Colloquium Year: 2021

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Dynamic Mode Decomposition in Dynamical Systems: Multiple and Missing Scales, and Learning Dynamics DATE: Friday, December 3, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Christopher W. Curtis, Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Much of applied mathematics has seen a recent shift in focus towards analyzing and describing measured […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Fast Algorithms for Estimating Ancestry, Relatedness, and Evolutionary History from Big Population Genomic Data DATE: Friday, November 19, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Arun Sethuraman, Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: There is a great need for improved fast and efficient algorithms and software for parsing and making sense […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Computational Seismic Assessment of Concrete Structures DATE: Friday, November 12, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Gloria Faraone, Civil Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Earthquakes have a vast socio-economic impact to a community due to the associated fatalities, monetary and downtime losses. Numerical tools able to correctly predict the […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Protein Adsorption to Surfaces – Insights from Simple Analytical and Computational Models DATE: Friday, November 5, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Parag Katira, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Adsorption of proteins is a critical first step that determines the response of a biological system to a newly […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Anomaly Detection and Explanation in Big Data DATE: Friday, October 29, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Hajar Homayouni, Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Data quality tests are used to validate the data stored in databases and data warehouses, and to detect violations of syntactic and semantic constraints. […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium On the making of Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessments (PTHA) DATE: Friday, October 22, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Ignacio Sepulveda, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In the last 15 years, Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessments/Analyses (PTHA) have gained recognition as a powerful approach to quantify […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Adjoint-based data assimilation and Hessian analysis of turbulent flows DATE: Friday, October 15, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Qi Wang, Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Turbulence affects fluid flows across scales and application domains. The capabilities to accurately model and estimate information for turbulence is essential for […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Interpretation of Radiological Imaging Features using Generative Adversarial Networks DATE: Friday, October 8, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Kyle Hasenstab, Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become valuable instruments for computer vision in medical imaging, able to learn features of disease without […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Informing Missing Physics with Model Form Error and Model Selection DATE: Friday, October 1, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Kathryn A. Maupin, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: Despite continuing advances in statistical inversion and modeling, model inadequacy due […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Impulsive Tsunami and Large Runup Along the Sanriku Coast of Japan Produced by an Inelastic Wedge Deformation Model DATE: Friday, September 24, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Shuo Ma, Geological Sciences, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The Sanriku coast hosted several of the most devastating tsunami in […]