Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: September 23, 2016
TITLE: Optimal actuator and sensor placement for feedback flow control DATE: Friday, September 23rd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Kevin K. Chen. Research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Center for Communications Research in La Jolla. ABSTRACT: Feedback control has an enormous potential to manipulate fluid flows in desirable […]
Date of the Event: September 16, 2016
TITLE: Surface and Interfacial Waves, Shear, and Point-Vortices DATE: Friday, September 16th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 324 SPEAKER: Dr. Christopher Curtis. Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: The computation of surface and interfacial waves is a central problem in fluid mechanics. In particular these problems appear when […]
Date of the Event: September 2, 2016
TITLE: Quark Deconfinement in Neutron Stars DATE: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 324 SPEAKER: Dr. Fridolin Weber. Professor of Physics at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that blew apart in supernova explosions. Gravity compresses the matter in the cores of such objects to […]