Date of the Event: September 20, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Research Activities at the Laboratory of Advanced Experimental Fluid Dynamics at SDSU. DATE: Friday, September 20, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Xiaofeng Liu, Ph.D, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, SDSU. ABSTRACT: This talk presents an overview of the research activities being conducted at the Laboratory of Advanced Experimental Fluid Dynamics at […]
2019
FALL 2019
Date of the Event: September 13, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Toward Making Deterministic Solution of the Boltzmann Equation Practical. DATE: Friday, September 13, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Alexander Alekseenko, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, CSU Northridge. ABSTRACT: Believed to be most accurate description of gas at the microscopic scale, the kinetic Boltzmann equation provides theoretical underpinning to models […]
2019
FALL 2019
Date of the Event: September 6, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Understanding Cancer using Mechanics. DATE: Friday, September 6, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Parag Katira, Ph.D, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Cancer is a disease rooted in genetic mutations that allow tumor cells to avoid normal cell death, divide uncontrollably and modify their microenvironment to avoid being targeted by […]
2019
FALL 2019
Date of the Event: May 10, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Quantifying Particle Departure from Axisymmetry in Multiphase Cylindrical Detonation. DATE: Friday, May 10th, 2019 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Donald P. Shiley Bioscience Center SPEAKER: M. Giselle Fernandez, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Researcher, X-Computational Physics-Verification and Analysis, Los Alamos National Laboratory. ABSTRACT: Dense layers of solid particles surrounding a high-energy explosive generate instabilities after detonation. […]
2019
SPRING 2019
Date of the Event: May 3, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Opportunities for Faculty and Students Through Sustainable and Inclusive Pathways in Computational Science and Engineering. DATE: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D, Founder and President, Sustainable Horizons Institute. ABSTRACT: Finding your way through academics and a career in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) can […]
2019
SPRING 2019
Date of the Event: April 26, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Connecting Microevolutionary Mechanisms to Macroevolutionary Processes in to Tackle the Tangled Bank Beyond the Tree in Computational Evolutionary Biology. DATE: Friday, April 26, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Jeet Sukumaran, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Biology Department, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Macroevolutionary models such as those used, for example, in biogeographical analysis, typically tend […]
2019
SPRING 2019
Date of the Event: April 19, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Multifunctional Cementitious Materials for Addressing Infrastructure Challenges. DATE: Friday, April 19, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Mo Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Irvine. ABSTRACT: Today’s needs to improve concrete infrastructure service life and resilience are challenged by the intrinsic quasi-brittleness of concrete materials, […]
2019
SPRING 2019
Date of the Event: March 29, 2019
TITLE: From the Right Heart to the Pulmonary Arteries: A Multi-Scale Approach to Understanding Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. DATE: Friday, March 29th, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Daniela Valdez-Jasso, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UCSD. ABSTRACT: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rapidly progressive vasculopathy that commonly results in intractable right-heart failure and […]
2019
SPRING 2019
Date of the Event: March 22, 2019
TITLE: Vortex rings: Nature, physics, mathematics and computations DATE: Friday, March 22nd, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ricardo Carretero, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. ABSTRACT: We will explore the beautiful and complex world of vortex rings. A vortex ring is formed when a vortex line (a “twister”) is looped back onto […]
2019
SPRING 2019
Date of the Event: March 15, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Short-term and Long-term Adaptations in Language: A Computational Approach. DATE: Friday, March 15th, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Yang Xu, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: The exponential growth of data enables cognitive scientists and linguists to understand language-based communication at a resolution not […]
2019
SPRING 2019