Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: October 15, 2004
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS OF COMPACT STARS (No. 56) DATE: Friday, October 15th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Fridolin Weber, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Neutron stars and black holes are among the most striking astrophysical objects where two frontiers of modern physics – the strong interaction and general relativity […]
Date of the Event: October 8, 2004
TITLE: THE DESIGN OF A PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER, A NEUROSCIENCE PERSPECTIVE (No. 61) DATE: Friday, October 8th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Faramarz Valafar, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The growing maturity of commodity platforms for high-performance computing (HPC) is expanding the impact of HPC into areas […]
Date of the Event: October 1, 2004
TITLE: MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS AND PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS SHED LIGHT ON HOW MICROTUBULES SEARCH IN SPACE (No. 49) DATE: Friday, October 1st, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alex Mogilner, Department of Math and Center for Genetics and Development, University of California, Davis ABSTRACT: Mitosis is the process of segregation of chromosomes before cell […]
Date of the Event: September 24, 2004
TITLE: NUMERICAL METHODS FOR INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW (No. 52) DATE: Friday, September 24th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Zhiqiang Cai, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University ABSTRACT: For incompressible Newtonian fluid flow, the primitive physical equations are the balance of momentum and the constitutive equation. This is a first-order partial differential system […]
Date of the Event: September 17, 2004
TITLE: FLUID DYNAMICS OF THE HEART AND AORTA WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES (LVADS) (No. 55) DATE: Friday, September 17th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Karen May-Newman, Department of of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) are mechanical pumps used to improve or replace the function […]
Date of the Event: September 10, 2004
TITLE: PATTERN FORMATION AND HOPPING BEHAVIOR IN THE KURAMOTO-SIVASHINSKY EQUATION (No. 51) DATE: Friday, September 10th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We report the first observations of numerical “hopping” cellular flame patterns found in computer simulations of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. Hopping states […]
Date of the Event: September 3, 2004
TITLE: VOLUME-OF-FLUID (VOF) SIMULATIONS OF DROPS AND BUBBLES (No. 50) DATE: Friday, September 3rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ali Nadim, School of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont Graduate University ABSTRACT: Multiphase fluid flows occur in numerous technological and environmental applications. Simulation of such flows is challenging because of presence of evolving interfaces. The […]
Date of the Event: August 27, 2004
TITLE: MANIPULATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES WITH FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES OR PRESSURE (No. 54) DATE: Friday, August 27th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Aldo Humberto Romero, Inst.Potosino De Investigacion En C Y T, San Luis Potosi, Mexico ABSTRACT: During the last few years, the creation of new nanostructures with very interesting physical/chemical properties has […]
Date of the Event: May 7, 2004
TITLE: ORDER IN REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS AWAY FROM EQUILIBRIUM (No. 46) DATE: Friday, May 7th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Katja Lindenberg, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: The past few years have seen the emergence of dramatically counterintuitive phenomena in even the “simplest” complex systems away from […]
Date of the Event: April 30, 2004
TITLE: BLIND SOURCE RECOVERY: THEORETICAL FORMULATIONS, IMPLEMENTATIONS AND APPLICATION TO CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (No. 48) DATE: Friday, April 30th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Khurram Waheed, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Blind Source Recovery (BSR) is an autonomous (or unsupervised) stochastic adaptation approach that denotes recovering […]