Date of the Event: June 23, 2017
TITLE: Modified Castillo-Grone mimetic gradient operators for solving with high-accuracy the Eikonal equation with Soner boundary conditions DATE: Friday, June 23rd, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Miguel Dumett, Dpt. of Mathematics, University of Southern California ABSTRACT: The staggered Castillo-Grone mimetic method (CGMM) gradient operators are adapted for solving the nonlinear Eikonal equation […]
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Date of the Event: May 5, 2017
TITLE: Phage capsid structure: Theory, phage lifestyle constraints, and environmental diagnostic DATE: Friday, May 5th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Bioscience Center Gold Auditorium SPEAKER: Dr. Antoni Luque, Dept. Math and Stats, CSRC, and Viral Information Institute, SDSU ABSTRACT: Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and are the most abundant entity on the planet. About […]
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Date of the Event: April 28, 2017
TITLE: Role of Mechanics in Tumor Growth and Metastasis. DATE: Friday, April 28th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Parag Katira, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDSU ABSTRACT: While cancer is a disease rooted in genetic mutations and epigenetic factors, the processes of tumor growth and metastasis where the growing mass of cells […]
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Date of the Event: April 21, 2017
TITLE: ACSESS 2017 DATE: Friday, April 21st, 2017 TIME: 12:00 – 5:00 PM LOCATION: Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Greg Davis, Chief Technologist, Planetary Protection Architect, Europa Lander Jet Propulsion Laboratory ACSESS Program Overview Through a partnership with academia, the Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS) program provides U.S. industry […]
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Date of the Event: April 14, 2017
TITLE: Image and Video Analytics for Healthcare using neural networks. DATE: Friday, April 14th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Mr. Prasad Kothari, Analytics Manager at PwC ABSTRACT: Image and Video Analytics has been most talked solution in healthcare and other sectors. Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks and adversarial neural networks have […]
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Date of the Event: April 7, 2017
TITLE: Understanding regulatory DNA using evolution. DATE: Friday, April 7th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Zeba Wunderlich, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, UC Irvine. ABSTRACT: Our lab is interested is understanding the function and mechanisms of the regulatory DNA, e.g. enhancers, that encodes the gene regulatory networks driving diverse biological […]
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Date of the Event: March 31, 2017
TITLE: [Rescheduled/Postponed] Whole Genome Sequencing in the Clinic DATE: Friday, March 31st, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Semyon Kruglyak, Director at Illumina. ABSTRACT: In Observation to Cesar Chavez Day this Colloquium has been rescheduled for next Fall. We have developed methods to analyze whole genome sequencing data and apply the results […]
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Date of the Event: March 24, 2017
TITLE: Disordered Granular Chains DATE: Friday, March 24th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Mason Porter, Department of Mathematics, UCLA ABSTRACT: Granular crystals are tightly packed arrangements of solid particles that deform on contact with each other. In this talk, I will give an introduction to granular crystals, and I will then […]
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Date of the Event: March 17, 2017
TITLE: Design of Multi-phase Reacting Flow Processes for Synthesis of Nano-materials in Flames DATE: Friday, March 17th, 2017 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Joaquin Camacho, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Flame-based nano-material synthesis and device fabrication processes are promising directions for developing emerging technologies. Complimentary computational and experimental approaches enable the […]
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Date of the Event: March 10, 2017
TITLE: Highly Stable Glassy Carbon Interfaces for Long-Term Neural Stimulation and Low-Noise recording of Brain Activity Composites DATE: Friday, March 10th, 2017 TIME: 3:30PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Dr. Sam Kassegne, PhD, MEMS Research Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDSU. Abstract: As research and clinical interest in interfacing microelectrodes with tissues, for applications ranging from […]
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