Computational Science Research Center

Computational Science Research Center

VISUALIZING AND MODELING MITOCHONDRIA AND THEIR ROLES IN PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH (No. 64)

Date of the Event: December 10, 2004

TITLE: VISUALIZING AND MODELING MITOCHONDRIA AND THEIR ROLES IN PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH (No. 64) DATE: Friday, December 10th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Terry Frey, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We have been involved in the application of state-of-the-art microscopy in the study of mitochondrial structure and function. Three-dimensional […]

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NOVEL SCORING METHODS IN VIRTUAL LIGAND SCREENING (No. 62)

Date of the Event: December 3, 2004

TITLE: NOVEL SCORING METHODS IN VIRTUAL LIGAND SCREENING (No. 62) DATE: Friday, December 3rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Daniel Pick, Computational Scientist, San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: In virtual drug discovery efforts, 3-D virtual small molecules are “docked” into models of the protein target, and the quality of the docking is scored […]

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EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES FOR WAVE PROPAGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA (No. 59)

Date of the Event: November 19, 2004

TITLE: EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES FOR WAVE PROPAGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA (No. 59) DATE: Friday, November 19th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Michael D. Collins, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. ABSTRACT: Many wave propagation problems in geophysics are too complicated to be solved exactly and too large to be solved directly with numerical methods. […]

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ON THE ERROR-CONTROL MECHANISM OF GENETIC PROCESSES (No. 60)

Date of the Event: November 12, 2004

TITLE: ON THE ERROR-CONTROL MECHANISM OF GENETIC PROCESSES (No. 60) DATE: Friday, November 12th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Bane Vasic, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona ABSTRACT: Living beings are characterized by their unique information storage and processing ability. The theory of code analysis and storage has a […]

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COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY (No. 58)

Date of the Event: November 5, 2004

TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY (No. 58) DATE: Friday, November 5th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Steven F. Ashby, Deputy Associate Director, Center for Computing Applications and Research, LLNL ABSTRACT: Large-scale simulation plays an increasingly important role in many scientific and engineering applications, including those in the defense, energy, […]

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HIGHER-ORDER FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION OF MAXWELL�S EQUATIONS: A REVIEW OF THE EMSOLVE CODE (No. 53)

Date of the Event: October 29, 2004

TITLE: HIGHER-ORDER FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION OF MAXWELL√جø¬ΩS EQUATIONS: A REVIEW OF THE EMSOLVE CODE (No. 53) DATE: Friday, October 29th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Daniel White, Computational Engineering Group Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ABSTRACT: EMSolve is a three-dimensional, parallel, finite-element code for solving the time-dependent Maxwell’s equations. This code uses […]

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NONLINEAR DYNAMICS DESIGN AND OPERATION OF ADVANCED MAGNETIC SENSORS (No. 57)

Date of the Event: October 22, 2004

TITLE: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS DESIGN AND OPERATION OF ADVANCED MAGNETIC SENSORS (No. 57) DATE: Friday, October 22nd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Patrick Longhini, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Magnetic senors are inherently nonlinear systems for detecting weak magnetic dc and ac fields. One type of sensor is the […]

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COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS OF COMPACT STARS (No. 56)

Date of the Event: October 15, 2004

TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS OF COMPACT STARS (No. 56) DATE: Friday, October 15th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Fridolin Weber, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Neutron stars and black holes are among the most striking astrophysical objects where two frontiers of modern physics – the strong interaction and general relativity […]

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THE DESIGN OF A PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER, A NEUROSCIENCE PERSPECTIVE (No. 61)

Date of the Event: October 8, 2004

TITLE: THE DESIGN OF A PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER, A NEUROSCIENCE PERSPECTIVE (No. 61) DATE: Friday, October 8th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Faramarz Valafar, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The growing maturity of commodity platforms for high-performance computing (HPC) is expanding the impact of HPC into areas […]

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MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS AND PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS SHED LIGHT ON HOW MICROTUBULES SEARCH IN SPACE (No. 49)

Date of the Event: October 1, 2004

TITLE: MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS AND PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS SHED LIGHT ON HOW MICROTUBULES SEARCH IN SPACE (No. 49) DATE: Friday, October 1st, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alex Mogilner, Department of Math and Center for Genetics and Development, University of California, Davis ABSTRACT: Mitosis is the process of segregation of chromosomes before cell […]

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