Date of the Event: October 11, 2013
TITLE: Quantifying Impact of Climate Change on Reservoir Sedimentation DATE: Friday, October 11th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Svetlana Kostic. Computational Science Research Center at San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Researchers predict that climate-fueled extreme weather events will continue to put many communities worldwide at increased risk for devastation from floods. […]
2013
FALL 2013
Date of the Event: October 4, 2013
TITLE: Stable, High Order Accurate Adaptive Schemes for Studying the Earthquake Cycle DATE: Friday, October 4th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Brittany Erickson. Dept. of Geological Sciences at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Many geophysical phenomena are characterized by properties that evolve over a wide range of scales which introduce difficulties when […]
2013
FALL 2013
Date of the Event: September 27, 2013
TITLE: A Good Method to Avoid for Treating Internal Rotation in the Partition Function DATE: Friday, Sept. 27th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Andrew Cooksy. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Our software package FEMvib solves the vibrational Schrodinger equation in up to three dimensions on an arbitrary potential energy surface. This […]
2013
FALL 2013
Date of the Event: September 20, 2013
TITLE: What roles do evolutionarily conserved metalloantibodies play in biology? DATE: Friday, September 20th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Tom Huxford. Dept. Chemistry at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Antibodies are soluble plasma proteins that are secreted by mature B cells as an integral part of the adaptive immune system. Functioning […]
2013
FALL 2013
Date of the Event: September 13, 2013
TITLE: Topological network alignment uncovers biological function and phylogeny DATE: Friday, Sept. 13th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Wayne Hayes. Associate Professor of Computer Science. University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: Sequence comparison and alignment has had an enormous impact on our understanding of evolution, biology and disease. Comparison and alignment of biological […]
2013
FALL 2013
Date of the Event: September 6, 2013
TITLE: Scientific computing for movie special effects and virtual surgery DATE: Friday, Sept. 6th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joseph M. Teran. Department of Mathematics at UCLA. ABSTRACT: I will talk about some exciting new applications of scientific computing for solid and fluid mechanics problems including the simulation of virtual materials for […]
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FALL 2013
Date of the Event: August 30, 2013
TITLE: FINDING A NOVEL WAY FOR FAST SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT AND EXPLOITING INFORMATION THEORY IN BACTERIAL GENOMES AND COMPLETE PHAGES DATE: Friday, Aug 30th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sajia Akhter. Computational Science Research Center at SDSU. ABSTRACT: The invention of next generation sequencing technology (NGS) provides the capability of generating high throughput […]
2013
FALL 2013
Date of the Event: August 23, 2013
TITLE: The promise of MRI for tracking cystic fibrosis DATE: Friday, August. 23rd, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Rebecca Theilmann. UCSD Medical Center ABSTRACT: The long-term objective of this research is to utilize quantitative proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor response to therapy in adults with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). CF is […]
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FALL 2013
Date of the Event: August 16, 2013
TITLE: Heat Engines Working from a Quantized Cavity DATE: Friday, Aug 16th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Erez Boukobza. Weizmann Institute. Israel. ABSTRACT: The Carnot limit, formulated in 1824, represents the maximal efficiency of a classical heat engine. In this work we present a thermodynamical analysis of a light amplifier based on […]
2013
FALL 2013
Date of the Event: April 26, 2013
TITLE: Video Stabilization of Atmospheric Turbulence Distortion DATE: Friday, April 12th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Yifei Lou. Department of Mathematics. University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: We present a method to enhance the quality of a video sequence captured through a turbulent atmospheric medium, and give an estimate of the radiance of […]
2013
SPRING 2013
