2012 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Presentations
Wednesday, July 25 – Friday, July 27
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
| Wednesday, July 25 | ||
| Morning: HPC General Session | ||
| Peter Nugent | University of California at Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | The Big Data Revolution in Astrophysics – A Case Study of the Palomar Transient Factory |
| Christopher Johnson | Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute; University of Utah | Large-scale Visual Data Analysis |
| Martin Schulz | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Approaches for Scalable Performance Analysis and Optimization |
| Afternoon: HPC Breakout Sessions | ||
| Jack Deslippe | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Introduction to NERSC Resources: A Hands-on Session; |
| Tony Drummond | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | An Overview of the DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection |
| Bronson Messer | Oak Ridge National Laboratory; University of Tennessee | The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility – What and How for CSGF Fellows |
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Katherine Riley & Jeff Hammond |
Argonne National Laboratory | From Laptops to Petaflops – Portable Productivity and Performance Using Open-source Development Tools |
| Thursday, July 26 | ||
| Welcome | ||
| William Brinkman | Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy | Welcome |
| Dimitri Kusnezov | Chief Scientist and Director, Office of Science and Policy, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy | Welcome |
| Keynote | ||
| Alok Choudhary | John G. Searle Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University | Discovering Knowledge from Massive Networks and Science Data – Next Frontier for HPC |
| Session I | ||
| Brenda Rubenstein | Columbia University | Constant-stress Quantum Monte Carlo for High-Pressure Hydrogen |
| Britton Olson | Stanford University | Shock Boundary Layer Interaction in Over-expanded Nozzles |
| Claire Ralph | Cornell University | A graph algorithm for a new architecture and new algorithms for quantum state evolution |
| Brian Lockwood | University of Wyoming | Gradient-based Methods for Rapid Uncertainty Quantification in Hypersonic Flows |
| 2012 Howes Scholar Awards | ||
| Carolyn Phillips | Aneesur Rahman Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory | Think Deeply on Simple Things (with Computation): Optimal Filling of Shapes |
| Matthew Reuter | Eugene P. Wigner Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | You Should Also Think about Complicated Things (to Improve Computation): Exorcising Numerical Ghosts from Electron Transport Calculations |
| Friday, July 27 | ||
| Keynote | ||
| Michael Ortiz | Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology | Multiscale Modeling of Materials: Linking Microstructure and Macroscopic Behavior |
| Session II | ||
| Curtis Hamman | Stanford University | Vortex Roll Breakup in Turbulent Shear Flow |
| Kathleen King | Cornell University | Optimizing Medical Countermeasure Distribution Networks: Saving Lives with Operations Research |
| Armen Kherlopian | Cornell University | Auto-Tuning of Cardiac Myocyte Models |
| Carl Boettiger | University of California, Davis | Regime Shifts in Ecology & Evolution |
| Douglas Mason | Harvard University | Extending the Flux Operator with Coherent State Projections |
| Session III | ||
| Anne Warlaumont | University of Memphis | Simulating Learning of Human Vocal Signals |
| Eric Liu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Toward Adaptive Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Discretizations of Unsteady Aerodynamics |
| Cyrus Omar | Carnegie Mellon University | Actively-Typed Programming Systems |
| Scott Clark | Cornell University | EPI: Expected Parallel Improvement |