School of Computational Sciences Colloquia, Fall ‘03

Thursdays, 4:30 p.m., ST 1 room 206

Tentative schedule as of 10/02/03

8/28: William Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography,

On the role of air-sea fluxes on extratropical storms

9/4: Mike Lovellette, NRL, Fault-tolerant computing experiments on

the Argos satellite

9/11: Hank Wolf, GMU CEOSR, Virginia Access – Middle Atlantic

geospatial information consortium (Opportunities and practical lessons from the VAccess program)

9/18: Hurricane Isabel cancellation. Talk postponed to Dec. 4.

9/25: Larry Ludeking, Mission Research Corp.

Ten years of microwave source development with the MAGIC Code (tentative title)

Special Colloquium FRIDAY 9/26, 4:00 pm: PAUL R. HOUSER; Head, Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA-GSFC. Title TBA

10/2: Markos Georganopolis, University of Ioanina, Greece

Hot spots in FR II radio galaxies (tentative title)

10/9: Leland Tarnay, National Park Service & GMU Affiliate Faculty

air pollution modeling, title tba.

10/16: Viktor Yakovenko, University of Maryland, Statistical mechanics of money, income and wealth

10/23: Rudy Krutar, The Rabi quantum computing

10/30: Neal Carron (MRC Santa Barbara), Interaction of charged particles with solid matter

11/6: Stacy McGaugh, University of Maryland Dept. of Astronomy,

Dark matter & dark energy: gravity as we know it?

11/13: Karla Hoffman, GMU IT&E, Dynamic event reprogramming

11/20: John Qu, GMU CEOSR, "Computational satellite remote

sensing -- from EOS to NPOESS missions"

11/27: Thanksgiving

12/4: Avrama Blackwell, SCS & Krasnow Institute,

Why are both Unconditioned Stimulus and Conditioned Stimulus required for associative learning?