Date of the Event: March 26, 2010
TITLE: APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (ACSESS 2010) AT SDSU DATE: Friday, March 26th, 2010 TIME: 12:00 PM LOCATION: SDSU’s Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center SPEAKER: ABSTRACT: The Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) program is designed to build strong partnerships with U.S. industry. The program offers companies immediate access to the students […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: March 19, 2010
TITLE: DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATION AND EVALUATION OF A REAL-TIME, DATA- ASSIMILATIVE COASTAL OCEAN FORECASTING SYSTEM FOR THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT DATE: Friday, March 19th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John D. Farrara, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, UCLA ABSTRACT: […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: March 12, 2010
TITLE: Talk 1: EXPLORING CONTRACTILITY IN CARDIAC MYOCYTES: CURRENT METHODS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS Talk 2: COMPREHENSIVE IDENTIFICATION OF MIR-124 TARGETS IN THE INVERTEBRATE CHORDATE CIONA INTESTINALIS REVEALS INSIGHTS INTO MICRORNA FUNCTION AND NEURAL DEVELOPMENT DATE: Friday, March 12th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Speaker 1 : David Torres-Barba, PhD Student, CSRC Speaker […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: March 5, 2010
TITLE: ATLANTIS DISCOVERED ON THE ABYSSAL PLAIN DATE: Friday, March 5th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: David T. Sandwell, Scripps Institute of Oceanography ABSTRACT: Bathymetry is foundational data, providing basic infrastructure for scientific, economic, educational, managerial, and political work. While nearly all areas of ocean science require bathymetric information, there are three […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: February 26, 2010
TITLE: A MODEL FOR THE DYNAMICS OF THIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS IN THE IRON CYCLE OF PYRITE MINE WASTES DATE: Friday, February 26th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Miguel Dumett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology ABSTRACT: We model how bacteria Thiobacillus Ferrooxidans catalyzes the oxidation of pyrite by ferric ion, utilizing its […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: February 19, 2010
TITLE: PARAMETRIC RESONANCE IN COUPLED MEMS GYROSCOPES DATE: Friday, February 19th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Suketu Naik, Kyoto University, Japan and Space and Naval Warfare Center, San Diego ABSTRACT: A vibratory Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) gyroscope is a device that can measure angular rate as it is rotated. The uncoupled angular rate […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: February 12, 2010
TITLE: WHAT IS A REACTIVE-TRANSPORT AND WATER-ROCK INTERACTION SIMULATOR? DATE: Friday, February 12th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Anthony J. Park, Ph.D, Sienna Geodynamics and Consulting, Inc. ABSTRACT: Reactive-transport and water-rock interaction, or RTM simulators are used to assess the effects of chemical reactions and movement of fluids through sediments and rocks. […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: February 5, 2010
TITLE: VIBRATIONAL STATES ON RELOCALIZATION SURFACES OF HYDROCARBON FREE RADICALS DATE: Friday, February 5th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew L. Cooksy, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A class of pi-conjugated free radicals, including daughter radicals of acrolein and cyclooctatetraene exhibit potential energy surfaces with distinct, non-equivalent minima, separated […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: January 29, 2010
TITLE: SPECTRAL FFT-BASED INTEGRAL AND DIFFERENTIAL PDE SOLVERS FOR GENERAL DOMAINS DATE: Friday, January 29th, 2010 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Engineering Bldg. Room 300 21 SPEAKER: Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology ABSTRACT: We present new methodologies for the numerical solution of Partial Differential Equations in general spatial domains. Based on a novel Fourier-Continuation (FC) […]
2010
SPRING 2010
Date of the Event: January 22, 2010
TITLE: INTEGRATING SATELLITE DERIVED TERRESTRIAL PRECIPITATION AND WATER STORAGE CHANGES WITH THE HILLSLOPE RIVER ROUTING (HRR) IN THE CONGO RIVER BASIN DATE: Friday, January 22nd, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: R. Edward Beighley, Associate Professor Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this study, estimates of terrestrial water […]
2010
SPRING 2010
