Computational Science Research Center

Computational Science Research Center

Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases at Macro and Micro Level Taking into Account Uncertainty.

Date of the Event: December 6, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases at Macro and Micro Level Taking into Account Uncertainty. DATE: Friday, December 6, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Gilberto Gonzalez-Parra, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM. ABSTRACT: Mathematical models are essential in a variety of fields. Nowadays, there are many […]

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Magnetorheological CNT Nanocomposites and Their Field-dependent Viscoelastic Responses.

Date of the Event: November 22, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Magnetorheological CNT Nanocomposites and Their Field-dependent Viscoelastic Responses. DATE: Friday, November 22, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Lizhi Sun, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCI. ABSTRACT: Magnetorheological (MR) elastomer composites with the addition of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are developed. The viscoelastic responses of MR nanocomposites to applied […]

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Heat Engines and Refrigerators in the Quantum Regime.

Date of the Event: November 15, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Heat Engines and Refrigerators in the Quantum Regime. DATE: Friday, November 15, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Erez Boukobza, Visiting Senior Lecturer, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University. ABSTRACT: Thermodynamic laws in the quantum regime were formulated several decades after the early quantum theory. […]

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Unsupervised and Supervised Texture Segmentation/Classification.

Date of the Event: November 8, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Unsupervised and Supervised Texture Segmentation/Classification. DATE: Friday, November 8, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Jerome Gilles, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Texture analysis in image processing remains a challenging problem mainly due to the fact that textures can vary a lot which makes difficult to […]

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A Stochastic Multiscale Model of Cardiac Muscle Biophysics and Electro-Mechanical Coupling of Virtual Patients Cohorts.

Date of the Event: November 1, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium A Stochastic Multiscale Model of Cardiac Muscle Biophysics and Electro-Mechanical Coupling of Virtual Patients Cohorts. DATE: Friday, November 1, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Yasser Aboelkassem, Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Bioengineering, UCSD. ABSTRACT: Sarcomeric missense mutations affect striated muscle contractility and can lead to various types of inherited […]

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Simulation of High-Speed Combustion Processes.

Date of the Event: October 25, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Simulation of High-Speed Combustion Processes. DATE: Friday, October 25, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Pavel Popov, Ph.D, Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering, SDSU ABSTRACT: Reliable prediction of the performance of modern aerospace combustion devices poses numerous challenges, in terms of both modelling and numerical implementation. This talk will provide an overview […]

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Motion and Advection Properties of Helical Vortices.

Date of the Event: October 18, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Motion and Advection Properties of Helical Vortices. DATE: Friday, October 18, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Oscar Fuentes, Ph.D, Ensenada Center for Research and Higher Education, Department of Physical Oceanography. ABSTRACT: Joukowsky (1912) deduced that a system of equal, coaxial, symmetrically-located helical vortices advance and rotate steadily while preserving their […]

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Engineering Cancer Cell Migration.

Date of the Event: October 11, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Engineering Cancer Cell Migration. DATE: Friday, October 11, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Stephanie Fraley, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of California-San Diego ABSTRACT: Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer related deaths. The migration of cancer cells from their tissue of origin to other tissues in the body […]

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Mathematical Models of Targeted Cancer Treatments.

Date of the Event: October 4, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Mathematical Models of Targeted Cancer Treatments. DATE: Friday, October 4, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dominik Wodarz, Ph.D,Professor of Theoretical/Mathematical Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: The talk will discuss the use of mathematical models for understanding targeted cancer therapies. One area of focus […]

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Machine Learning and Metagenomes.

Date of the Event: September 27, 2019

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Machine Learning and Metagenomes. DATE: Friday, September 27, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Robert Edwards, Ph.D, Director of Biological & Medical Informatics, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Biology has become the big data science – the number of cells in our body exceeds the number of stars by several orders of magnitude – […]

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