Agenda

7:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Conference Registration – Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

HPC Workshop – Grand Ballroom, etc.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Registration and Photo Session for New Fellows – Capitol Room

5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Registration – Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

New Attendees Dinner – Atrium Ballroom
Introduction to the DOE CSGF Program
James Corones – President, Krell Institute

7:00 - 8:15 a.m.

Breakfast Buffet – Atrium Ballroom

7:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration – Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:25 - 8:30 a.m.

Welcome – Grand Ballroom
James Corones – President, Krell Institute

8:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Welcome – Grand Ballroom
Steven E. Koonin – Under Secretary for Science, Office of Science,
U.S. Department of Energy

8:45 - 9:00 a.m.

Welcome – Grand Ballroom
Thomas P. D'Agostino – Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator,
National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Introductory Comments – Grand Ballroom
James Corones – President, Krell Institute

9:15 - 10:00 a.m.

Keynote – Grand Ballroom
Andy White – Deputy Associate Director for Theory, Simulation, and Computing Directorate; Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Exascale Applications and Technology"

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Break – Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30 - 10:50 a.m.

Tal Danino – University of California, San Diego
"A Synchronized Quorum of Genetic Clocks"

10:50 - 11:10 a.m.

Carolyn Phillips – University of Michigan
"GPU-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Models for Studying Soft Matter Systems"

11:10 - 11:30 a.m.

Michael Sekora – Princeton University
"A Hybrid Godunov Method for Radiation Hydrodynamics"

11:30 - 11:50 a.m.

Brian Levine – Cornell University
"National Airspace Model: Deterministic Optimization of Flight Frequencies by Carrier After Airport Losses"

12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom
Announcement of DOE CSGF Essay Contest Winners
Birds of a Feather Discussion

1:30 - 1:45 p.m.

Announcement of 2010 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Recipient –
Grand Ballroom
David L. Brown – Deputy Associate Director for Science and Technology, Computation Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

1:45 - 2:30 p.m.

2010 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk – Grand Ballroom
Julianne Chung – University of Maryland
"Numerical Algorithms for Polyenergetic Breast Tomosynthesis Image Reconstruction"

2:45 - 3:45 p.m.

HPC Roundtable Discussion (Optional) – Springwood Room

• Mary Ann Leung – DOE CSGF Program Manager and Alumna, Krell Institute
  "Using a Second Practicum and Other Resources for HPC"
• Carl Boettiger – DOE CSGF Fellow, University of California, Davis
  "HPC Survey Results and Discussion"

4:00 - 4:45 p.m.

DOE CSGF Fellows Group Photo – Capitol Grounds

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

DOE Laboratory Poster Session and Reception – Atrium Ballroom

5:10 - 5:25 p.m. – Opening Remarks
Victor Reis – Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

7:15 p.m.

Fellows and Alumni Meet in Hotel Lobby to Walk to Social

8:00 p.m.

DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows and Alumni Social –
Zengo, 781 7th Street NW (Chinatown / Gallery Place)

7:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00 - 9:20 a.m.

Jack Deslippe – University of California, Berkeley
"Predicting the Electronic and Optical Properties of Nano-Materials from First-Principles Computation"

9:20 - 9:40 a.m.

Benjamin Sonday – Princeton University
"Eigenvalue Analysis of Uncertain ODE Systems"

9:40 - 10:00 a.m.

Ariella Sasson – Rutgers University
"From Short Read Sequences to an Assembled Genome: Is De Novo Assembly Possible?"

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Break – Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30 - 10:50 a.m.

Alejandro Rodriguez – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Surprises from the Quantum Vacuum"

10:50 - 11:10 a.m.

Jenelle Bray – Stanford University
"SuperBiHelix: A New Method for Predicting an Ensemble of Low-Lying GPCR Structures"

11:10 - 11:30 a.m.

John Evans – University of Texas
"Advanced Simulation Tools for Cardiovascular Blood Flow and Drug Delivery"

11:30 - 11:50 p.m.

Mark Berrill – Colorado State University
"Modeling Laser Created Plasmas and Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers"

12:00 - 1:20 p.m.

DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session (Optional) – Springwood Room
(Lunch available for attendees)
Judith Hill – DOE CSGF Alumna, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

DOE Laboratory Career Perspectives (Optional) – Atrium Ballroom

• Lori Diachin – Acting Director for the Center for Applied Scientific Computing,
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  "Hiring Perspectives"
• Lois Curfman McInnes – Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
  "Work Life Balance Perspectives"
• John Dolbow – DOE CSGF Alumnus; Yoh Family Professor, Duke University;
  and Visiting Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
  "Comparison of Academia and DOE Laboratories"

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Break – Atrium Ballroom Foyer

2:45 - 4:00 p.m.

Spotlight on Careers: DOE CSGF Alumni Career Panels (Optional) – Atrium Ballroom

• Gavin Conant – University of Missouri
• Judith Hill – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Brian Moore – General Electric Nuclear Energy
• Rajeev Surati – Scalable Display Technologies

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Fellows Set Up for Poster Session – Grand Ballroom

5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Fellows Poster Session and Reception – Grand Ballroom

5:10 - 5:25 p.m. – Opening Remarks
David Dean– Senior Advisor to Under Secretary Koonin, Office of Science,
U.S. Department of Energy

8:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:30 - 9:50 a.m.

Asegun Henry – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Using Atomistic Simulations to Study Thermal Conductivity"

9:50 - 10:10 a.m.

Robin Friedman – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Towards Quantitative Biology: High-Throughput Analysis of Transcription Factor Binding Preferences"

10:10 - 10:30 a.m.

Benjamin Smith – Harvard University
"Computing at the Large Hadron Collider: Extracting Physics from 40 Million Collisions a Second"

10:30 - 10:50 a.m.

Break – Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:50 - 11:10 a.m.

Ashlee Ford – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Design of PLGA Microparticle Drug Delivery Systems Using a Mechanistic Reaction-Diffusion Model"

11:10 - 11:30 a.m.

Arnab Bhattacharyya – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Property Testing, with a Focus on Invariances"

11:30 - 11:55 a.m.

Break (time to check out of hotel, etc.)

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom
Announcement of Fellows Poster Contest Winners

Invited Speaker
Dahlia Sokolov – Congressional Staff Member, House Committee on Science and Technology
"Science Policy 101"