Date of the Event: February 29, 2016
TITLE: How to Write Great Papers and Get Published. Understanding and benefiting from the publishing process DATE: Monday, February 29th, 2016 TIME: 2:30 PM LOCATION: Gold Auditorium, SDSU Bioscience Science SPEAKER: Anthony Newman, Senior Publisher. Elsevier, Amsterdam. ABSTRACT: Anthony Newman is a publisher for Life Sciences Journals at Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over the last […]
2016
SPRING 2016
Date of the Event: February 26, 2016
TITLE: Modeling of Phenomena Involving Multiple Timescales DATE: Friday, February 26th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: M.S. Udayan Kanade, CEO of Oneirix Labs. ABSTRACT: This lecture describes the difficulties inherent in simulating temporally multiscale phenomena, and introduces some mathematical approaches to resolving such difficulties. Situations involving fast and slow physical phenomenon often […]
2016
SPRING 2016
Date of the Event: February 19, 2016
TITLE: Exploiting Approximation Properties in the discontinuous Galerkin scheme for improved trouble cell indication DATE: Friday, February 19th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jennifer Ryan ABSTRACT: In this talk, we present a generalized discussion of discontinuous Galerkin methods concentrating on a basic concept: exploiting the existing approximation properties. The discontinuous Galerkin method […]
2016
SPRING 2016
Date of the Event: February 12, 2016
TITLE: Human/Machine Learning in Driver Behavior Modeling DATE: Friday, February 12th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani ABSTRACT: Traffic conflicts associated to signalized intersections are one of the major contributing factors to crash occurrences. Driver behavior plays an important role in traffic safety at signalized intersections. In this seminar, dynamics […]
2016
SPRING 2016
Date of the Event: February 5, 2016
TITLE: Designing Al/dielectric metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion DATE: Friday, February 05th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Prof. Lyuba Kuznetsova, Physics Department SDSU ABSTRACT: A special class of nano-layered hyperbolic metamaterials has received a lot of attention recently due to their unique optical property namely that the dispersion of the dielectric constant for […]
2016
SPRING 2016
Date of the Event: January 29, 2016
TITLE: Microbial and Phage Modeling DATE: Friday, January 29th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Rob Edwards ABSTRACT: We are surrounded by bacteria and their viruses, and those microbes have evolved alongside us. The human microbiome projects around the world seek to explore the microbes in both healthy people and those with […]
2016
SPRING 2016
Date of the Event: January 22, 2016
TITLE: Computational Science and Engineering Research Center DATE: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Jose Castillo. Director of the Computational Science Research Center at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The mission of the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), located at San Diego State University, is to promote development and […]
2016
SPRING 2016
Date of the Event: December 4, 2015
TITLE: M2DO: Multiscale Multiphysics Design Optimization DATE: Friday, December 4th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alicia Kim. Structural Engineering Department, UCSD ABSTRACT: There has been a rise of research interests in two notable areas of engineering design. One is to use more high fidelity design in conceptual design stage and the […]
2015
FALL 2015
Date of the Event: November 20, 2015
TITLE: Retrieving the shape in an inverse elasto-acoustic scattering problem: A mathematical investigation and a multi-step solution methodology DATE: Friday, November 20, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Rabia Djellouli. Department of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Science (IRIS) California State University Northridge ABSTRACT: The determination of the shape of […]
2015
FALL 2015
Date of the Event: November 13, 2015
TITLE: Geometric Ergodicity of Gibbs Samplers for Bayesian Mixed Models DATE: Friday, November 13, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Jorge Carlos Rom√ɬ°n. Assistant Professor, Statistics at SDSU ABSTRACT: Due to advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, the use of Bayesian statistical models in the applied sciences has increased dramatically […]
2015
FALL 2015