Colloquium Year: SPRING 2021

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Non-Local Models for Modeling Multiphase Fluids DATE: Friday, May 7, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Amanda Howard, Mathematician, Advanced computing, mathematics, and data, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ABSTRACT: This talk will introduce non-local mathematical models for two phase (fluid/fluid and fluid/solid) systems. We will discuss the mathematical […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium How Do You Find Eigenpairs of HUGE Matrices? DATE: Friday, April 30, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Calvin Johnson, Physics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: A common numerical problem is to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of symmetric or Hermitian matrices–especially extremal eigenvalues. An example is in the matrix […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Towards Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace DATE: Friday, April 23, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Junfei Xie, Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Networked airborne computing is a new computing paradigm that relies on the airborne network formed by aerial vehicles with direct flight-to-flight […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Combining Physics and AI to Understand the Behavior of Molecules DATE: Friday, April 16, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Joshua A. Rackers, Truman Fellow, Computational Multiscale, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: Understanding life at the molecular scale is eminently important. The ability to predict how molecules will behave […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Energy-Efficient Physical Computing Approaches in Biosignal Processing and Hardware Accelerators DATE: Friday, April 9, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Hakan Toreyin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The increasing number of nodes in a sensor network imposes significant power burden on the network. This burden […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Nature-inspired Curved Stiffening and Fibers for Metallic and Composite Structures DATE: Friday, April 2, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Wei Zhao, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech ABSTRACT: The advancements in both the computational capabilities and the manufacturing technologies allow us to employ nature-inspired stiffening members in aircraft […]

TITLE: CSRC 2021 ACSESS for Industry Event DATE: Friday, March 26, 2021 TIME: 1:00 PM – 4:00PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christopher Silva, Research Aerospace Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center ABSTRACT: In the 1950s and 1960s, you could affordably fly scheduled service from helipad to helipad in New York, Los Angeles, and San […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Scientific Domain-Informed Machine Learning DATE: Friday, March 19, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Dr. Prasanna Balaprakash, Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division/Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory ABSTRACT: As the U.S. DOE has moved toward data-driven scientific discovery, machine learning (ML) has become a critical technology in […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium A QoS-Aware Routing Protocol for Airborne Wireless Networks DATE: Friday, March 12, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Shivam Garg, PhD Candidate, Computational Science, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Airborne network (AN) is an essential component for the next generation air transportation system, which can self-configure to provide a […]

TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Self-Assembly and RNA Viruses DATE: Friday, March 5, 2021 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: Virtual Zoom Conference SPEAKER: Rees Garmann, Chemistry, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Self-assembly is a term used to describe any process in which a bunch of small particles, suspended in a fluid and undergoing Brownian motion, spontaneously organize into […]