Date of the Event: December 7, 2007
TITLE: Encoding the Heart: Extending Our Understanding of Heart Disease through Computational Biology DATE: Friday, December 7th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Roberta Gottlieb, Director of the Bioscience Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: I will present three applications of computational sciences to the study of heart disease. I have no expertise […]
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Date of the Event: November 30, 2007
TITLE: Albany, Baton Rouge, Santa Barbara: There Goes the Neighborhood √¢¬Ä¬ì in N-Dimensional Space! DATE: Friday, November 30th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andre Skupin, Department of Geography, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Could it be that, as we traverse certain parts of Baton Rouge, we are somehow instantaneously transported to Santa […]
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Date of the Event: November 17, 2007
TITLE: THE OTHER PHASE OF MRI (No. 134) DATE: Friday, November 17th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Shantanu Sinha, Department of Radiological Science, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: MR imaging has become one of the most powerful diagnostic tools available to modern medicine, using only the conventional contrast mechanisms of T1, […]
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Date of the Event: November 16, 2007
TITLE: COMPUTER ASSISTED STEREOTAXY SURGERY AND BRAIN MAPPING DATE: Friday, November 16th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Tyrone L. Hardy, M.D., Neurosurgeon, Grossmont Hospital, David and Donna Long Cancer Center, San Diego CA ABSTRACT: In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number and use of stereotactic techniques for […]
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Date of the Event: November 9, 2007
TITLE: Acoustical Challenges and Rewards of Studying Dialect Development in the Killer Whale, Orcinus orca DATE: Friday, November 9th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ann Bowles, Senior Research Scientist, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute ABSTRACT: Dialects are unusual among mammals, documented only from cetaceans and a few primates. In killer whales, matrilineal pods have […]
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Date of the Event: October 30, 2007
TITLE: TO BE ANNOUNCED ( ANDRE SKUPIN OF SDSU GEOGRAPHY ) DATE: Friday, October 30th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andre Skupin, Department of Geography, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Not Available HOST: Rob Edwards DOWNLOAD:
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Date of the Event: October 26, 2007
TITLE: DESIGN OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DATABASES & VIRTUAL SCREENING DATE: Friday, October 26th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Srinivas Reddy Alla, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, California State University, San Marcos; CA, USA, Molecular Modeling Group, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, INDIA ABSTRACT: The approach to understand the chemical and biological […]
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Date of the Event: October 19, 2007
TITLE: RESEARCH AT THE ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS LAB AT SDSU DATE: Friday, October 19th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jingang Yi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will review some research activities at the Robotics and Mechatronics Lab at SDSU. In the first part of […]
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Date of the Event: October 12, 2007
TITLE: BioBridge: Linking the scientific and educational communities DATE: Friday, October 12th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeremy Babendure, Biomedical Sciences, University of California San Diego ABSTRACT: The BioBridge California Partnership will address the national need for improved science inquiry curriculum to strengthen K-12 student engagement and achievement in the sciences. We […]
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Date of the Event: October 5, 2007
TITLE: Bayesian Multi-LDA for Matrix Factorization DATE: Friday, October 5th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ian Porteous, Information & Computer Science, University of California at Irvine ABSTRACT: Matrix factorization algorithms like SVD and Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) are arguably among the most widely used algorithms throughout machine learning and data mining. Applications […]
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