Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: May 6, 2016
TITLE: A Tail of Phage and Tubeworms: How do bacteria mediate animal development? DATE: Friday, May 6th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Nicholas Shikuma. Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) Program Area, Viral Information Institute. Department of Biology, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Free-swimming larvae of many animals that inhabit the sea […]
Date of the Event: April 29, 2016
TITLE: Minimum Induced Drag Theorems for Innovative Wing Systems DATE: Friday, April 29th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Luciano Demasi. Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Induced drag is an important component of the total airplane drag, especially at low speed […]
Date of the Event: April 22, 2016
TITLE: The role of membrane tension in clathrin-mediated endocytosis DATE: Friday, April 22nd, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Padmini Rangamani. Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: In clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME), clathrin and various adaptor proteins coat a patch of the plasma membrane, which is reshaped to […]
Date of the Event: April 8, 2016
TITLE: Lagrangian Coherent Structures and DNS with Discontinuous Galerkin methods DATE: Friday, April 8th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel Nelson. Senior Research and Development Engineer at Flowserve Corporation. ABSTRACT: High-fidelity numerical tools based on high-order Discontinuous-Galerkin (DG) methods and Lagrangian Coherent Structure (LCS) theory for the study of separated, vortex-dominated […]
Date of the Event: March 25, 2016
TITLE: Confinement, Ageing and Rejuvenation Effects in Polymer Films/Composites DATE: Friday, March 25th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Alexey V. Lyulin, Theory of Polymers and Soft Matter Group. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. ABSTRACT: In this presentation I will show our recent results on molecular-dynamic (MD) simulations of thin polymer films. I will […]
Date of the Event: March 18, 2016
TITLE: Observation and Modelling of Cloud, Convection, and Radiationusing Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations for Coupled Climate System DATE: Friday, March 18th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Jui-Lin (Frank) Li. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology ABSTRACT: Representing clouds, convection and radiation and their complicated interactions in global weather […]
Date of the Event: March 11, 2016
TITLE: Nonlinear internal waves in the nearshore coastal environment DATE: Friday, March 11th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Ryan Walter. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University ABSTRACT: The nearshore coastal environment is generally taken to be one of the most productive and ecologically important parts of the ocean. The nearshore is […]
Date of the Event: February 29, 2016
TITLE: How to Write Great Papers and Get Published. Understanding and benefiting from the publishing process DATE: Monday, February 29th, 2016 TIME: 2:30 PM LOCATION: Gold Auditorium, SDSU Bioscience Science SPEAKER: Anthony Newman, Senior Publisher. Elsevier, Amsterdam. ABSTRACT: Anthony Newman is a publisher for Life Sciences Journals at Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over the last […]
Date of the Event: February 26, 2016
TITLE: Modeling of Phenomena Involving Multiple Timescales DATE: Friday, February 26th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: M.S. Udayan Kanade, CEO of Oneirix Labs. ABSTRACT: This lecture describes the difficulties inherent in simulating temporally multiscale phenomena, and introduces some mathematical approaches to resolving such difficulties. Situations involving fast and slow physical phenomenon often […]
Date of the Event: February 19, 2016
TITLE: Exploiting Approximation Properties in the discontinuous Galerkin scheme for improved trouble cell indication DATE: Friday, February 19th, 2016 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jennifer Ryan ABSTRACT: In this talk, we present a generalized discussion of discontinuous Galerkin methods concentrating on a basic concept: exploiting the existing approximation properties. The discontinuous Galerkin method […]