Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: February 27, 2004
TITLE: DATA MINING IN ASTRONOMY (No. 36) DATE: Friday, February 27th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Eric Sandquist, Department of Astronomy, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Astronomers are entering a period in which we are overwhelmed with publicly available data covering the entire sky. In fact it is conceivable that “observational” astronomers […]
Date of the Event: February 20, 2004
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO PROTEIN (AND ENZYME) DESIGN (No. 39) DATE: Friday, February 20th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Love, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A main aim of our research program is to combine the principles of supramolecular chemistry with the emerging tools of protein engineering. The […]
Date of the Event: February 13, 2004
TITLE: FROM BRAIN WAVES TO BRAIN DYNAMICS (No. 31) DATE: Friday, February 13th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard E. Greenblatt, Source Signal Imaging, Inc., San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: Using non-invasive measures of brain structure (sMRI) and activity (fMRI, EEG, MEG), researchers would like to infer the location and time course of […]
Date of the Event: February 6, 2004
TITLE: THREE CHALLENGES OF CLAUDE SHANNON (No. 37) DATE: Friday, April 6th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joachim Rosenthal, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame ABSTRACT: In 1948/1949 Claude Shannon wrote two papers [Sha48,Sha49] which became the foundation of modern information theory. The papers showed that information can be compressed up […]
Date of the Event: January 30, 2004
TITLE: THE HEART IN CHAOS (No. 30) DATE: Friday, January 30th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mark Spano, Immediate Past Chair, Division of Biological Physics, American Physical Society ABSTRACT: The heart is an extremely complex system that has mechanical and electrical aspects, with a large dose of nonlinearity thrown in. In such […]
Date of the Event: January 23, 2004
TITLE: DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF STRUCTURES HAVING FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIAL PROPERTIES ? A LESSON FROM NATURE (No. 35) DATE: Friday, January 23rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Satchi Venkataraman, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Recent research trends indicate that we may soon be able to manufacture large structures with […]
Date of the Event: January 16, 2004
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY IN A GRAY AREA: NOT TOO SMART, NOT QUITE TOO DUMB (No. 33) DATE: Friday, January 16th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew Cooksy, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The study of molecules with delocalized unpaired electrons offers one area where the computational tools exist in […]