Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: February 17, 2017
TITLE: Deep Learning Theory and Applications in the Natural Sciences DATE: Friday, February 17th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Pierre Baldi, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, and Associate Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the […]
Date of the Event: February 10, 2017
TITLE: The Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer DATE: Friday, February 10th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Christal Sohl, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SDSU ABSTRACT: The Sohl lab explores the molecular consequences of enzyme mutations implicated in cancer, using enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystallography, and cellular models to establish the mechanisms of dysfunction. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]