Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: February 13, 2004
TITLE: FROM BRAIN WAVES TO BRAIN DYNAMICS (No. 31) DATE: Friday, February 13th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard E. Greenblatt, Source Signal Imaging, Inc., San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: Using non-invasive measures of brain structure (sMRI) and activity (fMRI, EEG, MEG), researchers would like to infer the location and time course of […]
Date of the Event: February 6, 2004
TITLE: THREE CHALLENGES OF CLAUDE SHANNON (No. 37) DATE: Friday, April 6th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joachim Rosenthal, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame ABSTRACT: In 1948/1949 Claude Shannon wrote two papers [Sha48,Sha49] which became the foundation of modern information theory. The papers showed that information can be compressed up […]
Date of the Event: January 30, 2004
TITLE: THE HEART IN CHAOS (No. 30) DATE: Friday, January 30th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mark Spano, Immediate Past Chair, Division of Biological Physics, American Physical Society ABSTRACT: The heart is an extremely complex system that has mechanical and electrical aspects, with a large dose of nonlinearity thrown in. In such […]
Date of the Event: January 23, 2004
TITLE: DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF STRUCTURES HAVING FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIAL PROPERTIES ? A LESSON FROM NATURE (No. 35) DATE: Friday, January 23rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Satchi Venkataraman, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Recent research trends indicate that we may soon be able to manufacture large structures with […]
Date of the Event: January 16, 2004
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY IN A GRAY AREA: NOT TOO SMART, NOT QUITE TOO DUMB (No. 33) DATE: Friday, January 16th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew Cooksy, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The study of molecules with delocalized unpaired electrons offers one area where the computational tools exist in […]
Date of the Event: December 12, 2003
TITLE: SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION: A CURRICULUM REPORT (No. 26) DATE: Friday, December 12th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Teresa Larsen, Computational Science, SDSU, The Foundation for Scientific Literacy ABSTRACT: Ongoing curriculum development in the CSRC has resulted in an evolution of the course: ?Scientific Visualization & Communication?. Using a ?workplace model? as an […]
Date of the Event: December 5, 2003
TITLE: OPTIMAL CONTROL OF MACRO CONTROLLED SYSTEMS (No. 28) DATE: Friday, December 5th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Vladimir Kazakov, University of Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ABSTRACT: Thermodynamic and microeconomic systems are examples of macro systems, which include a large number of unobservable and uncontrollable micro subsystems. The analogy […]
Date of the Event: November 21, 2003
TITLE: MODELING ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT SYNAPSE RESTRUCTURING (No. 29) DATE: Friday, November 21st, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Diana W. Verzi, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University-Imperial Valley Campus ABSTRACT: The spread of electrical activity in a dendritic tree is shaped, in part, by its morphology. Conversely, experimental evidence is growing that electrical […]
Date of the Event: November 14, 2003
TITLE: RECORD LINKAGE THEORY (No. 27) DATE: Friday, November 14th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Farid Mehovic, EntrePro Corporation, La Jolla, CA ABSTRACT: Current database systems allow only semi-deterministic search of data, which means that the information being searched – the supplied search keys – must exist in the database in the […]
Date of the Event: November 7, 2003
TITLE: NEW VISUALIZATION TRICKS FROM THE BAG (No. 21) DATE: Friday, November 7th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mike Bailey, Director of Visualization, San Diego Supercomputer Center ABSTRACT: One of the great pleasures about working in the field of scientific and engineering visualization is that there are no rules. Anything that turns […]