Date of the Event: December 8, 2006
TITLE: PHD DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – A GENERALIZED MULTILEVEL ADAPTIVE SOLVER FOR PDES WITH FAST TRANSITIONS (No. 136) DATE: Friday, December 8th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alfonso Limon, School of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University ABSTRACT: Whether tracking the eye of a storm, the leading edge of a wildfire, or the front […]
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Date of the Event: December 1, 2006
TITLE: CHAOS, THE MOVIE (No. 135) DATE: Friday, December 1st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Chaos: The Movie records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the […]
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Date of the Event: November 3, 2006
TITLE: WHICH MODEL TO USE FOR CORTICAL SPIKING NEURONS? (No. 128) DATE: Friday, November 3rd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eugene Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: We discuss the biological plausibility and computational efficiency of some of the most useful models of spiking and bursting neurons. We compare their […]
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Date of the Event: October 27, 2006
TITLE: THE STAR-P PLATFORM FOR PARALLEL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (No. 129) DATE: Friday, October 27th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Carlos Rojas, Interactive Supercomputing Corporation, Waltham, MA ABSTRACT: Star-P software is a bridge between popular computing tools such as MATLAB from The MathWorks, and high-performance computer (HPC) servers. Star-P accelerates time-to-insight for large […]
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Date of the Event: October 20, 2006
TITLE: RECENT ADVANCES IN 2-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS OF THE PATTERN-FORMING KURAMOTO-SIVASHINSKY EQUATION (No. 124) DATE: Friday, October 20th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We present an overview of recent advances in numerical simulations of the two-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, describing the flame-front deformation in […]
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Date of the Event: October 17, 2006
TITLE: DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – ACCURATE MODELING OF RUPTURE DYNAMICS USING HIGH-ORDER MIMETIC OPERATORS (No. 133) DATE: Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 TIME: 11:00 AM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Otilio Rojas, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Precise and realistic numerical modeling of seismic wave and rupture propagation has become essential for […]
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Date of the Event: October 13, 2006
TITLE: IDENTIFICATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL PARAMETERS WITH AN OPTIMIZATION TOOLBOX (No. 119) DATE: Friday, October 13th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roland Krause, Weidlinger Associates Inc., Mountain View, CA ABSTRACT: Simulation of the behavior of microelectronic devices for imaging and therapeutic ultrasound provides significant advantages to the manufacturing industry of such devices. […]
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Date of the Event: October 6, 2006
TITLE: THE IDENTIFICATION OF DOLPHIN SPECIES THROUGH LONG TERM PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING (No. 126) DATE: Friday, October 6th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Marie Roch, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Long term acoustic monitoring is an established technique for determining the long term abundance and seasonality of cetaceans. […]
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Date of the Event: September 29, 2006
TITLE: UPSTREAM RUNNING WAVES IN THE WATER FLOW OVER A BUMP AND APPROXIMATE AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF FKDV EQUATION (No. 127) DATE: Friday, September 29th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Samuel Shen, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Wuss remarkable finding of upstream-advancing solitons in water flows over a topography […]
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Date of the Event: September 22, 2006
TITLE: POST-BLACK BOX METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL QUANTUM CHEMISTRY: VITAMIN E REGENERATION, ORGANOMETALLIC CATALYSIS, AND TWISTING PLANES (No. 122) DATE: Friday, September 22nd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew Cooksy, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Density functional and ab initio methods of quantum chemical analysis have been used to probe […]
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