Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: September 21, 2018
TITLE: Smart modeling for complex biological systems DATE: Friday, September 21st, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Eric Mjolsness, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Irvine. ABSTRACT: There is substantial need and opportunity to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to bear on the scalable modeling of complex biological systems. Both symbolic AI in […]
Date of the Event: September 14, 2018
TITLE: A High-Order Perturbation of Surfaces Method for Electromagnetic Scattering by Periodic Multiply Layered Gratings DATE: Friday, September 14th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Youngjoon Hong, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: The accurate simulation of scattering of electromagnetic waves in three dimensions by a diffraction grating […]
Date of the Event: September 7, 2018
TITLE: A File System Bypassing Volatile Main Memory: Towards A Single-Level Persistent Store DATE: Friday, September 7th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Tao Xie, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Existing persistent memory (PM) based file systems rely on a DRAM and PM hybrid store. Although a hybrid store […]
Date of the Event: August 31, 2018
TITLE: Fully resolved simulations for fluids, structures, and their interactions DATE: Friday, August 31st, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Amneet Bhalla, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems are ubiquitous in engineering and biological/medical fields. Efficient modeling of FSI problems not only helps to […]
Date of the Event: August 24, 2018
TITLE: Optimal control of chemical systems DATE: Friday, August 24th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Christian Schoen, MPI for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany. ABSTRACT: While the first step of chemical investigations is often the synthesis of a new product, a careful analysis quickly forces us to deal with issues concerning the purity […]
Date of the Event: April 13, 2018
TITLE: Overcoming fluid-structure instabilities for incompressible flows and light bodies DATE: Friday, April 13th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Bill Henshaw, Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ABSTRACT: The added-mass instability has, for decades, plagued partitioned fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations of incompressible flows coupled to light solids and structures. Many current approaches require […]
Date of the Event: March 23, 2018
TITLE: Exploring and capturing the dynamics of ocean-estuarine interactions across multiple scales DATE: Friday, March 23rd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Sarah Giddings, Assistant Professor, SIO, UCSD. ABSTRACT: Connectivity between the coastal ocean and estuaries as well as between adjacent estuaries via river plumes can impact the physics as well as the […]
Date of the Event: March 16, 2018
TITLE: Deep Learning with Induced Priors DATE: Friday, March 16th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Saining Xie, Doctoral Student, Computer Science, UCSD. ABSTRACT: Deep learning has reshaped the landscape of research and applications in artificial intelligence. In contrast to traditional hand-crafted feature engineering, and with the support of big-data and big-compute, the promise […]
Date of the Event: March 9, 2018
TITLE: Shocked particle-laden flows: multi-scale simulation and uncertainty quantification DATE: Friday, March 9th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Drs. Soren Taverniers and Vasilas Fountoulakis, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Shocked particle-laden flows occur in a number of engineering applications and natural environments like scramjet combustors, detonation of explosives, and […]
Date of the Event: March 2, 2018
TITLE: High Performance Computational Differentiation Algorithms for Generalized Optimization Applications DATE: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Ahmad Bani Younes, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Computational differentiation has existed since the 1960’s as a scientific and engineering methodology for automatically generating sensitivity partial derivative models for […]