2006 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Wednesday, June 21 — 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom

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 his or her latest findings, and the session is divided into two groups so all participants have the chance to view the displays and ask questions of their peers.

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Aerospace Engineering
1	Peter Norgaard	Numerical Methods for Propulsive Plasma Simulation
Applied Mathematics
3	Paul Bauman	Modeling of Semiconductor Manufacturing using Goal-Oriented Error Estimation and Adaptive Multi-scale Modeling
5	Jimena Davis	A Computational and Statistical Comparison of Approximation Methods for the Estimation of Probability Distributions on Parameters
7	Amber Sallerson	A Numerical Study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on Large Amplitude Internal Waves
9	Samuel Stechmann	An Idealized Model for the Climate of the Tropical Atmosphere
Astrophysics
11	Ian Parrish	Simulation of the Magnetothermal Instability
Bioengineering
13	Natalie Ostroff	Image Segmentation Software for the Extraction of Single-cell Data in S. cerevisiae
Chemical Engineering
15	Erik Allen	Coarse Grained, Implicit Solvent Simulations of Micellar Systems
17	Kevin Kohlstedt	Surface patterns on co-assembled fibers from charged, amphiphilic molecules
19	Christina Payne	Molecular Dynamics Study of a Rapid DNA Sequencing Device
Chemistry
21	Peter Kekenes-Huskey	Study of ion transport in nanoporous silicates via the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method (WHAM)
Computational Biology
23	Etay Ziv	Optimal Information Processing in Small Stochastic Biochemical Networks
25	David Markowitz	Automated 3D Reconstruction of Neurons from Serial Electron Micrographs
Computer Science
27	Michael Wolf	Characterization of Distributed Micro-releases of Pathogens
Geography
29	David Potere	Global Urban Estimates: A Comparison
Materials Science
31	Brandon Wood	A First-principles Molecular Dynamics Study of Hydrogen Diffusion in Select Fuel-cell Materials
Physical Chemistry
33	Mala Radhakrishnan	Specificity in Molecular Design: Probing the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Binding Specificity and Promiscuity
Physics
35	Mark Rudner	Spontaneous Polarization of Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots
37	Christopher Schroeder	How Trivial Is The Higgs Boson, And Why Does It Matter?
Planetary Sciences
39	Emma Rainey	Estimate of Tidal Q of Mars Using MOC Observations of the Shadow of Phobos
Group II — Presenting from 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Aeronautics/Astronautics
2	Krzysztof Fidkowski	Output-based Grid Adaptation for Aerodynamics
Applied Mathematics
4	Ethan Coon	Viscous Shear Heating Instability in Fine-Grained Shear Zones
6	Jasmine Foo	An adaptive multi-element stochastic collocation method for PDEs with parametrized uncertainty
Astrophysics
8	John ZuHone	N-body with FLASH: Developing Techniques
Bioengineering
10	Jeremy Lewi	Simulations of Efficient Experimental Design: A Minimum Entropy Approach
12	William Triffo	Tomographic Analysis of Outer Hair Cell Structure
Biophysics
14	Joshua Adelman	Mechanochemical Modeling of DNA Translocases
Chemical Engineering
16	Jordan Atlas	A Modular Framework for Computer Models of Bacterial Cells
18	Michael Bybee	Numerical Simulation of Dense Colloidal Gels
Chemistry
20	Jeff Hammond	New Frontiers in Quantum Many-Body Problems Using State-of-the-Art Semidefinite Programming Algorithms
Civil and Environmental Engineering
22	Michael Veilleux	Finite Element Modeling of Fatigue Crack Nucleation in Multi-Phase Microstructures of Aluminum Alloys
24	Stefan Wild	Attacking Parameter Uncertainty in Calibration Problems Arising in Environmental Engineering
Computational Biology
26	Miler Lee	Self-containment and modularity of RNA
Computer Science
28	Bonnie Kirkpatrick	Grouping Proteins According to Structural Features
Electrical Engineering
30	Aron Cummings	Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling in Quantum Wire Networks
Engineering Mechanics
32	Brian Taylor	Validation of detonation stability theory through direct simulation
Mechanical Engineering
34	Asegun Henry	Analysis of Heat Conduction in Silicon Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Physical Chemistry
36	Matthew McGrath	Simulation of phase equilibria from first principles: Basis set and density functional dependence
38	Tod Pascal	A priori estimation of DNA duplex stability: A Weighted Nearest Neighbor method
Physics
40	Christopher Carey	Simulation of MHD collimation from differential rotation
42	Jeffrey Drocco	Jamming at Point J: Granular molecular dynamics using MPI