Date of the Event: February 27, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Ignacio Sepulveda, San Diego State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering ABSTRACT: This presentation highlights three distinct contributions to tsunami science and hazard assessment. First, I present results from recent research linking dispersive tsunami wave trains visible in satellite imagery to evidence of earthquake rupture occurring near the […]
2026
Spring 2026
Date of the Event: February 20, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Nicole Lloyd-Running, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computational Physics and Methods ABSTRACT: The most luminous objects in our universe, gamma-ray bursts, can spectacularly outshine millions of galaxies while they are active. Caused by the collapse of a massive star or the merger of two compact objects, the emission from […]
2026
Spring 2026
Date of the Event: February 13, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Gustaaf Jacobs, San Diego State University, Aerospace Engineering ABSTRACT: Particle- and droplet-laden flows occur in many anthropogenic and natural environments. For example, the mixing of liquid fuel spray and/or solid fuel particles with turbulent gas flows determines the efficiency of many propulsion and energy systems. Environmental pollution is […]
2026
Spring 2026
Date of the Event: February 6, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin, Italy ABSTRACT: The AI Act is the first comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence systems and models across the board. It is a complex legal text, comprising 180 recitals, over 68 definitions, 113 articles, and 13 annexes, which is expected to enter into force […]
2026
Spring 2026
Date of the Event: January 30, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Yifan Zhang, San Diego State University, Computer Science ABSTRACT: Mobile ecosystems rely on ever-evolving supply chains, but overlooked design flaws and privacy gaps pose significant risks. In this talk, I will present two studies addressing these challenges. The first reveals a design flaw in Android Studio that allows […]
2026
Spring 2026
Date of the Event: December 5, 2025
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Golo Wimmer, Los Alamos National Laboratory ABSTRACT: The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations possess a rich underlying structure, including the divergence-free condition of the magnetic field and balanced transfers between kinetic, internal and magnetic energy. Numerical methods that fail to preserve this structure may suffer from reduced accuracy or even […]
2025
FALL 2025
Date of the Event: November 21, 2025
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Mehmet Dogan, San Diego State University (Physics) ABSTRACT: Using density functional theory (DFT) and pseudopotentials, we can accurately describe the electrons in most materials. In practice, though, solving the Kohn–Sham equations (the working equations of DFT) is still very expensive on a computer. This usually limits us to […]
2025
FALL 2025
Date of the Event: November 14, 2025
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Kathryn Maupin, Sandia National Laboratory (Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification) ABSTRACT: Computational simulation has allowed scientists to explore, observe, and test physical regimes previously thought to be unattainable. Bayesian analysis provides a natural framework for incorporating the uncertainties that undeniably exist in computational modeling. However, the ability to perform […]
2025
FALL 2025
Date of the Event: November 7, 2025
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Mohammad Farazmand, North Carolina State University ABSTRACT: Classical spectral methods for numerically solving PDEs assume the solution as the linear combination of prescribed basis functions (or modes). This assumption limits their efficacy for time-dependent multi-scale problems with localized time-varying features. I will first introduce the notion of Shape-Morphing […]
2025
FALL 2025
Date of the Event: October 31, 2025
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Paul Carter, University of CA, Irvine (Department of Mathematics) ABSTRACT: Motivated by the appearance of desertification fronts between bare soil and vegetation in dryland ecosystems, we consider the dynamics of planar interfaces between stable homogeneous rest states in multi-component reaction diffusion equations. On sloped terrain, one can find […]
2025
FALL 2025
