2008 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Wednesday, June 18 — 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom, Washington Court Hotel

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
Aeronautics
1	John Ziegler	Viscous, Reactive, Compressible Flow: Direct Simulation of Mach Reflection and Detonation Phenomenon
Applied Mathematics
3	James Martin	MCMC Methods for Bayesian Inverse Problems
5	Benjamin Sonday	Probing for “slow” variables using diffusion maps
7	David Ketcheson	Optimal SSP Runge-Kutta Methods
Bioengineering
9	Natalie Ostroff	An engineered eukaryotic clock
Chemical Engineering
11	Geoffrey Oxberry	Automatic Reduction of Chemical Reaction Mechanisms Through Reaction and Species Elimination
13	Kevin Kohlstedt	Chiral symmetry breaking with ionic lattices wrapped around nanofibers
Chemistry
15	Jenelle Bray	Computational Advances in GPCR Structure Prediction
17	David Rogers	Improved Force Matching Using Bayes’ Theorem and Stretched String Energy
Civil and Environmental Engineering
19	Brian Levine	National airspace model: Deterministic optimization of flight frequencies by carrier after airport losses
21	Cameron Talischi	Honeycomb Wachspress Finite Elements for Structural Topology Optimization
Computational Biology
23	Robin Friedman	Assessing Conservation of Individual Mammalian MicroRNA Target Sites
25	Ariella Sasson	De Novo Short Read Genome Sequencing
27	Alex Perkins	Application of selfish genetic elements to vector-borne disease control
Computer Science
29	Arnab Bhattacharyya	Noise Management, Inspired by Nature
31	Steven Hamilton	An Efficient Multigrid Approach for the Oseen Problem Based on the HSS Iteration
Electrical Engineering
33	Zlatan Aksamija	Boltzmann Transport Simulation of Electron Transport in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
35	Mark Berrill	Modeling Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers
Mechanical Engineering
37	Asegun Henry	Thermal Conductivity of Polyethylene Chains Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Physics
39	Ethan Coon	Extended Finite Element Methods for Repeated Rupture
41	Carolyn Phillips	Polydisperse Polymer-Tethered Nanospheres in the Double Gyroid Phase
43	Gregory Crosswhite	Tensor Networks: Weapons of Mass Simulation
45	Christopher Carey	A Numerical Investigation of Extragalactic Jet Stability
47	Alejandro Rodriguez	In search of surprises from the quantum vacuum: a computational approach to the study of Casimir forces in nanostructured media
49	Paul Sutter	The evolution of cosmic structure with coupled dark matter and dark energy
Group II — Presenting from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Aerospace Engineering
2	Peter Norgaard	Application of adaptive mesh refinement to particle-in-cell methods
Applied Mathematics
4	John Evans	Discontinuity Capturing and the Variational Multiscale Method
6	Michael Sekora	Extremum-Preserving Limiters for MUSCL and PPM
8	Julianne Chung	Separable Nonlinear Least Squares Problems in Medical Imaging
Bioengineering
10	Tal Danino	Synchronization of an E. coli genetic oscillator
12	Jeremy Lewi	Designing Neurophysiology Experiments to Optimally Constrain Parametric Receptive Field Models
Biophysics
14	Joshua Adelman	Ring Opening Dynamics of the Sliding DNA Clamp PCNA
Chemical/Biomedical Engineering
16	Ashlee Ford	Modeling Controlled Release Drug Delivery from PLGA Microspheres
18	Jordan Atlas	Modeling a Minimal Gene Set Drawn from Multiple Sequenced Bacterial Genomes
20	Matthew Reuter	Modelling Laser Field Alignment of Organic Molecules on Semiconductor Surfaces: Toward Ultrafast Molecular Switches
22	Jeff Hammond	Coupled-cluster theory on supercomputers
Computational Biology
24	Miler Lee	Structural modularity of microRNA precursors
26	David Markowitz	Rate-Specific Synchrony: Using Noisy Oscillations To Detect Equally Active Neurons
28	Sarah Richardson	BioStudio: Computer Assisted Design of Synthetic Genomes
Electrical Engineering
30	Matthew Adams	Computational Electromagnetics for Improved Wireless Network Simulation
Health Sciences and Technology
32	Danilo Scepanovic	A definition and method for estimating instantaneous heart rate
Nuclear Engineering
34	Joshua Hykes	Deterministic and Monte Carlo radiation transport in Computed Tomography dose estimation
Physics
36	Kristi Harris	Atomistic Simulation of Electromigration in Nanoscale Metallic Interconnects
38	Christopher Schroeder	The Higgs Boson and the Top Quark in a Box
40	Hal Finkel	The Gravitational-Wave Spectrum of Preheating Inflation Models
42	Jack Deslippe	Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanostructures from First Principles Calculations
44	Benjamin Smith	Gluons from the Fifth Dimension: A Search for Kaluza-Klein Gluons at the LHC
46	Milo Lin	A Landscape Model of DNA Hairpin Kinetics