Date of the Event: March 25, 2005
TITLE: SOLITON AND VORTEX LATTICES IN NONLINEAR MEDIA: FROM ISOLATED STRUCTURES TO MOLECULAR CRYSTALS (No. 75) DATE: Friday, March 25th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ricardo Carretero, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NLDS) , Dept. of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Nonlinear media host a wide variety of localized coherent structures (waves, bright […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: March 18, 2005
TITLE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE IN THE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SKIN BARRIER MODIFICATION MATERIALS (No. 68) DATE: Friday, March 18th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Newsam, President & Managing Director, fqubed, Inc., San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: fqubed, the skin barrier modification company, is applied to the development of materials that […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: March 11, 2005
TITLE: THE HIERARCHICAL COLLECTIVE MOTIONS METHOD FOR SIMULATING LARGE BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES (No. 69) DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gary Huber, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego ABSTRACT: Several obstacles stand in the way of performing atomic-level computer simulations of biological macromolecules. First of all, the large […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: March 4, 2005
TITLE: IMPLEMENTING COMPONENTWISE HASTINGS ALGORITHMS (No. 73) DATE: Friday, March 4th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard Levine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) routines have revolutionized the application of Monte Carlo methods in statistical application and statistical computing methodology. The Hastings sampler, […]
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SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 25, 2005
TITLE: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN MARINE BIOLOGY (No. 65) DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Lawrence Frank, Director of MR Research, VA San Diego Healthcare System, The UCSD Center for Functional MRI ABSTRACT: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that allows the non-invasive high resolution imaging of soft […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 18, 2005
TITLE: ANTIBODIES TO SPHINGOSINE-1-PHOSPHATE IN THE TREATMENT OF MURINE MODELS OF HUMAN CANCER (No. 66) DATE: Friday, February 18th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roger Sabbadini, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The identification of signaling components that promote tumor growth is a critical step toward discovering therapeutic interventions for […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 11, 2005
TITLE: OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN MEDICAL IMAGE RESTORATION (No. 70) DATE: Friday, February 11th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Astrid Franz, Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany ABSTRACT: Registration of medical images means the integration of one or more images into a common geometrical system of reference so that corresponding image structures in the […]
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SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: February 4, 2005
TITLE: ART AND GAMES VIA COMPUTING BY SHELDON BROWN (No. 71) DATE: Friday, February 4th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sheldon Brown, Director – Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California at San Diego ABSTRACT: Creating art by working with various forms of digital technology over the last […]
2005
SPRING 2005
Date of the Event: January 28, 2005
TITLE: A SCALABLE, INTEROPERABLE NETWORK OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES FOR EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE WITH EXAMPLES FROM OCEANOGRAPHY AND HYDROLOGY (No. 63) DATE: Friday, January 28th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Helly, Director, Laboratory for Environmental and Earth Science, San Diego Supercomputer Center ABSTRACT: This is a talk on the construction of a […]
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