Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: November 6, 2015
TITLE: Towards More Robust and Reliable VLSI Circuits: A Data Mining Perspective DATE: Friday, November 6th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ke Huang. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SDSU ABSTRACT: Millions of Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) devices are fabricated, tested and delivered to the open market every day. As a result, […]
Date of the Event: October 30, 2015
TITLE: Global binary optimization on graphs for classification of high dimensional data DATE: Friday, October 30, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ekaterina Merkurjev. Department of Mathematics, UCSD ABSTRACT: In this talk, we develop a global minimization framework for segmentation of high dimensional data into two classes. It combines recent convex optimization […]
Date of the Event: October 23, 2015
TITLE: High Efficiency Wireless EV Charger Based on Capacitive Power Transfer Principle DATE: Friday, October 23, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Chris Mi. Director of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Capacitive power transfer (CPT) and inductive power transfer (IPT) are two effective methods to […]
Date of the Event: October 16, 2015
TITLE: From 2D Image Recognition to 3D Scene Reconstruction: A Restricted Turing Machine DATE: Friday, October 16, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Xiaobai Liu. Assistant Professor of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Computer Vision aims to answer two types of questions – what and where – that involve 2D […]
Date of the Event: October 9, 2015
TITLE: Modeling of aerodynamics of flapping wings and blades using Lattice Boltzmann method and high-order of approximation numerical schemes DATE: Friday, October 9th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alex Povitsky. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron ABSTRACT: Numerical model of aerodynamics of flapping wing in generalized pitching motion has been […]
Date of the Event: October 2, 2015
TITLE: Estuary-enhanced upwelling of marine nutrients fuels coastal productivity in the US Pacific Northwest DATE: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Kristen Davis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: In the Pacific Northwest, the coastal waters are strongly influenced by outflow from the […]
Date of the Event: September 25, 2015
TITLE: Mechanistic Models of Biological and Bioengineered Systems at Cellular and Sub-cellular Length Scales DATE: Friday, September 25, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Parag Katira. Mechanical Engineering Department San Diego State University ABSTRACT: I build analytical and computational models describing physical interactions between subcellular biological materials such as proteins, nucleotide derivatives, […]
Date of the Event: September 18, 2015
TITLE: Structural Bioinformatics, the Devil in the Details DATE: Friday, September 18, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Manal Swairjo. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SDSU ABSTRACT: In this talk I will present a few examples of how we used structural bioinformatics to enhance discovery of new enzymes and predict new enzymatic […]
Date of the Event: September 11, 2015
TITLE: Advancements in Predictive Laser-Produced-Plasma Formation Modeling DATE: Friday, September 11th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alexander Schafgans. Cymer, Inc. ABSTRACT: Cymer is the world√¢¬Ä¬ôs leading supplier of light sources for advanced lithography equipment used to produce advanced semiconductor devices. Next generation semiconductor manufacturing processes require lithography sources that produce light […]
Date of the Event: September 4, 2015
TITLE: Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Premixed Flames DATE: Friday, September 4th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. John Abraham. Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Determination of the premixed turbulent flame speed, defined as the propagation speed of a flame front through a homogeneous turbulent mixture, and its […]