2016 Agenda

2016 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Monday, July 25 – Thursday, July 28
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA

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Updated Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Monday, July 25
10:30am – 6:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
11:00am – 12:00pm New Fellow Orientation — Salons F & G
12:00 – 1:30pm New Fellow Luncheon — Salon H
2:00 – 3:30pm Practicum Session — Salons A, B & C
Intended for incoming fellows and those yet to complete a practicum. Practicum coordinators are also encouraged to attend and provide a general introduction to their laboratory as it relates to potential practicum experiences.
4:30 – 6:00pm Making Fellow & Alumni Connections — Salons H & J
All conference attendees who have arrived in D.C. are encouraged to attend.
Tuesday, July 26
7:30am – 6:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: Incoming Fellows (Head Shots & Group Photo) — Salon E
9:00 – 9:15am Welcome — Salons A, B & C
Robert Voigt — Krell Institute
9:15 – 9:30am Welcome
Franklin (Lynn) M. Orr — Under Secretary for Science and Energy, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:30 – 9:45am Welcome
Kathleen B. Alexander — Assistant Deputy Administrator for the Office of Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:45 – 10:30am Alumni Keynote
Leslie Dewan — Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Transatomic Power; DOE CSGF Alumna
“Save the World with Nuclear Waste: New Approaches to Nuclear Power”
10:30 – 10:45am Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
Session I — Salons A, B & C
Moderator: Michael Martin — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:45 – 11:05am Andrew Stershic — Duke University
“Application of Numerical Methods to Study Arrangement and Failure of Lithium-Ion Microstructure”
11:05 – 11:25am Eric Isaacs — Columbia University
“Strongly Correlated Electrons in Rechargeable Battery Cathodes”
11:25 – 11:45am Eileen Martin — Stanford University
“Continuous Near-surface Monitoring With Ambient Noise Collected by Distributed Acoustic Sensing”
11:45am – 1:15pm 25th Anniversary Luncheon — Salons H & J
1:20 – 1:30pm Announcement of 2016 Frederick Howes Scholars
Jeffrey Hittinger — Acting Deputy Division Leader and Group Leader, Scientific Computing Group, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
1:30 – 2:15pm Howes Scholar Presentation
Aurora Pribram-Jones — Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley; DOE CSGF Alumna
“Improving Density Functional Theory for Warm Dense Matter”
2:15 – 3:00pm Howes Scholar Presentation
Alexander S. Rattner — Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University; DOE CSGF Alumnus
“Phase-change Heat Transfer in Energy Systems: Outlook for Simulation Enabled Advances”
3:00 – 3:15pm Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
Session II — Salons A, B & C
Moderator: Christine Chalk — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
3:15 – 3:35pm Brenhin Keller — Princeton University
“Geochemistry in the Age of Open Data: New Insights Into the Formation and Evolution of Earth's Continental Crust”
3:35 – 3:55pm Sherwood Richers — California Institute of Technology
“Insights Into Exotic Core-collapse Supernovae”
3:55 – 4:15pm Jesse Lopez — Oregon Health and Science University
“Sediment Dynamics in an Energetic Estuary”
4:15 – 4:45pm Fellows' Poster Session Set-Up — Salons H, J & K
4:45 – 7:00pm Fellows' Poster Session — Salons H, J & K
Welcome & Remarks (4:45pm)
Steve Binkley — Associate Director of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Wednesday, July 27
7:30am – 6:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: Fellow/Alumni Retakes (Head Shots) — Salon E
9:00 – 9:15am Announcements — Salons A, B & C
CYSE Contest Award Presentation
Session III — Salons A, B & C
Moderator: Adam Boyd — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:15 – 10:00am Invited Speaker
Rick Stevens — Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory; Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
“DOE and NIH Partnerships -- Cancer and Brain”
10:00 – 10:20am Sarah Middleton — University of Pennsylvania
“A Novel Motif Discovery Tool for RNA Secondary Structures”
10:20 – 10:40am Dragos Velicanu — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Probing Trillion Degree Matter”
10:40 – 11:00am Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
11:00 – 11:20am Andrew Till — Texas A&M University
“Discretization by Machine Learning (and its Application to Nuclear Reactor Simulations)”
11:20 – 11:40am Derek Macklin — Stanford University
“Towards a Whole-cell Model of Escherichia coli”
11:40am – 12:00pm Melissa Yeung — California Institute of Technology
“Topological Braids and Material Coherence”
12:00 – 1:15pm Luncheon — Salons H & J
Michael L. Telson — Vice President for Energy Programs, General Atomics
“Who’s Your Audience? Communication Between Scientists/Engineers and Public Officials”
1:30 – 3:00pm HPC Track I Intermediate Hands-On Session A — Salons A, B & C
“GPU-accelerated Computing”
  • Adam Simpson — HPC User Support Specialist, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Verónica G. Vergara Larrea — HPC User Support Specialist, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:30 – 3:00pm HPC Track I Intermediate Hands-On Session B — Salons F & G
“Troubleshooting the Trouble Out of Your Networking Experience”
  • Sowmya Balasubramanian — Software Engineer, Energy Sciences Network, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Elizabeth Bautista — Group Lead, Operations Technology Group, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:30 – 3:00pm Fourth-Year/Outgoing Fellow Session & Head Shots — Jefferson
3:00 – 3:15pm Break — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
3:15 – 4:45pm HPC Track II Advanced Hands-On Session A — Salons A, B & C
“Optimizing Your Code for HPC”
  • Hal Finkel — Assistant Computational Scientist, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
3:15 – 4:45pm HPC Track II Advanced Hands-On Session B — Salons F & G
“Parallel Algorithm Design”
  • Rebecca Hartman-Baker — Computational Scientist, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4:00 – 5:00pm DOE Laboratory Poster Session Set Up — Salons H, J & K
5:00 – 7:00pm DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Salons H, J & K
Thursday, July 28
7:30am – 12:00pm Registration — Grand Registration Desk
7:30 – 9:00am Continental Breakfast — Salons H & J
9:00 – 9:10am Announcements — Salons A, B & C
Session IV — Salons A, B & C
Moderator: Carolyn Lauzon — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:10 – 9:30am Miles Lubin — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“JuMP: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Optimization”
9:30 – 9:50am Samuel Blau — Harvard University
“Exciton Dynamics of Biliproteins”
9:50 – 10:10am Britni Crocker — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Effects of Electrical Stimulation on the Human Brain”
10:10 – 10:30am Daniel Strouse — Princeton University
“Compression and Clustering With the Information Bottleneck Method”
10:30 – 10:45am Break & Hotel Check Out — Foyer, Salons A, B & C
10:45 – 11:05am Victor Minden — Stanford University
“Fast Spatial Gaussian Process Maximum Likelihood Estimation Via Skeletonization Factorizations”
11:05 – 11:25am Justin Lee — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Computational Imaging and Analysis in Breast Cancer”
11:25 – 11:45am Thomas Catanach — California Institute of Technology
“Second-order Langevin Markov Chain Monte Carlo”
11:45am – 12:45pm Luncheon — Salons H & J
Buffet-style with grab-and-go options for those with afternoon departures.