Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: October 31, 2014
TITLE: Modeling the conversion of cellulose to biofuels DATE: Friday, October 31st 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Antonio Redondo. Los Alamos National Laboratory ABSTRACT: In this seminar we will describe how we can model the conversion of cellulosic materials to biofuels. To do this, we have developed a coarse-√Ǭ≠√¢¬Ä¬êgrained dynamical model […]
Date of the Event: October 24, 2014
TITLE: Engineering Challenges of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) DATE: Friday, October 24th 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Nans Kunz. National Engineering Safety Center (NSEC) Chief Engineer at NASA Ames ABSTRACT: SOFIA is the largest airborne observatory in the world, capable of making observations that are impossible for even the […]
Date of the Event: October 17, 2014
TITLE: Automated Histopathological Image Analysis to Predict Breast Cancer Disease survival and Recurrency DATE: Friday, October 17th 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Baidya Nath Saha. University of Calgary, Canada ABSTRACT: Immunohistochemical staining of the proliferation antigen Ki-67, tumor epithelial marker Pan Cytokeratin and nuclear stain DAPI are routinely used in the […]
Date of the Event: October 10, 2014
TITLE: Pressure PIV: An Optics-Based Pressure Measurement Technique and Its Applications DATE: Friday, October 10th 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Xiaofeng Liu. Department of Aerospace Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: Motivated by the fact that there was a lack of an appropriate means for measurement of the instantaneous spatial pressure field in […]
Date of the Event: October 3, 2014
TITLE: Robust Dynamical Bipedal Locomotion through Nonlinear Control and Optimization DATE: Friday, October 3rd 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Kaveh Akbari Hamed. SDSU Mechanical Engineering ABSTRACT: Over the past few years there is an accelerated effort to design emergency response robots and to develop robots with human traits. Legged locomotion is […]
Date of the Event: September 26, 2014
TITLE: Big Data for Little Particles DATE: Friday, September 26th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel Whiteson. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: I will describe the current state of our understanding of the Universe at the smallest scales (fundamental particles), modern tools for searching for […]
Date of the Event: September 19, 2014
TITLE: Non-Spherical Models of Compact Stellar Objects. (Omair Zubairi) A High-Order Dirac-Delta Regularization with Optimal Scaling in the Spectral Solution of One-Dimensional Singular Hyperbolic Conservation Laws. (Jean Suarez) DATE: Friday, September 19th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jean P Suarez and Omair Zubairi. San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Conventionally, the structure of […]
Date of the Event: September 12, 2014
TITLE: Operator evolution for ab initio nuclear theory (Micah Schuster) Video Quality Enhancement through Prioritized Packet Fragmentation and Error Protection (Seethal Paluri) DATE: Friday, September 12th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Seethal Paluri and Micah Schuster. San Diego State University ABSTRACT: (Micah Schuster) The past two decades have seen a revolution in […]
Date of the Event: September 5, 2014
TITLE: Novel Computational Methods for Solving High-Dimensional Random Eigenvalue Problems DATE: Friday, September 5th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Vaibhav Yadav. Department of Aerospace Engineering at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Random eigenvalue problems (REPs) have far-reaching applications in fields as diverse as quantum physics, number theory, multivariate statistics, signal processing […]
Date of the Event: August 29, 2014
TITLE: Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Challenges and Solutions in Resource-Constrained Cross Layer Design DATE: Friday, August 29th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Wei Wang. San Diego State University ABSTRACT: With the steady developments of multimedia communications in low cost Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN), joint design of multimedia compression, secure communication […]