Colloquium Year: SPRING 2014

TITLE: Selecting Experiments for Uncertainty Quantification and Design Optimization of Aircraft DATE: Friday, May 9th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Diane Villanueva. Research Engineer, Universal Technology Corporation ABSTRACT: The design of hypersonic air vehicles involves a complex interaction of physics, which at this point is not yet well understood. Unlike in […]

TITLE: Hollow Vortices DATE: Friday, May 2nd, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Stefan Llewellyn Smith. UCSD ABSTRACT: Hollow vortices are vortices whose interior is at rest. They posses vortex sheets on their boundaries and can be viewed as a desingularization of point vortices. After giving a history of point vortices, we […]

TITLE: Atmospheric impact of energy distribution: From laboratory chamber experiments to policy makers awareness, via parallel computation simulations DATE: Friday, April 25th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Donald Dabdub. University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: This study assesses the air quality impacts of new and existing energy distribution strategies in the South […]

TITLE: Quantitative Modeling Languages for Computational Biology DATE: Friday, April 18th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Eric Mjolsness. University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT: Predictive modeling languages are aimed at describing approximately the way things are, or could be, and how processes work or could work. By contrast programming languages are aimed […]

TITLE: Accurate ab initio calculations of intermolecular potentials using bond function basis sets: Applications to Pi-Pi systems DATE: Friday, April 11th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Fu-Ming Tao. CSU Fullerton ABSTRACT: Intermolecular potentials determine the physical and chemical properties of matter. Quantum mechanical calculation based on ab initio molecular orbital theory […]

TITLE: Atoms of Multistationarity in Chemical Reaction Networks DATE: Friday, March 7th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Badal Joshi. California State University San Marcos ABSTRACT: Abstract: Multistationarity is a prerequisite for a reaction network to act as a biochemical switch. Theoretical tools that help rule out multistationarity include the Jacobian criterion […]

TITLE: Injection Locking and Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers DATE: Friday, February 28th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Thomas B. Simpson. L-3 Applied Technologies, Inc. ABSTRACT: Laser diodes are of continuing interest, both for their diverse applications and as a fundamental test system for laser physics and nonlinear dynamics. Injecting an […]

TITLE: Vortex rings: nature, physics, mathematics and computations DATE: Friday, February 21st, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ricardo Carretero. Department of Mathematics and Statistics Computational Science Research Center. ABSTRACT: We will explore the beautiful and complex world of vortex rings. A vortex ring is formed when a vortex line (a “twister”) […]

TITLE: Energy Harvesting DATE: Friday, February 14th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Antonio Palacios. Department of Mathematics at San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Energy harvesting devices are key to a wide range of technologies: wireless sensor networks, micro wind turbine, thermoelectric generators, health monitoring systems, human-generated power devices for biomedical applications, […]

TITLE: Generating and shepherding intrinsic localized modes in nonlinear macroscopic and microscopic lattices DATE: Friday, February 7th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Al Sievers. Cornell University ABSTRACT: It had been known for some time that nonlinearity and discreteness play important roles in many branches of condensed matter physics as evidenced by […]