Date of the Event: November 5, 2004
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY (No. 58) DATE: Friday, November 5th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Steven F. Ashby, Deputy Associate Director, Center for Computing Applications and Research, LLNL ABSTRACT: Large-scale simulation plays an increasingly important role in many scientific and engineering applications, including those in the defense, energy, […]
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Date of the Event: October 29, 2004
TITLE: HIGHER-ORDER FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION OF MAXWELL√جø¬ΩS EQUATIONS: A REVIEW OF THE EMSOLVE CODE (No. 53) DATE: Friday, October 29th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Daniel White, Computational Engineering Group Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ABSTRACT: EMSolve is a three-dimensional, parallel, finite-element code for solving the time-dependent Maxwell’s equations. This code uses […]
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Date of the Event: October 22, 2004
TITLE: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS DESIGN AND OPERATION OF ADVANCED MAGNETIC SENSORS (No. 57) DATE: Friday, October 22nd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Patrick Longhini, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Magnetic senors are inherently nonlinear systems for detecting weak magnetic dc and ac fields. One type of sensor is the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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