Date of the Event: July 6, 2007
Date of the Event: July 6, 2007
H-RAS PROTEIN IN A DMPC BILAYER: COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF INSERTION FREE ENERGY AND MEMBRANE STRUCTURE PERTURBATION (No. 144)
Date of the Event: May 4, 2007
TITLE: H-RAS PROTEIN IN A DMPC BILAYER: COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF INSERTION FREE ENERGY AND MEMBRANE STRUCTURE PERTURBATION (No. 144) DATE: Friday, May 4th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Alemayehu Gorfe, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego ABSTRACT: Ras proteins are GTPases that mediate signal transduction pathways that […]
THE MAYO-LEWIS COPOLYMERIZATION MODEL (No. 150)
Date of the Event: April 27, 2007
TITLE: THE MAYO-LEWIS COPOLYMERIZATION MODEL (No. 150) DATE: Friday, April 27th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Vadim Ponomarenko, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Plastic manufacturing is the fourth-largest manufacturing industry in the United States, employing over a million people and generating hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Typically plastics […]
THE SYMMETRY PERSPECTIVE (No. 154)
Date of the Event: April 20, 2007
TITLE: THE SYMMETRY PERSPECTIVE (No. 154) DATE: Friday, April 20th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: It is well known that symmetry can restrict the form of a system of differential equations and, consequently, of its solutions. The mathematical representation of these restrictions […]
RECENT RESULTS OF A MODEL OF ELECTRICAL PROPAGATION IN THE HEART (No. 151)
Date of the Event: April 13, 2007
TITLE: RECENT RESULTS OF A MODEL OF ELECTRICAL PROPAGATION IN THE HEART (No. 151) DATE: Friday, April 13th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Avinoam Rabinovitch, Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel ABSTRACT: Results include: 1. Fitting the action potential of the heart by a modified FitzHugh model. Results […]
SIMULATION OF IMMOBILIZED ENZYME KINETICS AND TRANSPORT IN SESSILE HYDROGEL DROPS (No. 152)
Date of the Event: April 6, 2007
TITLE: SIMULATION OF IMMOBILIZED ENZYME KINETICS AND TRANSPORT IN SESSILE HYDROGEL DROPS (No. 152) DATE: Friday, April 6th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Chao-Jen Wong, School of Mathematical Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona and CGU ABSTRACT: We present a new numerical method, termed the embedding method, to solve a system of nonlinear PDEs […]
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL–A METAGENOMIC EXAMINATION OF A SOLAR SALTERN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (No. 153)
Date of the Event: March 29, 2007
TITLE: DISSERTATION PROPOSAL–A METAGENOMIC EXAMINATION OF A SOLAR SALTERN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (No. 153) DATE: Friday, March 29th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Beltran Rodriguez Brito, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Introduction Solar salterns are natural or man-made structures composed of several conjoined pools with progressively increasing concentrations […]
SLOW PASSAGE THROUGH A HOPF BIFURCATION: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MEMORY EFFECT WITH APPLICATION TO NEURONAL BURSTING (No. 149)
Date of the Event: March 23, 2007
TITLE: SLOW PASSAGE THROUGH A HOPF BIFURCATION: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MEMORY EFFECT WITH APPLICATION TO NEURONAL BURSTING (No. 149) DATE: Friday, March 23rd, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Steve Baer, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University ABSTRACT: In many biological, chemical and physical systems modeled mathematically as bifurcation problems, the bifurcation […]
DATA ANALYSIS AND THE SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (No. 145)
Date of the Event: March 16, 2007
TITLE: DATA ANALYSIS AND THE SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (No. 145) DATE: Friday, March 16th, 2007 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Gene Golub, Computer Science Deptartment, Stanford University ABSTRACT: In this talk, we describe a number of engineering and biological applications where the singular value decomposition (SVD) can be helpful in analyzing large data […]