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2018 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 Jenelle Feather Auditory Texture Synthesis From Task-optimized Convolutional Neural Networks
3 Kari Norman Measuring Functional Diversity Change in Ecological Communities
5 Alexander Williams Unsupervised Discovery of Temporal Sequences in Neural Data
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
7 Peter Ahrens A Fill Estimation Algorithm for Sparse Matrices and Tensors in Blocked Formats
9 Priya Donti Task-based End-to-end Model Learning in Stochastic Optimization
11 Brett Larsen Toward a Classification of the Computational Advantage of Recurrent Neural Circuits
Earth Science
Poster Number Name Title
13 Riley Brady What Controls the Variability of CO2 fluxes in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems?
15 Benjamin Toms Relationship Between the Summertime Madden-Julian Oscillation and Deep Convective Structures
Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
17 Gabriela Correa Big Data in Electron Microscopy
19 Sarah Gady Nonsingular Quaternion Formulation for All-electric Radiation Minimization Trajectories
21 Morgan Kelley Green Operation of an Air Separation Unit Using an Efficient MILP Optimal Scheduling Framework
23 Thomas Ludwig Understanding the Structure of the Electrolyte-metal Interface and its Effects on Electrochemical Reactions
25 Amaresh Sahu An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite Element Formulation for Fluid Flow on Curved and Deforming Surfaces
27 Kevin Silmore High-resolution Nanoparticle Sizing With Maximum A posteriori Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (MANTA)
Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
29 Robert Baraldi Solving Low-rank Smoothly Constrained Problems With Applications to Surface-wave Data Interpolation
31 Anya Katsevich From Microscopic to Macroscopic: The Dynamics of Crystal Surface Diffusion
33 Kelly Moran Mixture Models for Predicting Chemical Outcomes Using Structural Features in the Context of High-throughput Toxicity Testing
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
35 Casey Berger The Complex Langevin Method in Non-relativistic Rotating Bosonic Systems
37 Brian Cornille First-order System Least-squares for Hall-MHD and Utilizing H(curl) Conforming Finite Elements
39 Emily Crabb Computational Study of O2/Li+-O2- Redox Reactions in Li-air Batteries
41 Sarah Elliott Automated Computational Thermochemistry for Butane Oxidation
43 Harshil Kamdar Fantastic Clumps and Where to Find Them: A Study of the Assembly History of the Milky Way
45 Hannah Klion Optimizing Gravity and Nuclear Physics in FLASH for Exascale
47 Alicia Magann Quantum Tracking Control With No Singular Points
49 Quentarius Moore Predicting Tribochemically Induced Reactions of MoS2
51 Nicholas Rivera Maxwell-Hartree-Fock Approach to Ab-initio Quantum Electrodynamics
53 Sukin Sim Characterization of Training Circuits for Hybrid Quantum-classical Algorithms
55 Annie Wei Hybrid Quantum Classical Algorithms for Machine Learning
57 Malia Wenny Transient Porosity in Metal-organic Liquids: Ligand Design and Synthesis

Group II — Presenting 6:15-7:00 p.m.

Biology
Poster Number Name Title
2 Kayla McCue Models of Pre-mRNA Splicing Under Intron and Exon Definition
4 Helena Qi Understanding Unusual Noncovalent Interactions in Proteins Through Large-scale Electronic Structure
6 Laura Watkins Exploring the Conformational and Hydration Changes That Enable Acid Activation and Proton Transport in Influenza A M2 Channel
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
8 Maximilian Bremer DGSWEM-v2: Task-based Parallelism for Shallow Water Flows
10 Julia Ebert Multi-feature Collective Decision-making in Robot Swarms
Earth Science
Poster Number Name Title
12 Richard Barnes Leveraging HPC for Flow Modeling
14 Kelly Kochanski Statistical Classification of Self-organized Snow Surfaces
Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
16 Emmet Cleary Numerical Simulations of Reacting and Nonreacting Flows Using Asynchrony-tolerant Schemes for Exascale Computing
18 Zane Crawford Unconditionally Stable Higher Order Electromagnetic Particle-in-cell Method on Unstructured Meshes
20 Daniel Jacobson Mapping the Structure-conductivity Landscape of Polymer Electrolytes
22 Miriam Kreher Multiphysics Coupling Along a Nuclear Fuel Rod With Single-batch Monte Carlo
24 Sean Marks Enhanced Molecular Simulations of Ice Nucleation
26 Clay Sanders Error in Constitutive Equations Approach to Structural and Material Optimization
28 Cristina White Neural Networks as an Alternative to Model Order Reduction
Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
30 Nicholas Boffi Three-dimensional Characteristics of Shear Banding in Metallic Glasses
32 Carson Kent Faster Algorithms for Optimal Transport
34 Mario Ortega A Rayleigh Quotient Method for Criticality Eigenvalue Problems in Neutron Transport
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
36 Matthew Carbone Physical Spectral Densities in the GW Approximation
38 Jennifer Coulter Microscopic Origins of Hydrodynamic Transport in Type-II Weyl Semimetal WP2
40 Ian Dunn Exact and Approximate Projection Approaches for Removing Instabilities From the Hierarchical Equations of Motion
42 Claire-Alice Hebert Investigating Temporal Correlations in Atmospheric Seeing for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
44 Jonas Kaufman Phase Stability and Na Ordering in Layered NaxCoO2 Cathode Material
46 Yuexia Lin The Reference Map Technique: A Fully Eulerian Numerical Method for Fluid-structure Interactions
48 Noah Mandell Turbulence Simulations in the Tokamak Edge With Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
50 Ian Ochs Exploiting Magnetized Transport Effects to Flush Ash from Magneto-inertial Fusion Reactions
52 Andres Salcedo Emulating Cluster-galaxy Cross-correlations for Cosmological Forecasting
54 Steven Torrisi Exploring Novel Bulk and Two-dimensional Photocatalysts Via First-principles Methods
56 Zachary Weiner Gravitational Waves from Gauge Preheating
58 Blake Wetherton A Kinetic Model for Electron Heating in Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts