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2001 Department of Energy
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Fellows’ Conference

 July 19-21, 2001 
Washington, DC

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WEDNESDAY
JULY 18
ARRIVE

THURSDAY
JULY 19
INTRODUCTION TO HOWES SCHOLAR AWARD, FOCUS ON 4th YEAR FELLOWS
 
DISCOVERY II
    7:30 am Registration, Breakfast
    8:30 Welcome
James Corones, Krell Institute

 

COLUMBIA BALLROOM
    9:00 "The Scientific & Technical Challenges of Global Climate Modeling"
Jim Hack, National Center for Atmospheric Research

 

  Session I Moderator:  Phil Colella, LBNL
    10:05 "Mixed Finite Element Methods and Higher Order Temporal Approximations for Flow in Porous Media"
Matthew Farthing, University of North Carolina
    10:25 "Mass Transport Phenomena in Microelectronic Devices"
Jon Wilkening, University of California, Berkeley
    10:45 Break

 

  Session II Moderator:  David Keyes, Old Dominion University
    11:00 "Patient-Specific Biomechanical Modeling of Total Hip Replacement"
Larisa Goldmints, Carnegie Mellon University
    11:20 "Optimal Predictions"
Eugene Ingerman, University of California, Berkeley
    11:40 "Direct and Large-Eddy Simulations of Breaking Interfacial Waves"
Oliver Fringer, Stanford University

 

DISCOVERY II
    12:00 Noon Luncheon
Howes Scholarship Announcement
Margaret Wright, Lucent Technologies

 

COLUMBIA BALLROOM
    2:00 - 2:30 pm Howes Scholar Presentations
Moderator:  Margaret Wright, Lucent Technologies

"On the Use of Adaptive Mesh Refinement in the Simulation of Laser Plasma Interaction"
Jeffrey Hittinger, LLNL

    2:30 - 3:00 "Three-dimensional Numerical Model of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)"
Mayya Tokman, Caltech
    3:00 - 3:30 Break
    3:30 - 4:30 Introduction to Concurrent Sessions
      Orientation and Introduction to Practicum for new Fellows and advisors
    Saturn/Venus
      Practicum Coordinator Session
    David Brown, LLNL Practicum Coordinator
    Discovery I

 

DISCOVERY II
    4:30 Poster Setup
    5:00 - 6:30 Reception & DOE Lab Computational Science Display
Reception sponsored by Cray, Inc.

FRIDAY
JULY 20
ALUMNI DAY
 
COLUMBIA BALLROOM
    8:30 am Continental Breakfast
    9:00 "Computational Chemical Studies of DNA-Damaging Drugs and Food Mutagens"
Michael Colvin, Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, LLNL
Moderator:  Jim Hack, NCAR
    10:00 - 10:45 "Modeling Evolving Discontinuities Singularities & Interfaces with Extended Finite Element Method"
John Dolbow, Duke University
    10:45 Break
    11:00 - 11:45 "Parallel Array Class Library for the Overture Simulation Framework"
Brian Gunney, LLNL
    11:45 - 12:30 pm "High Performance Computing at Procter & Gamble: An Industrial Perspective"
Kenneth Comer, Procter & Gamble

 

DISCOVERY II
    12:30 Luncheon
"From the Lab to the Hill: a Scientist's Perspective on Working for Congress"
Sharon Hays, Staff Director
Research Subcommittee, Committee on Science, US House of Representatives

 

COLUMBIA BALLROOM
    2:00 - 3:00 DOE Panel -- What It's Like to Work at a DOE Lab
 
Jeffrey Hittinger, Postdoctoral Staff Member, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dan Martin, Post Doc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marcus Martin, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratory, NM
Mario Trujillo, PostDoc, Los Alamos National Labortatory

 

DISCOVERY BALLROOM
    3:00 - 4:00 Poster Setup
    4:00 - 6:00 Social reception
Fellows Poster Session

 

COLUMBIA BALLROOM
    7:00 10th Anniversary Banquet
History of Computing in the Department of Energy
Dr. Alvin Trivelpiece

SATURDAY
JULY 21
DOE IN ACTION
 
COLUMBIA BALLROOM
    8:30 am Continental Breakfast
    9:00 - 10:15 Linear/Nonlinear Solvers Technical Workshop
Session Chair:  Bill Gropp, ANL
    10:15 Break
    10:30 - 11:45 Software for PDE's
Session Chair:  David Brown, LLNL
    11:45 Q&A Session



Contact:
  Shellie Hosch
  515-956-3696
  hosch@krellinst.org

Updated: June 8, 2001

 

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