Date of the Event: September 19, 2008
TITLE: PRAGMATIC AND DOGMATIC SPIRITS IN TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF ELECTRONS IN MOLECULAR SYSTEMS DATE: Friday, September 19th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roi Baer, Professor, Institute of Chemistry and The Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ABSTRACT: The principles of density functional theory (DFT) and […]
2008
FALL 2008
Date of the Event: September 12, 2008
TITLE: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF DNA SEQUENCES FROM DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS DATE: Friday, September 12th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Robert Edwards, Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences Department and Computational Sciences Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: New high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized how scientists study the organisms around us. In […]
2008
FALL 2008
Date of the Event: September 5, 2008
TITLE: STRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT DIFFUSION AND CONTOUR EXTRACTION FOR ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY OF MITOCHONDRIA DATE: Friday, September 5th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The interpretation and measurement of the structural architecture of mitochondria depend heavily upon the availability of good […]
2008
FALL 2008
Date of the Event: August 29, 2008
TITLE: WILL FLOSSING SAVE YOUR LIFE? DATE: Friday, August 29th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roberta A. Gottlieb, Director, BioScience Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Epidemiologists have identified a connection between gum disease (periodontitis) and heart disease (atherosclerosis), but there is no information on whether early treatment or prevention of periodontitis […]
2008
FALL 2008
Date of the Event: May 9, 2008
TITLE: THE SAN DIEGO SCIENCE FESTIVAL – THE SCIENCE OF YOU DATE: Friday, May 9th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeremy Babendure, UCSD BioBridge, San Diego CA Larry Bock, Special Limited Partner at Lux Capital, Greater San Diego Area ABSTRACT: The Inaugural San Diego Science Festival will unite our community to showcase […]
2008
SPRING 2008
Date of the Event: May 2, 2008
TITLE: AN OVERVIEW OF STATISTICAL METHODS IN cDNA MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS DATE: Friday, May 2nd, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Chao-Jen Wong, Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: During the last decade, there has been a rapid expansion of knowledge in the fields of computational biology, systems […]
2008
SPRING 2008
Date of the Event: April 28, 2008
TITLE: TEN MIRANDEAN PRINCIPLES FOR TEACHING, LEARNING, AND CREATING MATH DATE: Monday, April 28th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Guillermo Miranda, Universidad Central de Venezuela ABSTRACT: A long teaching and research experience has led the author to synthetize into 10 simple guiding rules, called “Mirandean Principles”, the ways used by mathematicians (often […]
2008
SPRING 2008
Date of the Event: April 25, 2008
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND BIFURCATION ANALYSIS OF BUBBLING FLUIDIZED PROCESSES DATE: Friday, April 25th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Bing Zhu, PhD Candidate, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Fluidization processes have many important applications in industry, in particular, in chemical, fossil, and petrochemical industries where good gas-solid mixing […]
2008
SPRING 2008
Date of the Event: April 18, 2008
TITLE: ENERGY CASCADE IN TURBULENT FLOWS; QUANTIFYING EFFECTS OF LOCAL AND NONLOCAL INTERACTIONS DATE: Friday, April 18th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Julian Andrzej Domaradzki, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California ABSTRACT: The classical Kolmogorov theory of turbulence is based on the concept of the energy transfer from larger to […]
2008
SPRING 2008
Date of the Event: April 11, 2008
TITLE: DOES MOLECULAR MOTION MATTER FOR PROTEIN FUNCTION? DATE: Friday, April 11th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Love, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The correlation between protein structure and function is well established yet the role flexibility/stability plays in protein function is still being explored. In […]
2008
SPRING 2008
