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2024 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 their latest findings. The format allows all attendees — including fellow presenters — to ask questions of and engage in discussion with one another.

2021 Cohort

Group I - Presenting 5:00-5:45 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
1 Olivia Asher Assessing the Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Spore Associated Fungi and Bacteria Using Metagenomics and Culturing
3 Alexandra Ballow Investigating an Interesting Categorical Action
5 Bryn Barker Satisfying the Fluctuation Dissipation Balance With Adaptive Mesh Refinement
7 Vivek Bharadwaj High-Performance Row-Sampling for Khatri-Rao Products
9 Souradip Ghosh Ripple: Asynchronous Programming for Spatial Dataflow Architectures
11 Bowen Jing AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles
13 Caleb Ju Deep Reinforcement Learning of Local Trading Strategy for Grid-Scale Renewable Energy Integration
15 Madeleine Kerr Mantle Avalanches in Venus-Like Stagnant Lid Planet
17 Abigail Poteshman Leveraging Topological Constraints to Accelerate Spontaneous Electric Polarization Calculations
19 Paulina Rodriguez Medical Device Modeling: A Case Study in Building Credibility With Limited Reproducibility
21 Samuel Varner Application of Machine Learned Potentials to Bulk and Interfacial Aqueous Solutions
23 Victor Zendejas Lopez Direct Numerical Simulation of Spatially Evolving Statistically Stationary Planar Mixing Layers
28 Lucy Brown A Novel Slip Boundary Condition for Contact Angle Modeling Using Phase Field Methods
Group II - Presenting 5:45-6:30 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
2 Lucas Attia Inverse Design of Upconverting Nanoparticles via Deep Learning on Physics-Infused Heterogeneous Graphs
4 Zoe Barbeau Numerical Analysis of Particle in Cell Methods in 2D
6 Paul Beckman Butterfly-Accelerated Gaussian Random Fields on Manifolds
8 Ishani Ganguly Efficient Connectome Analyses for Identifying Bottleneck Neurons in Behaviorally-Relevant Pathways
10 Juan Gomez Attack-Aware Noise Calibration for Private Machine Learning
12 Gabrielle Jones Controlling Topological Defects in Curved Spherical Crystals of Hard Superballs
14 Olorundamilola Kazeem Advancing Speech Recognition With Vocal Tract Kinematics
16 Joy Kitson Scaling an Agent-Based Epidemic Simulation on State-Level Digital Twins
18 Sonia Reilly Bayesian Inversion of PDE-Based Problems Using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations
20 Courtney Shafer Evaluation of Modeled Subglacial Discharge From the Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Southern Ocean
22 Julia Wei Sampling From Variational SU(2)-Symmetric Quantum States

2022 Cohort

Group I - Presenting 3:30-4:15 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
25 Caleb Adams Modeling Fire Effects on Soil Carbon Cycling
27 Elizabeth Bennewitz Simulating Meson Scattering on Spin Quantum Simulators
29 Jackson Burns Development of a Descriptor-Based Foundation Model for Molecular Property Prediction
31 Ashlynn Crisp Scaling the Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process
33 Zachary Espinosa The Shortwave Cloud-SST Feedback Amplifies Multi-Decadal Variability in the Southeast Pacific: Implications for Observed Cooling
35 Joshua Fernandes Electrical Signal Propagation Along Biological Membranes
37 Mary Gerhardinger Solving a Crisis in Cosmology
39 McKenzie Hagen Evaluating Regularized Modeling Methods for Calcuating Functional Connectivity
41 Alexander Johnson Core Tracking with Massless-Aggregation-Particles (MAPs)
43 McKenzie Larson The Impact of Vertical Coordinates on Ice Shelf Cavity Simulations in MPAS-Ocean
45 Kerri Lu Quantifying Uncertainty in Area and Effect Size Estimation from Remote Sensing Maps
47 Tristan Maxson Understanding Structure of Supported Ag Nanoparticles by Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
49 Miruna Oprescu Is it Correlation or Causation? Uncertainty Quantification in Estimating Causal Effects with Unobserved Confounding
51 Carlyn Schmidgall Unraveling the Controls on Arctic Ocean Salinity Stratification Through E3SM-Arctic Tracer Release Experiments
53 Emily Williams Deep Operator Networks for Reduced-Order Modeling
Group II - Presenting 4:15-5:00 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
24 Daniel Abdulah Towards a GCM Emulator for Exoplanet Applications
26 Christopher Anderson The Interplay of Binary and Quantitative Structure on the Stability of Mutualistic Networks
30 Nina Cao Fabrication and Simulation of Artificial Cilia With Unique Integrated Proprioceptive Sensing Mechanisms
32 Max Daniels Model Selection in Physics-Informed Machine Learning
34 Otto Fajen The Ultrafast Photochemistry of Thymine: Predictions From Coupled Cluster Theory and the Hole-Hole Tamm-Dancoff Approximation
36 Nina Filippova Understanding Stellar Multiplicity Through Disk Fragmentation and Pre-Stellar Core Evolution
38 Gil Goldshlager Leveraging Randomized Linear Algebra to Accelerate the Training of Neural Network Wavefunctions
40 Michael Ito Learning Laplacian Positional Encodings for Heterophilous Graphs
42 Katherine Keegan An Adversarial ML Approach to Parameter Learning in Quantum Chromodynamics
44 Jerry Liu Can Transformers Solve Least Squares to High Precision?
46 Storm Mata On the Stability of Coupled Mesoscale-Microscale Simulations: A Case Study in the Southern Great Plains Region
48 Franz O'Meally Towards the Direct Numerical Simulation of Fuel Droplet Combustion in Detonation Waves
50 Mansi Sakarvadia Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Language Models
52 Michael Tynes On-the-fly Learning in Large Distributed Simulation Workflows
54 Joel Ye Neural Data Transformer 3: A Foundation Model for Motor Cortical Decoding

2023 Cohort

Group I - Presenting 5:00-5:45 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
55 Zachary Andalman Efficient Star Formation in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
57 Luke Bhan Neural Operators for Approximating Gain Kernels in PDE Control
59 Amelia Chambliss Quadratic Flux-Minimizing Maps for Characterization of Energetic Particle Transport Mechanisms in Quasihelical and Quasiaxisymmetric Stellarators
61 Cameron Coles Characterizing Spatiotemporal Patterns of Spongy Moth Defoliation in Upstate New York Using Sentinel-2
63 Amil Dravid Interpreting the Weight Space of Customized Diffusion Models
65 Isabella Dula Razzolini Using Loon to Comprehensively Observe Gravity Wave Properties
67 Jacob Halpern Initial Coil Configurationss for the Columbia REconfigurable eXperiment (C-REX): A Hybrid Tokamak-Stellarator
69 Juampablo Heras Rivera Improving Glioma Segmentation in Low-Resolution Domains With Transfer Learning
71 Elyssa Hofgard Relaxed Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
73 Abigail Keller The Transition from Resistance to Acceptance: Managing a Marine Invasive Species in a Changing World
75 David Krasowska Task Based Programming for Processing in Memory HPC Clusters
77 Adam Lechowicz Chasing Convex Functions With Long-term Constraints
79 Fiona Majeau Comparing Time-Domain Simulation Methods for Systems With Heterogeneous Generation
81 Joshua Melendez-Rivera Classical and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics for Strain-Induced Reactions of 2D Materials: A Coupled Mechanochemistry and Nanotribology Study
83 Kirill Nagaitsev Eliminating Hardware Interrupts With Dispersed Interrupt Polling
85 Melissa Rasmussen The Hard Life of Floatovoltaics: Modeling Wind-Driven Oscillations of Floating Solar Panels
87 Gabriel Rios How do Tropical Cyclones Impact the Large-Scale Climate? An Exploration Using Global Climate Models
89 Joseph Torsiello 3D Tomography (3DT) of Fundamental Partons
91 Michael Walker Direct Numerical Simulation of Flame Annihilation in Turbulent Premixed Combustion
Group II - Presenting 5:45-6:30 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
56 Alexandra Bardon Convergent Effects of Different Anesthetics on Changes in Phase Alignment of Cortical Oscillations
58 Amanda Bowden Part 1. Changes in Madden-Julian Oscillation Activity and Easterly Waves in a Warmer Climate Using CESM2, and Part 2. The Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in the HENS Model Using TECA-BARD
60 Lauren Chua Learning Design Rules and Generating Reactive Training Data for Energy Efficient and Deconstructable Polymerizations Using High Throughput Virtual Screening Workflows
62 Luis Delgado Granados Unitary Dynamics for Open Quantum Systems With Density-Matrix Purification
64 Mohit Dubey Development of a Forced Advection Sampling Technique (FAST) for Quantification of Orphan Well Methane Emissions
66 Michelle Garcia Elucidating the Binding Modes of Small Molecules That Modulate the Aggregation Propensity of Hiapp
68 Emma Hart Paired Autoencoders for Inference and Regularization
70 Iran Hernandez Imbert Modeling Simplified Fracture Networks in Enhanced Geothermal Systems Using a Phase-Field Model for Crack Nucleation
72 Benjamin Holmgren Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning in a Planar Polygonal Environment
74 Patrick Kim Towards Semi-Implicit Methods for the GX Gyrokinetics Code
76 James Larsen Feedback-Based Quantum Algorithms for the Poisson Equation
78 Brandon Lee Direct Optimization of Neoclassical Ion Transport in Stellarator Reactors
80 Ethan Meitz High-Temperature Heat Capacity of Vibrational Modes
82 Benjamin Moyer Improvements to a Probabilistic Joint Inversion of Magnetic and Gravimetric Data
84 Jennifer Paige A Spatial Understanding of Coral Dynamics Under Multiple Stressors
86 Pavan Ravindra A Machine Learning Force Field Study of Hydrogen Bonding in Nanoconfined Water
88 Kathlynn Simotas 3D Hydrodynamical Simulations of Supernova Outflows
90 Cristian Villatoro Encoding for Multi-Fidelity Neural Network Surrogates
92 Sienna White How do Hydrodynamic Conditions Influence Algal Species Competition in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta?