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LI/LA-SiGMA Seminar Series

The LONI Institute/LA-SiGMA seminar series started in September 2010 and is designed to provide a strong platform for interactions between various elements of the Loni Institute and LA-SiGMA . It is also expected to improve the general research atmosphere, and provide Louisiana researchers a greater exposure to cutting edge methodologies. The seminars are being conducted on a revolving basis where the participating sites take their turn in hosting a speaker. Out of state speakers are also welcome as they can contribute strongly to broader goals of the LONI Institute and LA-SiGMA. This semester, the talks were coordinated in Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 by Bhupender Thakur and Dr. Dentcho Genov , respectively. It is currently being managed by a committee comprising, Sumeet Dua (LA Tech, Chair), Lawrence Pratt (Tulane), Dimitris Nikitopoulos (LSU), and Ward Plummer (LSU).

The talks are broadcast over the Access Grid and are open to all sites. The talks are meant to bring a greater degree of cohesion and a better collaborative atmosphere. Below you can find a list of current and prior seminars. Please check back for constant updates on speakers and locations. LA-SiGMA is also facilitating an upgrade of HD devices so that in future, these talks can be better disseminated.

The seminar schedule for Fall 2011 will be available shortly. Please send any suggestions for speakers to committee members mentioned above.

Schedule | SPRING 2011

January 2011
Date/Time Speaker Title
Jan 26
1 p.m.
Live at LATech		 Sven-Bodo Scholz "How to have your cake and eat it too: High-Productivity and High-Performance with Multicores"
February 2011
Feb 22
2 p.m.
Live at LSU		 Piers Coleman "Composite and hidden order in f-electron materials and the lessons we are learning"
March 2011
March 15
2 p.m.
Live at LSU		 Steven O. Nielsen "Adaptive multiscale molecular dynamics simulations of soft matter"
March 29
2 p.m.
Live at LATech		 Jianliang Qian "Fast algorithms for high frequency waves and applications in kinetic inverse problems"
April 2011
April 12
2 p.m.
Live at LSU		 Les Butler "3D+ X-ray and Neutron Imaging in Materials Science for Energy: Hydrogen Storage and Batteries"
April 26
2 p.m.
Live at UNO 		Dr. Jake Y. Chen "Computational drug discovery using translational bioinformatics tools"
May 2011
May 10
2 p.m.
Live at LSU		 Wei Ku "What do the rich magnetic structures of iron-based superconductors teach us about their electronic structure?"
May 24
2 p.m.
Live at LATech		 Le Zhang "Using multi-scale and multi-resolution model with Graphics processing Unit (GPU) to simulate real-time actual cancer progression"
Jun 2011
Jun 1
2 p.m.
Live at UNO		 Valeri Petkov "Nanostructure by high-energy XRD and atomic pair distribution functions"

Schedule | FALL 2010

September 2010
Date/Time Speaker Title
Sep 9
Live at LSU		 D. Moldovan "Atomistic Simulation Studies Of Interfacial Phenomena In Biomolecular Systems"
Sep 16
Live at LATech		 S. Dua "Robust Data Mining and Fusion CyberTools for Knowledge Discovery"
Sep 30
Live at SUBR		 D. Bagayoko "A Mathematical Solution to the Theoretical Underestimation of Energy and Band Gaps and Applications to the Search of Novel Materials"
October 2010
Oct 7
Live at ULL		 C. Christov "In the search of of 2D Boussinesq solutions: a numerical approach"
Oct 21
Live at SUBR		 M. Gao "Developing High-Temperature Alloys for Fossil Energy Applications"
November 2010
Nov 4
Live at Tulane 		V. Kolesnichenko "Iron Oxide Molecular Clusters as Building Blocks of Non-volatile Memory"
Nov 9
Live at Tulane 		T. Bishop "Many Big Jobs: Computing in the eXtreme Digital Era"
Nov 18
Live at UNO 		S. Patel "Recent Progress In Development And Application Of Non-Additive Interaction Models For Molecular Simulations Of Biophysical And Physicochemical Systems"
December 2010
Dec 9
Live at LSU 		V. Lubchenko " The intrinsic midgap electronic states in semiconductor glasses "

Broadcast locations

LASiGMA members can obtain more information about the series or formalize a talk, through their local point-of-contact.
Site Event Location Contact
Louisiana State University 338 Johnston Hall bthakur AT cct.lsu.edu
Louisiana Tech University 234 Nethken Hall khaliq AT latech.edu
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Abdalla Hall, Cajun dome Blvd raju AT louisiana.edu
Tulane University 403 Stanley Thomas Hall fuji AT tulane.edu
The University of New Orleans SC 2002 sylvia AT cs.uno.edu
Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge 218 J. B. Moore Hall shizhong_yang AT subr.edu