2021 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Monday, July 19 – Wednesday, July 21
(Note: all times Central)

Monday, July 19
10:00am DOE CSGF Welcome
David Brown — Director, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

DOE Office of Science Welcome
Christine Chalk — DOE CSGF Program Manager, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

DOE NNSA Welcome
David Etim — Federal Program Manager, Advanced Simulation and Computing and Institutional Research and Development, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

Krell Institute Welcome
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute

2020 Howes Scholar
Jeffrey Hittinger — Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus

Gerald J. Wang — Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; DOE CSGF Alumnus
“P.S. I Love You: Producing Science of Primarily Soft Stuff via Particle Simulations Plus Statistics Plus Supercomputing, from the Pico Scale to the Pedestrian Scale”
11:00am Alicia Magann — Princeton University
“Quantum Control in the Era of Quantum Computing”
11:30am Benjamin Toms — Colorado State University
“Towards Using Neural Networks for Geoscientific Discovery”
12:00pm Claire Kopenhafer — Michigan State University
“Gas in Motion: How Simulated Galaxies Control Their Star Formation”
12:30pm Kevin Silmore — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Buckling, Crumpling, and Tumbling of Semiflexible Sheets in Simple Shear Flow”
1:00pm Robert Baraldi — University of Washington
“Proximal Trust Region Methods for Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Inverse Problems ”
1:30pm Jennifer Coulter — Harvard University
“Phoebe - A Collection of Phonon and Electron Boltzmann Equation Solvers”
2:00pm - 4:00pm Day One Fellows' Poster Session (complete listing/abstracts)
  • 2:00pm — Kaley Brauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2:15pm — Justin Finkel, University of Chicago
  • 2:30pm — K. Grace Johnson, Stanford University
  • 2:45pm — Lawrence Roy, Oregon State University
  • 3:00pm — Samuel Olivier, University of California, Berkeley
  • 3:15pm — Jacob Bringewatt, University of Maryland, College Park
  • 3:30pm — Caitlin Whitter, Purdue University

Day One Closing Remarks
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute
Tuesday, July 20
10:00am Day Two Welcome & DOE CSGF 30th Anniversary Recognition
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute

2021 Howes Scholar
Jeffrey Hittinger — Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus

Kelly Kochanski — Senior Data Scientist in Climate Analytics, McKinsey & Company; DOE CSGF Alumna
“Tackling Climate Change With Machine Learning”
11:00am Quentarius Moore — Texas A&M University
“Modulation of the Electronic Structure and Chemical Reactivity of 2-D Materials by the Application of Strain”
11:30am Annie Wei — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Quantum Algorithms for Jet Clustering”
12:00pm Steven Torrisi — Harvard University
“Materials Informatics for Catalyst Stability & Functionality”
12:30pm Morgan Kelley — University of Texas at Austin
“Modeling and Optimization of Complex Industrial Systems for Application to Demand Response”
1:00pm Kari Norman — University of California, Berkeley
“A Computational Approach to Biodiversity Change”
1:30pm Peter Ahrens — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Contiguous Partitioning: Registers, Caches, and Distributed Memories”
2:00pm - 4:00pm Day Two Fellows' Poster Session (complete listing/abstracts)
  • 2:00pm — Steven Fromm, Michigan State University
  • 2:15pm — Paul Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2:30pm — Christiane Adcock, Stanford University
  • 2:45pm — James Sullivan, University of California, Berkeley
  • 3:00pm — Olivia Hull, Kansas State University
  • 3:15pm — Anda Trifan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 3:30pm — Michael Tucker, University of Hawaii

Day Two Closing Remarks
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute
Wednesday, July 21
10:00am Day Three Welcome
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute

2021 Howes Scholar
Jeffrey Hittinger — Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus

Thomas Anderson — Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan; DOE CSGF Alumnus
“Hybrid Frequency-Time Analysis and Numerical Methods for Time-Dependent Wave Propagation”
10:30am Priya Donti — Carnegie Mellon University
“Bridging Deep Learning and Electric Power Systems”
11:00am Anya Katsevich — New York University
“Statistical Inference for High Variance Gaussian Mixture Models”
11:30am Miriam Kreher — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Computational Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Transients”
12:00pm Matthew Carbone — Columbia University
“A Numerically Exact Solver for Electron-Phonon Lattice Models in the Polaron Limit”
12:30pm Jonas Kaufman — University of California, Santa Barbara
“First-Principles Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Layered Intercalation Compounds for "Beyond Li-Ion" Batteries”
1:00pm Malia Wenny — Harvard University
“Understanding O2 Absorption in Ionic Liquids”
1:30pm Zachary Weiner — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Gravitational Waves Probes of Reheating after Inflation”
2:00pm - 4:00pm Day Three Fellows' Poster Session (complete listing/abstracts)
  • 2:00pm — Sarah Greer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2:15pm — Jesse Rodriguez, Stanford University
  • 2:30pm — Edward Hutter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 2:45pm — Dipti Jasrasaria, University of California, Berkeley
  • 3:00pm — Ryder Fox, University of Miami
  • 3:15pm — Kimberly Cushman, Yale University
  • 3:30pm — William Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 3:45pm — Steven Stetzler, University of Washington

Program Review Closing Remarks
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute