Date of the Event: March 13, 2015
TITLE: Random Walk in the Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Field DATE: Friday, March 13th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Shiv Joshi. NextGen Aeronautics ABSTRACT: The smart materials, active structures and intelligent systems field encompasses basic material research to complex multifunctional system design and development. Being a multidisciplinary […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: March 6, 2015
TITLE: Imaging of brain network organization in autism DATE: Friday, March 6th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ralph-Axel M√ɬºller. Brain Development Imaging Laboratory. Dept. of Psychology. SDSU ABSTRACT: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is traditionally diagnosed based on behavioral deficits, with focus on social communication. Attempts to locate single regions or networks […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: February 27, 2015
TITLE: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and its applications for multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous media DATE: Friday, February 27th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alexandre Tartakovsky. Director of the Computational Science and Math division at PNNL ABSTRACT: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method based on a meshless discretization […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: February 20, 2015
TITLE: Absolute Robustness in Deterministic and Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks DATE: Friday, February 20th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. German Enciso. Dept. Of Mathematics at University of California Irvine ABSTRACT: Chemical reaction networks lie at the heart of many biological processes at the cell level. These processes are often under strict […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: February 13, 2015
TITLE: Modeling the physical properties of viruses and their impact in the human microbiome DATE: Friday, February 13, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Antoni Luque. Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In the last few years, an interdisciplinary group of researchers at San Diego State University […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: February 6, 2015
TITLE: The Mathematics that I learned from Biology DATE: Friday, February 6th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Paul G. Vaidya ABSTRACT: The research that I will talk about was inspired by a quote by Stanislaw Ulam, “Don’t ask what mathematics can do for biology, ask what biology can do for mathematics.” […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: January 30, 2015
TITLE: The keys of ensemble data assimilation DATE: Friday, January 30th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Tim Hoar. Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences. National Center for Atmospheric Research ABSTRACT: The main focus of an ensemble data assimilation system is to produce a collection of model states – the ensemble – […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: January 23, 2015
TITLE: Hybrid models of reactive transport in porous media DATE: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ilenia Battiato. Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: Darcy-scale models of flow and transport in porous media often fail to describe experimentally observed phenomena, while their pore-scale counterparts are accurate but can […]
2015
SPRING 2015
Date of the Event: December 5, 2014
TITLE: Computational Oceanography: Regional Ocean Modeling, Data Assimilation and Prediction DATE: Friday, December 5th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Yi Chao. Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering at UCLA ABSTRACT: This talk will present experiences and lessons learned during the development of a regional 3-dimensional ocean nowcast/forecast system. […]
2014
FALL 2014
Date of the Event: November 21, 2014
TITLE: Global Modeling with NASA Supercomputing Technology: When Sandy Meets Lorenz DATE: Friday, November 21st, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Bo-Wen Shen. Department of Mathematics and Statistics at SDSU ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will present the real-world model simulations of Hurricane Sandy to illustrate how the multiscale processes associated with […]
2014
FALL 2014
