2003 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Wednesday, July 16 — 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the breadth of research supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and the session is divided into two groups so all participants have the chance to view the displays and ask questions of their peers.

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting from 5:00 – 5:40 pm
Aerospace Engineering
1	Justin Koo	Computational Modeling of Stationary Plasma Thrusters
3	Ryan Elliott	Stability concepts for thermally-induced martensitic transformations in crystals
Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy
5	Mary Dunlop	Jet Noise Prediction
Applied Mathematics
7	Kevin Chu	Preliminary Steps in Modeling Rechargeable Batteries
9	Catherine Norman	Contact Line Motion with Level Sets
Bioinformatics
11	Michael Driscoll	Dynamical Motifs in Gene Regulatory Networks
Biology
13	Gavin Conant	Duplicate genes and robustness to transient gene knockouts in Caenorhabditis elegans
Biophysics
15	Joshua Waterfall	Modelling Quorum Sensing in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Chemical Engineering
23	Mary Biddy	Molecular Engineering of Triacylglycerols
25	Obioma Uche	Concerning Maximal Packing Arrangements of Binary Disk Mixtures
Chemistry
17	Daniel Horner	Computational methods in electron-driven chemistry
19	Joyce Noah	Kinetic theory of density fluctuations in one component monatomic fluids at equilibrium
Chemistry and Biochemistry
21	Catherine Grasso	POAVIZ: a Partial Order Multiple Sequence Alignment Visualizer
Civil Engineering
27	Kristine Cochran	The Role of Cyclic Plasticity on the Low-cycle Fatigue Performance of the Space Shuttle Main Engine Steel Components
Computational Astrophysics
29	Marcelo Alvarez	Radiative Transfer in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of Cosmological Reionization
Computational Neuroscience
31	Michael Wu	How Can a Neuron Interpret a Spike Train?
Computer Science
33	Yan Karklin	A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Learning Higher-order Structure in High-dimensional Datasets
35	Richard Mills	Adapting to Memory Pressure from within Scientific Applications on Multiprogrammed Clusters of Workstations
Electrical Engineering
37	Jaydeep Bardhan	Fast Methods for Biomolecule Charge Optimization
39	David Schmidt	A Coding Theory Framework for Genetic Sequence Analysis
Geodynamics
41	Richard Katz	Toward Computational Models of Magma Genesis and Geochemical Transport in Subduction Zones
Geophysical Engineering
43	Samuel Schofield	A Finite Element Preconditioner for Semi-structured Spectral Element Applications
Mathematics
45	Elijah Newren	Virtual Blood
Mechanical Engineering
47	Nathaniel Morgan	Numerical Simulation of Phase Transition in Porous Media
Nuclear Engineering
49	Nathan Carstens	Efficient Parallelization of the Monte Carlo N Particle (MCNP) K-code
51	Gregory Davidson	Finite Element Radiation Transport on Quadrilaterals using Wachspress Rational Basis Functions
Physics
53	Kristopher Andersen	Electronic structure of quantum dots
Robotics
55	Devin Balkcom	Robotic Origami Folding
Group II — Presenting from 5:50 – 6:30 pm
Aerospace Engineering
2	Matthew McNenly	Slip Model Performance for Internal MEMS Gas Flows
Applied Mathematics
4	Nawaf Bou-Rabee	Asymptotic and Numerical Analysis of Electrostatic Buckling of Cantilevers
6	Benjamin Kirk	Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Parallel Finite Element Simulations
Astrophysics
8	L. Jonathan Dursi	Microphysics of Astrophysical Flames
10	Gregory Novak	Simulations of the Lyman Alpha Forest
Bioinformatics
12	Bree Aldridge	A mathematical model of insulin signaling in the apoptosis decision network
14	Julian Mintseris	Getting the Most Out of Statistical Potentials: Optimized Representations for Protein-protein Interactions and Fold Recognition
Biology
16	Annette Evangelisti	A tractable method for computing the distribution of receptor-ligand aggregation size
Chemical Engineering
18	Owen Hehmeyer	Monte Carlo Simulation of Colloid and Polymer Systems
20	Randall McDermott	ODT subgrid closure for LES: application to decaying isotropic turbulence
Chemistry
22	Mary Ann Leung	Simulating Copper/Nickel Sandwiches using Paratec
24	Christopher Rinderspacher	An Aufbau-Ansatz for Geminal Functional Theory
Civil Engineering
26	Alex Lindblad	Real-Time Finite Element Models for an Immersive Surgical Simulation Environment
Computational Neuroscience
28	Benjamin Lewis	Modelling RNA Structures that Mediate Specific Nucleic Acid Recognition applied to the Inference of MicroRNA-Target Interactions
Computer Science
30	Amoolya Singh	Pathway Evolution and Modularity of Bacterial Stress Responses
Electrical Engineering
32	Courtney Roby	Photonic Crystals Using Self-Assembly of Metallo-Dielectric Nanospheres
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
34	Sommer Gentry	Optimal robot base placement for robotic shipwelding
Environmental Modeling
36	Michael Barad	Second Order Accurate Embedded Boundary Methods for the Solution of PDE’s
Geology
38	Matthew Wolinsky	Overpressure Development on Passive Margins: Effects of Loading by Dynamic Deposition Fronts
Mathematics and Scientific Computation
40	Benjamin Keen	A Second Order Kinetic Scheme for Gas Dynamics on Arbitrary Grids
Mechanical Engineering
42	Michael Greminger	Vision-Based Force Measurement Using the Boundary Element Method
44	Seung Lee	Theoretical Modeling of the Interactions Between Gram-negative Bacteria with Mineral Surfaces
Medical Physics
46	Michael Kowalok	Coupled Adjoint and Forward Monte Carlo Radiation Transport for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
Nuclear Engineering
48	Heath Hanshaw	Asymptotically Derived Discretization and Acceleration Schemes for Radiation Transport
50	Teresa Bailey	An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Scheme for the Linear Transport Equation in R-Z Geometry
Physics
52	Matthew Anderson	Constrained Evolution in Numerical Relativity via PETSc and SUNDIALS
Vision Science
54	Ahna Girshick	Surface Cues and Perceived Distortions in Pictorial Images