2017 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

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

Tuesday, July 25 — 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Salons H, J & K

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	Richard Barnes	Sixty-five Million Years of Change in Temperature and Topography Explain Evolutionary History in Eastern North American Plethodontid Salamanders
3	Jenelle Feather	Sonification of Auditory Models via Synthesis of Statistically Matched Stimuli
5	Alex Kell	Robustness to Real-world Background Noise Increases Between Primary and Non-primary Human Auditory Cortex
7	Helena Qi	Explaining Unexpected Interactions in the Structurally Characterized Proteome With Large-scale Electronic Structure Modeling
9	Adam Riesselman	Generative Models for Genomics
11	Alexander Williams	Time-warped Principal Components Analysis of Neural Data
Computer Science
13	Maximilian Bremer	Performance Comparison of HPX vs. MPI+OpenMP for the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method on Knights Landing Chips
15	Carson Kent	Improving Interior Point Algorithms for Semidefinite Programs
17	Brett Larsen	Composite Function Minimization for Hypergraph Laplacian Systems
Earth Science
19	Riley Brady	Emergent Anthropogenic Trends in California Current Upwelling
21	Kelly Kochanski	Snow and Sea Ice in the ACME Global Climate Model
Engineering
23	Emmet Cleary	Implementation of Compressible Flow Solvers With Jameson-Schmidt-Turkel Timestepping Schemes in NGA
25	Sarah Gady	Optimal Control Under Uncertainty
27	Thomas Ludwig	Effect of Surface Irregularities on Water Structures at Metal Surfaces
29	Amaresh Sahu	The Irreversible Thermodynamics of Curved Lipid Membranes
31	Gerald Wang	Molecular Mechanics of the Fluid-solid Interface
Mathematics
33	Alnur Ali	Generalized Pseudolikelihood Methods for Inverse Covariance Estimation
35	Nicholas Boffi	A Quasi-static Projection Method for Three-dimensional Hypoelastoplasticity
37	Mario Ortega	Rayleigh Quotient Iteration in Alpha-eigenvalue Neutron Transport Problems
Physics
39	Casey Berger	Charged Pion Scattering With Massive QED
41	Zane Crawford	Optimized Algorithm for High-efficiency Atom Transport
43	Sarah Elliott	Automated Thermochemistry for Combustion
45	Morgan Hammer	Solvent Effects on the Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Excited-state Proton Transfer
47	Harshil Kamdar	Machine Learning and Cosmological Simulations
49	Aditi Krishnapriyan	Prediction of the Kinetics of Structural Phase Changes in Two-dimensional MoS2 at the Semiconducting to Metallic Phase Boundary
51	Noah Mandell	Hermite-Laguerre Spectral Velocity Formulation of Gyrokinetics
53	Ian Ochs	Computational Approaches to Alpha Channeling in Plasma Physics
55	Andres Salcedo	A Halo Occupation Distribution Model for redMaGiC Selected Galaxies
57	Laura Watkins	Mechanism of Proton Transport in Influenza A M2 Mutant From Multiscale Simulations
59	Blake Wetherton	Drift-kinetic Measurements of Plasma Gradients in MMS Data
Group II — Presenting 6:15-7:00 p.m.
Biology
2	Hannah De Jong	Saturation Mutagenesis of MYH7 to Identify Hypertrophy-causing Variants
4	Jordan Hoffmann	How to Build a Bug
6	Kayla McCue	Modeling RNA Splicing Kinetics
8	Danielle Rager	A Two-dimensional Bump Attractor Model of Spatial Working Memory
10	Mukarram Tahir	Amphiphilic Nanoparticles as Biomimetic Transport Proteins
12	Joy Yang	Predicting Phage-host Interactions Using Alternating Minimization
Computer Science
14	Julia Ebert	Infotaxis in a Multi-agent Sensor Network
16	Hannah Klion	Optimizing Nuclear Physics and FLASH for Exascale
18	Adam Sealfon	Network-oblivious Transfer: Infrastructure for Secure Multiparty Computation
Earth Science
20	Thomas Thompson	Next-generation Boundary Element for Earthquake Science
Engineering
22	Brian Cornille	Higher-order Advection-based Remap of Magnetic Fields in an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Code
24	Daniel Jacobson	Pulse Charging Strategies for Lithium Metal Batteries
26	Sean Marks	Computational Studies of Ice-philic Surfaces
28	Clay Sanders	Design of Continuously Graded Acoustic Cloaks
30	Cristina White	A Spatial Clustering Algorithm for Constructing Local Reduced-order Bases for Nonlinear Model Reduction
Mathematics
32	Thomas Anderson	Multigrid Preconditioning for Matrix-free Operators
34	Kelly Moran	Improving Experimental Uncertainty via Pre-built Gaussian Process Emulators
36	Jay Stotsky	The Impact of Microstructure on Biofilm Rheology
Physics
38	Emily Crabb	Computational Calculations of the Effects of Defects on HfO2 Properties
40	Ian Dunn	Toward Energy-conserving, Linear-scaling, Real Space Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
42	Hilary Egan	Comparison of Global Martian Plasma Models Using MAVEN Data
44	Kyle Felker	Fourth-order Accurate Magnetohydrodynamics Calculations in Athena++
46	Claire-Alice Hebert	Characterization of Atmospheric Turbulence for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
48	Julian Kates-Harbeck	Accelerating Progress Toward Controlled Fusion via Deep Learning at the Largest Scales
50	Yuexia Lin	A Discrete Particle Model of Diffusion-limited Dissolution
52	Ryan McKinnon	Grain Dynamics in Astrophysical Simulations
54	Nicholas Rivera	Shrinking Photons Down to the Near-atomic Scale: Controlling Forbidden Transitions, Developing New Two-photon Sources, and Enabling Nano-photonics at Gamma-ray Frequencies
56	Sukin Sim	Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Systems With a Generalized Unitary Coupled Cluster Method
58	Kathleen Weichman	Relativistic Effects in Faraday Rotation Probing of Laser Wakefield Acceleration