2009 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda
Monday, July 13 – Thursday, July 16
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.
| Monday, July 13 (HPC Workshop, etc.) | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | HPC Workshop — Grand Ballroom, etc. |
| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Registration & Photo Session for New Fellows — Ashlawn |
| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Registration — Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. |
New Attendees Dinner — Atrium Ballroom Welcome James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| Tuesday, July 14 | |
| 7:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast Buffet — Atrium Ballroom |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Registration — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. |
Welcome — Grand Ballroom James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 9:15 - 9:30 a.m. | Patricia Dehmer — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. |
Welcome — Grand Ballroom Tom D’Agostino — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:45 - 10:30 a.m. |
Keynote — Grand Ballroom J. Michael Davis — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory “Transparency and Knowledge: A Legacy Opportunity for the Nation’s Electric Infrastructure” |
| 10:30 - 10:40 a.m. | Break |
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Session I — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Karen Pao — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
Zlatan Aksamija — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Simulation of Nanoscale Electro-thermal Effects in Semiconductor Devices” |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Julianne Chung — Emory University “Large-Scale Ill-Posed Inverse Problems in Imaging Applications” |
| 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. |
Jordan Atlas — Cornell University “Towards a Genomically Detailed Minimal Cell Model” |
| 11:40 - 12:00 p.m. |
Peter Norgaard — Princeton University “Direct Numerical Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamic Thruster Plasmas” |
| 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. |
LuncheonAtrium Ballroom Presentation of DOE CSGF Essay Contest Winners |
| 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. |
2009 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation — Grand Ballroom David Brown — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. |
2009 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk — Grand Ballroom David Potere — Boston Consulting Group “The View from On-Orbit : New Challenges and Opportunities in Earth Observation and Satellite Remote Sensing” |
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Session II — Grand Ballroom Moderator: William Spotz — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. |
Kevin Kohlstedt — Northwestern University “Chirality in Nature: Using Electrostatic Forces to Generate Chiral Symmetry” |
| 2:50 - 3:10 p.m. |
Christopher Schroeder &nmash; University of California, San Diego “Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, New Quarks, and Graphics Processors” |
| 3:10 - 3:30 p.m. | David Markowitz — Princeton University “Noisy Clocks and Information Processing in the Brain” |
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. |
Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session — Atrium Ballroom Opening Remarks Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 7:00 p.m. | Fellows and alumni meet in hotel lobby to walk to social |
| 7:30 p.m. |
DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows and Alumni Social — Piedmont Room at Clyde’s of Gallery Place, 707 7th Street, NW |
| Wednesday, July 15 | |
| 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. | Free Time |
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Session III — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Osni Marques — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
David Rogers — University of Cincinnati “Analyzing Simulation Data Using Bayes' Theorem” |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Matt McGrath — Peace Corps “First-principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Hydrogen-bonding Fluids” |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
David Ketcheson — University of Washington “Stability and Stegotons: Understanding Waves through Computation” |
| 11:45 - 1:00 p.m. |
DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session — Springwood Room Moderator: Mayya Tokman — University of California, Merced; DOE CSGF Alumna (Lunch available for attendees) |
| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
HPC Roundtable Discussion — Springwood Room Moderator: Mary Ann Leung — Krell Institute; DOE CSGF Alumna |
| 2:45 - 4:15 p.m. |
Invited Talk — Springwood Room Randy Black — Office of Research Development at the University of California, Irvine “Writing Tips and Traps: How to Compete for a Reader’s Time (and Grant Money)” |
| 4:00 p.m. | Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — Grand Ballroom |
| 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. |
Fellows' Poster Session and Reception — Grand Ballroom Opening Remarks Anna Palmisano — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Thursday, July 16 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
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Session IV — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Robert Hanrahan — National Nuclear Security Administration, U. S. Department of Energy |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 a.m. |
Oaz Nir — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Genetic Tuning of Single-Cell Morphological Variability” |
| 9:20 - 9:40 a.m. |
Miler Lee — University of Pennsylvania “Modular Organization and Composability of RNA” |
| 9:40 - 10:00 a.m. |
Christopher Carey — University of Wisconsin “Rotational Stabilization of Astrophysical Jets” |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. |
Joshua Adelman — University of California, Berkeley “The Mechanical Properties of the Sliding DNA Clamp PCNA” |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. |
Ethan Coon — Columbia University “Breaking Ground in Earthquake Simulation: Extended Finite Element Methods for Repeated Earthquake Rupture” |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. |
Jeremy Lewi — Georgia Institute of Technology “Sequential Optimal Design of Neurophysiology Experiments” |
| 11:20 - 12:00 p.m. | Break |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Luncheon — Atrium Ballroom Fellows Poster Contest Winners Announcement Adam Rosenberg — Congressional Staff Member, Committee on Science and Technology |
| Meeting Concludes | |