Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: May 9, 2003
TITLE: SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION: A CURRICULUM REPORT (No. 5) DATE: Friday, May 9th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Teresa Larsen, Computational Science, SDSU, The Foundation for Scientific Literacy ABSTRACT: Ongoing curriculum development in the CSRC has resulted in an evolution of the course: Scientific Visualization & Communication. Using a workplace model as an […]
Date of the Event: May 2, 2003
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE MASTER THESIS PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONS (No. 19) TALK 1 : Growth and Control in Escherichia Coli TALK 2 : Biomechanical boundary conditions delimitation for fracture healing with intramedullary nail fixation. TALK 3 : Predicting Binding Affinities of Protein-Protein complexes: A tool for Protein Design DATE: Friday, May 2nd, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: […]
Date of the Event: April 25, 2003
TITLE: A PROBABILISTIC DECODING ALGORITHM USING EFFICIENT BELIEF PROPOGATION (No. 15) DATE: Friday, April 25th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mike O’Sullivan, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A variety of algorithms from diverse subject areas (artificial intelligence, Bayesian networks, coding theory) use a generalization of the humble distributive law, […]
Date of the Event: April 18, 2003
TITLE: PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MODELS OF LARVAL ADVECTION AND TROPHODYNAMICS: A CASE STUDY OF LARVAL COD ON GEORGES BANK (No. 4) DATE: Friday, April 18th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Francisco E. Werner, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, , Chapel Hill ABSTRACT: A description of the advances in the […]
Date of the Event: April 11, 2003
TITLE: CHAOS-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (No. 3) DATE: Friday, April 11th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ljupco Kocarev, Institute of Nonlinear Sciences, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, there has been tremendous interest in studying the behavior of chaotic systems. They are characterized by […]
Date of the Event: March 28, 2003
TITLE: MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR ERYTHROPOIESIS (No. 2) DATE: Friday, March 28th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joe Mahaffy, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Erythropoiesis is the process by which stem cells (primarily in the bone marrow) differentiate and proliferate to supply our bodies with erythrocytes (red blood cells), the […]
Date of the Event: March 21, 2003
TITLE: LIGHT PROPAGATION IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE (No. 1) DATE: Friday, March 21st, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Arnold D. Kim, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ABSTRACT: Understanding laser light propagation in biological tissue has practical applications to medical imaging, diagnosis and monitoring. The radiative transport equation governs light propagation, scattering and absorption […]
Date of the Event: March 14, 2003
TITLE: GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF RING-LINEAR CODING (No. 7) DATE: Friday, March 14th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Marcus Greferath, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The relationship between classical finite geometry and the theory of linear block codes has been established early in the development of coding theory. This talk […]
Date of the Event: March 7, 2003
TITLE: A BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO STUDY GENE REGULATION (No. 8) DATE: Friday, March 7th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Robert W. Zeller, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Despite tremendous advances in recent years, our understanding of gene regulation is far from complete. Genes are linear pieces […]
Date of the Event: February 28, 2003
TITLE: MULTI-FREQUENCY RHYTHMS AND CYCLING BEHAVIOR IN COUPLED CELL SYSTEMS (No. 9) DATE: Friday, February 28th, 2003 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Symmetry-breaking bifurcation is a model-independent phenomenon that leads to many patterns of behavior in natural and artificial systems. In this talk, […]