Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: November 3, 2017
TITLE: Improved Validation of Conceptual Climate Models Via Adaptive Data Analysis DATE: Friday, November 3rd, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Charles D. Camp, Department of Mathematics, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. ABSTRACT: Conceptual models are often used to model the Earth’s climate since they are sufficiently simple as to allow an analysis […]
Date of the Event: October 27, 2017
TITLE: Ingredients for Provably Stable DG Spectral Element Viscous Compressible Flow Solvers DATE: Friday, October 27th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: David A. Kopriva, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University. ABSTRACT: High order methods have great promise, among the most important being the potential for improved computational efficiency and fidelity when […]
Date of the Event: October 20, 2017
TITLE: Computation and Modeling of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the Highly Non-Linear Regime DATE: Friday, October 20th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Drs. Brittany Lynn and Pei-Fang Wang, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific. ABSTRACT: Major technological advances have been made in the last decade in pulsed lasers. Lasers with tens of femtosecond pulse duration […]
Date of the Event: October 13, 2017
TITLE: A Few Thoughts on Methane Biocatalysts DATE: Friday, October 13th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Marina Kalyuzhnaya, Department of Biology. ABSTRACT: The consequences of climate change pose significant risks to human health, including reductions of freshwater supplies and food. Global warming is driven by the emission of greenhouse gases, mostly CO2 […]
Date of the Event: October 6, 2017
TITLE: 4-Dimensional Visual Delivery of Big Climate Data: Database, Web Server, and End-User Browser Computing DATE: Friday, October 6th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Drs. Julien Pierret and Sam Shen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. ABSTRACT: This presentation will describe the 4-Dimensional Visual Delivery (4DVD) technology for big climate data recently developed at […]
Date of the Event: September 29, 2017
TITLE: Modeling Nonlinear Ocean Waves DATE: Friday, September 29th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Christopher Curtis, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. ABSTRACT: The modelling of free surface and interfacial waves is of central concern in a wide range of oceanographic and coastal engineering problems. To make the simulation of these […]
Date of the Event: September 22, 2017
TITLE: Whole Genome Sequencing in the Clinic DATE: Friday, September 22nd, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Semyon Kruglyak, Director, Illumina, Inc. ABSTRACT: Rare and undiagnosed diseases cause great suffering to affected families and create a disproportionate burden on the health system. A promising approach to ending the diagnostic odyssey of the patient […]
Date of the Event: September 15, 2017
TITLE: Disease Modeling at Within-Host and Between-Hosts Scales: HIV and Influenza as Case Studies DATE: Friday, September 15th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Naveen Vaidya, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at SDSU ABSTRACT: Mathematical models are becoming increasingly useful in studying the dynamics of infectious diseases, from within-host to between-hosts scales. With […]
Date of the Event: September 8, 2017
TITLE: Experimental Investigations of the Response of Strain-mediated Composite Multiferroic Structures DATE: Friday, September 8th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. George Youssef, Department of Mechanical Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: Composite multiferroic materials based on strain-mediated electromagnetic coupling offer viable alternatives to intrinsic materials at room temperature, where the latter are unstable or […]
Date of the Event: September 1, 2017
TITLE: Multiscale Computational Modeling of Nanomaterials DATE: Friday, September 1st, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Wenwu Xu, Department of Mechanical Engineering at SDSU ABSTRACT: A major goal of computational modeling in materials science is the prediction of the properties as a function of microstructural parameters resulted from the previous processing or manufacturing […]