Date of the Event: December 9, 2005
TITLE: PMN-PT SINGLE CRYSTAL RESONATORS FOR ULTRA-SENSITIVE VAPOR SENSING (No. 93) DATE: Friday, December 9th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Kee Moon, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We report on an experimental comparison between PMN-PT single crystal resonators with commercially available QCM resonators showing significant superiority for new […]
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Date of the Event: December 7, 2005
TITLE: DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – PATTERN FORMATION AND NOISE IN O(2) SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS (No. 95) DATE: Friday, December 7th, 2005 TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Physics 147 SPEAKER: Scott Gasner, CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: This grant proposal presentation will describe an investigation into the pattern formation of cellular flames in O(2) symmetric systems under […]
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Date of the Event: December 2, 2005
TITLE: ELECTROKINETICS IN THE TRANSPORT AND ACCUMULATION OF BIOMOLECULES IN MICROARRAY-BASED DNA CHIPS (No. 94) DATE: Friday, December 2nd, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sam Kassegne, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this talk, we describe the transport and accumulation of biomolecules in microarray-based DNA chips. Various geometric […]
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Date of the Event: November 18, 2005
TITLE: MODELING MARINE PHAGE ECOLOGY (No. 86) DATE: Friday, November 18th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joe Mahaffy, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Marine phage are virus that infect bacteria in the ocean. There are about 1031 phage in the oceans, yet little is known about phage ecology and […]
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Date of the Event: November 11, 2005
TITLE: MONITORING WATER TRANSPARENCY AND DIVER VISIBILITY IN PORTS AND HARBORS USING AIRCRAFT HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING (No. 91) DATE: Friday, November 11th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Charles Trees, Research Professor of Hydro-Optics and Remote Sensing, SDSU Research Foundation ABSTRACT: Diver visibility analyses and predictions, and water transparency in general, are of […]
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Date of the Event: November 4, 2005
TITLE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TOTAL VARIATION IMAGE RESTORATION (No. 82) DATE: Friday, November 4th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Tony Chan, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, UCLA ABSTRACT: Since their introduction in a classic paper by Rudin, Osher and Fatemi, total variation minimizing models have become one of the most popular […]
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Date of the Event: October 28, 2005
TITLE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TOTAL VARIATION IMAGE RESTORATION (No. 82) DATE: Friday, October 28th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Aram K. Kevorkian, Senior Scientist, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego ABSTRACT: Suppose we have a pool of highly sophisticated users and geographically distributed teams of scientists and engineers who wish to connect to […]
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Date of the Event: October 21, 2005
TITLE: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AT SSC SAN DIEGO – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS (No. 92) DATE: Friday, October 21st, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Lynn A. Parnell, HPC Coordinator, SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego ABSTRACT: At SSC San Diego, high-end computing began in the 1970’s and has grown along with the […]
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Date of the Event: October 14, 2005
TITLE: FINITE-VOLUME METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (No. 84) DATE: Friday, October 14th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Phillip Colella, Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ABSTRACT: Finite volume methods are natural discretizations of partial differential operators expresses as conservation laws, i.e. as the divergence of a vector field of “fluxes”. […]
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Date of the Event: October 7, 2005
TITLE: ESTABLISHMENT OF A STRUCTURE REACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP FOR SPHINGOMYELINASE INHIBITORS (No. 90) DATE: Friday, October 7th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Thomas Cole, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Sphingomyelinase inhibitors are attractive drug targets for the treatment of heart attacks and strokes. Currently, there are no approved drugs that […]
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