Computational Science Research Center
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 […]
Date of the Event: January 20, 2012
TITLE: THE GLOBAL EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE ACROSS MULTIPLE NICHE DIMENSIONS. DATE: Friday, Jan 20th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Robert Edwards. Computational Science Research Center. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Cholera has been the scourge of nations for millennia, and we are currently in the midst of the latest […]
Date of the Event: December 9, 2011
TITLE: A SIMPLE MODEL FOR THE MUCUS DISTRIBUTION IN A LUNG WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS DATE: Friday, Dec 9th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sara Zarei. Computational Science Research Center. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common autosomal recessive disease in Caucasians associated with early mortality with a […]
Date of the Event: December 2, 2011
TITLE: THE EFFECT OF BATHYMETRIC PROFILE ON THE STRUCTURE OF COASTAL OCEAN UPWELLING DATE: Friday, Dec 2nd, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Paul Choboter. Department of Mathematics. Cal Poly State University. ABSTRACT: Joseph Pedlosky’s dynamical model of coastal ocean upwelling is elegantly simple, yet complex enough to possess rich and subtle dynamics. […]
Date of the Event: November 4, 2011
TITLE: FLOW-INDUCED DENSITY GRADIENTS IN MICROSCALE FLOWS DATE: Friday, Now 18th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Redondo Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM ABSTRACT: We report the results of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of pressure-driven flows of liquid argon in planar conduits. At equilibrium our molecular dynamics results are in […]
Date of the Event: November 4, 2011
TITLE: FLOW-INDUCED DENSITY GRADIENTS IN MICROSCALE FLOWS DATE: Friday, Now 18th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Redondo Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM ABSTRACT: We report the results of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of pressure-driven flows of liquid argon in planar conduits. At equilibrium our molecular dynamics results are in […]
Date of the Event: October 28, 2011
TITLE: HILBERT-HUANG TRANSFORM ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL PRECIPITATION DATASETS SINCE 1900 DATE: Friday, Oct 28th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Samuel Shen Department of Mathematics and Statistics San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Average precipitation over the entire Earth is an important measure of global climate change. However, significant differences exist among the satellite […]
Date of the Event: October 21, 2011
TITLE: CHARACTERIZATION, EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDY OF REACTIVE FLOW IN CARBONATES DATE: Friday, Oct 21th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Yelena Sholokhova Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ABSTRACT: The Weyburn-Midale reservoir is dominated by carbonate mineralogy that will partially dissolve as the acid CO2-rich waters used in the EOR operation react with […]
Date of the Event: October 14, 2011
TITLE: ANALYSIS OF THE ORGANIZATION AND DYNAMICS OF PROTEINS IN CELL MEMBRANES DATE: Friday, Oct 14th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Stanly Steinberg and Flor Espinoza The Center for Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cell Signaling (STMC) Department of Mathematics Department of Pathology University of New Mexico ABSTRACT: Cells communicate with the outside world […]