2023 Agenda

2023 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Sunday, July 16 - Thursday, July 20
Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf

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Updated July 16, 2023
Sunday, July 16
5:00 – 9:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
6:30 – 7:30pm Fellows' Welcome Session — L'Enfant Ballroom
A pre-meeting gathering of incoming and first- through fourth-year fellows hosted by Krell program staff.
7:30 – 9:00pm Making Connections Reception — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Opportunity for all attendees to gather and socialize in an informal setting; light refreshments provided. Guests are welcome to bring a favorite card or board game, or choose from a supplied selection.
Monday, July 17
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: 2023 Fellows' Individual Portraits — McPherson
9:00 – 9:15am Welcome & Introduction of the DOE CSGF's 2023 Cohort — L'Enfant Ballroom
Jeffrey Hittinger— Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
9:15 – 9:30am DOE Office of Science Welcome
Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe — Former Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:30 – 9:45am DOE NNSA Welcome
Dr. Marvin Adams— Deputy Administrator, Office of Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:45 – 10:30am Keynote
Tammy Ma— Lead, Inertial Fusion Energy Initiative, National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Creating a Star on Earth, Ignition, and a Fusion Energy Future"
10:30 – 10:45am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session I — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Christine Chalk — Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:45 – 11:05am Anda Trifan — Investigator, GSK; DOE CSGF Alumna (Outgoing Fellow Talk)
"AI-Enabled Multi Resolution Simulations to Uncover Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Virus"
11:05 – 11:25am Amalee Wilson — Stanford University
"Partitioning Strategies for Distributed SMT Solving"
11:25 – 11:45am Jack Lindsey — Columbia University
"Factorized Visual Representations in the Primate Visual System and Deep Neural Networks"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
1:15 – 1:25pm Announcement of 2023 Frederick Howes Scholar — L'Enfant Ballroom
Jeffrey Hittinger — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
1:25 – 1:55pm Howes Scholar Presentation
Dipti Jasrasaria— Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University
"Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics of Clathrates Explained by Vibrational Dynamical Mean-Field Theory"
1:55 – 2:10pm Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session II — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Hal Finkel — Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
2:10 – 2:30pm Jamin Rader — Colorado State University
"Optimizing Seasonal-to-Decadal Analog Forecasts With an Interpretable Neural Network"
2:30 – 2:50pm Arianna Krinos — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Leveraging Large Datasets to Discover Protistan Diversity Across Scales"
2:50 – 3:10pm Michael Toriyama — Northwestern University
"Topological Insulators as Thermoelectrics"
3:10 – 3:30pm Jason Torchinsky — University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Angular Hp-Adaptivity for Radiative Transfer"
3:00 – 4:00pm DOE Laboratories' Showcase Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
3:30 – 4:00pm Photo Session: 2023 Fellows' Group Portrait — McPherson
4:00 – 6:00pm DOE Laboratories' Showcase — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Laboratory representatives will be on site to talk practicum, postdoc and long-term employment opportunities.
Tuesday, July 18
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: Fellows & Alumni Portrait Retakes I — McPherson
9:00 – 9:15am Announcements — L'Enfant Ballroom
David L. Brown — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, retired
9:15 – 10:00am Keynote
Tapio Schneider — Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology; Senior Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Earth System Modeling 2.0: Toward Accurate and Actionable Climate Predictions with Quantified Uncertainties"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session III — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: David Etim — Advanced Simulation and Computing,
National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
10:20 – 10:40am Lauren Zundel — University of New Mexico
"Analysis of the Optical Response of Periodic Arrays of Nanostructures"
10:40 – 11:00am William Moses — Massachusetts Institute of Technology; DOE CSGF Alumnus (Outgoing Fellow Talk)
"Enzyme: High-Performance, Cross-Language, and Parallel Automatic Differentiation"
11:00 – 11:20am Gabriel Casabona — Northwestern University
"Numerical Frontier in Binary Compact Object Mergers"
11:20 – 11:40am Guy Moore — University of California, Berkeley
"The Foundation for a Ground-Up & Robust Approach to Computational Magnetic Materials Discovery"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch & Civics Talk — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Joel Parriott — Assistant Director for Federal Research & Development, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; DOE CSGF Alumnus
"PDEs to GDPs: Situating the Fellowship Within the Larger R&D Policy Landscape"
Session IV — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Dr. Si Hammond — Advanced Simulation and Computing,
National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
1:20 – 1:40pm Claire Zarakas — University of Washington
"Land Parameter Uncertainty Impacts the Mean Climate State"
1:40 – 2:00pm Kyle Lennon — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Scientific Machine Learning for Modeling and Simulating Complex Fluids"
2:00 – 2:20pm Boyan Xu — University of California, Berkeley
"Structure-Aware Annotation of Leucine-Rich Repeat Domains"
2:20 – 2:40pm Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session V — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Kevin Elzie — Advanced Simulation and Computing,
National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
2:40 – 3:00pm Peter Lalor — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Reconstructing the Atomic Number of Cargo X-Ray Images Using Dual Energy Radiography"
3:00 – 3:20pm Madelyn Cain — Harvard University
"Quantum Speedup in Combinatorial Optimization With Flat Energy Landscapes"
3:20 – 3:40pm Koby Hayashi — Georgia Institute of Technology
"Constrained Low-Rank Approximation"
3:40 – 4:00pm Kyle Bushick — University of Michigan
"Studying Direct and Phonon-Assisted Quantum Processes in Semiconductors"
4:00 – 5:00pm Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
4:15 – 4:45pm Outgoing Fellows Session (with Portrait Retakes to Follow) — Mt Vernon
5:00 – 6:00pm Fellows' Poster Session (2020 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Wednesday, July 19
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: Fellows & Alumni Portrait Retakes II — McPherson
9:00 – 9:15am Communicate Your Science & Engineering (CYSE) Essay Award Announcement — L'Enfant Ballroom
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute
9:15 – 10:00am Keynote — L'Enfant Ballroom
Devin Matthews — Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University; DOE CSGF Alumnus
"What do Ionic Liquids Have to do With Linear Algebra?"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session VI — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Stefan Wild — Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division,
Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory
10:20 – 10:40am Jacob Bringewatt — University of Maryland, College Park; DOE CSGF Alumnus (Outgoing Fellow Talk)
"Weighting God’s Dice: Exploiting Symmetry in Randomized Measurement Protocols"
10:40 – 11:00am Thomas Blommel — University of Michigan
"Acceleration of Non-Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics Calculations Using Data Compression"
11:00 – 11:20am Lindsey Byrne — Northwestern University
"The Co-Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies"
11:20 – 11:40am Christopher Balzer — California Institute of Technology
"Unraveling Electrostatic Interactions in Dipolar Solvents"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Session VII — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Jaydeep Bardhan — Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
1:20 – 1:40pm Louis Jenkins — University of Rochester
"Dynamic Resource Scheduling of Jupyter Notebooks at Cell-Granularity"
1:40 – 2:00pm Scott Emmons — University of California, Berkeley
"RvS: What is Essential for Offline RL Via Supervised Learning?"
2:00 – 2:20pm Nicholas Ezzell — University of Southern California
"A Variational Approach to Quantum Tomography"
2:20 – 2:40pm Christopher Kane — University of Arizona
"Lattice QCD Approach to Radiative Leptonic Decays"
2:40 – 4:00pm Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
4:00 – 5:00pm Fellows' Poster Session (2021 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
5:00 – 6:00pm Fellows' Poster Session (2022 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Thursday, July 20
8:00am – 12:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:30 – 10:00am Professional Development Workshop — L'Enfant Ballroom
Dr. Shanita Brown— Licensed Trauma Therapist and Speaker, Transformative Counseling & Consulting, PLLC; Teaching Professor, East Carolina State University
"Mental Health & Wellness for STEM Graduate Students"
10:00 - 10:30am Break & Hotel Check Out — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
10:30am - 12:00pm Early Career Alumni Mental Health & Wellness Panel — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderated by Dr. Shanita Brown, alumni panelists will explore workshop topics in the context of their own unique challenges and experiences as graduate students and beyond.
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Boxed meals for sit-down dining in the adjacent Solarium, or to grab and go for those with departing flights.
1:00 – 4:00pm CSGF+1 — L'Enfant Ballroom
Optional programming curated/facilitated by and for DOE CSGF fellows and alumni.