2024 Agenda

2024 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Sunday, July 14 - Thursday, July 18

Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf

Updated July 17, 2024 | Download PDF
Time	Event
Sunday, July 14
5:00 – 9:00pm	Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
6:30 – 7:00pm	Incoming Fellows Gathering — L'Enfant Ballroom Informal meet-and-greet for members of the DOE CSGF's 2024 incoming class.
7:00 – 7:30pm	Fellows' Welcome Session — L'Enfant Ballroom A pre-meeting gathering of incoming and first- through fourth-year fellows hosted by Krell program staff.
7:30 – 9:00pm	Making Connections Reception — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium Opportunity for all attendees to gather and socialize in an informal setting; light refreshments provided. Guests are welcome to bring a favorite card or board game to play in self-organized small groups.
Monday, July 15
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am	Photo Session: 2024 Fellows' Individual Portraits — McPherson
9:00 – 9:30am	Welcome & Introduction of the DOE CSGF's 2024 Cohort — L'Enfant Ballroom Jeffrey Hittinger— Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
9:30 – 9:45am	DOE Office of Science Welcome Ceren Susut — Associate Director of Science for Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
9:45 – 10:00am	DOE NNSA Welcome Thuc Hoang— Director, Office of Advanced Simulation & Computing and Institutional R&D Programs, U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
10:00 – 10:15am	Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
10:15 – 10:30am	Introduction of the 2024 Frederick Howes Scholars — L'Enfant Ballroom Judith Hill— Computational Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumna
10:30 – 11:00am	Howes Scholar Presentation Kyle Bushick — Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus "Building Tools for Digital Laboratories"
11:00 – 11:30am	Howes Scholar Presentation Quentarius Moore — MTS Software Development Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices; DOE CSGF Alumnus "Enabling Excellence: Optimizing GPU Applications, AI Workloads, and Supporting the HPC Community"
11:45am – 1:00pm	Lunch & Civics Talk — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor Leland Cogliani— Senior Principal, Lewis-Burke Associates LLC
Session I — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderator: David Rabson — Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
1:15 – 1:35pm	Mary LaPorte — University of California, David "Learning from Kernels: HPC in Plant Breeding"
1:35 – 1:55pm	Marc Davis — Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Quantum Gate Synthesis for Clifford+T Circuits"
1:55 – 2:15pm	Laura Nichols — Vanderbilt University "Defect Activation Through Hydrogen Release in Semiconductors"
2:15 – 2:25pm	Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
2:15 – 3:00pm	Practicum Coordinator Session (laboratory representatives only) — Mt Vernon
Session II — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderator: Margaret Lentz — Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
2:25 – 2:45pm	Danilo Perez Jr — New York University "Hierarchical Kalman Filter Reveals Multi-Timescale Neural Dynamics in the Orbitofrontal Cortex"
2:45 – 3:05pm	Margot Fitz Axen — University of Texas at Austin "The Impact of Cosmic Rays on Molecular Cloud Collapse and Star Formation"
3:05 – 3:25pm	Albert Musaelian — Harvard University "Scaling Equivariant Machine Learning for Atomic-Scale Simulations"
3:00 – 4:00pm	DOE Laboratories' Showcase Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
3:30pm	Photo Session: 2024 Fellows' Group Portrait — McPherson
4:00 – 6:00pm	DOE Laboratories' Showcase — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium Laboratory representatives will be on site to talk practicum, postdoc and long-term employment opportunities.
Tuesday, July 16
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am	Photo Session: Fellows & Alumni Portrait Retakes I — McPherson
8:00 – 8:45am	Program of Study Session (fellows only) — Mt Vernon
9:00 – 9:15am	Announcements — L'Enfant Ballroom John Dolbow — Assistant Vice President for Research, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University; DOE CSGF Alumnus
9:15 – 10:00am	Keynote Daniel Reed— Presidential Professor in Computer Science, University of Utah "Reinventing High-Performance Computing"
10:00 – 10:20am	Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session III — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderator: David Etim — Advanced Simulation and Computing, U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
10:20 – 10:40am	Ethan Epperly — California Institute of Technology "Randomly Pivoted Cholesky: Faster Matrix Approximation for Scientific Machine Learning"
10:40 – 11:00am	Ariel Kellison — Cornell University "Numerical Fuzz: A Type System for Rounding Error Analysis"
11:00 – 11:20am	Justin Porter — Rice University "Prediction and Modeling of Nonlinear Vibration in Bolted Connections"
11:30am – 1:00pm	Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Session IV — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderator: Kevin Elzie — Advanced Simulation and Computing, U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
1:20 – 1:40pm	Santiago Vargas — University of California, Los Angeles "Ab Initio Enhancement of Machine Learning for Complex Chemistries"
1:40 – 2:00pm	Alexandra Baumgart — California Institute of Technology "Reduced Order Chemistry Modeling for Detonations"
2:00 – 2:20pm	Graham Pash — University of Texas at Austin "Towards Predictive Digital Twins With Applications to Precision Oncology"
2:20 – 2:40pm	Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session V — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderator: David Etim — Advanced Simulation and Computing, U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
2:40 – 3:00pm	Nishad Maskara — Harvard University "Towards Useful Quantum Simulation With Reconfigurable Rydberg Atom Arrays"
3:00 – 3:20pm	David Rogers — Stanford University "Model-Driven Verification of Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Dioxide Removal"
3:20 – 5:00pm	Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
4:00 – 4:30pm	Outgoing Fellows Session (with Portrait Retakes to Follow) — Mt Vernon
5:00 – 6:30pm	Fellows' Poster Session (2021 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Wednesday, July 17
8:00am – 5:00pm	Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am	Photo Session: Fellows & Alumni Portrait Retakes II — McPherson
9:00 – 9:15am	Communicate Your Science & Engineering (CYSE) Essay Award Announcement — L'Enfant Ballroom Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute
9:15 – 10:00am	Keynote Mark Taylor— E3SM Chief Computational Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories "Cloud Resolving Atmospheric Modeling on Exascale Computers"
10:00 – 10:20am	Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session VI — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderator: Hal Finkel — Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
10:20 – 10:40am	Luis Rangel DaCosta — University of California, Berkeley "Simulation and Machine Learning for Atomic-Scale Characterization of Nanomaterials With Transmission Electron Microscopy"
10:40 – 11:00am	Ian DesJardin — University of Maryland, College Park "Multifluid Simulation of Ion Acoustic Solitons Arising From a Charged Source and Comparison to the Forced Korteweg–de Vries Model"
11:00 – 11:20am	Margaret Trautner — California Institute of Technology "Operator Learning for PDEs: Function Space Theory Meets Machine Learning"
11:20 – 11:40am	Grant Johnson — Princeton University "Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithm for Particle Kinetics on Smooth Surfaces"
11:45am – 1:00pm	Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Session VII — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderator: Christine Chalk — Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
1:20 – 1:40pm	Anthony Degleris — Stanford University "Optimal Power Grid Expansion Planning Using Differentiable Electricity Models"
1:40 – 2:00pm	Rachel Robey — University of Colorado Boulder "Approaches to Multi-Scale Challenges in Measurements and Modeling of Geophysical Flows"
2:00 – 2:20pm	Kiran Eiden — University of California, Berkeley "Computational Modeling of Astrophysical Explosions With Central Engines"
2:20 – 2:40pm	Nikita Kozak — Stanford University "Leveraging Steerable Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Data-Driven Flow Modeling"
2:40 – 3:30pm	Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
3:30 – 5:00pm	Fellows' Poster Session (2022 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
5:00 – 6:30pm	Fellows' Poster Session (2023 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Thursday, July 18
8:00am – 12:00pm	Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:30 – 10:00am	Interactive Professional Development Workshop — L'Enfant Ballroom Paul Sutter— Research Professor of Theoretical Cosmology, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University; Visiting Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University; DOE CSGF Alumnus "Communicating Your Science Workshop"
10:00 - 10:30am	Break & Hotel Check Out — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
10:30am - 12:00pm	Science Communication Panel — L'Enfant Ballroom Moderated by Paul Sutter, alumni panelists will explore and discuss science communication in the context of their own unique experiences as graduate students, faculty, laboratory scientists and beyond. Casey Berger — Assistant Professor, Bates College (2015 Cohort) Priya Donti — Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-Founder and Chair, Climate Change AI (2017 Cohort) Kelly Kochanski — Data Scientist (Climate Analytics), McKinsey & Company (2016 Cohort) Jason Torchinsky — Postdoctoral Appointee, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (2019 Cohort)
12:00 – 1:00pm	Lunch — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer Sandwich/salad buffet for sit-down dining in the adjacent Solarium, or to grab and go for those with departing flights.
1:00 – 4:00pm	CSGF+1 — L'Enfant Ballroom Optional programming curated/facilitated by and for DOE CSGF fellows and alumni.
Pre-Recorded Talk submissions from outgoing fellows unable to attend the 2024 meeting in person.
Recorded	Emily de Jong — California Institute of Technology "Modeling Droplet Collisions for the Climate Scale"
Recorded	Rebekah Loving — California Institute of Technology "Scalable and Accurate Long-Read Sequencing Transcriptome Quantification with Ir-Kallisto"
Recorded	Ellis Torrance — University of North Carolina at Greensboro "Evolution of Homologous Recombination Rates Across Bacteria"

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