2018 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Presentations
Sunday, July 15 – Thursday, July 19
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
| Monday, July 16 | ||
| Keynote | ||
| James Sethian | Professor of Mathematics and James Simons Chair in Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
The Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (Not Released) |
| Session I | ||
| Alnur Ali | Carnegie Mellon University | Distributed Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation from fMRI Data for Segmenting the Human Brain |
| Hilary Egan | University of Colorado | Ion Loss From Exoplanets |
| Gerald Wang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Engineering the Relationship Between Fluid Structure and Transport Under Nanoconfinement |
| Kyle Felker | Princeton University | Computational Efficiency of High-order Finite Volume Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics |
| 2018 Howes Scholar Award Presentation | ||
| Jeffrey Hittinger | Acting Deputy Division Leader, Scientific Computing Group Leader and Computational Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus | Announcement of 2018 Frederick Howes Scholars |
| Seth Davidovits | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University; DOE CSGF Alumnus | Predicting and Utilizing Turbulence in Compressing Plasma |
| Session II | ||
| Julian Kates-Harbeck | Harvard University |
Predicting Disruptions in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactors Via Deep Learning at the Largest Scale (Not Released) |
| Hannah De Jong | Stanford University |
Saturation Mutagenesis of MYH7 to Identify Hypertrophy-causing Variants (Not Released) |
| Ryan McKinnon | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Simulating fluid-solid interaction in astrophysical settings |
| Tuesday, July 17 | ||
| Alumni Keynote | ||
| Paul Sutter | Astrophysicist, The Ohio State University; Chief Scientist, COSI Science Center; DOE CSGF Alumnus | Let's Talk About Talking About Science |
| Session III | ||
| Jay Stotsky | University of Colorado | Computational and Mathematical Studies of the Biomechanics of Biofilms |
| Joy Yang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Statistically Identifying Mechanisms of Phage-host Interactions in the Nahant Collection |
| Session IV | ||
| Makurram Tahir | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Molecular Design of Protein-mimetic Nanostructures (Not Released) |
| Aditi Krishnapriyan | Stanford University |
Engineering Kinetics for Energy-Efficient Phase Change Materials: Application to Two-Dimensional MoS2 (Not Released) |
| Alex Kell | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Invariant and Hierarchical Computation in Human Auditory Cortex |
| Thomas Thompson | Harvard University | The Earth isn't Flat: The Large Influence of Topography on Geodetic Fault Slip Imaging |
| Session V | ||
| Kathleen Weichman | University of California, San Diego | Ion Acceleration by Relativistic-intensity Lasers With Magnetized Electron Focusing |
| Adam Sealfon | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Population Stability: Regulating Size in the Presence of an Adversary |
| Adam Riesselman | Harvard University | Predicting the Effects of Mutations With Deep Generative Models |
| Thomas Anderson | California Institute of Technology | The Fast Hybrid Method for Wave Scattering: New Advances in Time-Domain Integral Equations |
| Session VI | ||
| Danielle Rager | Carnegie Mellon University | Relating Visual Working Memory Computations to Network Architecture in the Brain |
| Jordan Hoffmann | Harvard University |
How to Build a Bug (Not Released) |
| Wednesday, July 18 | ||
| Invited Talks | ||
| Katherine Lewis | Cognitive Simulation Project Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Integrating Machine Learning with Simulations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Michael Heroux | Director of Software Technology, DOE Exascale Computing Project; Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories; and Scientist in Residence, St. John's University, Minnesota | Building the Exascale Software Stack: Challenges and Strategies |