Colloquium Series

Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Fall 2005

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  John Bechtold (bechtold@oak.njit.edu).

 


Date
Speaker and title
Host




September 2
 Bernard J. Matkowsky, Northwestern University
 Dynamics of Hot Spots in Solid Fuel Combustion (abstract)
 Robert Miura
September 9
Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University
  Differential Penetrance and Biological Principles  (abstract)
  Jorge Golowasch
September 16 
Colin McKinstrie, Lucent Technologies
Phase Jitter in Optical Communications Systems  (abstract)
 Richard Moore
September 23
 Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
Radiative Transfer Equations and Applications  (abstract)
 Louis Tao
September 30
Rich Jordan, Mount Holyoke College and Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contact Processes and Epidemics on General Networks: The Role of Network Spectra and Topology  (abstract) - Postponed
 David Horntrop
October 7
 Gavin Schmidt, Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Climate Models, Climate Forcings and Climate Change  (abstract)
 Michael Booty
October 14
 Chris Jones, University of North Carolina
Do Forcing and Viscosity Drive Chaotic Advection? (abstract)		 Amit Bose 
October 21
Gareth J. Russell, NJIT and Rutgers-Newark
Modeling Biological Invasions - from beetles in New Jersey to plants in the Everglades  (abstract)
 John Bechtold
October 28
 Wooyoung Choi, NJIT
First step toward detecting giant internal solitary waves  (abstract)
John Bechtold
November 4
Peter Gordon, NJIT
Detonation and deflagration in porous media combustion (abstract)
 John Bechtold
November 11
 L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
Extreme Elastohydrodynamics: of flags, fishes and plants (abstract)
 Michael Booty
November 18
J. D. Gunton, Lehigh University
Condensation of globular proteins from solution (abstract)
 David Horntrop
November 25
 No colloquium: Thanksgiving
December 2
 Oliver Buhler, Courant Institute, NYU
Small waves, large vortices and the gait of the water strider  (abstract)
 Yuan Nan Young
December 9
Chjan Lim, RPI
 A Second Modulus of Elasticity for an Ensemble of Vortex Lines - new vortex matter in superfluid He4 and superconductors  (abstract)
 Denis Blackmore

                                    1 Joint Colloquium with Department of Mechanical Engineering, NJIT                                                              

                                    * Special Wednesday Colloquium, Room ME 224

                                    **  Room 611 Cullimore