Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: April 28, 2008
TITLE: TEN MIRANDEAN PRINCIPLES FOR TEACHING, LEARNING, AND CREATING MATH DATE: Monday, April 28th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Guillermo Miranda, Universidad Central de Venezuela ABSTRACT: A long teaching and research experience has led the author to synthetize into 10 simple guiding rules, called “Mirandean Principles”, the ways used by mathematicians (often […]
Date of the Event: April 25, 2008
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND BIFURCATION ANALYSIS OF BUBBLING FLUIDIZED PROCESSES DATE: Friday, April 25th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Bing Zhu, PhD Candidate, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Fluidization processes have many important applications in industry, in particular, in chemical, fossil, and petrochemical industries where good gas-solid mixing […]
Date of the Event: April 18, 2008
TITLE: ENERGY CASCADE IN TURBULENT FLOWS; QUANTIFYING EFFECTS OF LOCAL AND NONLOCAL INTERACTIONS DATE: Friday, April 18th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Julian Andrzej Domaradzki, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California ABSTRACT: The classical Kolmogorov theory of turbulence is based on the concept of the energy transfer from larger to […]
Date of the Event: April 11, 2008
TITLE: DOES MOLECULAR MOTION MATTER FOR PROTEIN FUNCTION? DATE: Friday, April 11th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Love, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The correlation between protein structure and function is well established yet the role flexibility/stability plays in protein function is still being explored. In […]
Date of the Event: April 4, 2008
TITLE: FORMULATION OF A TARGET-MATRIX PARADIGM FOR MESH OPTIMIZATION DATE: Friday, April 4th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Patrick M. Knupp, Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Department, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: PDE simulations generally require a mesh on which the physical domain is discretized. The mesh can have a strong impact on solution […]
Date of the Event: March 28, 2008
TITLE: METHODS FOR RIGID-BODY AND FLEXIBLE FITTING IN 3-D ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY IMAGES DATE: Friday, March 28th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Julio Kovacs, Abagyan Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute ABSTRACT: I will describe methods developed in our lab to perform the fitting of given atomic structures of protein molecules into 3-D images obtained […]
Date of the Event: March 21, 2008
TITLE: ADVANCE HYBRID HIGH ORDER METHODS FOR MULTI-SCALES PROBLEMS IN SHOCKED FLOWS DATE: Friday, March 21st, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Wai Sun Don, visiting Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University ABSTRACT: Classical high order methods such as spectral methods and classical WENO methods are reaching their limits in handling shocked […]
Date of the Event: March 14, 2008
TITLE: Talk 1: TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS Talk 2: INSECT INSPIRED FLYING ROBOTS DATE: Friday, March 14th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Speaker 1 : Fred Van Keulen, Professor, Structural Optimization and Computational Mechanics Group, Department of Precision and, Microsystems Engineering Technical University of Delft, Netherlands Speaker 2 : […]
Date of the Event: March 7, 2008
TITLE: MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) IMAGING AND IMAGING INFORMATICS: FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE DATE: Friday, March 7th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Usha Sinha, Chair, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The presentation covers the range from MR image acquisition through image processing to imaging informatics. MR image acquisition focuses on […]
Date of the Event: February 29, 2008
TITLE: NOISE REMOVAL AND STRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT FOR ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY OF MITOCHONDRIA DATE: Friday, February 29th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We review some recent progress in image enchancement aimed at improving mitochondrial images obtained from electron tomography. We propose: (*) […]