Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: May 5, 2006
TITLE: POSITRONIC ATOMS — ONE WAY FOR MATTER AND ANTIMATTER TO (BRIEFLY) COEXIST (No. 116) DATE: Friday, May 5th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Michael Bromley, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The positron is the antiparticle of the electron (same mass but positive charge), is the most common antiparticle, […]
Date of the Event: April 28, 2006
TITLE: AN OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE DATA MERGING TECHNIQUES FOR CLIMATE DATA RECORDS (No. 103) DATE: Friday, April 28th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Giulietta Fargion, CHORDS and CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Scales in time and space are discussed in relation to the multiple satellite missions and their implication for merging […]
Date of the Event: April 21, 2006
TITLE: PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH TO GENE ANNOTATION AND FUNCTION PREDICTION (No. 112) DATE: Friday, April 21st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Scott Kelley, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The purpose of our study was to develop a phylogenetic-based (tree-parsing) algorithm for automated gene function annotation. Computer-based functional annotations of molecular […]
Date of the Event: April 14, 2006
TITLE: A RANDOM WALK THROUGH BIOMATHEMATICS (No. 117) DATE: Friday, April 14th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Salamon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The talk will present an overview and some highlights from the biomathematics happening around SDSU with special emphasis on available student projects. The […]
Date of the Event: April 7, 2006
TITLE: HACKING THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO QUANTUM MANY-BODY WAVEFUNCTIONS (No. 114) DATE: Friday, April 7th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Calvin Johnson, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The quantum wavefunction of the atomic nucleus is needed to understand nuclear reactions in stars and to decode the mass […]
Date of the Event: March 31, 2006
TITLE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN OBSERVATION OF CESAR CHAVEZ (STATE HOLIDAY). (No. 115) DATE: Friday, March 31st, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mahmoud Tarokh, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Intelligent Robotic Systems using Biologically Inspired Techniques In this talk I will give an overview of the […]
Date of the Event: March 24, 2006
TITLE: OPTIMIZATION FOR PREDICTABLE ENERGY ABSORPTION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES (No. 111) DATE: Friday, March 24th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Satchi Venkataraman, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Predicting crash response of complex structures is challenging even for metal structures. This difficulty in predicting crash behavior arises from the […]
Date of the Event: March 17, 2006
TITLE: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF BOSE-CONDENSED GASES (No. 109) DATE: Friday, March 17th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alexandru Nicolin, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark ABSTRACT: Bose-Einstein condensation of ultra-cold atomic gases has become an attractive research topic which draws on distinct fields such as nuclear and atomic physics and nonlinear science. The current […]
Date of the Event: March 10, 2006
TITLE: GLYCAN MICROARRAY EXPRESSIONS AND THEIR POTENTIAL USAGE IN PROGNOSIS AND DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER (No. 96) DATE: Friday, March 10th, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Marko Vuskovic, Department of Computer Science, SDSU, Hongyu Xu, GlycoMedical Research Institute Margaret Huflejt, GlycoMedical Research Institute ABSTRACT: Glycans are complex sugar chains that decorate the surface […]
Date of the Event: March 3, 2006
TITLE: BIOINFORMATICS: MERGING COMPUTER AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (No. 101) DATE: Friday, March 3rd, 2006 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Rob Edwards, Department of Biology and CSRC, SDSU ABSTRACT: The computer science revolution has overtaken the natural sciences, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Biology. The amount of biological data that is […]