Date of the Event: March 4, 2005
TITLE: IMPLEMENTING COMPONENTWISE HASTINGS ALGORITHMS (No. 73) DATE: Friday, March 4th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard Levine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) routines have revolutionized the application of Monte Carlo methods in statistical application and statistical computing methodology. The Hastings sampler, […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 25, 2005
TITLE: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN MARINE BIOLOGY (No. 65) DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Lawrence Frank, Director of MR Research, VA San Diego Healthcare System, The UCSD Center for Functional MRI ABSTRACT: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that allows the non-invasive high resolution imaging of soft […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 18, 2005
TITLE: ANTIBODIES TO SPHINGOSINE-1-PHOSPHATE IN THE TREATMENT OF MURINE MODELS OF HUMAN CANCER (No. 66) DATE: Friday, February 18th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roger Sabbadini, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The identification of signaling components that promote tumor growth is a critical step toward discovering therapeutic interventions for […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 11, 2005
TITLE: OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN MEDICAL IMAGE RESTORATION (No. 70) DATE: Friday, February 11th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Astrid Franz, Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany ABSTRACT: Registration of medical images means the integration of one or more images into a common geometrical system of reference so that corresponding image structures in the […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 4, 2005
TITLE: ART AND GAMES VIA COMPUTING BY SHELDON BROWN (No. 71) DATE: Friday, February 4th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sheldon Brown, Director – Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California at San Diego ABSTRACT: Creating art by working with various forms of digital technology over the last […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: January 28, 2005
TITLE: A SCALABLE, INTEROPERABLE NETWORK OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES FOR EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE WITH EXAMPLES FROM OCEANOGRAPHY AND HYDROLOGY (No. 63) DATE: Friday, January 28th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Helly, Director, Laboratory for Environmental and Earth Science, San Diego Supercomputer Center ABSTRACT: This is a talk on the construction of a […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: December 10, 2004
TITLE: VISUALIZING AND MODELING MITOCHONDRIA AND THEIR ROLES IN PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH (No. 64) DATE: Friday, December 10th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Terry Frey, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We have been involved in the application of state-of-the-art microscopy in the study of mitochondrial structure and function. Three-dimensional […]
2004
FALL 2004
Date of the Event: December 3, 2004
TITLE: NOVEL SCORING METHODS IN VIRTUAL LIGAND SCREENING (No. 62) DATE: Friday, December 3rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Daniel Pick, Computational Scientist, San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: In virtual drug discovery efforts, 3-D virtual small molecules are “docked” into models of the protein target, and the quality of the docking is scored […]
2004
FALL 2004
Date of the Event: November 19, 2004
TITLE: EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES FOR WAVE PROPAGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA (No. 59) DATE: Friday, November 19th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Michael D. Collins, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. ABSTRACT: Many wave propagation problems in geophysics are too complicated to be solved exactly and too large to be solved directly with numerical methods. […]
2004
FALL 2004
Date of the Event: November 12, 2004
TITLE: ON THE ERROR-CONTROL MECHANISM OF GENETIC PROCESSES (No. 60) DATE: Friday, November 12th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Bane Vasic, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona ABSTRACT: Living beings are characterized by their unique information storage and processing ability. The theory of code analysis and storage has a […]
2004
FALL 2004
