Date of the Event: February 23, 2018
TITLE: Exploring stochastic and multi-scale modeling approaches for a seamless prediction system DATE: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Aneesh Subramanian, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California – San Diego. ABSTRACT: Stochastic schemes to represent model uncertainty in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ensemble prediction system […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: February 16, 2018
TITLE: Modeling the Maritime Optical Atmosphere. DATE: Friday, February 16th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Steven Hammel, Atmospheric Optics Group Leader, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (U.S. Navy) ABSTRACT: The US Navy is engaged with a variety of optical systems ranging from active lasers for ship-defense to passive imaging systems. The interaction of […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: February 9, 2018
TITLE: Sensitivity Analysis, Statistical Inference, Uncertainty Quantification and Emulation of Physics Based Models. DATE: Friday, February 9th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Jasper Vrugt, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC, Irvine ABSTRACT: Dramatic increases in computer power and continuous advances in measurement technologies have stimulated the development and use of increasingly […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: February 2, 2018
TITLE: Lipase: An Enzyme at Sea-Spray Aerosol Particle Surfaces? DATE: Friday, February 2nd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Jamie Schiffer, postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego. ABSTRACT: Sea-spray aerosols (SSA) represent one of the most abundant aerosols within our atmosphere, and yet the current uncertainties associated with SSA impacts on total radiative […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: January 26, 2018
TITLE: Mathematical systems modeling the impact of spatially heterogeneous temperature on dengue fever transmission DATE: Friday, January 26th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Feng-Bin Wang, Division of Natural Science, Center for General Education, Chang Gung University, Taiwan; Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan. ABSTRACT: Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: January 19, 2018
TITLE: COMPLEX NETWORKS: Connecting Equivariant Bifurcation Theory with Engineering Applications DATE: Friday, January 19, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, SDSU ABSTRACT: The advent of novel engineered or smart materials, whose properties can be significantly altered in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, has stimulated the […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: November 3, 2017
TITLE: Improved Validation of Conceptual Climate Models Via Adaptive Data Analysis DATE: Friday, November 3rd, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Charles D. Camp, Department of Mathematics, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. ABSTRACT: Conceptual models are often used to model the Earth’s climate since they are sufficiently simple as to allow an analysis […]
2017
FALL 2017
Date of the Event: October 27, 2017
TITLE: Ingredients for Provably Stable DG Spectral Element Viscous Compressible Flow Solvers DATE: Friday, October 27th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: David A. Kopriva, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University. ABSTRACT: High order methods have great promise, among the most important being the potential for improved computational efficiency and fidelity when […]
2017
FALL 2017
Date of the Event: October 20, 2017
TITLE: Computation and Modeling of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the Highly Non-Linear Regime DATE: Friday, October 20th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Drs. Brittany Lynn and Pei-Fang Wang, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific. ABSTRACT: Major technological advances have been made in the last decade in pulsed lasers. Lasers with tens of femtosecond pulse duration […]
2017
FALL 2017
Date of the Event: October 13, 2017
TITLE: A Few Thoughts on Methane Biocatalysts DATE: Friday, October 13th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Marina Kalyuzhnaya, Department of Biology. ABSTRACT: The consequences of climate change pose significant risks to human health, including reductions of freshwater supplies and food. Global warming is driven by the emission of greenhouse gases, mostly CO2 […]
2017
FALL 2017
