As Boston University is closing today at 3PM, this seminar will no 
longer be available at 111 Cummington Street. Our apologies for any 
inconvenience.

Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:
>   
>         High Fidelity Simulations & Enabling Technologies: 
>    State-of-the-art, State-of-the-practice & Future Directions 
>            February 14, 2007, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST 
>   Access Grid Conference Facility, 111 Cummington Street, Room B17 
>        http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/events/02-14-2007.html 
>   
>  Presented over the Access Grid by Dr. Bharat Soni, Professor and Chair  
>  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama in  
>  Birmingham (UAB), courtesy of the Minority Serving institutions Network. 
>   
>  RSVP: accessgrid@bu.edu 
>   
>  With the advent and rapid development of high performance computing and  
>  communication (HPCC) and robust and efficient mathematical/numerical  
>  algorithms, computational field simulation (CFS) has rapidly emerged as  
>  an essential tool for scientific, engineering, and biomedical analysis  
>  and design environment. This has fundamentally changed the way  
>  underlying principles of science and engineering are applied to  
>  research, design, and development. For example, computational fluid  
>  dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) techniques,  
>  traditionally used in fluid mechanics and structural mechanics problems  
>  involving aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, automotive, and heat and mass  
>  transfer applications, are now being applied to electromagnetic,  
>  bio-engineering, bio-medical, semi-conductor, atmospheric science,  
>  environmental and civil transport, and other physical field problems. In  
>  response to this paradigm change, integration of experiments,  
>  simulations and theory encompassing micro/nano technology,  
>  Biotechnology, information technology, and ecology/energy have became  
>  the education and R&D emphasis of this century. In this respect, an  
>  interdisciplinary group of engineering, computer and information  
>  science, physics, biology, chemistry, public health and medicine faculty  
>  from University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has formed a  
>  collaborative team to address emerging multidisciplinary applications. 
>   
>  The progress realized in the development of high fidelity simulation  
>  (HFS) algorithms and associated enabling technologies (ET) for this  
>  endeavor will be presented. Emphasis will be placed on providing the  
>  current state-of-the-art (SOA) and the state-of-the-practice (SOP)  
>  associated with all aspects of computational field simulations involving  
>  pre-processing (geometry-mesh generation, boundary conditions and  
>  problem set-up), processing (numerical solution of pertinent set of  
>  non-linear partial differential equations representative of the science  
>  of the field to be simulated), and post-processing (visualization and  
>  feature detection). The tools and technology developed by the presenter  
>  and his group will be discussed with computational examples of practical  
>  interest. In particular, the concentration will be placed on the current  
>  and future directions in research and development and education. 
>   
>   

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