Date of the Event: October 13, 2006
TITLE: IDENTIFICATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL PARAMETERS WITH AN OPTIMIZATION TOOLBOX (No. 119) DATE: Friday, October 13th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roland Krause, Weidlinger Associates Inc., Mountain View, CA ABSTRACT: Simulation of the behavior of microelectronic devices for imaging and therapeutic ultrasound provides significant advantages to the manufacturing industry of such devices. […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: October 6, 2006
TITLE: THE IDENTIFICATION OF DOLPHIN SPECIES THROUGH LONG TERM PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING (No. 126) DATE: Friday, October 6th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Marie Roch, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Long term acoustic monitoring is an established technique for determining the long term abundance and seasonality of cetaceans. […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: September 29, 2006
TITLE: UPSTREAM RUNNING WAVES IN THE WATER FLOW OVER A BUMP AND APPROXIMATE AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF FKDV EQUATION (No. 127) DATE: Friday, September 29th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Samuel Shen, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Wuss remarkable finding of upstream-advancing solitons in water flows over a topography […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: September 22, 2006
TITLE: POST-BLACK BOX METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL QUANTUM CHEMISTRY: VITAMIN E REGENERATION, ORGANOMETALLIC CATALYSIS, AND TWISTING PLANES (No. 122) DATE: Friday, September 22nd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew Cooksy, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Density functional and ab initio methods of quantum chemical analysis have been used to probe […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: September 15, 2006
TITLE: MODELING TYPE 1 DIABETES IN NOD MICE (No. 123) DATE: Friday, September 15th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joe Mahaffy, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which immune cells, notably T-lymphocytes target and kill the insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells. Elevated […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: September 8, 2006
TITLE: SIMULATION OF MIXED CONTINUUM-DISCRETE PHYSICS WITH HIGH-ORDER METHODS (No. 121) DATE: Friday, September 8th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Guus Jacobs, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In the last decade, high-order multidomain methods have established themselves as effective methods for long time integration of complex high-frequency wave-dominated […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: September 1, 2006
TITLE: VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR LARGE DATASETS (No. 120) DATE: Friday, September 1st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Carlos Bazan, CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: With the introduction of computer simulation and our ability to generate enormous amount of data, visualization becomes a sine qua non component in any scientific research. Our […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: August 25, 2006
TITLE: GOING LATIN USING IN SILICO, IN VITRO AND IN VIVO METHODS TO FULLY CHARACTERIZE PROTEIN STABILITY/FLEXIBILITY (No. 118) DATE: Friday, August 25th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Love, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The correlation between protein structure and function is well established yet the role flexibility […]
2006
FALL 2006
Date of the Event: May 5, 2006
TITLE: POSITRONIC ATOMS — ONE WAY FOR MATTER AND ANTIMATTER TO (BRIEFLY) COEXIST (No. 116) DATE: Friday, May 5th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Michael Bromley, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The positron is the antiparticle of the electron (same mass but positive charge), is the most common antiparticle, […]
2006
SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: April 28, 2006
TITLE: AN OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE DATA MERGING TECHNIQUES FOR CLIMATE DATA RECORDS (No. 103) DATE: Friday, April 28th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Giulietta Fargion, CHORDS and CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Scales in time and space are discussed in relation to the multiple satellite missions and their implication for merging […]
2006
SPRING 2006
