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2011 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.

2011 Contest Winners

  • Britton Olson — Stanford University (Overall)

  • Kenley Pelzer — University of Chicago (Honorable Mention)

  • Aaron Sisto — Stanford University (Honorable Mention)

  • Zachary Ulissi — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Honorable Mention)

  • Scot Miller — Harvard University (Novice)

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

Aeronautics
Poster Number Name Title
1 Noah Reddell A new flexible high-performance computing code for local (nearest-neighbor) calculations on clustered many-core systems
Applied Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
3 Evan Gawlik Variational integrators for incompressible fluid flow, magnetohydrodynamics, complex fluid flow, and geophysical fluid dynamics
5 Tobin Isaac Toward the massively parallel solution of 3-D ice sheet flow models
Astrophysics
Poster Number Name Title
7 Samuel Skillman High-performance stencil computations on GPUs
Atmospheric Sciences
Poster Number Name Title
9 Christopher Eldred WRF model configuration for seasonal climate forecasting over the Bolivian altiplano
Biology
Poster Number Name Title
11 Carl Boettiger Early warning signals of population collapse
13 Irene Kaplow Integrating gene expression, chromatin modification, and transcription factor binding human embryonic stem cell datasets to understand gene regulation in development
15 Troy Ruths A sequence-based, population genetic model of regulatory pathway evolution
Biophysics
Poster Number Name Title
17 Armen Kherlopian Cardiac myocyte model parameter sensitivity analysis and model transformation using a genetic algorithm
Chemical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
19 Carmeline Dsilva The study of Lennard-Jones clusters using diffusion maps
Chemistry
Poster Number Name Title
21 Devin Matthews Approaches towards the full CI limit for singlet biradicals
23 Brenda Rubenstein Finite-temperature auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo for Bose-Fermi mixtures
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Poster Number Name Title
25 Sanjeeb Bose Explicitly filtered large-eddy simulation on unstructured grids
27 Eric Liu The importance of mesh adaptation for higher-order solutions of PDEs
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
29 Edgar Solomonik Communication-optimal 2.5D dense linear algebra
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
31 Christopher Quinn Using information theory to analyze statistically causal influences in networks of simultaneously recorded neurons
Materials Science and Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
33 Aaron Sisto Predicting the optical properties of nanostructured metamaterials: single-walled carbon nanotube arrays
Mechanical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
35 Brian Lockwood Gradient-enhanced surrogate models for efficient uncertainty quantification
Nuclear Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
37 Peter Maginot A new strictly non-negative SN finite element spatial discretization
39 Travis Trahan 3-D anisotropic neutron diffusion in optically thin channels
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
41 Amanda Peters Multiscale simulation of blood flow in the coronary arteries
43 Norman Yao Topologically protected quantum state transfer in a chiral spin liquid
Statistics
Poster Number Name Title
45 Miles Lopes A statistical model for the dynamic regulation of alternative splicing in D. melanogaster

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

Applied Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
2 Scott Clark ALE: An assembly likelihood evaluation framework to estimate the quality of metagenome assemblies
4 Thomas Fai An FFT-based immersed boundary method for variable viscosity and density fluids
Atmospheric Sciences
Poster Number Name Title
6 Mary Benage The thermal evolution and dynamics of pyroclastic density currents from boiling-over eruptions
8 Scot Miller Sources of nitrous oxide, an important greenhouse gas, over the central United States
Audiology/Speech Pathology
Poster Number Name Title
10 Anne Warlaumont A computational neural network model of infant vocal learning
Biology
Poster Number Name Title
12 Edward Baskerville Modeling and prediction of feeding links using trait data
14 Aleah Caulin Peto's Paradox and the evolution of cancer suppression
16 Charles Frogner Integrative image analysis of Drosophila in situ hybridization data
Chemical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
20 Zachary Ulissi Single Ion Transport Through Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Chemistry
Poster Number Name Title
22 Kurt Brorsen Theoretical study of protonated water clusters using the effective fragment potential
24 Mark Maienschein-Cline An algorithm for parallelization of molecular dynamics in time
26 Kenley Pelzer Strong correlation in polyaromatic hydrocarbons from the two-electron reduced-density-matrix method: effects of geometry and size
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
28 Sean Vitousek Towards Navier-Stokes simulations of the ocean
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Poster Number Name Title
30 Christopher Ivey Multiphase flow modeling for jet atomization
32 Britton Olson Shock-turbulence interactions in a rocket nozzle
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
34 Cyrus Omar Formal infrastructure for data-driven modeling of neurobiological circuits
Mechanical Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
36 Curtis Hamman Stability of impulsively started vortex rolls
Nuclear Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
38 Leslie Dewan Quantifying radiation damage to the network structure of radioactive waste-bearing materials
Operations Research
Poster Number Name Title
40 Kathleen King Planning and operating a public health emergency response network
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
42 Seth Davidovits Momentum space dynamics of spatially incoherent light in a photorefractive crystal
44 Douglas Mason Husimi projection in graphene eigenstates