Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: September 20, 2013
TITLE: What roles do evolutionarily conserved metalloantibodies play in biology? DATE: Friday, September 20th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Tom Huxford. Dept. Chemistry at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Antibodies are soluble plasma proteins that are secreted by mature B cells as an integral part of the adaptive immune system. Functioning […]
Date of the Event: September 13, 2013
TITLE: Topological network alignment uncovers biological function and phylogeny DATE: Friday, Sept. 13th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Wayne Hayes. Associate Professor of Computer Science. University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: Sequence comparison and alignment has had an enormous impact on our understanding of evolution, biology and disease. Comparison and alignment of biological […]
Date of the Event: September 6, 2013
TITLE: Scientific computing for movie special effects and virtual surgery DATE: Friday, Sept. 6th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joseph M. Teran. Department of Mathematics at UCLA. ABSTRACT: I will talk about some exciting new applications of scientific computing for solid and fluid mechanics problems including the simulation of virtual materials for […]
Date of the Event: August 30, 2013
TITLE: FINDING A NOVEL WAY FOR FAST SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT AND EXPLOITING INFORMATION THEORY IN BACTERIAL GENOMES AND COMPLETE PHAGES DATE: Friday, Aug 30th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sajia Akhter. Computational Science Research Center at SDSU. ABSTRACT: The invention of next generation sequencing technology (NGS) provides the capability of generating high throughput […]
Date of the Event: August 23, 2013
TITLE: The promise of MRI for tracking cystic fibrosis DATE: Friday, August. 23rd, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Rebecca Theilmann. UCSD Medical Center ABSTRACT: The long-term objective of this research is to utilize quantitative proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor response to therapy in adults with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). CF is […]
Date of the Event: August 16, 2013
TITLE: Heat Engines Working from a Quantized Cavity DATE: Friday, Aug 16th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Erez Boukobza. Weizmann Institute. Israel. ABSTRACT: The Carnot limit, formulated in 1824, represents the maximal efficiency of a classical heat engine. In this work we present a thermodynamical analysis of a light amplifier based on […]
Date of the Event: April 26, 2013
TITLE: Video Stabilization of Atmospheric Turbulence Distortion DATE: Friday, April 12th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Yifei Lou. Department of Mathematics. University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: We present a method to enhance the quality of a video sequence captured through a turbulent atmospheric medium, and give an estimate of the radiance of […]
Date of the Event: April 19, 2013
TITLE: Feedback, lineages and cancer DATE: Friday, April 19th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Lowengrub. Chancellor’s Professor of Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: Most tissues are hierarchically organized into lineages, which are sets of progenitor-progeny relationships where the cells differ progressively in their […]
Date of the Event: April 12, 2013
TITLE: PDF solutions of stochastic hyperbolic equations DATE: Friday, April 12th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Daniel M. Tartakovsky. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. University of California, San Diego. ABSTRACT: We develop a probabilistic approach to quantify parametric uncertainty in first-order hyperbolic conservation laws. The approach relies on the derivation of […]
Date of the Event: March 29, 2013
TITLE: Are Many-core Architectures Useful for Weather and Climate Modeling? DATE: Friday, March 29th, 2013 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard D. Loft. Director of Technology Development Division. Computational and Information Systems Laboratory at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). ABSTRACT: Many-core processor systems such as GPU’s and Intel’s Xeon Phi achieve higher […]