Computational Science Research Center
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 […]
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 […]