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2017 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

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

Group I — Presenting 5:15-6:00 p.m.

Biology
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
19 Riley Brady Emergent Anthropogenic Trends in California Current Upwelling
21 Kelly Kochanski Snow and Sea Ice in the ACME Global Climate Model
Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
20 Thomas Thompson Next-generation Boundary Element for Earthquake Science
Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
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
Poster Number Name Title
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