Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: March 7, 2008
TITLE: MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) IMAGING AND IMAGING INFORMATICS: FROM DATA TO KNOWLEDGE DATE: Friday, March 7th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Usha Sinha, Chair, Department of Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The presentation covers the range from MR image acquisition through image processing to imaging informatics. MR image acquisition focuses on […]
Date of the Event: February 29, 2008
TITLE: NOISE REMOVAL AND STRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT FOR ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY OF MITOCHONDRIA DATE: Friday, February 29th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We review some recent progress in image enchancement aimed at improving mitochondrial images obtained from electron tomography. We propose: (*) […]
Date of the Event: February 22, 2008
TITLE: BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF VIRUS PARTICLES AND THEIR MATURATION: INSIGHTS INTO ELEGANTLY PROGRAMMED NANOMACHINES DATE: Friday, February 22nd, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John E. Johnson, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute ABSTRACT: Complex virus particles such as HIV, Herpes Viruses and dsDNA bacteriophages are programmed nano machines that […]
Date of the Event: February 15, 2008
TITLE: NOVEL APPLICATION OF POSITIONAL WEIGHT MATRICES FOR TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITE DISCOVERY DATE: Friday, February 15th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Scott Kelley, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The characterization and interaction of transcriptional regulatory elements is fundamental to understanding how eukaryotic gene networks operate. Identification […]
Date of the Event: February 8, 2008
TITLE: WHEN THE MOLECULES GET TOO BIG, THERE’S ALWAYS HYDROGEN DATE: Friday, February 8th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Andrew L. Cooksey, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Hydrogen bonding plays a critical role in the structure and dynamics of many molecular systems, and presents accompanying challenges to […]
Date of the Event: February 1, 2008
TITLE: ACTION POTENTIALS AS PROPAGATING DENSITY PULSES AND THE ROLE OF ANESTHETICS DATE: Friday, February 1st, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Thomas Heimburg, Membrane Biophysics Group, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen ABSTRACT: The action of nerves has been one of the first topics of interest in biophysics. Important physicists like Galvani, […]
Date of the Event: January 25, 2008
TITLE: MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY EARTH SYSTEM MODELING AT THE PETASCALE AND BEYOND DATE: Friday, January 25th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Rich Loft, Director of Technology Development, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research ABSTRACT: Dramatic improvements in computing power, along with rapid advances in […]
Date of the Event: January 18, 2008
TITLE: GLOBAL MONITORING OF PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON USING SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR OBSERVATIONS DATE: Friday, January 18th, 2008 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Malgorzata Stramska, Modeling Ecosystems Dynamics Group, CHORS and CSRC, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The development of bio-optical algorithms linking measurable optical properties to Chla has been the focus of numerous […]