2015 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

First-, second- and third-year students present their research during the annual Fellows' Poster Session.

Tuesday, July 28 — 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Salons H, J & K; Crystal Gateway Marriott

The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the breadth of research supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and the session is divided into two groups so all participants have the chance to view the displays and ask questions of their peers.

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting 5:15-6:00 p.m.
Biology
1	Britni Crocker	The Spatial Distribution of the Human Cortical Response to Single-pulse Electrical Stimulation
3	Jonathan Gootenberg	Characterization of CRISPR Systems With High-throughput Sequencing to Diversify the Molecular Toolset
5	Isha Jain	Organelle Crosstalk in Disease and Health
7	Derek Macklin	Toward a Whole-Cell Model of Escherichia coli
9	Danielle Rager	Proprioceptive Feedback Modulates Motor Cortical Tuning During Brain-machine Interface Control
11	Mukarram Tahir	Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Solvent-exposed Lipid Tail Protrusions
13	Joy Yang	Assessing Models That Control for Phylogeny for Inferring Genetic Effect in Bacterial Datasets
Computer Science
15	Samuel Blau	Using Massively Parallelized Coupled Cluster to Identify Promising Novel Organic Photovoltaics
17	Adam Sealfon	Distances and Shortest Paths With Differential Privacy
Earth Science
19	Brenhin Keller	Volcanic-Plutonic Parity and the Differentiation of the Continental Crust
21	Eileen Martin	Analyzing Ambient Seismic Noise Collected by Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)
23	Thomas Thompson	Boundary Element Analysis of Active Mountain Building at the Himalayan Range Front
Engineering
25	Kathleen Alexander	First Principles Study of Grain Boundaries in Lithium Lanthanum Titanate
27	Justin Lee	Denoised Wigner Distribution Deconvolution Via Low-rank Matrix Completion
29	Andrew Till	The Finite-Element With Discontiguous Support Multigroup Method
Mathematics
31	Thomas Anderson	Simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Suppression
33	Miles Lubin	JuMP: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Optimization
35	Daniel Rey	Data Assimilation Methods for Dynamical Systems With Poor Observability
37	Melissa Yeung	Identification of Lagrangian Coherent Structures as a Generalized Eigenvalue Problem
Physics
39	Hilary Egan	Statistical Properties of Magnetic Fields in Simulated Galaxy Clusters
41	Nicholas Frontiere	CRKSPH: A Novel Approach to SPH Simulation
43	Thomas Holoien	Two Years of Discoveries From the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae
47	Sherwood Richers	Monte Carlo Neutrino Transport in Post-merger Disks
49	Dragos Velicanu	Studies of Jet-track Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions With CMS
Group II — Presenting 6:15-7:00 p.m.
Biology
2	Hannah De Jong	CrispR: A Tool for Allele-specific CRISPR/Cas9 Assay Design
4	Jordan Hoffmann	Modeling Cell Movements and Mechanics in Insect Embryogenesis
6	Alex Kell	Computational Similarities Between Visual and Auditory Cortex Studied With Convolutional Neural Networks and Functional MRI
8	Sarah Middleton	Subcellular Zipcodes: Finding the Signals That Direct RNA Localization in Neurons
10	Adam Riesselman	Recoding the Salmonella typhimurium LT2 Genome
12	Alexander Williams	A Clustering Algorithm to Identify Latent Cell Types From DNA Methylation Patterns
Computer Science
14	Alnur Ali	Disciplined Convex Stochastic Programming: A New Framework for Stochastic Optimization
16	David Ozog	A Performance Analysis of SIMD Algorithms for Monte Carlo Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Cores
18	Daniel Strouse	Compression for Prediction: The Deterministic Information Bottleneck
Earth Science
20	Jesse Lopez	Application of a Sediment Model to Estimate Light Attenuation in Estuarine Environments
22	David Plotkin	High-resolution Modeling of Tropical Cyclones Using Rare Event Simulation
24	Alexander Turner	Estimating Urban Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at High Resolution From In Situ Observations
Engineering
26	Thomas Catanach	Power System Dynamic Estimation
28	Andrew Stershic	Implementation of the Thick Level-Set Method for Brittle Fragmentation
30	Gerald Wang	Why are Fluid Densities So Low in Carbon Nanotubes?
Mathematics
32	Julian Kates-Harbeck	Evolutionary Dynamics Under Nonlinear Frequency-depenent Selection
34	Victor Minden	A Real-space Green's Function Method for the Numerical Solution of Maxwell's Equations in Free Space
36	Jay Stotsky	Modeling and Simulation of the Biomechanics of Biofilms With Heterogeneous Rheological Properties
Physics
38	Chelsea Harris	Solar Power Tower Lifetime Predictions: Lab to Computer and Back Again
40	Kyle Felker	Numerical Methods for General Relativistic Radiative Transfer
42	Morgan Hammer	Investigating Ultrafast Excited-state Proton Transfer With Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations
44	Eric Isaacs	Origin of Phase Instability in Battery Cathode Materials From Correlated Electronic Structure Calculations
48	Adam Richie-Halford	Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of the BCS-BEC Crossover at Finite Temperature
50	Kathleen Weichman	Envelope Model Simulation of Realistic Laser Pulses at the Texas Petawatt Laser