Date of the Event: September 23, 2011
TITLE: WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK: AUTOMATING THE DETECTION OF DOLPHIN WHISTLES IN COMPLEX AUDITORY SCENES DATE: Friday, Sep 23th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Marie Roch Department of Computer Science. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Toothed whales and dolphins produce a variety of sounds for navigation and communication. This talk will focus […]
2011
FALL 2011
Date of the Event: September 16, 2011
TITLE: LARGE SCALE ICE SHEET MODELING AND SIMULATION DATE: Friday, Sep 16th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Esmond G. Ng Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. ABSTRACT: Understanding the changing behavior of land ice sheets is essential for accurate projection of sea-level change. The dynamics of ice sheets span a wide range of scales. […]
2011
FALL 2011
Date of the Event: September 2, 2011
TITLE: NUMERICAL STUDIES OF COMPACT STARS DATE: Friday, Sep 2nd, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Fridolin Weber SDSU ABSTRACT: Astrophysicists distinguish between three types of compact stars — white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. These objects possess most unusual properties which carry information about the fundamental building blocks of matter, the […]
2011
FALL 2011
Date of the Event: August 26, 2011
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY OF EXPERIMENTALLY CHARACTERIZED ORGANOMETALLICS DATE: Friday, Aug 26th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew Cooksy Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry SDSU ABSTRACT: Quantum chemical computation is rapidly becoming a tool expected to be at the fingertips of any practicing chemist. Modern methods have been optimized largely on the basis […]
2011
FALL 2011
Date of the Event: August 19, 2011
TITLE: SUPERCOMPUTING AND ITS APPLICATIONS AT THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DATE: Friday, Aug 19th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Yuefan Deng Yuefan.Deng@StonyBrook.edu http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~deng/ Applied Mathematics Department Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 ABSTRACT: Supercomputers are capable of performing 1016 floating-point operations per second. This massive supercomputer capability is the […]
2011
FALL 2011
Date of the Event: May 6, 2011
TITLE: THE PHYSICS AND SIMULATION OF FUSION PLASMAS DATE: Friday, May 6th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Christopher Holland, UCSD ABSTRACT: The upcoming ITER experiment (www.iter.org) represents the next major milestone in realizing the promise of using nuclear fusion as a commercial energy source, by moving into the “burning plasma” regime where […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: April 29, 2011
TITLE: RESEARCH AT THE COASTAL AND MARINE INSTITUTE LABORATORY DATE: Friday, April 29th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Todd Anderson, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A building was constructed on part of the old Naval Training Center to house the U.S. Geological Survey and a new SDSU marine laboratory after demolition of […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: April 22, 2011
TITLE: STRUCTURAL-BASED ANALYSIS OF DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE EVOLUTION DATE: Friday, April 22nd, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: David Hecht, Professor of Chemistry at Southwestern College ABSTRACT: The evolution of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) was studied through a comprehensive structure-based analysis. An amino acid sequence alignment was generated from a superposition of experimentally determined x-ray […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: April 15, 2011
TITLE: FROM ATOMS TO AGGREGATES: PROBING THE GROWTH OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES BY EXPERIMENT AND COMPUTATION DATE: Friday, April 15th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: David Pullman, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The increasing attention given to silver nanoparticles over the past decade stems primarily from their extraordinary optical and antimicrobial properties as […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: April 8, 2011
TITLE: THE PECULIAR PHASE STRUCTURE OF RANDOM GRAPH BISECTION DATE: Friday, April 8th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Allon G. Percus, Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences at Claremont Graduate University ABSTRACT: One of the more surprising contributions to combinatorial optimization over the past decade has come from statistical physics. Numerous problems, […]
2011
SPRING 2011
