Computational Science Research Center
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 […]
Date of the Event: August 22, 2014
TITLE: Hydrology of Large Arctic Rivers in a Warming Climate DATE: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Daqing Yang. Research Scientist at National Hydrology Research Center Environment ABSTRACT: Researches have reported important changes in water cycle components of the northern hydrology system. This presentation will review and synthesize recent […]
Date of the Event: May 9, 2014
TITLE: Selecting Experiments for Uncertainty Quantification and Design Optimization of Aircraft DATE: Friday, May 9th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Diane Villanueva. Research Engineer, Universal Technology Corporation ABSTRACT: The design of hypersonic air vehicles involves a complex interaction of physics, which at this point is not yet well understood. Unlike in […]
Date of the Event: May 2, 2014
TITLE: Hollow Vortices DATE: Friday, May 2nd, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Stefan Llewellyn Smith. UCSD ABSTRACT: Hollow vortices are vortices whose interior is at rest. They posses vortex sheets on their boundaries and can be viewed as a desingularization of point vortices. After giving a history of point vortices, we […]