Date of the Event: March 21, 2003
TITLE: LIGHT PROPAGATION IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE (No. 1) DATE: Friday, March 21st, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Arnold D. Kim, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ABSTRACT: Understanding laser light propagation in biological tissue has practical applications to medical imaging, diagnosis and monitoring. The radiative transport equation governs light propagation, scattering and absorption […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: March 14, 2003
TITLE: GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF RING-LINEAR CODING (No. 7) DATE: Friday, March 14th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Marcus Greferath, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The relationship between classical finite geometry and the theory of linear block codes has been established early in the development of coding theory. This talk […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: March 7, 2003
TITLE: A BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO STUDY GENE REGULATION (No. 8) DATE: Friday, March 7th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Robert W. Zeller, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Despite tremendous advances in recent years, our understanding of gene regulation is far from complete. Genes are linear pieces […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: February 28, 2003
TITLE: MULTI-FREQUENCY RHYTHMS AND CYCLING BEHAVIOR IN COUPLED CELL SYSTEMS (No. 9) DATE: Friday, February 28th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Symmetry-breaking bifurcation is a model-independent phenomenon that leads to many patterns of behavior in natural and artificial systems. In this talk, […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: February 21, 2003
TITLE: MODELING OF FLOTATION KINETICS BASED ON RATE DISTRIBUTION (No. 10) DATE: Friday, February 21st, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mikhail Burstein, SIMS/R, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Flotation is one of the most widely used separation processes for mineral processing, coal preparation, waste water treatment and other applications. For example, over […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: February 14, 2003
TITLE: MICROARRAY GENE EXPRESSION STUDIES IN CARDIAC CELLS (No. 11) DATE: Friday, February 14th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Paul Paolini, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Our laboratory group has recently investigated the potential beneficial effects on the heart of a synthetic antidiabetic drug from the thiazolidinedione (TZD) family […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: February 7, 2003
TITLE: A MATRIX ANALYSIS APPROACH TO HIGHER-ORDER MIMETIC DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS (No. 12) DATE: Friday, February 7th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jose E. Castillo, Computational Sciences Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: On-dimensional, higher-order approximations to the divergence and gradient (up to the boundary) are constructed which satisfy a global conservation […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: January 31, 2003
TITLE: SOLIDIFICATION OF A SUPERCOOLED LIQUID IN A HALF-SPACE: STAGNATION-POINT FLOW AND INTERFACE INSTABILITY (No. 13) DATE: Friday, January 31st, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roger Rangel, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: The solidification of a supercooled liquid in a half-space is investigated for the cases […]
2003
SPRING 2003
Date of the Event: January 24, 2003
TITLE: BAROCLINIC CIRCULATION ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD POOL IN THE CELTIC SEA (No. 14) DATE: Friday, January 24th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Laura E. Carrillo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego ABSTRACT: An observational study of the summer circulation in the Celtic Sea is presented which focuses on […]
2003
SPRING 2003
