Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: September 16, 2011
TITLE: LARGE SCALE ICE SHEET MODELING AND SIMULATION DATE: Friday, Sep 16th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Esmond G. Ng Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. ABSTRACT: Understanding the changing behavior of land ice sheets is essential for accurate projection of sea-level change. The dynamics of ice sheets span a wide range of scales. […]
Date of the Event: September 2, 2011
TITLE: NUMERICAL STUDIES OF COMPACT STARS DATE: Friday, Sep 2nd, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Fridolin Weber SDSU ABSTRACT: Astrophysicists distinguish between three types of compact stars — white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. These objects possess most unusual properties which carry information about the fundamental building blocks of matter, the […]
Date of the Event: August 26, 2011
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY OF EXPERIMENTALLY CHARACTERIZED ORGANOMETALLICS DATE: Friday, Aug 26th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew Cooksy Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry SDSU ABSTRACT: Quantum chemical computation is rapidly becoming a tool expected to be at the fingertips of any practicing chemist. Modern methods have been optimized largely on the basis […]
Date of the Event: August 19, 2011
TITLE: SUPERCOMPUTING AND ITS APPLICATIONS AT THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DATE: Friday, Aug 19th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Yuefan Deng Yuefan.Deng@StonyBrook.edu http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~deng/ Applied Mathematics Department Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 ABSTRACT: Supercomputers are capable of performing 1016 floating-point operations per second. This massive supercomputer capability is the […]