Fellows Poster Session & Abstracts

Group A — Presenting from 5:30 – 6:45 pm
Applied Mathematics
Scott Clark Logical Redundancy in Random k-SAT Problems
John Evans Isogeometric Analysis of Hydrodynamic Noise Generation
James Martin Stochastic Newton Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
Atmospheric Science
Matthew Norman A High-Order Accurate, Upwind, and Fully Discrete Linearized Riemann Solver: Application to Non-Hydrostatic Atmospheric Simulation
Bioengineering
Ying Hu A Mie-based simulation study on spectral and angular radiation properties of gold-silica-gold multilayer nanoshells
Biology
Carl Boettiger Searching Phylogenetic Trees for Adaptive Landscapes
Paul Loriaux A mathematical model of homeostatic and stimulus-induced regulation of cell death by the transcription factor NF-kappaB in response to TNF
Cyrus Omar State-dependent correlation between excitatory and inhibitory firing is explained by opposing correlating input with anti-correlating neural interactions
Sarah Richardson Automated Design of Assemblable, Modular, Synthetic Chromosomes
Danilo Scepanovic Toward a more physiologically constrained instantaneous heart rate
Chemical Engineering
Geoffrey Oxberry Affine Lumping Formalism for Comparison of Projection-Based Model Reduction Techniques
Chemistry
Matthew Reuter A Fast Split-Operator Spectral Method for Solving the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation in Angular Coordinates
Brenda Rubenstein An Entropic Fitness? The Specific Adsorption of Proteins Amidst Polymer Brushes
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cameron Talischi Topology optimization with polygonal finite elements
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Britton Olson Towards Peta-scale shock/turbulence computations
Computer Science
Jeffrey Kilpatrick Association graph reduction: a framework for efficient exploration of high-level interactions in complex disease etiology
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Mark Berrill Modeling Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers
Materials Science & Engineering
Anubhav Jain A High-Throughput Computational Search for Novel Li-ion Battery Cathode Materials
Operations Research
Kathleen King Modeling Public Health Emergency Response Logistics
Mechanical Engineering
Brian Lockwood Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Hypersonic Flows
Physics
Gregory Crosswhite A computational quest for quantum codes
Jack Deslippe Nonlinear and Many-Body Effects on the Properties of Nanostructures
Milo Lin Primary Peptide Folding Dynamics Observed with Ultrafast Temperature Jump
Alejandro Rodriguez Computing Casimir forces via table-top experiments: a time-domain approach
Group B — Presenting from 6:30 – 7:45 pm
Aeronautics
John Ziegler Simulating Diffusion in Detonations
Applied Mathematics
Steven Hamilton Negative Flux Fixups in Finite Element Radiation Transport
Michael Sekora The NIKE Code: A Hybrid Godunov Method for Radiation Hydrodynamics
Benjamin Sonday Diffusion maps for model reduction: exploiting data mining to accelerate simulation
Audiology/Speech Pathology
Anne Warlaumont Artificial neural networks that “listen” to infant vocalization
Bioengineering
Tal Danino Synchronization of a synthetic gene oscillator in Escherichia coli
Biology
Eric Chi Parametric Statistical Classification by the Minimum Integrated Square Error Criterion
Robin Friedman Most mammalian mRNAs are conserved targets of microRNAs
Alex Perkins Evolutionarily labile species interactions and spatial spread dynamics of biological invasions
Ariella Sasson De Novo Short Read Genome Sequencing
Biophysics
Armen Kherlopian Large-scale model of primary visual cortex provides single neuron resolution on a macro scale
Chemical Engineering
Ashlee Ford A Mechanistic Modeling Approach to the Design and Evaluation of Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems
Chemistry
Jeff Hammond Developing polarizable force fields from ab initio calculations and the role of quantum chemical benchmarking in the age of petascale
Claire Ralph Orbital ordering in Density Matrix Renormalization Group methods
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Brian Levine National airspace model: Deterministic optimization of flight frequencies by carrier after airport losses
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Eric Liu A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the RANS Equations Under ProjectX
Computer Science
Arnab Bhattacharyya Robust Regulatory Networks
Cosmology
Paul Sutter Galaxy Cluster Magnetic Fields from Active Galactic Nuclei
Mechanical Engineering
Curtis Hamman The Sound of Boiling
Nuclear Engineering
Joshua Hykes Non-analog momentum deposition estimators for Monte Carlo radiative transfer
Physics
Hal Finkel Global Particle-Simulation Studies of Plasma-Microturbulence Properties
Kristi Harris Atomistic Simulation of Metallic Nanowires
Douglas Mason Efficient Electronic Transport Calculations for Arbitrarily-Shaped Graphene Devices