2012 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Thursday, July 26 — 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Salons H, J & K; Crystal Gateway Marriott

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.

2012 Contest Winners

• Evan Gawlik — Stanford University (Overall, tie)
• Troy Ruths — Rice University (Overall, tie)
• Zackary Ulissi — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Honorable Mention)
• Alexander Rattner — Georgia Institute of Technology (Novice)
• Jason Bender — University of Minnesota (Honorable Mention – Novice)

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Aeronautics
1	Jason Bender	Towards the Development of New Fundamental Thermochemical Models for Hypersonic Computational Fluid Dynamics
Applied Mathematics
3	Thomas Fai	Immersed Boundary Method Simulations of Red Blood Cells and their Implementation for GPUs
5	Jeffrey Donatelli	A Massively Parallel Multilevel Framework for Eikonal Solvers
Astrophysics
7	Daniel Dandurand	Relativistic Radiative Transfer Calculations with an Eye Toward the Event Horizon Telescope
9	Seth Davidovits	Verification and RW Validation of Collision Models for the Edge Gyrokinetic Code COGENT
Atmospheric and Earth Sciences
11	Scot Miller	Future Climate Change will Lead to Greater Greenhouse Gas Release from Boreal and Arctic Wetlands
13	Mary Benage	Modeling the Morphology of Volcanic Clasts as a Proxy for the Thermal Evolution of Pyroclastic Density Currents
Biology
15	Charles Frogner	Integrative Image Analysis of Drosophila In-situ Hybridization Data
17	Edward Baskerville	Detecting Patterns and Interactions in Ecological Time-series Data Using Model-based Hierarchical Clustering
19	Aleah Caulin	Solving 1,000 Puzzles with 8 Billion Small Pieces: Assembling Draft Genomes from the Cow Rumen Metagenome
21	Michael Rosario	Investigating how Morphological Change Alters the Competing Demands of a Biological Spring
Chemical Engineering
23	Zachary Ulissi	Molecular Simulations and Theory for the Prediction of Analyte Specificity in Polymer-wrapped Carbon Nanotube Sensors
25	Heather Mayes	How Sugars Pucker Up: An Electronic Structure Perspective
Chemistry
27	Kurt Brorsen	Fragment Molecular Orbital Molecular Dynamics With Periodic Boundary Conditions on the Blue Gene/P
29	Mark Maienschein-Cline	EMBER: Expectation Maximization of Binding and Expression pRofiles
31	Kenley Pelzer	Quantum Coherence in Photosynthesis and the Interpretation of Spectroscopic Results
Civil and Environmental Engineering
33	Sean Vitousek	Modeling Internal Waves in the South China Sea
35	Curtis Lee	A Narrow Band Gradient-augmented Level Set Method for Multiphase Fluid Flow
Computational Fluid Dynamics
37	Christopher Ivey	A Conservative Volume of Fluid Method for General Grids in Three Dimensions
Computer Science
39	Rogelio Cardona-Rivera	Narrative Affordance: Toward a Model of the Foreseeability of Events in an Interactive Narrative
41	Sarah Loos	SPLAT! How to Avoid Bugs while Driving on the Highway
Nuclear Engineering
43	Leslie Dewan	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Structure and Transport Properties of LiF-ThF4
45	Hayes Stripling	A Generalized Adjoint Framework for Sensitivity and Global Error Estimation in Burnup Calculations
Physics
47	Maxwell Hutchinson	Enumeration of Octagonal Tilings with Application to Quasicrystal Entropy
Group II — Presenting 5:15-6:15 p.m.
Aeronautics
2	Noah Reddell	A Plasma Simulation Code Design Respecting Communication Hierarchies on Clustered Many-core Systems
Applied Mathematics
4	Evan Gawlik	High-order Finite element Methods for Moving Boundary Problems
6	Tobin Isaac	Advanced Ice Sheet Modeling: Scalable Stokes Solver and Inversion for Basal Sliding Parameters
Astrophysics
8	Samuel Skillman	Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Cosmic Ray Electrons in Merging Galaxy Clusters
Atmospheric and Earth Sciences
10	Phoebe Robinson	Inference of Lower Crustal Viscosity in Tibet from Geodetically Constrained Earthquake Cycle Models
Biology
12	Troy Ruths	Real-time Genotype Compression in Forward-time Population Genetic Simulations
14	Irene Kaplow	Integrating Genetic Data sets to Predict TF-Gene Interactions
16	Chris Smillie	Ecology Drives a Global Network of Gene Exchange Connecting the Human Microbiome
18	Joshua Vermaas	Applications and Energetics of a Novel Atomistic Membrane Representation
Chemical Engineering
20	Carmeline Dsilva	Analysis of Glassy Landscapes Using Diffusion Maps
Chemistry
22	Devin Matthews	A Fast, Parallel CCSDTQ Implementation
24	Jarrod McClean	A New Perspective on Quantum Dynamics
26	Robert Parrish	Applications of Density Fitting in Large-scale Mean-field Theory Computations
28	Aaron Sisto	Understanding Photoexcitation in Artificial Photosynthetic Systems: A GPU-accelerated First-principles Approach
Civil and Environmental Engineering
30	Omar Hafez	Numerical Simulation of Thermal Stresses and Deformations
Computational and Mathematical Engineering
32	Matthew Zahr	Design Optimization of Fluid Mechanical Systems using Reduced Order Models
Computational Fluid Dynamics
34	Sanjeeb Bose	Large-eddy Simulation of a Three-dimensional Diffuser
Computer Science
36	Edgar Solomonik	Cyclops Tensor Framework
Electrical and Computer Engineering
38	Christopher Quinn	Identifying the Network Structure of Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Mechanical Engineering
40	Alexander Rattner	Multiphase Flows in Passive Waste-heat-driven Absorption Heat Pumps
Nuclear Engineering
42	Peter Maginot	Parallelization of 1-D Transport Sweeps
44	Travis Trahan	Anisotropic Neutron Diffusion for Modeling Nuclear Reactors
Physics
46	Amanda Peters Randles	Taking Fluid Models Beyond Navier-Stokes
Statistics
48	Miles Lopes	A More Powerful Two-sample Test in High Dimensions Using Random Projection