Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: September 15, 2006
TITLE: MODELING TYPE 1 DIABETES IN NOD MICE (No. 123) DATE: Friday, September 15th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joe Mahaffy, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which immune cells, notably T-lymphocytes target and kill the insulin-secreting pancreatic beta cells. Elevated […]
Date of the Event: September 8, 2006
TITLE: SIMULATION OF MIXED CONTINUUM-DISCRETE PHYSICS WITH HIGH-ORDER METHODS (No. 121) DATE: Friday, September 8th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Guus Jacobs, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In the last decade, high-order multidomain methods have established themselves as effective methods for long time integration of complex high-frequency wave-dominated […]
Date of the Event: September 1, 2006
TITLE: VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR LARGE DATASETS (No. 120) DATE: Friday, September 1st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Carlos Bazan, CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: With the introduction of computer simulation and our ability to generate enormous amount of data, visualization becomes a sine qua non component in any scientific research. Our […]
Date of the Event: August 25, 2006
TITLE: GOING LATIN USING IN SILICO, IN VITRO AND IN VIVO METHODS TO FULLY CHARACTERIZE PROTEIN STABILITY/FLEXIBILITY (No. 118) DATE: Friday, August 25th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Love, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The correlation between protein structure and function is well established yet the role flexibility […]
Date of the Event: May 5, 2006
TITLE: POSITRONIC ATOMS — ONE WAY FOR MATTER AND ANTIMATTER TO (BRIEFLY) COEXIST (No. 116) DATE: Friday, May 5th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Michael Bromley, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The positron is the antiparticle of the electron (same mass but positive charge), is the most common antiparticle, […]
Date of the Event: April 28, 2006
TITLE: AN OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE DATA MERGING TECHNIQUES FOR CLIMATE DATA RECORDS (No. 103) DATE: Friday, April 28th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Giulietta Fargion, CHORDS and CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Scales in time and space are discussed in relation to the multiple satellite missions and their implication for merging […]
Date of the Event: April 21, 2006
TITLE: PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH TO GENE ANNOTATION AND FUNCTION PREDICTION (No. 112) DATE: Friday, April 21st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Scott Kelley, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The purpose of our study was to develop a phylogenetic-based (tree-parsing) algorithm for automated gene function annotation. Computer-based functional annotations of molecular […]
Date of the Event: April 14, 2006
TITLE: A RANDOM WALK THROUGH BIOMATHEMATICS (No. 117) DATE: Friday, April 14th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Salamon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The talk will present an overview and some highlights from the biomathematics happening around SDSU with special emphasis on available student projects. The […]
Date of the Event: April 7, 2006
TITLE: HACKING THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO QUANTUM MANY-BODY WAVEFUNCTIONS (No. 114) DATE: Friday, April 7th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Calvin Johnson, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The quantum wavefunction of the atomic nucleus is needed to understand nuclear reactions in stars and to decode the mass […]
Date of the Event: March 31, 2006
TITLE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN OBSERVATION OF CESAR CHAVEZ (STATE HOLIDAY). (No. 115) DATE: Friday, March 31st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mahmoud Tarokh, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Intelligent Robotic Systems using Biologically Inspired Techniques In this talk I will give an overview of the […]