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Jan24
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Cody Keenan ('02) is a communications expert who formerly served as the White House director of speechwriting. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America.
Join us as Cody shares stories from his time at the White House and beyond, and learn how he tries to manage the chaos of life - from the highest levels of power to the everyday.
Keenan wrote with President Barack Obama for nearly 14 years, rising from a campaign intern in Chicago to director of speechwriting at the White House and Obama's post-presidential collaborator.
Dubbed the "Springsteen" of the Obama White House, Keenan was referred to by Obama himself as his "Hemingway." Keenan was also recognized by British GQ as one of the "35 Coolest Men under 38 (and a Half)." Cody got his start in public service as a young aide to legendary senator Edward M. Kennedy. Today, he's a partner at the speechwriting firm Fenway and teaches a course on speechwriting in the political science department at Northwestern. Grace, which was Cody's first book and published in October 2022, instantly became a New York Times bestseller.
Individual Students and Student Groups: Students may reserve time to meet with Cody Keenan between 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. To schedule a time, email Bruce Ankenman at ankenman@northwestern.edu, and include the words "Meet with Cody Keenan" in your subject line.
TIME Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
LOCATION The Hive, Room 2-350, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Joe Holtgreive jjh@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Feb5
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lessTitle: Numerical Asteroseismology with the GYRE Code
Speaker: Rich Townsend, University of Wisconsin
Abstract: Some stars display periodic fluctuations in their brightness, arising from the excitation of their global oscillation modes. By modeling these fluctuations, we can place remarkably narrow constraints on the stars' global properties and detailed internal structure—a technique known as "asteroseismology".
In this talk I'll review the theoretical principles of asteroseismology, and describe their implementation in GYRE—an open-source code I've been developing for a little over a decade. Despite committing a fair number of computational cardinal sins, GYRE appears to be accurate, robust, and fast, and has been adopted by many groups around the world as their workhorse for numerical asteroseismology. I'll showcase a few GYRE-based projects that I've recently been involved in, and then discuss enhancements that enable GYRE to simulate tidal phenomena in binary-star and star-planet systems.
Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/94833862205
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TIME Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
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Feb12
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Speaker: Roberto Zenit, Brown University
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TIME Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
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Feb19
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Speaker: Chaoming Song, University of Miami (sabbatical at Northwestern University)
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TIME Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
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Feb26
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Speaker: Stefano Allisina, The University of Chicago
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TIME Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
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Mar12
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lessTitle: TBA
Speaker: Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation
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TIME Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
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Apr2
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Speaker: Oleg Kirillov
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TIME Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
LOCATION M416, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
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May13
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lessTitle: Title TBA - Reiss Lecture
Speaker: Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute
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TIME Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
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May14
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lessTitle: Title TBA - Reiss Lecture
Speaker: Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute
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TIME Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
CONTACT Anne Umbanhowar anne.umbanhowar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)