Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: December 3, 2010
TITLE: THE SECOND LAW SEEN FROM CLASSICAL MECHANICS DATE: Friday, December 3rd, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Salamon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The talk will survey modern views of the second law of thermodynamics and claim that it holds even if physicists have stopped believing […]
Date of the Event: November 19, 2010
TITLE: SPINTRONICS DATE: Friday, November 19th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The 2007 Nobel prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg for their discovery of the Giant Magnetoresistance Effect (GMR). This […]
Date of the Event: November 12, 2010
TITLE: IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFICIENCY OF DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHODS FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS DATE: Friday, November 12th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: David Kopriva, Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University ABSTRACT: We confront conventional wisdom and show that discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods for inviscid and viscous compressible flows can not only […]
Date of the Event: November 5, 2010
TITLE: QUANTIFICATION OF ALEATORIC AND EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS DATE: Friday, November 5th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Angel Urbina, Validation and Uncertainty Department, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: For complex engineering systems, testing-based assessment is increasingly sought to be replaced by simulations using detailed computational models. This is […]
Date of the Event: October 29, 2010
TITLE: INPAINTING USING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION AND ITS APPLICATION TO SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROGRAMS DATE: Friday, October 29th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Image inpainting is the process of filling in missing portions of images using the context clues around the area of […]
Date of the Event: October 22, 2010
TITLE: INTERNET MAPPING AND MAPPING THE INTERNET DATE: Friday, October 22nd, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ming-Hsiang (Ming) Tsou, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu ABSTRACT: Internet GIS and web mapping services, such as Google Earth, Google Map, Bing Maps, have become more and more important for many […]
Date of the Event: October 15, 2010
TITLE: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF TWO-COMPONENT BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES DATE: Friday, October 15th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ricardo Carretero, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NLDS) Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In the 1920’s Bose and Einstein predicted that, for sufficiently cold temperatures, a collection […]
Date of the Event: October 8, 2010
TITLE: LEVEL-SET VARIATIONAL IMPLICIT-SOLVENT MODELING OF MOLECULAR SOLVATION DATE: Friday, October 8th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Bo Li, Department of Mathematics and the NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UC San Diego ABSTRACT: A novel variational approach to the molecular solvation with a continuum solvent is introduced. In this approach, an […]
Date of the Event: October 1, 2010
TITLE: MODELS, ALGORITHMS, AND SOFTWARE: TRADEOFFS IN THE DESIGN OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DATE: Friday, October 1st, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Many important problems for DOE such as combustion, fusion, systems biology, and climate change, involve multiple physical processes operating […]
Date of the Event: September 24, 2010
TITLE: ADD, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, AND CONQUER: FACTORIZATION ALGORITHMS FOR LARGE SCALE MANY-BODY PROBLEMS DATE: Friday, September 24th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Calvin W. Johnson, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: One method of solving the quantum many-body problem involves findings eigenvalues of a huge matrix, with dimensions up to […]