Colloquium Series

Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Fall 2007

All talks are in Cullimore Lecture Hall II at 11:35 am unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are usually served at 11:30 am. If you have any questions about a particular colloquium, please contact the person hosting the speaker. For general questions about the colloquium schedule, please contact Richard Moore (rmoore@njit.edu).

Date	Speaker and title	Host
September 7	Carson Chow, National Institutes of Health  A Kinetic Theory for Coupled Oscillators (abstract)	Amit Bose
September 14	Ken Miller, Columbia University Feedforward and Recurrent Processing in Cat Primary Visual Cortex (abstract)	Victor Matveev
September 21	William Schultz, University of Michigan Viscoelastic Effects in Glass Fiber Forming (abstract)	Greg Kriegsmann
September 28	Farzan Nadim, New Jersey Institute of Technology The Role of Anatomical Structure in Determining Activity in Electrically Coupled Neuronal Networks (abstract)	Richard Moore
October 5	Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University Database for Multiparameter Dynamical Systems (abstract)	Richard Moore
October 12	Mary Silber, Northwestern University Controlling Pattern Formation (abstract)	Yuan-Nan Young
October 19	Irving Epstein, Brandeis University Differential and Cross-Diffusion Effects on Pattern Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Systems (abstract)	Horacio Rotstein
October 26	Mark Holmes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computational Modeling of the Ear (abstract)	Louis Tao
November 2	Philip Holmes, Princeton University Collective Neuronal Dynamics and Drift-Diffusion Models for Decision Making (abstract)	Amit Bose
November 9	Stephen Childress, New York University Hovering of Passive Bodies in an Oscillating Airflow (abstract)	Michael Siegel
November 16	Michael Weinstein, Columbia University Coherent Structures and Energy Transfer in Conservative Nonlinear Systems (abstract)	Roy Goodman
November 23	Thanksgiving Break
November 30	Klaus Lackner, Columbia University Energy Options for the 21st Century (abstract)	Bruce Bukiet
December 7	Iain Couzin, Princeton University Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups (abstract)	Gareth Russell