Date of the Event: March 24, 2006
TITLE: OPTIMIZATION FOR PREDICTABLE ENERGY ABSORPTION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES (No. 111) DATE: Friday, March 24th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Satchi Venkataraman, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Predicting crash response of complex structures is challenging even for metal structures. This difficulty in predicting crash behavior arises from the […]
2006
SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: March 17, 2006
TITLE: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF BOSE-CONDENSED GASES (No. 109) DATE: Friday, March 17th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alexandru Nicolin, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark ABSTRACT: Bose-Einstein condensation of ultra-cold atomic gases has become an attractive research topic which draws on distinct fields such as nuclear and atomic physics and nonlinear science. The current […]
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SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: March 10, 2006
TITLE: GLYCAN MICROARRAY EXPRESSIONS AND THEIR POTENTIAL USAGE IN PROGNOSIS AND DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER (No. 96) DATE: Friday, March 10th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Marko Vuskovic, Department of Computer Science, SDSU, Hongyu Xu, GlycoMedical Research Institute Margaret Huflejt, GlycoMedical Research Institute ABSTRACT: Glycans are complex sugar chains that decorate the surface […]
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SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: March 3, 2006
TITLE: BIOINFORMATICS: MERGING COMPUTER AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (No. 101) DATE: Friday, March 3rd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Rob Edwards, Department of Biology and CSRC, SDSU ABSTRACT: The computer science revolution has overtaken the natural sciences, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Biology. The amount of biological data that is […]
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SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: February 24, 2006
TITLE: A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH TO STUDY THE SPECIFICATION OF THE LARVAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IN CIONA INTESTINALIS. (No. 110) DATE: Friday, February 24th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Robert Zeller, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Our laboratory uses an integrated approach that combines microscopy, genomics, bioinformatics, cell and molecular […]
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SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: February 17, 2006
TITLE: MAXIMUM CUT PROBLEM AND SPECTRUM OF A GRAPH (No. 104) DATE: Friday, February 17th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dragan Stevanovic, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Univerzitet u Nieu, Serbia, Yugoslavia ABSTRACT: In the first part of the talk, I will give a short overview of two of my papers dealing […]
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SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: February 10, 2006
TITLE: MEET ANIBOT: THE FIRST BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ANIMAL ROBOT (No. 102) DATE: Friday, February 10th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We present the first circuit realization of an animal (quadruped) robot controlled by a Central Pattern Generator (CPG) network of neurons, whose model […]
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SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: February 3, 2006
TITLE: SOLVING POLYNOMIAL SYSTEMS WITH SINGULAR SOLUTIONS (No. 99) DATE: Friday, February 3rd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Anton Leykin, Math Faculty Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago ABSTRACT: In this talk I will describe a deflation algorithm used in solving systems of polynomial equations […]
2006
SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: January 27, 2006
TITLE: AUTOMATED CHEMICAL STRUCTURE DETERMINATION: ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE MONOSACCHARIDE GC-EIMS SPECTRAL PROBLEM SPACE (No. 100) DATE: Friday, January 27th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Faramarz Valafar, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Chemical Structure Determination (CSD) is an essential part of many projects in Chemistry, Biology, and […]
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SPRING 2006
Date of the Event: January 20, 2006
TITLE: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR SIGNAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS (No. 98) DATE: Friday, January 20th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ovidiu Lipan, Faculty Candidate, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia ABSTRACT: The aim of this talk is to present a mathematical model for signal […]
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