2005 Agenda

2005 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Tuesday, June 20 – Thursday, June 23

Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Time	Event
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, President, Krell Institute Ed Oliver, DOE Office of Science
9:30 - 10:20 am	Keynote – Grand Ballroom David Keyes, Columbia University “Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing”
Session I Moderator: Dan Hitchcock, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30 - 10:50 am	Marcelo Alvarez, University of Texas, Austin “First Light in the Universe: Primordial Stars and Reionization”
10:40 - 11:00 am	Break
11:00 - 11:20 am	Sommer Gentry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Maximizing paired kidney donation”
11:20 - 11:40 am	Seung Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Transitional Flow in a Stenosed Carotid Artery”
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 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation - Grand Ballroom David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1:15 - 2:00 pm	2005 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk Ryan Elliott, University of Minnesota “Computing Bifurcation and Stability Properties of Crystals”
2:00 - 2:45 pm	2005 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk Judith Hill, Carnegie Mellon University “Phase Field Methods for Flows with Elastic Membranes”
2:45 - 3:00 pm	Break
Session II Moderator: Fred Johnson, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
3:00 - 3:20 pm	Matthew Wolinsky, Duke University “Fluid Flow in Evolving Sedimentary Deposits”
3:20 - 3:40 pm	Richard Katz, Columbia University “The deep roots of volcanos: localization instabilities in a continuum model of magma dynamics”
3:40 - 4:00 pm	Sam Schofield, University of Arizona “Blips, Coils, and Pedals: Instabilities of negatively buoyant jets in stratified fluids”
4:00 pm	Lab set up for poster session
4:00 - 4:20 pm	Break
4:20 - 4:40 pm	Julian Mintseris, Boston University “Structure-based Approaches to Protein Recognition”
4:40 - 5:00 pm	Benjamin Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Identification of MicroRNA Regulatory Targets in Vertebrates”
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
Wednesday, June 22
7:30 - 8:30 am	Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Session III Moderator: Brad Beck, NNSA
8:40 - 9:00 am	Heath Hanshaw, University of Michigan “Linear Solution Preservation and Diffusive Solutions for S_N Radiation Transport”
9:00 - 9:20 am	Matthew McNenly, University of Michigan “Investigating the use of low-discrepancy sequences in particle simulations for rarefied gas flows”
9:20 - 9:40 am	Nathaniel Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology “A New Liquid-Vapor Phase Transition Technique for the Level Set Method”
9:40 - 10:00 am	Break
10:00 - 10:20 am	Mary Ann Leung, University of Washington “Making Schrödinger cats from Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) with massively parallel processors”
10:20 - 10:40 am	Kristopher Andersen, University of California, Davis “Locally-optimal methods to solve large-scale eigenvalue problems in electronic structure calculations”
10:40 - 11:00 am	Michael Greminger, University of Minnesota “The Integration of Computational Solid Models and Computer Vision for Sensing, Control, and Manipulation at the Microscale”
11:00 - 12:30 pm	Alumni/Current Fellows Session Mayya Tokman University of California, Berkeley
12:30 pm	Free Time (Lunch on your own)
4:00 pm	Fellows set up for Poster Session – Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 7:00 pm	DOE CSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception – Grand Ballroom
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 Moderator: Thuc Hoang, NNSA
10:30 - 10:50 am	Ahna Girshick, University of California, Berkeley “Why Pictures Look Right when Viewed from the Wrong Place”
11:00 - 11:20 am	Randall McDermott, University of Utah “Toward ‘one-dimensional turbulence’ subgrid closure for large-eddy simulation”
11:10 - 11:20 am	Break
11:20 - 11:40 am	Elijah Newren, University of Utah “A Computational Method for Simulating the Interaction between Fluid and Elastic Structures ”
11:40 am - Noon	Kevin Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Less is More: Efficient Numerics for Model Physics Problems in Simple Geometries”
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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