Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: October 28, 2005
TITLE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TOTAL VARIATION IMAGE RESTORATION (No. 82) DATE: Friday, October 28th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Aram K. Kevorkian, Senior Scientist, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego ABSTRACT: Suppose we have a pool of highly sophisticated users and geographically distributed teams of scientists and engineers who wish to connect to […]
Date of the Event: October 21, 2005
TITLE: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AT SSC SAN DIEGO – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS (No. 92) DATE: Friday, October 21st, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Lynn A. Parnell, HPC Coordinator, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego ABSTRACT: At SSC San Diego, high-end computing began in the 1970’s and has grown along with the […]
Date of the Event: October 14, 2005
TITLE: FINITE-VOLUME METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (No. 84) DATE: Friday, October 14th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Phillip Colella, Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Finite volume methods are natural discretizations of partial differential operators expresses as conservation laws, i.e. as the divergence of a vector field of “fluxes”. […]
Date of the Event: October 7, 2005
TITLE: ESTABLISHMENT OF A STRUCTURE REACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP FOR SPHINGOMYELINASE INHIBITORS (No. 90) DATE: Friday, October 7th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Thomas Cole, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Sphingomyelinase inhibitors are attractive drug targets for the treatment of heart attacks and strokes. Currently, there are no approved drugs that […]
Date of the Event: September 30, 2005
TITLE: ANTI-SPHINGOLIPID ANTIBODIES MITIGATE CARDIAC REMODELING (No. 85) DATE: Friday, September 30th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roger Sabbadini, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Recent literature suggests that the activation of the sphingolipid signaling cascade is one of the earliest responses of cardiomyocytes to redox stress caused by hypoxia […]
Date of the Event: September 23, 2005
TITLE: GENE-LEVEL STUDY OF T-CELL RESPONSE TO IL-2, A MICROARRAY DATA MINING APPROACH (No. 88) DATE: Friday, September 23rd, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Christopher Peters, CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Microarray technology allows researchers to simultaneously study the expression levels of thousands of genes. Microarrays are therefore used in a […]
Date of the Event: September 16, 2005
TITLE: THE LEVEL SET METHOD IN GEOMETRICAL OPTICS: FRAMEWORK AND ADVANCES (No. 87) DATE: Friday, September 16th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Li-Tien Cheng, Computational and Applied Mathematics Group, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: Geometrical optics refers to a high frequency approximation simplifying the wave equation. In this regime, the wave […]
Date of the Event: September 9, 2005
TITLE: DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – CONFIGURABLE SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR DECODING OF LOW-DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES (No. 79) DATE: Friday, September 9th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Raymond Moberly, CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: This presentation is a proposal for doctoral research that brings together Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, a […]
Date of the Event: August 26, 2005
TITLE: DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION: VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANHARMONIC SURFACES OF FREE RADICALS AND FLOPPY MOLECULES (No. 83) DATE: Friday, August 26th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dong Xu, CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Because of the anharmonicity of the potential energy surface (PES), accurate prediction of the vibrational spectroscopic properties […]
Date of the Event: May 6, 2005
TITLE: FLEXIBLE NUMERICAL ALGORITHM WITH GRID ADAPTATION (No. 77) DATE: Friday, May 6th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sergei Galkin, Theory Department, General Atomics ABSTRACT: A flexible adaptive unstructured grid technique to solve partial differential equations has been recently developed. Applied to complex nonlinear problems such as rotating star equilibria, plasma equilibria […]