2013 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Wednesday, July 24 – Saturday, July 27
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA

Tuesday, July 23
5:00 – 7:00pm RegistrationGrand Registration Desk
Wednesday, July 24 (HPC Workshop, etc.)
7:00am – 8:30pm RegistrationGrand Registration Desk
7:00 – 8:30am Breakfast BuffetSalons H & J
8:30am – 4:45pm HPC WorkshopSalons A, B & C, etc.
5:00 – 6:00pm New Fellows' Photo Session (Head Shots & Group Photo)Salon J
6:00 – 7:00pm Making Fellow & Alumni ConnectionsSky View at Gateway
7:00 – 8:30pm New Attendee DinnerSalon H
Welcome
James Corones — President, Krell Institute
Thursday, July 25
7:00am – 7:00pm RegistrationGrand Registration Desk
7:00 – 8:30am Breakfast BuffetSalons H & J
8:30 – 8:45am WelcomeSalons A, B & C
James Corones — President, Krell Institute
8:45 – 9:00am WelcomeSalons A, B & C
Barbara Helland — Acting Associate Director, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:00 – 9:15am WelcomeSalons A, B & C
Robert Meisner — Director, Advanced Simulation and Computing and Institutional Research and Development, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:15 – 10:00am KeynoteSalons A, B & C
Atul Butte — Division Chief and Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
“Discovering New Drugs and Diagnostics from 300 Trillion Points of Data”
10:00 – 10:30am BreakFoyer, Salons A, B & C
Session ISalons A, B & C
Moderator: Christine Chalk — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30 – 10:50am Leslie Dewan — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Intermediate-Range Order of Molten LiF-BeF2 and LiF-ThF4, Analyzed Via Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Network Topology Algorithms”
10:50 – 11:10am Hayes Stripling — Texas A&M University
“Adjoint-Based Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis for Reactor Depletion Calculations”
11:10 – 11:30am Samuel Skillman — University of Colorado at Boulder
“Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Cosmic Ray Electrons in Galaxy Clusters”
11:30 – 11:50am Sanjeeb Bose — Stanford University
“Explicitly Filtered LES: Application to Separated Flows”
12:00 – 1:00pm LuncheonSalons H & J
1:15 – 1:30pm Announcement of 2013 Frederick Howes ScholarSalons A, B & C
David Brown — Director, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:30 – 2:15pm Howes Scholar Presentation
Ashlee N. Ford Versypt — Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Mathematical Modeling of Pharmaceuticals: Predictive Design for Better Medicines”
Session IISalons A, B & C
Moderator: Karen Pao — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
2:15 – 2:35pm Jeffrey Donatelli — University of California, Berkeley
“Compressive Phase Retrieval for X-Ray Nanocrystallography”
2:35 – 2:55pm Noah Reddell — University of Washington
“WARPM Framework for Advanced Plasma Model Simulations on Many-Core Architectures”
2:55 – 3:15pm Travis Trahan — University of Michigan
“Asymptotic Diffusion Theory for Efficient Full-Core Simulations of Nuclear Reactors”
3:15 – 4:00pm BreakFoyer, Salons A, B & C
3:15 – 4:00pm Poster Set UpSalons H, J & K
4:00 – 6:30pm Fellows' Poster SessionSalons H, J & K
Welcome & Remarks
Dimitri Kusnezov — Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Energy; Chief Scientist and Director, Office of Science and Policy, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
Friday, July 26
7:00am – 6:00pm RegistrationGrand Registration Desk
7:00 – 8:30am Breakfast BuffetSalons H & J
8:30 – 8:40am AnnouncementsSalons A, B & C
8:45 – 9:30am KeynoteSalons A, B & C
Michael Holland — Chief of Staff, New York University Center for Urban Science & Progress
“The Promise of Urban Science”
Session IIISalons A, B & C
Moderator: Michael Severson — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:30 – 9:50am Kurt Brorsen — Iowa State University
“Fragment Molecular Orbital Molecular Dynamics”
9:50 – 10:10am Tobin Isaac — University of Texas
“Ice Sheets and Octrees”
10:10 – 10:30am Mark Maienschein-Cline — University of Chicago
“Inferring Gene Regulation From High-Throughput Biological Data”
10:30 – 11:00am BreakFoyer, Salons A, B & C
11:00 – 11:20am Amanda Peters Randles — Harvard University
“Modeling Cardiovascular Hemodynamics Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method on Massively Parallel Supercomputers”
11:20 – 11:40am Sean Vitousek — Stanford University
“A Nonhydrostatic, Isopycnal-Coordinate Ocean Model”
11:40am – 12:00pm Edward Baskerville — University of Michigan
“Networks in the Savanna”
12:05 – 1:30pm Luncheon & Civics TalkSalons H & J
Leland Cogliani — Professional Staff Member, Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee
“Senate Priorities for Basic Research”
Session IVSalons A, B & C
Moderator: Alexis Blanc — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
1:30 – 1:50pm Troy Ruths — Rice University
“Population Regulomics: Applying Population Genetics to the Cis-Regulome”
1:50 – 2:10pm Norman Yao — Harvard University
“Realizing Fractional Chern Insulators in Dipolar Spin Systems”
2:10 – 2:30pm Virgil Griffith — California Institute of Technology
“Quantifying Synergy in Information Theory”
2:30 – 3:00pm BreakFoyer, Salons A, B & C
3:00 – 5:00pm DOE Laboratory Poster SessionSalons H, J & K
Welcome & Remarks
Donald Cook — Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
6:00 – 8:00pm Fellows & Alumni Eventbin1700, Crystal Gateway Marriott (Lobby Level)
Saturday, July 27
7:30am – 1:00pm RegistrationGrand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am Breakfast BuffetSalons H & J
9:00am – 12:30pm Communicating Your Science & Engineering (CYSE) SessionSalons A, B & C
Scientific American Blogs Editor Bora Zivkovic and D.C.-area veteran science bloggers and social media experts will lead a hands-on session in which participants prepare blog entries and critique their peers' work under facilitator guidance.
  • Bora Zivkovic — Lead Facilitator
  • Cristy Gelling — Facilitator
  • Miriam Goldstein — Facilitator
  • Hannah Waters — Facilitator
  • Allie Wilkinson — Facilitator
12:30 – 1:30pm LuncheonSalons H & J