2007 Agenda

5:00 - 6:00 pm

New Fellows Registration & Photo Session – Ashlawn

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Registration – Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby

6:30 - 8:00 pm

SSGF New Attendees Dinner – Sagamore Hill
Introduction to SGF Program (John Ziebarth, Krell Institute)

7:30 - 8:15 am

Breakfast Buffet – Atrium Ballroom

7:30 - 8:30 am

Registration – Lower Lobby

8:30 - 8:45 am

Welcome – Grand Ballroom
James Corones – President, Krell Institute

8:45 - 9:00 am

Welcome – Grand Ballroom
Michael Strayer – Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

9:00 - 9:15 am

Welcome – Grand Ballroom
David Crandall – National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

9:15 - 10:15 am

Keynote – Grand Ballroom
Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”

10:15 - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 10:50 am

Ian Parrish – Princeton University

“The Magnetothermal Instability and its Applications”

10:50 - 11:10 am

Paul Bauman – University of Texas

“Adaptive Multiscale Modeling of Polymeric Materials”

11:10 - 11:30 am

Aron Cummings – Arizona State University

“The Spin-Hall Effect in Quantum Wires”

11:35 am - 12:50 pm

Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom
Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest award winners
Dan Vergano, USA Today

1:00 - 1:30 pm

2007 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation
Introduction by Dan Hitchcock, Senior Technical Advisor for Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy - Grand Ballroom

1:30 - 2:15 pm

2007 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk
Kristen Grauman – Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin

“Scalable Image Recognition and Retrieval”

2:15 - 3:00 pm

2007 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk
Jaydeep Bardhan – Wilkinson Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory

“Electrostatic Interactions Between Biomolecules: A PDE-Constrained Approach”

3:00 - 3:20 pm

Break

3:20 - 3:40 pm

Tod Pascal – California Institute of Technology

“Calculation of entropy from Molecular Dynamics: First Principles Thermodynamics”

3:40 - 4:00 pm

Christina Payne – Vanderbilt University

“Molecular Dynamics Study of a Rapid DNA Sequencing Device”

4:00 - 4:20 pm

Mark Rudner – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Solid State Physics at the Nanoscale: Control of Classical and Quantum Degrees of Freedom ”

4:20 - 4:40 pm

Jeff Hammond – University of Chicago

“E Pluribus Duo”

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session – Atrium Ballroom

5:10 - 5:25 pm

Opening remarks
Njema Frazier, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

7:15 pm

Fellows meet in Lobby to walk to Fellows’ Social

7:30 pm

CSGF and SSGF Fellows’ Social – Johnny’s Half Shell

8:00 - 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00 - 9:20 am

Samuel Stechmann – New York University

“Models of Convectively Coupled Waves in the Tropical Atmosphere”

9:20 - 9:40 am

William Conley – Purdue University

“A theoretical examination of carbon nanotubes as a nano jump rope”

9:40 - 10:00 am

Brandon Wood – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Understanding Superionic Behavior from First-principles Molecular Dynamics”

10:00 - 10:20 am

Krzysztof Fidkowski – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“A Cut-Cell Adaptive Method for High-Order Discretizations of the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations”

10:20 - 10:40 am

Break

10:40 - 11:00 am

Mala Radhakrishnan – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Computational Design of Two Mutant Erythropoietin (Epo) Receptors that Bind Epo in a Specific Heterodimeric State, Allowing for Novel Experiments”

11:00 - 11:20 am

William Triffo – Rice University

“Structure for a Physiologic Model: Electron Tomography of the Outer Hair Cell Lateral Wall”

11:20 - 11:40 am

Allan Wollaber – University of Michigan

“A Hybrid Monte Carlo-Deterministic Method for Global, Time-Dependent Transport Calculations ”

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

Alumni/CSGF Fellows Session - SSGF Optional
Moderated by CSGF Alum Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced

12:40 pm

Free Time (Lunch on your own)

4:00 pm

Fellows set up for Poster Session– Grand Ballroom

5:00 - 8:00 pm

DOE CSGF & SSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception– Grand Ballroom

5:10 - 5:25 pm

Opening Remarks
Walt Polansky, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

8:00 - 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00 - 9:45 am

Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Services, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

9:45 - 10:30 am

William Tang, Chief Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

“Scientific Discovery via Supercomputing in Plasma Physics”

10:30 - 11:00 am

Discussion and Q&A

11:00 - 11:20 am

Break
Time for hotel checkout if needed

11:20 - 11:40 am

Michael Wolf – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Combinatorial Optimization of Matrix-Vector Multiplication”

11:40 am - 12:00 pm

Peter Kekenes-Huskey – California Institute of Technology

“moleculeGL, a Monte Carlo-based torsion sampling protocol”

12:00 - 12:20 pm

Brian Taylor – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Spinning Detonation in a Circular Tube”

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom 
Speaker: Jonna Hamilton, American Institute of Physics Congressional Science Fellow
“A science fellow’s perspective from Capitol Hill”

Meeting Concludes