Colloquium Series

Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Fall 2008

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 5

 

Naomi Leonard, Princeton University

Mobile Sensor Networks: Cooperative Sensing and Control (abstract)

 

 Eliza Michalopoulou

September 12

 

Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University
Stochastic Models and Lie Groups (abstract)

 

 

Denis Blackmore

 

September 19

 

Joyce McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Shear Stiffness Imaging as an Early Diagnostic Tool:  

          New Applications and New Imaging Algorithms  (abstract)

 

 

Eliza Michalopoulou

 

September 26

 

Andrew Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College
Domain Evolution and Relaxation in Langmuir Films (abstract)

 

 

Michael Booty

 

October 3

 

Doron Levy, University of Maryland
Group Dynamics in Phototaxis (abstract)

 

 

Yuan-Nan Young

 

October 10

 

Grétar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Computational Studies of the Dynamics of Heterogeneous 

Continuum Systems (abstract)

 

 

Michael Siegel

 

October 17

 

Linda Cummings, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Bistability in Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) devices (abstract)

 

 

Richard Moore

 

October 24

 

Lou Kondic, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Instabilities of Thin Fluid Films and Rivulets (abstract)

 

 

Lou Kondic

 

October 31

 

John McLaughlin, Clarkson University
Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Single and Two Phase Flows (abstract)

 

 

Michael Booty

 

November 7

 

Peter Howell, University of Oxford
Retraction of a Thin Fluid Sheet (abstract)

 

 

Linda Cummings

 

November 14

 

Peter Miller, University of Michigan
On the Semiclassical Limit for the Sine-Gordon Equation (abstract)

 

 

Richard Moore

 

November 21

 

Pierre Colinet, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Thin Liquid Films, Droplets and Contact Lines with Evaporation and Condensation (abstract)

 

 

Lou Kondic

 

November 28

 

Thanksgiving Recess

 

 

 

December 5

 

Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University
Can Disordered Sphere Packings Ever Be Maximally Dense? (abstract)

 

 

Gregory Kriegsmann