Date of the Event: December 7, 2018
TITLE: Physics-based Forecasting of Injection-induced Seismicity across the U.S Mid-continent DATE: Friday, December 7th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Matthew Weingarten, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, SDSU. ABSTRACT: U.S. oil fields have been producing much more water than oil for decades. However, injection-induced seismicity has markedly increased coincident with the recent unconventional […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: November 30, 2018
TITLE: HPC Implementation of Microscopically Constrained Energy Density Functionals DATE: Friday, November 30th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Rodrigo Navarro Perez, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, SDSU. ABSTRACT: While ab-initio many body techniques have been able to successfully describe the properties of light and intermediate nuclei based on chiral effective field theory interactions, […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: November 16, 2018
TITLE: Model Equations for Water Waves and Applications DATE: Friday, November 16th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Jerry L. Bona, Professor, Department of Mathematics-Statistics, University of Illinois. ABSTRACT: The lecture will discuss various water wave models and some of their uses in science and engineering. After brief historical remarks, a class of models […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: November 9, 2018
TITLE: The Chemistry of Atmospheric Smog and Aerosols: Critical Roles of Ammonia DATE: Friday, November 9th, 2018 TIME: 4:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Fu-Ming Tao, Professor, Physical Chemistry, CSU Fullerton. ABSTRACT: Oxides of nitrogen and sulfur are two major sources of air pollution, commonly known as Los Angeles (LA) smog and London smog, respectively. In […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: November 2, 2018
TITLE: The Symbiosis of Viruses and Bacteria Explains the Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Communities DATE: Friday, November 2nd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Antonio Luque, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. ABSTRACT: Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and are the most abundant biological entity on Earth, playing major ecological roles […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: October 26, 2018
TITLE: Combining NMR and Computational Techniques to Elucidate the Molecular Structure and Assembly of Spider Silk DATE: Friday, October 26th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Bennett Addison and Gregory P. Holland, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Over 300 million years spiders have evolved to produce six different silks and one glue-like […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: October 19, 2018
TITLE: Using Machine Learning and Quantum Mechanics to Understand Chemical Reactions on Surfaces DATE: Friday, October 19th, 2018 TIME: 4:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Michael Groves, Assistant Professor, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, CSU Fullerton. ABSTRACT: Catalysts, which are substances that increase the rate of a given chemical reaction without being consumed themselves, have a critical […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: October 12, 2018
TITLE: New Methods for Computational Photochemistry DATE: Friday, October 12th, 2018 TIME: 4:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS-301 SPEAKER: Filipp Furche, Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine. ABSTRACT: The concept of Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surfaces is fundamental for ground-state chemistry, but ill-defined for photochemical processes such as radiationless transitions and whenever electronic and nuclear motions are strongly […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: October 5, 2018
TITLE: Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of the flow dynamics for a viscoelastic fluid in a four-roll mill geometry at the Stokes limit. DATE: Friday, October 5th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Paloma Gutierrez, Krener Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis. ABSTRACT: Numerical simulations of viscoelastic fluids in the Stokes limit with a […]
2018
FALL 2018
Date of the Event: September 28, 2018
TITLE: Applying fundamental science to industrial problems DATE: Friday, September 28th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Antonio Redondo, Division Leader, Richard P. Feynman Center for Innovation, Los Alamos National Laboratory. ABSTRACT: In this talk we shall discuss some of the approaches that we have implemented at Los Alamos National Laboratory to solve problems […]
2018
FALL 2018
