2008 DOE CSGF Annual Conference Agenda

June 16 – 19, 2008
Washington, DC

Monday, June 16

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. New Fellows Registration & Photo Session - Ashlawn
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Attendees Dinner - Sagamore Hill
Introduction to DOE NNSA SSGF Program (John Ziebarth, Krell Institute)

Tuesday, June 17

7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom
7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Registration - Lower Lobby
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome - Grand Ballroom
James Corones, President, Krell Institute
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. Welcome - Grand Ballroom
Barbara Helland, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. Welcome - Grand Ballroom
David Crandall, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:45 - 10:45 a.m. Keynote - Grand Ballroom
Randall LeVeque, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
“Literate Programming and Reproducible Research in Computational Science”
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break
Session IGrand Ballroom
ModeratorGeorge Seweryniak, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
11:00 - 11:20 a.m.

“Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Medium Systems”


Amber Sallerson Jackson

, University of North Carolina
11:20 - 11:40 a.m.

“When Life Hands You Lemons – Optimize Away!”


Stefan Wild

, Cornell University
11:40 - 12:00 p.m.

“Modeling the world’s cities: an examination of global urban maps and their implications for conservation planning”


David Potere

, Princeton University
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom
Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest winners
1:45 - 2:00 p.m. 2008 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation
Introduction by David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Grand Ballroom
2:00 - 2:45 p.m. 2008 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk

Mala Radhakrishnan

, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wellesley College
2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Break

Session IIGrand Ballroom
ModeratorMichael Kreisler, U.S. Department of Energy

3:00 - 3:20 p.m.

“Efficient techniques for quantifying uncertainty”


Jasmine Foo

, Brown University
3:20 - 3:40 p.m.

“Simulating Everything: Computer Simulations of Galaxy Clusters and Synthetic Observations”


John ZuHone

, University of Chicago
3:40 - 4:00 p.m.

“An explicit approach to stochastically modeling fatigue crack formation”


Michael Veilleux

, Cornell University
4:00 - 4:20 p.m.

“Fluctuation theorem in colloidal systems with quenched disorder”


Jeffrey Drocco

, Princeton University
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session - Atrium Ballroom
5:10 - 5:25 p.m. Opening Remarks
Kim Yates, National Nuclear Security Administration,
U.S. Department of Energy
7:00 p.m. Fellows meet in Lobby to walk to Fellows’ Social
7:30 p.m. DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows Social – La Tasca, Penn Quarter

Wednesday, June 18

7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. “Discovering new science through HPC: An Alumna’s Story”
Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute
9:45 a.m. Fellows meet in lobby to walk to group photo site
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Group photograph
10:30 - 10:40 a.m. Break

Session IIIGrand Ballroom
ModeratorLali Chatterjee, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

10:40 - 11:00 a.m.

“Phasing for Pedigrees when SNPs are Densely Packed”


, University of California, Berkeley
11:00 - 11:20 a.m.

“Hydrodynamic Simulations of Colloidal Suspensions with Short-Range Attraction and Long-Range Repulsion ”


Michael Bybee

, University of Illinois
11:20 - 11:40 a.m.

“Quantifying Uncertainty in the Estimation of Probability Distributions”


Jimena Davis

, North Carolina State University
11:40 - 12:00 p.m.

“A Novel Algorithm for Creating Coarse-Grained Implicit Solvent Models for Simulation of Surfactant Systems”


Erik Allen

, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session
Moderated by DOE CSGF Alumna Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
1:00 p.m. Free Time (Lunch on your own) / Congressional visits as scheduled
3:00 p.m. Optional Meeting
HPC Focus Group/Information Gathering Session
Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute - Monticello Room
4:00 p.m. Fellows set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 8:00 p.m. DOE CSGF & NNSA SSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception - Grand Ballroom
5:10 - 5:25 p.m. Opening Remarks
Michael Kreisler, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

Thursday, June 19

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer
 
Session IVGrand Ballroom
ModeratorDaniel Hitchcock, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
 
Special Session on High Performance Computing (HPC)
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Barbara Helland, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
DOE facilities for HPC
9:30 -10:00 a.m. Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scientific Discovery Advanced by HPC
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. David Skinner, NERSC
SciDAC Outreach Center
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Open discussion on HPC
11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Break (Time for hotel checkout if needed)
11:30 - 1:00 pm Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Speaker: Charles H. Romine, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Meeting Concludes