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2006 Department of Energy
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Fellows’ Conference

 June 19-22, 2006 
Washington, DC





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MONDAY, JUNE 19
5:00 - 6:00 pm New Fellows Registration & Photo Session - Ashlawn
5:30 - 6:30 pm Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby
6:30 pm New Attendees Dinner - Atrium Ballroom
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TUESDAY, JUNE 20
7:45 - 8:30 am Registration - Lower Lobby
8:00 - 8:45 am Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
James Corones, President, Krell Institute
9:15 - 10:15 am Keynote
John Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“The Impact of Computing on Combustion Science”
10:15 - 10:30 am Break

Session I - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorWalter Polansky, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

10:30 -10:50 am “Interpretable Modeling of Complex Cell Signaling Networks”
Bree Aldridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:50 - 11:10 am “Origins of Sloppiness in Biological Models”
Joshua Waterfall, Cornell University
11:10 - 11:20 am Break
11:20 - 11:40 am “Fast Update Procedures for Finite Element Based Suturing, Tissue Cutting and Skin Undermining in a Haptic Environment”
Alex Lindblad, University of Washington
11:40 am - Noon “A Piecewise Linear Finite Element Discretization of the Diffusion Equation”
Teresa Bailey, Texas A&M University
Noon - 1:30 pm Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Introduction and acknowledgement of DOE CSGF Essay Contest award winners and reviewers
1:30 - 1:45 pm 2006 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation - Grand Ballroom
David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1:45 - 2:30 pm 2006 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk
“Towards an Understanding of Nonlinear Electrochemical Transport”
Kevin Chu, Princeton University
2:30 - 3:15 pm 2006 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk
“Modeling Earth Surface Dynamics from Source to Sink”
Matthew Wolinsky, University of Minnesota
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break

Session II - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorThuc Hoang, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

3:30 - 3:50 pm “An Aufbau Ansatz for Geminal Functional Theory”
Christopher Rinderspacher, University of Georgia
3:50 - 4:10 pm “Fast, Variational Newmark Integrators on Manifolds”
Nawaf Bou-Rabee, California Institute of Technology
4:10 - 4:30 pm “Finite Element Particle Transport Using Wachspress Rational Basis Functions”
Gregory Davidson, University of Michigan
6:00-8:00 pm Gala Reception - Atrium Ballroom
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Session III - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorGeorge Seweryniak, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

9:00 - 9:20 am “Efficient Numerical Algorithms for Surface Formulations of Mathematical Models for Biomolecule Analysis and Design”
Jaydeep Bardhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:20 - 9:40 am “System Identification for Bacteria”
Mary Dunlop, California Institute of Technology
9:40 - 10:00 am “Structure and Kinematics of Simulated Galaxy Merger Remnants”
Gregory Novak, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:00 - 10:20 am Break
10:20 - 10:40 am “Molecular Modeling and Engineering of Vegetable Oil-based Lubricants”
Mary Biddy, University of Wisconsin - Madison
10:40 - 11:00 am “An Embedded Boundary Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Highly Nonlinear Internal Waves”
Michael Barad, University of California, Davis
11:00 - 11:20 am “Modeling Fatigue”
Kristine Cochran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:20 - 11:30 am Break
11:30 - 12:30 pm Alumni/CSGF Fellows Session
Moderated by CSGF alum Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
12:30 pm Free Time (Lunch on your own)
4:00 pm Fellows and Practicum Labs set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 6:00 pm DOE CSGF Practicum Poster Session/Reception - Grand Ballroom
6:00 - 8:00 pm DOE CSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception - Grand Ballroom
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THURSDAY, JUNE 22
8:15 am Fellows meet in hotel lobby
8:30 am Walk to Rayburn House Office Building
9:00 - 10:00 am Congressional Breakfast, B339 Rayburn House Office Building

Session IV - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorNjema Frazier, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

10:40 - 11:00 am “Construction of a Genome-wide Regulatory Network for the Metal-reducing Microbe Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1”
Michael Driscoll, Boston University
11:00 - 11:20 am “Evolution, Modularity, and Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks”
Amoolya Singh, University of California, Berkeley
11:20 - 11:40 am “Efficient Matching for Recognition and Retrieval”
Kristen Grauman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:40 - 1:00 pm Luncheon
Speaker: Joel Parriott, Office of Management and Budget
“How and Why You Get Paid to Go to Grad School and Other Budget Lessons”

Session V - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorWalter Polansky, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

1:00 - 1:20 pm “Molecular Modeling of Tethered Polyelectrolytes”
Owen Hehmeyer, Princeton University
1:20 - 1:40 pm “Prediction of MicroRNA Regulatory Targets in Mammalian Genomes”
Benjamin Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:40 - 2:00 pm “Statistical Models of the Early Visual System”
Yan Karklin, Carnegie Mellon University
2:00 - 2:20 pm Break
2:20 - 2:40 pm “Computational Methods for Characterizing Single Neuron Function under Natural Conditions”
Michael Wu, University of California, Berkeley
2:40 - 3:00 pm “Collective Coordinate Control of Density Distributions”
Obioma Uche, Princeton University
3:00 - 3:10 pm Break
3:15 - 4:15 pm Writing about Science
“Starting from the End: The Power of Turning Science into Story”
Jacob Berkowitz, Quantum Writing
5:00 pm Fellows’ Social - Capitol City
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