USDOE 2009 CSGF Conference - Agenda

2009 Department of Energy
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Annual Conference
July 14-16, 2009 — Washington, DC

Monday, July 13
5:30 - 6:30 pm	Registration & Photo Session for new Fellows– Ashlawn
5:30 - 6:30 pm	Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby
7:00 - 8:30 pm	New Attendees Dinner - Atrium Ballroom Introduction to DOE CSGF Program James Corones, President, Krell Institute
Tuesday, July 14
7:30 - 8:45 am	Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom
8:00 – 9:00 am	Registration - Grand Ballroom Foyer
9:00 - 9:15 am	Welcome - Grand Ballroom James Corones, President, Krell Institute
9:15 - 9:30 am	Welcome - Grand Ballroom Patricia Dehmer, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:30 - 9:45 am	Welcome - Grand Ballroom Tom D'Agostino, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:45 - 10:30 am	Keynote - Grand Ballroom “Transparency and Knowledge: A Legacy Opportunity for the Nation's Electric Infrastructure” J. Michael Davis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
10:30 - 10:40 am	Break
Session I - Grand Ballroom Moderator: Karen Pao, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:40 - 11:00 am	“Simulation of Nanoscale Electro-thermal Effects in Semiconductor Devices” Zlatan Aksamija, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:00 - 11:20 am	“Large-Scale Ill-Posed Inverse Problems in Imaging Applications” Julianne Chung, Emory University
11:20 - 11:40 am	“Towards a Genomically Detailed Minimal Cell Model” Jordan Atlas, Cornell University

11:40 - 12:00 pm	“Direct Numerical Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamic Thruster Plasmas” Peter Norgaard, Princeton University
12:00 - 1:15 pm	Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest winners
1:30 - 1:45 pm	2009 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation - Grand Ballroom David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1:45 - 2:30 pm	2009 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk - Grand Ballroom “The View from On-Orbit : New Challenges and Opportunities in Earth Observation and Satellite Remote Sensing” David Potere, Boston Consulting Group
Session II - Grand Ballroom Moderator: William Spotz, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
2:30 - 2:50 pm	“Chirality in Nature: Using Electrostatic Forces to Generate Chiral Symmetry” Kevin Kohlstedt, Northwestern University
2:50 - 3:10 pm	“Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, New Quarks, and Graphics Processors” Christopher Schroeder, University of California, San Diego
3:10 - 3:30 pm	“Noisy Clocks and Information Processing in the Brain” David Markowitz, Princeton University
5:00 - 6:30 pm	Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session - Atrium Ballroom 5:10 - 5:25 pm - Opening Remarks Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
7:00 pm	Fellows and Alumni meet in hotel lobby to walk to social
7:30 pm	DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows and Alumni Social Piedmont Room at Clyde's of Gallery Place 707 7th Street, NW
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Wednesday, July 15
8:30 - 10:30 am	Free Time
Session III - Grand Ballroom Moderator: Osni Marques, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:40 - 11:00 am	“Analyzing Simulation Data Using Bayesian Theorem” David Rogers, University of Cincinnati

11:00 - 11:20 am	“First-principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Hydrogen-bonding Fluids” Matt McGrath, Peace Corps
11:20 - 11:40 am	“Stability and Stegotons: Understanding Waves through Computation” David Ketcheson, University of Washington
11:45 – 1:00 pm	DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session – Springwood Room, Lower Level Moderated by DOE CSGF Alumna Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced (Lunch available for attendees)
1:30 – 2:30 pm	HPC Roundtable Discussion – Springwood Room, Lower Level Moderated by Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute
2:45 – 4:15 pm	Writing Tips and Traps: How to Compete for a Reader's Time (and Grant Money) – Springwood Room, Lower Level Randy Black, Office of Research Development at the University of California, Irvine
4:00 pm	Fellows set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 8:00 pm	Fellows Poster Reception - Grand Ballroom 5:10 - 5:25 pm - Opening Remarks Anna Palmisano, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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Thursday, July 16
8:00 - 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer
Session IV - Grand Ballroom Moderator: Robert Hanrahan, National Nuclear Security Administration, U. S. Department of Energy
9:00 - 9:20 am	“Genetic Tuning of Morphological Variability” Oaz Nir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:20 - 9:40 am	“Modular Organization and Composition of RNA” Miler Lee, University of Pennsylvania
9:40 - 10:00 am	“Rotational Stabilization of Magnetically Collimated Jets” Christopher Carey, University of Wisconsin
10:00 - 10:20 am	Break
10:20 - 10:40 am	“The Mechanical Properties of the Sliding DNA Clamp PCNA” Joshua Adelman, University of California, Berkeley

10:40 - 11:00 am	“Breaking Ground in Earthquake Simulation: Extended Finite Element Methods for Repeated Earthquake Rupture” Ethan Coon, Columbia University
11:00 - 11:20 am	“Sequential Optimal Design of Neurophysiology Experiments to Maximize Information Using Generalized Linear Models” Jeremy Lewi, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:20 - 12:00 pm	Break
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom Fellows Poster Contest Winners Announcement Adam Rosenberg, Congressional Staff Member, Committee on Science and Technology
Meeting Concludes
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