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2009 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

The annual Fellows' Poster Session affords program review attendees a unique opportunity to learn more about the research being supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and prizes are awarded to those who engage in the best visual and oral presentations.

2009 Contest Winners

  • Alex Rodriguez — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Overall)

  • Jeff Hammond — University of Chicago (Honorable Mention)

  • Paul Sutter — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Honorable Mention)

  • Douglas Mason — Harvard University (Novice)

Group I — Presenting from 5:30-6:45 p.m.

Applied Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
1 Scott Clark Logical Redundancy in Random k-SAT Problems
3 John Evans Isogeometric Analysis of Hydrodynamic Noise Generation
5 James Martin Stochastic Newton MCMC
Atmospheric Science
Poster Number Name Title
7 Matthew Norman A High-Order Accurate, Upwind, and Fully Discrete Linearized Riemann Solver: Application to Non-Hydrostatic Atmospheric Simulation
Bioengineering
Poster Number Name Title
9 Ying Hu A Mie-based simulation study on spectral and angular radiation properties of gold-silica-gold multilayer nanoshells
Biology
Poster Number Name Title
11 Carl Boettiger Searching Phylogenetic Trees for Adaptive Landscapes
13 Paul Loriaux A mathematical model of homeostatic and stimulus-induced regulation of cell death by the transcription factor NF-kappaB in response to TNF
15 Cyrus Omar State-dependent correlation between excitatory and inhibitory firing is explained by opposing correlating input with anti-correlating neural interactions
17 Sarah Richardson Automated Design of Assemblable, Modular, Synthetic Chromosomes
19 Danilo Scepanovic Toward a more physiologically constrained instantaneous heart rate
Chemical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
21 Geoffrey Oxberry Affine Lumping Formalism for Comparison of Projection-Based Model Reduction Techniques
Chemistry
Poster Number Name Title
23 Matthew Reuter A Fast Split-Operator Spectral Method for Solving the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation in Angular Coordinates
25 Brenda Rubenstein An Entropic Fitness? The Specific Adsorption of Proteins Amidst Polymer Brushes
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
27 Cameron Talischi Topology optimization with polygonal finite elements
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Poster Number Name Title
29 Britton Olson Towards Peta-scale shock/turbulence computations
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
31 Jeffrey Kilpatrick Association graph reduction: a framework for efficient exploration of high-level interactions in complex disease etiology
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
33 Mark Berrill Modeling Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers
Materials Science and Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
35 Anubhav Jain A High-Throughput Computational Search for Novel Li-ion Battery Cathode Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
37 Brian Lockwood Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Hypersonic Flows
Operations Research
Poster Number Name Title
39 Kathleen King Modeling Public Health Emergency Response Logistics
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
41 Gregory Crosswhite A computational quest for quantum codes
43 Jack Deslippe Nonlinear and Many-Body Effects on the Properties of Nanostructures
45 Milo Lin Primary Peptide Folding Dynamics Observed with Ultrafast Temperature Jump
47 Alejandro Rodriguez Computing Casimir forces via table-top experiments: a time-domain approach

Group II — Presenting from 6:30-7:45 p.m.

Aeronautics
Poster Number Name Title
2 John Ziegler Simulating Diffusion in Detonations
Applied Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
4 Steven Hamilton Negative Flux Fixups in Finite Element Radiation Transport
6 Michael Sekora The NIKE Code: A Hybrid Godunov Method for Radiation Hydrodynamics
8 Benjamin Sonday Diffusion maps for model reduction: exploiting data mining to accelerate simulation
Audiology/Speech Pathology
Poster Number Name Title
10 Anne Warlaumont Artificial neural networks that “listen” to infant vocalizations
Bioengineering
Poster Number Name Title
12 Tal Danino Synchronization of a synthetic gene oscillator in Escherichia coli
Biology
Poster Number Name Title
14 Eric Chi Parametric Statistical Classification by the Minimum Integrated Square Error Criterion
16 Robin Friedman Most mammalian mRNAs are conserved targets of microRNAs
18 Alex Perkins Evolutionarily labile species interactions and spatial spread dynamics of biological invasions
20 Ariella Sasson De Novo Short Read Genome Sequencing
Biophysics
Poster Number Name Title
22 Armen Kherlopian Large-scale model of primary visual cortex provides single neuron resolution on a macro scale
Chemical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
24 Ashlee Ford A Mechanistic Modeling Approach to the Design and Evaluation of Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems
Chemistry
Poster Number Name Title
26 Jeff Hammond Developing polarizable force fields from ab initio calculations and the role of quantum chemical benchmarking in the age of petascale
28 Claire Ralph Orbital ordering in Density Matrix Renormalization Group methods
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
30 Brian Levine National airspace model: Deterministic optimization of flight frequencies by carrier after airport losses
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Poster Number Name Title
32 Eric Liu A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the RANS Equations Under ProjectX
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
34 Arnab Bhattacharyya Robust Regulatory Networks
Cosmology
Poster Number Name Title
36 Paul Sutter Galaxy Cluster Magnetic Fields from Active Galactic Nuclei
Mechanical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
38 Curtis Hamman The Sound of Boiling
Nuclear Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
40 Joshua Hykes Non-analog momentum deposition estimators for Monte Carlo radiative transfer
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
42 Hal Finkel Global Particle-Simulation Studies of Plasma-Microturbulence Properties
44 Kristi Harris Atomistic Simulation of Metallic Nanowires
46 Douglas Mason Efficient Electronic Transport Calculations for Arbitrarily-Shaped Graphene Devices