Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: April 6, 2012
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE DATE: Friday, April 4th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeremy Kua. University of San Diego. ABSTRACT: In this seminar I will give an overview of research into the chemistry of the origin of life. I will then discuss the outstanding problem of selectivity – […]
Date of the Event: March 16, 2012
TITLE: VARIATIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR SHAPE AND SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION. DATE: Friday, March 16th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Frederick Park. Mathematics Department. University of California at Irvine. ABSTRACT: Variants of the popular and well studied Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) and celebrated Mumford-Shah (MS) models continue to have new and interesting applications. In this […]
Date of the Event: March 9, 2012
TITLE: USING THE LEVEL-SET METHOD TO CAPTURE EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTE-SOLVENT INTERFACES. DATE: Friday, Mar 9th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Li-Tien Cheng. Deparment of Mathematics. University of California at San Diego. ABSTRACT: A biomolecule placed in a solvent generates an interface separating the solvent from vacuum and the biomolecule. This solute-solvent interface is […]
Date of the Event: March 2, 2012
TITLE: ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CHARACTERISTICS PRIOR TO IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST. DATE: Friday, Mar 2nd, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mina Attin. School of Nursing. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: In-hospital cardiac arrest (I-HCA) is a significant public health problem accounting for approximately 200,000 treated cardiac arrests at hospitals annually in the United States. The […]
Date of the Event: February 24, 2012
TITLE: BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR THE CATALYSIS OF MEMBRANE FISSION OF ENDOCYTOSIS. DATE: Friday, Feb 24th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joshua Zimmerberg. National Institutes of Health. ABSTRACT: Life is complicated, because of ~4 billion years of auto-optimization. The organizational element of the cell can be represented by a spheroid whose diameter can […]
Date of the Event: February 24, 2012
TITLE: BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR THE CATALYSIS OF MEMBRANE FISSION OF ENDOCYTOSIS. DATE: Friday, Feb 24th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joshua Zimmerberg. National Institutes of Health. ABSTRACT: Life is complicated, because of ~4 billion years of auto-optimization. The organizational element of the cell can be represented by a spheroid whose diameter can […]
Date of the Event: February 17, 2012
TITLE: BUILDING THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL, SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND MICRORNAS DATE: Friday, Feb 17th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Robert Zeller. Department of Biology. Computational Science Research Center. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Complicated biological processes are often modeled in simple animal models such as Drosophila and the nematode C. […]
Date of the Event: February 10, 2012
TITLE: SUBDIFFUSIVE PROCESSES: TRANSPORT AND REACTIONS DATE: Friday, Feb 10th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Katja Lindenberg. University of California in San Diego. ABSTRACT: The random motion of entities in crowded or disordered environments may be hindered by obstacles, traps, and dead ends. As a result, the motion may be subdiffusive. Reaction […]
Date of the Event: February 3, 2012
TITLE: MATTER WAVE VORTICES: THE QUANTUM SPIROGRAPH DATE: Friday, Feb 3rd, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ricardo Carretero. Nonlinear Dynamical Systems group (NLDS). Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Computational Science Research Center. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Motivated by recent experiments studying the dynamics of configurations bearing a small number of vortices […]
Date of the Event: January 27, 2012
TITLE: ANALYSIS OF PARTICLE-LADEN, TURBULENT FLOW THROUGH EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN SOLVERS AND VISUALIZATION. DATE: Friday, Jan 27th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gustaaf Jacobs. Computational Science Research Center. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: The interaction between fluid flow and finite-sized inertial particles is of relevance to a wide range of technological applications and environmental […]