Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: May 11, 2012
TITLE: A GLIMPSE OF STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS. DATE: Friday, May 11th, 2012 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jinqiao Duan. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. UCLA, Los Angeles. Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. ABSTRACT: Nonlinear dynamical systems arising in biological, physical and chemical sciences are often subject to random influences, […]
Date of the Event: May 4, 2012
TITLE: Celebrating Prof. Paul Paolini’s 70th Birthday: On behalf of the students whose dreams he helped fulfill. DATE: Friday, May 4th, 2012 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: ABSTRACT: Please join us as we celebrate Prof. Paul Paolini√¢¬Ä¬ôs 70th birthday and his 40+ years of service to San Diego State University. Paul is Professor […]
Date of the Event: April 27, 2012
TITLE: THERMODYNAMIC GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION OF MULTI-STEP CHEMICAL REACTIONS DATE: Friday, April 27th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Bjarne Andresen. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen √ɬò, Denmark. ABSTRACT: Optimization of thermodynamic processes which proceed in steps of equilibration, e.g. sequential chemical reactions or trays in a distillation column, […]
Date of the Event: April 20, 2012
TITLE: SEISMIC SOURCE ESTIMATION BY FULL WAVE FORM INVERSION DATE: Friday, Apr 20th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Anders Petersson. Center for Applied Scientific Computing. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ABSTRACT: We discuss the inverse problem of determining the source parameters of a small seismic event (location, mechanism, start time, frequency), such that […]
Date of the Event: April 13, 2012
TITLE: INDIVIDUAL-BASED AND AGENT-BASED MODELING IN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY DATE: Friday, Apr 13th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeff A. Tracey, PhD. Western Ecological Research Center. US Geological Survey. ABSTRACT: This talk will focus on the role of computational models in understanding the interaction of animal behavior and landscape structure with applications to […]
Date of the Event: April 6, 2012
TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE DATE: Friday, April 4th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jeremy Kua. University of San Diego. ABSTRACT: In this seminar I will give an overview of research into the chemistry of the origin of life. I will then discuss the outstanding problem of selectivity – […]
Date of the Event: March 16, 2012
TITLE: VARIATIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR SHAPE AND SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION. DATE: Friday, March 16th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Frederick Park. Mathematics Department. University of California at Irvine. ABSTRACT: Variants of the popular and well studied Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) and celebrated Mumford-Shah (MS) models continue to have new and interesting applications. In this […]
Date of the Event: March 9, 2012
TITLE: USING THE LEVEL-SET METHOD TO CAPTURE EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTE-SOLVENT INTERFACES. DATE: Friday, Mar 9th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Li-Tien Cheng. Deparment of Mathematics. University of California at San Diego. ABSTRACT: A biomolecule placed in a solvent generates an interface separating the solvent from vacuum and the biomolecule. This solute-solvent interface is […]
Date of the Event: March 2, 2012
TITLE: ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CHARACTERISTICS PRIOR TO IN-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST. DATE: Friday, Mar 2nd, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mina Attin. School of Nursing. San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: In-hospital cardiac arrest (I-HCA) is a significant public health problem accounting for approximately 200,000 treated cardiac arrests at hospitals annually in the United States. The […]
Date of the Event: February 24, 2012
TITLE: BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR THE CATALYSIS OF MEMBRANE FISSION OF ENDOCYTOSIS. DATE: Friday, Feb 24th, 2012 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Joshua Zimmerberg. National Institutes of Health. ABSTRACT: Life is complicated, because of ~4 billion years of auto-optimization. The organizational element of the cell can be represented by a spheroid whose diameter can […]