SPRING 2003

CSI 899: SCS Colloquium

Thursdays 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE, version of 1/27/03

1/23 Short organizational session to determine enrollment & announce policy

1/30 Dr. Menas Kafatos, Dean of SCS: School of Computational Sciences Overview

and Recent Developments

2/6 Dr. George Withbroe, GMU SCS: Why Observe the Sun?

2/13 Dr. Sisir Roy, Indian Statistical Inst.: A Framework for Physics that can Include

the Planck Scale

2/20 TBD

2/27 Dr.Jay Boris, NRL: Use of Prepared Simulations of Hazardous Plumes

3/6 Dr. Chi Yang, GMU SCS: Hydrodynamic Optimization Using Integrated CFD Tools

3/13 Spring break; NO MEETING

FRI. 3/21, 10 a.m. Hon. Dr. Kathie Olsen, US OSTP: Science and Education Policy Issues in Today's World, to be held in Harris Theatre. NOTE DIFFERENT DAY, TIME & PLACE

3/27 Dr. Zhi Wang,SCS: A recursive dynamic computable "general equilibrium" framework and its application to estimating the impact of China's recent entry into the WTO.

4/3 TBD bioinformatics talk

4/10 Dr.Estela Blaisten-Barojas, GMU SCS: Developing Computational Models of

Molecular Clusters

4/17 Dr. Chao-Wei Yang, GMU SCS: Distributed Geographic Information Computing

4/24 Dr. David Lindsay, SUN: Performance of Large Data Storage & Access Systems

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