SDSU/Compaq Computational Science Meeting

Saturday, September 9, 2000

Program

 

Welcoming Remarks, D. Short,  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

8:30 am

 

Keynote Address,  N. Marlin, Provost, San Diego State University

8:40 am

 

Keynote Address,  O. Cook, Compaq Computers Corporation

8:50 am

 

 

Scientific Program

 

 

Chair: J. Elwin,  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

 

Numerical Simulations of the Kuramoto-Shivashinski Equations,

A. Palacios, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

9:00 am

 

Initial Flow Field of Stratified Fluid Past an Impulsively Started Sphere,

C. Torres, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

9:15 am

 

Steady-State Diffusion Problems on Nontrivial Domains: Support Operators Method Integrated with Direct Optimization Grid Generation Algorithms,

T. McGuinness, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

9:30 am

 

A Structural Diffusion Approach to Labelling Rows and Columns in an Irregular Array,

J. Rose, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

9:45 am

 

Performance Evaluation of SDSU Beowulf Cluster,

C. Curlango,  Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

10:00 am

 

Coffee Break

10:15 am

 

Chair: P. Etzel,  Department of Astronomy

 

Polluting Stars During Planet Formation,

E. Sandquist, Department of Astronomy

10:45 am

 

Eclipse Modeling of Cataclysmic Variable Star, 

A. Shafter, Department of Astronomy

11:00 am

 

Simulation of Hard-Sphere Fluid Confined in a Cylindrical Pipe,

D. Allison, Department of Physics

11:15 am

 

Ab Initio Potentials and the Equation of State of Helium at High Pressure, S. Y. Chang, Department of Physics

11:30 am

 

Density of States for Generalized Eigenvalue Problem,

H. Shore, Department of Physics

11:45 pm

 

Lunch Break

12:00 pm

 

Chair: R. Lilly, Department of Physics

 

Adhesive Energy of Polymer-Silicate Interfaces,

A. Baljon, Department of Physics

2:00 pm

 

The Pentadienyl Cyclization Reaction,

C. Martinez, Department of Chemistry

2:15 pm

 

Search for Conjugation in Substitutes Tolans,

A. Cooksy, Department of Chemistry

2:30 pm

 

Coffee Break

3:00 pm

 

Chair: S. Roeder, Department of Physics

 

Cardiac Cell Calcium Diffusion Simulation, 

M. Marlowe, Department of Biology

3:30 pm

 

New Insight into the Structure and Function of Mithocondria From Electron Microscope Tomography,

T. Frey, Department of Biology

3:45 pm

 

A Thermodynamic Model to Predict the Folding of the Inner Membrane of the Mithocondria,

C. Renken, Departments of Biology

4:00 am