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2026 Presentations

2026 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Presentations

Sunday, July 12 - Thursday, July 15

Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf

Presenter Presenter's Title and Organization Link to Presentation Page

Monday, July 13

Welcome
Darío Gil Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy DOE Office of Science Welcome
David LaGraffe Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator, Office of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, National Nuclear Security Administration DOE NNSA Welcome
Session I
Emily Williams Massachusetts Institute of Technology Generative Modeling for Multiscale Chaotic Systems
Michael Tynes University of Chicago Controlling, Coarsening and Distributing Machine-Learned Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics
Session II
Elizabeth Bennewitz University of Maryland, College Park Quantum Simulation with Analog Quantum Simulators
Otto Fajen Stanford University Leveraging GPU-Acceleration and Rank-Sparsity to Scale Correlated Wavefunction Methods in Quantum Chemistry
Nina Filippova University of Texas at Austin Protostellar Disk Formation in Realistic Environments: Addressing the Magnetic Braking Catastrophe
Session III
Gil Goldshlager University of California, Berkeley Towards High-Precision Optimizers for Scientific Machine Learning
Jackson Burns Massachusetts Institute of Technology Deep Learning Foundation Models from Classical Molecular Descriptors
Alexander Johnson Harvard University Efficient and Accurate Galaxy Catalogs with Massless AggregationParticles (MAPs)

Tuesday, July 14

Keynote
Brian Spears Technical Director, Genesis Mission, U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration; Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The Genesis Mission: Nation-Scale AI and the Future of Scientific Work
Session IV
Mary Gerhardinger University of Pennsylvania What Does it Take to Simulate a Black Hole?
Miruna Oprescu Cornell University Beyond Prediction: When Machine Learning Meets Causality
Joel Ye Carnegie Mellon University Towards a Foundation Model for Intracortical Neural Activity
Session V
Caleb Adams University of Texas at Austin Trees, Water and Microenvironment
Daniel Abdulah Massachusetts Institute of Technology Internal Ocean Waves on Icy Moons
Session VI
Franz O'Meally California Institute of Technology Simulating Mass Transfer with Interface-Capturing Schemes
Session VII
Michael Ito University of Michigan From Random Searches to Canonical Trees: New Routes to Invariant Molecular Graph Learning
Katherine Keegan Emory University Teaching Science to Generative AI: Mathematical Techniques in Equality-Constrained Scientific Generative Modeling
McKenzie Hagen University of Washington Linking fMRI Measurements to Neuroscience Theory with Model-Based Connectomes

Wednesday, July 15

Session VIII
Joshua Fernandes University of California, Berkeley The Emergent Physics of Bioelectricity
Session IX
Christopher Anderson University of Washington Multi-Objective Optimization Reveals Driving Forces Behind Mutualistic Community Structure and Persistence
Jerry Liu Stanford University Constructing Efficient Fact-Storing MLPs for Transformers
Mansi Sakarvadia University of Chicago Towards Resilient Machine Learning Across Scales
Session X
Zachary Espinosa University of Washington DLESyM-Ocean: A Deep Learning Probabilistic Global Ocean Model for Simulating Present-Day Upper Ocean and Sea Ice
Lucy Brown Stanford University Near-Wall Subgrid Modeling for Simulations of Drop Sliding and Impingement
McKenzie Larson University of Colorado Boulder Future Changes to Extreme Downslope Windstorms Across the Northern Colorado Front Range