2017 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda
Monday, July 24 – Thursday, July 27
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
Updated Tuesday, August 29, 2017
| Monday, July 24 | |
| 10:30am – 6:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | New Fellow Orientation — Salons F & G |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | New Fellow Luncheon — Salons F & G |
| 1:00 – 1:30pm | Photo Session: Incoming Fellows (Portraits & Group Photo) — Lee |
| 1:00 – 3:00pm | DOE Laboratory Poster Session Set Up — Salons H, J & K |
| 3:00 – 4:00pm | 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.
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| 4:00 – 6:00pm |
DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Salons H, J & K Welcome & Remarks
Dimitri Kusnezov — Chief Scientist, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Tuesday, July 25 | |
| 7:00am – 6:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:00 – 8:30am | Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J |
| 8:30 – 8:45am | Welcome — Salons A, B & C Robert Voigt — Director of Technical Programs, Krell Institute |
| 8:45 – 9:00am | Welcome Barbara Helland — Associate Director, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:15 – 9:30am | Welcome Mark C. Anderson — Director, Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing and Institutional R&D Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:15 – 10:00am | Alumni Keynote Jeremy Kepner — MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow and Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center Founder; DOE CSGF Alumnus “The Mathematical Convergence and Architectural Divergence of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Supercomputing” |
| 10:00 – 10:20am | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
| Session I — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Anthony Lewis — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 10:20 – 10:40am |
Nicholas Frontiere — University of Chicago “HACC: Fitting the Universe Inside a Supercomputer” |
| 10:40 – 11:00am |
David Ozog — University of Oregon “Petascale at Picoscale: An Overview of My DOE Lab Practicum Projects” |
| 11:00 – 11:20am |
Alexander Turner — Harvard University “Estimating Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks Using Atmospheric Observations” |
| 11:20 – 11:40am |
Kathleen Alexander — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “An Off-lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo Method for the Investigation of Grain Boundary Kinetic Processes” |
| 11:40am – 12:00pm |
Thomas Holoien — Ohio State University “Stellar Death in the Nearby Universe” |
| 12:00 – 1:30pm | Luncheon — Salons H & J |
| 1:30 – 1:45pm | Announcement of 2017 Frederick Howes Scholar — Salons A, B & C Jeffrey Hittinger — Acting Deputy Division Leader, Scientific Computing Group Leader and Computational Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus |
| 1:45 – 2:30pm | Howes Scholar Presentation Eric Isaacs — Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University; DOE CSGF Alumnus “The Elusive Single-band Correlated Material: Searching for a Needle in a Haystack via Quantum Theory and Computation” |
| 2:30 – 2:45pm | Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C |
| Session II — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Christine Chalk — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 2:45 – 3:05pm |
Adam Richie-Halford — University of Washington “Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Neutron Matter” |
| 3:05 – 3:25pm |
Chelsea Harris — University of California, Berkeley “Modeling Supernova Interaction With its Circumstellar Environment” |
| 3:25 – 3:45pm |
David Plotkin — University of Chicago “Cyclone Simulation via Action Minimization” |
| 3:45 – 4:05pm |
Daniel Rey — University of California, San Diego “Chaos and Observability in Variational Data Assimilation” |
| 4:05 – 5:00pm | Fellows' Poster Session Set-Up — Salons H, J & K |
| 4:05 – 5:00pm | Photo Session: Fellow/Alumni Portrait Retakes — Lee |
| 4:15 – 5:00pm | Fourth-Year/Outgoing Fellow Session & Portraits — Jefferson |
| 5:00 – 7:00pm |
Fellows' Poster Session — Salons H, J & K Welcome & Remarks
Steve Binkley — Acting Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Wednesday, July 26 | |
| 7:00am – 5:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:00 – 8:30am | Continental Breakfast — Atrium |
| HPC Workshop Facilitated by DOE laboratory staff teams, the 2017 HPC Workshop will provide incoming through fourth-year fellows with hands-on training and access to DOE supercomputers. The group was surveyed and assigned to a track in order to be granted access and receive instruction prior to the program review. Non-fellows are welcome to attend the workshop as observers.
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| 8:00am – 12:00pm | Track One — Salons A, B & C “Computation on an Intel Xeon Phi (aka Knights Landing or KNL) Platform” NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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| 8:00am – 12:00pm | Track Two — Salons H & J “Mini-GPU Hackathon” Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Luncheon — Atrium |
| 1:00 – 5:00pm | Track One (continued) — Salons A, B & C “Computation on an Intel Xeon Phi (aka Knights Landing or KNL) Platform” NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 1:00 – 5:00pm | Track Two (continued) — Salons H & J “Mini-GPU Hackathon” Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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| Thursday, July 27 | |
| 7:00 – 10:30am | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:00 – 8:30am | Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J |
| Session III — Salons A, B & C Moderator: Thomas R. O'Donnell — Krell Institute |
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| 8:30 – 8:45am | CYSE Contest Award Presentation Thomas R. O'Donnell — Senior Media Editor, Krell Institute |
| 8:45 – 9:30am |
Michael Heroux — Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories; Scientist in Residence, St. John’s University, Minnesota “Better Science Through Better Software” |
| 9:30 – 10:15am |
William Conley — Deputy Director, Electronic Warfare, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, U.S. Department of Defense; DOE CSGF Alumnus “Looking Back on Our Postmodern Zeitgeist” |
| 10:15 – 10:30am | Break/Check Out |
| 10:30 – 11:45am | Postdoc-to-Career Panel DOE CSGF alumni will talk about their postdoc positions and careers since completing the fellowship. With collective experience working in academia, industry and the DOE laboratories, the group will also field related questions from the audience.
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| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Luncheon — Salons H & J Buffet-style with grab-and-go options for those with afternoon departures.
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