<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-8522521340029800679WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <img width="1017" height="115" id="m_-8522521340029800679Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3524E.E54B7250" alt="https://adminlb.imodules.com/s/997/images/editor/csrc-alumni/csrcbanner_jpg.jpg"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">DATE:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <b>Friday, December 1, 2017</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><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"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">TITLE:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">An Information Theoretic Approach for Computing Spatial Heat<br>Maps from Time Series Data<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">TIME:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <b>3:30PM</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><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"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">LOCATION:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> <b> </b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">GMCS 314</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><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"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">SPEAKER:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Willy Wriggers, Ph.D, <br> Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering<br>and Institute of Biomedical Engineering<br>Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">ABSTRACT:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">We are developing statistical analytics for generating spatial heat maps that visualize the importance of local channel recordings to global processes. The maps are created by information matching of fast and slow degrees of freedom arising in the highly resolved time series data. We are currently applying this technology to diverse research fields, for example to the mapping of spoken language production and perception patterns in the human brain. The heat maps locate time-dependent patterns on the brain of epilepsy patients who had an intracranial EEG electrode arrays implanted on the cortex. The analytics is also applied to the detection of biochemically relevant activity centers in molecular dynamics computer simulations of atomic protein structures. Our novel Balanced Adaptive Density Estimation (BADE) approach solves the general problem of how to efficiently estimate the probability density function of very unevenly sampled random variables arising in our mutual information calculations. Since the method is of general applicability, we expect our heat map technology to be generally useful for applications in all scientific and engineering application domains where time-dependent signals should be transformed to spatial maps, such as in geophysics, signal processing and econometrics. BADE is freely distributed with our TimeScapes analytics package at URL </span><a href="http://timescapes.biomachina.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">http://timescapes.biomachina.<wbr>org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><img border="0" width="360" height="248" id="m_-8522521340029800679Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D35C71.AD1A05E0" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01D35C71.AD1A05E0"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">BIO:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><pre style="text-align:justify"><span class="m_-8522521340029800679apple-style-span"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dr. Wriggers earned a Ph.D. in </span></span><span class="m_-8522521340029800679apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">P</span></span><span class="m_-8522521340029800679apple-style-span"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">hysics </span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 199</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">8</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">H</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">e held postdoctoral positions in </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">E</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">lectron </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">M</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">icroscopy (Scripps Research Institute) as well as </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">T</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">heoretical </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">C</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">hemistry (University of California, San Diego). In 1999 he was appointed Assistant Professor at The Scripps Research Institute. In 2003</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">,</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> he moved to the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, where he earned tenure as Associate Professor of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Biomedical Informatics</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> and </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">M</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">olecular </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">M</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">edicine. In 2007 he joined the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">private </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">D. E. Shaw Research laboratory in New York City, where he participated in the historic millisecond length molecular dynamics simulation on the <i>Anton</i> special purpose supercomputer. In 2014</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">,</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> he returned to a</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">n</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> academic position as Frank Batten </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">P</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">rofessor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">ODU.<u></u><u></u></span></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">HOST: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thomas Rockwell</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><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:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><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:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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