Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: April 20, 2007
TITLE: THE SYMMETRY PERSPECTIVE (No. 154) DATE: Friday, April 20th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: It is well known that symmetry can restrict the form of a system of differential equations and, consequently, of its solutions. The mathematical representation of these restrictions […]
Date of the Event: April 13, 2007
TITLE: RECENT RESULTS OF A MODEL OF ELECTRICAL PROPAGATION IN THE HEART (No. 151) DATE: Friday, April 13th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Avinoam Rabinovitch, Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel ABSTRACT: Results include: 1. Fitting the action potential of the heart by a modified FitzHugh model. Results […]
Date of the Event: April 6, 2007
TITLE: SIMULATION OF IMMOBILIZED ENZYME KINETICS AND TRANSPORT IN SESSILE HYDROGEL DROPS (No. 152) DATE: Friday, April 6th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Chao-Jen Wong, School of Mathematical Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona and CGU ABSTRACT: We present a new numerical method, termed the embedding method, to solve a system of nonlinear PDEs […]
Date of the Event: March 29, 2007
TITLE: DISSERTATION PROPOSAL–A METAGENOMIC EXAMINATION OF A SOLAR SALTERN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (No. 153) DATE: Friday, March 29th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Beltran Rodriguez Brito, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Introduction Solar salterns are natural or man-made structures composed of several conjoined pools with progressively increasing concentrations […]
Date of the Event: March 23, 2007
TITLE: SLOW PASSAGE THROUGH A HOPF BIFURCATION: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MEMORY EFFECT WITH APPLICATION TO NEURONAL BURSTING (No. 149) DATE: Friday, March 23rd, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Steve Baer, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University ABSTRACT: In many biological, chemical and physical systems modeled mathematically as bifurcation problems, the bifurcation […]
Date of the Event: March 16, 2007
TITLE: DATA ANALYSIS AND THE SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (No. 145) DATE: Friday, March 16th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gene Golub, Computer Science Deptartment, Stanford University ABSTRACT: In this talk, we describe a number of engineering and biological applications where the singular value decomposition (SVD) can be helpful in analyzing large data […]
Date of the Event: March 9, 2007
TITLE: TRANSCRIPTOMICS APPROACHES TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING PLANT RESPONSES TO ABIOTIC STRESS (No. 148) DATE: Friday, May 9th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joan Chen, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Plants have a remarkable ability to cope with highly variable environmental stresses, including cold, drought, and soils with changing salt and […]
Date of the Event: March 2, 2007
TITLE: TRANSISTOR MODELING FOR THE SEMI-CONDUCTOR INDUSTRY (No. 147) DATE: Friday, March 2nd, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ellis Cumberbatch, Department of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University ABSTRACT: Software packages, under the generic name SPICE, simulate C-MOS integrated circuits. Since there may be up to 106 transistors on a chip, each transistor must […]
Date of the Event: February 23, 2007
TITLE: EXOPLANET HUNT OR INVERTING RADIAL VELOCITY DATA (No. 131) DATE: Friday, February 23rd, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Don Short, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: This talk is a summary of the research program of Orosz, Short and Windmiller that began as the thesis project of Windmiller. In […]
Date of the Event: February 16, 2007
TITLE: USING LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE DIVERSE STUDENTS’ LEARNING AND PARTICIPATION IN SCIENCE (No. 138) DATE: Friday, February 16th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alberto Rodriguez, Center for Equity and Biliteracy Education Research, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In response to the continuing calls to better prepare teachers to teach science for […]