Winter Enrichment Program 2017

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The Office of Enrichment Programs was proud to bring to you fourteen enthralling days of a unique educational experience to explore the theme “Pushing the limits: Challenging Engineering and Science”. Renowned professors and speakers dug into the state-of-the-art engineering achievements in all fields and focused on 21st century innovative solutions to forge a new future.

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    Ensemble Data Assimilation System for Forecasting the Red Sea Circulation

    (2017-01-08) Toye, Habib; Zhan, Peng; Sana, Furrukh; Gapalakrishnan, Ganesh; Kartadikaria, Aditya R.; Hoteit, Ibrahim; Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program; Beacon Development Company; Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division; Earth Fluid Modeling and Prediction Group; Earth Science and Engineering Program; Electrical and Computer Engineering Program; Office of the CAO; Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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    Role of interlayer coupling for the power factor of CuSbS2 and CuSbSe2

    (2017-01-08) Alsaleh, Najebah Mohammed Abdullah; Singh, Nirpendra; Schwingenschlögl, Udo; Computational Physics and Materials Science (CPMS); Material Science and Engineering Program; Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division

    The electronic and transport properties of bulk and monolayer CuSbS2 and CuSbSe2 are determined by using density functional theory and semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory, in order to investigate the role of interlayer coupling for the thermoelectric properties. The calculated band gaps of the bulk compounds are in agreement with experiments and significantly higher than those of the monolayers, which thus show lower Seebeck coefficients. Since also the electrical conductivity is lower, the monolayers are characterized by lower power factors. Therefore, interlayer coupling is found to be essential for the excellent thermoelectric response of CuSbS2 and CuSbSe2, even though it is weak.

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    Biophysical Connectivity in the Red Sea

    (2017-01-08) Zhan, Peng; Raitsos, Dionysios; Dreano, Denis; Hoteit, Ibrahim; Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program; Beacon Development Company; Earth Fluid Modeling and Prediction Group; Earth Science and Engineering Program; Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division; Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
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    Minimum Delay Moving Object Detection

    (2017-01-08) Lao, Dong; Sundaramoorthi, Ganesh; Applied Mathematics & Computational Sci; Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program; Computational Vision Lab; Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division; Electrical and Computer Engineering Program; Visual Computing Center (VCC)

    We present a general framework and method for detection of an object in a video based on apparent motion. The object moves relative to background motion at some unknown time in the video, and the goal is to detect and segment the object as soon it moves in an online manner. Due to unreliability of motion between frames, more than two frames are needed to reliably detect the object. Our method is designed to detect the object(s) with minimum delay, i.e., frames after the object moves, constraining the false alarms. Experiments on a new extensive dataset for moving object detection show that our method achieves less delay for all false alarm constraints than existing state-of-the-art.

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    Ultrashort peptide nanogels release in situ generated silver manoparticles to combat emerging antimicrobial resistance strains

    (2017-01-08) Seferji, Kholoud; Susapto, Hepi Hari; Arab, Wafaa; Sharip, Ainur; Sundaramurthi, Dhakshinamoorthy; Rauf, Sakandar; Hauser, Charlotte; Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division; Bioscience Program; Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC)

    Nanogels made from self-assembling ultrashort peptides (3-6 amino acids in size) are promising biomaterials for various biomedical applications such as tissue engineering, drug delivery, regenerative medicine, microbiology and biosensing.We have developed silver-releasing peptide nanogels with promising wound care applications. The peptide nanogels allow a precise control of in situ syntesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), using soley short UV radiation and no other chemical reducing agent. We propose these silver-releasing nanogels as excellent biomaterial to combat emerging antimicrobial resistant strains.