2010 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda
Monday, June 21 – Thursday, June 24
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.
| Monday, June 21 (HPC Workshop, etc.) | |
| 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Registration — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | HPC Workshop — Grand Ballroom, etc. |
| 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Registration and Photo Session for New Fellows — Capitol Room< |
| 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Registration — Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. |
New Attendee Dinner — Atrium Ballroom Welcome James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| Tuesday, June 22 | |
| 7:00 - 8:15 a.m. | Breakfast Buffet — Atrium Ballroom |
| 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Registration — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:25 - 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome — Grand Ballroom James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. |
Welcome — Grand Ballroom Steven E. Koonin — Under Secretary for Science, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 8:45 - 9:00 a.m. |
Welcome — Grand Ballroom Thomas P. D'Agostino — Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. |
Introductory Comments — Grand Ballroom James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 9:15 - 10:00 a.m. |
Keynote — Grand Ballroom Andy White — Deputy Associate Director for Theory, Simulation, and Computing Directorate; Los Alamos National Laboratory "Exascale Applications and Technology" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
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Session I — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Randall Laviolette — Program Manager, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. |
Tal Danino — University of California, San Diego "A Synchronized Quorum of Genetic Clocks" |
| 10:50 - 11:10 a.m. |
Carolyn Phillips — University of Michigan "GPU-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Models for Studying Soft Matter Systems" |
| 11:10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Michael Sekora — Princeton University "A Hybrid Godunov Method for Radiation Hydrodynamics" |
| 11:30 - 11:50 a.m. |
Brian Levine — Cornell University "National Airspace Model: Deterministic Optimization of Flight Frequencies by Carrier After Airport Losses" |
| 12:00 - 1:15 p.m. |
Luncheon — Atrium Ballroom Announcement of DOE CSGF Essay Contest Winners Birds of a Feather Discussion |
| 1:30 - 1:45 p.m. |
Announcement of 2010 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Recipient — Grand Ballroom David L. Brown — Deputy Associate Director for Science and Technology, Computation Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. |
2010 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk — Grand Ballroom Julianne Chung — University of Maryland "Numerical Algorithms for Polyenergetic Breast Tomosynthesis Image Reconstruction" |
| 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. |
HPC Roundtable Discussion (Optional) — Springwood Room
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| 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. | DOE CSGF Fellows Group Photo — Capitol Grounds |
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. |
DOE Laboratory Poster Session and Reception — Atrium Ballroom Opening Remarks Victor Reis — Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 7:15 p.m. | Fellows and Alumni Meet in Hotel Lobby to Walk to Social |
| 8:00 p.m. |
DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows and Alumni Social — Zengo, 781 7th Street NW (Chinatown / Gallery Place) |
| Wednesday, June 23 | |
| 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
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Session II — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Karen Pao — Mathematician, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 a.m. |
Jack Deslippe — University of California, Berkeley "Predicting the Electronic and Optical Properties of Nano-Materials from First-Principles Computation" |
| 9:20 - 9:40 a.m. |
Benjamin Sonday — Princeton University "Qualitative Behavior of Random Ordinary Differential Equations Studied with Polynomial Chaos" |
| 9:40 - 10:00 a.m. |
Ariella Sasson — Rutgers University "From Short Read Sequences to an Assembled Genome: Is De Novo Assembly Possible?" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. |
Alejandro Rodriguez — Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Surprises from the Quantum Vacuum" |
| 10:50 - 11:10 a.m. |
Jenelle Bray — Stanford University "SuperBiHelix: A New Method for Predicting an Ensemble of Low-Lying GPCR Structures" |
| 11:10 - 11:30 a.m. |
John Evans — University of Texas "Advanced Simulation Tools for Cardiovascular Blood Flow and Drug Delivery" |
| 11:30 - 11:50 p.m. |
Mark Berrill — Colorado State University "Modeling Laser Created Plasmas and Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers" |
| 12:00 - 1:20 p.m. |
DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session (Optional) — Springwood Room (Lunch available for attendees) Judith Hill — DOE CSGF Alumna, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
DOE Laboratory Career Perspectives (Optional) — Atrium Ballroom
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| 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. | Break — Atrium Ballroom Foyer |
| 2:45 - 4:00 p.m. |
Spotlight on Careers: DOE CSGF Alumni Career Panels (Optional) — Atrium Ballroom
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| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Fellows Set Up for Poster Session — Grand Ballroom |
| 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. |
Fellows Poster Session and Reception — Grand Ballroom Opening Remarks David Dean — Senior Advisor to Under Secretary Koonin, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Thursday, June 24 | |
| 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
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Session III — Grand Ballroom Moderator: Daniel Segalman — Technical Advisor to ASC Program, National Nuclear Security Administration, U. S. Department of Energy |
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| 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. |
Asegun Henry — Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Using Atomistic Simulations to Study Thermal Conductivity" |
| 9:50 - 10:10 a.m. |
Robin Friedman — Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Towards Quantitative Biology: High-Throughput Analysis of Transcription Factor Binding Preferences" |
| 10:10 - 10:30 a.m. |
Benjamin Smith — Harvard University "Computing at the Large Hadron Collider: Extracting Physics from 40 Million Collisions a Second" |
| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. | Break — Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 10:50 - 11:10 a.m. |
Ashlee Ford — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Design of PLGA Microparticle Drug Delivery Systems Using a Mechanistic Reaction-Diffusion Model" |
| 11:10 - 11:30 a.m. |
Arnab Bhattacharyya — Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Property Testing, with a Focus on Invariances" |
| 11:30 - 11:55 a.m. | Break (time to check out of hotel, etc.) |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
Luncheon — Atrium Ballroom Announcement of Fellows Poster Contest Winners Invited Speaker Dahlia Sokolov — Congressional Staff Member, House Committee on Science and Technology "Science Policy 101" |