Conference Agenda
2008 DOE CSGF Annual Conference Agenda
June 16 – 19, 2008
Washington, DC
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Monday, June 16 |
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| 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. | New Fellows Registration & Photo Session - Ashlawn |
| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby |
| 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. |
Attendees Dinner - Sagamore Hill Introduction to DOE NNSA SSGF Program (John Ziebarth, Krell Institute) |
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Tuesday, June 17 |
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| 7:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom |
| 7:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Registration - Lower Lobby |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. |
Welcome - Grand Ballroom James Corones, President, Krell Institute |
| 9:15 - 9:30 a.m. |
Welcome - Grand Ballroom Barbara Helland, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
| 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. |
Welcome - Grand Ballroom David Crandall, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:45 - 10:45 a.m. |
Keynote - Grand Ballroom Randall LeVeque, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington “Literate Programming and Reproducible Research in Computational Science” |
| 10:45 - 11:00 a.m. | Break |
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Session I – Grand Ballroom Moderator: George Seweryniak, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
“Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Medium Systems” Amber Sallerson Jackson, University of North Carolina |
| 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. |
“When Life Hands You Lemons – Optimize Away!” Stefan Wild, Cornell University |
| 11:40 - 12:00 p.m. |
“Modeling the world’s cities: an examination of global urban maps and their implications for conservation planning” David Potere, Princeton University |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest winners |
| 1:45 - 2:00 p.m. |
2008 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation Introduction by David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Grand Ballroom |
| 2:00 - 2:45 p.m. |
2008 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk Mala Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wellesley College |
| 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. | Break |
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Session II – Grand Ballroom |
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| 3:00 - 3:20 p.m. |
“Efficient techniques for quantifying uncertainty” Jasmine Foo, Brown University |
| 3:20 - 3:40 p.m. |
“Simulating Everything: Computer Simulations of Galaxy Clusters and Synthetic Observations” John ZuHone, University of Chicago |
| 3:40 - 4:00 p.m. |
“An explicit approach to stochastically modeling fatigue crack formation” Michael Veilleux, Cornell University |
| 4:00 - 4:20 p.m. |
“Fluctuation theorem in colloidal systems with quenched disorder” Jeffrey Drocco, Princeton University |
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session - Atrium Ballroom |
| 5:10 - 5:25 p.m. |
Opening Remarks Kim Yates, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 7:00 p.m. | Fellows meet in Lobby to walk to Fellows’ Social |
| 7:30 p.m. | DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows Social – La Tasca, Penn Quarter |
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Wednesday, June 18 |
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| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. |
“Discovering new science through HPC: An Alumna’s Story” Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute |
| 9:45 a.m. | Fellows meet in lobby to walk to group photo site |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Group photograph |
| 10:30 - 10:40 a.m. | Break |
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Session III – Grand Ballroom |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
“Phasing for Pedigrees when SNPs are Densely Packed” Bonnie Kirkpatrick, University of California, Berkeley |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
“Hydrodynamic Simulations of Colloidal Suspensions with Short-Range Attraction and Long-Range Repulsion
” Michael Bybee, University of Illinois |
| 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. |
“Quantifying Uncertainty in the Estimation of Probability Distributions” Jimena Davis, North Carolina State University |
| 11:40 - 12:00 p.m. |
“A Novel Algorithm for Creating Coarse-Grained Implicit Solvent Models for Simulation of Surfactant Systems” Erik Allen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session Moderated by DOE CSGF Alumna Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced |
| 1:00 p.m. | Free Time (Lunch on your own) / Congressional visits as scheduled |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Optional Meeting HPC Focus Group/Information Gathering Session Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute - Monticello Room |
| 4:00 p.m. | Fellows set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom |
| 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. | DOE CSGF & NNSA SSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception - Grand Ballroom |
| 5:10 - 5:25 p.m. |
Opening Remarks Michael Kreisler, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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Thursday, June 19 |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer |
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Session IV – Grand Ballroom Moderator: Daniel Hitchcock, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy Special Session on High Performance Computing (HPC) |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. |
Barbara Helland, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy DOE facilities for HPC |
| 9:30 -10:00 a.m. |
Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientific Discovery Advanced by HPC |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
David Skinner, NERSC SciDAC Outreach Center |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Open discussion on HPC |
| 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. | Break (Time for hotel checkout if needed) |
| 11:30 - 1:00 pm |
Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom Speaker: Charles H. Romine, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| Meeting Concludes | |
