2007 Agenda

2007 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Monday, June 18 – Thursday, June 21
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC

Monday, June 18
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	New Attendees Dinner – Atrium Ballroom Introduction to DOE CSGF Program (James Corones, Krell Institute)
Tuesday, June 19
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
Session I — Grand Ballroom Moderator: George Seweryniak Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30 - 10:50 am	Ian Parrish – Princeton University “The Magnetothermal Instability and its Applications to Clusters of Galaxies”
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
Session II — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Njema Frazier, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
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
Wednesday, June 20
8:00 - 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Session III — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Christine Chalk, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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 Receptors that Bind Epo in a Specific Heterodimeric State”
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 Moderated by CSGF Alum Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
12:40 pm	Free Time (Lunch on your own) / Congressional visits as scheduled
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
Thursday, June 21
8:00 - 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Special Session on high-performance computing
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
Session IV — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Thuc Hoang, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
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

2007 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Monday, June 18 – Thursday, June 21 Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC

Monday, June 18 – Thursday, June 21
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC