Date of the Event: February 3, 2017
TITLE: The Emergent Heart Function: From Genetic Mutations to Architectural Malformations DATE: Friday, February 3rd, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Anna Grosberg, Cardiovascular Modeling Laboratory, UC Irvine. ABSTRACT: The heart√¢¬Ä¬ôs primary function is to generate pressure to move blood throughout the body, which is normally accomplished with striking efficiency and is […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: January 27, 2017
TITLE: Enabling Computation for Machine Learning Algorithms Inspired by Neurobiology DATE: Friday, January 27th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Doug Bergman, Algorithmic Data Scientist at KnuEdge ABSTRACT: Natural neural systems tightly couple a wide diversity of neuron types and connections to perform extremely efficient pattern recognition processing with very little training. […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: January 20, 2017
TITLE: Finding and Understanding Cortical Maps — It’s Maps All the Way Up DATE: Friday, January 20th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Marty Sereno, Department of Psychology SDSU ABSTRACT: Topological maps of receptor sheets have long been known to characterize early stages of sensory processing in the brain. But two-dimensional topological […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: December 9, 2016
TITLE: Risk estimation and mapping using a bayesian approach DATE: Friday, December 9th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Lelys Bravo. Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. University of California in Santa Cruz. ABSTRACT: This talk presents a methodology to estimate environmental risk, departing from its standard definition: the product […]
2016
FALL 2016
Date of the Event: December 5, 2016
TITLE: A Survey of Applications and Future Directions of Computational Intelligence DATE: Monday, December 5th, 2016 TIME: 3:00 to 4:00 PM LOCATION: Gold Auditorium at the Bioscience Center, SDSU SPEAKER: Dr. Gary Fogel. Chief Executive Officer of Natural Selection, Inc. San Diego, California. ABSTRACT: Computational intelligence (CI) has a rich history of inspiration from natural […]
2016
FALL 2016
Date of the Event: December 2, 2016
TITLE: Sustainable Multi-level Tuning for Exascale Science Applications DATE: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Tony Drummond. Senior Scientist at Global Footprint Network. ABSTRACT: Enabling performance sustainability for complex parallel computer applications and high-end simulations requires the coherent integration of software programming practices and environments, static tuning and automatic […]
2016
FALL 2016
Date of the Event: November 18, 2016
TITLE: Combining Geometric Time and Mimetic Spatial Finite Difference Discretizations. DATE: Friday, November 18th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Stanly Steinberg, Professor of Mathematics, University of New Mexico. ABSTRACT: Geometric time and mimetic spatial discretization have recently undergone, INDEPENDENTLY, rapid development. Unfortunately when these discretization are combined some of the advantages […]
2016
FALL 2016
Date of the Event: November 4, 2016
TITLE: Multiple Solutions and Stability of Transonic Flows over Airfoils DATE: Friday, November 4th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Feng Liu. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: After a brief overview of the activities on numerical simulation of fluid flows at UC Irvine, I will focus […]
2016
FALL 2016
Date of the Event: October 28, 2016
TITLE: Flipping the Switch: Simulation Methods for Noisy Biological Network Dynamics DATE: Friday, October 28th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Elizabeth Read, Assistant Professor. Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: All processes in living cells are orchestrated by biochemical networks. These networks are mapped out […]
2016
FALL 2016
Date of the Event: October 21, 2016
TITLE: Computational Mechanisms for Small Target Detection in Insects DATE: Friday, October 21st, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Patrick Shoemaker. Research Associate Professor, Computational Science Research Center. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Insects that chase prey or mates on the wing rely on vision to mediate this behavior – and in […]
2016
FALL 2016
