Conference Agenda
2009 DOE CSGF Annual Conference Agenda
July 14 – 16, 2009
Washington, DC
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Monday, July 13 (Pre-conference Activities) |
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| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Registration & Photo Session for new Fellows - Ashlawn |
| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. |
New Attendees Dinner - Atrium Ballroom Introduction to DOE CSGF Program James Corones, President, Krell Institute |
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Tuesday, July 14 |
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| 7:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Registration - Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. |
Welcome - Grand Ballroom James Corones, President, Krell Institute |
| 9:15 - 9:30 a.m. | Patricia Dehmer, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. |
Welcome - Grand Ballroom Tom D’Agostino, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:45 - 10:30 a.m. |
Keynote - Grand Ballroom “Transparency and Knowledge: A Legacy Opportunity for the Nation’s Electric Infrastructure” J. Michael Davis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| 10:30 - 10:40 a.m. | Break |
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Session I — Grand Ballroom |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
Zlatan Aksamija – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Simulation of Nanoscale Electro-thermal Effects in Semiconductor Devices” |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Julianne Chung – Emory University “Large-Scale Ill-Posed Inverse Problems in Imaging Applications” |
| 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. |
Jordan Atlas – Cornell University “Towards a Genomically Detailed Minimal Cell Model” |
| 11:40 - 12:00 p.m. |
Peter Norgaard – Princeton University “Direct Numerical Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamic Thruster Plasmas” |
| 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. |
Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest winners |
| 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. |
2009 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation – Grand Ballroom David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. |
2009 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk – Grand Ballroom David Potere – Boston Consulting Group “The View from On-Orbit : New Challenges and Opportunities in Earth Observation and Satellite Remote Sensing” |
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Session II — Grand Ballroom |
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| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. |
Kevin Kohlstedt – Northwestern University “Chirality in Nature: Using Electrostatic Forces to Generate Chiral Symmetry” |
| 2:50 - 3:10 p.m. |
Christopher Schroeder – University of California, San Diego “Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, New Quarks, and Graphics Processors” |
| 3:10 - 3:30 p.m. |
David Markowitz – Princeton University “Noisy Clocks and Information Processing in the Brain” |
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. |
Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session - Atrium Ballroom 5:10 - 5:25 p.m. - Opening Remarks Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 7:00 p.m. | Fellows and Alumni meet in hotel lobby to walk to social |
| 7:30 p.m. |
DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows and Alumni Social Piedmont Room at Clyde’s of Gallery Place 707 7th Street, NW |
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Wednesday, July 15 |
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| 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. | Free Time |
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Session III — Grand Ballroom |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
David Rogers – University of Cincinnati “Analyzing Simulation Data Using Bayes' Theorem” |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Matt McGrath – Peace Corps “First-principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Hydrogen-bonding Fluids” |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
David Ketcheson – University of Washington “Stability and Stegotons: Understanding Waves through Computation” |
| 11:45 - 1:00 p.m. |
DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session – Springwood Room, Lower Level Moderated by DOE CSGF Alumna Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced (Lunch available for attendees) |
| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
HPC Roundtable Discussion – Springwood Room, Lower Level |
| 2:45 - 4:15 p.m. |
Invited talk – Springwood Room, Lower Level Randy Black, Office of Research Development at the University of California, Irvine “Writing Tips and Traps: How to Compete for a Reader’s Time (and Grant Money)” |
| 4:00 p.m. | Fellows set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom |
| 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. |
Fellows Poster Reception - Grand Ballroom 5:10 - 5:25 p.m. - Opening Remarks Anna Palmisano, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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Thursday, July 16 |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer |
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Session IV — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Robert Hanrahan, National Nuclear Security Administration, U. S. Department of Energy |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 a.m. |
Oaz Nir – Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Genetic Tuning of Single-Cell Morphological Variability” |
| 9:20 - 9:40 a.m. |
Miler Lee – University of Pennsylvania “Modular Organization and Composability of RNA” |
| 9:40 - 10:00 a.m. |
Christopher Carey – University of Wisconsin “Rotational Stabilization of Astrophysical Jets” |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. |
Joshua Adelman – University of California, Berkeley “The Mechanical Properties of the Sliding DNA Clamp PCNA” |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
Ethan Coon – Columbia University “Breaking Ground in Earthquake Simulation: Extended Finite Element Methods for Repeated Earthquake Rupture” |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Jeremy Lewi – Georgia Institute of Technology “Sequential Optimal Design of Neurophysiology Experiments” |
| 11:20 - 12:00 p.m. | Break |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom Fellows Poster Contest Winners Announcement Adam Rosenberg, Congressional Staff Member, Committee on Science and Technology |
| Meeting Concludes | |
