AGENDA

Wednesday, July 26	Arrive Pleasanton, CA
Thursday, July 27	(at Crowne Plaza)
7:00 am	Breakfast & registration, Crowne Plaza Pleasanton Hotel
7:45 am	Conference Welcome
8:30 am	Opening Remarks, Welcome Steven Ashby, Center for Scientific Computing, LLNL
8:45 - 9:30 am	3D Stellar Physics Computations David Dearborn, Physics Division, LLNL
9:30 - 10:15 am	Computational Science at Sandia - Putting it All Together Bruce Hendrickson, Parallel Computing Sciences Department, SNL
10:15 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 - 11:15 am	Advanced Software Technologies in the Blanca Project at LANL Forrest Brown, LANL
11:15 am	Bus transportation from hotel to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Building 123 Auditorium
11:30 am	Arrive at LLNL
Noon	Lunch Welcoming Remarks David Nowak, ASCI Program Leader, LLNL
1:15 - 1:30 pm	Transportation to Sandia National Laboratory available
1:30 pm	LLNL Breakout Sessions: A:  Computational research challenges for an ASCI simulation code -- with the advent of greater compute power, this 3D finite element ASCI code is looking at challenges concerning more physics, more data, larger problems, and scalable algorithms Evi Dube, B-division LLNL B123 Auditorium B:  A Hybrid Model for Gas Dynamics that Couples Continuum and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Methods using Adaptive Mesh Refinement Richard Hornung, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, LLNL B123 Conf Room A C:  Sea-Ice Modeling in the Weddell Sea Elizabeth Hunke, Global Climate Modeling Project, LANL SNL Breakout Sessions: A:  Combustion Modeling using DNS Jacqueline Chen and Alan Kerstein, SNL B:  Constitutive Modeling of Metals Mark Horstemeyer and Richard Regueiro, SNL C:  High Performance Visualization for Engineering [US Citizens only] Jerry Friesen, SNL
3:00 - 3:30 pm	Transportation to and from Sandia National Laboratory
3:30 pm	LLNL Breakout Sessions: A:  The ROSE Project: The Optimization of Object-Oriented Scientific Applications Daniel Quinlan, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, LLNL B123 Auditorium B:  Using AMR in CFD -- from shock-tubes to lasers Jeff Greenough, A-Division, LLNL B123 Conf Room A C:  Sea-Ice Modeling in the Weddell Sea Elizabeth Hunke, Global Climate Modeling Project, LANL SNL Breakout Sessions: A:  Modeling of Fire Chris Moen, SNL B:  Components, Frameworks and Standards for High Performance Computing Ben Allen, SNL C:  High Performance Visualization for Engineering [US Citizens only] Jerry Friesen, SNL
5:15 pm	Bus transportation back to hotel
Friday, July 28
7:45 am	Bus transportation to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
8:30 - 9:15 am	Analysis of the genetic program: Data mining, simulation and biological circuit design Adam Arkin, Physical Biosciences Division, LBNL
9:15 - 10:00 am	Fluctuations, dissipation and computation Alexandre Chorin, Mathematics Department, LBNL
10:00 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 - 11:15 am	Solving a long-standing fundamental problem of the quantum mechanics of atoms: Ionization by electron impact Bill McCurdy, Computing Sciences Directorate, LBNL
11:15 - Noon	Supercomputers and Cosmology Saul Perlmutter, Physics Division, LBNL
Noon - 12:45 pm	Lunch
12:45 - 1:30 pm	Tour of the NERSC Center (optional)
1:30 - 3:00 pm	LBNL Breakout Sessions: A:  Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Phil Colella Applied numerical PDE's: combustion, applications of level set methods Computer science research: BLC, MPI/VIA, languages/compilers for scientific applications Scientific software research: software for adaptive mesh refinement, large sparse systems B:  Biological and Environmental Applications, Chris Ding Biology presentations by Teresa Head-Gordon, Protein Folding and Global Optimization and Inna Dubchek and Chris Ding, Pattern Recognition and Support Vector Machines Climate presentations by John Drake, ORNL, Parallel atmosphere models, Inez Fung, Carbon climate models and/or Chris Ding/Helen He Ocean models. C:  Chemistry and Material Sciences, Andrew Canning Bill Isaacs, Computational Chemistry Andrew Canning, Computational Material Science D:  High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, Julian Borrill Jodi Lamoreaux, High Energy Physics Peter Nugent, Astrophysics
3:30 - 5:00 pm	LBNL Breakout Sessions: A:  Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Phil Colella Applied numerical PDE's: combustion, applications of level set methods Computer science research: BLC, MPI/VIA, languages/compilers for scientific applications Scientific software research: software for adaptive mesh refinement, large sparse systems B:  Biological and Environmental Applications, Chris Ding Biology presentations by Teresa Head-Gordon, Protein Folding and Global Optimization and Inna Dubchek and Chris Ding, Pattern Recognition and Support Vector Machines Climate presentations by John Drake, ORNL, Parallel atmosphere models, Inez Fung, Carbon climate models and/or Chris Ding/Helen He Ocean models. C:  Chemistry and Material Sciences, Andrew Canning Bill Isaacs, Computational Chemistry Andrew Canning, Computational Material Science D:  High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, Julian Borrill Jodi Lamoreaux, High Energy Physics Peter Nugent, Astrophysics
5:15 pm	Bus transportation to hotel
Saturday, July 29
8:30 am	Terascale Computing and Simulation Science Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:15 am	Advanced Optimization Technology Jorge Moré, Argonne National Laboratory
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Advanced Computing | Plasma Sciences William M. Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
11:30 am	Practicum discussion session
Sunday, July 30	Depart