2008 Agenda

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.

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

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

11:00 - 11:20 a.m.

Amber Sallerson Jackson – University of North Carolina
“Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Medium Systems”

11:20 - 11:40 a.m.

Stefan Wild – Cornell University
“When Life Hands You Lemons – Optimize Away!”

11:20 - 12:00 p.m.

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

12:00. - 1:30 p.m.

Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom
Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest award 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

3:00 - 3:20 p.m.

Jasmine Foo – Brown University
“Efficient techniques for quantifying uncertainty”

3:20 - 3:40 p.m.

John ZuHone – University of Chicago
“Simulating Everything: Computer Simulations of Galaxy Clusters and Synthetic Observations”

3:40 - 4:00 p.m.

Michael Veilleux – Cornell University
“An explicit approach to stochastically modeling fatigue crack formation”

4:00 - 4:20 p.m.

Jeffrey Drocco – Princeton University
“Fluctuation theorem in colloidal systems with quenched disorder”

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, DOE

7:00 p.m.

Fellows meet in Lobby to walk to Fellows’ Social

7:30 p.m.

CSGF and SSGF Fellows’ Social – La Tasca, Penn Quarter

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

Mary Ann Leung – Krell Institute
“Discovering new science through HPC: An Alumna’s Story”

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

10:40 - 11:00 a.m.

Bonnie Kirkpatrick – University of California, Berkeley
“Phasing for Pedigrees when SNPs are Densely Packed”

11:00 - 11:20 a.m.

Michael Bybee – University of Illinois
“Hydrodynamic Simulations of Colloidal Suspensions with Short-Range Attraction and Long-Range Repulsion: Microstructure and Rheology”

11:20 - 11:40 a.m.

Jimena Davis – North Carolina State University
“Quantifying Uncertainty in the Estimation of Probability Distributions”

11:40 - 12:00 p.m.

Erik Allen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“A Novel Algorithm for Creating Coarse-Grained Implicit Solvent Models for Simulation of Surfactant Systems”

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Alumni/CSGF Fellows Session
Moderated by CSGF Alum 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 & SSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception– Grand Ballroom

5:10 - 5:25 p.m.

Opening Remarks
Michael Kreisler, National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Barbara Helland, Office of Science, DOE
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 p.m.

Luncheon – Atrium Ballroom
Speaker: Charles H. Romine, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Meeting Concludes