Colloquium Series

Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Spring 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
January 25	James D. Murray, University of Washington  and University of Oxford On the Virtues of Simple Models: From Resolving a Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Anomaly to Enhancing Imaging Techniques for Brain Tumours to Highlighting the Inadequacies of Current Therapies (abstract)	Daljit Ahluwalia
February 1	George Papanicolaou, Stanford University Imaging in Clutter (abstract)	Demetrios Papageorgiou
February 8	Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University Regularization Methods for Fluid Flow Simulations (abstract)	Svetlana Tlupova
February 15	Michael Renardy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Stability of Viscoelastic Shear Flow in the Limit of High Reynolds and Weissenberg Numbers (abstract)	Yuan-Nan Young
February 22	Naomi Leonard, Princeton University TALK CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER	Eliza Michalopoulou
February 29	Louis J. Gross, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Mathematics as a Mechanism for Cohesion in Biology (abstract)	Amit Bose
March 7	Demetrius Papageorgiou, NJIT Some Problems in Interfacial Electrohydrodynamics (abstract)	Richard Moore
March 14	Ashwani Kapila, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and National Science Foundation Detonation Failure in the Ignition-and-Growth Model (abstract)	John Bechtold
March 21	Spring Break
March 28	Thomas Powers, Brown University `Life at Low Reynolds Number’ Revisited (abstract)	Yuan-Nan Young
April 4	Greg Baker, Ohio State University Some Topics in Water Waves (abstract)	Michael Siegel
April 11	Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory Onset of Collective Behavior in Colonies of Swimming Microorganisms (abstract)	Sheldon Wang
April 18	Mac Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory Emerging Paradigms in Large-Scale Science-Based Simulations (abstract)	Wooyoung Choi
April 25	Ruben Rosales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Facet evolution on supported nanostructures: the effect of finite height (abstract)	Richard Moore
May 2	Gregory Kriegsmann, NJIT Propagation in Periodic Dielectric Media (abstract)	Richard Moore