Date of the Event: November 9, 2007
TITLE: Acoustical Challenges and Rewards of Studying Dialect Development in the Killer Whale, Orcinus orca DATE: Friday, November 9th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ann Bowles, Senior Research Scientist, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute ABSTRACT: Dialects are unusual among mammals, documented only from cetaceans and a few primates. In killer whales, matrilineal pods have […]
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Date of the Event: October 30, 2007
TITLE: TO BE ANNOUNCED ( ANDRE SKUPIN OF SDSU GEOGRAPHY ) DATE: Friday, October 30th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andre Skupin, Department of Geography, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Not Available HOST: Rob Edwards DOWNLOAD:
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Date of the Event: October 26, 2007
TITLE: DESIGN OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DATABASES & VIRTUAL SCREENING DATE: Friday, October 26th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Srinivas Reddy Alla, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, California State University, San Marcos; CA, USA, Molecular Modeling Group, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, INDIA ABSTRACT: The approach to understand the chemical and biological […]
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Date of the Event: October 19, 2007
TITLE: RESEARCH AT THE ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS LAB AT SDSU DATE: Friday, October 19th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jingang Yi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will review some research activities at the Robotics and Mechatronics Lab at SDSU. In the first part of […]
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Date of the Event: October 12, 2007
TITLE: BioBridge: Linking the scientific and educational communities DATE: Friday, October 12th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeremy Babendure, Biomedical Sciences, University of California San Diego ABSTRACT: The BioBridge California Partnership will address the national need for improved science inquiry curriculum to strengthen K-12 student engagement and achievement in the sciences. We […]
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Date of the Event: October 5, 2007
TITLE: Bayesian Multi-LDA for Matrix Factorization DATE: Friday, October 5th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ian Porteous, Information & Computer Science, University of California at Irvine ABSTRACT: Matrix factorization algorithms like SVD and Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) are arguably among the most widely used algorithms throughout machine learning and data mining. Applications […]
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Date of the Event: September 28, 2007
TITLE: MODELING OF SINTERING PROCESSES – CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS DATE: Friday, September 28th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eugene Olevsky, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Directions of further developments in the modeling of sintering will be pointed out with a special emphasis on multi-scale simulations and modeling of field-assisted […]
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Date of the Event: September 21, 2007
TITLE: COLLOIDAL STABILITY IN VISCOUS FLUID SUSPENSIONS DATE: Friday, September 21st, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Redondo, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Colloidal particle suspensions are widely used in commercial products such as shampoos, fabric enhancers and liquid detergents. The suspensions tend to have complex formulations with compositions that […]
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Date of the Event: September 14, 2007
TITLE: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM NONLINEAR LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS IN DISCRETE SYSTEMS DATE: Friday, September 14th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Faustino Palmero Acebedo, Nonlinear Physics Group of the University of Sevilla (Spain) ABSTRACT: Discrete breathers, or intrinsic localized modes, are spatially localized, time–periodic, nonlinear excitations that can exist and propagate in systems of […]
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Date of the Event: September 7, 2007
TITLE: CONFORMATIONALLY BASED DESIGN OF ANTITUMOR AGENTS DATE: Friday, September 7th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Shelli R. McAlpine, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The sansalvamide A (San A) scaffold is a promising structure for the development of novel cancer therapeutics. We are utilizing our compounds to treat multiple […]
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