[Faculty] Fwd: [CSRC-SDSU COLLOQUIUM]: Scientific computing for movie special effects and virtual surgery

[Jose Castillo]

DATE: Friday, September 6th, 2013

TITLE: Scientific computing for movie special effects and virtual surgery

TIME: 3:30 PM
LOCATION: GMCS 214

SPEAKER: Joseph M. Teran. Department of Mathematics at UCLA

I will talk about some exciting new applications of scientific computing
for solid and fluid mechanics problems including the simulation of virtual
materials for moviespecial effects, video game effects and virtual surgery.
These new applications all have an increasing demand for physically
realistic dynamics of materials like water, smoke, fire, brittle objects,
elastic objects, etc. The computational demands arising in these
applications are somewhat different than those traditionally considered
byscientific computing researchers and many new algorithms are needed to
address them. I will discuss these new scientific computing challenges as
well as some recent algorithms developed in my lab to address them. Virtual
surgery is a particularly exciting application area. A virtual surgery
simulator is like a flight simulator for training surgeons (and would-be
surgeons) in modern procedures. I will discuss procedures related to repair
and manipulation of soft-tissues. Other topics discussed will include GPU
and manycore algorithms for real-time solution of nonlinear elliptic
equations arising in elasticity problems and in incompressible flow,
cut-cell methods for higher-order accuracy on structured grids and contact
algorithms for thin structures.

HOST: Dr. Jose Castillo

For future events, please visit our website at:

http://www.csrc.sdsu.edu/colloquium.html



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Jose E. Castillo  Ph.D.

Director / Professor

Computational Science Research Center

5500 Campanile Dr

San Diego State University

San Diego CA 92182-1245

619 5947205/3430, Fax 619-594-2459

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