2005 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Wednesday, June 22 — 5:00-7:00 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 – 6:00 pm
Aeronautics/Astronautics
1	Krzysztof Fidkowski	Grid Adaptation for High-Order Finite Element Discretizations
Applied Mathematics
3	Nawaf Bou-Rabee	Parallel Computational Dynamical Systems
5	Jimena Davis	Comparison of Two Approximation Methods in the Estimation of Growth Rate Distributions in Size-Structured Mosquitofish Populations
7	Amber Sallerson	Closure and numerical simulation of a new class of multiphase flow and transport models
Astrophysics
9	Gregory Novak	The Structure of Simulated Galaxy Remnants Compared to Observations
Bioengineering
11	William Triffo	Modeling Intracellular Ion Transport in the Outer Hair Cell
Biophysics
13	Joshua Waterfall	Sloppy Models - predictions and parameter estimation in multiparameter nonlinear models
15	Michael Wu	What’s beyond second order? Kernel regression techniques for nonlinear functional characterization of visual neurons
Chemical Engineering
17	Michael Bybee	Large Scale Simulation of Colloidal Suspensions
19	Christina Payne	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Nanoscale Device for Fast Sequencing of DNA
21	Obioma Uche	Tailoring the S(k) Behaviour of Point Particle Systems
Chemistry
23	Matthew McGrath	Simulation of Phase Equilibria from First Principles: Applications to Water
25	Peter Kekenes-Huskey	moleculeGL: A Recursive, Metropolis Monte Carlo Rotamer-Design Algorithm
Civil Engineering
27	Kristine Cochran	Sub-stepping procedures in constitutive modeling for low-cycle fatigue applications
Computational Biology
29	Bree Aldridge	Separating Signaling Space
31	Etay Ziv	Biological Networks: Does Function Follow Form?
Computer Science
33	Sarah Moussa	Novel Methods for Visualization and Clustering of DNA Microarray Data
35	Michael Wolf	Improving the Parallel Efficiency of Tau3P, a Parallel Electromagnetic Field Solver
Electrical Engineering
37	Aron Cummings	Electronic Nature of Loops in Carbon Nanotubes
Materials Science
39	Brandon Wood	First-principles Simulation of Superionic Behavior
Nuclear Engineering
41	Gregory Davidson	Automatic Variance Reduction for Monte Carlo Transport
Physics
43	Jeffrey Drocco	Diffusion of Bicoid protein in Drosophila melanogaster embryos
45	Mark Rudner	Parallel Simulation of Quantum Coherent dynamics by Parameterized Time-dependent Hamiltonians (PSiQCoPATH)
Planetary Sciences
47	Emma Rainey	Grain size-dependent viscosity and the thermal evolution of icy satellites
Virtual Reality
49	Alex Lindblad	Virtual Cutting and Suturing for an Immersive Finite Element Based Bi-Manual Suturing Simulator
Group II — Presenting from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Applied Mathematics
2	Paul Bauman	An Approach to Multi-Scale Modeling Based upon Goal-Oriented Error Estimation and Adaptive Selection of Models
4	Jasmine Foo	Solving the Stochastic Navier-Lamé System with Generalized Polynomial Chaos
6	David Schmidt	Error Correcting Codes and Genetic Sequence Analysis
8	Samuel Stechmann	A Simplified Model for Precipitation Fronts in the Tropics
Astrophysics
10	Ian Parrish	Simulation of the Magnetothermal Instability
12	John ZuHone	Investigating the Central Density Profile of Dark Matter Halos Using Mergers
Biochemistry
14	Joshua Adelman	The Mechanochemistry of Rho Transcription Termination Factor
Bioinformatics
16	Michael Driscoll	Reverse-Engineering Microbial Gene Networks with Large-Scale RNA Expression Data Sets
Chemical Engineering
18	Erik Allen	Measuring Efficiency of Polymer Monte Carlo Simulations
20	Mary Biddy	Atomistic and Coarse Grained Models for Property Predictions of Environmentally Friendly Lubricants
22	Owen Hehmeyer	Molecular Modeling of Tethered Polyelectrolytes
Civil and Environmental Engineering
24	Michael Barad	An Embedded Boundary Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Environmental Flows
26	Michael Veilleux	Three-Dimensional Finite Element Modeling of Realistic Polycrystalline Geometries
Computational Biology
28	Amoolya Singh	Links between carbon source selection and anaerobiosis in Shewanella oneidensis
Computer Science
30	Yan Karklin	What do statistical models of natural images tell us about visual processing in the brain?
32	Bonnie Kirkpatrick	Constructing Phylogenies under the Rich Data Hypothesis
Engineering Mechanics
34	Brian Taylor	Detonation dynamics in the shock-attached frame
Geography
36	David Potere	Forest Harvest Mapping along the Appalachian Trail using Supervised Decision Tree Classifiers and Landsat Imagery
Mechanical Engineering
38	William Conley	Multiple atom stick-slip motion in Friction Force Microscopy
40	Mary Dunlop	Robustness and Evolvability in Synthetic Gene Circuits
Nuclear Engineering
42	Allan Wollaber	A Monte Carlo-Deterministic Method for Global Transport Calculations
Physical Chemistry
44	Tod Pascal	Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Spherical Solute in a Nanopore: Coupled Continuum/Atomistic Simulation
46	Mala Radhakrishnan	Erythropoietin: A Case Study for Understanding Cytokine Signaling and Potency
Physics
48	Teresa Bailey	A Piecewise Linear Finite Element Discretization of the Diffusion Equation
50	Jaydeep Bardhan	Boundary Element Methods for Biomolecule Electrostatics