Colloquium Year: 2022

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Evaluation of Seismic Losses of RC Buildings: The Case of The Industrial Areas After The 2012 Emilia Earthquake DATE: Friday, April 22, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Lucia Pratic√ɬ≤, Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Material Engineering, University of Bologna ABSTRACT: The topic of seismic loss assessment of existing buildings […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Deformation Nanomechanics and Dislocation Quantification at the Atomic Scale in Nanocrystalline Magnesium DATE: Friday, April 15, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Wenwu Xu, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method is employed to study the uniaxial tensile deformation of nanocrystalline magnesium (Mg) […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium ACSESS For Industry 2022 – Cognitive Simulation: Combining Simulation and Experiment with Artificial Intelligence DATE: Friday, April 8, 2022 TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: SDSU Alumni Center SPEAKER: Brian Spears, Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Large-scale scientific endeavors often focus on improving predictive capabilities by challenging theory-driven simulations with experimental data. Yet, […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Consistent Continuum Formulation and Robust Numerical Schemes for Isothermal/Non-isothermal Multiphase Flows with Applications to Metal Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing and Wave Energy Conversion DATE: Friday, March 25, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference or Viewing Party in GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Amneet Bhalla, Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Mimetic Operators Library Enhanced (MOLE) DATE: Friday, March 18, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Jose E. Castillo, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: MOLE is a high quality (C++ & MATLAB) library that implements high order discrete analogs of the most common vector calculus operators: […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium On the Physics and Simulation of Turbulent Flows DATE: Friday, March 11, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Perry Johnson, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: The phenomenon of turbulence in fluid flows is a paradigmatic nonlinear multiscale dynamical system in classical physics with important implications […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Can We Trust Machine Learning Predictions to Answer Science Questions? DATE: Friday, March 4, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Diane Oyen, Scientist, Information Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Scientists in fields as diverse as bioscience, geoscience, and cyber security are successfully applying machine learning models to […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Dynamic Mode Decomposition in Dynamical Systems II – Multiple and Missing Scales DATE: Friday, February 25, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Christopher 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 time […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Coupled poroelastic modeling of an active plate boundary fault zone: was a lake responsible for past M7+ earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault? DATE: Friday, February 18, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Matthew Weingarten, Geological Sciences, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Recent paleoseismic evidence shows that previous […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Bridging the Biophysics and Evolution of Viruses DATE: Friday, February 11, 2022 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Antoni Luque, Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Viruses are the most abundant biological entity on Earth and play a pivotal role in regulating the evolution of organisms and the […]