SIAM @ Purdue

SIAM Callouts and Elections

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:52:50 +0000

It is time for us all to gather to review what SIAM is, what we want it to do for us, and who will help out this year. That’s right, it is time for our annual SIAM callouts and elections. Please come out and drag your friends. It will be this Friday (9/3/2010) from 5:30-6:30pm in Lawson 1106.

Meet your peers and talk about what you would like to see from SIAM this year.

Update on upcoming talks

bhill — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:08:29 +0000

There are still two more talks this semester that SIAM @ Purdue will co-host with the CS&E/CLS program. Here’s the details,

4PM April 23rd, Lilly Hall 3118	Darion Grant,CE PhD Candidate	LEAST-SQUARES WITH EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS FOR POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION	Abstract
4PM April 28th, Lilly Hall 3118	Eric Cox, Civ Eng PhD Candidate	Numerical and Statistical Methods for Lagrangian Actinometry	Abstract

Refreshments will be provided. See you there.

Co-hosted talks

bhill — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:39:10 +0000

There are two more talks this semester SIAM @ Purdue will co-host with the CS&E/CLS program. Here’s the details,

4PM April 14th, Lilly Hall 3118	Randy Smith,AAE PhD Candidate	Computational Studies of High Frequency Combustion Instability	Abstract
4PM April 28th, LWSN 3-118	Eric Cox, Civ Eng PhD Candidate	Numerical and Statistical Methods for Lagrangian Actinometry	Abstract

Refreshments will be provided. See you there.

Thank you to everyone

bhill — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:17:46 +0000

We want to thank all the students who made CSESC 2010 a success. The posters were interesting and the talks educational. We had students from departments across the university sharing and discussing their work. Thank you to our judges, volunteers, participants, and attendees.

For those interested here are two links to photos from the conference:

Gallery 1 Gallery 2

For those who want a copy of the program, here is the PDF.

Registration is now closed, see you at the conference!

bhill — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:40:52 +0000

Registration is now closed. If you applied, you have been accepted. We have over 50 student participating in this year’s conference and 13 science and engineering department represented. The speaker schedule is now listed as a part of the conference schedule.

We will see you tomorrow on the 1st. Enjoy!

Deadline for April 1st CSE Student Conference registration now March 29th

bhill — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:15:32 +0000

Due to the last minute approval of the conference prizes we have decided to extend the registration deadlines a couple more days. There will be $100 prize for the best poster. Another $100 raffle prize for those who give a talk. And finally a $50 prize to the student with the best science and engineering related art entry. Attendees and participants also get dinner at Boiler Market after the conference.

So get your registration in by Monday, March 29th and be a part of the second annual Computational Science and Engineering Student Conference. All departments are welcome. Graduate and undergraduates are both welcome.

Registration deadline extended!

bhill — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:33:30 +0000

We’ve been asked by several student to extend the registration deadline for the second annual Computational Science and Engineering Student Conference. You’ve asked and we’ve listened. The deadline is now Friday, March 26th. That is this Friday! Don’t put it off, sign up now. Just click to the left where it says conference registration. There will be cool posters, art, talks, dinner, and prizes. Don’t miss out!

CSE/CLS & SIAM hosted talk

bhill — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:05:47 +0000

Title: Computational Hemodynamics: Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease

Speaker: Steven Frankel

Date & Location: 4:00pm 3/24/2010 Lily Hall 3118

Abstract:
Cardiovascular disease is the single leading cause of death in America today. Estimates from the AHA for the year 2006 are that 81,100,000 people in the United States have one or more forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD). In addition, and no less important, thousands of infants born each year have congenital cardiovascular defects. Advances in mathematical models, numerical methods, medical imaging, and computational power have increased the role of computational hemodynamics in increasing insight into complex biofluid flows and aiding in the design and testing of medical devices.

In this talk, the primary focus is on the treatment of single functional ventricle as the leading cause of death from any birth defect in the first year of life. Currently, repair is performed in a complex series of 3 staged operations which are notorious for instability and mortality. The endpoint of repair is a univentricular Fontan circulation, in which the vena cavae are connected to the pulmonary artery. Because there is no right-sided ventricular power source, venous return is profoundly altered and preload to the single ventricle is suboptimal. We hypothesize that a means of augmenting existing Fontan cavopulmonary flow through the lungs would reverse these problems and produce a more stable two-ventricle physiology. We report computational results based on a breakthrough innovation, a so-called viscous impeller pump, which potentially solves this significant medical challenge.

The secondary focus of this talk is on the use of high-fidelity computer simulations to provide insight into the often complex cardiovascular flow physics. Specifically, we consider the Fontan circulation described above and simulate the flow through the so-called total cavopulmonary connection using high-order spectral-element and finite-difference based CFD approaches. These approaches are also applied to simulate steady and pulsatile flows in idealized stenotic blood vessels which is related to the problem of atherosclerosis. Finally, extensions of these approaches to more realistic (patient-specific) vessel geometries and accompanying flows is discussed.

Computational Science & Engineering Student Conference 2010

bhill — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:30:13 +0000

That’s right, we’re at it again. It is 2010 and it is time for a new and improved student conference. Mark April 1 on your calendar, for that afternoon will be this years interdisciplinary student research showcase. Grab anyone you know using computational methods in their research and get them to talk, submit a poster, or even their science or engineering related artwork.

We’ll be posting the flyer and details shortly. Sign up will open up soon!

Participate in SIAM Student Days

bhill — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:09:51 +0000

In addition, our chapter has been invited to participate in Student Days on
Tuesday, July 13 and Wednesday, July 14 as part of the 2010 SIAM Annual Meeting
in Pittsburgh on July 12-16, 2010. One student of our chapter can present a
paper. We will cover your travel expenses!!

Everyone who has already published a paper or is in the process of publishing
one and who wants to get this invited paper on their resume. They should send an
email with the paper to Jyoti Mathur (mathurj at purdue edu) before 15th of
February. We will accept PhD. students first but Master students papers are also
welcome.