Date of the Event: December 5, 2014
TITLE: Computational Oceanography: Regional Ocean Modeling, Data Assimilation and Prediction DATE: Friday, December 5th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Yi Chao. Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering at UCLA ABSTRACT: This talk will present experiences and lessons learned during the development of a regional 3-dimensional ocean nowcast/forecast system. […]
2014
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Date of the Event: November 21, 2014
TITLE: Global Modeling with NASA Supercomputing Technology: When Sandy Meets Lorenz DATE: Friday, November 21st, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Bo-Wen Shen. Department of Mathematics and Statistics at SDSU ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will present the real-world model simulations of Hurricane Sandy to illustrate how the multiscale processes associated with […]
2014
FALL 2014
Date of the Event: November 14, 2014
TITLE: Using the Spectral Decomposition of the Compliance Tensor to Treat Locking Finite Elements in Anisotropic Elasticity DATE: Friday, November 14 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Stephen P. Oberrecht. PhD. Department of Structural Engineering University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: Certain anisotropic elastic materials, such as the homogenized model of a […]
2014
FALL 2014
Date of the Event: November 7, 2014
TITLE: Three topics on signal and images processing DATE: Friday, November 7th 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Jerome Gilles. Department of Mathematics at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: As a new faculty at SDSU, the purpose of this talk is to introduced some of my research interests. I will present three […]
2014
FALL 2014
Date of the Event: October 31, 2014
TITLE: Modeling the conversion of cellulose to biofuels DATE: Friday, October 31st 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Antonio Redondo. Los Alamos National Laboratory ABSTRACT: In this seminar we will describe how we can model the conversion of cellulosic materials to biofuels. To do this, we have developed a coarse-√Ǭ≠√¢¬Ä¬êgrained dynamical model […]
2014
FALL 2014
Date of the Event: October 24, 2014
TITLE: Engineering Challenges of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) DATE: Friday, October 24th 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Nans Kunz. National Engineering Safety Center (NSEC) Chief Engineer at NASA Ames ABSTRACT: SOFIA is the largest airborne observatory in the world, capable of making observations that are impossible for even the […]
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FALL 2014
Date of the Event: October 17, 2014
TITLE: Automated Histopathological Image Analysis to Predict Breast Cancer Disease survival and Recurrency DATE: Friday, October 17th 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Baidya Nath Saha. University of Calgary, Canada ABSTRACT: Immunohistochemical staining of the proliferation antigen Ki-67, tumor epithelial marker Pan Cytokeratin and nuclear stain DAPI are routinely used in the […]
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FALL 2014
Date of the Event: October 10, 2014
TITLE: Pressure PIV: An Optics-Based Pressure Measurement Technique and Its Applications DATE: Friday, October 10th 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Xiaofeng Liu. Department of Aerospace Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: Motivated by the fact that there was a lack of an appropriate means for measurement of the instantaneous spatial pressure field in […]
2014
FALL 2014
Date of the Event: October 3, 2014
TITLE: Robust Dynamical Bipedal Locomotion through Nonlinear Control and Optimization DATE: Friday, October 3rd 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Kaveh Akbari Hamed. SDSU Mechanical Engineering ABSTRACT: Over the past few years there is an accelerated effort to design emergency response robots and to develop robots with human traits. Legged locomotion is […]
2014
FALL 2014
Date of the Event: September 26, 2014
TITLE: Big Data for Little Particles DATE: Friday, September 26th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel Whiteson. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: I will describe the current state of our understanding of the Universe at the smallest scales (fundamental particles), modern tools for searching for […]
2014
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