2014 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

First-, second- and third-year students present their research during the annual Fellows' Poster Session.

Tuesday, July 15 — 4:00-6:30 p.m.

Salons H, J & K; Crystal Gateway Marriott

The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the breadth of research supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and the session is divided into two groups so all participants have the chance to view the displays and ask questions of their peers.

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting 4:15-5:15 p.m.
Applied Mathematics
1	Thomas Catanach	Power System Failure Identification Using Gaussian Processes
Astrophysics
3	Chelsea Axen	Cosmic Explosions Under a Blanket
Atmospheric and Earth Sciences
5	Brenhin Keller	Reactive Force Field Modeling of Silicate Sorption on the Hematite r-plane
7	Jamie Smedsmo	Surface Water Nutrient Estimation With Bayesian Maximum Entropy Space/Time Geostatistics
9	Alexander Turner	Estimation of North American Methane Fluxes Using Space-borne Observations
Biology
11	Justin Lee	Computational Imaging and Analysis of Ki-67 for Breast Cancer in Digital Pathology
13	Sarah Middleton	NoFold: A Novel Method for Finding RNA Structure Motifs Without Folding or Alignment
15	Hansi Singh	A High Performance Computing Study of Atmospheric Precipitable Water and Polar Climate
Chemical Engineering
17	Heather Mayes	Discerning Mechanisms in the Cellulose Pyrolysis Reaction Network
Chemistry
19	Jarrod McClean	Consequences of Orthogonality in Quantum Simulations
21	Aurora Pribram-Jones	Toward an Orbital-free Potential Functional Method for Warm Dense Matter
Civil and Environmental Engineering
23	Curtis Lee	High-order Moving Boundary Problems With Adaptive Mesh Refinement
25	Andrew Stershic	Brittle Fragmentation: Exploring the Role of Roundoff Error in Deterministic Simulation
Computational and Mathematical Engineering
27	Eileen Martin	Lossy Compression in PDE Solvers for Effective Memory Bandwidth Use
29	Matthew Zahr	Progressive Construction of a Parametric Reduced-order Model for PDE-constrained Optimization
Computational Neuroscience
31	Britni Crocker	A First Look: The Neurophysiological Response of the Brain to Pulses of Electrical Current in One Patient
Computer Science
33	Rogelio Cardona-Rivera	Large-scale Conflicts in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
35	David Ozog	WorkQ: A Dynamic Producer/Consumer Processing Model Applied to PGAS Computations
Materials Science
37	Kathleen Alexander	Exploring Grain Boundary Energy Landscapes With the Activation-relaxation Technique
Nuclear Engineering
39	Andrew Till	A Generalized Multigroup Method Based on Finite Elements
Physics
41	Will Fletcher	Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Behavior in Phase Separated Lipid Vesicles With Fine Temperature Control
43	Maxwell Hutchinson	Computation vs. Experiment: The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
45	Daniel Rey	Accurate Data Assimilation With Sparse Measurements
47	Dragos Velicanu	Surprising Long-Range Correlations Found in Proton-lead Collisions at the LHC
Group II — Presenting 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Applied Mathematics
2	Melissa Yeung	Persistent Topology and the Shape of Climate
Astrophysics
4	Sherwood Richers	Three-dimensional GRMHD Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Atmospheric and Earth Sciences
6	David Plotkin	Characterizing the Kuroshio Current Using Machine Learning
8	Phoebe Robinson	Sixty Years of Viscoelastic Stress Transfer Across the North Anatolian Fault
Biology
10	Isha Jain	Systems-level Characterization of Mitochondrial Function in Disease and Health
12	Derek Macklin	FASTERp: A Feature Array Search Tool for Estimating Resemblance of Protein Sequences
14	Michael Rosario	Correcting for the Effect of Missing Data in Measures of Disparity
16	Joshua Vermaas	Quinone Dynamics Within the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Investigated by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Chemical Engineering
18	Andrew Stine	Hypothesis Generation for Genome-scale Metabolic Models
Chemistry
20	Robert Parrish	Spatial and Chemical Assignment of Symmetry-adapted Perturbation Theory: The A-SAPT and F-SAPT Partitions
Civil and Environmental Engineering
22	Omar Hafez	Automating the Image-to-analysis Pipeline in Biomechanics
24	Jesse Lopez	Decomposing ETM Dynamics in an Energetic Estuary
Computational and Mathematical Engineering
26	Miles Lubin	Automatic Differentiation in Julia
28	Victor Minden	Updating Hierarchical Factorizations
Computational Fluid Dynamics
30	Jason Bender	Progress in the Physical Chemistry of Hypersonic Flows: Quasiclassical Trajectory (QCT) Studies of Nitrogen Dissociation and Ro-vibrational Energy Transfer
Computational Neuroscience
32	Daniel Strouse	The Deterministic Information Bottleneck Method
Computer Science
34	Sarah Loos	Efficiency Analysis of Formally Verified Adaptive Cruise Controllers
Environmental Modeling
36	Chris Smillie	Community Assembly Following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation
Mechanical Engineering
38	Alexander Rattner	HPC Simulation of Phase Change Fluid Flows Using a Geometric Reconstruction-free VOF Approach
Physics
40	Samuel Blau	Modeling Exciton Dynamics in Phycobiliproteins
42	Nicholas Frontiere	Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code
44	Eric Isaacs	Computing the Electronic Structure of Noble Metal Clusters on CdS Surfaces With Extraordinary Photocatalytic Activity
46	Adam Richie-Halford	Implementing Galilean Invariance in Density Functional Calculations of a Unitary Fermi Gas