Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: February 23, 2007
TITLE: EXOPLANET HUNT OR INVERTING RADIAL VELOCITY DATA (No. 131) DATE: Friday, February 23rd, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Don Short, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: This talk is a summary of the research program of Orosz, Short and Windmiller that began as the thesis project of Windmiller. In […]
Date of the Event: February 16, 2007
TITLE: USING LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE DIVERSE STUDENTS’ LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE (No. 138) DATE: Friday, February 16th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alberto Rodriguez, Center for Equity and Biliteracy Education Research, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In response to the continuing calls to better prepare teachers to teach science for […]
Date of the Event: February 9, 2007
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES IN HIV-PROTEASE DRUG DESIGN (No. 143) DATE: Friday, February 9th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Rajni Garg, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department,, Cal State, San Marcos, CA ABSTRACT: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and its related disorders, caused by retrovirus Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Type 1, are a major health concern […]
Date of the Event: February 2, 2007
TITLE: EMERGENCE IN COUPLED HUMAN-LANDSCAPE INTERACTIONS: COMBINED NUMERICAL AND AGENT-BASED MODELS FOR BARRIER ISLAND RESORTS AND FLOOD DISASTER AND RESPONSE IN NEW ORLEANS (No. 142) DATE: Friday, February 2nd, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dylan McNamara, Complex Systems Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography ABSTRACT: As humans increasingly occupy, modify and interact with […]
Date of the Event: January 26, 2007
Date of the Event: January 26, 2007
Date of the Event: January 19, 2007
TITLE: ROBUST OUTPUT REGULATION OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS : AN OVERVIEW (No. 132) DATE: Friday, January 19th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sridhar Seshagiri, Department of Electrical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The output regulation problem is a central one in control theory, and deals with controlling theoutput of a system so […]
Date of the Event: December 8, 2006
TITLE: PHD DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – A GENERALIZED MULTILEVEL ADAPTIVE SOLVER FOR PDES WITH FAST TRANSITIONS (No. 136) DATE: Friday, December 8th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alfonso Limon, School of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University ABSTRACT: Whether tracking the eye of a storm, the leading edge of a wildfire, or the front […]
Date of the Event: December 1, 2006
TITLE: CHAOS, THE MOVIE (No. 135) DATE: Friday, December 1st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Chaos: The Movie records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the […]
Date of the Event: November 3, 2006
TITLE: WHICH MODEL TO USE FOR CORTICAL SPIKING NEURONS? (No. 128) DATE: Friday, November 3rd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eugene Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: We discuss the biological plausibility and computational efficiency of some of the most useful models of spiking and bursting neurons. We compare their […]