Computational Science Research Center

Computational Science Research Center

An Integrative Approach to Understanding Myosin-Based Heart Disease

Date of the Event: July 24, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium An Integrative Approach to Understanding Myosin-Based Heart Disease DATE: Friday, July 24, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Sanford Bernstein, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Mutations in the molecular motor protein myosin can cause either dilated (enlarged heart chambers) or hypertrophic (excess tissue growth) cardiac […]

2020 SUMMER 2020

Developing and Using Free Energy Calculations to Guide Pharmaceutical Lead Optimization

Date of the Event: July 17, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Developing and Using Free Energy Calculations to Guide Pharmaceutical Lead Optimization DATE: Friday, July 17, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. David Mobley, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine ABSTRACT: Research in the Mobley lab focuses on computational techniques to help guide pharmaceutical drug […]

2020 SUMMER 2020

Escaping the Stiffness Trap: The Unlikely Journey of Metastatic Cancer Cells

Date of the Event: July 10, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Escaping the Stiffness Trap: The Unlikely Journey of Metastatic Cancer Cells DATE: Friday, July 10, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Parag Katira, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Experiments have shown that most adherent cells, including cancer cells, can sense the stiffness of their environments and […]

2020 SUMMER 2020

Machine Learning Mediated Discovery of Genetic Modifiers of Huntington’s Disease

Date of the Event: June 26, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Machine Learning Mediated Discovery of Genetic Modifiers of Huntington√¢¬Ä¬ôs Disease DATE: Friday, June 26, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Animesh Ray, Computational and Molecular Biology, Keck Graduate Institute ABSTRACT: Huntington√¢¬Ä¬ôs disease is a genetic disorder in which a stretch of repeated triplet nucleotides, 5√¢¬Ä¬ô-(CAG)n-3√¢¬Ä¬ô, is expanded (relative […]

2020 SUMMER 2020

BATUD: Blind Atmospheric Turbulence Deconvolution

Date of the Event: June 12, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium BATUD: Blind Atmospheric Turbulence Deconvolution DATE: Friday, June 12, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Jerome Gilles, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In a previous work, we suggested using the Fried kernel to perform image deconvolution of stabilized images acquired through atmospheric turbulence. […]

2020 SUMMER 2020

Creatively Navigating Job Markets After Graduating In Times of Uncertainty

Date of the Event: June 10, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Creatively Navigating Job Markets After Graduating In Times of Uncertainty DATE: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 TIME: 2:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference PANEL: John Newsam – Chair, CSRC Advisory Board Karmin Noar – Executive Director of BIOCOM Alfonso Limon – CSRC Alumni and Board Member John Aven – CSRC Alumni Jamie Schiffer […]

2020 SUMMER 2020

Exploring the Dynamics of a Quantum-Mechanical Compton Generator

Date of the Event: June 5, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Exploring the Dynamics of a Quantum-Mechanical Compton Generator DATE: Friday, June 5, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Martin Kandes, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In 1913, while he was still was an undergraduate, American physicist Arthur Compton invented a simple way to measure […]

2020 SUMMER 2020

Silica-Based Glasses: Realizing Process-Structure-Property Connections Through Computational Modeling

Date of the Event: May 29, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Silica-Based Glasses: Realizing Process-Structure-Property Connections Through Computational Modeling DATE: Friday, May 29, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Mark Wilson, Computational Materials and Data Science, Sandia National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Silica-based glasses are increasingly becoming vital components in our current technology, from data transmission lines, to electronics, to optical […]

2020 SPRING 2020

Covid-19 – An Outsider’s Perspective

Date of the Event: May 22, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Covid-19 – An Outsider’s Perspective DATE: Friday, May 22, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Richard Greenblatt, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing global economic slump are defining features of our current condition. This review will first consider briefly […]

2020 SPRING 2020

High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI);Using World Class Computational Capability to Increase National Energy Efficiency

Date of the Event: May 15, 2020

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI);Using World Class Computational Capability to Increase National Energy Efficiency DATE: Friday, May 15, 2020 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Robin Miles (HPC4EI Director), and Aaron Fisher (Project Manager), High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ABSTRACT: The High Performance […]

2020 SPRING 2020