Date of the Event: September 26, 2003
TITLE: MULTISCALE MODELING OF DIFFUSION- INDUCED DEFORMATION PROCESSES (No. 20) DATE: Friday, September 26th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eugene Olevsky, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The developed integrated approach of both macroscopic (continuum finite-element), mesoscopic (Monte-Carlo stochastic), and microscopic (Monte-Carlo stochastic) modeling of diffusion-induced deformation processes such […]
2003
FALL 2003
Date of the Event: September 19, 2003
TITLE: COUPLING-INDUCED OSCILLATIONS IN OVERDAMPED BISTABLE SYSTEMS (No. 22) DATE: Friday, September 19th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: It is well known that overdamped and unforced dynamical systems do not oscillate. However, well-designed coupling schemes, together with the appropriate choice […]
2003
FALL 2003
Date of the Event: September 12, 2003
TITLE: CHALLENGES IN CALCULATING AND PREDICTING LARGE SCALE CARBON FLUXES IN THE ARCTIC AND THE PACIFIC RIM (No. 16) DATE: Friday, September 12th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joe Verfaillie, Global Change Research Group, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Because of the anthropogenic release of huge amounts of carbon […]
2003
FALL 2003
Date of the Event: September 5, 2003
TITLE: RECENT PROGRESS IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AT NERSC (No. 6) DATE: Friday, September 5th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Horst D. Simon, National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab ABSTRACT: The NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing) Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is one of the largest […]
2003
FALL 2003
Date of the Event: May 9, 2003
TITLE: SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION: A CURRICULUM REPORT (No. 5) DATE: Friday, May 9th, 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 […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: May 2, 2003
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE MASTER THESIS PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONS (No. 19) TALK 1 : Growth and Control in Escherichia Coli TALK 2 : Biomechanical boundary conditions delimitation for fracture healing with intramedullary nail fixation. TALK 3 : Predicting Binding Affinities of Protein-Protein complexes: A tool for Protein Design DATE: Friday, May 2nd, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: April 25, 2003
TITLE: A PROBABILISTIC DECODING ALGORITHM USING EFFICIENT BELIEF PROPOGATION (No. 15) DATE: Friday, April 25th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mike O’Sullivan, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A variety of algorithms from diverse subject areas (artificial intelligence, Bayesian networks, coding theory) use a generalization of the humble distributive law, […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: April 18, 2003
TITLE: PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MODELS OF LARVAL ADVECTION AND TROPHODYNAMICS: A CASE STUDY OF LARVAL COD ON GEORGES BANK (No. 4) DATE: Friday, April 18th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Francisco E. Werner, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, , Chapel Hill ABSTRACT: A description of the advances in the […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: April 11, 2003
TITLE: CHAOS-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (No. 3) DATE: Friday, April 11th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ljupco Kocarev, Institute of Nonlinear Sciences, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, there has been tremendous interest in studying the behavior of chaotic systems. They are characterized by […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: March 28, 2003
TITLE: MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR ERYTHROPOIESIS (No. 2) DATE: Friday, March 28th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joe Mahaffy, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Erythropoiesis is the process by which stem cells (primarily in the bone marrow) differentiate and proliferate to supply our bodies with erythrocytes (red blood cells), the […]
2003
SPRING 2003