Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: December 4, 2015
TITLE: M2DO: Multiscale Multiphysics Design Optimization DATE: Friday, December 4th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alicia Kim. Structural Engineering Department, UCSD ABSTRACT: There has been a rise of research interests in two notable areas of engineering design. One is to use more high fidelity design in conceptual design stage and the […]
Date of the Event: November 20, 2015
TITLE: Retrieving the shape in an inverse elasto-acoustic scattering problem: A mathematical investigation and a multi-step solution methodology DATE: Friday, November 20, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Rabia Djellouli. Department of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Science (IRIS) California State University Northridge ABSTRACT: The determination of the shape of […]
Date of the Event: November 13, 2015
TITLE: Geometric Ergodicity of Gibbs Samplers for Bayesian Mixed Models DATE: Friday, November 13, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Jorge Carlos Rom√ɬ°n. Assistant Professor, Statistics at SDSU ABSTRACT: Due to advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, the use of Bayesian statistical models in the applied sciences has increased dramatically […]
Date of the Event: November 6, 2015
TITLE: Towards More Robust and Reliable VLSI Circuits: A Data Mining Perspective DATE: Friday, November 6th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ke Huang. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SDSU ABSTRACT: Millions of Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) devices are fabricated, tested and delivered to the open market every day. As a result, […]
Date of the Event: October 30, 2015
TITLE: Global binary optimization on graphs for classification of high dimensional data DATE: Friday, October 30, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ekaterina Merkurjev. Department of Mathematics, UCSD ABSTRACT: In this talk, we develop a global minimization framework for segmentation of high dimensional data into two classes. It combines recent convex optimization […]
Date of the Event: October 23, 2015
TITLE: High Efficiency Wireless EV Charger Based on Capacitive Power Transfer Principle DATE: Friday, October 23, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Chris Mi. Director of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Capacitive power transfer (CPT) and inductive power transfer (IPT) are two effective methods to […]
Date of the Event: October 16, 2015
TITLE: From 2D Image Recognition to 3D Scene Reconstruction: A Restricted Turing Machine DATE: Friday, October 16, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Xiaobai Liu. Assistant Professor of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Computer Vision aims to answer two types of questions – what and where – that involve 2D […]
Date of the Event: October 9, 2015
TITLE: Modeling of aerodynamics of flapping wings and blades using Lattice Boltzmann method and high-order of approximation numerical schemes DATE: Friday, October 9th, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alex Povitsky. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron ABSTRACT: Numerical model of aerodynamics of flapping wing in generalized pitching motion has been […]
Date of the Event: October 2, 2015
TITLE: Estuary-enhanced upwelling of marine nutrients fuels coastal productivity in the US Pacific Northwest DATE: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Kristen Davis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: In the Pacific Northwest, the coastal waters are strongly influenced by outflow from the […]
Date of the Event: September 25, 2015
TITLE: Mechanistic Models of Biological and Bioengineered Systems at Cellular and Sub-cellular Length Scales DATE: Friday, September 25, 2015 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Parag Katira. Mechanical Engineering Department San Diego State University ABSTRACT: I build analytical and computational models describing physical interactions between subcellular biological materials such as proteins, nucleotide derivatives, […]