Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: December 12, 2003
TITLE: SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION: A CURRICULUM REPORT (No. 26) DATE: Friday, December 12th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Teresa Larsen, Computational Science, SDSU, The Foundation for Scientific Literacy ABSTRACT: Ongoing curriculum development in the CSRC has resulted in an evolution of the course: ?Scientific Visualization & Communication?. Using a ?workplace model? as an […]
Date of the Event: December 5, 2003
TITLE: OPTIMAL CONTROL OF MACRO CONTROLLED SYSTEMS (No. 28) DATE: Friday, December 5th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Vladimir Kazakov, University of Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ABSTRACT: Thermodynamic and microeconomic systems are examples of macro systems, which include a large number of unobservable and uncontrollable micro subsystems. The analogy […]
Date of the Event: November 21, 2003
TITLE: MODELING ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT SYNAPSE RESTRUCTURING (No. 29) DATE: Friday, November 21st, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Diana W. Verzi, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University-Imperial Valley Campus ABSTRACT: The spread of electrical activity in a dendritic tree is shaped, in part, by its morphology. Conversely, experimental evidence is growing that electrical […]
Date of the Event: November 14, 2003
TITLE: RECORD LINKAGE THEORY (No. 27) DATE: Friday, November 14th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Farid Mehovic, EntrePro Corporation, La Jolla, CA ABSTRACT: Current database systems allow only semi-deterministic search of data, which means that the information being searched – the supplied search keys – must exist in the database in the […]
Date of the Event: November 7, 2003
TITLE: NEW VISUALIZATION TRICKS FROM THE BAG (No. 21) DATE: Friday, November 7th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mike Bailey, Director of Visualization, San Diego Supercomputer Center ABSTRACT: One of the great pleasures about working in the field of scientific and engineering visualization is that there are no rules. Anything that turns […]
Date of the Event: October 31, 2003
TITLE: ANALYSIS AND PORTRAYAL OF UNCERTAINTY IN A FOOD WEB EXPOSURE MODEL (No. 18) DATE: Friday, October 31st, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Helen Regan, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The results of quantitative risk assessments are key factors in a risk manager’s decision of the necessity to implement […]
Date of the Event: October 24, 2003
TITLE: CHAOS CONTROL: OVERVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES (No. 24) DATE: Friday, October 24th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Hugo Gonzaz-Hernaez, CICESE – La Salle University, Mexico ABSTRACT: In recent years, the attention to chaos control in the nonlinear scientific community has increased rapidly. There are lots of reasons for controlling chaotic behavior. In […]
Date of the Event: October 17, 2003
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN STRUCTURAL GENOMICS: HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN STRUCTURE DETERMINATION FROM NMR SPECTRA (No. 23) DATE: Friday, October 17th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Homayoun Valafar, Southeast collaboratory on structural Genomics, University of Georgia ABSTRACT: One of the long-term objectives of structural genomics and bioinformatics initiatives is the development of tools […]
Date of the Event: October 10, 2003
TITLE: MODELING NANOSCALE SYSTEMS: COARSE-GRAINED RIGID BLOB DYNAMICS AND MODELING IMMUNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (No. 17) DATE: Friday, October 10th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Redondo, Los Alamos National Lab, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico ABSTRACT: We will discuss two different types of modeling approaches for nanoscale systems. Coarse-grained rigid blob dynamics […]
Date of the Event: October 3, 2003
TITLE: APPLYING THE DYNAMICS OF CIRCLE MAPS TO PHYLLOTACTIC PATTERNS (No. 25) DATE: Friday, October 3rd, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Scott Hotton, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University ABSTRACT: An important characteristic of plant patterns is the angle between consecutive organs along the shoot. This is known as the divergence […]