College of Science & Mathematics

IRIS

– Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Sciences – Research – Seminars

Seminars

Upcoming Activities

To be announced.

Past Seminars

Date	Title
11/03/2017	Ultrasonic Waves and their Applications Christoph Schaal, Department of Mechanical Engineering (CSUN)
11/17/2017	The Use of Viscous Fluids for the Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Contaminants Scott Hauswirth, Department of Geological Sciences (CSUN)
12/01/2017	The problem of water spatial variation under active human landscape modification Mario Giraldo, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies(CSUN)

Date	Title
02/17/2017	Frozen in Time? Using Big Data to Understand the Relationship Between Permafrost Life, Climate Change, and Astrobiology Rachael Mackelprang, Department of Biology (CSUN)
03/17/2017	Nonlinear Waves in Lattices Yannan Shen, Department of Mathematics
04/28/2017	An Overview of Global Climate Change: Science and Politics David Klein, Department of Mathematics(CSUN)

Date	Title
03/27/2015	Salmonella in your salad: when a healthy diet has an unintended outcome Kerry Cooper, IRIS and Department of Biology
04/13/2015	An adhesive organelle confers competitive advantage for bacterial colonization during Rhizobium-legume symbiosis Joseph Chen, IRIS and San Francisco State University
04/24/2015	DNA, drug design and salty water - three tales of modeling with 3D-RIS Tyler Luchko, IRIS and Department of Physics and Astronomy

Date	Title
10/24/2014	Putting Metallic Glasses to Work Simon Garrett, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry California State University, Northridge
11/07/2014	The Geometry and Physics of Viruses William Gelbart, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles
12/05/2014	Regression, Density Estimation, and the Uniform Laws of Large Numbers with Missing Data, and Other Good Stories Majid Mojirsheibani, Ph.D. Department of Mathematics California State University, Northridge

Date	Title
2/12/2014	Signal and image analysis using the discrete spectrum of a Schrodinger Operator T.-M. Laleg-Kirati Applied Mathematics and Computational Science King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
2/21/2014	Energy for the Future Director of the Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications at the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal, Canada
3/21/2014	How radiation influences hurricanes Robert Fovell Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of California, Los Angeles
4/23/2014	The Therapeutic Potential of Tumor-Targeted Salmonella David Bermudes, Department of Biology & IRIS, California State University, Northridge
4/25/2014	Increasing CO2 Measurement Accuracy Through Aerosol Validation; Work on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 Two CSUN student speakers: Matt Levy, Cord Perillo
5/05/2014	Multi-time-delay LSE-POD complementary approach applied to unsteady high Reynolds number near wake flows Vibhav Durgesh, Mechanical Engineering California State University, Northridge

Date	Title
1/15/2013	Dynamics of Droplets inside a Hydrophobic Air Flow Channel of a PEM Fuel Cell under Different Conditions of Flow and Gravity Abhijit Mukherjee Department of Mechanical Engineering, CSUN

Date	Title
02/14/2013	GRACE: Measuring Global Climate Change with Gravity Michael Watkins, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics System Group, JPL
02/14/2013	Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know Riley Duren, The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2013, JPL
02/15/2013	Geoengineering and Climate Intervention: What We Need to Know Riley Duren, The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2013, JPL
04/26/2013	Milankovitch Cycles and the Earth's Climate John Baez, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside

Date	Title
09/21/2012	Climate Effects of Combustion and Dust Aerosols in Snow Charlie Zender, University of California, Irvine
09/28/2012	Benefits and Challenges of High Spatial Resolution in Climate Model James Kinter, Director, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies George Mason University
10/05/2012	The Mathematics of Paleoclimate Reconstructions Julien Emile-Geary, Department of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California
10/12/2012	The Educational Global Climate Modeling Project (EdGCM) Mark Chandler, Columbia University, NASA/GISS
10/25/2012	Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth from tobacco to global warming Naomi Oreskes, UC San Diego
11/02/2012	Mid-Century Climate Change in the Los Angeles Region Alex Hall, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA

Date	Title
02/14/2011	GRACE: Measuring Global Climate Change with Gravity Michael Watkins, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics System Group, JPL

Date	Title
09/07/2011	Improving Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts Robert Fovell, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of California, Los Angeles
10/07/2011	The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) Mission Annmarie Eldering , Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
11/04/2011	Improving Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts Observations of carbon dioxide from space: What can we measure and how do we validate? Greg Osterman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
11/30/2011	Turbulence, Clouds and Climate: Tackling the Largest Uncertainty in Climate Change Projections Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
12/02/2012	Analysing NASA's satellite data: Application to Forest Fires Vicki Drake, Santa Monica College

Date	Title
02/14/2011	Tinker-Toy Model in Climate Science David Klein, IRIS and Department of Mathematics
02/21/2011	Aerosols, clouds, and climate Daniel Curtis, IRIS and Department of Chemistry
02/28/2011	Aspects of Atmospheric Radiation Cristina Cadavid, IRIS and Department of Physics/Astronomy
03/07/2011	A review of global warming Helen Cox, Sustainability Institute and Department of Geography
03/14/2011	A review of global warming, observations and models, part 2 Helen Cox, Sustainability Institute and Department of Geography
03/21/2011	Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere Helen Cox, Sustainability Institute and Department of Geography
04/11/2011	The nature of water ice and its effects on moons and planets Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley
04/25/2011	Solar Irradiance Var Dora Preminger, Department of Physics & Astronomy
05/09/2011	Modeling Solar Influence on Atmospheric Circulation John Lawrence, Department of Physics & Astronomy