Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: October 7, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Enabling Science Through Data Science at Berkeley Lab DATE: Friday, October 7, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Seminar SPEAKER: Dr. Deb Agarwal, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Understanding environmental systems, providing clean water, predicting water availability, and understanding material properties are just a few of the areas where […]
Date of the Event: September 30, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Theoretical Modeling of Electron Transfer Processes and Condensed-Phase Electronic Spectra DATE: Friday, September 30, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Yuezhi Mao, Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Electron transfer and electronic excitations are of key importance in processes harnessing light energies such as photosynthesis, photovoltaics, and photoredox catalysis. […]
Date of the Event: September 23, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Numerical Modeling of Solar Storm Dynamics from the Sun to Earth DATE: Friday, September 23, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Ronald Caplan, Computational Science, Predictive Science Inc ABSTRACT: Solar storms, including coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are large explosive events on the Sun that are capable of ejecting billions […]
Date of the Event: September 16, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Constraint-Based Control Design for Long Duration Autonomy DATE: Friday, September 16, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Magnus Egerstedt, Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering, UC, Irvine ABSTRACT: When robots are to be deployed over long time scales, optimality should take a backseat to √¢¬Ä¬úsurvivability√¢¬Ä¬ù, i.e., it is more important […]
Date of the Event: September 9, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Resource-aware Autonomy in Networked Mobile Devices DATE: Friday, September 9, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Bryan Donyanavard, Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: As computing capacity of modern mobile devices increases, user desires become more complex, and emerging applications demand more performance than battery-powered devices can provide. […]
Date of the Event: September 2, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Photophysics in Quantum Flatland DATE: Friday, September 2, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Sanjay Behura, Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Quantum information science for US economic and national security as outlined in the National Quantum Initiative have attracted much research interests in the advanced quantum materials. The […]
Date of the Event: August 12, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Resolving Extreme Jet Substructure DATE: Friday, August 12, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Seminar SPEAKER: Alexis Romero, PhD Candidate, Physics, University of CA, Irvine ABSTRACT: We study the effectiveness of theoretically-motivated high-level jet observables in the extreme context of jets with a large number of hard sub-jets (up to N=8). […]
Date of the Event: August 5, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium From Oceans to Airplanes, the Fantastic Applications of Splines DATE: Friday, August 5, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Seminar SPEAKER: Amit Nayak, Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Mechanical Engineering & Computing Technology, University of Ottawa ABSTRACT: The main topic of this talk is splines, more specifically, high order and smoothing splines. The […]
Date of the Event: July 22, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Mimetic Relaxation Runge Kutta Methods DATE: Friday, July 22, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Seminar SPEAKER: Anand Srinivasan, PhD Candidate, Computational Science ABSTRACT: Hyperbolic PDEs such as the advection and wave equations conform to conservation laws that are derived from fundamental physics. The traditional finite difference spatial discretization schemes with […]
Date of the Event: July 15, 2022
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Developing Large-Scale Knowledge Maps Using Natural Language Processing DATE: Friday, July 15, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Seminar SPEAKER: Jamey O’Neill, PhD Candidate, Bioengineering ABSTRACT: Knowledge maps provide a connected network of key ideas, topics, techniques and applications within a given field of interest. These maps can be extremely valuable […]