Colloquium Year: Spring 2026

*** Registration is required to attend event.  Register Here TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: SDSU Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center, Main Ballroom SPEAKER: Archana Raja, Staff Scientist, Imaging & Manipulation of Nanostructures at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & Faculty, Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute ABSTRACT: The most transformative discoveries in quantum materials rarely emerge […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Randall LeVeque, University of Washington ABSTRACT: The open source GeoClaw software (distributed as part of Clawpack) implements the two-dimensional shallow water equations (SWE) over topography in a well-balanced manner, and is widely used for modeling tsunamis, storm surge, river flooding, and other natural hazards over large spatial extents. […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Filippo Capolino, UC, Irvine, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ABSTRACT: There are two classes of exceptional point degeneracies (EPDs): one related to coupled resonators and the other to coupled-mode waveguides. EPDs are observed among the eigenstates of such systems, i.e., in the eigenfrequencies for the first class and […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Wahid Bhimji, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Data and Analytics Group ABSTRACT: AI and Machine Learning are changing society. This is also true in science where these techniques have promise to change how things are done: making science is more productive and yields new discoveries. In this talk we […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Andy Wan, University of CA, Merced ABSTRACT: Many models from science and engineering possess fundamental structures which are important to preserve in order for accurate and stable long-term predictions. For instance, preserving conserved quantities, such as energy, mass and momentum, are fundamental in many physical systems. Moreover, preserving […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Meghnath Dhimal, Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health ABSTRACT: Global environmental change driven by global warming, land use change, rapid urbanization, and intensified human mobility is reshaping ecosystems and creating emerging and re-emerging health risks to population health. Vector Borne diseases (VBDs) are among the most […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Efstathios Charalampidis, San Diego State University, Mathematics and Statistics ABSTRACT: Complex systems are ubiquitous in nature and human-designed environments. The overarching goal of our research is to leverage advanced computational methods with fundamental theoretical analysis to model the nonlinear behavior of systems that are not otherwise amenable to […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Ignacio Sepulveda, San Diego State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering ABSTRACT: This presentation highlights three distinct contributions to tsunami science and hazard assessment. First, I present results from recent research linking dispersive tsunami wave trains visible in satellite imagery to evidence of earthquake rupture occurring near the […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Nicole Lloyd-Running, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computational Physics and Methods ABSTRACT: The most luminous objects in our universe, gamma-ray bursts, can spectacularly outshine millions of galaxies while they are active. Caused by the collapse of a massive star or the merger of two compact objects, the emission from […]

TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 314 SPEAKER: Gustaaf Jacobs, San Diego State University, Aerospace Engineering ABSTRACT: Particle- and droplet-laden flows occur in many anthropogenic and natural environments. For example, the mixing of liquid fuel spray and/or solid fuel particles with turbulent gas flows determines the efficiency of many propulsion and energy systems. Environmental pollution is […]