2009 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Thursday, July 15 — 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom, Washington Court Hotel

The annual Fellows' Poster Session affords program review attendees a unique opportunity to learn more about the research being supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and prizes are awarded to those who engage in the best visual and oral presentations.

2009 Contest Winners

• Alex Rodriguez — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Overall)
• Jeff Hammond — University of Chicago (Honorable Mention)
• Paul Sutter — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Honorable Mention)
• Douglas Mason — Harvard University (Novice)

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting from 5:30-6:45 p.m.
Applied Mathematics
1	Scott Clark	Logical Redundancy in Random k-SAT Problems
3	John Evans	Isogeometric Analysis of Hydrodynamic Noise Generation
5	James Martin	Stochastic Newton MCMC
Atmospheric Science
7	Matthew Norman	A High-Order Accurate, Upwind, and Fully Discrete Linearized Riemann Solver: Application to Non-Hydrostatic Atmospheric Simulation
Bioengineering
9	Ying Hu	A Mie-based simulation study on spectral and angular radiation properties of gold-silica-gold multilayer nanoshells
Biology
11	Carl Boettiger	Searching Phylogenetic Trees for Adaptive Landscapes
13	Paul Loriaux	A mathematical model of homeostatic and stimulus-induced regulation of cell death by the transcription factor NF-kappaB in response to TNF
15	Cyrus Omar	State-dependent correlation between excitatory and inhibitory firing is explained by opposing correlating input with anti-correlating neural interactions
17	Sarah Richardson	Automated Design of Assemblable, Modular, Synthetic Chromosomes
19	Danilo Scepanovic	Toward a more physiologically constrained instantaneous heart rate
Chemical Engineering
21	Geoffrey Oxberry	Affine Lumping Formalism for Comparison of Projection-Based Model Reduction Techniques
Chemistry
23	Matthew Reuter	A Fast Split-Operator Spectral Method for Solving the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation in Angular Coordinates
25	Brenda Rubenstein	An Entropic Fitness? The Specific Adsorption of Proteins Amidst Polymer Brushes
Civil & Environmental Engineering
27	Cameron Talischi	Topology optimization with polygonal finite elements
Computational Fluid Dynamics
29	Britton Olson	Towards Peta-scale shock/turbulence computations
Computer Science
31	Jeffrey Kilpatrick	Association graph reduction: a framework for efficient exploration of high-level interactions in complex disease etiology
Electrical and Computer Engineering
33	Mark Berrill	Modeling Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers
Materials Science and Engineering
35	Anubhav Jain	A High-Throughput Computational Search for Novel Li-ion Battery Cathode Materials
Mechanical Engineering
37	Brian Lockwood	Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Hypersonic Flows
Operations Research
39	Kathleen King	Modeling Public Health Emergency Response Logistics
Physics
41	Gregory Crosswhite	A computational quest for quantum codes
43	Jack Deslippe	Nonlinear and Many-Body Effects on the Properties of Nanostructures
45	Milo Lin	Primary Peptide Folding Dynamics Observed with Ultrafast Temperature Jump
47	Alejandro Rodriguez	Computing Casimir forces via table-top experiments: a time-domain approach
Group II — Presenting from 6:30-7:45 p.m.
Aeronautics
2	John Ziegler	Simulating Diffusion in Detonations
Applied Mathematics
4	Steven Hamilton	Negative Flux Fixups in Finite Element Radiation Transport
6	Michael Sekora	The NIKE Code: A Hybrid Godunov Method for Radiation Hydrodynamics
8	Benjamin Sonday	Diffusion maps for model reduction: exploiting data mining to accelerate simulation
Audiology/Speech Pathology
10	Anne Warlaumont	Artificial neural networks that "listen" to infant vocalizations
Bioengineering
12	Tal Danino	Synchronization of a synthetic gene oscillator in Escherichia coli
Biology
14	Eric Chi	Parametric Statistical Classification by the Minimum Integrated Square Error Criterion
16	Robin Friedman	Most mammalian mRNAs are conserved targets of microRNAs
18	Alex Perkins	Evolutionarily labile species interactions and spatial spread dynamics of biological invasions
20	Ariella Sasson	De Novo Short Read Genome Sequencing
Biophysics
22	Armen Kherlopian	Large-scale model of primary visual cortex provides single neuron resolution on a macro scale
Chemical Engineering
24	Ashlee Ford	A Mechanistic Modeling Approach to the Design and Evaluation of Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems
Chemistry
26	Jeff Hammond	Developing polarizable force fields from ab initio calculations and the role of quantum chemical benchmarking in the age of petascale
28	Claire Ralph	Orbital ordering in Density Matrix Renormalization Group methods
Civil and Environmental Engineering
30	Brian Levine	National airspace model: Deterministic optimization of flight frequencies by carrier after airport losses
Computational Fluid Dynamics
32	Eric Liu	A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the RANS Equations Under ProjectX
Computer Science
34	Arnab Bhattacharyya	Robust Regulatory Networks
Cosmology
36	Paul Sutter	Galaxy Cluster Magnetic Fields from Active Galactic Nuclei
Mechanical Engineering
38	Curtis Hamman	The Sound of Boiling
Nuclear Engineering
40	Joshua Hykes	Non-analog momentum deposition estimators for Monte Carlo radiative transfer
Physics
42	Hal Finkel	Global Particle-Simulation Studies of Plasma-Microturbulence Properties
44	Kristi Harris	Atomistic Simulation of Metallic Nanowires
46	Douglas Mason	Efficient Electronic Transport Calculations for Arbitrarily-Shaped Graphene Devices