Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: May 6, 2011
TITLE: THE PHYSICS AND SIMULATION OF FUSION PLASMAS DATE: Friday, May 6th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Christopher Holland, UCSD ABSTRACT: The upcoming ITER experiment (www.iter.org) represents the next major milestone in realizing the promise of using nuclear fusion as a commercial energy source, by moving into the “burning plasma” regime where […]
Date of the Event: April 29, 2011
TITLE: RESEARCH AT THE COASTAL AND MARINE INSTITUTE LABORATORY DATE: Friday, April 29th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Todd Anderson, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A building was constructed on part of the old Naval Training Center to house the U.S. Geological Survey and a new SDSU marine laboratory after demolition of […]
Date of the Event: April 22, 2011
TITLE: STRUCTURAL-BASED ANALYSIS OF DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE EVOLUTION DATE: Friday, April 22nd, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: David Hecht, Professor of Chemistry at Southwestern College ABSTRACT: The evolution of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) was studied through a comprehensive structure-based analysis. An amino acid sequence alignment was generated from a superposition of experimentally determined x-ray […]
Date of the Event: April 15, 2011
TITLE: FROM ATOMS TO AGGREGATES: PROBING THE GROWTH OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES BY EXPERIMENT AND COMPUTATION DATE: Friday, April 15th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: David Pullman, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The increasing attention given to silver nanoparticles over the past decade stems primarily from their extraordinary optical and antimicrobial properties as […]
Date of the Event: April 8, 2011
TITLE: THE PECULIAR PHASE STRUCTURE OF RANDOM GRAPH BISECTION DATE: Friday, April 8th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Allon G. Percus, Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences at Claremont Graduate University ABSTRACT: One of the more surprising contributions to combinatorial optimization over the past decade has come from statistical physics. Numerous problems, […]
Date of the Event: March 25, 2011
TITLE: Z-TRANSFORM METHODS FOR THE OPTIMAL DESIGN AND RESONANCE FREQUENCIES OF A FINITE LAYERED ELASTIC STRIP DATE: Friday, March 25th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ani P. Velo, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of San Diego ABSTRACT: Despite the widespread use of multilayered structures in various technologies, exact analytical […]
Date of the Event: March 18, 2011
TITLE: GENES WITHOUT BORDERS: A SURVEY OF MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS IN GENOMES AND METAGENOMES DATE: Friday, March 18th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ramy Karam Aziz, PhD ABSTRACT: Genes, like organisms, struggle for existence, and the most successful genes persist and widely disseminate in nature. The unbiased determination of the most successful […]
Date of the Event: March 11, 2011
TITLE: APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (ACSESS 2011) AT SDSU DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2011 TIME: 12:00 √¢¬Ä¬ì 5:00 PM LOCATION: SDSU’s Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center SPEAKER: ABSTRACT: The Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) is dedicated to preparing students for fulfilling careers in the world of high-technology. Consequently, we continuously seek out guidance from […]
Date of the Event: March 4, 2011
TITLE: THE GENERAL CURVILINEAR ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL DATE: Friday, March 4th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jose Castillo, Computational Science Research Center at SDSU ABSTRACT: The General Curvilinear Environmental Model is a high-resolution system composed of the General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model (GCCOM) and the General Curvilinear Atmospheric Model (GCAM). Both modules are […]
Date of the Event: February 25, 2011
TITLE: TALK 1 : UNIFIED CURVILINEAR OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE MODEL (UCOAM) TALK 2 : USING THE DISTRIBUTED COUPLING TOOLKIT (DCT) TO COUPLE MODEL COMPONENTS OF GENERALIZED CURVILINEAR ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Speaker 1 : Mohammad Abouali, PhD Student, CSRC Speaker 2 : Dany De Cecchis, […]