Date of the Event: September 15, 2017
TITLE: Disease Modeling at Within-Host and Between-Hosts Scales: HIV and Influenza as Case Studies DATE: Friday, September 15th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Naveen Vaidya, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at SDSU ABSTRACT: Mathematical models are becoming increasingly useful in studying the dynamics of infectious diseases, from within-host to between-hosts scales. With […]
2017
FALL 2017
Date of the Event: September 8, 2017
TITLE: Experimental Investigations of the Response of Strain-mediated Composite Multiferroic Structures DATE: Friday, September 8th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. George Youssef, Department of Mechanical Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: Composite multiferroic materials based on strain-mediated electromagnetic coupling offer viable alternatives to intrinsic materials at room temperature, where the latter are unstable or […]
2017
FALL 2017
Date of the Event: September 1, 2017
TITLE: Multiscale Computational Modeling of Nanomaterials DATE: Friday, September 1st, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Wenwu Xu, Department of Mechanical Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: A major goal of computational modeling in materials science is the prediction of the properties as a function of microstructural parameters resulted from the previous processing or manufacturing […]
2017
FALL 2017
Date of the Event: June 23, 2017
TITLE: Modified Castillo-Grone mimetic gradient operators for solving with high-accuracy the Eikonal equation with Soner boundary conditions DATE: Friday, June 23rd, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Miguel Dumett, Dpt. of Mathematics, University of Southern California ABSTRACT: The staggered Castillo-Grone mimetic method (CGMM) gradient operators are adapted for solving the nonlinear Eikonal equation […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: May 5, 2017
TITLE: Phage capsid structure: Theory, phage lifestyle constraints, and environmental diagnostic DATE: Friday, May 5th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Bioscience Center Gold Auditorium SPEAKER: Dr. Antoni Luque, Dept. Math and Stats, CSRC, and Viral Information Institute, SDSU ABSTRACT: Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and are the most abundant entity on the planet. About […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: April 28, 2017
TITLE: Role of Mechanics in Tumor Growth and Metastasis. DATE: Friday, April 28th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Parag Katira, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDSU ABSTRACT: While cancer is a disease rooted in genetic mutations and epigenetic factors, the processes of tumor growth and metastasis where the growing mass of cells […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: April 21, 2017
TITLE: ACSESS 2017 DATE: Friday, April 21st, 2017 TIME: 12:00 – 5:00 PM LOCATION: Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Greg Davis, Chief Technologist, Planetary Protection Architect, Europa Lander Jet Propulsion Laboratory ACSESS Program Overview Through a partnership with academia, the Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) program provides U.S. industry […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: April 14, 2017
TITLE: Image and Video Analytics for Healthcare using neural networks. DATE: Friday, April 14th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Mr. Prasad Kothari, Analytics Manager at PwC ABSTRACT: Image and Video Analytics has been most talked solution in healthcare and other sectors. Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks and adversarial neural networks have […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: April 7, 2017
TITLE: Understanding regulatory DNA using evolution. DATE: Friday, April 7th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Zeba Wunderlich, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, UC Irvine. ABSTRACT: Our lab is interested is understanding the function and mechanisms of the regulatory DNA, e.g. enhancers, that encodes the gene regulatory networks driving diverse biological […]
2017
SPRING 2017
Date of the Event: March 31, 2017
TITLE: [Rescheduled/Postponed] Whole Genome Sequencing in the Clinic DATE: Friday, March 31st, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Semyon Kruglyak, Director at Illumina. ABSTRACT: In Observation to Cesar Chavez Day this Colloquium has been rescheduled for next Fall. We have developed methods to analyze whole genome sequencing data and apply the results […]
2017
SPRING 2017
