News & EventsColloquia & 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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2020
6/9/2020
Eve Armstrong, New York Institute of Technology
Identifying the Measurements Required to Estimate Rates of COVID-19 Transmission, Infection, and Detection, Using Variational Data Assimilation
3/2/2020
Rennie Mirollo, Boston College
Is the Ott-Antonsen Manifold Attracting?
2/24/2020
Alan Lindsay, The University of Notre Dame
The Mathematics of Diffusive Signaling and the Role of Receptor Clustering in Chemoreception
2/17/2020
Madhav Mani, Northwestern University
Mathematical Approaches to Studying the Patterns of Organisms
2/10/2020
Takashi Nishikawa, Northwestern University
Converse Symmetry Breaking: Theory and Experiment
2/3/2020
Alexei Koulakov, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Formation of Neuronal Connectivity: Nature versus Nurture
1/27/2020
Jörn Dunkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Symmetry Breaking and Pattern Formation in Soft Matter and Active Fluids
1/13/2020
Vilas Menon, Columbia University
Exploring the Molecular State Space of Cells in the Brain
1/6/2020
Eric Dufresne, ETH Zurich
Growing Droplets in Cells and Gels
2019
12/2/19
Kresimir Josic, The University of Houston
11/18/19
Helen Moore, Applied BioMath
Dynamical Systems Modeling in the Biopharm Industry
11/11/2019
Dezhe Jin, Penn State
Self-organized Wiring of a Neuronal Network from Precise Timing in Songbird
11/4/19
Alla Borisyuk, The University of Utah
Diffusion with Recharging Traps and the Effect of Astrocytes in Neuronal Networks
10/7/2019
Nick Cogan, Florida State University
Dynamics of the Plant Pathogen Xylella fastidiosa : Models, Data and Sensitivity Analysis
6/3/2019
James Swan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Large Scale Simulation of Colloidal Hydrodynamics: Heterogenous Particles, Structures and Flow Patterns
4/8/2019
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Becoming What You Smell: Adaptive Sensing and Efficient Coding in the Olfactory System
2/25/2019
Tong Gao, Michigan State University
Probing Non-Equilibrium Fluids: Self-Assembly, Collective Dynamics, and Autonomous Machine
2/11/2019
Grant Rotskoff, New York University
Neural Networks as Interacting Particle Systems: Understanding Global Convergence of Parameter Optimization Dynamics
1/24/2019
Susanne Horn, UCLA
Advanced Models of Thermal Convection: A Window Into Coherent Structures and Geophysical Turbulence
1/22/2019
William Holmes, Vanderbilt University
Design Principles of Cellular and Developmental Systems
1/17/2019
Kyle Parfrey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Simulating Relativistic Astoplasmas from Microphysics to Global Dynamics
1/14/2019
Henrik Ronellenfitsch, MIT
Optimal Form and Function
1/10/2019
Andrew Mugler, Purdue University
Mathematical Modeling of Cell-Cell Communication and Collective Behavior
1/7/2019
Gal Mishne, Yale University
Local Geometric Spectral Data Analysis
2018
12/10/2018
Tom Chou, UCLA
Dynamics of structured populations: From aging demographics to cell size control
11/26/2018
Qiong Yang, University of Michigan
From Molecules to Development: Understanding How Biological Oscillators Function and Coordinate
11/19/2018
Suri Vaikuntanathan, University of Chicago
Organization and self-assembly far from equilibrium: Dissipation induced transitions in membranes and materials
11/5/2018
Rama Ranganathan, University of Chicago
Evolutionary Design of Proteins
10/29/2018
Tandy Warnow, UIUIC
NJMerge: A New Divide-and-Conquer Method for Scaling Phylogeny Estimation to Large Datasets
10/22/2018
Yuhai Tu, IBM Watson
Principles of Sensory Adaptation
10/8/2018
Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University (Mechanical Engineering)
Modeling Segregation in Granular Flows
6/11/2018 (4 PM to 5 PM)
Dinshaw Balsara, University of Notre Dame
Bringing Astrophysics Down to Earth: The Development of a New Generation of High-Accuracy Methods for Computational Electrodynamics
6/11/2018 (2 PM to 3 PM)
Aleksandra Shirman, University of California San Diego
Estimation of Model Parameters in Non-Linear Systems Through Statistical Data Assimilation Methods
6/4/2018
David Saintillan, University of California San Diego
From Bacteria to Chromosomes Hydrodynamic Self-organization of Biological Active Matter
5/21/2018
Paul Francois, McGill University
Untangling the Hairball of Immune Recognition Networks
4/30/2018
Robert Deegan, University of Michigan
Photoelectrowetting
4/23/2018
Joseph Tien, Ohio State University
Disease Spread on Networks: Integrating Structure and Dynamics
4/16/2018
Jeffrey Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building Microbial Communities from the Bottom Up
4/10/2018 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 2)
Professor Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge
Upside-Down and Inside-Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding
4/9/2018 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 1)
Professor Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Cambridge
Fluid Mechanics at the Scale of the Cell
4/2/2018
David Williams, Allen Institute for Cell Science
Cells of Many Structures: Integrating Cell Organization with Conditional Models
3/5/2018
Eric Keaveny, Imperial College London
Linking the Micro- and Macro-scales in Populations of Swimming Cells
2/26/2018
Alex Snezhko, Argonnne National Laboratory
Emergent Dynamics in Active Spinner Materials
2/19/2018
Cristian Huepe, Northwestern University
Structure and Dynamics of Modular Hierarchical Networks
2/12/2018
Harish Bhat, University of California, Merced
Bbuilding Predictive Models from Data: Examples from Sports and Public Health
2/5/2018
Thom Cleland, Cornell University
Algorithms of the Early Olfactory System
1/29/2018
Jens Eggers, University of Bristol
Two Problems Involving Breakup of a Liquid Film
1/22/2018
Hyejin Youn, Northwestern University
Scaling in Physics, Biology, Cities, and Beyond
2017
11/27/17
Yannis Kevrekidis, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins Professor Emeritus, Princeton
No equations, no variables, no parameters, no space and no time: Data and Machine Learning In Modeling Complex Systems
11/20/17
Nir Gavish, PhD, Israel Institute of Technology
A Model of Highly Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions
11/6/17
Daniel Lecoanet, Princeton University
Model Hierarchies for Data Analysis in Fluid Dynamics
10/30/17
Michael Rust, PhD, University of Chicago
Demand for High Protein Copy Number Can Favor Timers Over Clocks in Bacteria
10/23/17
Ashok Litwin Kumar, PhD, Columbia University
Optimal Degrees of Synaptic Connectivity
10/2/2017
Sam Barnett, PhD, Barnett Capital, Ltd.
Engaged Minds Think Alike: Measuring Neural Similarity & Dynamic Audiovisual Stimuli
9/25/2017
Dr. Lauren Childs, Virginia Tech
Simulating Within-Vector Generation of the Malaria Parasite Diversity
6/5/2017
Hans Breiter, MD, Northwestern University
Feynman Lawfulness in Human Pleasure and Aversion, and its Implications for a Quantitative Model of Emotion
5/16/2017 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 2)
Dr. John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology
The "Superfluid-Like" Behavior of Active Matter
5/15/2017 (Reiss Memorial Lecture, Day 1)
Dr. John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology
The Swim Pressure of Active Matter
5/8/2017
Daniel Poll, University of Houston
Stochastic Dynamics in Bump Attractor Models of Spatial Working Memory
4/17/2017
Dr. Robert Rosenbaum, University of Notre Dame
Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Computations in Recurrent Neuronal Networks
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, University of Oxford
How magnets and mathematics can help solve the current water crisis
5/10/16
Professor L. Mahedevan, Harvard University (Reiss Lectures)
Programming Shape: geometry, physics and engineering
5/9/16
Professor L. Mahadevan, Harvard University (Reiss Lectures)
Predicting Shape: geometry, physics and biology
5/2/16
Professor Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
Freezing of solutions and colloidal suspensions
4/25/16
Dr. Asghar Esmaeeli, Southern Illinois University
Computational Simulations of Electrohydrodynamics of Suspensions of Liquid Drops
4/18/16
Professor Seppe Kuehn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Determinism and Contingency in Microbial Communities
4/11/16
Dr. Douglas Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Sparsity and compressed coding in neuronal networks
4/4/16
Professor Ernest Barreto, George Mason University
Collective Dynamics in Populations of Oscillators
3/7/16
Professor Randy LeVeque, University of Washington
Numerical Modeling of Tsunamis and Other Geohazards
2/22/2016
Dr. Laura Stricker, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization (Germany)
Numerical study of artificial microswimmers propelled by Marangoni flow
1/25/16
Dr. Mattia Gazzola, Harvard University
Inverse Design of Swimming Dynamics
1/21/16
Dr. Shravan Veerapaneni, University of Michigan
Fast Algorithms for Particulate Flows
1/14/16
Dr. Brian Camley, University of California, San Diego
Emergent Collective Chemotaxis Without Single-Cell Gradient Sensing
1/11/16
Dr. Enkeleida Lushi, Brown University
Active Micro-Particles in Free Space and Confinement
1/7/16
Dr. Sabetta Matsumoto, Harvard University
Biomimetic 4D Printing
2015
12/9/15
Dr. Ivana Bozic, Harvard University
Stochastic evolutionary modeling of cancer development and resistance to treatment
12/7/15
Dr. Wenxiao Pan, The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mesoscale Modeling of Complex Fluids and Materials
11/30/15
Professor Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Courant Institute, New York University
Kinetics of Particles with Short-ranged Interactions
11/16/15
Professor Jasmine Food, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Understanding the Cancer Field Effect
11/9/15
Professor Karin Leiderman, University of California, Merced
Mathematical Modeling of Thrombus Formation Under Flow
11/2/15
Dr. Lucy Colwell, 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, University of California, Los Angeles
Nonequilibrium Semiflexible Network and the Mechanics of the Cell
10/19/15
Professor Agnese Seminar, Harvard University and University of Nice (France)
Olfactory based navigation in mice
10/12/15
Professor Ariel Amir, Harvard University
Simultaneous regulation of cell size and chromosome replication in bacteria
10/5/15
Professor Raissa D'Souza, University of California, Davis
Steering and controlling systems of interdependent networks