Computational Science Invited Seminars

Spring Semester, 2006

Sponsored by: The Grad Minor in Computational Science

AERSP 597B (1 Credit), 158 Willard Building, Mondays, 3:35 - 4:50
(Lecture: 3:35 - 4:25, Informal Discussions: 4:25 - 4:50)

Coordinator: Prof. Lyle N. Long ( lnl at psu.edu )

This course will present the research of fourteen prominent computational science researchers. The goal will be to have each speaker discuss the latest research in their technical areas. We plan to have speakers from areas such as engineering, physics, chemistry, meteorology, information science, computer science, business, bioinformatics, neuroscience, applied math, etc. After each seminar, there will be time for the audience to have informal discussions with the speakers. This will (eventually) be a required couse for the future Graduate Minor in Computational Science, and can be used now for the High Performance Computing Graduate Minor degree. (see also the ICS Fall Course )

Outline
LECTURE
NO.
DATE TITLE
(click on title to see slides)
SPEAKER
(email: @ psu.edu)
ORGANIZATION
1 Jan. 9 Computing with Spikes in Recurrent Neural Networks Dezhe Jin
(dzj2)
Physics
2 Jan. 23 Computational Chemistry Barbara Garrison
(bjg)
Chemistry
3 Jan. 30 Computational Models for Perceptual and Cognitive Functioning Michael Wenger
(mjw19)
Psychology
5 Feb. 13 Collisions of Black Holes and Neutron Stars Pablo Laguna
(pxl8)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
6 Feb. 20 Poly-Pattern Processes for Image Segmentation and
Compression: Images, Maps, and Mosaics
Wayne Myers
(wlm)
Agricultural Sciences
7 Feb. 27 The comparative genomics of honeybee spliceosomal RNAs Wojciech Makalowski
(wxm23)
Biology
8 Mar. 13 Quantum Monte Carlo James Anderson
(jba)
Chemistry
9 Mar. 20 The role of modeling in systems biology Reka Albert
(rza1)
Physics
10 Mar. 27 Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Jorge Sofo
(jos13)
Physics
11 Apr. 3 Large-scale Image Retrieval and Automatic Linguistic
Indexing of Pictures
James Wang
(jzw11)
IST
12 Apr. 10 Generalized Function Theory F. Farassat
(NASA)
NASA Langley
13 April 17 Parallelizing the Monte Carlo Markov Chain Algorithm,
with Applications in Finance and Marketing
John Liechty
(jcl12)
Business
14 Apr. 24 A Self Organizing Real-time Controller David Russell
(rzn)
Penn State
Great Valley

Grading: Tentatively, grades will be determined as : 75% student-maintained journal of lectures and 25% class participation and questions. Each student will be required to keep a journal of the presentations, including speaker name, title, subject, talk outline, key points of lecture, references, questions you had, etc. The summary for each seminar must be at least one page of text (1 inch margins, 12 point font, single spacing), with any figures, tables, etc. on additional pages. These journals will be evaluated at the end of the semester.

Click Here to see a List of Seminars from Previous Years


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