2014 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda
Monday, July 14 – Thursday, July 17
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
Updated Monday, July 14, 2014
| Monday, July 14 | |
| 10:00 – 11:00am | New Fellows Meeting — Salons F & G Welcome
James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 11:00am – 1:00pm | New Fellows Lunch — Salon H |
| 1:00 – 3:00pm | Conference Poster Design Workshop — Salons A, B & C Colin Purrington — Scientist, Photographer & Graphic Designer Join scientist and graphic designer Colin Purrington for an interactive workshop aimed at changing the way you approach conference poster design. Topics will include aesthetics, content and presentation style. |
| 3:15 – 5:00pm | Practicum Panel — Salons A, B & C
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| 5:00 – 6:00pm | Making Fellow & Alumni Connections — Salons H & J |
| Tuesday, July 15 | |
| 8:00am – 6:30pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 8:00 – 9:00am | New Fellows' Photo Session (Head Shots & Group Photo) — Salon E |
| 9:00 – 9:15am | Welcome — Salons A, B & C James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 9:15 – 9:30am | Welcome — Salons A, B & C Patricia Dehmer — Deputy Director for Science Programs, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:30 – 9:45am | Welcome — Salons A, B & C Kathleen B. Alexander — Assistant Deputy Administrator for the Office of Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:45 – 10:30am | Keynote — Salons A, B & C Sarah Richardson — Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Genomics, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumna “We’ll Use a Teeny Tiny Lasso: The Domestication of Bacteria” |
| 10:30 – 10:40am | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
| Session I — Salons A, B & C Carolyn Lauzon — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 10:40 – 11:00am | Evan Gawlik — Stanford University “Universal Meshes for Problems With Moving Boundaries” |
| 11:00 – 11:20am | Scot Miller — Harvard University “Emissions of Methane and Nitrous Oxide in the United States” |
| 11:20 – 11:40am | Aleah Caulin — University of Pennsylvania “Computing the Cure: An Integrative Genomic Analysis to Directly Impact Patient Clinical Care” |
| 11:40am – 12:00pm | Edgar Solomonik — University of California, Berkeley “Minimizing Communication in Numerical Linear Algebra” |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Luncheon — Salons H & J |
| 1:15 – 1:25pm | Announcement of 2014 Frederick Howes Scholar — Salons A, B & C David Brown — Director, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 1:25 – 2:10pm | Howes Scholar Presentation — Salons A, B & C Hayes F. Stripling IV — Research Engineer, ExxonMobil; DOE CSGF Alumnus “Parametric Uncertainty Quantification for Nuclear Reactor Depletion Calculations: An Exercise in Computational Sciences ” |
| Session II — Salons A, B & C Randall Laviolette — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 2:10 – 2:30pm | Carmeline Dsilva — Princeton University “Registration and Temporal Ordering of Images in Studies of Biological Development” |
| 2:30 – 2:50pm | Thomas Fai — New York University “A Discrete Model of the Red Blood Cell Cytoskeleton and Its Use in Immersed Boundary Method Simulations” |
| 2:50 – 3:10pm | Zachary Ulissi — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Understanding Corona Phase Molecular Recognition Sensors on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes” |
| 3:10 – 4:00pm | Break/Poster Set Up |
| 4:00 – 6:30pm |
Fellows' Poster Session — Salons H, J & K Welcome & Remarks (4:05 p.m.)
Steve Binkley — Associate Director of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Wednesday, July 16 | |
| 8:00am – 5:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 9:00 – 9:10am | Announcements — Salons A, B & C CYSE Contest Award Presentation
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| Session III — Salons A, B & C Michael R. Zika — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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| 9:10 – 9:30am | Devin Matthews — University of Texas “Non-orthogonal Spin-adaptation of Coupled Cluster Methods With Quadruple Excitations” |
| 9:30 – 9:50am | Miles Lopes — University of California, Berkeley “Estimating Unknown Sparsity in Compressed Sensing” |
| 9:50 – 10:10am | Irene Kaplow — Stanford University “A Novel Method for Understanding the Effect of Genetic Variation on DNA Methylation” |
| 10:10 – 10:30am | Mary Benage — Georgia Institute of Technology “Fluid Dynamics of Pyroclastic Density Currents” |
| 10:30 – 10:50am | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
| 10:50 – 11:10am | Charles Frogner — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Computer Vision for Mouse Behavioral Phenotyping” |
| 11:10 – 11:30am | Christopher Eldred — Colorado State University “Structure Preserving Discretization of the Rotating Shallow Water Equations” |
| 11:30 – 11:50am | Aaron Sisto — Stanford University “Data-driven Design of Quantum Photonic Devices” |
| 12:00 – 1:15pm | Luncheon & Civics Talk — Salons H & J Tobin Smith — Vice President for Policy, Association of American Universities “The History You Don't Know” |
| Session IV — Salons A, B & C Adam Boyd — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 1:30 – 1:50pm | Peter Maginot — Texas A&M University “Cross Section Spatial Discretization for Nuclear Engineering Calculations” |
| 1:50 – 2:10pm | Christopher Quinn — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Identification and Approximation of the Structure of Networks of Stochastic Processes” |
| 2:10 – 2:30pm | Seth Davidovits — Princeton University “Non-Maxwellian Effects in Inertial Confinement Fusion” |
| 2:30 – 2:50pm | Kenley Pelzer — University of Chicago “Quantum Biology: Elucidating Design Principles From Photosynthesis With Keldysh Green’s Functions” |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Break/Poster Set Up |
| 3:30 – 5:00pm |
DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Salons H, J & K Welcome & Remarks (3:35 p.m.)
Keith LeChien — Director for the Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Thursday, July 17 | |
| 8:00am – 12:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 9:00am – 12:30pm | HPC Workshop — Salons A, B & C, etc. |
| 12:30 – 1:30pm | Luncheon — Salons H & J |