2011 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Friday, July 22 — 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Salons H, J & K; Crystal Gateway Marriott

The annual Fellows' Poster Session affords program review attendees a unique opportunity to learn more about the research being supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and prizes are awarded to those who engage in the best visual and oral presentations.

2011 Contest Winners

• Britton Olson — Stanford University (Overall)
• Kenley Pelzer — University of Chicago (Honorable Mention)
• Aaron Sisto — Stanford University (Honorable Mention)
• Zachary Ulissi — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Honorable Mention)
• Scot Miller — Harvard University (Novice)

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Aeronautics
1	Noah Reddell	A new flexible high-performance computing code for local (nearest-neighbor) calculations on clustered many-core systems
Applied Mathematics
3	Evan Gawlik	Variational integrators for incompressible fluid flow, magnetohydrodynamics, complex fluid flow, and geophysical fluid dynamics
5	Tobin Isaac	Toward the massively parallel solution of 3-D ice sheet flow models
Astrophysics
7	Samuel Skillman	High-performance stencil computations on GPUs
Atmospheric Sciences
9	Christopher Eldred	WRF model configuration for seasonal climate forecasting over the Bolivian altiplano
Biology
11	Carl Boettiger	Early warning signals of population collapse
13	Irene Kaplow	Integrating gene expression, chromatin modification, and transcription factor binding human embryonic stem cell datasets to understand gene regulation in development
15	Troy Ruths	A sequence-based, population genetic model of regulatory pathway evolution
Biophysics
17	Armen Kherlopian	Cardiac myocyte model parameter sensitivity analysis and model transformation using a genetic algorithm
Chemical Engineering
19	Carmeline Dsilva	The study of Lennard-Jones clusters using diffusion maps
Chemistry
21	Devin Matthews	Approaches towards the full CI limit for singlet biradicals
23	Brenda Rubenstein	Finite-temperature auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo for Bose-Fermi mixtures
Computational Fluid Dynamics
25	Sanjeeb Bose	Explicitly filtered large-eddy simulation on unstructured grids
27	Eric Liu	The importance of mesh adaptation for higher-order solutions of PDEs
Computer Science
29	Edgar Solomonik	Communication-optimal 2.5D dense linear algebra
Electrical and Computer Engineering
31	Christopher Quinn	Using information theory to analyze statistically causal influences in networks of simultaneously recorded neurons
Materials Science and Engineering
33	Aaron Sisto	Predicting the optical properties of nanostructured metamaterials: single-walled carbon nanotube arrays
Mechanical Engineering
35	Brian Lockwood	Gradient-enhanced surrogate models for efficient uncertainty quantification
Nuclear Engineering
37	Peter Maginot	A new strictly non-negative SN finite element spatial discretization
39	Travis Trahan	3-D anisotropic neutron diffusion in optically thin channels
Physics
41	Amanda Peters	Multiscale simulation of blood flow in the coronary arteries
43	Norman Yao	Topologically protected quantum state transfer in a chiral spin liquid
Statistics
45	Miles Lopes	A statistical model for the dynamic regulation of alternative splicing in D. melanogaster
Group II — Presenting from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Applied Mathematics
2	Scott Clark	ALE: An assembly likelihood evaluation framework to estimate the quality of metagenome assemblies
4	Thomas Fai	An FFT-based immersed boundary method for variable viscosity and density fluids
Atmospheric Sciences
6	Mary Benage	The thermal evolution and dynamics of pyroclastic density currents from boiling-over eruptions
8	Scot Miller	Sources of nitrous oxide, an important greenhouse gas, over the central United States
Audiology/Speech Pathology
10	Anne Warlaumont	A computational neural network model of infant vocal learning
Biology
12	Edward Baskerville	Modeling and prediction of feeding links using trait data
14	Aleah Caulin	Peto's Paradox and the evolution of cancer suppression
16	Charles Frogner	Integrative image analysis of Drosophila in situ hybridization data
Chemical Engineering
20	Zachary Ulissi	Single Ion Transport Through Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Chemistry
22	Kurt Brorsen	Theoretical study of protonated water clusters using the effective fragment potential
24	Mark Maienschein-Cline	An algorithm for parallelization of molecular dynamics in time
26	Kenley Pelzer	Strong correlation in polyaromatic hydrocarbons from the two-electron reduced-density-matrix method: effects of geometry and size
Civil and Environmental Engineering
28	Sean Vitousek	Towards Navier-Stokes simulations of the ocean
Computational Fluid Dynamics
30	Christopher Ivey	Multiphase flow modeling for jet atomization
32	Britton Olson	Shock-turbulence interactions in a rocket nozzle
Computer Science
34	Cyrus Omar	Formal infrastructure for data-driven modeling of neurobiological circuits
Mechanical Engineering
36	Curtis Hamman	Stability of impulsively started vortex rolls
Nuclear Engineering
38	Leslie Dewan	Quantifying radiation damage to the network structure of radioactive waste-bearing materials
Operations Research
40	Kathleen King	Planning and operating a public health emergency response network
Physics
42	Seth Davidovits	Momentum space dynamics of spatially incoherent light in a photorefractive crystal
44	Douglas Mason	Husimi projection in graphene eigenstates