2016 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Presentations
Monday, July 25 – Thursday, July 28
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
| Tuesday, July 26 | ||
| Welcomes | ||
| Robert Voigt | Krell Institute | Welcome |
| Franklin (Lynn) M. Orr | Under Secretary for Science and Energy, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy | 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 | Welcome |
| 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 (PDF Only) |
| Session I | ||
| Andrew Stershic | Duke University | Application of Numerical Methods to Study Arrangement and Failure of Lithium-Ion Microstructure |
| Eric Isaacs | Columbia University |
Strongly Correlated Electrons in Rechargeable Battery Cathodes (Not Released) |
| Eileen Martin | Stanford University | Continuous Near-surface Monitoring With Ambient Noise Collected by Distributed Acoustic Sensing |
| Anniversary Luncheon | ||
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| 2016 Howes Scholar Award | ||
| Jeffrey Hittinger | Acting Deputy Division Leader and Group Leader, Scientific Computing Group, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus | Announcement of 2016 Frederick Howes Scholars |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Session II | ||
| Brenhin Keller | Princeton University | Geochemistry in the Age of Open Data: New Insights Into the Formation and Evolution of Earth's Continental Crust |
| Sherwood Richers | California Institute of Technology | Insights Into Exotic Core-collapse Supernovae |
| Jesse Lopez | Oregon Health and Science University | Sediment Dynamics in an Energetic Estuary |
| Wednesday, July 27 | ||
| Session III | ||
| 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 |
| Sarah Middleton | University of Pennsylvania | A Novel Motif Discovery Tool for RNA Secondary Structures |
| Dragos Velicanu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Probing Trillion Degree Matter |
| Andrew Till | Texas A&M University | Discretization by Machine Learning (and its Application to Nuclear Reactor Simulations) |
| Derek Macklin | Stanford University | Towards a Whole-cell Model of Escherichia coli |
| Melissa Yeung | California Institute of Technology |
Topological Braids and Material Coherence (Not Released) |
| Thursday, July 28 | ||
| Session IV | ||
| Miles Lubin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | JuMP: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Optimization |
| Samuel Blau | Harvard University |
Exciton Dynamics of Biliproteins (Not Released) |
| Britni Crocker | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Effects of Electrical Stimulation on the Human Brain |
| Daniel Strouse | Princeton University | The Deterministic Information Bottleneck |
| Victor Minden | Stanford University | Fast Spatial Gaussian Process Maximum Likelihood Estimation Via Skeletonization Factorizations |
| Justin Lee | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Computational Imaging and Analysis in Breast Cancer (Not Released) |
| Thomas Catanach | California Institute of Technology | Second-order Langevin Markov Chain Monte Carlo |