2011 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Presentations
20th Anniversary Celebration: "Building a Community of Leaders"
Wednesday, July 20 – Saturday, July 23
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
| Wednesday, July 20 | ||
| Morning: General Session | ||
| Timothy Germann | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Scale-Bridging Computational Materials Science: Heterogeneous Algorithms for Heterogeneous Platforms |
| Parviz Moin | Stanford University | Turbulence: V&V and UQ Analysis of a Multi-scale Complex System |
| Jeffrey Vetter | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | The Role of Programming Systems on the Road to Exascale Computing |
| Afternoon: Breakout Sessions | ||
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Paul Messina, Marta García & Nichols Romero |
Argonne National Laboratory | Pursuing Computational Science Research at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility |
| Katie Antypas | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Getting Started at NERSC and Using the CSGF Allocation: An introduction and hands-on session (PDF) |
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Rebecca Hartman-Baker & Judith Hill |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | HPC Allocations at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (PDF) |
| Thursday, July 21 | ||
| Welcome | ||
| Robert Meisner | Director, National Nuclear Security Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing Program, U.S. Department of Energy | Welcome |
| Keynote | ||
| William Harrod | ASCR Research Division Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy | What Happened to Supercomputers? |
| Session I | ||
| Anubhav Jain | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The Materials Genome: An online database for the design of new materials for clean energy and beyond |
| Eric Chi | Rice University | Robustly finding the needles in a haystack of high-dimensional data |
| Paul Sutter | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Exploring large-scale magnetic fields with large-scale simulations |
| 2010 Howes Scholar Award | ||
| Alejandro Rodriguez | Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Understanding electromagnetic fluctuations in microstructured geometries |
| Session II | ||
| James Martin | University of Texas | Uncertainty quantification for large-scale statistical inverse problems |
| Matthew Reuter | Northwestern University | Computational science meets materials chemistry: a bilingual investigation of surface effects in nanoscale systems |
| John Ziegler | California Institute of Technology | Simulations of diffusive, reactive, compressible flows with detailed chemistry using a high-order hybrid WENO-CD scheme |
| Friday, July 22 | ||
| Session III | ||
| Keynote: Judith Hill | ||
| Judith Hill | Research and Development Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumna | ____Scale computing: How did we get here and what’s next? |
| Ying Hu | Rice University | Optical properties of gold-silica-gold multilayer nanoshells |
| Cameron Talischi | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | On optimization of shape and topology |
| Danilo Scepanovic | Harvard University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology | A model of sinoatrial node cell regulation by the autonomic nervous system |
| Matthew Norman | North Carolina State University | Efficient Parallel Numerical Integration Algorithms for the Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session IV | ||
| Keynote: Jeffrey Hittinger | ||
| Jeffrey Hittinger | Computational Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus | The path to fusion: A computational scientist’s journey |
| Joshua Hykes | North Carolina State University | High stakes Where's Waldo: Watching for nuclear weapon material |
| Sarah Richardson | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Algorithms for the design and assembly of a modular, synthetic genome for yeast |
| Alex Perkins | University of California, Davis | Contributions of reproductive and dispersal evolution to the spatial spread of cane toads and other invasive species |
| Saturday, July 23 | ||
| Session V | ||
| Gregory Crosswhite | University of Washington | CodeQuest: a weapon of mass simulation in the war on noise |
| Paul Loriaux | University of California, San Diego | Building an efficient classifier for drug-induced cell death |
| Milo Lin | California Institute of Technology | Kinetics of macromolecular folding |
| Geoffrey Oxberry | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Advances in the approximation of chemistry in reaction flow simulations |
| Steven Hamilton | Emory University | Numerical solution of the k-eigenvalue problem |
| Hal Finkel | Yale University | Relics of preheating after inflation |