Computer Science Research Institute

Title	Speaker	Date
Improving Time to Solution for a Parallel Particle-In-Cell Code	Dr. Matthew Bettencourt, University of California at Berkeley	April 7, 2011
Locality-centric optimizations of large-scale graph analysis on current architectures	Dr. Guojing Cong, IBM (T.J. Watson Research Center)	April 4, 2011
Modeling Complex Governance Networks: Scope of Research / Opportunities for Collaboration with Sandia Labs	Christopher Koliba, Ph.D. University of Vermont	April 1, 2011
Agent interaction topologies and the dynamics of information flow in complex adaptive systems.	Dr. Margaret J. Eppstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Vermont.	March 31, 2011
Coupled Flow Systems, Adjoint Techniques and Uncertainty Quantification	Vikram Garg, University of Texas at Austin	March 31, 2011
A Variable Charge Reactive Potential (COMB) for the Atomistic Simulations of Heterogeneous Interfaces	Dr. Tzu-Ray Shan, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida	March 31, 2011
Eigensolvers in Condensed Matter Physics, Condensed Matter Physics in Eigensolvers	Jonathan Moussa, University of Texas at Austin	March 29, 2011
A reduced molecular statics model	Professor Xiantao Li, Dept of Mathematics, Penn State University	March 28, 2011
Exascale Challenges for the Computational Science Community	Dr. Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	March 24, 2011
Model Order Reduction and Optimal Control applied to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics	Xiao Chen, Florida State University	March 7, 2011
Decision Making under Uncertainty:A Systems Analysis Perspective	Urmila Diwekar, Vishwamitra Research Institute	March 7, 2011
Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Modeling of Hypersonic Gas Phase and Gas-Surface Reactions	T. E. Schwartzentruber and P. Norman, University of Minnesota	Marh 3, 2011
Assessing motor performance in Parkinson's disease: Applications of hybrid control theory	Prof. Meeko Oishi, U. British Columbia	March 1, 2011
Organic-Inorganic Interfaces and Hole Trapping in Solids with Hybrid Density Functional Theory	Na Sai, University of Texas	February 22, 2011
Mining Billion-node Graphs	Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University	February 22, 2011
Optimal Uncertainty Quantification	Dr. Tim Sullivan California Institute of Technology	February 21, 2011
A New Paradigm for Robust Optimization: Using Persistence as a Theory of Evidence	Tod Morrison, University of Colorado, Denver	February 17, 2011
Determining Network Arc Capacities when Node Supplies and Demands Are Uncertain	Amy Cohn, University of Michigan, College of Engineering	February 16, 2011
Acceleration of Monte Carlo forward and Bayesian inverse solvers with approximate models	Ian Langmore, Columbia University	February 15, 2011
Pyramidal finite elements	Joel Phillips, Department of Mathematics, University College, London, United Kingdom	February 15, 2011
Mathematical Architecture for Models of Fluid Flow Phenomena	Alexander Labovsky, Florida State University	February 9, 2011
The Discontinuous Enrichment Method (DEM) for Multi-Scale Transport Problems	Irina Kalashnikova, Stanford University	February 7, 2011
Toward real-time analysis of large-scale nonlinear systems: a system-approximated Gauss-Newton model reduction method	Kevin Carlberg, Stanford University	February 1, 2011
Social Connectivity Optimization Problems on Random Graphs	Thomas M. DuBois, University of Maryland	January 31, 2011
Emulation, Adaptive Design, and Optimization Using Treed Gaussian Processes	Herbert Lee, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz	January 26, 2011
Simulation Validation Using Causal Inference Theory with Morphological Constraints	Dr. Bill Reynolds, LANL	January 25, 2011
CAE Model Idealization with Geometry Reasoning	Geoffrey Butlin, CEO TranscenData Europe Ltd, England	January 24, 2011
Models for Power Grid Optimization Problems under Uncertainty	Dr. Yongpei Guan, University of Florida	January 24, 2011
Current Work in Computer Vision and Large Data Analysis at Kitware Inc.	Will Schroeder, Anthony Hoogs, and Berk Geveci, Kitware, Inc.	January 20, 2011
Multi-scale Morse Theory for Science Discovery and Scalable Tools For Large Data Processing and Visualization: From Access on Handheld Devices to In-Situ Analysis	Chris Johnson, SCI Institute Director (Overview of SCI Institute) and Valerio Pascucci, SCI Institute (Technical Talks)	January 20, 2011
Models for the brain cortex neuro-vascular response: circuits and random graphs	Peter C. Doerschuk, Cornell University	January 17, 2011
A Jacobian-Free Newton Krylov Method for Reactor Fuel Pellet/Cladding Interaction Problems	Glen Hansen, University of Idaho	January 5, 2011

2011 Seminars