Computational Science Research Center
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, […]
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 […]
Date of the Event: March 12, 2004
TITLE: SPECIAL PRESENTATION FOR ACSESS LAUNCH EVENT – STEALING MATHEMATICS IDEAS FROM GENERAL RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS (No. 42) DATE: Friday, March 12th, 2004 TIME: 2:00 PM LOCATION: Casa Real, Montezuma Hall SPEAKER: Jim Blinn, Graphics Fellow, Microsoft Research ABSTRACT: The Computational Science Research Center at San Diego State University proudly presents ACSESS for Industry […]
Date of the Event: March 11, 2004
TITLE: TBA (No. 67) DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gary Huber, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego ABSTRACT: N/A HOST: Jose Castillo DOWNLOAD:
Date of the Event: March 5, 2004
TITLE: APPLICATIONS OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO QUESTIONS IN HOMELAND SECURITY (No. 34) DATE: Friday, March 5th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Arizona State University ABSTRACT: Epidemiological processes are based on the idea of contagion through contacts between individuals. In this talk I will explore the […]
Date of the Event: February 27, 2004
TITLE: DATA MINING IN ASTRONOMY (No. 36) DATE: Friday, February 27th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eric Sandquist, Department of Astronomy, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Astronomers are entering a period in which we are overwhelmed with publicly available data covering the entire sky. In fact it is conceivable that “observational” astronomers […]
Date of the Event: February 20, 2004
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO PROTEIN (AND ENZYME) DESIGN (No. 39) DATE: Friday, February 20th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Love, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A main aim of our research program is to combine the principles of supramolecular chemistry with the emerging tools of protein engineering. The […]
Date of the Event: February 13, 2004
TITLE: FROM BRAIN WAVES TO BRAIN DYNAMICS (No. 31) DATE: Friday, February 13th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard E. Greenblatt, Source Signal Imaging, Inc., San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: Using non-invasive measures of brain structure (sMRI) and activity (fMRI, EEG, MEG), researchers would like to infer the location and time course of […]
Date of the Event: February 6, 2004
TITLE: THREE CHALLENGES OF CLAUDE SHANNON (No. 37) DATE: Friday, April 6th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joachim Rosenthal, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame ABSTRACT: In 1948/1949 Claude Shannon wrote two papers [Sha48,Sha49] which became the foundation of modern information theory. The papers showed that information can be compressed up […]
Date of the Event: January 30, 2004
TITLE: THE HEART IN CHAOS (No. 30) DATE: Friday, January 30th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mark Spano, Immediate Past Chair, Division of Biological Physics, American Physical Society ABSTRACT: The heart is an extremely complex system that has mechanical and electrical aspects, with a large dose of nonlinearity thrown in. In such […]