<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3042995039860170463WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.sdsualumni.org/controls/email_marketing/admin/email_marketing_email_viewer.aspx?sid=997&gid=6&eiid=7507&seiid=0&puid=%5bMUID%5d" title="View this email in your browser." target="_blank"><span style="color:#c41230">View this email in a web page</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><table class="m_-3042995039860170463MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <img border="0" width="1017" height="115" id="m_-3042995039860170463Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D33E8F.35014F00" alt="https://adminlb.imodules.com/s/997/images/editor/csrc-alumni/csrcbanner_jpg.jpg"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">DATE: </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Friday, October 20, 2017</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">TITLE:  </span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Computation and Modeling of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">in the Highly Non-Linear Regime</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">TIME: </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">3:30PM</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">LOCATION: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">GMCS 314</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">SPEAKER:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">  <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Drs. Brittany Lynn and Pei-Fang Wang, </span></strong><b><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (Navy)</span></strong></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">ABSTRACT:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Major technological advances have been made in the last decade in pulsed lasers.  Lasers with tens of femtosecond pulse duration have been commercialized in relatively ruggedized single enclosure systems capable of producing watts of average power.  These energy densities on the order of GW peak powers can trigger various linear and non-linear processes, leading to self-guided propagation and dense plasma creation in air and condensed media.  The free-electrons in these plasma regions have been shown to reach densities up to 10¹⁶ /cm³ in sea-level atmospheric conditions and stable plasma filaments have been created extending over 100’s of meters.  </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Supporting applications of these lasers with predictive models is a difficult task as computational propagation of high power, short pulse lasers with arbitrary beam profiles is highly complex.  These types of models require high resolution of a 3-dimensional volume propagated through time and include broadband non-linear effects of the media with which they are interacting.  Add in turbulence and statistical beam effects and the system can quickly become computationally unwieldy. This talk will describe recent work in simulating the Ultra Short Pulse Laser propagation and the resulting non-linear effects, including the creation of plasma as well as various experimental laboratory results.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">HOST: <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Ricardo Carretero</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Dr. Jose E. Castillo<br>Director/Professor<br>Computational Science Research Center<br>5500 Campanile Drive<br>San Diego State University<br>San Diego, CA  92182-1245<br>(619) 59407205/3430, FAX <a href="tel:(619)%20594-2459" value="+16195942459" target="_blank">(619) 594-2459</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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<p>Jose E. Castillo  Ph.D.</p><p>Director / Professor </p>
<p>Computational Science Research Center</p>
<p>5500 Campanile Dr</p>
<p>San Diego State University</p>
<p>San Diego CA 92182-1245</p>
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