19/15
Professor Agnese Seminara of Harvard University and University of Nice (France)
"Olfactory based navigation in mice"

10/12/15
 Professor Ariel Amir of Harvard University
"Simultaneous regulation of cell size and chromosome replication in bacteria"

10/5/15
Professor Raissa D'Souza of University of California, Davis
"Steering and controlling systems of interdependent networks"