2007 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Wednesday, June 20 — 5:00-8:00 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 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Aerospace Engineering
1	Peter Norgaard	Instability Induced Current Redistribution in a Spherical Torus
Applied Mathematics
3	Jimena Davis	Using Confidence Bands to Quantify Uncertainty in the Estimation of Probability Distributions
5	John Evans	Isogeometric Analysis Using T-Splines
7	Jasmine Foo	Numerical Examples and Convergence Rates for the Multi-Element Probabilistic Collocation Method
9	Amber Sallerson Jackson	Modeling Multiphase Flow in Porous Medium Systems
11	Michael Sekora	Godunov Methods for Stiff Source Term Conservation Laws and Radiation Hydrodynamics
13	Benjamin Sonday	An example of hysteresis in multiscale computational materials science
Astrophysics
15	John ZuHone	Simulations of Galaxy Clusters with the FLASH code
Bioengineering
17	Tal Danino	Patterning of vascular mesenchymal cells in three dimensions
19	Jeremy Lewi	Optimal Design of Neurophysiology Experiments
Biophysics/Biochemistry
21	Joshua Adelman	Coarse-grain Modeling of Nucleic Acid-Protein Interaction
Chemical Engineering
23	Erik Allen	A Novel Algorithm For Creating Density Dependent Implicit Solvent Models
25	Jordan Atlas	Computer Models of Bacterial Cells: From Generalized Coarse-Grained to Genome-Specific Modular Models
27	Kevin Kohlstedt	Spontaneous chirality via long-range electrostatic forces
Chemistry
29	Jenelle Bray	Predictions of the Binding Sites of Agonists and Antagonists to Serotonin 2c
31	David Rogers	Absolute Solvation Free Energies from Quasi-Chemical Theory
Electrical Engineering
33	Mark Berrill	Modeling of a Seeded Table-Top Soft X-Ray Laser Amplifier
Physics
35	Ethan Coon	Upscaling for Multiphase Porous Flow
37	Kristi Harris	Nanowire Reliability: Atomistic Simulation of Electromigration in Nanoscale Metallic Interconnects
39	Carolyn Phillips	Neural Computation: The Influence of Medial Entorhinal Cortex Grid Cells on the Creation of Memory in the Hippocampus
41	Christopher Schroeder	Quark ... Soup?!
Group II — Presenting from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Applied Mathematics
2	Julianne Chung	HyBR: A Method for Solving Ill-Posed Problems arising in Image Processing
4	David Ketcheson	WENOCLAW: A High Order Wave Propagation Method
6	Oaz Nir	Inferring Gene Regulatory Relationships in Drosophila Using Cell Morphology Data
Bioengineering
8	Natalie Ostroff	A Synthetic Oscillating Gene Circuit for S. cerevisiae
Chemical/Biomolecular Engineering
10	Michael Bybee	Microstructure and Dynamics of Colloidal Suspensions with Attractive and Repulsive Interactions
12	Ashlee Ford	Modeling Controlled-Release Drug Delivery from PLGA Microspheres
Civil and Environmental Engineering
14	Brian Levine	National airspace model: Stochastic optimization of flight frequencies after airport losses
16	Michael Veilleux	Testing of a Fracture Mechanics-Based Criterion for Fatigue Crack Incubation in 7075-T651 Aluminum Alloy Microstructures
Computational Biology
18	Miler Lee	“Self containment,” a property of RNA structures, distinguishes microRNA precursors
20	David Markowitz	Tick-Tock: How Global Oscillatory “Clocks” May Support Computation In The Brain
Computer Science
22	Arnab Bhattacharyya	Adaptively Satisfying Constraints in the Presence of Noise
24	Bonnie Kirkpatrick	HaploPool: Accurately and Quickly Phasing Pooled DNA Samples
Electrical Engineering
26	Zlatan Aksamija	Phonon Emission in Silicon
Geography
28	David Potere	A Critical Look at Representations of Urban Areas in Global Maps
Mechanical Engineering
30	Asegun Henry	Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes
Operations Research
32	Stefan Wild	Derivative-free Calibration of a Computationally Expensive Watershed Model
Physics
34	Christopher Carey	Magnetohydrodynamic Kink Instability Driven by Differential Rotation
36	Jack Deslippe	Bound Excitons in Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from First Principles Simulation
38	Jeffrey Drocco	Formation of the Bicoid morphogen gradient in unfertilized Drosophila melanogaster eggs
40	Alejandro Rodriguez	Virtual photons in imaginary time: Computing exact Casimir forces using standard computational electromagnetism
42	Benjamin Smith	Decentralized Task Allocation in a Particle Physics Computing Network
Quantitative Biology
44	Ariella Sasson	Understanding Mechanisms of Aggregation, Absorption and Effectiveness for DAPY/DATA Anti-AIDS Drugs