Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: August 27, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Recent Advances on Mimetic Difference Methods DATE: Friday, August 27, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Jose E. Castillo, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Mimetic Differences Operators have been used to develop numerical schemes for solving partial differential equations very effectively. These operators, Divergence, Gradient and Curl, satisfy […]
Date of the Event: July 30, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Mimetic Coastal Ocean Modeling in General Coordinates DATE: Friday, July 30, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Manuel Valera, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Nonlinear internal waves are an ubiquitous and fundamental aspect of the coastal ecosystem understanding, however they rely on extreme geographical conditions […]
Date of the Event: July 16, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Deepfaking Nuclear Reactions: Learning Trends in Cross Section Evaluations with Generative Machine Learning DATE: Friday, July 16, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Jordan Fox, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University and Kyle A. Wendt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Machine learning methods are used to analyze […]
Date of the Event: July 2, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Nuclear Physics for WIMPs DATE: Friday, July 2, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Oliver Gorton, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Astronomical observations indirectly suggest a large fraction of the matter in the universe is nonbaryonic and weakly interacting. This has prompted numerous and ongoing […]
Date of the Event: June 25, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Automated Multi-Component Fitting of Light Models to Observations of Spiral Galaxies DATE: Friday, June 25, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Matthew Portman, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, comprise about 70% of galaxies observed in the local universe […]
Date of the Event: June 18, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Mathematical Models for Cystic Fibrosis: Ideal Antibiotic Treatment Protocols DATE: Friday, June 18, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Peter Uhl, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition that is characterized primarily by build-up of a thick mucus layer in the […]
Date of the Event: June 11, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Prospects of Machine Learning Model Reduction for Dynamical Graph Grammars of Complex Biological Systems DATE: Friday, June 11, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Eric Medwedeff, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In our work, we aim to use machine learning to generate reduced models for […]
Date of the Event: June 4, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Variational Monte Carlo Calculations of Neutron Scattering from Tritium DATE: Friday, June 4, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Abraham Flores, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: For decades the Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method has been successful in describing nuclear bound states, but it has […]
Date of the Event: May 7, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Non-Local Models for Modeling Multiphase Fluids DATE: Friday, May 7, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Amanda Howard, Mathematician, Advanced computing, mathematics, and data, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ABSTRACT: This talk will introduce non-local mathematical models for two phase (fluid/fluid and fluid/solid) systems. We will discuss the mathematical […]
Date of the Event: April 30, 2021
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium How Do You Find Eigenpairs of HUGE Matrices? DATE: Friday, April 30, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Calvin Johnson, Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A common numerical problem is to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric or Hermitian matrices–especially extremal eigenvalues. An example is in the matrix […]