2011 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda
20th Anniversary Celebration: "Building a Community of Leaders"
Wednesday, July 20 – Saturday, July 23
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
| Wednesday, July 20 (HPC Workshop, etc.) | |
| 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | HPC Workshop — Salons A, B & C, etc. |
| 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | New Fellows Photo Session — Jefferson |
| 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. | Making Connections: Fellows/Alumni Reception — Salon K |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. | New Attendee Dinner — Salon J |
| Thursday, July 21 | |
| 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:00 - 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast Buffet — Salons H, J & K |
| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. |
Welcome — Salons A, B & C James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 8:45 - 9:00 a.m. |
Department of Energy Welcome — Salons A, B & C Robert Meisner — Director, National Nuclear Security Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing Program, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Keynote — Salons A, B & C William Harrod — ASCR Research Division Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy "What Happened to Supercomputers?" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
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Session I — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Karen Pao, Mathematician — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. |
Anubhav Jain — Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The Materials Genome: An online database for the design of new materials for clean energy and beyond" |
| 10:50 - 11:10 a.m. |
Eric Chi — Rice University "Robustly finding the needles in a haystack of high-dimensional data" |
| 11:10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Paul Sutter — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Exploring large-scale magnetic fields with large-scale simulations" |
| 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
20th Anniversary Gala Luncheon — Salons H & J Announcement: Jeff Lewandowski — Publisher, IOP Publishing Special Issue of Computational Science & Discovery Journal Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the DOE CSGF Program Speaker: Margaret Wright — Courant Institute, New York University "Back to the Future?" |
| 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. | Announcement of 2011 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Recipient — Salons A, B & C David L. Brown — Deputy Associate Director for Science and Technology, Computation Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 1:45 - 2:45 p.m. |
2011 Frederick Howes Scholar Presentation — Salons A, B & C Alejandro Rodriguez — Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology; DOE CSGF Alumnus "Understanding electromagnetic fluctuations in microstructured geometries" |
| 2:45 - 3:15 p.m. | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
| 2:45 - 3:15 p.m. | DOE Laboratory Poster Session Set Up — Salons H, J & K |
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Session II — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Ceren Susut-Bennet, Physical Scientist — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 3:15 - 3:35 p.m. |
James Martin — University of Texas "Uncertainty quantification for large-scale statistical inverse problems" |
| 3:35 - 3:55 p.m. |
Matthew Reuter — Northwestern University "Computational science meets materials chemistry: a bilingual investigation of surface effects in nanoscale systems" |
| 3:55 - 4:15 p.m. |
John Ziegler — California Institute of Technology "Simulations of diffusive, reactive, compressible flows with detailed chemistry using a high-order hybrid WENO-CD scheme" |
| 4:15 - 4:45 p.m. | Group Photo (All Attendees) — Salons A, B & C |
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. |
DOE Laboratory Poster Session and Reception — Salons H, J & K Opening Remarks Daniel Hitchcock — Acting Associate Director, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. | Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — Salon E |
| Friday, July 22 | |
| 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — Salon E |
| 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast Buffet — Salons H & J |
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Session III — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Mark Anderson, Technical Advisor — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Keynote — Salons A, B & C Judith Hill — Research and Development Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumna "____Scale Computing: How Did We Get Here and What's Next?" |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. |
Ying Hu — Rice University "Optical properties of gold-silica-gold multilayer nanoshells" |
| 10:20 - 10:50 a.m. | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
| 10:50 - 11:10 a.m. |
Cameron Talischi — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "On optimization of shape and topology" |
| 11:10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Danilo Scepanovic — Harvard University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology "A model of sinoatrial node cell regulation by the autonomic nervous system" |
| 11:30 - 11:50 a.m. |
Matthew Norman — North Carolina State University "Efficient Parallel Numerical Integration Algorithms for the Atmospheric Sciences" |
| 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. |
Luncheon — Salons H & J Essay Contest Awards Birds of a Feather Discussion Tables |
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Session IV — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Christopher Werner, Senior Advisor, Office of Defense Science National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
Keynote — Salons A, B & C Jeffrey Hittinger — Computational Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus "The Path to Fusion: A Computational Scientist's Journey" |
| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. |
Joshua Hykes — North Carolina State University "High stakes Where's Waldo: Watching for nuclear weapon material" |
| 2:50 - 3:10 p.m. |
Sarah Richardson— Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Algorithms for the design and assembly of a modular, synthetic genome for yeast" |
| 3:10 - 3:30 p.m. |
Alex Perkins — University of California, Davis "Contributions of reproductive and dispersal evolution to the spatial spread of cane toads and other invasive species" |
| 3:40 p.m. | Fellows/Alumni Group Photos — Off-Site Location (Meet in Lobby to Walk to Site) |
| 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. |
Fellows' Poster Session and Reception — Salons H, J & K Opening Remarks Dimitri Kusnezov — Chief Scientist and Director, Office of Science and Policy, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Saturday, July 23 | |
| 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast Buffet — Salons H & J |
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Session V — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Alejandro Rodriguez, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology; DOE CSGF Alumnus |
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| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. | Poster Contest Winners Announcement |
| 9:15 - 9:35 a.m. |
Gregory Crosswhite— University of Washington "CodeQuest: a weapon of mass simulation in the war on noise" |
| 9:35 - 9:55 a.m. |
Paul Loriaux — University of California, San Diego "Building an efficient classifier for drug-induced cell death" |
| 9:55 - 10:25 a.m. | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
| 10:25 - 10:45 a.m. |
Milo Lin— California Institute of Technology "Kinetics of macromolecular folding" |
| 10:45 - 11:05 a.m. |
Geoffrey Oxberry — Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Advances in the approximation of chemistry in reaction flow simulations" |
| 11:05 - 11:25 a.m. |
Steven Hamilton — Emory University "Numerical solution of the k-eigenvalue problem" |
| 11:25 - 11:45 a.m. |
Hal Finkel — Yale University "Relics of preheating after inflation" |
| 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
Career Connections Fellows and Alumni Luncheon — Salon H |
| 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Free Time |
| 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Fellows and Alumni Social — Ruth's Chris Steak House, 2231 Crystal Drive, 11th Floor (Arlington) |