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 […]
2004
FALL 2004
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 […]
2004
FALL 2004
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 […]
2004
FALL 2004
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 […]
2004
SPRING 2004
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 […]
2004
SPRING 2004
Date of the Event: April 23, 2004
TITLE: FAST SWEEPING METHOD FOR EIKONAL EQUATIONS (No. 45) DATE: Friday, April 23rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Hongkai Zhao, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: In this talk I will present a fast sweeping method for computing the numerical solution of Eikonal equations on a rectangular grid The method […]
2004
SPRING 2004
Date of the Event: April 16, 2004
TITLE: TOPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF NEURONAL BURSTING (No. 47) DATE: Friday, April 16th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eugene Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: When activity of a dynamical system alternates between a quiescent state (equilibrium) and a rhythmic behavior (limit cycle), the system is said to be bursting. Such […]
2004
SPRING 2004
Date of the Event: April 9, 2004
TITLE: TIME REVERSAL BASED COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS (No. 44) DATE: Friday, April 9th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We study the effect of noise on the quality of communication in a multiple-in-single-out (MISO) communications system based on time-reversal (TR). We look […]
2004
SPRING 2004
Date of the Event: April 2, 2004
TITLE: NONLINEAR INVERSION FOR EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PARAMETERS (No. 40) DATE: Friday, April 2nd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Kim Bak Olsen, Department of Geological Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Seismologists have attempted to unravel the rupture history of large earthquakes for decades. Such information is critical to understand how earthquakes initiate, […]
2004
SPRING 2004
Date of the Event: March 26, 2004
TITLE: WAVE ENERGY POTENTIALS: MODELING AND RESOURCE ESTIMATE (No. 41) DATE: Friday, March 26th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Asfaw Beyene, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: With the current rate of consumption, the US oil will deplete in about 40 years, and the natural gas resources will last […]
2004
SPRING 2004
