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
Date of the Event: March 25, 2011
TITLE: Z-TRANSFORM METHODS FOR THE OPTIMAL DESIGN AND RESONANCE FREQUENCIES OF A FINITE LAYERED ELASTIC STRIP DATE: Friday, March 25th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ani P. Velo, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of San Diego ABSTRACT: Despite the widespread use of multilayered structures in various technologies, exact analytical […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: March 18, 2011
TITLE: GENES WITHOUT BORDERS: A SURVEY OF MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS IN GENOMES AND METAGENOMES DATE: Friday, March 18th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ramy Karam Aziz, PhD ABSTRACT: Genes, like organisms, struggle for existence, and the most successful genes persist and widely disseminate in nature. The unbiased determination of the most successful […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: March 11, 2011
TITLE: APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (ACSESS 2011) AT SDSU DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2011 TIME: 12:00 √¢¬Ä¬ì 5:00 PM LOCATION: SDSU’s Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center SPEAKER: ABSTRACT: The Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) is dedicated to preparing students for fulfilling careers in the world of high-technology. Consequently, we continuously seek out guidance from […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: March 4, 2011
TITLE: THE GENERAL CURVILINEAR ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL DATE: Friday, March 4th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jose Castillo, Computational Science Research Center at SDSU ABSTRACT: The General Curvilinear Environmental Model is a high-resolution system composed of the General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model (GCCOM) and the General Curvilinear Atmospheric Model (GCAM). Both modules are […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: February 25, 2011
TITLE: TALK 1 : UNIFIED CURVILINEAR OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE MODEL (UCOAM) TALK 2 : USING THE DISTRIBUTED COUPLING TOOLKIT (DCT) TO COUPLE MODEL COMPONENTS OF GENERALIZED CURVILINEAR ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Speaker 1 : Mohammad Abouali, PhD Student, CSRC Speaker 2 : Dany De Cecchis, […]
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SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: February 18, 2011
TITLE: NONLINEAR LASER WAVE-MIXING SPECRTOSCOPY FOR PARTS-PER-QUADRILLION-LEVEL DETECTION OF ISOTOPES AND CHEM/BIO AGENTS DATE: Friday, February 18th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: William Tong, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, william.tong@sdsu.edu, www.billtong.us ABSTRACT: Bill Tong has developed novel nonlinear laser methods for chemical analysis with zeptomole-level (10-21 mole) or sub-parts-per-quadrillion-level detection sensitivity. […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: February 11, 2011
TITLE: ACCELERATING COMPUTATIONS IN VERY LARGE APPLICATIONS USING DATA FLOW BASED ACCELERATORS DATE: Friday, February 11th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mike Flynn, Chairman, Maxeler Corp., www.maxeler.com ABSTRACT: For many high performance computing applications the alternative to the multicore rack is to use an accelerator assist to each multicore node. There are […]
2011
SPRING 2011
Date of the Event: February 4, 2011
TITLE: GENETIC ROBUSTNESS BY MODULARITY AND REWIRING DATE: Friday, February 4th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute ABSTRACT: How robust is the genome? On way to ask that same question is to ask how many other genes in the genome, if perturbed, can potentially suppress a given lethal […]
2011
SPRING 2011