Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: February 10, 2006
TITLE: MEET ANIBOT: THE FIRST BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ANIMAL ROBOT (No. 102) DATE: Friday, February 10th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We present the first circuit realization of an animal (quadruped) robot controlled by a Central Pattern Generator (CPG) network of neurons, whose model […]
Date of the Event: February 3, 2006
TITLE: SOLVING POLYNOMIAL SYSTEMS WITH SINGULAR SOLUTIONS (No. 99) DATE: Friday, February 3rd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Anton Leykin, Math Faculty Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago ABSTRACT: In this talk I will describe a deflation algorithm used in solving systems of polynomial equations […]
Date of the Event: January 27, 2006
TITLE: AUTOMATED CHEMICAL STRUCTURE DETERMINATION: ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE MONOSACCHARIDE GC-EIMS SPECTRAL PROBLEM SPACE (No. 100) DATE: Friday, January 27th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Faramarz Valafar, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Chemical Structure Determination (CSD) is an essential part of many projects in Chemistry, Biology, and […]
Date of the Event: January 20, 2006
TITLE: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR SIGNAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS (No. 98) DATE: Friday, January 20th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ovidiu Lipan, Faculty Candidate, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia ABSTRACT: The aim of this talk is to present a mathematical model for signal […]
Date of the Event: December 9, 2005
TITLE: PMN-PT SINGLE CRYSTAL RESONATORS FOR ULTRA-SENSITIVE VAPOR SENSING (No. 93) DATE: Friday, December 9th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Kee Moon, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We report on an experimental comparison between PMN-PT single crystal resonators with commercially available QCM resonators showing significant superiority for new […]
Date of the Event: December 7, 2005
TITLE: DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – PATTERN FORMATION AND NOISE IN O(2) SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS (No. 95) DATE: Friday, December 7th, 2005 TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Physics 147 SPEAKER: Scott Gasner, CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: This grant proposal presentation will describe an investigation into the pattern formation of cellular flames in O(2) symmetric systems under […]
Date of the Event: December 2, 2005
TITLE: ELECTROKINETICS IN THE TRANSPORT AND ACCUMULATION OF BIOMOLECULES IN MICROARRAY-BASED DNA CHIPS (No. 94) DATE: Friday, December 2nd, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sam Kassegne, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this talk, we describe the transport and accumulation of biomolecules in microarray-based DNA chips. Various geometric […]
Date of the Event: November 18, 2005
TITLE: MODELING MARINE PHAGE ECOLOGY (No. 86) DATE: Friday, November 18th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joe Mahaffy, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Marine phage are virus that infect bacteria in the ocean. There are about 1031 phage in the oceans, yet little is known about phage ecology and […]
Date of the Event: November 11, 2005
TITLE: MONITORING WATER TRANSPARENCY AND DIVER VISIBILITY IN PORTS AND HARBORS USING AIRCRAFT HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING (No. 91) DATE: Friday, November 11th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Charles Trees, Research Professor of Hydro-Optics and Remote Sensing, SDSU Research Foundation ABSTRACT: Diver visibility analyses and predictions, and water transparency in general, are of […]
Date of the Event: November 4, 2005
TITLE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TOTAL VARIATION IMAGE RESTORATION (No. 82) DATE: Friday, November 4th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Tony Chan, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, UCLA ABSTRACT: Since their introduction in a classic paper by Rudin, Osher and Fatemi, total variation minimizing models have become one of the most popular […]