Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: May 6, 2005
TITLE: FLEXIBLE NUMERICAL ALGORITHM WITH GRID ADAPTATION (No. 77) DATE: Friday, May 6th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Sergei Galkin, Theory Department, General Atomics ABSTRACT: A flexible adaptive unstructured grid technique to solve partial differential equations has been recently developed. Applied to complex nonlinear problems such as rotating star equilibria, plasma equilibria […]
Date of the Event: April 29, 2005
TITLE: NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION IN A SCRAMJET COMBUSTOR (No. 78) DATE: Friday, April 29th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Shuhei Takahashi, Visiting Researcher, Gifu University, Japan ABSTRACT: A scramjet engine is a kind of air breathing engines, which works at very high flight Mach number at 5 and more. It […]
Date of the Event: April 22, 2005
TITLE: PH.D. DISSERTATION DEFENSE – NONLIEAR DYNAMICS DESIGN AND OPERATION OF ADVANCED MAGNETIC SENSORS (No. 72) DATE: Friday, April 22nd, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Patrick Longhini, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Magnetic sensors are inherently nonlinear systems, which have assisted mankind in detecting weak magnetic signals for […]
Date of the Event: April 15, 2005
TITLE: ACTS: A SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES (No. 74) DATE: Friday, April 15th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Osni Marques, High Performance Computing Research Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ABSTRACT: The development of efficient scientific and engineering application codes is an expensive process that often requires specialized support and information about […]
Date of the Event: April 8, 2005
TITLE: LATE SPECIFICATION OF THE LARVAL PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE ASCIDIAN CIONA INTESTINALIS (No. 76) DATE: Friday, April 8th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Robert Zeller, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The ascidian larval peripheral nervous system (PNS) consists of a series of ciliated cells, called epidermal sensory […]
Date of the Event: March 25, 2005
TITLE: SOLITON AND VORTEX LATTICES IN NONLINEAR MEDIA: FROM ISOLATED STRUCTURES TO MOLECULAR CRYSTALS (No. 75) DATE: Friday, March 25th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ricardo Carretero, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NLDS) , Dept. of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Nonlinear media host a wide variety of localized coherent structures (waves, bright […]
Date of the Event: March 18, 2005
TITLE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE IN THE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SKIN BARRIER MODIFICATION MATERIALS (No. 68) DATE: Friday, March 18th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Newsam, President & Managing Director, fqubed, Inc., San Diego, CA ABSTRACT: fqubed, the skin barrier modification company, is applied to the development of materials that […]
Date of the Event: March 11, 2005
TITLE: THE HIERARCHICAL COLLECTIVE MOTIONS METHOD FOR SIMULATING LARGE BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES (No. 69) DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gary Huber, Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego ABSTRACT: Several obstacles stand in the way of performing atomic-level computer simulations of biological macromolecules. First of all, the large […]
Date of the Event: March 4, 2005
TITLE: IMPLEMENTING COMPONENTWISE HASTINGS ALGORITHMS (No. 73) DATE: Friday, March 4th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Richard Levine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) routines have revolutionized the application of Monte Carlo methods in statistical application and statistical computing methodology. The Hastings sampler, […]
Date of the Event: February 25, 2005
TITLE: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN MARINE BIOLOGY (No. 65) DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2005 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Lawrence Frank, Director of MR Research, VA San Diego Healthcare System, The UCSD Center for Functional MRI ABSTRACT: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that allows the non-invasive high resolution imaging of soft […]