Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: November 30, 2012
TITLE: THEORY AND COMPUTATIONS IN THE PHYSICS OF IONIZED GASSES DATE: Friday, Nov 30th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Evstati G. Evstatiev. University of Texas. ABSTRACT: Highly ionized gasses (plasmas) are a mixture of charged particles, electrons and ions, with some special defining properties. One such property is their ability to respond […]
Date of the Event: November 16, 2012
TITLE: SCOUTING THROUGH VIRAL DARK MATTER FOR NOVEL PROTEIN FOLDS / POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACE MAPPING AND VIBRATIONAL ANALYSES OF CARBON CHAIN FREE RADICALS AS DETERMINED BY THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD DATE: Friday, Nov 16th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Victor Seguritan and Peter Zajac. Computational Science Research Center. San Diego State University. […]
Date of the Event: November 9, 2012
TITLE: APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DATE: Friday, Nov 9th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gary Fogel. Chief Executive Officer. Natural Selection, Inc. ABSTRACT: Computational intelligence (CI) has a rich history of inspiration from natural systems. While the field continues to grow with new inspiration and methods, application of CI […]
Date of the Event: November 2, 2012
TITLE: INVESTIGATING THE SOURCE ORIGIN OF ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE USING STABLE ISOTOPE OBSERVATION AND MODELING DATE: Friday, Oct 26th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Chun-Ta Lai. Department of Biology. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: The stable isotope composition of water can be used to identify conditions and pathways under which water exchange occurs […]
Date of the Event: October 26, 2012
TITLE: PIECEWISE INTERPOLATION OF SINUSOID FUNCTIONS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE DATE: Friday, Oct 26th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ashkan Ashrafi. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Adjunct Professor, Computational Science Research Center. Member, Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Director, Real-Time DSP and FPGA Development Laboratory. San Diego State […]
Date of the Event: October 19, 2012
TITLE: STORMS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON CLIMATE AS REPRESENTED IN NUMERICAL MODELS DATE: Friday, Oct 19th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Guang Zhang. Senior Research Meteorologist. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. University of California at San Diego. ABSTRACT: Storms have tremendous impact on society. They produce freshwater needed and at the same time […]
Date of the Event: October 12, 2012
TITLE: BACTERIOPHAGE ON MUCUS: THE HIRED KILLERS OF THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM DATE: Friday, Oct 10th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeremy Barr. Postdoctoral Fellow. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Body surfaces where animals meet an aqueous environment are typically covered by a protective mucus layer. These exposed surfaces are also where […]
Date of the Event: October 5, 2012
TITLE: NOVEL RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS AND ARRAYS DATE: Friday, Oct 5th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Satish Kumar Sharma. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: In this talk, novel reconfigurable antennas and arrays will be discussed. There are three main possibilities for the reconfiguration: frequency reconfiguration, polarization reconfiguration, […]
Date of the Event: September 28, 2012
TITLE: THE MATHEMATICS OF PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS DATE: Friday, Sep 28th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Julien Emile-Geay. Department of Earth Sciences and Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences. University of Souther California. ABSTRACT: In 1998, a seminal study by Mann, Bradley and Hughes took advantage of climate signals embedded in an array of […]
Date of the Event: September 21, 2012
TITLE: RATES OF PROFIT AS RANDOM VARIABLES DATE: Friday, Sep 21st, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard Greenblatt ABSTRACT: The realization of profit is the dominant feature of market-based economic systems, determining their dynamics to a large extent. Variation in the rate of profit across firms is the key driving force for […]