Date of the Event: September 14, 2012
TITLE: INTEGRATED SIZING AND SHAPE OPTIMIZATION USING ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS METHODS DATE: Friday, Sep 14th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Attila Nagy. Post-doctoral scholar, Jacobs School of Engineering. University of California San Diego. ABSTRACT: The purpose of this talk is to demonstrate that computer-aided geometric de- sign (CAGD), physical analysis, and design optimisation […]
2012
FALL 2012
Date of the Event: September 7, 2012
TITLE: THE BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGICAL MODEL: A GUIDE FOR REAL TIME MEASURES AND REAL TIME INTERVENTIONS DATE: Friday, Sep 7th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Melbourne F. Hovell, PhD, MPH Director, Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: […]
2012
FALL 2012
Date of the Event: August 31, 2012
TITLE: CAN A MOLECULAR CLOCK REVEAL WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP? DATE: Friday, Aug 31th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roberta A. Gottlieb, M.D. Director. Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Mitochondria are the energy powerhouse of the cell, and provide a continuous supply of ATP to the […]
2012
FALL 2012
Date of the Event: May 11, 2012
TITLE: A GLIMPSE OF STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS. DATE: Friday, May 11th, 2012 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jinqiao Duan. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. UCLA, Los Angeles. Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. ABSTRACT: Nonlinear dynamical systems arising in biological, physical and chemical sciences are often subject to random influences, […]
2012
SPRING 2012
Date of the Event: May 4, 2012
TITLE: Celebrating Prof. Paul Paolini’s 70th Birthday: On behalf of the students whose dreams he helped fulfill. DATE: Friday, May 4th, 2012 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: ABSTRACT: Please join us as we celebrate Prof. Paul Paolini√¢¬Ä¬ôs 70th birthday and his 40+ years of service to San Diego State University. Paul is Professor […]
2012
SPRING 2012
Date of the Event: April 27, 2012
TITLE: THERMODYNAMIC GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION OF MULTI-STEP CHEMICAL REACTIONS DATE: Friday, April 27th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Bjarne Andresen. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen √ɬò, Denmark. ABSTRACT: Optimization of thermodynamic processes which proceed in steps of equilibration, e.g. sequential chemical reactions or trays in a distillation column, […]
2012
SPRING 2012
Date of the Event: April 20, 2012
TITLE: SEISMIC SOURCE ESTIMATION BY FULL WAVE FORM INVERSION DATE: Friday, Apr 20th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Anders Petersson. Center for Applied Scientific Computing. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ABSTRACT: We discuss the inverse problem of determining the source parameters of a small seismic event (location, mechanism, start time, frequency), such that […]
2012
SPRING 2012
Date of the Event: April 13, 2012
TITLE: INDIVIDUAL-BASED AND AGENT-BASED MODELING IN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY DATE: Friday, Apr 13th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeff A. Tracey, PhD. Western Ecological Research Center. US Geological Survey. ABSTRACT: This talk will focus on the role of computational models in understanding the interaction of animal behavior and landscape structure with applications to […]
2012
SPRING 2012
Date of the Event: April 6, 2012
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE DATE: Friday, April 4th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeremy Kua. University of San Diego. ABSTRACT: In this seminar I will give an overview of research into the chemistry of the origin of life. I will then discuss the outstanding problem of selectivity – […]
2012
SPRING 2012
Date of the Event: March 16, 2012
TITLE: VARIATIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR SHAPE AND SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION. DATE: Friday, March 16th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Frederick Park. Mathematics Department. University of California at Irvine. ABSTRACT: Variants of the popular and well studied Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) and celebrated Mumford-Shah (MS) models continue to have new and interesting applications. In this […]
2012
SPRING 2012
