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Department of Energy
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Fellows’ Conference

 June 21-23, 2005 
Washington, DC






Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill    

AGENDA    

MONDAY, JUNE 20
5:30 - 6:30 pm New Fellows Photo Session - Ashlawn
6:00 - 7:00 pm Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby
7:00 pm New Attendees Dinner - Atrium Ballroom
TUESDAY, JUNE 21
7:45 - 8:30 am Registration - Lower Lobby
8:00 - 8:45 am Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom
9:00 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
Jim Corones, Krell Institute
Ed Oliver, DOE Office of Science
9:30 - 10:20 am Keynote : “Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing”
David Keyes, Columbia University

Session I
Session ModeratorDan Hitchcock, DOE Office of Science

10:20 - 10:40 am

“First Light in the Universe: Primordial Stars and Reionization”
Marcelo Alvarez, University of Texas, Austin

10:40 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 11:20 am

“Maximizing paired kidney donation”
Sommer Gentry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:20 - 11:40 am

“Transitional Flow in a Stenosed Carotid Artery”
Seung Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:40 am - Noon DOE CSGF Program Notes and the new Essay Contest
Jim Corones, Krell Institute
Noon - 1:00 pm

Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Speaker: Amy N. Langville, North Carolina State University
“Computing and Information Retrieval: The Big Picture”

1:00 - 1:15 pm

2005 Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation - Grand Ballroom
David L. Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

1:15 - 2:00 pm 2005 Howes Scholar Talk
“Computing Bifurcation and Stability Properties of Crystals”
Ryan Elliott, University of Minnesota
2:00 - 2:45 pm 2005 Howes Scholar Talk
“Phase Field Methods for Flows with Elastic Membranes”
Judith Hill, Carnegie Mellon University
2:45 - 3:00 pm Break

Session II
Session ModeratorFred Johnson, DOE Office of Science

3:00 - 3:20 pm

“Fluid Flow in Evolving Sedimentary Deposits”
Matthew Wolinsky, Duke University

3:20 - 3:40 pm

“The deep roots of volcanos: localization instabilities in a continuum model of magma dynamics”
Richard Katz, Columbia University

3:40 - 4:00 pm

“Blips, Coils, and Pedals: Instabilities of negatively buoyant jets in stratified fluids”
Sam Schofield, University of Arizona

4:00 pm Lab set up for poster session
4:00 - 4:20 pm Break
4:20 - 4:40 pm

“Structure-based Approaches to Protein Recognition”
Julian Mintseris, Boston University

4:40 - 5:00 pm

“Identification of MicroRNA Regulatory Targets in Vertebrates”
Benjamin Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5:00 - 6:30 pm Practicum Poster Session/Reception - Atrium Ballroom
5:15 pm Laboratory Poster Session Opening Remarks - Atrium Ballroom
Robert Meisner, NNSA
7:00 pm Fellows Social
Capitol City Brewery Downtown
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
7:30 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Session III
Session ModeratorBrad Beck, NNSA

8:40 - 9:00 am

“Linear Solution Preservation and Diffusive Solutions for SN Radiation Transport”
Heath Hanshaw, University of Michigan

9:00 - 9:20 am

“Investigating the use of low-discrepancy sequences in particle simulations for rarefied gas flows”
Matthew McNenly, University of Michigan

9:20 - 9:40 am

“A New Liquid-Vapor Phase Transition Technique for the Level Set Method”
Nathaniel Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology

9:40 - 10:00 am Break
10:00 - 10:20 am

“Making Schrödinger cats from Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) with massively parallel processors”
Mary Ann Leung, University of Washington

10:20 - 10:40 am

“Locally-optimal methods to solve large-scale eigenvalue problems in electronic structure calculations”
Kristopher Andersen, University of California, Davis

10:40 - 11:00 am

“The Integration of Computational Solid Models and Computer Vision for Sensing, Control, and Manipulation at the Microscale”
Michael Greminger, University of Minnesota

11:00 - 12:30 pm

Alumni/Current Fellows Session
Mayya Tokman,
University of California, Berkeley

12:30 pm Lunch
On your own
  Free Time
4:00 pm Fellows set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 7:00 pm Fellows Poster Session/Reception - Grand Ballroom
Dinner On your own
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THURSDAY, JUNE 23
7:45 am Fellows meet in lobby
8:15 am Group photo at fountain
8:30 am Walk to Rayburn House Office Building
9:00 - 10:00 am Congressional Breakfast, B339 Rayburn House Office Building

Session IV
Session ModeratorThuc Hoang, NNSA

10:30 - 10:50 am

“Why Pictures Look Right when Viewed from the Wrong Place”
Ahna Girshick, University of California, Berkeley

10:50 - 11:10 am

“Toward ‘one-dimensional turbulence’ subgrid closure for large-eddy simulation”
Randall McDermott, University of Utah

11:10 - 11:20 am Break
11:20 - 11:40 am “A Computational Method for Simulating the Interaction between Fluid and Elastic Structures”
Elijah Newren, University of Utah

11:40 - Noon

“Less is More: Efficient Numerics for Model Physics Problems in Simple Geometries”
Kevin Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Noon - 1:30 pm

Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Speaker : Kathryn Clay, Staffer, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

2:30 pm Meeting adjourned
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