2016 Agenda

2016 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Monday, July 25 – Thursday, July 28

Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA

Updated September 21, 2016 | Download PDF
Time	Event
Monday, July 25
10:30am – 6:00pm	Registration — Grand Registration Desk
11:00am – 12:00pm	New Fellow Orientation — Salons F & G
12:00 – 1:30pm	New Fellow Luncheon — Salon H
2:00 – 3:30pm	Practicum Session — Salons A, B & C Intended for incoming fellows and those yet to complete a practicum. Practicum coordinators are also encouraged to attend and provide a general introduction to their laboratory as it relates to potential practicum experiences.
4:30 – 6:00pm	Making Fellow & Alumni Connections — Salons H & J All conference attendees who have arrived in D.C. are encouraged to attend.
Tuesday, July 26
7:30am – 6:00pm	Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J
8:00 – 8:45am	Photo Session: Incoming Fellows (Head Shots & Group Photo) — Salon E
9:00 – 9:15am	Welcome — Salons A, B & C Robert Voigt — Krell Institute
9:15 – 9:30am	Welcome Franklin (Lynn) M. Orr — Under Secretary for Science and Energy, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:30 – 9:45am	Welcome 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	Alumni Keynote Leslie Dewan — Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Transatomic Power; DOE CSGF Alumna “Save the World with Nuclear Waste: New Approaches to Nuclear Power”
10:30 – 10:45am	Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
Session I — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Michael Martin — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:45 – 11:05am	Andrew Stershic — Duke University “Application of Numerical Methods to Study Arrangement and Failure of Lithium-Ion Microstructure”
11:05 – 11:25am	Eric Isaacs — Columbia University “Strongly Correlated Electrons in Rechargeable Battery Cathodes”
11:25 – 11:45am	Eileen Martin — Stanford University “Continuous Near-surface Monitoring With Ambient Noise Collected by Distributed Acoustic Sensing”
11:45am – 1:15pm	25th Anniversary Luncheon — Salons H & J
1:20 – 1:30pm	Announcement of 2016 Frederick Howes Scholars Jeffrey Hittinger — Acting Deputy Division Leader and Group Leader, Scientific Computing Group, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
1:30 – 2:15pm	Howes Scholar Presentation Aurora Pribram-Jones — Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley; DOE CSGF Alumna “Improving Density Functional Theory for Warm Dense Matter”
2:15 – 3:00pm	Howes Scholar Presentation Alexander S. Rattner — Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University; DOE CSGF Alumnus “Phase-change Heat Transfer in Energy Systems: Outlook for Simulation Enabled Advances”
3:00 – 3:15pm	Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
Session II — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Christine Chalk — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
3:15 – 3:35pm	Brenhin Keller — Princeton University “Geochemistry in the Age of Open Data: New Insights Into the Formation and Evolution of Earth's Continental Crust”
3:35 – 3:55pm	Sherwood Richers — California Institute of Technology “Insights Into Exotic Core-collapse Supernovae”
3:55 – 4:15pm	Jesse Lopez — Oregon Health and Science University “Sediment Dynamics in an Energetic Estuary”
4:15 – 4:45pm	Fellows' Poster Session Set-Up — Salons H, J & K
4:45 – 7:00pm	Fellows' Poster Session — Salons H, J & K Welcome & Remarks (4:45pm) Steve Binkley — Associate Director of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Wednesday, July 27
7:30am – 6:00pm	Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J
8:00 – 8:45am	Photo Session: Fellow/Alumni Retakes (Head Shots) — Salon E
9:00 – 9:15am	Announcements — Salons A, B & C CYSE Contest Award Presentation
Session III — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Adam Boyd — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:15 – 10:00am	Invited Speaker Rick Stevens — Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory; Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago “DOE and NIH Partnerships -- Cancer and Brain”
10:00 – 10:20am	Sarah Middleton — University of Pennsylvania “A Novel Motif Discovery Tool for RNA Secondary Structures”
10:20 – 10:40am	Dragos Velicanu — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Probing Trillion Degree Matter”
10:40 – 11:00am	Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
11:00 – 11:20am	Andrew Till — Texas A&M University “Discretization by Machine Learning (and its Application to Nuclear Reactor Simulations)”
11:20 – 11:40am	Derek Macklin — Stanford University “Towards a Whole-cell Model of Escherichia coli”
11:40am – 12:00pm	Melissa Yeung — California Institute of Technology “Topological Braids and Material Coherence”
12:00 – 1:15pm	Luncheon — Salons H & J Michael L. Telson — Vice President for Energy Programs, General Atomics “Who’s Your Audience? Communication Between Scientists/Engineers and Public Officials”
1:30 – 3:00pm	HPC Track I Intermediate Hands-On Session A — Salons A, B & C “GPU-accelerated Computing” Adam Simpson — HPC User Support Specialist, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Verónica G. Vergara Larrea — HPC User Support Specialist, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:30 – 3:00pm	HPC Track I Intermediate Hands-On Session B — Salons F & G “Troubleshooting the Trouble Out of Your Networking Experience” Sowmya Balasubramanian — Software Engineer, Energy Sciences Network, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Elizabeth Bautista — Group Lead, Operations Technology Group, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:30 – 3:00pm	Fourth-Year/Outgoing Fellow Session & Head Shots — Jefferson
3:00 – 3:15pm	Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
3:15 – 4:45pm	HPC Track II Advanced Hands-On Session A — Salons A, B & C “Optimizing Your Code for HPC” Hal Finkel — Assistant Computational Scientist, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
3:15 – 4:45pm	HPC Track II Advanced Hands-On Session B — Salons F & G “Parallel Algorithm Design” Rebecca Hartman-Baker — Computational Scientist, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4:00 – 5:00pm	DOE Laboratory Poster Session Set Up — Salons H, J & K
5:00 – 7:00pm	DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Salons H, J & K
Thursday, July 28
7:30am – 12:00pm	Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J
9:00 – 9:10am	Announcements — Salons A, B & C
Session IV — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Carolyn Lauzon — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:10 – 9:30am	Miles Lubin — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “JuMP: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Optimization”
9:30 – 9:50am	Samuel Blau — Harvard University “Exciton Dynamics of Biliproteins”
9:50 – 10:10am	Britni Crocker — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Effects of Electrical Stimulation on the Human Brain”
10:10 – 10:30am	Daniel Strouse — Princeton University “Compression and Clustering With the Information Bottleneck Method”
10:30 – 10:45am	Break & Hotel Check Out — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
10:45 – 11:05am	Victor Minden — Stanford University “Fast Spatial Gaussian Process Maximum Likelihood Estimation Via Skeletonization Factorizations”
11:05 – 11:25am	Justin Lee — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Computational Imaging and Analysis in Breast Cancer”
11:25 – 11:45am	Thomas Catanach — California Institute of Technology “Second-order Langevin Markov Chain Monte Carlo”
11:45am – 12:45pm	Luncheon — Salons H & J Buffet-style with grab-and-go options for those with afternoon departures.

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