2012 Agenda

2012 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Wednesday, July 25 – Saturday, July 28
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA

Wednesday, July 25 (HPC Workshop, etc.)
7:00am – 9:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
8:30am – 4:45pm HPC Workshop — Salons A, B & C, etc.
5:00 – 6:00pm New Fellows' Photo Session & Incoming Class Photo — Jefferson
6:00 – 7:00pm Making Fellow & Alumni Connections — Sky View at Gateway
7:00 – 8:30pm New Attendee Dinner — Salon J
Welcome
James Corones — President, Krell Institute
Thursday, July 26
7:00am – 7:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:00am – 1:30pm Poster Set Up — Sky View at Gateway
7:30 – 8:30am Breakfast Buffet — Salons H & J
8:30 – 8:45am Welcome — Salons A, B & C
James Corones — President, Krell Institute
8:45 – 9:00am Welcome — Salons A, B & C
William Brinkman — Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:00 – 9:15am Welcome — Salons A, B & C
Dimitri Kusnezov — Chief Scientist and Director, Office of Science and Policy, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:15 – 10:00am Keynote — Salons A, B & C
Alok Choudhary — John G. Searle Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University
“Discovering Knowledge from Massive Networks and Science Data – Next Frontier for HPC”
10:00 – 10:30am Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
Session I — Salons A, B & C
Moderator: Karen Pao — Mathematician, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30 – 10:50am Brenda Rubenstein — Columbia University
“Constant-stress Quantum Monte Carlo for High-Pressure Hydrogen”
10:50 – 11:10am Britton Olson — Stanford University
“Rocket Science Made Easy: Simulation of a Shock Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction in an Over-expanded Nozzle”
11:10 – 11:30am Claire Ralph — Cornell University
“A Graph Algorithm for a New Architecture and New Algorithms for Quantum State Evolution”
11:30 – 11:50am Brian Lockwood — University of Wyoming
“Gradient-based Methods for Rapid Uncertainty Quantification in Hypersonic Flows”
11:50am – 1:00pm Luncheon — Salons H & J
Birds of a Feather Discussion Tables & Essay Contest Announcement
1:15 – 1:30pm Announcement of 2012 Frederick Howes Scholars — Salons A, B & C
David Brown — Director, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:30 – 2:15pm Howes Scholar Presentation — Salons A, B & C
Carolyn Phillips — Aneesur Rahman Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
“Think Deeply about Simple Things (with Computation) - or - Optimal Filling of Shapes”
2:15 – 3:00pm Howes Scholar Presentation — Salons A, B & C
Matthew Reuter — Eugene P. Wigner Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“You Should Also Think about Complicated Things (to Improve Computation): Exorcising Numerical Ghosts from Electron Transport Calculations”
3:00 – 3:30pm Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
3:30 – 6:30pm Fellows' Poster Session — Salons H, J & K
Welcome & Remarks
Steven Chu — Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Friday, July 27
7:00am – 6:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am Breakfast Buffet — Salons H & J
9:00 – 9:10am Poster Contest Announcement — Salons A, B & C
9:10 – 9:55am Keynote
Michael Ortiz — Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
“Multiscale Modeling of Materials: Linking Microstructure and Macroscopic Behavior”
Session II — Salons A, B & C
Moderator: Ceren Susut — Physical Scientist, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:55 – 10:15am Curtis Hamman — Stanford University
“Vortex Roll Breakup in Turbulent Shear Flow”
10:15 – 10:35am Kathleen King — Cornell University
“Logistical Models for Planning and Operating Medical Countermeasure Distribution Networks: Using Operations Research to Improve Emergency Preparedness”
10:35 – 11:05am Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
11:05 – 11:25am Armen Kherlopian — Cornell University
“Auto-tuning of Cardiac Myocyte Models”
11:25 – 11:45am Carl Boettiger — University of California, Davis
“Early Warning Signals for Critical Transitions?”
11:45am – 12:05pm Douglas Mason — Harvard University
“Extending the Flux Operator with Coherent State Projections”
12:05 – 1:15pm Luncheon — Salons H & J
Civics Talk
Jack Wells — Director of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Session III — Salons A, B & C
Moderator: Major Adamson — Integrated Codes Program Manager, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
1:30 – 1:50pm Anne Warlaumont — University of Memphis
“Simulating Evolution and Learning of Human Vocal Signals”
1:50 – 2:10pm Eric Liu — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Toward Adaptive Space-time Discontinuous Galerkin Discretizations of Unsteady Aerodynamics”
2:10 – 2:30pm Cyrus Omar — Carnegie Mellon University
“Actively Typed Programming Systems”
2:30 – 2:50pm Scott Clark — Cornell University
“EPI: Expected Parallel Improvement”
3:30 – 5:00pm DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Salons H, J & K
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Donald Cook — Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
Saturday, July 28
7:00am – 5:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am Breakfast Buffet — Salons H & J
9:00am – 4:30pm Leadership Workshop — Salons A, B & C
Leadership in Computational Science and Engineering:
C3 - Communication, Collaboration, Creativity
The goal of this workshop is to advance the careers of DOE CSGF fellows and alumni by providing them with insights, information and tools to become leaders within the computational science community through increased creativity in their research and through enhanced communication and collaboration skills.
9:00 – 9:10am Leadership Workshop Welcome & Orientation
Mary Ann Leung — Program Manager, Krell Institute
9:10 – 10:40am Raquell Holmes — Founder and Director, improvscience; Assistant Professor, Center for Computational Science, Boston University
“Creating Professional Performances for Scientific Growth”
10:40 – 11:00am Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
11:00 – 11:45am Raquell Holmes — Founder and Director, improvscience; Assistant Professor, Center for Computational Science, Boston University
“Creating Professional Performances for Scientific Growth”
11:45am – 1:15pm Luncheon — Salons H & J
Discussion: The Importance of the Three C’s in Career Development
1:15 – 1:45pm Jeff Lewandowski — Publisher, IOP Publishing (Washington, D.C.)
“An Introduction to Refereeing: A Role of Leaders in the Computational Science Community”
1:45 – 2:30pm Leadership and DOE National Laboratory Named Post-Doctoral Fellowships: DOE National Laboratory Staff Presentations
DOE staff panelists will discuss their respective national laboratories, the named postdoctoral fellowships and other postdoctoral positions available at each, the desired traits for a named postdoctoral position, and how the three Cs highlighted during the leadership workshop ensure success as a named postdoc. These laboratory staff are familiar with the hiring of postdocs at the DOE national laboratories.
  • Bruce Hendrickson — Senior Manager, Computational Sciences and Mathematics, Sandia National Laboratories – New Mexico
  • Judith Hill — Technical Staff Member, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumna
  • Jeff Hittinger — Computational Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
  • Sven Leyffer — Computational Mathematician, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Dan Martin – Computational Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
2:30 – 2:45pm Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
2:45 – 3:15pm Leadership and DOE National Laboratory Named Post-Doctoral Fellowships: DOE CSGF Alumni Panel
DOE CSGF alumni panelists will field questions from the audience regarding their previous and/or current experiences as a named postdoctoral fellow at one of the DOE national laboratories. Please read over their listed biography by clicking on their name and come prepared with your questions.
  • Jay Bardhan — Research Assistant Professor, Northeastern University; DOE CSGF Alumnus
  • Mark Berrill — Postdoctoral Wigner Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
  • Jeff Drocco — Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
  • Sarah Richardson — Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumna
3:15 – 3:45pm Closing Session
Raquell Holmes — Founder and Director, improvscience; Assistant Professor, Center for Computational Science, Boston University
“Taking the Three Cs Back to the Lab”
3:45 – 4:30pm Continuing the Conversations
Attendees will have the opportunity to converse informally with DOE laboratory staff and workshop speakers.
6:00 – 8:00pm Fellows & Alumni Event — bin1700, Crystal Gateway Marriott (Lobby Level)