Date of the Event: February 26, 2010
TITLE: A MODEL FOR THE DYNAMICS OF THIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS IN THE IRON CYCLE OF PYRITE MINE WASTES DATE: Friday, February 26th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Miguel Dumett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology ABSTRACT: We model how bacteria Thiobacillus Ferrooxidans catalyzes the oxidation of pyrite by ferric ion, utilizing its […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: February 19, 2010
TITLE: PARAMETRIC RESONANCE IN COUPLED MEMS GYROSCOPES DATE: Friday, February 19th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Suketu Naik, Kyoto University, Japan and Space and Naval Warfare Center, San Diego ABSTRACT: A vibratory Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) gyroscope is a device that can measure angular rate as it is rotated. The uncoupled angular rate […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: February 12, 2010
TITLE: WHAT IS A REACTIVE-TRANSPORT AND WATER-ROCK INTERACTION SIMULATOR? DATE: Friday, February 12th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Anthony J. Park, Ph.D, Sienna Geodynamics and Consulting, Inc. ABSTRACT: Reactive-transport and water-rock interaction, or RTM simulators are used to assess the effects of chemical reactions and movement of fluids through sediments and rocks. […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: February 5, 2010
TITLE: VIBRATIONAL STATES ON RELOCALIZATION SURFACES OF HYDROCARBON FREE RADICALS DATE: Friday, February 5th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew L. Cooksy, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A class of pi-conjugated free radicals, including daughter radicals of acrolein and cyclooctatetraene exhibit potential energy surfaces with distinct, non-equivalent minima, separated […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: January 29, 2010
TITLE: SPECTRAL FFT-BASED INTEGRAL AND DIFFERENTIAL PDE SOLVERS FOR GENERAL DOMAINS DATE: Friday, January 29th, 2010 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Engineering Bldg. Room 300 21 SPEAKER: Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology ABSTRACT: We present new methodologies for the numerical solution of Partial Differential Equations in general spatial domains. Based on a novel Fourier-Continuation (FC) […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: January 22, 2010
TITLE: INTEGRATING SATELLITE DERIVED TERRESTRIAL PRECIPITATION AND WATER STORAGE CHANGES WITH THE HILLSLOPE RIVER ROUTING (HRR) IN THE CONGO RIVER BASIN DATE: Friday, January 22nd, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: R. Edward Beighley, Associate Professor Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this study, estimates of terrestrial water […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: December 11, 2009
TITLE: MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF CANCER-IMMUNOLOGY DYNAMICS DATE: Friday, December 11th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. L.G. de Pillis, Director, Harvey Mudd College Global Clinic Norman F. Sprague Jr., Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College ABSTRACT: The critical importance of the immune system in […]
2009
FALL 2009
Date of the Event: December 4, 2009
TITLE: CAUSAL INFERENCE WITH MULTIVARIATE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL DATA: SOME COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES DATE: Friday, December 4th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mark E. Pflieger, PhD, Source Signal Imaging, Inc. ABSTRACT: Biologically based computation in brains is highly parallel and integrative across multiple anatomical levels and time scales. Multi-channel neurophysiological modalities such as electroencephalography (EEG), […]
2009
FALL 2009
Date of the Event: November 20, 2009
TITLE: REGENERATION IN THE PLANARIAN SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA DATE: Friday, November 20th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ricardo M. Zayas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Regeneration of missing body parts has long fascinated biologists, yet the mechanisms underlying regenerative processes remain poorly understood. My laboratory uses the […]
2009
FALL 2009
Date of the Event: November 13, 2009
TITLE: ACOUSTIC SOURCE IDENTIFICATION USING MULTIPLE FREQUENCY INFORMATION DATE: Friday, November 13th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Nicolas Valdivia ABSTRACT: The determination of an acoustical source from remote measurements of the acoustic field has been the subject of intensive research. The classical approach for the solution of this inverse problem is to […]
2009
FALL 2009
