Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: April 4, 2008
TITLE: FORMULATION OF A TARGET-MATRIX PARADIGM FOR MESH OPTIMIZATION DATE: Friday, April 4th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Patrick M. Knupp, Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Department, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: PDE simulations generally require a mesh on which the physical domain is discretized. The mesh can have a strong impact on solution […]
Date of the Event: March 28, 2008
TITLE: METHODS FOR RIGID-BODY AND FLEXIBLE FITTING IN 3-D ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY IMAGES DATE: Friday, March 28th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Julio Kovacs, Abagyan Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute ABSTRACT: I will describe methods developed in our lab to perform the fitting of given atomic structures of protein molecules into 3-D images obtained […]
Date of the Event: March 21, 2008
TITLE: ADVANCE HYBRID HIGH ORDER METHODS FOR MULTI-SCALES PROBLEMS IN SHOCKED FLOWS DATE: Friday, March 21st, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Wai Sun Don, visiting Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University ABSTRACT: Classical high order methods such as spectral methods and classical WENO methods are reaching their limits in handling shocked […]
Date of the Event: March 14, 2008
TITLE: Talk 1: TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS Talk 2: INSECT INSPIRED FLYING ROBOTS DATE: Friday, March 14th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Speaker 1 : Fred Van Keulen, Professor, Structural Optimization and Computational Mechanics Group, Department of Precision and, Microsystems Engineering Technical University of Delft, Netherlands Speaker 2 : […]
Date of the Event: March 7, 2008
TITLE: MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) IMAGING AND IMAGING INFORMATICS: FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE DATE: Friday, March 7th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Usha Sinha, Chair, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The presentation covers the range from MR image acquisition through image processing to imaging informatics. MR image acquisition focuses on […]
Date of the Event: February 29, 2008
TITLE: NOISE REMOVAL AND STRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT FOR ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY OF MITOCHONDRIA DATE: Friday, February 29th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We review some recent progress in image enchancement aimed at improving mitochondrial images obtained from electron tomography. We propose: (*) […]
Date of the Event: February 22, 2008
TITLE: BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF VIRUS PARTICLES AND THEIR MATURATION: INSIGHTS INTO ELEGANTLY PROGRAMMED NANOMACHINES DATE: Friday, February 22nd, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John E. Johnson, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute ABSTRACT: Complex virus particles such as HIV, Herpes Viruses and dsDNA bacteriophages are programmed nano machines that […]
Date of the Event: February 15, 2008
TITLE: NOVEL APPLICATION OF POSITIONAL WEIGHT MATRICES FOR TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITE DISCOVERY DATE: Friday, February 15th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Scott Kelley, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The characterization and interaction of transcriptional regulatory elements is fundamental to understanding how eukaryotic gene networks operate. Identification […]
Date of the Event: February 8, 2008
TITLE: WHEN THE MOLECULES GET TOO BIG, THERE’S ALWAYS HYDROGEN DATE: Friday, February 8th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew L. Cooksey, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Hydrogen bonding plays a critical role in the structure and dynamics of many molecular systems, and presents accompanying challenges to […]
Date of the Event: February 1, 2008
TITLE: ACTION POTENTIALS AS PROPAGATING DENSITY PULSES AND THE ROLE OF ANESTHETICS DATE: Friday, February 1st, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Thomas Heimburg, Membrane Biophysics Group, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen ABSTRACT: The action of nerves has been one of the first topics of interest in biophysics. Important physicists like Galvani, […]