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2022 Agenda

2022 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Sunday, July 17 - Thursday, July 21

Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia

Updated August 10, 2022 | Download PDF

Time Event
Sunday, July 17
5:00 – 9:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
6:00 – 7:30pm Fellows' Welcome Session — Salon K
Fellows only: Incoming, first-, second-, third- and fourth-year students to convene before breaking into cohort-specific groups.
7:30 – 9:00pm All-Attendee Making Connections Reception — Skyview
Monday, July 18
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
8:00 – 9:00am 2020 Fellows' Portrait Session — Madison
9:00 – 9:15am Welcome & Introduction of New Fellows — Salons ABCDE
Jeffrey Hittinger — Director and Division Leader, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
9:15 – 9:30 am DOE NNSA Welcome
Njema J. Frazier — Assistant Deputy Administrator (Acting), Strategic Partnership Programs, Office of Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration
9:30 – 9:45am DOE Office of Science Welcome
Barbara Helland — Associate Director, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:45 – 10:30am Keynote
David L. Brown — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, retired
"An Applied Mathematician Tours 50 Years of Computational Science"
10:30 – 10:45am Break — Foyer, Salons ABC
Session I — Salons ABCDE
Moderator: Hal Finkel — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:45 – 11:05am Kaley Brauer — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Studying the Tiniest, Oldest Galaxies"
11:05 – 11:25am James Sullivan — University of California, Berkeley
"Computational Challenges in Computational Cosmology - Simulators, Differentiable Models, and Surrogates"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Salons FGHJK
1:15 – 1:25pm Announcement of 2022 Frederick Howes Scholars — Salons ABCDE
Jeffrey Hittinger — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
1:25 – 1:55pm Howes Scholar Presentation
Noah Mandell — Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; DOE CSGF Alumnus
"Optimizing the Performance of Fusion Reactors at Exascale"
1:55 – 2:25pm Howes Scholar Presentation
Morgan Kelley — Data Scientist, Dell Technologies; DOE CSGF Alumna
"Dynamic Modeling and Optimal Scheduling of Chemical Processes Participating in Fast-Changing Electricity Markets: A Data-Driven Approach"
2:25 – 2:40pm Break — Foyer, Salons ABC
2:30 – 4:00pm DOE Laboratory Poster Session Set Up — Salons FGHJK
Session II — Salons ABCDE
Moderator: Christine Chalk — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
2:40 – 3:00pm Dipti Jasrasaria — University of California, Berkeley
"Hot Exciton Cooling at the Nanoscale: Circumventing the Phonon Bottleneck via Multiphonon Emission"
3:00 – 3:20pm Margaret Lawson — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Accelerating Discovery From High Performance Computing Applications Using Descriptive Metadata Management"
4:00 – 6:00pm DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Salons FGHJK
Tuesday, July 19
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
8:00 – 9:00 am 2021 Fellows' Portrait Session — Madison
9:00 – 9:15am Announcements — Salons ABCDE
David L. Brown — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (retired)
9:15 – 10:00am Keynote
Frederick H. Streitz — Senior Advisor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Chief Computational Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"HPC and Machine Learning for Molecular Biology"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — Foyer, Salons ABC
Session III — Salons ABCDE
Moderator: Bill Spotz — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:20 – 10:40am Olivia Hull — Kansas State University
"QimPy: Quantum Integrated Multi-Physics - a New Density Functional Theory Package"
10:40 – 11:00am Edward Hutter — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Scalable Methods for Modeling High-Dimensional Application Performance"
11:00 – 11:20am Ryder Fox — University of Miami
"Varying Sensitivities to Sub-Kilometer Horizontal Grid Spacing and Microphysics Parameterizations Across a Spectrum of Heavy Precipitation Events: From Hurricanes to Midlatitude Thunderstorms"
11:20 – 11:40am Jesse Rodriguez — Stanford University
"Inverse Design of Reconfigurable Plasma Metamaterials for Optical Computing"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Salons FGHJK
Session IV — Salons ABCDE
Moderator: Christine Chalk — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
1:20 – 1:40pm Christiane Adcock — Stanford University
"Hybrid Modeling for Wind Farm Simulation and Control"
1:40 – 2:00pm Michael Tucker — University of Hawaii
"The Rise of Astrophysical Transients"
2:00 – 2:20pm Lawrence Roy — Oregon State University
"Communication-Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation From Minimal Assumptions"
2:20 – 2:40pm Break — Foyer, Salons ABC
2:40 – 3:00pm Steven Fromm — Michigan State University
"General Relativistic Neutrino Radiation Transport in Neutron Star Mergers"
3:00 – 3:20pm Caitlin Whitter — Purdue University
"Physics-Informed Prediction of Molecular Properties Using a Graph Convolutional Network"
3:30 – 5:00pm Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — Salons FGHJK
3:45 – 4:15pm Fellow/Alumni Portrait Retakes (Option 1) — Madison
3:45 – 4:15pm Outgoing Fellows' Meeting — Salons ABCDE
4:15 – 4:45pm Outgoing Fellows' Portrait Session — Madison
5:00 – 6:00pm Fellows' Poster Session (2019 Class) — Salons FGHJK
Wednesday, July 20
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
8:00 – 9:00 am 2022 Fellows' Portrait Session — Madison
9:00 – 9:05 am Announcements — Salons ABCDE
Shelly Olsan — Krell Institute
9:05 – 9:15am CYSE Announcement — Salons ABCDE
Thomas R. O'Donnell — Science Media Editor, Krell Institute
9:15 – 10:00am Keynote
Ashlee N. Ford Versypt — Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo; DOE CSGF Alumna
"Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Remodeling and Damage"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — Foyer, Salons ABC
Session V — Salons ABCDE
Moderator: David Etim — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
10:20 – 10:40am K. Grace Johnson — Stanford University
"Quantum Chemistry at Scale: Multi-Node Multi-GPU Two-Electron Integral Code Generation"
10:40 – 11:00am Paul Zhang — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Local Decomposition of Hexahedral Singular Nodes Into Singular Curves"
11:00 – 11:20am Steven Stetzler — University of Washington
"Solar System Science From the Dark Energy Camera Deep Drilling Field Survey"
11:20 – 11:40am Samuel Olivier — University of California, Berkeley
"High-Order Moment Methods for Thermal Radiative Transfer"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Salons FGHJK
Session VI — Salons ABCDE
Moderator: David Etim — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
1:20 – 1:40pm Justin Finkel — University of Chicago
"Revealing the Statistics of Extreme Events Hidden in Short Weather Forecast Data"
1:40 – 2:00pm Sarah Greer — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Superresolution With the Zero-Phase Imaging Condition"
2:00 – 2:20pm Kimberly Cushman — Yale University
"How Sticky is Galactic Glue? Investigating Composite Dark Matter Scattering"
2:25 – 4:00pm Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — Salons FGHJK
2:45 – 3:45pm Fellow/Alumni Portrait Retakes (Option 2) — Madison
4:00 – 5:00pm Fellows' Poster Session (2020 Class) — Salons FGHJK
5:00 – 6:00pm Fellows' Poster Session (2021 Class) — Salons FGHJK
Thursday, July 21
8:00am – 12:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
8:45 – 9:45am Alumni Early Career Panel — Salons ABCDE
Recent alumni will discuss their experiences joining the workforce and field related questions from the audience.
  • Jerry Wang, Moderator — Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ian Dunn, Panelist — Senior Mechanical Analysis Engineer, ASML
  • Kyle Felker, Panelist — Assistant Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Aditi Krishnapriyan, Panelist — Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley; Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Melissa Yeung, Panelist — Industry Researcher
10:00am – 12:00pm Professional Development Workshop: Communicating About Yourself and Your Research — Salons ABCDE
University of Maryland staff will provide guidance for resume writing, informational interviewing, and communicating research to audiences that span from novice to expert. Attendees are encouraged to bring their current resume and research statement as there will be an opportunity to implement best practices (with facilitator and DOE CSGF alumni small-group feedback) during the balance of the workshop.
  • Linda Macri, Ph.D. , Co-Facilitator — Director, Academic and Professional Development, The Graduate School, University of Maryland
  • Veronica Perrigan, Co-Facilitator — Director for Student Programs, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
12:00 – 1:00pm Grab-and-Go Lunch — Salons FGHJK