Computational Science Research Center
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date of the Event: April 19, 2013
TITLE: Feedback, lineages and cancer DATE: Friday, April 19th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Lowengrub. Chancellor’s Professor of Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: Most tissues are hierarchically organized into lineages, which are sets of progenitor-progeny relationships where the cells differ progressively in their […]
Date of the Event: April 12, 2013
TITLE: PDF solutions of stochastic hyperbolic equations DATE: Friday, April 12th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Daniel M. Tartakovsky. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. University of California, San Diego. ABSTRACT: We develop a probabilistic approach to quantify parametric uncertainty in first-order hyperbolic conservation laws. The approach relies on the derivation of […]
Date of the Event: March 29, 2013
TITLE: Are Many-core Architectures Useful for Weather and Climate Modeling? DATE: Friday, March 29th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard D. Loft. Director of Technology Development Division. Computational and Information Systems Laboratory at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). ABSTRACT: Many-core processor systems such as GPU’s and Intel’s Xeon Phi achieve higher […]
Date of the Event: March 22, 2013
TITLE: LS-OPT¬©: Methods and Applications in MDO and Material Identification. DATE: Friday, March 22nd, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Nielen Stander.Livermore Software Technology Corporation Livermore, California, USA. ABSTRACT: LS-OPT¬© is the parametric multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO) package which accompanies the multi-physics code LS-DYNA¬©. The most common applications of LS-OPT are in design optimization, […]
Date of the Event: March 15, 2013
TITLE: Rethinking the Union of Computed Tomography Reconstruction and GPGPU Computing DATE: Friday, March 15th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Edward Steven Jimenez. Sandia National Laboratories. ABSTRACT: This talk will discuss the utilization of the massively multi-threaded environment of graphics processors (GPUs) to improve the computation time needed to reconstruct large computed […]
Date of the Event: March 8, 2013
TITLE: Various problems in computational astrophysics DATE: Friday, March 8th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Wayne Hayes. Associate Professor of Computer Science. University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: I will discuss three projects I and my research group have worked in in the application of computation to astrophysical problems. In the first, I […]
Date of the Event: March 1, 2013