Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: September 23, 2016
TITLE: Optimal actuator and sensor placement for feedback flow control DATE: Friday, September 23rd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Kevin K. Chen. Research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Center for Communications Research in La Jolla. ABSTRACT: Feedback control has an enormous potential to manipulate fluid flows in desirable […]
Date of the Event: September 16, 2016
TITLE: Surface and Interfacial Waves, Shear, and Point-Vortices DATE: Friday, September 16th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 324 SPEAKER: Dr. Christopher Curtis. Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: The computation of surface and interfacial waves is a central problem in fluid mechanics. In particular these problems appear when […]
Date of the Event: September 2, 2016
TITLE: Quark Deconfinement in Neutron Stars DATE: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 324 SPEAKER: Dr. Fridolin Weber. Professor of Physics at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that blew apart in supernova explosions. Gravity compresses the matter in the cores of such objects to […]
Date of the Event: May 6, 2016
TITLE: A Tail of Phage and Tubeworms: How do bacteria mediate animal development? DATE: Friday, May 6th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Nicholas Shikuma. Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) Program Area, Viral Information Institute. Department of Biology, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Free-swimming larvae of many animals that inhabit the sea […]
Date of the Event: April 29, 2016
TITLE: Minimum Induced Drag Theorems for Innovative Wing Systems DATE: Friday, April 29th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Luciano Demasi. Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Induced drag is an important component of the total airplane drag, especially at low speed […]
Date of the Event: April 22, 2016
TITLE: The role of membrane tension in clathrin-mediated endocytosis DATE: Friday, April 22nd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Padmini Rangamani. Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: In clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME), clathrin and various adaptor proteins coat a patch of the plasma membrane, which is reshaped to […]
Date of the Event: April 8, 2016
TITLE: Lagrangian Coherent Structures and DNS with Discontinuous Galerkin methods DATE: Friday, April 8th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel Nelson. Senior Research and Development Engineer at Flowserve Corporation. ABSTRACT: High-fidelity numerical tools based on high-order Discontinuous-Galerkin (DG) methods and Lagrangian Coherent Structure (LCS) theory for the study of separated, vortex-dominated […]
Date of the Event: March 25, 2016
TITLE: Confinement, Ageing and Rejuvenation Effects in Polymer Films/Composites DATE: Friday, March 25th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alexey V. Lyulin, Theory of Polymers and Soft Matter Group. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. ABSTRACT: In this presentation I will show our recent results on molecular-dynamic (MD) simulations of thin polymer films. I will […]
Date of the Event: March 18, 2016
TITLE: Observation and Modelling of Cloud, Convection, and Radiationusing Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations for Coupled Climate System DATE: Friday, March 18th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Jui-Lin (Frank) Li. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology ABSTRACT: Representing clouds, convection and radiation and their complicated interactions in global weather […]
Date of the Event: March 11, 2016
TITLE: Nonlinear internal waves in the nearshore coastal environment DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ryan Walter. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University ABSTRACT: The nearshore coastal environment is generally taken to be one of the most productive and ecologically important parts of the ocean. The nearshore is […]