Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: May 7, 2004
TITLE: ORDER IN REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS AWAY FROM EQUILIBRIUM (No. 46) DATE: Friday, May 7th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Katja Lindenberg, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: The past few years have seen the emergence of dramatically counterintuitive phenomena in even the “simplest” complex systems away from […]
Date of the Event: April 30, 2004
TITLE: BLIND SOURCE RECOVERY: THEORETICAL FORMULATIONS, IMPLEMENTATIONS AND APPLICATION TO CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (No. 48) DATE: Friday, April 30th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Khurram Waheed, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Blind Source Recovery (BSR) is an autonomous (or unsupervised) stochastic adaptation approach that denotes recovering […]
Date of the Event: April 23, 2004
TITLE: FAST SWEEPING METHOD FOR EIKONAL EQUATIONS (No. 45) DATE: Friday, April 23rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Hongkai Zhao, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: In this talk I will present a fast sweeping method for computing the numerical solution of Eikonal equations on a rectangular grid The method […]
Date of the Event: April 16, 2004
TITLE: TOPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF NEURONAL BURSTING (No. 47) DATE: Friday, April 16th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eugene Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: When activity of a dynamical system alternates between a quiescent state (equilibrium) and a rhythmic behavior (limit cycle), the system is said to be bursting. Such […]
Date of the Event: April 9, 2004
TITLE: TIME REVERSAL BASED COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS (No. 44) DATE: Friday, April 9th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We study the effect of noise on the quality of communication in a multiple-in-single-out (MISO) communications system based on time-reversal (TR). We look […]
Date of the Event: April 2, 2004
TITLE: NONLINEAR INVERSION FOR EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE PARAMETERS (No. 40) DATE: Friday, April 2nd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Kim Bak Olsen, Department of Geological Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Seismologists have attempted to unravel the rupture history of large earthquakes for decades. Such information is critical to understand how earthquakes initiate, […]
Date of the Event: March 26, 2004
TITLE: WAVE ENERGY POTENTIALS: MODELING AND RESOURCE ESTIMATE (No. 41) DATE: Friday, March 26th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Asfaw Beyene, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: With the current rate of consumption, the US oil will deplete in about 40 years, and the natural gas resources will last […]
Date of the Event: March 12, 2004
TITLE: SPECIAL PRESENTATION FOR ACSESS LAUNCH EVENT – STEALING MATHEMATICS IDEAS FROM GENERAL RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS (No. 42) DATE: Friday, March 12th, 2004 TIME: 2:00 PM LOCATION: Casa Real, Montezuma Hall SPEAKER: Jim Blinn, Graphics Fellow, Microsoft Research ABSTRACT: The Computational Science Research Center at San Diego State University proudly presents ACSESS for Industry […]
Date of the Event: March 11, 2004
TITLE: TBA (No. 67) DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gary Huber, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego ABSTRACT: N/A HOST: Jose Castillo DOWNLOAD:
Date of the Event: March 5, 2004
TITLE: APPLICATIONS OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO QUESTIONS IN HOMELAND SECURITY (No. 34) DATE: Friday, March 5th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Arizona State University ABSTRACT: Epidemiological processes are based on the idea of contagion through contacts between individuals. In this talk I will explore the […]