2024 Agenda

2024 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Sunday, July 14 - Thursday, July 18
Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf

Updated May 2, 2024
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
9:45 – 10:00am DOE NNSA Welcome
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
11:00 – 11:30am Howes Scholar Presentation
Quentarius Moore — MTS Software Development Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices; DOE CSGF Alumnus
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch & Civics Talk — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Leland Cogliani— Senior Principal, Lewis-Burke Associates LLC
Session I — L'Enfant Ballroom
1:15 – 1:35pm Ellis Torrance — University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1:35 – 1:55pm Steven Wilson — Arizona State University
1:55 – 2:15pm Laura Nichols — Vanderbilt University
2:15 – 2:25pm Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session II — L'Enfant Ballroom
2:25 – 2:45pm Danilo Perez Jr — New York University
2:45 – 3:05pm Rebekah Loving — California Institute of Technology
3:05 – 3:25pm Marc Davis — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:25 – 3:45pm Albert Musaelian — Harvard University
3:00 – 4:00pm DOE Laboratories' Showcase Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
3:45pm 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
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 HPC"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session III — L'Enfant Ballroom
10:20 – 10:40am Ethan Epperly — California Institute of Technology
10:40 – 11:00am Margot Fitz Axen — University of Texas at Austin
11:00 – 11:20am Kaishu Mason — University of Pennsylvania
11:20 – 11:40am Justin Porter — Rice University
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Session IV — L'Enfant Ballroom
1:20 – 1:40pm Santiago Vargas — University of California, Los Angeles
1:40 – 2:00pm Alexandra Baumgart — California Institute of Technology
2:00 – 2:20pm Graham Pash — University of Texas at Austin
2:20 – 2:40pm Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session V — L'Enfant Ballroom
2:40 – 3:00pm Nishad Maskara — Harvard University
3:00 – 3:20pm Mary LaPorte — University of California, David
3:20 – 3:40pm Ariel Kellison — Cornell University
3:40 – 4:00pm David Rogers — Stanford University
4:00 – 5:00pm Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
4:15 – 4:45pm 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
"Global Cloud Resolving Atmospheric Modeling on Exascale Computers"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session VI — L'Enfant Ballroom
10:20 – 10:40am Luis Rangel DaCosta — University of California, Berkeley
10:40 – 11:00am Ian DesJardin — University of Maryland, College Park
11:00 – 11:20am Margaret Trautner — California Institute of Technology
11:20 – 11:40am Grant Johnson — Princeton University
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Session VII — L'Enfant Ballroom
1:20 – 1:40pm Anthony Degleris — Stanford University
1:40 – 2:00pm Rachel Robey — University of Colorado Boulder
2:00 – 2:20pm Kiran Eiden — University of California, Berkeley
2:20 – 2:40pm Nikita Kozak — Stanford University
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, Smith 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
Boxed meals 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.