Computational Science Research Center

Computational Science Research Center

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and its applications for multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous media

Date of the Event: February 27, 2015

TITLE: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and its applications for multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous media DATE: Friday, February 27th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alexandre Tartakovsky. Director of the Computational Science and Math division at PNNL ABSTRACT: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method based on a meshless discretization […]

2015 SPRING 2015

Absolute Robustness in Deterministic and Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks

Date of the Event: February 20, 2015

TITLE: Absolute Robustness in Deterministic and Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks DATE: Friday, February 20th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. German Enciso. Dept. Of Mathematics at University of California Irvine ABSTRACT: Chemical reaction networks lie at the heart of many biological processes at the cell level. These processes are often under strict […]

2015 SPRING 2015

Modeling the physical properties of viruses and their impact in the human microbiome

Date of the Event: February 13, 2015

TITLE: Modeling the physical properties of viruses and their impact in the human microbiome DATE: Friday, February 13, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Antoni Luque. Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In the last few years, an interdisciplinary group of researchers at San Diego State University […]

2015 SPRING 2015

The Mathematics that I learned from Biology

Date of the Event: February 6, 2015

TITLE: The Mathematics that I learned from Biology DATE: Friday, February 6th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Paul G. Vaidya ABSTRACT: The research that I will talk about was inspired by a quote by Stanislaw Ulam, “Don’t ask what mathematics can do for biology, ask what biology can do for mathematics.” […]

2015 SPRING 2015

The keys of ensemble data assimilation

Date of the Event: January 30, 2015

TITLE: The keys of ensemble data assimilation DATE: Friday, January 30th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Tim Hoar. Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences. National Center for Atmospheric Research ABSTRACT: The main focus of an ensemble data assimilation system is to produce a collection of model states – the ensemble – […]

2015 SPRING 2015

Hybrid models of reactive transport in porous media

Date of the Event: January 23, 2015

TITLE: Hybrid models of reactive transport in porous media DATE: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ilenia Battiato. Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: Darcy-scale models of flow and transport in porous media often fail to describe experimentally observed phenomena, while their pore-scale counterparts are accurate but can […]

2015 SPRING 2015