Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: October 16, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Jonah Miller, Los Alamos National Laboratory ABSTRACT: In the extreme environments achievable in the core of a dying or dead star, nuclear reactions are of fundamental importance. Fusion of elements lighter than iron and the fission of unstable heavy isotopes are both deep reservoirs of energy. Moreover, understanding […]
Date of the Event: October 9, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Samuel Shen, San Diego State University, Mathematics and Statistics ABSTRACT: iCHARM (Cyber Hub for Analytics, Research and Monitoring) is an interactive, AI-enabled data science system for visualizing, delivering, analyzing, and interpreting space-time data. It makes NOAA data in various space-time scales, from hourly to monthly and from grid […]
Date of the Event: October 2, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Miguel Dumett, San Diego State University, Computational Science Research Center ABSTRACT: Given an Earth model and a macro velocity model, a subsurface reflectivity image is acquired through a migration process. Typical migration algorithms exhibit structures that are not well defined and/or with some artifacts due to a series […]
Date of the Event: September 25, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Jianshu Liu, San Diego State University, Computer Science ABSTRACT: Scalability is an important feature of cloud computing, allowing web service providers to dynamically add or remove computing resources for their applications according to their needs. Efficiently scaling a cloud application to match workload is critical because the application […]
Date of the Event: September 18, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Qi Wang, San Diego State University, Aerospace Engineering ABSTRACT: Turbulence governs fluid motion across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, posing fundamental challenges for modeling, estimation, and control. Accurate reconstruction of turbulent flow states from limited observations is essential for both scientific understanding and engineering applications. […]
Date of the Event: September 11, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Kathryn Maupin, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: As the third pillar of science, computational simulation has allowed scientists to explore, observe, and test physical regimes previously thought to be unattainable. High-fidelity models are derived from physical principles and calibrated to experimental data. However, missing or unknown physics and measurement, […]
Date of the Event: September 4, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Gerhard Engel, Materials Design, Inc. ABSTRACT: Highly efficient software programs, unprecedented compute power, and intuitive multiscale modeling environments have made computational materials science an integral part of research and development. This talk will focus on how these powerful tools can be applied to industrially relevant problems in diverse […]
Date of the Event: August 28, 2026
TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Jose Castillo, San Diego State University, Computational Science Research Center ABSTRACT: It is well known that the inviscid Burgers equation poses several numerical challenges when used in modeling fluid flows and gas dynamics. The non-linear equation leads to sharp discontinuities or shocks as the initial condition evolves over […]