Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: November 9, 2018
TITLE: The Chemistry of Atmospheric Smog and Aerosols: Critical Roles of Ammonia DATE: Friday, November 9th, 2018 TIME: 4:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Fu-Ming Tao, Professor, Physical Chemistry, CSU Fullerton. ABSTRACT: Oxides of nitrogen and sulfur are two major sources of air pollution, commonly known as Los Angeles (LA) smog and London smog, respectively. In […]
Date of the Event: November 2, 2018
TITLE: The Symbiosis of Viruses and Bacteria Explains the Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Communities DATE: Friday, November 2nd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Antonio Luque, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. ABSTRACT: Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and are the most abundant biological entity on Earth, playing major ecological roles […]
Date of the Event: October 26, 2018
TITLE: Combining NMR and Computational Techniques to Elucidate the Molecular Structure and Assembly of Spider Silk DATE: Friday, October 26th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Bennett Addison and Gregory P. Holland, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Over 300 million years spiders have evolved to produce six different silks and one glue-like […]
Date of the Event: October 19, 2018
TITLE: Using Machine Learning and Quantum Mechanics to Understand Chemical Reactions on Surfaces DATE: Friday, October 19th, 2018 TIME: 4:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Michael Groves, Assistant Professor, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, CSU Fullerton. ABSTRACT: Catalysts, which are substances that increase the rate of a given chemical reaction without being consumed themselves, have a critical […]
Date of the Event: October 12, 2018
TITLE: New Methods for Computational Photochemistry DATE: Friday, October 12th, 2018 TIME: 4:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Filipp Furche, Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine. ABSTRACT: The concept of Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surfaces is fundamental for ground-state chemistry, but ill-defined for photochemical processes such as radiationless transitions and whenever electronic and nuclear motions are strongly […]
Date of the Event: October 5, 2018
TITLE: Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of the flow dynamics for a viscoelastic fluid in a four-roll mill geometry at the Stokes limit. DATE: Friday, October 5th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Paloma Gutierrez, Krener Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis. ABSTRACT: Numerical simulations of viscoelastic fluids in the Stokes limit with a […]
Date of the Event: September 28, 2018
TITLE: Applying fundamental science to industrial problems DATE: Friday, September 28th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Antonio Redondo, Division Leader, Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation, Los Alamos National Laboratory. ABSTRACT: In this talk we shall discuss some of the approaches that we have implemented at Los Alamos National Laboratory to solve problems […]
Date of the Event: September 21, 2018
TITLE: Smart modeling for complex biological systems DATE: Friday, September 21st, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Eric Mjolsness, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Irvine. ABSTRACT: There is substantial need and opportunity to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to bear on the scalable modeling of complex biological systems. Both symbolic AI in […]
Date of the Event: September 14, 2018
TITLE: A High-Order Perturbation of Surfaces Method for Electromagnetic Scattering by Periodic Multiply Layered Gratings DATE: Friday, September 14th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Youngjoon Hong, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: The accurate simulation of scattering of electromagnetic waves in three dimensions by a diffraction grating […]
Date of the Event: September 7, 2018
TITLE: A File System Bypassing Volatile Main Memory: Towards A Single-Level Persistent Store DATE: Friday, September 7th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Tao Xie, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Existing persistent memory (PM) based file systems rely on a DRAM and PM hybrid store. Although a hybrid store […]