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Annual Fellows’ Conference

 July 17-20, 2002 
Washington, DC

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AGENDA    

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17
Ballroom I
7:00 pm Newcomers Buffet, Introductions and Registration
New Fellows and other first time participants
 
THURSDAY, JULY 18
Atrium Ballroom
8:00 am Registration/Buffet Breakfast
Grand Ballroom
8:45 am Welcome
James Corones, Krell Institute
9:00 am Keynote
“Computational Technology for MEMS: Big challenges in small packages”
Rodney Schmidt, Sandia National Laboratories - New Mexico
 

Session 1

Moderator: Walter Polansky
Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences
    Division
U.S. Department of Energy
10:00 am SIFTing the human genome for polymorphisms that affect protein function
Pauline Ng, University of Washington
10:20 am Initiation of Convection in Novae Precursors
L. Jonathan Dursi, University of Chicago
10:40 am Break
 

Session 2

Moderator: Robert Voigt
College of William and Mary
11:00 am Quantum Monte Carlo: High Accuracy Loosely Coupled Parallel Scientific Application
Michael Feldmann, California Institute of Technology
11:20 am The Search for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the AMANDA Detector
Rellen Hardtke, University of Wisconsin, Madison
11:40 am Fast, high-order methods in computational scattering
E. McKay Hyde, California Institute of Technology
12:00 pm Measurement of Cell-Generated Traction Stresses Using the Elastic Substrate Method
William Marganski, Boston University
Atrium Ballroom
12:30 pm

Lunch (provided)

Speaker: Michael Holland
Senior Policy Analyst
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Sagamore Hill
2:00 - 5:00 pm Fellows’ Photographs
(appropriate attire - polo or button down shirt/blouse)
Atrium Ballroom
4:30 pm Poster Setup
5:00 - 6:30 pm Fellows’ Poster Session (groups 1 and 2)
FRIDAY, JULY 19
Grand Ballroom
8:30 am Continental Breakfast (provided)
9:00 am Keynote
Speaker: Peter E. Nugent
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Supernovae and the Fate of the Universe
 

Session 3

Moderator: David Brown
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:00 am The Temporal Structure of the Neural Code
Asohan Amarasingham, Brown University
10:20 am Modeling Turbulent Flows on Parallel Computers
John Costello, University of Arizona
10:40 am Break
 

Session 4

Moderator: Margaret Wright
New York University
11:00 am Analysis of flow inside artificial lungs using computational fluid dynamics
Kenneth Gage, University of Pittsburgh
11:20 am Evolution and Mutualism in Fundamental Models for Ecological Interactions
Lee Worden, Princeton University
11:40 am The Development of a Model for an Unsteady, Quasi-One-Dimensional Strained, Curved Flame
Susanne Essig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 pm Parallel, Physics-Based Preconditioning and the Jacobian-Free, Newton-Krylov Method: Application to Multicomponent Geochemical Transport
Glenn Hammond, University of Illinois
Atrium Ballroom
12:30 pm Lunch (provided)
Speaker: Steve Binkley
DOE Headquarters
Grand Ballroom
2:00 - 3:00 pm Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) overview
Alan Laub, SciDAC Director
3:00 pm Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm Question and Answer Session
Krell Staff
Atrium Ballroom
4:30 pm Setup for Poster Session
5:00 - 6:30 pm Computational Research at DOE Labs, Poster Session
6:30 pm Hermitage
SATURDAY, JULY 20
Grand Ballroom
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 am SciDAC Applications panel
Tony Mezzacappa, ORNL, Terascale Supernova Initiative
Rob Ryne, LBNL, Accelerator Design Project
Phil Jones, LANL, Community Climate Model
Robert Harrison, PNNL, Chemical Structures and Reactivity Projects

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