Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: March 7, 2014
TITLE: Atoms of Multistationarity in Chemical Reaction Networks DATE: Friday, March 7th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Badal Joshi. California State University San Marcos ABSTRACT: Abstract: Multistationarity is a prerequisite for a reaction network to act as a biochemical switch. Theoretical tools that help rule out multistationarity include the Jacobian criterion […]
Date of the Event: February 28, 2014
TITLE: Injection Locking and Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers DATE: Friday, February 28th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Thomas B. Simpson. L-3 Applied Technologies, Inc. ABSTRACT: Laser diodes are of continuing interest, both for their diverse applications and as a fundamental test system for laser physics and nonlinear dynamics. Injecting an […]
Date of the Event: February 21, 2014
TITLE: Vortex rings: nature, physics, mathematics and computations DATE: Friday, February 21st, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ricardo Carretero. Department of Mathematics and Statistics Computational Science Research Center. ABSTRACT: We will explore the beautiful and complex world of vortex rings. A vortex ring is formed when a vortex line (a “twister”) […]
Date of the Event: February 14, 2014
TITLE: Energy Harvesting DATE: Friday, February 14th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Antonio Palacios. Department of Mathematics at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Energy harvesting devices are key to a wide range of technologies: wireless sensor networks, micro wind turbine, thermoelectric generators, health monitoring systems, human-generated power devices for biomedical applications, […]
Date of the Event: February 7, 2014
TITLE: Generating and shepherding intrinsic localized modes in nonlinear macroscopic and microscopic lattices DATE: Friday, February 7th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Al Sievers. Cornell University ABSTRACT: It had been known for some time that nonlinearity and discreteness play important roles in many branches of condensed matter physics as evidenced by […]
Date of the Event: January 31, 2014
TITLE: Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Tapered Closures in Sandwich Composites DATE: Friday, January 31st, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Satchi Venkatraman. Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Sandwich composites used in aerospace and marine structures due to their high specific bending stiffness and high specific in-plane strengths […]
Date of the Event: January 24, 2014
TITLE: Geometric Numerical Integration and Computational Geometric Mechanics DATE: Friday, January 24th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Melvin Leok, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: Symmetry, and the study of invariant and equivariant objects, is a deep and unifying principle underlying a variety of mathematical fields. In particular, geometric mechanics is […]