Date of the Event: April 13, 2018
TITLE: Overcoming fluid-structure instabilities for incompressible flows and light bodies DATE: Friday, April 13th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Bill Henshaw, Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ABSTRACT: The added-mass instability has, for decades, plagued partitioned fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations of incompressible flows coupled to light solids and structures. Many current approaches require […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: March 23, 2018
TITLE: Exploring and capturing the dynamics of ocean-estuarine interactions across multiple scales DATE: Friday, March 23rd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Sarah Giddings, Assistant Professor, SIO, UCSD. ABSTRACT: Connectivity between the coastal ocean and estuaries as well as between adjacent estuaries via river plumes can impact the physics as well as the […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: March 16, 2018
TITLE: Deep Learning with Induced Priors DATE: Friday, March 16th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Saining Xie, Doctoral Student, Computer Science, UCSD. ABSTRACT: Deep learning has reshaped the landscape of research and applications in artificial intelligence. In contrast to traditional hand-crafted feature engineering, and with the support of big-data and big-compute, the promise […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: March 9, 2018
TITLE: Shocked particle-laden flows: multi-scale simulation and uncertainty quantification DATE: Friday, March 9th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Drs. Soren Taverniers and Vasilas Fountoulakis, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Shocked particle-laden flows occur in a number of engineering applications and natural environments like scramjet combustors, detonation of explosives, and […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: March 2, 2018
TITLE: High Performance Computational Differentiation Algorithms for Generalized Optimization Applications DATE: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Ahmad Bani Younes, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University. ABSTRACT: Computational differentiation has existed since the 1960’s as a scientific and engineering methodology for automatically generating sensitivity partial derivative models for […]
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SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: February 23, 2018
TITLE: Exploring stochastic and multi-scale modeling approaches for a seamless prediction system DATE: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Aneesh Subramanian, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California – San Diego. ABSTRACT: Stochastic schemes to represent model uncertainty in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ensemble prediction system […]
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SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: February 16, 2018
TITLE: Modeling the Maritime Optical Atmosphere. DATE: Friday, February 16th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Steven Hammel, Atmospheric Optics Group Leader, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (U.S. Navy) ABSTRACT: The US Navy is engaged with a variety of optical systems ranging from active lasers for ship-defense to passive imaging systems. The interaction of […]
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SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: February 9, 2018
TITLE: Sensitivity Analysis, Statistical Inference, Uncertainty Quantification and Emulation of Physics Based Models. DATE: Friday, February 9th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Jasper Vrugt, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC, Irvine ABSTRACT: Dramatic increases in computer power and continuous advances in measurement technologies have stimulated the development and use of increasingly […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: February 2, 2018
TITLE: Lipase: An Enzyme at Sea-Spray Aerosol Particle Surfaces? DATE: Friday, February 2nd, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Jamie Schiffer, postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego. ABSTRACT: Sea-spray aerosols (SSA) represent one of the most abundant aerosols within our atmosphere, and yet the current uncertainties associated with SSA impacts on total radiative […]
2018
SPRING 2018
Date of the Event: January 26, 2018
TITLE: Mathematical systems modeling the impact of spatially heterogeneous temperature on dengue fever transmission DATE: Friday, January 26th, 2018 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Feng-Bin Wang, Division of Natural Science, Center for General Education, Chang Gung University, Taiwan; Community Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan. ABSTRACT: Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral […]
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