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2022 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

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

The annual Fellows’ Poster Session afforded attendees a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the breadth of research supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow was provided space to present their latest findings. 

2019 Cohort

Group I - Presenting 5:00-5:30 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
1 Christopher Balzer Explicit Polarization in Coarse-Grained Simulations of Ionomer Melts
3 Kyle Bushick Gaining an Atomistic Understanding of Auger-Meitner Recombination in Silicon
5 Madelyn Cain Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set Using Rydberg Atom Arrays
7 Scott Emmons Sparse Graphical Memory for Robust Planning
9 Koby Hayashi Clustering Hypergraphs With Edge-Dependent Vertex Weights
11 Christopher Kane Overcoming Exponential Volume Scaling in Trotter-Suzuki Implementations of 2+1 U(1) Lattice Gauge Theories
13 Peter Lalor Capabilities and Limitations of Dual Energy X-ray Scanners for Cargo Content Atomic Number Discrimination
15 Jack Lindsey Action-Modulated Midbrain Dopamine Activity Enables Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning
17 Jamin Rader Intelligently Identifying Patterns of Predictability in the Oceans and Atmosphere Using Interpretable Neural Networks
19 Michael Toriyama Band Inversion-Driven High Valley Degeneracy
21 Boyan Xu Tandem Repeat Evolution of the Leucine-Rich Repeat Domain in Plant Innate Immune Receptors
23 Lauren Zundel Excitation of Periodic Arrays of Nanoparticles by Localized Dipole Sources
Group II - Presenting 5:30-6:00 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
2 Thomas Blommel Time Integration Methods for Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium
4 Lindsey Byrne What Regulates the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes?
6 Gabriel Casabona Turbulently-Driven Detonation Initiation in Electron-Degenerate Matter With Helium
8 Nicholas Ezzell The Quantum Low-Rank Approximation Problem
10 Louis Jenkins Interactivity in High Performance Computing
12 Arianna Krinos Revising Estimates of Protistan Diversity in the Environment Using an Unsupervised Topic Modeling Approach
14 Kyle Lennon Learning Physically-Informed Differential Viscoelastic Constitutive Equations From Data
16 Guy Moore High Performance Computational Multi-Scale Framework for the Discovery of Promising Magnetocaloric Materials
18 Jason Torchinsky Multi-Model Communication and Data Assimilation for Improving Model Dynamics
20 Amalee Wilson When Making the Problem Smaller Can Also Make it Harder: Partitioning for Parallel Satisfiability Modulo Theories
22 Claire Zarakas Disentangling the Relative Impacts of Temperature and Vapor Pressure Deficit on Tropical Forest Photosynthesis

2020 Cohort

Group I - Presenting 4:00-4:30 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
1 Alexandra Baumgart Simulating Detonations With a Physics-Based Shock Treatment and Tabulated Chemistry
3 Emily de Jong Diverse, Dynamic Droplets: A Novel Numerical Method for Cloud Droplet Distributions
5 Ian DesJardin Nonlinear Spectral Analysis of Ion-Acoustic Solitons Arising From a Streaming Charged Object Using the Numerical Inverse Scattering Transform
7 Ethan Epperly Jackknife Variability Estimation for Randomized Matrix Computations
9 Grant Johnson Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection With Ad Hoc Pitch-Angle Scattering
11 Nikita Kozak Building a-priori Confidence Strategies for Data-Driven RANS Uncertainty Quantification
13 Nishad Maskara Enhancing Topological Order Parameters via Error Correction and Renormalization
15 Albert Musaelian Allegro: Scaling Equivariant Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials
17 Danilo Perez Jr Machine Learning-Driven Multiscale Modelling of Genomic Evolution of SARS-CoV-2
19 Luis Rangel DaCosta Robust Data Generation for Machine Learning in High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials
21 David Rogers Using Particle Tracking to Link Floodplain Hydrological Processes to Biogeochemical Function
23 Ellis Torrance Utilizing HPC to Estimate How Often Bacterial Species Participate in Genetic Exchange
25 Santiago Vargas An Artificial Intelligence Framework for Optimal Drug Design
Group II - Presenting 4:30-5:00 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
2 Marc Davis Quantum Gate-Set Exploration Using High Quality Numerical Synthesis
4 Anthony Degleris Dynamic Locational Marginal Emissions via Implicit Differentiation
6 Kiran Eiden Induced Compton Scattering of Radio Pulses From Ultra-Magnetic Neutron Stars
8 Margot Fitz Axen The Progenitors of Superluminous Type 1a Supernovae
10 Ariel Kellison A Verification Toolchain for the Round-Off Error Analysis of Multiprecision Floating-Point Programs
12 Mary LaPorte Predicting Carotenoid Breeding Values and Kernel Color in Maize
14 Kaishu Mason Niche Differential Gene Expression Analysis in Spatial Transcriptomics Data Identifies Context-Dependent Cell-Cell Interactions
16 Graham Pash Predictive Digital Twins for Optimizing Patient-Specific Therapies
18 Justin Porter Physics-Based Friction Modeling for Bolted Structures
20 Rachel Robey Virtual Profiling Lidar Error in Idealized WRF-LES
22 Benjamin Sepanski Exploiting Data Structure Transformations for Performance and Scalability in High-Dimensional Structured Grid Computations
24 Margaret Trautner Learning Markovian Homogenized Models in Viscoelasticity

2021 Cohort

Group I - Presenting 5:00-5:30 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
1 Jezrielle Annis Inverse Infrared Spectroscopy With Bayesian Optimization
3 Lucas Attia Core-Shell Hydrogel Particles for the Formulation of Hydrophobic Small-Molecule APIs
5 Zoe Barbeau Assessment of Localized Artificial Diffusivity and Interface Sharpening for Modelling a Two-Phase Mixing Layer
7 Paul Beckman Fast Algorithms for Elliptic PDEs With Gaussian Boundary Noise
9 Marianne Cowherd Snow Controls on Post-Fire Stream and Vegetation
11 Krystian Ganko Fast and Accurate Numerical Solution of a Cell Population Balance Model Using a Spectral Coefficient Method
13 Juan Gomez Deep Learning With Differential Privacy and the Saddle Point Accountant
15 Bowen Jing Molecular Conformer Generation With Torsional Diffusion Generative Models
17 Caleb Ju Complexity of Dual Dynamic Programming for Solving Infinite Horizon Optimization Problems Under Uncertainty
19 Madeleine Kerr Initiation, Interaction, and Suppression of Mantle Plumes on Venus-Analog Planet Using StagYY Numerical Model
21 Nicole Pagane Intercellular Communication in the Adaptive Immune System: A Systems Approach
23 Abigail Poteshman Automatic Characterization of Random Nuclear Spin Baths
25 Paulina Rodriguez Comparing Open-Source and Commercial Software Solvers for Hagen-Poiseuille Flow
27 Courtney Shafer Comparing the Shallow-Shelf and L1L2 Approximations Using BISICLES in the Context of MISMIP+ with Buttressing Effects
29 Samuel Varner GPU Accelerated Ising Monte Carlo With C++ and Julia
31 Steven Wilson Overcoming Challenges in Off-Stoichiometric Thermodynamics Modeling Through Complementary Use of Experimental and First Principles Data: A Case Study of Ba1-xSrxFeO3-δ
Group II - Presenting 5:30-6:00 p.m.
Poster Number Name Title
2 Olivia Asher Understanding Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi-Plant Interactions Using Dynamic Modeling and Genomics
4 Alexandra Ballow Is Mode Connectivity Explainable by LOCC Equivalence
6 Bryn Barker LES Modeling With IBAMR
8 Vivek Bharadwaj Distributed-Memory Sparse Kernels for Machine Learning
10 Ishani Ganguly Efficient Connectome Analyses for Identifying Influential Neurons in Behaviorally Relevant Pathways
12 Souradip Ghosh RipTide: A Programmable, Energy-Minimal Dataflow Compiler and Architecture
14 Jalen Harris Large-Scale Hybrid Density Functional Theory Based Ab Initio Molecular DynamicsSimulations of Ice Ih, II, and III Polymorphs Near the Triple Point
16 Gabrielle Jones The Impact of Interfacial Curvature on the Packing of Shape Anisotropic Particles
18 Olorundamilola Kazeem Conversational Emotion Recognition: Joint Speaker and Emotion Diarization in Conversations
20 Joy Kitson Loimos: A Large-Scale Epidemic Simulation Framework for Realistic SocialContact Networks
22 Shehan Parmar Multi-Physics and Data-Driven Modeling for Electrospray Propulsion
24 Sonia Reilly Ensemble MCMC Samplers for Infinite-Dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems
26 Rahul Sahay Non-Equilibrium Quantum Liquids
28 Timothy Taylor Modelling the East Troublesome Wildfire With WRF-Fire
30 Julia Wei Parallel Matrix-Free Methods for Simulating Spin-1/2 Hamiltonians
32 Victor Zendejas Lopez Direct Numerical Simulations of Periodic Turbulent Planar Mixing Layers