Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: February 27, 2009
TITLE: WHERE DO MOLECULAR MODELS COME FROM? DATE: Friday, February 27th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Tom Huxford, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Many areas of both experimental and computational biology rely heavily on molecular models. √É¬Ç The workhorse of experimental macromolecular structure determination is x-ray crystallography. […]
Date of the Event: February 20, 2009
TITLE: WIRELESS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS DATE: Friday, February 20th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sunil Kumar, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Pine Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will give an overview of the advances in wireless network technology and challenges […]
Date of the Event: February 13, 2009
TITLE: SYMMETRY IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS DATE: Friday, February 13th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Professor, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Many sensory systems in animals are controlled by clusters of neuron cells physically interconnected to produce, somehow, an optimal response, which […]
Date of the Event: February 6, 2009
TITLE: NMDA RECEPTORS AND THE COMPUTATIONAL PRIMITIVES OF NEURONS DATE: Friday, February 6th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Patrick Shoemaker, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Tanner Research, Inc. ABSTRACT: I discuss the neural computational primitives that are afforded by the class of common excitatory synaptic receptors identified with the agonist N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). The macroscopic […]
Date of the Event: January 30, 2009
TITLE: HIGH-THROUGHPUT GENE PROFILING IN NEUROBIOLOGY DATE: Friday, January 30th, 2009 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Pietro Paolo Sanna, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences, The Scripps Research Institute ABSTRACT: High-throughput strategies have become indispensable tools in neurobiology as well as in experimental and clinical biomedical science in general. The seminar […]
Date of the Event: December 5, 2008
TITLE: WPC SCIENCE FOR MANAGING RISKS DATE: Friday, December 5th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mr. Craig Tillman, President, Weather Predict Consulting, Raleigh, North Carolina ABSTRACT: This talk will introduce the science and engineering capabilities of Weather Predict Consulting (WPC) in risk management. The topics will include WPC resources and capabilities, modeling […]
Date of the Event: November 21, 2008
TITLE: FIGHTING INFLUENZA VIRUSES USING SUPER COMPUTERS DATE: Friday, November 21, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dong Xu, NIH Center of National Biomedical Computation Resource, McCammon Group/Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry ,University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: The new highly lethal avian influenza virus strains H5N1 poses a serious pandemic threat. Continuing […]
Date of the Event: November 14, 2008
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES IN STRUCTURE BASED DRUG DESIGN DATE: Friday, November 14th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: G. Narahari Sastry, Ph.D., Molecular Modeling Group, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology ABSTRACT: One of the most promising and challenging areas for the application of computational techniques is in lead […]
Date of the Event: November 7, 2008
TITLE: QUANTIFYING THE PREDICTABILITY OF NOISY NONLINEAR BIOGEOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS DATE: Friday, November 7th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Barbara A. Bailey, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Statistical modeling of dynamical systems makes the estimation and construction of confidence intervals for interesting quantities from data possible. When noise […]
Date of the Event: October 31, 2008
TITLE: ESTIMATION OF IONOSPHERIC WEATHER USING DATA ASSIMILATION DATE: Friday, October 31st, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Miguel Dumett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, NASA, University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics ABSTRACT: The presence of electrons and ions in the ionosphere affects wireless communication. Accurate predictions of ionospheric weather is a difficult […]