{"52433":{"#nid":"52433","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CSE Seminar: Professor Michael Leamy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoPlainText\u0022\u003EMichael Leamy\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoPlainText\u0022\u003EFor more information please contact Dr. Richard Fujimoto at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:fujimoto@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Efujimoto@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoPlainText\u0022\u003E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Multi-Scale Protein Modeling and Cellular Automata: Two Opportunities for Collaboration\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis talk will discuss two M\u0026amp;S research directions being pursued by the speaker in the GWW School of Mechanical Engineering. \u00a0Both approaches are explicit and time-marching in nature, and should therefore be amenable to parallelization strategies (and thus collaboration). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first part of the talk will detail a multi-scale physics-based modeling approach for simulating protein dynamics. The multi-scale continuum formulation to be described uses an intrinsic continuum formulation, and subsequent finite element discretization, informed by interatomic potentials (commonly found in molecular dynamics simulations). In the current context, intrinsic refers to a description of the protein\u0027s configuration using curvatures and strains vice displacements and rotations. \u00a0The advantage of doing so is that highly-curved and twisted geometries associated with proteins in their native conformation can be accurately modeled with a sparse discretization. \u00a0This positively impacts the degrees of freedom required, and more importantly, the time step required for stability.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second part of the talk will discuss a Cellular Automata (CA)-based approach for simulating elastic wave propagation in structures. \u00a0By generalizing the cell shape to triangles, it will be shown that the approach has the same utility as the structural finite element method, with a number of advantages. \u00a0First, code development is greatly simplified and fits naturally with modern, object-oriented languages. \u00a0Second, all interactions are local and thus the method avoids the need for a central authority, easing parallelization. \u00a0Third, the discontinuous nature of the state representation appears to be responsible for more-accurate wavefront modeling than traditional finite element approaches. \u00a0Similar treatments are expected to perform as well with electromagnetic wave propagation, and could potentially be event-driven.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Leamy joined Georgia Tech in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. Prior, he was a Research Scientist in the Emerging Technology Office at the MITRE Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, and an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Leamy has also been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technion, Israel\u0027s Institute of Technology, and a Research Associate at the NASA Langley Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYou are cordially invited to attend a reception between 1:30-2:00; before the seminar to chat informally with faculty and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERefreshments will be provided\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo receive future announcements, please sign up to the cse-seminar email list:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mailman.cc.gatech.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/cse-seminar\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/mailman.cc.gatech.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/cse-seminar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-11 15:51:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:49:43","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-09-18T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2009-09-18T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-09-18T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-09-18 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-09-18 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-09-18 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Lometa Mitchell","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}