Past Colloquia: Northwestern Events Calendar

Mar

12

2026

Appl Math: Xiao Yu Wang on "What the Proposed Credit Card Regulation Really…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Academic (general)

Mar

5

2026

Appl Math: Xiangyi Meng on "The shape of physical networks"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Academic (general)

Feb

26

2026

Appl Math: Stefano Allesina on "Global stability of ecological and evolutionary…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Academic (general)

Feb

19

2026

Appl Math: Chaoming Song on "Collective Social Dynamics Through the Lens…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Academic (general)

Feb

12

2026

Appl Math: Roberto Zenit on "The Fluid Mechanics of Splatter Painting"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Feb

5

2026

Appl Math: Richard Townsend on "Numerical Asteroseismology with the GYRE…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Jan

30

2026

Appl Math: Diego Klabjan on "Federated Low-rank Learning"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Jan

29

2026

Appl Math: Ching-Yao Lai on "Solution discovery in fluids with high precision…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Jan

23

2026

Appl Math: talk by Diego Klabjan postponed

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Jan

16

2026

Appl Math: talk by Diego Klabjan postponed to 1/23/26

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Nov

20

2025

Appl Math: Ed Lyman on "Elastic and Dynamic Response of Membranes Across…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Nov

13

2025

Appl Math: Nick Moore on "Reversals of the Large-scale Circulation in…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Nov

6

2025

Appl Math: Leonid Berlyand on "Introduction to Mathematics of Artificial…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Oct

27

2025

Appl Math: Mike Shelley on "Self-Organization, Flows, and Transport in…

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, Hive Room 2350, 2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Oct

23

2025

Appl Math: Meridith Joyce on "How to Find a Star by Accident, or How Not…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Oct

16

2025

Appl Math: Todd Gingrich on "Tensor Networks for Stochastic Chemical Kinetics"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Academic (general)

Oct

2

2025

Appl Math: Niall Mangan on "Data-driven model discovery meets mechanistic…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Sep

25

2025

Appl Math: Daniel Lecoanet on "Turbulence, Waves, and Mean Flows in Geophysical…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

May

27

2025

Appl Math: Yiping Lu on "Two Tales, One Resolution: Physics-Informed Test…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

13

2025

Appl Math: Adrienne Fairhall on "Decoding Neurons to Behavior in a Model…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

May

12

2025

Appl Math: Adrienne Fairhall on "In Search of Internal Mental Models"…

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, Hive Room 2350, 2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

6

2025

Appl Math: Chris Vogl on "Improving Global Atmosphere Simulation in Earth…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

29

2025

Appl Math: Johannes Schmidt-Hieber on "Understanding the Effect of GCN…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

22

2025

Appl Math: Todd Murphey on "Control for Embodied Learning"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

15

2025

Appl Math: Dan Wilson on "Phase-Amplitude-Based Techniques for Control…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

8

2025

Appl Math: Brennan Sprinkle on "The Countoscope: Counting Particles to…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Mar

11

2025

Appl Math: Vaseem Shaik on "Active Particles in Inhomogeneous Environments"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Mar

4

2025

Appl Math: Mark Hoefer on "A Wave Theory of Waves"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Feb

25

2025

Appl Math: James Stone on "Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics at Exascale"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Feb

11

2025

Appl Math: Sasha Tchekhovskoy on "Simulating Black Hole Feasts, Burps,…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 (Hybrid)

Feb

4

2025

Appl Math: Pedro Saenz on "Walking Droplets & Galloping Bubbles"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Jan

28

2025

Appl Math: Jane Kondev on "The Scale-Invariant Cell"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Jan

14

2025

Appl Math: Luis Amaral on "Science Is an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet and I…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Dec

3

2024

Appl Math: Evelyn Tang on "Robust Dynamics and Function in Stochastic…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Nov

19

2024

Appl Math: Ertugrul Ozbudak on "Reengineering Somite Segmentation without…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Nov

12

2024

Appl Math: Mariela Petkova on "Carving Circuits from Correlative Connectomics"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Nov

5

2024

Appl Math: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon on "The Dynamics of Particles with Ligand-receptor…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

29

2024

Appl Math: Pedram Hassanzadeh on "Integrating the Spectral Analyses of…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

21

2024

Appl Math: Kate Stebe on "Swimming in Nematic Liquid Crystals"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Technological Institute, LR4 (M113), 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

15

2024

Appl Math: Trevor GrandPre on "Model-free Inference from Time-series Data"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

8

2024

Appl Math: Krishna Shrinivas on "The Many Phases of a Cell"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

4

2024

Appl Math: Rebecca Willett on "Mathematics in Scientific Machine Learning"

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Chambers Hall, Ruan Conference Room - lower level, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208

May

21

2024

Appl Math: Andrew Stuart on "Operator Learning: Algorithms, Analysis and…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

14

2024

Appl Math: Rony Granek on "Active Fractal Networks with Stochastic Force…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

7

2024

Appl Math: Pankaj Mehta on "Mathematics of Life Seminar Series: Randomness,…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

30

2024

Appl Math: Ehud Yariv on "Shocks and Caps in Drop Electrohydrodynamics"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

23

2024

Appl Math: Tom Dean on "Contrail Climate Impacts: Modeling and Mitigation…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

16

2024

Appl Math: Efi Efrati on "Frustrated Assemblies: Describing Matter from…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

9

2024

Appl Math: Maciej Lisicki on "Tales of tails: Elastohydrodynamics of microscale…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Mar

27

2024

Appl Math: Peko Hosoi on "A Few Short Stories about Probability and Sports"…

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, Hive Room 2350, 2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Mar

26

2024

Appl Math: Peko Hosoi on "Filtration and Fluid Mechanics Inspired by the…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Mar

12

2024

Naomi Oppenheimer: Hydrodynamic Hamiltonians of Active Two-dimensional Fluids

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Mar

5

2024

Appl Math: James Fitzgerald on "Bridging Theoretical Neuroscience and…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Feb

27

2024

Appl Math: Snezhana Abarzhi on "Interface Dynamics in Ideal and Realistic…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Feb

20

2024

Appl Math: Sid Goyal on "Competition Across Scales in Biology"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Feb

13

2024

Appl Math: Geoff Vallis on "Rainy-Bénard Convection: An Idealization…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Feb

6

2024

Appl Math: Yue Yu on "Nonlocal Operator is All You Need"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Jan

23

2024

Appl Math: Albane Thery on "Building Models For Swimmers in Complex and…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Jan

16

2024

Appl Math: TALK POSTPONED: Elizabeth Jerison on "Mathematics of Life Seminar…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Nov

28

2023

Appl Math: M. Lin on "Thermodynamic Limits of Molecular Computation"

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Nov

14

2023

Appl Math: Katelyn Leisman on "Flushed with Insights: The Promising Potential…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Nov

8

2023

Virtual Information Session: Applied Mathematics PhD Program

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Online

Nov

7

2023

Appl Math: T. Mora on "Statistical Mechanics of Collective Behavior"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

31

2023

Appl Math: S. Nicholson on "How to Quantify Rare-Events From Microscopic…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

23

2023

Appl Math: Michael Graham on "Data, Dynamics, and Manifolds: Machine Learning…

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Technological Institute, M113, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

17

2023

Appl Math: S. Kriegman on "Instant Evolution: Novel Robots from Scratch…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

10

2023

Appl Math: A. Walczak on "Formation of Immune Repertoire"

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Oct

3

2023

Appl Math: C. Heitsch on "How Can Discrete Mathematics Improve RNA Folding…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

23

2023

Linda Petzold: Interpretable Polynomial Neural ODEs (Reiss Lecture 2)

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

22

2023

Linda Petzold: The Roles and Consequences of Randomness in Biological Systems…

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, 1350, 2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

16

2023

Tiffany Shaw: Fast Jet Stream Winds Get Faster Under Climate Change

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

9

2023

Sung Ha Kang: Identifying Differential Equations with Numerical Methods: Time…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

May

2

2023

Osman Basaran: Pinch-off Singularities and Effects of Surface Viscosity on…

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

18

2023

Gwynn Elfring: Active Matter in Inhomogeneous Environments (corrected time)

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Apr

14

2023

Benjamin Hyatt Awarded NSF-GRFP Fellowship

All Day

Apr

11

2023

Simone Bianco: Computer-Aided Design of Synthetic Cells

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

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