Computational and Data Sciences

Department of Computational and Data Sciences

2008 Publications

 

 

Awards and Honors

Trammell S.A.,Griva, I., A. Spano, S. Tsoi, L. M. Tender, J. Schnur, and N. Lebedev. Annual Alan Berman Research Publication Award for the paper “Effects of Distance and Driving Force on Photoinduced Electron Transfer between Photosynthetic Reaction Centers and Gold Electrodes,” 2008.

 

Hendrickson, S., C. M. Putman, and J. R. Cebral. “Hemodynamics Analysis of a Cerebral Aneurysm Prior to its Rupture.” Best Poster Award of the 2008 Joint Mathematics Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America (Undergraduate Research Poster Competition). San Diego, CA, 2008.

 

Löhner, R. Elected Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics, 2008.

 

Wegman, E. J. Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2008.

 

Zhang, J. National Science Foundation Early Career Award, 2008.

  

Books and Edited Books

Löhner, R. Applied CFD Techniques. J. Wiley & Sons, 2008.  

  

Book Chapters and Sections

Borne, K. “Scientific Data Mining in Astronomy.” In Next Generation Data Mining, 91-114. Chapman & Hall, 2008.  

 

Borne, K. “The LSST Data Mining Research Agenda.” In Classification and Discovery in Large Astronomical Surveys (AIP), 347-351, 2008.  

 

Cebral, J. R., R. Löhner, S. Appanaboyina, and C. Putman. “Image-Based Computational Hemodynamics Methods and Their Application for the Analysis of Blood Flow Past Endovascular Devices.” In Biomechanical Systems Technology. World Scientific, 2008.  

 

Wegman, E. J., and Y. H. Said. “A Directed Graph Model of Ecological Alcohol Systems Incorporating Spatiotemporal Effects.” In COMPSTAT 2008, edited by P. Brito, 179-190, 2008.  

 

Wieczorek, W. F., Y. H. Said, and E. J. Wegman. “Spatial and Computational Models of Alcohol Use and Problems.” In COMPSTAT 2008, edited by P. Brito, 191-202, 2008.  

 

Journal Editorships

Bilitza, D., and B. Reinisch, eds. “International Reference Ionosphere and Solar Activity Variations.” Advances in Space Research 42 (2008).  

 

Cebral, J. R., ed. Editorial Board of Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering with Biomedical Applications (2008).  

 

Cebral, J. R., ed. Guest Editor of special issue on “Progress in Biomedical Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics” of the International Journal for Computational Fluid Dynamics (2008).  

 

Löhner, R., ed. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (2008).  

 

Papaconstantopoulos, D.A., ed. Philosophical Magazine (2008).  

 

Song, P., J. Foster, M. Mendillo, and D. Bilitza, eds. “Radio Sounding and Plasma Physics.” American Institute of Physics 974 (2008).  

 

Wegman, E. J., co-editor-in-chief. Encyclopedia of Computational Statistics.  

 

Wegman, E. J., co-editor. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics (2008).  

  

 

Journal Articles and Reviews

Appanaboyina, S., F. Mut, R. Löhner, E. Escrivano, C. Miranda, P. Lylyk, C. M. Putman, and J. R. Cebral. “Computational Modeling of Blood Flow in Side Arterial Branches after Stenting of Intracranial Aneurysms.” Int J CFD 22, no. 10 (2008): 669-676.  

 

Appanaboyina, S., F. Mut, R. Löhner, C. M. Putman, and J. R. Cebral. “Computational Fluid Dynamics of Stented Intracranial Aneurysms using Adaptive Embedded Unstructured Grids.” Int. J. Num. Methods Fluids 57, no. 5 (2008): 475-493.  

 

Aubry, R., and R. Löhner. “On the `Most Normal' Normal.” Comm. Num. Meth. Eng. 24 (2008): 1641-1652.  

Aubry, R., F. Mut, R. Löhner , and J. R. Cebral. “Deflated Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Solvers for the Pressure-Poisson Equation.” J. Comp. Phys. 227, no. 24 (2008): 10196-10208.   

 

Becker, P. A., S. Das, and T. Le. “Particle Acceleration and the Formation of Relativistic Outflows in Viscous Accretion Disks with Shocks.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 677 (2008): L93.  

 

Becker, P. A. “Spectral Formation in X-Ray Pulsars and Associated Identities Involving the Laguerre Polynomials.” Journal of Mathematical Physics 49 (2008): 33506.  

 

Bilitza, D., B. Reinisch, and J. Lastovicka. “Progress in Observation-Based Ionospheric Modeling.” Space Weather 6, no. S02002 (2008).  

 

Bilitza, D., and B.W. Reinisch. “International Reference Ionosphere 2007: Improvements and New Parameters.” J. Adv. Space Res. 42, no. 4 (2008): 599-609.  

 

Borne, K. D. “A Machine Learning Classification Broker for the LSST Transient Database.” Astronomische Nachrichten 329, no. 3 (2008).  

 

Cebral , J. R., M. A. Castro, C. M. Putman, and N. Alperin. “Flow-Area Relationship in Internal Carotid and Vertebral Arteries.” Physiol. Meas. 29 (2008): 585-594.  

 

Cheng, Y. Q., A. J. Cao, H. W. Sheng, and E. Ma. “Local Order Influences Initiation of Plastic Flow in Metallic Glass: Effects of alloy composition and sample cooling history.” Acta Materialia 56, no. 18 (2008): 5263-5275.  

Cheng, Y. Q., E. Ma, and H. W. Sheng. “Alloying Strongly Influences the Structure, Dynamics, and Glass Forming Ability of Metallic Supercooled Liquids.” Applied Physics Letters 93 (2008): 111913.  

 

Cheng, Y. Q., H. W. Sheng, and E. Ma. “Relationship between Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanical Properties in Metallic Glass-Forming Alloys.” Phys. Rev. B 78 (2008): 014207.

 

Chien, A., S. Tateshima, M. Castro, J. Sayre, J. R. Cebral, and F. Viñuela. “Patient-Specific Flow Analysis of Brain Aneurysms at a Single Location: Comparison of hemodynamic characteristics in small aneurysms.” Med Biol Eng Comput 46, no. 11 (2008): 1113-1120.

 

Chin, M. H., W. J. Qian, H. Wang, V. A. Petyuk, J. S. Bloom, D. M. Sforza, G. Laćan, et al. “Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Oxidative Stress, and Apoptosis Revealed by Proteomic and Transcriptomic Analyses of the Striata in Two Mouse Models of Parkinson's Disease.” Journal of Proteome Research 7 (2008): 666-677.  

 

Dai, Y., and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Energetics, Structure, and Charge Distribution of Reduced and Oxidized N-pyrrole Oligomers: A density functional approach.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 129 (2008): 164903.  

 

Dai, Y., and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Energetics, Structure, and Electron Detachment Spectra of Calcium and Zinc Neutral and Anion Clusters: A Density Functional Theory Study.” J. Phys. Chem. A 112, no. 44 (2008): 11052-11060.  

 

Dere, K. P. “The Plasma Filling Factor of Coronal Bright Points.” Astronomy and Astrophysics 491 (2008): 561-566.  

 

Economou, E. N., T. Koschny, and C. M. Soukoulis. “Strong Diamagnetic Response in Split-Ring-Resonator Metamaterials: Numerical study and two-loop model.” Phys. Rev. B 78 (2008): 92401.  

 

Griva, I., and R. Polyak. “1.5-Q-Superlinear Convergence of an Exterior-Point Method for Constrained Optimization.” Journal of Global Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization 40, no. 4 (2008): 679-695.  

 

Griva, I., D. Shanno, R. Vanderbei, and H. Benson. “Global Convergence of an Exterior-Point Method for Constrained Optimization.” Algorithmic Operations Research 3, no. 1 (2008): 12-29.

 

Gundogdu, T. F., N. Katsarakis, M. Kafesaki, R. S. Penciu, G. Konstantinidis, A. Kostopoulos, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis. “Negative Index Short-Slab Pair and Continuous Wires Metamaterials in the far Infrared Regime.” Optics Express 16, no. 12 (2008): 9173-9180.  

 

Lach-Hab, M. M., and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos. “The Effect of Spin-Orbit Coupling on the Band Structure of 5d Metals.” Philosophical Magazine 88 (2008): 2799.  

 

Lin, C.-C., E. Y. Noh, Y. Yan, and E. J. Wegman. “User Profiling in Window Title and Process Table.” Computing Science and Statistics, no. 36 (2008): 530-546.  

 

Löhner, R., J. R. Cebral, F. Camelli, S. Appanaboyina, J. D. Baum, E.L. Mestreau, and O. Soto. “Adaptive Embedded and Immersed Unstructured Grid Techniques.” Comp Meth Appl Mech Eng 197 (2008): 2173-2197.  

 

Löhner, R., S. Appanaboyina, and J. Cebral. “Comparison of Body-Fitted, Embedded and Immersed Solutions for Low Reynolds-Number Flows.” Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids 57, no. 1 (2008): 13-30.  

 

Löhner, R., S. Appanaboyina, and J. R. Cebral. “Parabolic Recovery of Boundary Gradients.” Comm. Num. Meth. Eng. 24 (2008): 1611-1615.  

 

Löhner, R., S. Appanaboyina, and J. R. Cebral. “Comparison of Body-Fitted, Embedded and Immersed Solutions of Low Reynolds-Number 3-D Incompressible Flows.” Int J Num Methods Fluids 57, no. 1 (2008): 13-30.  

 

Löhner, R., S. Appanaboyina, and J. R. Cebral. “Parabolic Recovery of Boundary Gradients.” Comm Num Meth Eng 24, no. 12 (2008): 1611-1615.  

 

Löhner, R., J. R. Cebral, F. Camelli, S. Appanaboyina, J. D. Baum, E.L. Mestreau, and O. Soto. “Adaptive Embedded and Immersed Unstructured Grid Techniques.” Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng. 197 (2008): 2173-2197.  

 

Löhner, R., H. Luo, J. D. Baum, and D. Rice. “Improvements in Speed for Explicit, Transient Compressible Flow Solvers.” Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids 56, no. 12 (2008): 2229-2244.  

 

Luo, H., J. D. Baum, and R. Löhner. “Fast p-Multigrid Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Compressible Flows at All Speeds.” AIAA J. 46, no. 3 (2008): 635-652.  

 

Luo, H., J. D. Baum, and R. Löhner. “On the Computation of Steady-State Compressible Flows Using a Discontinuous Galerkin Method.” Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., no. 73 (2008): 597-623.  

 

Martinez, W., A. Martinez, and E. J. Wegman. “Classification and Clustering using Weighted Text Proximity Matrices.” Computing Science and Statistics, no. 36 (2008): 600-611.  

 

Nixon, L., D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, and M. J. Mehl. “Electronic Structure and Superconducting Properties of Lathanum.” Phys. Rev. B 78 (2008): 214510.  

 

Noblesse, F., G. Delhommeau, and C. Yang. “The Rise of Water at a Ship Stem.” Journal of Ship Research 52 (June 2008): 80-101.  

 

Noblesse, F., G.E.R. Delhommeau, M. Guilbaud, D. Hendrix, and C. Yang. “Simple Analytical Relations for Ship Bow Waves.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 600 (2008): 105-132.  

 

Olmedo, O., J. Zhang, H. Wechsler, A. Poland, and K. Borne. “Automatic Detection and Tracking of Coronal Mass Ejections in Coronagraph Time Series.” Solar Physics 248, no. 2 (2008): 485-499.  

 

Penciu, R. S., K. Aydin, M. Kafesaki, T. Koschny, E. Ozbay, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis. “Multi-Gap Individual and Coupled Split-Ring Resonator Structures.” Optics Express 16, no. 22 (2008): 18131-18144.  

 

Perazzo, F., R. Löhner, and L. Perez-Pozo. “Adaptive Methodology for Meshless Finite Point Method; Advances in Engineering Software” 39 (2008): 156-166.  

 

Radaelli , A.G., L. Ausburger, J. R. Cebral, M. Ohta, D. A. Rüfenacht, R. Balossino, G. Benndorf, F. Mut, et al. “Reproducibility of Haemodynamical Simulations in a Subject-Specific Stented Aneurysm Model – A report on the Virtual Intracranial Stenting Challenge 2007.” J. Biomech 41, no. 10 (2008): 2069-2081.  

 

Reyen, S. S., J. J. Miller, and E. J. Wegman. “Separating a Mixture of Two Normals with Proportional Covariances.” Metrika (2008).  

 

Richardson, I. G., and J. Zhang. “Multiple-Step Geomagnetic Storms and Their Interplanetary Drivers.” Geophyiscal Research Letters 35, no. 6 (2008).  

 

Said, Y. H., and E. J. Wegman. “Modeling Spatiotemporal Effects for Acute Outcomes in an Alcohol System (abstract).” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 32, no. 6: 2008.  

 

Schmidt, M., D. Bilitza, C. K. Shum, and C. Zeilhofer. “Regional 4-D Modeling of the Ionospheric Electron Density.” J. Adv. Space Res. 42, no. 4 (2008): 782–790.  

 

Sheng, H. W., Y. Q. Cheng, P. L. Lee, S. D. Shastri, and E. Ma. “Atomic Packing in Multicomponent Aluminum-Based Metallic Glasses.” Acta Materialia 56, no. 20 (2008): 6264-6272.  

 

Solka, J., A. Bryant, and E. J. Wegman. “Identifying Cross Corpora Document Associations via Minimal Spanning Trees.” Computing Science and Statistics, no. 36 (2008): 952-961.  

 

Soukoulis, C. M., J. Zhou, T. Koschny, M. Kafesaki, and E. N. Economou. “The Science of Negative Index Materials.” Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 20, no. 30 (2008): 304217-304217.  

 

Tilch, R., A. Tabbal, M. Zhu, F. Decker, and R. Löhner. “Combination of Body-Fitted and Embedded Grids for External Vehicle Aerodynamics.” Engineering Computations 25, no. 1 (2008): 28-41.  

 

Tsoi, S., I. Griva, S. A. Trammell, A. S. Blum, J. M. Schnur, and N. Lebedev. “Electrochemically Controlled Conductance Switching in a Single Molecule: Quinone-Modified Oligo (phenylene vinylene).” ACS NANO 2, no. 6 (2008).  

 

Wang, Y., and J. Zhang. “A Statistical Study of Solar Active Regions that Produce Extremely Fast Coronal Mass Ejections.” Astrophyiscal Journal 680 (2008): 1516-1522.  

 

Wegman, E. J., and Y. H. Said. “Using Administrative Data to Estimate Cyclic Effects of Alcohol Usage (abstract).” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 32, no. 6 (2008).  

 

Yang, S., M. Lach-hab, I. Vaisman, and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Machine Learning Approach for Classification of Zeolite Crystals.” Proc. 2008 Int. Conf. Data Mining (ICDM) (2008): 702-706.  

 

Yang, C., and F. Noblesse. “A Practical Method for Predicting Sinkage and Trim.” International Journal of Polar and Offshore Engineering 18, no. 4 (December 2008): 288-291.  

 

Zhang, J., W. Poomvises, and I. G. Richardson. “Sizes and Relative Geoeffectiveness of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections and the Preceding Shock Sheaths during Intense Storms in 1996-2005.” Geophysical Research Letters 35, no. 2 (2008).  

 

Presentations and Proceedings

Arteaga-Gomez, J., R. Lohner, R. Aubry, J. Rojek, E. Onate, and P. Warsaw. “SIMPACT-FEFLO Coupling: Recent Advances.” 2008.

 

Aubry, R., and R. Lohner. “Extensions and Improvements of a RANS Grid Generator.” 2008.

 

Balakotaiah, V., and N. Malamataris. “Flow Visualization and Pattern Formation in Vertically Falling Liquid Films.” Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2008.

 

Baum, J. D., O. A. Soto, M. E. Giltrud, R. Löhner, C. Charman, J. Wolfson, G. Hegemeier, and K. Arnett. “Modeling of Steel Plate Response to Blast Loading Using a Coupled CFD/CSD Methodology.” Presented in Oslo, Norway, 2008.

 

Borne, K. “A Classification Broker for Petascale Sky Surveys.” Presented at the Practical Semantic Astronomy, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, 2008.

 

Borne, K. “Astroinformatics: The New eScience Paradigm for Astronomy Research and Education.” Presented at the AAPT Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2008.

 

Borne, K.  “Basic Concepts in Data Mining and Scientific Data Mining in Astronomy.” Presented at the National Virtual Observatory Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, 2008.

 

Borne, K.  “Data Science Challenges from Distributed Petascale Astronomical Sky Surveys.” Presented at the DOE Conference on Mathematical Analysis of Petascale Data, Rockville, MD, 2008.

 

Borne, K. “Data Science Challenges from Distributed Petabyte Astronomical Data Collections: Preparing for the Data Avalanche through Persistence, Parallelization, and Provenance.” Presented at the IEEE Mass Storage Symposium: Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data, Baltimore, MD, 2008.

 

Borne, K. “Scalable Scientific Data Mining in Distributed P2P Environments.” Presented at the AGU Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2008.

 

Borne, K., and J. Olsen. “Robotic Telescopes for Engaging Students in Real Research Experiences.” Presented at the AAPT Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2008.

 

Borne, K., J. Wallin, and R. Weigel. “The New Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) Undergraduate Program at George Mason University.” Presented at the AGU Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2008.

 

Camelli, F., J. R. Cebral, and R. Löhner. “Timings of an Unstructured-Grid CFD Code on Common Hardware Platforms and Compilers.” Presented at the 46th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, 2008.

 

Camelli, F., R. Lohner, J. R. Cebral, and E. L. Mestreau. “Timings of an Unstructured-Grid CFD Code on Common Hardware Platforms and Compilers.” 2008.

 

Castro, M. A., C. M. Putman, A. Radaelli, A. Frangi, and J. R. Cebral. “Image-based Investigation of Hemodynamics and Rupture of Cerebral Aneurysms of a Single Morphological Type: Terminal aneurysms.” Presented at the Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R. “Computational Hemodynamics of Cerebral Aneurysms.” Presented at the Neurosurgery Department, St. Marianna University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R. “Modeling Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics and their Treatment.” Presented at the Keio University International Symposium on Cellular Bioengineering, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R., and C. M. Putman. “Relating Wall Shear Stress, Bleb Formation and Rupture of Cerebral Aneurysms: Image-based modeling and clinical observations.” Presented at the Proc. ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Island, FL, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R. “Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics.” Presented at the Sociedad Ibero-Latinoamericana de Neuroradiologia SILAN 2008, Cancun, Mexico, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R. “Modeling Blood Flows in Cerebral Aneurysms.” Presented at the Clinica ENERI, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R., R. Löhner, and C. M. Putman. “Relating Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics and Clinical Events.” Presented at the 5th International Bio-Fluid Symposium and Workshop, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R., and C. M. Putman. “Hemodynamics in the Evolution and Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms.” Presented at the Proc. 5th International Intracranial Stent Meeting, Ankara, Turkey, 2008.

 

Cebral, J. R. “Hemodynamics in the Evolution and Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms.” Presented at the Semana de Intervencionismo Minimamente Invasivo (SIMI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008.

 

Dai, Y., and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Density Functional Study of the Photodetachment Spectra of Zinc and Calcium Cluster Anions.” Presented at the 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, 2008.

 

Dai, Y., and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Electronic Structure and Vibrational Analysis of Calcium and Zinc Cluster Anions: A Hybrid Density Functional Approach.” Presented at the 2008 Fall National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2008.

 

Delhommau, G., F. Noblesse, H. Y. Kim, and C. Yang. “Flow about a Ship Bow with Rake and Flare.” Presented at the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Hydrodynamics (ICHD’08), Nantes, France, 2008.

 

Frank, D., R. Löhner, F. Camelli, R. Frank, and A. Amini. “Comparison of a Fast-Running Engineering Model and Coarse Mesh 3-D Euler Predictions for Airblast in an Urban Environment.” Presented in Oslo, Norway, 2008.

 

Griva, I., H. Benson, D. Shanno, and R. Vanderbei. “Global Convergence of a Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Programming.” Presented at the SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, MA, 2008.

 

Griva, I., and R. Polyak. “On Local 1.5-Q-superlinear Convergence of the Primal-dual Exterior-point Method.” Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2008.

 

Griva, I., J. Schnur, and N. Lebedev. “3D Simulation of Light Propagation and Enhancement in Arrays of Cylindrical Nanowells.” Presented at the symposium on Nanomaterials for Defense Applications, Arlington, VA, 2008.

 

Hendrickson, S., C. M. Putman, and J. R. Cebral. “Hemodynamic Analysis of a Cerebral Aneurysm Prior to its Rupture.” Presented at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2008.

 

Kafesaki, M., R. Penciu, E. N. Economou, N. Katsarakis, C. M. Soukoulis, and T. Koschny. “Metamaterials for Microwaves and Optics.” Presented at the 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, Athens, Greece, 2008.

 

Kim, H., C. Yang, R. Löhner, and F. Noblesse. “A Practical Hydrodynamic Optimization Tool for the Design of a Monohull Ship.” Presented at the Proc. ISOPE Conf., Vancouver, Canada, 2008.

 

Lach-hab, M., S. Yang, I. Vaisman, and B. Blaisten-Barojas. “Prediction of Zeolite Types Based on Structural Data.” Presented at the 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, 2008.

 

Lohner, R., H. Luo, J. D. Baum, and D. Rice. “Improvements in Speed for Explicit, Transient Compressible Flow Solvers.” 2008.

 

Löhner, R. “Combination of Body-Fitted and Embedded/Immersed Methods for Complex CFD Applications.” Presented at the 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Venice, Italy, 2008.

 

Löhner, R. “Computational Fluid Dynamics.” Presented at the FDA/NIH/NSF Workshop on Computer Methods for Cardiovascular Devices, Bethesda, MD, 2008.

 

Löhner, R.  “On Some Open Problems in Fluid-Structure Interaction.” Presented at the International Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interaction: Theory, Numerics and Applications, Herrsching (Munich), Germany, 2008.

 

Löhner, R., J. Cebral, F. Mut, S. Appananoyima, and C. Putnam. “Patient-Specific Device Optimization.” Presented at the ENIEF'08, San Luis, Argentina, 2008.

 

Löhner, R., and J. R. Cebral. “Computational Fluid Dynamics: State of the Art and Best Practices.” Presented at the FDA-NSF-NIH Symposium, Bethesda, MD, 2008.

 

Löhner, R., J. R. Cebral, F. Mut, S. Appanaboyina, and C. M. Putman. “Patient-Specific Device Optimization.” Presented at the Proc. ENIEF’08, San Luis, Argentina, 2008.

 

Löhner, R., P. Ravier, J. Roger, and P. DeKermel. “Combination of Compressible and Incompressible Flow Codes via Immersed Methods.” 2008.

 

Lu, H., C. Yang, and R. Löhner. “Numerical Studies of Green Water Effect on a Moored FPSO.” Presented at the Proc. ISOPE Conf., Vancouver, Canada, 2008.

 

Malamataris, N. “Visualization of Vortex Shedding in the Turbulent Flow Over A Surface Mounted Obstacle.” Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2008.

 

Malamataris, N., and V. Fragos. “Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flow Over a Surface Mounted Obstacle.” Presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2008.

 

Mut, F., S. Appanaboyina, and J. R. Cebral. “Simulation of Stent Deployment in Patient-Specific Cerebral Aneurysm Models for their Hemodynamics Analysis.” Presented at the Proc. ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Island, FL, 2008.

 

Noblesse, F., G. Delhommeau, H. Y. Kim, and C. Yang. “Practical Green Function for Thin-Ship Theory.” Presented at the Proceeding of the 18th International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering (ISOPE) Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2008.

 

Papaconstantopoulos, D. A. “First-principles, Tight-binding, and Embedded-atom Calculations in the Pd-H System.” Presented at the XVII International Materials Research Congress, Cancun, Mexico, 2008.

 

Papaconstantopoulos, D. A. “The NRL Tight-binding Method.” Presented at the International Conference on Computational Materials Science, Cocoyoc, Mexico, 2008.

 

Rice, D. L., J. D. Baum, F. Togashi, R. Löhner, and A. Amini. “First-Principles Blast Diffraction Simulations on a Notebook: Accuracy, Resolution and Turn-Around Issues.” Presented at the Proc. MABS-20 Conference, Oslo, Norway, 2008.

 

Saj, W. M., S. Foteinopoulou, M. Kafesaki, C. M. Soukoulis, and E. N. Economou. “Periodically Structured Plasmonic Waveguides.” Presented at the Metamaterials III, Strasbourg, France, 2008.

 

Sforza, D., C. M. Putman, E. Oubel, M. Decraene, A. Frangi, and J. R. Cebral. “Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics and Local Wall Injury: Computational modeling and clinical observations.” Presented at the 5th International Bio-Fluid Symposium and Workshop, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, 2008.

 

Sforza, D., C. M. Putman, E. Oubel, M. Decraene, A. Frangi, and J. R. Cebral. “Characterization of Cerebral Aneurysm Wall Motion from Dynamic Angiography.” Presented at the Proc. ASNR 46th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2008.

 

Sforza, D. M. “Overview of Brain Hemodynamics Research.” Presented at the Krasnow Research Retreat, Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2008.

 

Shabaev, A. “Mode-Locking of Electron Spin Coherence in Ensemble of Singly Charged Quantum Dots.” Presented at the 8th International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, Kyoto, Japan, 2008.

 

Soto, O. A., J. D. Baum, M. E. Giltrud, and R. Löhner. “Modeling of an Explosively Formed Projectile (EFP) Using a Coupled CFD/CSD Methodology.” Presented in Oslo, Norway, 2008.

 

Togashi, F., J.D. Baum, E. Mestreau, R. Löhner, J. L. Davis, B. Steed, and D. Sunshine. “Numerical Modeling of C-4 Long-Term Blast Wave Evolution in Confined Rooms.” Presented at the Proc. MABS-20 Conference, Oslo, Norway, 2008.

 

Togashi, F., R. Löhner, N. Tsuboi, and T. Obara. “Numerical Simulation of H2/Air Detonation Wave Behind Slit-Plate Using Detailed Reaction Models.” 2008.

 

Tsuga, T., R. Löhner, and F. Togashi. “Multi-Objective Assessment of Blast Damage.” Presented in Oslo, Norway, 2008.

 

Wan, D., Z. Zou, and C. Yang. “A Combined Program of Numerical Models for Virtual Marine Basin.” Presented at the Proceedings of Deepwater Offshore Technology Symposium 2008 (DTec2008), Shanghai, China, 2008.

 

Wang, J., D. Ioannou, A. Patrick, and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Selected Nanotechnology Research at George Mason University.” Presented at the Nanotechnology Day at the VA General Assembly, Richmond, VA, 2008.

 

Wegman, E. J. “A Directed Graph Model of Ecological Alcohol Systems Incorporating Spatiotemporal Effects.” Presented at the COMPSTAT 2008, Porto, Portugal, 2008.

 

Wegman, E. J.  “Methods for Visualizing High Dimensional Data.” Presented at the Contemporary Frontiers in High Dimensional Statistical Analysis, Cambridge, UK, 2008.

 

Wegman, E. J. “Mixture Models for Document Clustering.” Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO, 2008.

 

Wegman, E. J. “Text Mining and Social Networks: Some Unexpected Connections.” Presented at the International Conference on Multivariate Statistical Modeling and High Dimensional Data Mining, Kayseri, Turkey, 2008.

 

Wegman, E. J.  “Text Mining, Social Networks, and High Dimensional Analysis.” Presented at the Izzet Sahin Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2008.

 

Yang, C., H. Kim, R. Löhner , and F. Noblesse. “Practical Hydrodynamic Optimization of Hull Forms.” Presented at the Proc. Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulations Conf., Edinburg, Scotland, 2008.

 

Yang, C., H. Lu, R. Löhner, X. Liang, and J. Yang. “Numerical Study on Highly Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Interactions of Two Side-by-side Moored Vessels in Extreme Waves.” Presented at the Proc. Deepwater Offshore Technology Symposium 2008, Shanghai, China, 2008.

 

Yang, C., H. Lu, R. Löhner, and W. C. Sandberg. “Computation of the Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Flow around a Body in or Near the Free Surface.” Presented at the Proc. Int.\ Conf.\ on Offshore Mech.\ and Arctic Eng., Estoril, Portugal, 2008.

 

Yang, S., M. Lach-hab, I. Vaisman, and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Data Mining on the Crystallographic Data of Zeolites.” Presented at the Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU), Washington D.C., 2008.

 

Yang, S., M. Lach-hab, I. Vaisman, and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Framework Structure of Zeolite Types: A Machine Learning Classification Approach.” Presented at the 2008 Fall National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2008.

 

Yang, S., M. Lach-hab, I. Vaisman, and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Machine Learning Approach for Classification of Zeolite Crystals.” Presented at the 4th International Conference on Data Mining WORLDCOMP'08, Las Vegas, NV, 2008.

 

Yang, S., M. Lach-hab, I. Vaisman, and E. Blaisten-Barojas. “Data Mining on the Crystallographic Data of Zeolites.” Presented at the Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU), Washington, D.C., 2008.